Fanderson convention

At the Fanderson convention. FAB Handbook 2 was handed out.
On its page 14, Ed Bishop is quoted as saying that plans for him
and an Australian production company to make UFO 2, are still on.
Does anyone know anything about this?

At the convention I saw a Distruggete Base Luna game for sale. It
was priced at 250 UK pounds, so I left it. Its name is Italian for
"Destroy Moonbase". (Note spelling: not "Distrugette".)

I also saw for sale an Italian videotape of a UFO episode called
"Distruggete Base Luna" . I did not buy it, as I can't understand
spoken Italian; but I can struggle with written Italian more or less.
Its cover included a summary of its story in Italian: "In a interval
in SHADO operations, Straker's little son is seriously ill due to a
serious accident. Straker calls a SHADO air transport to get
medicine to him. Meanwhile a mass attack of UFO's causes a red
alert.". If this summary and the title are accurate, the eposode
starts like "The Responsibility Seat" and later is different. What
happened here? Is it a paste-together of parts of different episodes
with parts of the soundtrack changed?

I saw complete Supercar and Fireball XL-5 and Joe 90 episodes for
the first time. It also showed the start of a Fireball XL-5 episode
which had been partly colorized.

There were plenty of costumes in the disco there Saturday evening,
but not all Gerry Anderson, e.g.: Capt.Scarlet, a Stingray uniform,
a Jawa, Princess Leia, a Star Trek uniform, two as Arthur Dent,
some sort of alien from Space 1999.

"anthonyappleyard" wrote:

> There were plenty of costumes in the disco there Saturday evening,
> but not all Gerry Anderson, e.g.: Capt.Scarlet, a Stingray
> uniform, a Jawa, Princess Leia, a Star Trek uniform, two as Arthur
> Dent, some sort of alien from Space 1999.
>

A STAR TREK Uniform at a Gerry Anderson convention?? I have to take
my hat off to this person - wherever and whoever you are, I salute
you.

>On its page 14, Ed Bishop is quoted as saying that plans for him
>and an Australian production company to make UFO 2, are still on.
>Does anyone know anything about this?

I suspect that this FAB Yearbook is merely reprinting old
interviews. Both the German and the Australian efforts
to make a UFO 2 are dead. There are no current plans that
I know of for making a "UFO 2".

>I also saw for sale an Italian videotape of a UFO episode called
>"Distruggete Base Luna".
>Its cover included a summary of its story in Italian: "In a interval
>in SHADO operations, Straker's little son is seriously ill due to a
>serious accident. Straker calls a SHADO air transport to get
>medicine to him. Meanwhile a mass attack of UFO's causes a red
>alert.".

I was under the impression that this movie was a compilation
of the episodes CONFETTI CHECK A-OK, A QUESTION OF PRIORITIES,
and FLIGHT PATH. But there was no "mass attack of UFO's" in
any of these episodes...

>It also showed the start of a Fireball XL-5 episode
>which had been partly colorized.

Oh great... first we had "turbocharged" Thunderbirds, next
we have "surround sound" Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, and
UFO, and next is "colorized" Fireball XL5? Can't these video
companies just leave the original episodes ALONE?!!

Marc (not anywhere near midnight here... but that final
X-Files episode is coming up soon)

>Oh great... first we had "turbocharged" Thunderbirds, next
>we have "surround sound" Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, and
>UFO, and next is "colorized" Fireball XL5? Can't these video
>companies just leave the original episodes ALONE?!!
>

They did announce that Supercar (or it may have been Fireball) is to be
digitally remastered at the end of the year. I remember them talking about
the colourised ep of Fireball at the last Fanderson con, and saying it would
be cheaper to refilm the episodes!

As for interviews, I'm afraid I missed them all, queueing to meet the
people!

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This was made about 5 years ago before Carlton owned the show and it has
been shown at the Fanderson cons several times since. It was very noticeable
this time that AV technology has moved on rapidly since this was done and
the colourising looked a bit dated.

There is no intention to colourise the entire series.

Katie

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The theme for the disco was 70s and 80s which was why there were people
there in costumes from Star trek, Star Wars, MASH etc. I found the Captain
Scarlet costumes more strange since the series was made in the 60s. :-)

Katie

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