The Gerry Anderson Randomiser

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If you've ever enjoyed Thunderbirds, Space 1999, UFO, Captain Scarlet or any other Gerry Anderson show then this is the place where you can experience those shows episode by episode in the expert hands of Gerry Anderson historian Chris Dale. He randomly takes you on a journey through 6 decades of Gerry Anderson shows.

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    • Jun 1, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    You've Never Seen This - episode 3

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2025 20:01


    You've Never Seen This, Gerry Anderson's directorial debut, was a short-lived television series from 1955 focusing on people and places with strange or unusual stories to share. Intro special guest: Nicholas Young.

    Joe 90 - Viva Cordova

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2025 25:28


    Joe must act as a bodyguard to a new, democratically elected president to prevent his assassination at the hands of the country's former dictator.Intro special guest: Nicholas Young.

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    Four Feather Falls - Escort

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2025 12:36


    Pedro and Fernando overhear a message about a gold shipment heading to Four Feather Falls. So the pair pose as sheriffs so they can steal all the gold for themselves unaware that Big Ben also wants to steal the gold too.Intro special guest: Mark Braxton.

    Lavender Castle - The Black Swat

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2025 10:54


    While Lyca and Sproggle search for treasure on planet Scull, the Paradox comes under fire from Short Fred Ledd who destroys the ship and takes the crew prisoner aboard the Cutting Snark, guarded by the fearsome robot spider known as The Black Swat. It is now up to Lyca, Sproggle and Walking Stick to rescue their friends.Intro special guest; Ross Arrowsmith.

    Fireball XL5 - Space Pirates

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2025 25:24


    Attempting to outwit a band of space pirates who are plundering freighters, the XL5 crew are drawn into a complicated game of bluff and double bluff.Intro guest: John Lee.

    Stingray - Emergency Marineville

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2025 25:33


    Marineville is targeted by a series of missiles fired from a seemingly uninhabited island.Intro guest: John Lee.

    The Protectors - WAM (part 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2025 26:34


    The ransom is paid and the hostages released, but the Protectors and the police must work out how the woman was involved.Intro special guest: Genevieve Gaunt.

    The Protectors - WAM (part 1)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2025 25:44


    The daughter of a wealthy man is involved in a hostage situation at a ski resort, with skiers held for ransom.Intro special guest: Genevieve Gaunt.

    Four Feather Falls - Gun Runners

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2025 12:22


    Tex and Dusty go off in search of a gun runner selling to renegade Indians, led by Red Scalp.Intro special guest: Anton Phillips.

    Space:1999 - Alpha Child

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2025 51:21


    The Alphans celebrate the arrival of the first child born on the Moon. The blessed event sours when the infant grows into a five-year-old child in minutes. Trying to accept him, the Alphans do not notice that little Jackie Crawford is much more than he seems. When hostile spaceships approach the base, Koenig realises, too late, that the aliens have an agent on Alpha.Intro special guest: Anton Phillips.

    Terrahawks - Unseen Menace

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2025 23:01


    MOID perfects the greatest disguise of all: the invisible man.Intro guest: Ayshea Brough.

    The Protectors - Your Witness

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2025 24:51


    A club owner hires the Protectors to guard his niece, who is a witness in a murder trial.Intro special guest: Ayshea Brough.

    New Captain Scarlet - Circles of Doom

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2025 21:24


    Captain Black reveals that, using Mysteron technology, that he now has control over all the digital systems on Earth and can destroy them at will. The Mysterons then speak through the rogue agent, demanding mankind's surrender in twenty-four hours or else they will trigger a world-wide technological failure that will destroy everyone on the planet. With humanity's surrender as the price, how can Spectrum carry on the fight with weapons that do not work?

    Supercar - The Tracking of Masterspy

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2025 25:49


    Masterspy steals the plans for Supercar, but he doesn't keep them for long.Intro special guest: Roland Moore.

