Flight Path

I saw "Flight Path" the other day, and a couple of things about it
bothered me.

First, although we see a UFO has got past SHADO's defences, nobody
seems to mention that there is a UFO on the loose somewhere on
Earth. They only seem to find out of its existence when it attacks
Paul Roper.

Second, there's an odd sequence in this episode - after Straker has
let Roper go with the intention of seeing who the traitor in SHADO
is, he orders Red Alert, and we suddenly get a montage of clips from
previous episodes - which, considering that this is the third episode
made, aren't many. But they don't make sense - we see a SHADO
Transporter deposit some SHADO Mobiles, and said Mobiles on patrol -
but if Starker seems to be expecting an attack, what if the UFO(s) go
elsewhere? Also in this montage of clips, SID mentions "...Have
relocated UFO", but I can't recall the issue of a missing UFO being
mentioned. It seems as if they found out that the episode was under-
running, so this sequence was concocted. Strange, when it sems that
some other scenes were filmed but deleted.

> mentioned. It seems as if they found out that the episode was under-
> running, so this sequence was concocted. Strange, when it sems that
> some other scenes were filmed but deleted.

FLIGHT PATH is a rather poorly edited episode. Comparing the original
script to the finished episode, I have to wonder why they rearranged
all sorts of scenes, cut some scenes out, and seemingly added "padding"
to the episode. I guess as it was the second episode, they were still
learning...

Marc

--- In [hidden email], "Marc Martin" <marc@u...> wrote:
> > mentioned. It seems as if they found out that the episode was
under-
> > running, so this sequence was concocted. Strange, when it sems
that
> > some other scenes were filmed but deleted.
>
> FLIGHT PATH is a rather poorly edited episode. Comparing the
original
> script to the finished episode, I have to wonder why they rearranged
> all sorts of scenes, cut some scenes out, and seemingly
added "padding"
> to the episode. I guess as it was the second episode, they were
still
> learning...
>
> Marc

While on the subject of "Flight Path", I was just watching it earlier
today and noticed that the car that's almost always described
as "Straker's car" turns out to be infact a standard issue "Shado
Car" as evidenced by Straker refering to it in that way to Capt.
Carlin. (Obviously, the Anderson's only had one of two cars to use
for the show so they had to come up with an explanation as to why
Roper was driving "Straker's car").

Any thoughts?

Jay

It also might have been a matter of time involving all the clips used in
Flight Path. It has gotten to be a rather recent thing in TV series to have a
episode making extensive use of clips from past episodes. The reason for this is
that they did not have time to do a all new episode and get it on in the time
alotted. When UFO was being done it was the first series the Anderson had
done using actors rather than puppets so I'm sure they hit some hang ups they
did not expect and used this as a way to stay on schedule.

James K.


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This does sound reasonable, especially as it's a very early episode.

[hidden email] wrote:It also might have been a matter of time involving all the clips used in
Flight Path. It has gotten to be a rather recent thing in TV series to have a
episode making extensive use of clips from past episodes. The reason for this is
that they did not have time to do a all new episode and get it on in the time
alotted. When UFO was being done it was the first series the Anderson had
done using actors rather than puppets so I'm sure they hit some hang ups they
did not expect and used this as a way to stay on schedule.

James K.





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----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 9:48 PM
Subject: [SHADO] Re: Flight Path



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.... Or maybe, they're not really "Straker's custom car" or "Foster's
custom car", or "SHADO custom cars", but merely projected mass production
models of the car companies of the future....??!!?
....Like a future Ford Mustang, or Camaro, or Impala....??

Maybe Roper just happened to buy the same make and model of car as
Straker had....?

Dave H.

>> Maybe Roper just happened to buy the same make and model of car as
>Straker had....?

Same license plate number, too... :-)

Marc

Maybe they (SHADO) use a pool car system as with many companies

Best, Griff

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Martin [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 10:44 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [SHADO] Re: Flight Path


>> Maybe Roper just happened to buy the same make and model of car as
>Straker had....?

Same license plate number, too... :-)

Marc



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Griff <[hidden email]> wrote:
Maybe they (SHADO) use a pool car system as with many companies

Best, Griff

I bet they do. All government agencies buy in bulk and SHADO would be no diffrent. Besides, it would be easier tomodify several dozen cars (Armor, electronics and what have you) at once rather then peicemeal as they were needed.

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> Properly edited this time. Sorry about the last one, I forgot.

I wasn't singling anyone out -- like I said, this applies to
MOST of the people posting at this point.

I suppose it doesn't help that even YahooGroups gets increasingly
annoying, with it's longer footers at the bottom of the messages,
and the advertising on the website getting more intrusive (even
when I'm approving messages, it throws a few ads in my face!)

I'd suggest moving the group somewhere else, but it seems like
YahooGroups has a monopoly on discussion groups at this point,
and moving SHADO anywhere else would probably be a step down
from what we have now.

Marc

Well, I could host the mailing list. I don't have a web-based archive
(my archives are accessible via email currently), but I'm working on
that. I could also setup an affiliated website. None of my stuff is ad
supported - only supported via donations.

Marc Martin wrote:
> I'd suggest moving the group somewhere else, but it seems like
> YahooGroups has a monopoly on discussion groups at this point,
> and moving SHADO anywhere else would probably be a step down
> from what we have now.

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why dont we do a UFO chat room whenever some of us are online. we can each
have a friend on stand bye. when a friend shows up ask them if they want to
chat. if yes then open a chat. if you see anyone else invite them too. use the
buddy lists or membership icons to see if they are online. scott


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