Complete book of UFO

My copy of the book arrived today, so Amazon UK definitely has copies!
It arrived really quickly, once they stopped cancelling my order all the time and let me buy it.
Just off to have a closer look at it now.

Jess

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Hi all,

Chris Bentley has sent me the following email in response
to some comments here about his new UFO book:


----- Original message -----
From: "Chris Bentley"
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:00:39 +0000
Subject: Re: Complete Book of UFO

Hi Marc,

I've been noting the Lunadude's comments on the SHADO Yahoo Group and
elsewhere about 'The Complete Book of UFO', and I must correct his
interpretation of what I have stated in the book about the original run
of
UFO on Anglia.

Lunadude has posted that the book states that the original run of UFO on
Anglia was on Wednesday evening. Sorry, but it doesn't. Lunadude goes on
to
say that the book states that Anglia aired the show uninterrupted,
including
the banned episodes, at peak time. Again, the book states no such thing.

What the book actually says about the Anglia run (on page 165) is that
Anglia started screening UFO on October 2nd, 1970. In the book, I do not
say
anywhere that this was a Wednesday, since it was actually a Friday. The
book
then goes on to say (on page 166) that 'Only Anglia showed a complete run
of
the 26 episodes from 1970 to 1971.' This is not a statement that Anglia's
run was uninterrupted, that the episodes were all shown on Wednesday
evenings or that they were shown at peak time - just that Anglia showed a
complete run of all 26 episodes in that period, which they did.

In fact, the series started airing on Anglia on Friday evenings at 7pm
from
October 2nd, 1970 with 'Identified' and followed this with 'Exposed' the
following Friday (October 9th). The series then moved to Wednesday
evenings
in an 8pm slot from October 14th (The Cat With Ten Lives) and continued
in
this slot through into 1971, but this run was not uninterrupted: no
episodes
were screened on October 28th, November 18th and 25th, December 23rd (all
1970) or January 27th, 1971. As some of the episodes during these
screenings
were premieres on the ITV network, they are listed in the episode guide
section of the book - notably 'The Responsibility Seat' on Wednesday,
March
3rd, 1971. Later on, the series was shown on at various times on
Thursdays
and Saturdays - not always peaktime. These dates are all as detailed in
the
TV listings magazine for the Anglia area.

I cannot account for Lunadude's recollection that UFO aired at Saturday
teatime after moving from the Friday slot, since I have not found any
evidence that the series was shown by any of the ITV regions on Saturdays
prior to Feburary 1971. Perhaps what he remembers was actually a repeat
run
of the series on Anglia in the autumn of 1971 rather than the first run
from
October 1970?

The caption on the poster for 'Village of the Damned' on page 30 is
indeed
incorrect in giving the release date as 1956. The correct date is 1960,
as I
actually state in the body text on the same page. Originally, we had the
poster for 'Lust For Life' (1956) in this position, but we changed it to
'Village Of The Damned' at the last minute - the film title was altered
in
the caption, but it seems that the date was overlooked. These things
happen.

Regards,
Chris