CINDERELLA'S COACH

'Cinderella's Coach' from the film The Slipper and the Rose, was a strange choice for release, appealing more to girls than boys, and was only available until the following year. The 1/42nd scale all plastic model was finished in gold with four white horses, a footman dressed in pink, and Cinderella herself, also in pink, seated inside. A photograph and signature of Gemma Craven (who played Cinderella in the film) featured on the window box, but as a TV/Film related model, this one is a pumpkin.

'JOE 90' TV SERIES

Joe 90 is a 1968 television series concerning the adventures of a nine-year-old boy, Joe McClaine, set in the years 2012-13. Devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, a single season of thirty 25-minute episodes was completed, and it was the last show to be made exclusively using a form of puppetry called "Supermarionation". It was created for Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment by Century 21 Productions (by this time also under Grade's ownership), and was first broadcast on the British ITV network by Associated Television.

CAPTAIN SCARLET TV SERIES - MAXIMUM SECURITY VEHICLE

One of three vehicles released from the ‘Captain Scarlet’ TV series was the ‘Maximum Security Vehicle’. With a white body, red base and side stripes, it featured opening gull wing doors with access to the red interior and ‘radio-active’ packing case. This 1/48th scale model is an accurate representation in all but colour, as the vehicles in the series were silver-grey with an orange stripe. No variations were noted in its eight year run, except possibly a speed wheel version with a blue interior, said to have been released on a blister card around 1975. See more.

DINKY TOYS - THUNDERBIRD 2 AND 4

The smaller of two eventual versions of 'Thunderbird 2' represented a scale of around 1/515th, and both halves of the fuselage were die-cast. Early versions were finished correctly in gloss green whilst later versions were finished in metallic green. The spring loaded folding legs were usually moulded in yellow, but some do turn up with red. A small yellow plastic model of Thunderbird 4 was included in side the removeable cargo pod. In 1974, this model was superceded bu a slightly larger 1/500th scale version, the bottom half of the fuselage still initially diecast but soon being changed to plastic. All the larger versions were finished in metallic blue, the all die-cast version having both halves finished in the same colour. The plastic bottomed versions did not have the bottom painted, and so appeared as metallic blue and black two-tone for most of the production run, though the very last versions (around 1980) appeared with a white plastic bottom half. Again, the folding legs on these larger versions could be either yellow or red. The smaller scale Thunderbird 2's are valued highest today, the gloss green commanding slighty more than the metallic green, though the short lived all die-cast large version is not far behind. --(Model Collectors) See more

DINKY TOYS - ED STRAKER'S CAR FROM THE UFO TV SERIES

'Ed Straker's Car from the 'UFO' TV Series (and also from the earlier film Doppleganger or Journey to the Far Side of the Sun) was a rather poor attempt at what could have been a first class model. Apart from the whole body contours being simplified, the largest and most glaring error is that the up and over gull wing doors (as featured prominently in the series) were portrayed as front-hinged normal doors. The fact that these doors were also modelled non-opening makes the error doubly inexcusable. However, as the model stands, it is at least recognisable and represents a scale of 1/42nd, the real vehicle being based on the Ford Zephyr/Zodiac MK IV chassis with aluminium and glassfibre bodies.

Straker's car was finished in a mid-metallic brown in the 'UFO' series, but the model appeared in two fictitious colour variations, one being gloss yellow with a white interior, the other being a gold plate effect with blue interior. Radial ribbed or center nut cast wheels with tyres could be found on either colour variation, the real wheels being powered by a pull-back clockwork motor. It was the first 'UFO' based model to be deleated, in 1975. --Model Collector See here

DINKY TOYS - GABRIEL MODEL T FORD

The ‘Gabriel Model T Ford’ (no 109) was the everyday run about of Father Stanley Unwin from the Gerry Anderson ‘Secret Service’ series, though the same vehicle was also seen in a couple of episodes of the later ‘UFO’ series.
The 1/43 rd scale yellow and black model featured a figure of Unwin at the wheel and ‘Gabriel’ labels on each body side. Due to the model only being available for two years, and the series only being shown in three ITV regions, the Gabriel Model T is rare, especially when compard with other Anderson related items.