New Series.

If the CGI series of Captain Scarlet is VERY successful, I would imagine it
would encourage GA to seriously consider making a CGI series of UFO.

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>
> If the CGI series of Captain Scarlet is VERY successful, I would imagine
> it
> would encourage GA to seriously consider making a CGI series of UFO.

Any idea when the Capt. Scarlet CGI will start airing in the USA? Website
not very informative on that matter.

Over the weekend, I saw an item on Teletext - possibly on ITV - that stated that Francis Matthews and Ed Bishop are deemed now to be too old to voice their original characters. This seems a bit odd, as on "The Indestructable Captain Scarlet", produced a few years ago, these two gentlemen didn't sound too different to when they were in the 1960s. Surely a couple of years hasn't changed them that much?

Having said that, Ed Bishop does sound very old on the commentary for SubSmash...

Let's see how the Captain Scarlet remake does - despite the timeslot they've given it, sometime in their Ministry of Mayhem show. A good advert for buying the DVD - hopefully no annoying "wicked, cool, sorted" crap or stupid messages flashed up onscreen while you're following the plot..

Kevin Lazenby <[hidden email]> wrote:

If the CGI series of Captain Scarlet is VERY successful, I would imagine it
would encourage GA to seriously consider making a CGI series of UFO.

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On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 02:48:46 -0800 (PST)
MICK DICKENS <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Over the weekend, I saw an item on Teletext - possibly on ITV - that
> stated that Francis Matthews and Ed Bishop are deemed now to be too
> old to voice their original characters. This seems a bit odd, as on
> "The Indestructable Captain Scarlet", produced a few years ago, these
> two gentlemen didn't sound too different to when they were in the
> 1960s. Surely a couple of years hasn't changed them that much?
>

I'd agree with you about Francis Matthews, but I seem to remember
that Ed did sound too old when he played Capt Blue again a few
years ago. To confirm I've just dug up a snippet of mail that I
sent to the list about 3 years ago:

The documentary was clearly made recently, and obviously features
Ed Bishop in a recent voiceover as Captain Blue that continues
throughout the documentary. Captain Scarlet (Francis Matthews)
also makes an appearance ("Does Colonel White know you're sitting
there, Adam?"). Happily (and remarkably) Francis Matthews'
voice sounds exactly the same, while Captain Blue sounds a wee
bit older and slightly strained, understandably after more than
thirty years.

> I'd agree with you about Francis Matthews, but I seem to remember
> that Ed did sound too old when he played Capt Blue again a few
> years ago. To confirm I've just dug up a snippet of mail that I
> sent to the list about 3 years ago:

I was at the Fanderson convention where they first showed
that Captain Scarlet clip, and I agree that Ed sounded
too old in it. However, the curious thing was that
I talked with Ed that same evening, and noticed that he
did not sound as old in person as he did in that clip!

Maybe being surrounded by fans keeps him young? :-)

Marc

I had another quick look at "Indestructible Captain Scarlet" and agree that Francis Matthews sounds exactly as he did in the 60s, while Ed Bishop does sound a bit older, but having said that, there is the commentary for SubSmash where Mr Bishop does sound a lot older, and this can't be all that long after "Indestructible...".

Things change, and often in just a short time.

James Gibbon <[hidden email]> wrote:
I seem to remember
that Ed did sound too old when he played Capt Blue again a few
years ago. To confirm I've just dug up a snippet of mail that I
sent to the list about 3 years ago:

The documentary was clearly made recently, and obviously features
Ed Bishop in a recent voiceover as Captain Blue that continues
throughout the documentary. Captain Scarlet (Francis Matthews)
also makes an appearance ("Does Colonel White know you're sitting
there, Adam?"). Happily (and remarkably) Francis Matthews'
voice sounds exactly the same, while Captain Blue sounds a wee
bit older and slightly strained, understandably after more than
thirty years.


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MICK DICKENS wrote:
>I had another quick look at "Indestructible Captain Scarlet" and
>agree that Francis Matthews sounds exactly as he did in the 60s, while
>Ed Bishop does sound a bit older, but having said that, there is the
>commentary for SubSmash where Mr Bishop does sound a lot older,
>and this can't be all that long after "Indestructible...".

As I recall, there was some excuse made about this -- either Ed
has just been fed a big lunch and was feeling a bit tired,
or he was recovering from a cold, or perhaps both?

Also, on the American UFO DVD releases, both the Gerry Anderson
and Ed Bishop commentary were slowed down by 4% to take into
account the speed differences between PAL and NTSC video. This
makes them both sound worse than they do in the UK DVD release.

Marc

That's a fair point about Mr Bishop not feeling too well when he did the SubSmash commentary. As I don't have the Region 1 DVDs I can't really comment about them slowing his voice down - and that of Gerry Anderson - for technical reasons.  
 
It gets a bit annoying that different countries have different versions of the series on DVD - regarding extras such as commentaries, that is. If I had a lot of money I'd probably get all the different versions to collect the commentaries. Probably just as well I don't have a lot of money. Why can't each set of UFO DVDs have all the same features, regardless of country?

Marc Martin <[hidden email]> wrote:

MICK DICKENS wrote:
>I had another quick look at "Indestructible Captain Scarlet" and
>agree that Francis Matthews sounds exactly as he did in the 60s, while
>Ed Bishop does sound a bit older, but having said that, there is the
>commentary for SubSmash where Mr Bishop does sound a lot older,
>and this can't be all that long after "Indestructible...".

As I recall, there was some excuse made about this -- either Ed
has just been fed a big lunch and was feeling a bit tired,
or he was recovering from a cold, or perhaps both?

Also, on the American UFO DVD releases, both the Gerry Anderson
and Ed Bishop commentary were slowed down by 4% to take into
account the speed differences between PAL and NTSC video. This
makes them both sound worse than they do in the UK DVD release.

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>Why can't each set of UFO DVDs have all the
>same features, regardless of country?

Well, the various UFO DVDs are put out by different
companies, and each company has their own idea of
what they want to do. If a single company put
them out, then they probably *would* all be the
same. And they probably would have fewer extra
features, because they wouldn't be able to justify
the expense. After all, after the Australian
UFO DVDs come out, we'll have 5 commentaries
spread out over all the releases -- IDENTIFIED and
SUB-SMASH (recorded for the UK DVDs), KILL
STRAKER and TIMELASH (recorded for the US DVDs),
and ESP (recorded for the Australian DVDs).
No single company would have been willing to
pay for all those commentaries!

Marc