Searching for UFO commentary

Are the commentary tracks from the various released
UFO discs available for downloading anywhere?
I bought the first DVD release of the series from England
which has Ed Bishop on one episode and Gerry Anderson
on another, but missed out on Wanda Ventham and Sylvia
Anderson on the US (I think) discs.

Thanks, Kevin.

croprobz wrote:
> Are the commentary tracks from the various released
> UFO discs available for downloading anywhere?
> I bought the first DVD release of the series from England
> which has Ed Bishop on one episode and Gerry Anderson
> on another, but missed out on Wanda Ventham and Sylvia
> Anderson on the US (I think) discs.

The US discs have a Wanda Ventham/Sylvia Anderson commentary
for TIMELASH, plus a Mike Billington/Alan Perry commentary
for KILL STRAKER. Ther are short excerpts on my "Videos"
page, but that's all I know about:

http://ufoseries.com/videos

Generally, I wait until things have been out of print for
a while before I even consider putting something online
in its entirety. And the US discs are still in print,
as far as I know.

Marc

There is also a commentary track for the KILL STRAKER! episode, featuring Alan Perry and Michael Billington (on the U.S. version). Is this one on the British releases?

Jeff

croprobz <[hidden email]> wrote:
Are the commentary tracks from the various released
UFO discs available for downloading anywhere?
I bought the first DVD release of the series from England
which has Ed Bishop on one episode and Gerry Anderson
on another, but missed out on Wanda Ventham and Sylvia
Anderson on the US (I think) discs.

Thanks, Kevin.






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Afraid not. The only commentaries we got in the UK were Gerry Anderson on Identified, and Ed Bishop on SubSmash. It is annoying when different countries have different commentary tracks on the same series; you feel a bit left out!

Jeffrey Nelson <[hidden email]> wrote: There is also a commentary track for the KILL STRAKER! episode, featuring Alan Perry and Michael Billington (on the U.S. version). Is this one on the British releases?

Jeff

croprobz <[hidden email]> wrote:
Are the commentary tracks from the various released
UFO discs available for downloading anywhere?
I bought the first DVD release of the series from England
which has Ed Bishop on one episode and Gerry Anderson
on another, but missed out on Wanda Ventham and Sylvia
Anderson on the US (I think) discs.

Thanks, Kevin.

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That'll teach me to look at all my messages first before replying. I seem to have inadvertently duplicated some info that was mentioned earlier.

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Jeffrey Nelson <[hidden email]> wrote:
There is also a commentary track for the KILL STRAKER! episode, featuring Alan Perry and Michael Billington (on the U.S. version). Is this one on the British releases?

Jeff

croprobz <[hidden email]> wrote:
Are the commentary tracks from the various released
UFO discs available for downloading anywhere?
I bought the first DVD release of the series from England
which has Ed Bishop on one episode and Gerry Anderson
on another, but missed out on Wanda Ventham and Sylvia
Anderson on the US (I think) discs.

Thanks, Kevin.

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I did the same thing. Sometimes it is just easier to reply as you read them, rather than backtracking afterwards. Traffic on this group is light enough that I don't think it's too major an offense. Of course, opinions may differ.

Jeff

MICK DICKENS <[hidden email]> wrote:
That'll teach me to look at all my messages first before replying. I seem to have inadvertently duplicated some info that was mentioned earlier.

"Sometimes it gets difficult..." Lt Ford

Jeffrey Nelson <[hidden email]> wrote:
There is also a commentary track for the KILL STRAKER! episode, featuring Alan Perry and Michael Billington (on the U.S. version). Is this one on the British releases?

Jeff

croprobz <[hidden email]> wrote:
Are the commentary tracks from the various released
UFO discs available for downloading anywhere?
I bought the first DVD release of the series from England
which has Ed Bishop on one episode and Gerry Anderson
on another, but missed out on Wanda Ventham and Sylvia
Anderson on the US (I think) discs.

Thanks, Kevin.

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Thanks,Marc, Jeff and Mick.
I will be having a listen at Marc's site,
and I agree that it is a bit unfair that
we would have to purchase the UFO sets from
all regions to get all the extras available.
Maybe a special CD or DVD with all the UFO
extras ever offered would be the way to go,
then nobody would miss out.

Regards, Kevin.

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> Maybe a special CD or DVD with all the UFO
> extras ever offered would be the way to go,
> then nobody would miss out.

The problem with that is that A&E Video payed
for the creation of the KILL STRAKER and
TIMELASH commentary, so they are not likely
to let anyone else have them unless they pay
for them.

(also, those commentaries were recorded after
the British DVD's had already been released)

And as Rob says, the upcoming Australian UFO
DVD set (if it ever actually comes out) will
have yet another exclusive commentary --
George Sewell for ESP, I believe...

Marc

Kevin,

Email me. Might be able to help you out. Tried to email you, but my message was bounced back for some reason.

Jeff

croprobz <[hidden email]> wrote:
Thanks,Marc, Jeff and Mick.
I will be having a listen at Marc's site,
and I agree that it is a bit unfair that
we would have to purchase the UFO sets from
all regions to get all the extras available.
Maybe a special CD or DVD with all the UFO
extras ever offered would be the way to go,
then nobody would miss out.

Regards, Kevin.






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--- In [hidden email], Jeffrey Nelson <1shado1@...> wrote:
>
> Kevin,
>    
> Email me. Might be able to help you out. Tried to email you,
but my message was bounced back for some reason.
>    
> Jeff

Thanks, Jeff. Sorry about the email problem, I may have
set my Yahoo email preferences incorrectly.
I'm not too sure how to go about emailing anyone on this
list. So I have put one of my email addresses at the
following link:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SHADO/files/ad.jpg

Thank You, Kevin.

