Fw: [SHADO] Re: ELECTRONIC ORGAN : OPENING SEQUENCES OF UFO

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> Hi Brian,
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> It's funny you should mention E.S.P.
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> Back in the days before BluRay, DVD's, and even VCR's, it was seeing E.S.P. at I think the age of 8 or 9 that really blew my mind, and even now it is that episode that I find most evocative, and is the first episode that comes to my mind when I think of UFO.
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> I remember a bunch of school friends and myself had - what we would nowadays call a sleepover. It must have been 1969 or '70, and UFO was THE BIG subject at school, and just about everyone was talking about it, even if theyhadn't seen it. Back then, UFO was shown about midday on Sundays, and I'llalways remember the sheer frustration of just about seeing the last 5 or 10 minutes, as I was compelled to be a choirboy at the local church - and there was ABSOLUTELY NO getting out of it!
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> Back then, there was little or no information about UFO or just about anyother TV show. No one even knew how many episodes there were, their titles, story lines, or when they'd be shown - if at all.
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> It was tantalizing and hugely frustrating to hear conflicting descriptions of the latest episode just shown. Years later, I'd realize that many of my school friends were just making up some episodes - such as: Straker and Foster being taken back to the alien planet; being distressed to hear that Foster gets killed, etc.
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> You have to remember, that back in those days, the only marketing collateral available to a school kid were:
> - 2 x UFO novels - hard going for a 8-9 year old
> - TV21 or Countdown comics - with actual photos from the series!
> - Viewmaster slides
> - Dinky toys: Moonbase Interceptor, Mobile and Strakers car
> - Occasional info in TV listings magazines
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> That was about it...
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> Watching the show was all you had, and you never knew when you were goingto be able to see it again - if ever. There's be rumors at school that they (ITV or ATV) were going to show it again. But, you might have to wait even years.
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> In my early teens, ALL I had was from the list above, and some audio cassette recordings I had made by recording the sound directly from the TV... listening to UFO is an interesting experience, but that's all I had...
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> THEN, the VCR came out, and we were VERY lucky to have one at home. I must have been 13 or 14, but had to wait a few years before UFO was again shown on TV, and I managed to record 6 episodes, that's ALL that was shown in the block. One night, about 11pm I heard the UFO theme coming from our TV room. I was shocked. It was "The Responsibility Seat", and I'd never heard ofthis episode or seen it, and videoed the last 30 minutes.
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> Anyway, that's enough reminiscing, but - for me - that's how it was in those days...
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> ...and the sleepover? Well, we all watched E.S.P. on the edge of our seats, thrilled, terrified, captivated and enthralled. Well, that feeling has never left me, and it never will. All those people that made UFO, well they're definitely on my ALL TIME HEROES list :)
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> Later,
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> Griff  
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> --- In [hidden email], Brian Serridge <brianserridge@> wrote:
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> > Hello Griff,
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> > I remember the show when I was a kid way back in the very early 70s (that's how old I am). I watched "ESP" the other day on my new 47" LCD 1080p television and I nearly dropped my can of Skol Super when I saw the UFO heading towards Mr Croxley's house. Absolutely stunning. CGI just cannot compete with effects like these, I'm sure you'll agree.
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> > All the Best,
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> > BRIAN
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