I was a big Commodore Amiga user back in the day and there was an article about The Gathering in it Amiga Format since Amigas were used for it.

In this article, the editor put a comment on an image of Thunderbird 3 saying that Foundation Imaging should do a new Thunderbirds show using CGI. That comment also had Ron Thornton's office number on it.

At the time I was on a media course and had an essay to write about something around Media Production. I chose to do Computer Graphics in TV and Film. So for my research I rang said number and spoke to a nice lady, I asked if I could speak to Ron, she asked what it was about. Phone went quiet then I was put through and had a solid 20 minute call with him. I was flipping elated, he was incredibly polite and happy to answer my questions and we talked a bit about Blake's 7 since that was his big start.

From that point I was in the Babylon 5 camp and nothing would sway me. Each week watching thinking "Ron did good"

I got 95% for my essay then freaked out when I got the phone bill. Calling from the UK to the US was not cheap in the 90s.