--- In [hidden email], "Hemmings, R.K." <rkh@...> wrote:
>
> I think the Australian set (has that
> been released yet?!!!) will have yet more stuff that the sets
> for other regions don't.. If/when all the various regional DVD
> UFO sets are deleted from the catalogues, then I think you may
> find some of the extras appearing on websites..<wink>
> --
> Rob
>

I'm not sure when,Rob. Umbrella Entertainment is supposed to be the
distributors for the Australian discs, and as Marc has pointed out,
they have been due out "next year" for about the last 3 years.
Am I glad I got my discs from UK instead of waiting forever.
I am also waiting for 500GB hard disc recorders to come out so I
can put my entire DVD collection including UFO on it.
I was taking one of my UFO discs out of the computer drive a
while back, and the disc got caught on one of the tray tabs, then
fell to the floor (shock horror) Puting the discs on the hard drive
to watch them should avoid such handling accidents.
In the meantime I am tossing up whether to get the Aussie discs
or not. Maybe as back-up in case of even worse accidents.

Regards, Kevin.

Kevin,

Check your email at the address you provided.

Jeff

croprobz <[hidden email]> wrote:
--- In [hidden email], Jeffrey Nelson <1shado1@...> wrote:
>
> Kevin,
>
> Email me. Might be able to help you out. Tried to email you,
but my message was bounced back for some reason.
>
> Jeff

Thanks, Jeff. Sorry about the email problem, I may have
set my Yahoo email preferences incorrectly.
I'm not too sure how to go about emailing anyone on this
list. So I have put one of my email addresses at the
following link:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SHADO/files/ad.jpg

Thank You, Kevin.






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> And as Rob says, the upcoming Australian UFO
> DVD set (if it ever actually comes out) will
> have yet another exclusive commentary --
> George Sewell for ESP, I believe...

The problem with the Australian Umbrella release of UFO is that it
has been *too* long in coming! Each time they've pushed the date back
for no apparent reason but still with news that the release would
include more extras every time the new dates were posted.

As some of you may have read from my posts on other forums about
their recent Anderson releases, Umbrella had promoted a whole heap of
unique extras for their releases of Supercar, Fireball XL5 and The
Secret Service, nearly all which never eventuated!! All 3 of these
boxed sets were released as "bare bones" as one could get, in cheap
quality boxes and with non-professional menu stylings. I fear their
UFO release would fare no better.....

They promised lots of extras on their Supermarionation titles,
including commentaries, featurettes and documentaries, promos....the
works! In the end all they delivered were essentially photo
galleries!!

(Except for The Secret Service which did include textless titles
footage for all 13 episodes, an amazing extra worth the price of the
box alone. Just my opinion, and probably not the cup of tea of the
average fan, but doing the same for UFO would be a great extra
nonetheless if indeed the footage still exists in its raw state).

Each set did include a "TV spot" but imagine my disappointment when I
discovered that this was merely the contemporary generic ITC Video
promo that accompanied the VHS video releases of the 1990s,
transferred from VHS itself without any cover-up work, cut up into 3
bits and merely added to each specific set. Pathetic.

To be honest I'm hoping that Umbrella won't release their UFO set
because based on their current track record it won't hold a candle to
the other releases already available.

Which does beg the question:

Whatever happened to Umbrella? A few years ago they used to be one of
the "benchmark" companies, and now they're sadly bringing up the
rear...

Just my opinion of course.

Kelly

> To be honest I'm hoping that Umbrella won't release their UFO set
> because based on their current track record it won't hold a candle to
> the other releases already available.

I just got a reply from Grant Taylor about the Australian
UFO DVD release:

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UFO has been a project I have had on the burner for over 2 years now.
Umbrella (the company who I am producing it for) have kept delaying it
in their schedules as they are preferring to concentrate on Minder and
The Sweeney releases (which I am also producing for them). UFO was due
for release this November, however, once again they pushed it back until
2007.

It's very frustrating as I'm about 75% finished on the UFO project, but
can't move to design and authoring stage (which I do here at Madman)
until they want to schedule it.

Hopefully it will see the light of day in the first 6 months of 2007 (if
it doesn't Umbrella's rights to the series are likely to expire before
too long!!)
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This doesn't answer the question about what happened to Umbrella,
but it does bring us up to date on their UFO release!

Marc

> As some of you may have read from my posts on other forums about
> their recent Anderson releases, Umbrella had promoted a whole heap of
> unique extras for their releases of Supercar, Fireball XL5 and The
> Secret Service, nearly all which never eventuated!! All 3 of these
> boxed sets were released as "bare bones" as one could get, in cheap
> quality boxes and with non-professional menu stylings. I fear their
> UFO release would fare no better.....

Note that one thing I've learned is that the Umbrella UFO DVDs will
NOT include any music & effects tracks, which is one of the extras
that was originally mentioned. Apparently Umbrella has backed off
from this feature on all of their Granada titles (not just UFO),
due to some contractual reason.

Also, it sounds like their UFO DVD release may have already been scaled
back in other ways. The reason for this is due to Umbrella, and them
scaling back the budget for the release. The person who is creating
the UFO DVDs would be happy to make this the biggest, most impressive
UFO DVD release ever, but it's not going to happen if Umbrella is
no longer willing to pay for it.

Marc