    Space Precinct - Predator and Prey

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2025 43:02


    Following the death of an officer from the 79th Precinct in Demeter's most fashionable nightclub, Brogan and Haldane are teamed with Lt. Verro Walker in a search for a serial killer. Walker is a loose cannon, but may hold the key to the killings when Jane discovers similarities with a string of mysterious homicides that took place nearly a hundred years before.Intro special guest: Nigel Planer.Randomiser special guest: Richard James

    Torchy the Battery Boy - Torchy is Saved at Last

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2025 14:45


    Torchy uses his magic light to find King Dithers and Polliken. They fit the Man in the Moon a pair of sunglasses so he can sleep through the day, and prepare to head to earth. Mr Bumbledrop tells Torchy that Bossy Boots has become a good girl, so the toy-boy decides to reward her with a party in Topsy Turvy Land. However, the girl has remained in bed for a week, pretending to be sick to evade her schoolwork. When Torchy learns of this, he reprimands the wretch and leaves her behind as he and Mr Bumbledrop head for the stars.Intro special guest: Nigel Planer.

    Terrahawks - Child's Play

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2025 22:38


    It-star masterminds its first attack, attempting to destroy the Terrahawks with a bomb.Intro special guest: Lee Sullivan

    The Protectors - Quin

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2025 21:44


    The Protectors are hired by the sister of a man who disappeared after being hired as a mercenary. They discover he was murdered on the orders of Quin, the leader of the organisation that hired him.Intro guest: Lee Sullivan

    Fireball XL5 - The Doomed Planet

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2025 23:06


    An investigation of a flying saucer leads Zodiac to try to save a planet that has broken out of its orbit and is on a collision course with another planet.

    Stingray - Rescue from the Skies

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2025 25:42


    Agent X-20 plants a bomb on Stingray while Lieutenant Fisher is using the vessel for target practice.Intro special guest: Ellie Collins

    Joe 90 - Mission X-41

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2025 27:12


    Assuming the skills of a leading virologist, Joe tries to steal the antibody for a deadly virus before it can be used to attack the West.

    Captain Scarlet - Fire at Rig 15

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2025 26:32


    The Mysterons target the oil refinery that supplies fuel for all of Spectrum's vehicles.

    Fireball XL5 - Wings of Danger

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2024 24:56


    While investigating strange signals coming from Planet 46, Zodiac is poisoned by a robot bird equipped with deadly radium capsules. Venus saves his life, but the bird is waiting to strike again.

    Stingray - An Echo of Danger

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2024 25:28


    Agent X-20 creates false underwater soundings in an attempt to mislead Phones and have him dismissed from duty.

    Four Feather Falls - A Close Shave

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2024 14:03


    Pedro and Fernando team up with Red Scalp to plot against Tex.

    Thunderbirds - The Man from MI.5

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2024 44:16


    A criminal organisation steals classified plans. Working in conjunction with a British Secret Service agent, Lady Penelope must recover the material to save the world from total destruction.

    The Protectors - The Tiger and the Goat

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2024 21:50


    British Intelligence use the Contessa as bait to capture an assassin who has targeted their agents, however there is a twist when the supposed assassin reveals himself.

    Lavender Castle - The Legend

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2024 10:56


    According to legend, when the two suns eclipse on planet Bharron, once every thousand years, Lavender Castle can be seen in the desert. Captain Thrice and Walking Stick mount an expedition into the desert, but on the third day, the Captain loses Walking Stick when he falls into a gully. Alone in an endless desert, Thrice finds himself at the mercy of Dr. Agon.

    Space:1999 - The Metamorph

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2024 47:04


    The Alphans fall into the grasp of the despotic Mentor, an alien scientist trying to restore his ravaged world to its former glory. His biological computer requires the energy obtained from living brains to complete his task. When captured, Koenig is offered a choice: surrender the Alphans to a horrifying living death or face complete annihilation. Mentor's daughter Maya, who is a metamorph and from whom Mentor has concealed his actions, may be able to aid the Alphans.

    UFO - Court Martial

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2024 44:18


    Colonel Foster is tried and sentenced to death after a security leak is traced to him.

    Terrahawks - The Gun

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2024 22:36


    Yung-Star devises a way to make the Cubes more powerful by combining them. Zelda forms a group of them into a gun and threatens to destroy a newly constructed dam. Meanwhile, Tiger finally loses patience with the Zeroids and orders Zero to give them a new, 'standardised voice', but regrets his decision when all the Zeroids speak with the Sergeant Major's voice.

    Four Feather Falls - How It Began

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2024 14:53


    Whilst out in the desert Tex Tucker finds and shelters an Indian boy and is rewarded with four magic feathers by the boy's grandfather. Two of the feathers make his dog (Dusty) and horse (Rocky) speak whilst the last two control Tex's two guns. Tex decides to create a town called Four Feather Falls and the townsfolk make him Sheriff.

