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Amelia wrote:
> Well,his personal life was tough, so maybe he displayed another
> hidden side of himself in automobile shades. A man and woman's
> bond with their automobile is sacred. ; - ) Actually it may
> have been the art director's or Sylvia's choice.


More probably, I suppose, they wanted to hire a sporty American
car for that particular episode and didn't have that much choice
(in the UK).

We're talking about The Long Sleep here, I think? The flashback
scene where he hits the unfortunate young woman who subsequently
goes into a coma for ten years.

Slim Jim

Found another link.
It's a strange alternate/slash story, so be forewarned!
Some may have read it in UFO zine 1 (if memory serves, it was in there, too
lazy to check).

http://www.strangefruit.groupies.co.uk/page14.html

It's in three parts: Strangers touch, Strangers still, Strangers no more.

And our Librarian's got a new story posted: A different reality!
<bounce>

--Anny :-)

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Angelo Finamore
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2 bids and it's still at 1 cent - big spenders. <giggle>


Thanks, Angelo!

-- Y


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There outta be a law....

I don't think this is within eBay's guidelines; you
should have the item that you are auctioning "in
hand." I wish there was someway to tell this crackpot
(with a rating of 4, mind you) or viewers of this
auction that they can order it themselves direct from
Amazon.co.uk. I'm sure the seller's "reserve price" is
probably at least $50 or more.

Grrrrrr...

JF

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Marc,

the pictures this guy uses, aren't they from your website?
And another one from ISOSHADO? I wonder whether he's reliable or
not... :-/

Christian

UFO on DVD: only 12 days left - and counting... :-))

Hi All,
on Amazon web site at
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-
/264697/ref=ed_cp_ri_i_7_3/202-4137438-4525427
you can read interview to Gerry Anderson and Ed Bishop about the new
UFO DVD.

This is the copy of the text:

Remembering UFO

An interview with Gerry Anderson and Ed Bishop
by Gary S. Dalkin

Gerry Anderson is one of the most instantly recognised names in
British television, the driving force behind such ground-breaking
programmes as Supercar, Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, and
Space 1999--shows produced by one of the icons of independent
television, Lew Grade. With Anderson's cult classic series UFO
debuting on DVD, Amazon.co.uk contributor Gary Dalkin spoke to both
Gerry Anderson and Ed Bishop, who played Commander Ed Straker, about
the show.

Ed Bishop was born in Brooklyn in 1932 but for the last 42 years he
has been a prolific and versatile actor living and working in the UK.
He has appeared in many productions in almost every genre and medium,
with his other science fiction credits including 2001: A Space
Odyssey (1968) and Saturn 3 (1980), as well as Gerry Anderson's
feature film Doppelganger (1969) and puppet animation show Captain
Scarlet (1967), for which he provided the voice of Captain Blue.

Bishop tells how he first became involved with Captain Scarlet: "It
was just a regular job that I got through an agent. Sylvia Anderson
called up this agency and she wanted to speak to Cy Grant, the folk
singer, and this young lady at the agency said, 'Look, I know you
employ a lot of American voices on your programmes and we've just
signed a new American actor by the name of Edward Bishop. Would you
like to met him?' So I went out to their house and they auditioned me
and I got the job.

"I was working at that time at the Theatre Royal in London where I
was getting five pounds a week. And now I was getting fifteen guineas
a week working with Gerry Anderson. So it was a very well paid job,
and it was very easy. You didn't have to learn the lines. You didn't
even have to get dressed up! You just turned up at the studio two
days a month."

You didn't have to learn the lines. You didn't even have to get
dressed up! You just turned up at the studio two days a month.

After Captain Scarlet, Bishop went on to appear in Gerry Anderson's
only live-action science fiction film, Doppelganger (aka Journey to
the Far Side of the Sun). "Gerry and Sylvia were very, very loyal
producers. When they were setting up UFO they remembered me and they
seemed to think I would be right for this part of Straker; they
showed Lew Grade some of the rushes from Doppelganger and he said
yes."

