Awfully quiet...

Is it me, or have all the Gerry Anderson related discussion groups
become rather quiet lately? Is everyone sick? Watching the Olympics?
Tired of the Internet?

I guess I'll take this lull to reply to a comment Rob made a few
weeks ago. In the documentary "Mr. Thunderbirds", Gerry Anderson
made statements that blamed ITC New York for the cancelled 2nd
season of UFO. This would seem to contradict some of the rest of
us, who have blamed financier Lew Grade.

However, Gerry's statements still don't change my mind, because
when he was talking about ITC New York, he was referring to a time
in the spring of 1973. This was 2 and a half YEARS after UFO
completed filming in the fall of 1970! When I think about UFO's
second season being cancelled, I typically think of activities
which occurred in 1970 and 1971, not 1973. And around that time,
Lew Grade stopped production of UFO and told Gerry Anderson
to go film another live action series called "The Protectors".
So I still blame Lew Grade, and not ITC New York.

Also, by the time spring 1973 had come around, many of the
actors were already busy doing other things, the special effects
crew from Century 21 were doing other things, and Gerry Anderson was
planning on making sweeping changes to UFO, including
moving it 19 years into the future and having SHADO HQ on the
moon! So again, this doesn't really sound like a second
season of UFO to me... more like a new series altogether,
which is what it actually became...


On a different subject -- with only a week to go, it looks
like my business trip is definitely going to happen such
that I will be at Fanderson's Century 21 convention on
Saturday! It's a pity I didn't reserve a nice single
room in advance at the convention hotel, but hopefully
the walk from the nearby Coventry Hill Hotel won't
be too unpleasant... (hoping for nice weather)

--
Marc Martin, [hidden email]

Unfortunately FAB-L is broken, which doesn't
help. Some non UFO things are getting posted here,
but I can't help feeling there might be more
discussion if FAB-L were fixed.

Now I am here, the (UK) Channel 5 documentary
(not to be confused with channel 5 videos)
had some interesting footage of the UFOs which
carried on to show parts of the set and some
discussion about how they were made. I didn't
see anyone on the list mention this, perhaps I
missed it or this footage is known.

And on yet another topic, I am surprised that
there isn't enough for a UFO cutaway book. There
are MANY vehicles, the studio, moonbase,
the space suits, weapons and so forth. The main
difference I think is UFO does not have the
history of cutaways that things like Thunderbirds
had in TV21.

Peter Hemingway

Has anybody worked on the possibility of coming up
with the Shado HQ Technical manual and blueprints.

Hehehe. Things like.

Aliens are know to carry high powered weapons of
unknown technology. However, they shoot regular
bullets. Look like 22 calibre.

UFO's break up after 24hrs in the Earth'a atmosphere.
Why? We don't know. They just DO! So there!

Hehehe. Could be a lot of fun.

But seriously. The SHADO tech and procedure manual
could be a really fun project.

******

Here is another of Ron's annoying questions.

If there really was a base on the moon. Why wouldn't
half a million amature astronomers find it when
looking through telescopes from Earth at the moon?

This goes a long with the other faux-pas about SHADO
being top secret but yet they have logos all over
everything.

At least in Space 1999 Moonbase Alpha was a publically
know facility.

Ron "Slow dayt at work" Maxwell
--- Peter Hemingway <[hidden email]> wrote:

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Ron Maxwell wrote:

>If there really was a base on the moon. Why wouldn't half a million
>amature astronomers find it when looking through telescopes from Earth at
>the moon?

Because it was much, *much* too small to be seen from Earth even by a large
observatory scope, let alone any amateur instrument.

- Lisa
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Lisa Williams wrote:
>
> >If there really was a base on the moon. Why wouldn't half a million
> >amature astronomers find it when looking through telescopes from Earth at
> >the moon?
>
> Because it was much, *much* too small to be seen from Earth even by a large
> observatory scope, let alone any amateur instrument.
>

That's true, but it really wouldn't matter if it _was_ seen. In
the
Dalotek affair, the crew from the Dalotek base were allowed to
know
that there was a military base on the moon, in fact if I remember
correctly they even had a visit. And of course we know that
there
were non-military organisations like Dalotek, and the Russians
from
'The Responsibility Seat' with bases on the moon, so I guess
it's
not really a big deal provided the secrecy regarding moonbase's
actual purpose isn't compromised.

James