TV Comic the period between 1971 and 1973, when the strip was instead published in another Polystyle title, "Countdown/TV Action"). It also featured strip cartoons for the early puppet TV series produced by Gerry Anderson and AP Films—"Four Feather Falls", "Supercar" and "Fireball XL5"—until Anderson's titles became the focus of a rival publication, "TV Century 21". The 1960s issues are also noted as being the most collectable period in the comic's history. As well as "Doctor Who" and Anderson strips, other highly collectable material included "Telegoons" (which ran from 1963 to 1967), "Space Patrol" (from 1964 to 1965) and "The Avengers" (based
UFO (TV series) the cancellation of children's espionage television series "The Secret Service" (1969) after only one series, Lew Grade approached Gerry Anderson to look into creating his first live-action TV series. Anderson worked with his wife, Sylvia, and producer Reg Hill to create a sci-fi adventure series based around UFOs. Anderson said the core idea for the series was that UFO sightings were a common issue during the late 1960s and that idea of aliens harvesting human organs came from the work of Christian Barnard and his pioneering transplant operations. The creative team initially envisioned an organisation called UFoeDO (Unidentified Foe Defence