Gerry Anderson was born in Kilburn, North London in 1929 and
originally joined the Colonial Film Unit and then Gainsborough
Pictures in the 1940s where he worked as an editor in the 1940s
before moving to Pinewood Studios in the 1950s and eventually setting
up a production company, AP Films, with the intention of making
feature films. But he got sidetracked and spent most of the 1960s
making puppet programmes for children's TV instead.

"We made so may puppet films," he relates, "and they were shown over
and over again, so that we were virtually drowning in our own
product. So Lew Grade called me to his office and said, very
gravely, 'I think the time has come for you to switch to live
action.' I managed to keep a serious face, but of course when I got
out and shut the door I punched the air with joy--it was just the
greatest moment in my life."

When I got out and shut the door I punched the air with joy--it was
just the greatest moment in my life

Having finally realised his goal of directing live action, Anderson
was stuck with no idea of what he was going to do, and had to go away
and create a new show from scratch. That's perhaps the reason why
there are similarities between UFO and Captain Scarlet--not just the
presence of Ed Bishop, but the enigmatic aliens coming to Earth from
a dying world, in each case fought by a highly secret organisation.
So was UFO just a more adult reworking of Captain Scarlet?

"Not intentionally," Anderson says, "I think there are a limited
number of stories you can do with aliens. They're either friendly
aliens, or they're unfriendly. As far as I was concerned it was a
totally original idea, but I suppose there are similarities. Ed
Bishop played the part of Captain Blue and when we did UFO he was
such a good actor and such a nice guy to work with and seemed so
right for the part that that's how it came about."

Ed Bishop, however, wasn't sure he really was the star at the
beginning. "Originally the idea was that the character of Straker
would be involved in say three or four days out of a 10-day
schedule," he recalls. "I was just supposed to be in the office. If
they needed something explained they could always cut back to the
office and have a scene where I'm saying 'Oh, well, the interceptors
did this, Skydiver should have done that, now where are the UFOs…'
and all the rest of it. But I think that the writers kind of took a
liking to the old fart Straker, and they decided to put him in
different situations and stretch the character this way and pull him
that way. So that's how, gradually, Straker seemed to gain more and
more screen time."

I think that the writers kind of took a liking to the old fart
Straker, and they decided to put him in different situations

But Gerry Anderson remembers it differently. "As far as I was
concerned he was always going to be the star. He was always cast as
the star, and the writers were always instructed by me to make sure
that he was."

So perhaps Ed Bishop is just being modest? "He is a very modest man,"
says Anderson warmly, "and a hell of a nice guy. He was a wonderful
artist. When you are on a television series you are under tremendous
pressure and he was a guy who was always at the studio on time, who
always knew his lines, didn't bump into the furniture, took
direction, but on the other hand was prepared to contribute
dramatically. We couldn't have had a nicer person."

But the machinery wasn't always so nice. There were problems with the
futuristic cars for a start. "Oh, don't mention those cars! I hated
those cars!" Bishop exclaims. "I would rather do a scene in molasses
than in those cars. They couldn't be driven. You had to be put on a
truck and towed. Or you were in the studio and it was claustrophobic
with the car doors closed. You had the blue matte behind you with the
trees going past you and it was cramped, it was uncomfortable, and it
was smelly and it was just a very unpleasant experience. Those darned
cars! But they looked like a million dollars."

Gerry Anderson agrees. "First of all they were quite dangerous to
drive. The steering was not what one would expect from a modern car.
And of course when the car pulled up the camera would zoom in so that
it excluded the end of the door from the frame and the prop man used
to run in and grab the corner of the door and lift it up manually."

The prop man used to run in and grab the corner of the door and lift
it up manually

Bishop remembers some other futuristic innovations. "There were the
portable cellular phones that didn't need wires, the teleconferencing
where you just pressed a button and someone pops up on your screen
and you can see them even though they were on the moon."

Gerry Anderson noted that they did this first in Doppelganger. "We
cut holes in the set which were the right size to present somebody in
a medium close-up, and then on the back of the set--which of course
is wood--we put loads of crinkled silver paper so that we could
actually bounce the light off the silver paper onto their faces. Then
we put very fine muslin over the front and even today I think we
achieved quite a realistic result."

