MIndbender Questions

Hi all,

I know we'll be covering Mindbender soon, but I thought I'd ask some questions
early...

1) Were those the real UFO sets they showed when they pulled back the camera?
I assume they are, but you never know. It was kinda neat to see them.

2) Was that Sylvia Anderson the first time they pull back to show the camera
crew (I think the only woman in the group and at one point she was saying some
barely audible lines).

Anthony
http://www.tony-island.com

>1) Were those the real UFO sets they showed when they pulled back the camera?
>I assume they are, but you never know. It was kinda neat to see them.

Yes, those were the real sets -- MINDBENDER was conceived to be a
"cheap" episode, like those flashback episodes you see so often these
days. So you don't think they'd go and build new sets when they were
trying to save money, do you? :-)

>2) Was that Sylvia Anderson the first time they pull back to show the camera
>crew (I think the only woman in the group and at one point she was saying some
>barely audible lines).

No, that wasn't Sylvia Anderson, although I've seen people claim it
was. Sylvia says it wasn't her, so that's all that matters to me...
I think that person appears in 2 or 3 episodes, actually...

Marc

Sylvia Anderson was in one episode I know of, I forget where I know this
from?? In Ordeal, in the start of the episode, Foster goes to his
girlfriends and parties, Sylvia was a dancing extra.

Bruce
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> >1) Were those the real UFO sets they showed when they pulled back the
camera?
> >I assume they are, but you never know. It was kinda neat to see them.
>
> Yes, those were the real sets -- MINDBENDER was conceived to be a
> "cheap" episode, like those flashback episodes you see so often these
> days. So you don't think they'd go and build new sets when they were
> trying to save money, do you? :-)
>
> >2) Was that Sylvia Anderson the first time they pull back to show the
camera
> >crew (I think the only woman in the group and at one point she was saying
some

Marc:

Thanks for the info.

I didn't know it was supposed to be an "on the cheap" episode. I figured they
were the real sets used on the series, but then I thought that might be too
much even for UFO...so I thought, "hey maybe they made mock ups of the sets"
... does that make sense? (Fake sets of real sets of fake locations? :)

I'll have to check it out again -- it's an excellent episode.

Anthony
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Martin" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: [SHADO] MIndbender Questions


> >1) Were those the real UFO sets they showed when they pulled back the
camera?
> >I assume they are, but you never know. It was kinda neat to see them.
>
> Yes, those were the real sets -- MINDBENDER was conceived to be a
> "cheap" episode, like those flashback episodes you see so often these
> days. So you don't think they'd go and build new sets when they were
> trying to save money, do you? :-)
>
> >2) Was that Sylvia Anderson the first time they pull back to show the
camera
> >crew (I think the only woman in the group and at one point she was saying
some

>Sylvia Anderson was in one episode I know of, I forget where I know this
>from?? In Ordeal, in the start of the episode, Foster goes to his
>girlfriends and parties, Sylvia was a dancing extra.

She was a dancing extra, but you can't see her in the finished
episode, so she was not "in" the episode.

Marc

I stand corrected :)

Bruce
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