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Five Star Five

The Battle for Kestra
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A brand new novelisation of the previously unreleased Gerry Anderson feature Five Star Five. Five Star Five was Gerry Andersons answer to Star Wars, and was on the cusp of entering production in 1978 when the financing for the feature collapsed.

The third release in the Five Star Five series completing the trilogy. A novelisation by Richard James following John Lovell and the Zargon Threat, an original 1978 feature script by Gerry Anderson and Tony Barwick, and The Doomsday Device by Richard James.

THE TIME: THE FUTURE
THE PLACE: THE UNIVERSE

As the Zargons prepare their last, desperate attempt to invade their enemy planet, John Lovell and his gang of misfits stand accused of acts of terror on Kestran soil. With a new President in place, the ‘Five Star Five’ are forced underground before they can confront the enemy within and thwart the Zargons plans.

Richard Jamess association with the worlds of Gerry Anderson began with playing Officer Orrin in Space Precinct. Since then, he has novelised the pilot episode of Space PrecinctDemeter City, and written four new adventures for the officers of Precinct 88, Space PrecinctRevisited. His memoir, Space Precinct Unmasked, details his time spent filming Gerrys last live action series. He has also adapted a lost sit-com script from Gerry Anderson and Ronnie Cass, The Fat of the Land, as a play for the stage. Aside from his Anderson credentials, Richard has written a Victorian detective series following the fortunes of Detective Inspector Bowman of the Yard.

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