    Fireball XL5 - Planet 46

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2024 24:36


    Fireball XL5 intercepts a missile launched at Earth. Landing on Planet 46, Zodiac and Venus are captured by the villainous Subterrains – who promptly launch a second missile with Venus on board.

    Stingray - Eastern Eclipse

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2024 26:06


    Agent X-2-Zero frees the former dictator El Hudat from the Marineville brig by replacing him with his twin brother.

    Captain Scarlet - Crater 101

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2024 25:45


    Following the events of Lunarville 7, Scarlet, Blue and Green return to the Moon to destroy the Mysteron's newly completed base in the Humboldt Sea.

    The Protectors - Bagman

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2024 25:49


    A wealthy widow's daughter is kidnapped and Harry is required to drop off the ransom money.

    The most CONTROVERSIAL Randomiser ever

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2024 21:35


    Chris attempts to broaden the remit of the Randomiser by reviewing an episode of a non-Gerry Anderson series made by someone who used to work for Gerry Anderson and who used this particular episode to pay tribute to his days working on Gerry Anderson shows. The experiment backfired horribly.

    Space:1999 - Seed of Destruction

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2024 44:30


    Whilst exploring a bizarre asteroid, Koenig is detained and replaced by a double which directs Alpha to direct most of its energy at the asteroid. Some of the crew react negatively at his double's dictatorial behaviour.

    Four Feather Falls - Pedro Has a Plan

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2024 14:21


    Pedro and Fernando plan to rid themselves of the sheriff, by switching his hat with the magic feathers for a normal one.

    Joe 90 - Lone-Handed 90

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2024 25:19


    While the BIG RAT is out of action, Joe dreams of life as a sheriff in the Wild West.

    The Protectors - See No Evil

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2024 24:15


    The Protectors, attempting to guard an Italian senator in Rome, find a blackmailer who has got out of control.

    Torchy the Battery Boy - Topsy Turvy Land

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2024 15:57


    Torchy's rocket arrives in Topsy Turvy Land, and he tries to convince Pom-Pom and the toys to return to Earth, but they decline. Flopsy, the ragdoll, complains about her lack of stuffing, so Torchy convinces Pom-Pom to donate some of her fur.

    Terrahawks - Ten Top Pop

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2024 23:07


    Kate is taken hostage by Anderburr Records employee "Stew" Dapples, who is under Zelda's control.

    UFO - Reflections in the Water

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2024 42:55


    Straker and Foster investigate an undersea alien base where SHADO and its personnel have been duplicated.

    Lavender Castle - Birds of a Feather

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2024 11:10


    Dr. Agon proposes an alliance of the Paradox crew's greatest enemies and summons Short Fred Ledd, the Dank and Colonel Clump to the Dark Station. Each has a story to tell of an encounter with the Paradox crew that has left them with a score to settle.

    Space Precinct - The Fire Within (2 of 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2024 40:39


    Samina disappears, Haldane resigns from the force to join the Pyrists and a power struggle amongst the priests leads to a third death at the Temple. Then a witness comes forward who claims that Haldane has murdered Samina, and Podly is forced to issue a warrant for Haldane's arrest as the Pyrists prepare for the Day of Immolation – the end of the world!

    Space Precinct - The Fire Within (1 of 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2024 42:22


    Pyrist priest Tendall Kalike dies by spontaneous combustion during a ceremony at the Pyrist Temple and the event is witnessed by Took on her first visit to the Temple as a Seeker. Brogan and Castle search for evidence that points to Kalike's death being homicide and suspicion falls on fellow priest Nevik Brok. Teamed with Podly's daughter Samina, Haldane goes undercover at the Pyrist Temple to discover the truth.

    Fireball XL5 - The Last of the Zanadus

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2024 26:40


    The evil Koodas, lone inhabitant of the planet Zanadu, plots to destroy all Lazoons with a deadly virus. When Zoonie is infected, the XL5 crew must race to obtain the cure.

    The Protectors - The Quick Brown Fox

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2024 24:06


    The Protectors are hired to help find a missing band of Nazis.

    Stingray - Stand by for Action

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2024 25:14


    Agent X-20 poses as a film producer in his latest scheme to eliminate Troy.

    Four Feather Falls - Land Grabbers

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2024 14:09


    The Circle Z Ranch is under siege from Morg Fenton and Big Ben, but Tex discovers it is outside his area of jurisdiction and cannot help defend it.

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