Book Launch: Candy, Andy & the Bearandas

06:30pm - 08:00pm, Thu 26 Oct 2023

Join us and Four Corners Books for the launch event of Candy, Andy & the Bearandas in our Bookshop and Cafe Bar.

Scenario from Candy Andy & the Bearandas

Book Launch: Candy, Andy & the Bearandas

6:30pm, Thu 26 Oct 2023

Join us and Four Corners Books for the launch event of Candy, Andy & the Bearandas in our Bookshop and Cafe Bar.

This event is part of our Past Programme

Living in a picture-perfect English village, two panda bears, Mr and Mrs Bearanda, bring up their plastic children, Candy and Andy.
Devised by Gerry Anderson’s Century 21 Productions (Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet) for the 1960s comic book market, the images created for the photo-strips are a surreal, unique look at domesticity, the family and childhood. Their unusual nature meant they never reached the popularity of other Anderson characters, and the photo story comics were abandoned after a year.
This book presents the best of the surviving original transparencies from this brilliantly bizarre project: driving their striped Mini, preparing for Bonfire Night, or going for a boat ride, Candy, Andy and the Bearandas live in an unforgettable, dreamlike world.

Historian and broadcaster Alan Dein will share  anecdotes from the history of the Candy project on the night.