Ah-Ha... I have found that "red phone" !

You know, when Gerry Anderson talks (Fanderson documentary) of an actor
on one of his shows making a big deal about his having to talk in a RED
phone, causing some re-takes... (they then cut to a shot of a red phone
being hung up)

It is a shot taken from "Alien Attack" (the second set of new scenes,
when the Lunar Comissioner hangs up the phone) !

Very obvious, once you compare the two, on top of the both desks being
the same (and so on) you see that the receptor does npt set "squarely"
on the phone and that the actor has to "push" it in on the second try.

Now... wether Patrick Allen (Comissioner) was actually the actor that
Gerry Anderson was refering to, that is another matter...

"Alien Attack"? Isn't that one of those UFO "movies" cobbled together from various episodes? So the red phone isn't even a part of a regular UFO episode?

Jeff

Pat <[hidden email]> wrote:
You know, when Gerry Anderson talks (Fanderson documentary) of an actor
on one of his shows making a big deal about his having to talk in a RED
phone, causing some re-takes... (they then cut to a shot of a red phone
being hung up)

It is a shot taken from "Alien Attack" (the second set of new scenes,
when the Lunar Comissioner hangs up the phone) !

Very obvious, once you compare the two, on top of the both desks being
the same (and so on) you see that the receptor does npt set "squarely"
on the phone and that the actor has to "push" it in on the second try.

Now... wether Patrick Allen (Comissioner) was actually the actor that
Gerry Anderson was refering to, that is another matter...









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Jeffrey Nelson wrote:
> "Alien Attack"? Isn't that one of those UFO "movies"
> cobbled together from various episodes? So the red phone
> isn't even a part of a regular UFO episode?

"Alien Attack" is one of those Space:1999 movies
cobbled together from various episodes.

Marc

Thanks Marc. I came in on the middle of the conversation apparently. Hence my extreme confusion. At least I got the "cobbled together" part correct. : ) A while back there was a post about an ebay listing involving an upright phone of some sort that was claimed to have been from UFO. That is what I mistakenly thought the discussion was about. Sorry.

Jeff

Marc Martin <[hidden email]> wrote:
Jeffrey Nelson wrote:
> "Alien Attack"? Isn't that one of those UFO "movies"
> cobbled together from various episodes? So the red phone
> isn't even a part of a regular UFO episode?

"Alien Attack" is one of those Space:1999 movies
cobbled together from various episodes.

Marc


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Jeffrey Nelson wrote:

> "Alien Attack"? Isn't that one of those
> UFO "movies" > cobbled together from various
> episodes? So the red phone > isn't even a
> part of a regular UFO episode?

To which Marc Martin replied:

> "Alien Attack" is one of those Space:1999 movies
> cobbled together from various episodes.

If memory serves me correctly, "Alien Attack" was
also the working title of a Gerry Anderson
supermarionation commercial for a British gelatin
product filmed around 1977.  

This was all detailed in an early issue of Starlog
Magazine in the summer of 1978, so it was probably
#17 or thereabouts. Mind you that I have not seen
the actual commercial, so I have no idea if the
red phone appears.  

But the storyline involved a hybrid Scarlet/UFO/1999
alien invasion, and there was a marionette commander.  
And given that we are dealing with supermarionation
here, invariably a human hand would be filmed for
closeup scenes of physical hand manipulations --
levers, buttons, phones, etc.

Are there any U.K. residents here who can actually
recall seeing this one?

Jeff Kuzma

Close, it's a "movie" that combines two "Space 1999" episodes...

--- In [hidden email], Jeffrey Nelson <1shado1@s...> wrote:
>
> "Alien Attack"? Isn't that one of those UFO "movies" cobbled
together from various episodes? So the red phone isn't even a part
of a regular UFO episode?
>  
> Jeff
>
> Pat <gangamanga2003@y...> wrote:
> You know, when Gerry Anderson talks (Fanderson documentary) of an
actor
> on one of his shows making a big deal about his having to talk in a
RED
> phone, causing some re-takes... (they then cut to a shot of a red
phone
> being hung up)
>
> It is a shot taken from "Alien Attack" (the second set of new
scenes,
> when the Lunar Comissioner hangs up the phone) !
>
> Very obvious, once you compare the two, on top of the both desks
being
> the same (and so on) you see that the receptor does npt
set "squarely"
> on the phone and that the actor has to "push" it in on the second
try.
>
> Now... wether Patrick Allen (Comissioner) was actually the actor
that