Lois Maxwell dies at 80

The Canadian born actress Lois Maxwell, has died in Australia aged 80.

She played Miss Holland in the UFO episodes "The Man who came Back"
and "The Cat with Ten Lives". Best known for her role as Miss
Moneypenny in 14 James Bond movies, as well as many ITC TV shows
including Danger Man, Randall and Hopkirk, The Persuaders, The Saint
and The Avengers.

Her last film role was in a 2001 thriller, The Fourth Angel. She moved
to Australia in 2001 to be with her son and his family, and lived in
the Western Australian capital of Perth.

regards,
Rob

The World is a little darker now.

She'll be missed, but forever immortalized.


--- Rob Neal <[hidden email]> wrote:


"[War] is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country, and "we must all put our shoulders to the wheel," but the profits jump and leap and skyrocket — and are safely pocketed." — Smedley Butler, retired as a Major General of the U.S. Marine Corps in 1931 and was awarded two congressional medals of honor and the distinguished service medal.


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Ms. Maxwell will always was a great actress, and I agree with some people
that she should have promoted to "M" in the later Bond films. They replaced a
caring woman with a wonderful, warm grin and gave us an hot nerd instead.

She will be missed.
Wendy




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I've been making a study of the aliens' plans in UFO recently. I'm suprised at the results. The aliens rarely had a plan before the second half of the series and it was often very simple. Generally, the focus was on the complications the war with the aliens caused for various human characters.

Here's what we've got.

Identified: 1 UFO is on a standard body-snatching mission, takes Leila Karlin.
1 UFO tries to eliminate Straker's evidence in 1970. 1 UFO tries to shoot down the plane which carries the Utronic UFO detection equipment.

Computer Affair. No plan. Anyone who saw Identified would assume a standard body-snatching visit, otherwise SHADO seems like the aggressors!

Flight Path. The first real plan. 1 UFO snatches a SHADO op, uses him to extort another into helping work out an attack plan for another UFO. The plan is to destroy Moonbase at sunrise during sunspot activity.

Exposed. Three UFOs with no plan. If you saw Identified, you'd assume a body-snatch mission, casual viewers might be confused.

Survival. A UFO uses a meteorite shower to land on the Moon and an alien takes out a Moonbase window to decompress it. Why the alien doesn't try to repeat this on the remaining spheres is unknown, but the mild attack suggests the aliens wanted it to look like an accident.

Conflict.Another proper plan, if a simple one. An alien device attacks moonships to lure the interceptors away so a UFO can slip down to attack SHADO control.

Close Up. 1 UFO, no plan. Regular viewers could assume a body-snatch run.

Court Martial. No aliens.

The Responsibility Seat. 3 UFOs, no plan. Body-snatch mission seems likely.

Ordeal. 3 UFOs, no known plan again. Foster dreams he is deliberately targetted for abduction so the aliens can learn details of SHADO secrets.

The Square Triangle. 1 UFO, no plan, probably a body-snatch mission. The alien uses a strategy to escape capture, burning up a human body in his UFO as a decoy.

A Question of Priorities. 2 UFOs, 1 alien intends to help the humans and sends a signal to contact them. The other UFO's mission is to destroy the fugitive.

The Dalotek Affair. 3 UFOs approach, drop a radio jammer on the Moon and fly off. When the jammer blocks SHADO communications, 1 UFO attacks Moonbase.

Confetti Check. No aliens.

Kill Straker. Now the series changes its focus. A UFO brainwashes two pilots to assassinate Straker.

E.S.P: A UFO rams a house and kills the wife of a telepathic man. He is manipulated by the aliens who use him as an assassin to execute Freeman and Straker.

Sub Smash. 1 UFO, fitted to travel under the sea, lures Skydiver and sinks it.

Sound of Silence. 1 UFO on a body snatch mission, uses a space mission as protection to get past the interceptors.

Cat with 10 Lives. 8 UFOs try various strategies and fail to destroy Moonbase. Then 1 UFO manipulates pilot Jim Regan and an alien takes over the body of a cat to infiltrate SHADO. Regan is used to attack Moonbase with his interceptor.

Destruction. 1 UFO spies on the navy, a girl is blackmailed to send the aliens information about nerve gas, 2 UFOs approach and 1 gets through, planning to release the nerve gas and kill millions of people.