UFO turned out to be the only time Gerry Anderson ever had to make a
major insurance claim on any of his shows. Blame Carry On Cowboy
(1965), says Anderson. "We started filming at MGM Studios at Elstree.
It was a lovely studio. The most modern in the country. Beautifully
laid out and well equipped. And halfway through MGM America decided
to close the studio. So we moved to Pinewood studio where the Carry
On pictures were made. In one of our stories we wrote in a scene with
a sort of a cowboy sequence, so we used a Carry On set which was left
standing on the lot."

"It was one of these hallucinogenic things. We were in these cowboy
outfits," Bishop continues the story. "I was lying down straight out
on the ground and my right foot was out. And Michael Billington, the
son of a gun, he came along and he stepped on my cotton-pickin'
ankle! I tried to soldier on, but it got as big as a football and
they whisked me off to some guy in Harley Street. They filmed a
little bit of me sitting down at a desk, but they had to suspend
shooting for weeks. They shot close-ups on the phone, but they had to
stop because I literally couldn't move and had to be carried
everywhere."

Sadly, UFO was cancelled after just one season. Gerry Anderson
explains the reasons. "The show was put into American syndication and
it ran in New York and Los Angeles and it topped the ratings in both
those key territories for 17 consecutive weeks. We got an order from
the American office to make a second series. So that was marvellous,
and we started to prepare, writing scripts, building models and so
on. Then on week 18 the ratings dropped. And of course in America if
the ratings drop everybody panics. They think it is the end of the
world. They phoned and said 'Cancel, cancel, cancel! Don't make it.'
Well, I was broken-hearted. I went along to Lew Grade and
said, 'Look, we've spent a lot of money on this show. Would you allow
me to re-title it, re-jig it and make it into a new show.' He
said, 'Good idea', and so it became Space: 1999."

Anderson is understandably pleased to see his first live-action
series newly presented on DVD. "The people at Carlton Video took the
original 35 mm negative and they transferred it to computer, and then
they went through every picture frame by frame. They've painted out
all the little white dots and repaired any scratch marks and so
forth. And then they've put it through the most modern colour graders
in the world and rejuvenated the colours, so that, odd as it might
seem, the show can now be seen in far better quality than when it was
first made. They've taken a lot of trouble to get optimum quality,
and I think it's paid off.

Odd as it might seem, the show can now be seen in far better quality
than when it was first made

"I did a commentary on episode one. I directed the first episode. So
here I am looking at it 30 years later, and of course as I'm looking
at it I want to re-shoot everything and rewrite every scene. But to
step back and look at it; it still looks good and there's a lot of
ideas, a lot of innovation, a lot of interesting things to look at.
And I think as the show went on it got better and better."

Ed Bishop has also provided a commentary for the episode "Sub
Smash". "I hadn't seen it in 20 years. It was a brand new experience,
almost like watching somebody else. It was very lucky they sent it to
me in advance because I was able to watch it a couple of times and so
I could make some intelligent contribution when I had to provide the
commentary. I think it stands up. That particular episode is very
good and I think that the DVD release is fantastic. The sound is
crystal clear, they've cleaned up the negative and it really looks
wonderful."

Finally, looking back over his career Bishop confesses there is one
role he would like to be remembered for. "I would say that the
outstanding one would have to be in UFO. Smart ass Straker!"

Gary S. Dalkin is Deputy Editor of Film Music on The Web. He has
written for Gramophone, Empire, Interzone and many others.

--
Angelo Finamore
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Hi All,
some days ago Carlton Video give the possibility to buy online the
UFO SERIES ONE - Complete 4 Disc DVD Boxset.

Now the page
http://www.carltonvideo.co.uk/index.asp?wci=groups&scr=UFO
is again update with the write:
"Coming Soon"

and at the moment you can't buy online from Carlton the UFO Series
One DVD.

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There are pre-order auctions all the time on eBay, so it must be
allowed. The seller MIGHT be totally legit. I'd like to know how she's
getting the sets, though. Usually, it is actual stores that pre-sell
items because they know they're getting the items in, but this seller
doesn't appear to be a store ....

Ah, well, what can you do?

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