Re: OT for Canada......heheheh

Hey John - ever been to Canada? I'm here in New Brunswick (Luke Skywalker
characterizes my town precisely when he says "If there's a bright centre to
the universe, this is the furthest point from it!")

Otherwise, I thought it was cool that Ed Bishop is a grampa again. I know
this is OT, but I found some fan sites for Hawaii 5-0 - I hadn't remembered
how fascinated I was with Jack Lord.....what a gorgeous man he was (he died
2 yrs ago). The fans are collecting $$ to make a beautiful memorial to be
erected in Hawaii to his memory!

Back to UFO - I thought it interesting about the second effort afoot -
anybody know more about it? Maybe it's just me, but I cannot imagine UFO
without Ed Bishop, Mike Billington, Peter Gordeno, George Sewell, et al.
Another question - I read somewhere that Gary Myers, who Played Captain Lew
Waterman was unwell. Does anyone have an update on his health condition? He
was another one of my UFO favourites!

Pam

"Pam McCaughey" wrote:

> Back to UFO - I thought it interesting about the second effort afoot -
> anybody know more about it? Maybe it's just me, but I cannot imagine UFO
> without Ed Bishop, Mike Billington, Peter Gordeno, George Sewell, et al.


I know what you mean - but although it wouldn't be the same
without them, it wouldn't be quite the same with them all thirty
years older as well. I personally think it would be better to
do the 'Star Trek NTG' thing and use younger actors with
occasional appearances by members of the original cast. The
idea and the spirit of the programme could live on. I suspect
that commercial reality would dictate it anyway. And in any
case, I'm sure Straker (Carlin, Freeman et al) wouldn't have
stayed in the same jobs for thirty years, and it's only natural
that the focus of the show would move to the current commander,
SkyDiver (or modern equivalent) Captain and so on.

And remember, the Mission Impossible films did very well without
the original cast ..

James

Hi James - my own UFO story moves the show from the 1980's to the present -
2001 - and I've certainly depicted most of the original characters into
other job situations, retirement, etc. I guess I should have been a little
more detailed in my desire to see original characters appear in a film
version of the show. Cameos would be the more appropriate word, perhaps. As
for M:1 - I didn't even both with the movie versions - if it ain't got some
taste of the original - not for me thanks!

Pam

At 09:38 AM 1/29/01 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Hey John - ever been to Canada? I'm here in New Brunswick (Luke Skywalker
>characterizes my town precisely when he says "If there's a bright centre to
>the universe, this is the furthest point from it!")

AGHHHHHH. Where's that flame gun gone to? Well if ya can' beat 'em...

>Back to UFO - I thought it interesting about the second effort afoot -
>anybody know more about it? Maybe it's just me, but I cannot imagine UFO
>without Ed Bishop, Mike Billington, Peter Gordeno, George Sewell, et al.

I think it would be interesting to have just some of the origianl cast in
it, plus some newbies- would heighten the effect of time passing. maybe
some crisis brings the few remaininng ones back to help shado save earth?

John D'Alton