The Man Who Came Back. 3 UFOs. 1 disables SID, another snatches pilot Collins. The aliens convert him into a robot/zombie to assassinate Straker.

The Psychobombs. 1 UFO uses three humans as superhuman agents and human bombs to extort SHADO and try to force a human surrender.

Reflections in the Water. The aliens duplicate SHADO and the team to trick SHADO's defenses into allowing a fleet of UFOs to reach Earth.

Mindbender. 1 UFO destroys itself to lure humans out onto the Moon. One of them is somehow drawn to a crystal which sends SHADO members crazy, presumably the plan to cause chaos within SHADO.

Timelash. The aliens freeze SHADO in time and enlist the aid of a human traitor. They give him the power to hop back and forth in time so he can help them prepare to take over SHADO HQ.

The Long Sleep. The aliens restore the long-dead Tim to a life-like state so he can find the arming device for a bomb which can split Britain in half. The plan is to apparently devastate the British isles.

So as you can see, the first 13 eps didn't focus much on alien "invasion plan of the week" type plots and the aliens' plans appear to have been mostly simple. They relied purely on strategy prior to the second shooting block, but that was in a minority of episodes. The main focus was on the people affected by the situation, the human drama. It certainly is a very different show to most TV SF.

Incidentally, the Sydney Morning Herald reviewed the UFO boxed set (Australian release I assume) on the 10th of September. The critic called the series a "stylistic masterpiece." He praised the look of the show and also said the writing was "crisp and inventive".

Z.









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> Identified: 1 UFO is on a standard body-snatching mission, takes
Leila Karlin.

We don't really know what the Alien is up to - all we know is that he
discovers his ship is being filmed - kills 1 woman - thinks he kills
the bloke - makes off with the last woman.

> 1 UFO tries to eliminate Straker's evidence in 1970.

Personally I think the UFO is trying to kill the main movers in
getting something done about their incursions.


> 1 UFO tries to shoot down the plane which carries the Utronic UFO
detection equipment.

It is discussed earlier that the Utronic program had been sabotaged
before and the factory was destroyed - so they certainly had a plan
to hinder instantaneous communications. This indicates that the
Aliens have some form of intelligence gathering perhaps like in
Destruction.

 
> Computer Affair. No plan.

That we know of as the UFO was damaged and made a forced landing so
was not able to carry on if it had an intended mission other than its
normal shopping list.

One could assume that a plan was hatched and would be carried out
when a UFO got through the defences rather than assuming it was all
shopping trips!

This is interesting.


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And naughtyhector said
"We don't really know what the Alien is up to - all we
know is that he
discovers his ship is being filmed - kills 1 woman -
thinks he kills
the bloke - makes off with the last woman.

> 1 UFO tries to eliminate Straker's evidence in 1970.

Personally I think the UFO is trying to kill the main
movers in
getting something done about their incursions.

> 1 UFO tries to shoot down the plane which carries
the Utronic UFO
detection equipment.

It is discussed earlier that the Utronic program had
been sabotaged
before and the factory was destroyed - so they
certainly had a plan
to hinder instantaneous communications. This indicates
that the
Aliens have some form of intelligence gathering
perhaps like in
Destruction.
"

I don't think that it is terribly surprising that the
aliens don't have complex plans to begin with. I
would suggest that through the abduction of Leila
Carlin, it was business as usual for them. That was
the first proof that the aliens were real. It was
stressed that they didn't want people to know they
were here.

I think the attempt in 1970 was to get the proof AND
the people that might make the alien's objective more
difficult. As for repeatedly going after the Utronics
equipment - as long as SHADO had no way of spotting
the UFOs before they hit the earth's atmosphere, the
aliens could do pretty much what they wanted.

They say that Carlin's interception of the UFO trying
to get the Utronics equipment is the first suscessful
interception. It would take the aliens a while to
realize and then adjust to the new reality.

The aliens try a fairly simple response to the new
capabilities with the next couple of arrivals. [snip]
>
> The Dalotek Affair. 3 UFOs approach, drop a radio
> jammer on the Moon and fly off. When the jammer
> blocks SHADO communications, 1 UFO attacks Moonbase.
>
> Confetti Check. No aliens.

When the simple plans don't work, they become more
elaborate, starting to try to kill Straker and affect
SHADO employees mentally.
Diorite