WHY "DOUG JACKSON" ?

It's  always puzzled me why Doug Jackson has a typically English name when he is
so obviously foreign.
I suppose one of you is going to tell me that his name was Anglicized from Duug
Jakzoni, or something!!

Alex


     

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Hi, Ed,

Monday, January 31, 2011, 9:34:28 AM, you wrote:

E> It's  always puzzled me why Doug Jackson has a typically English name when he is
E> so obviously foreign.
E> I suppose one of you is going to tell me that his name was Anglicized from Duug
E> Jakzoni, or something!!

I don't think it was ever mentioned in the scripts, but my assumption is that he defected from somewhere in Eastern Europe, where he did covert, clandestine work, and, now doing such work in the UK for a primarily western agency, has been given an English-language cover name.

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Hi,
 
the UK has quite liberal rights regarding name changes. It is thus no problem assuming that a "Dagomir Januszkowski" might change to "Doug Jackson" upon moving to the UK.
 
Vladek Sheybal was originally named Władysław Sheybal, btw.
 
Downright sneaky would be a backhistory of a scottish kid having been kidnapped by the Polish communist party and raised there.
 
Possibilities galore!
 
Cheers
 
An
 

--- Hemmings, Rob K. <[hidden email]> schrieb am Mo, 31.1.2011:


Von: Hemmings, Rob K. <[hidden email]>
Betreff: RE: [SHADO] WHY "DOUG JACKSON" ?
An: "'[hidden email]'" <[hidden email]>
Datum: Montag, 31. Januar, 2011 15:12 Uhr


 



Character and scripts written before Vladek Sheybal was cast
as Dr. Jackson would be my guess.
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Rob









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One of the wonderful things about SHADO and UFO is the questionable morality of some of the actions BUT these people are the hero's so we naturally are cheering them along that it is only afterwards do we wonder and question whether the action is acceptable. Look at Square Triangle and 'More Coffee', Computer Affair when the surgeon defers to Straker before injecting a certain drug.

Straker through some of his command decisions is clearlly troubled by some of the chains of command BUT i think Doug Jackson would toutour his own grandma if it was required.

I always see Doug Jackson as belonging to EasternEurope and being on somesort of Warsaw Pack Exchange Programme or he is someone who has political aselum and is therefore useful.

If UFO  was made today maybe there would need to be a story built arround 'CIA rendition flights!'

Always
Kerry (Spacesuit_UK)
e of the ac
--- In [hidden email], Ed Top <etop89@...> wrote:

Hi,
 
oh no - I definitely take exception with that view.
 
Doug Jackson was mainly one thing - exceptionally dedicated to the political sphere he lived in - the western democratic one!
 
He was played much as what Vladek Sheybal was, a survivor of a horrible, dictatorial regime, with healthy scepticism of everyone and everything.
 
As such he gave the posts he occupied his best shot. But he never would "have tortured his grandma". Unfortunately he is one of the most misunderstood characters of them all.
 
;-)
 
Cheers
 
An
 
 


--- Kerry <[hidden email]> schrieb am Di, 1.2.2011:


Von: Kerry <[hidden email]>
Betreff: [SHADO] Re: WHY "DOUG JACKSON"
An: [hidden email]
Datum: Dienstag, 1. Februar, 2011 18:44 Uhr


 



One of the wonderful things about SHADO and UFO is the questionable morality of some of the actions BUT these people are the hero's so we naturally are cheering them along that it is only afterwards do we wonder and question whether the action is acceptable. Look at Square Triangle and 'More Coffee', Computer Affair when the surgeon defers to Straker before injecting a certain drug.

Straker through some of his command decisions is clearlly troubled by some of the chains of command BUT i think Doug Jackson would toutour his own grandma if it was required.

I always see Doug Jackson as belonging to EasternEurope and being on somesort of Warsaw Pack Exchange Programme or he is someone who has political aselum and is therefore useful.

If UFO was made today maybe there would need to be a story built arround 'CIA rendition flights!'

Always
Kerry (Spacesuit_UK)
e of the ac
--- In [hidden email], Ed Top <etop89@...> wrote:









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I wonder if there's a crossover with Stargate.  Maybe he was
befriended by Daniel's parents and decided to change his name
to theirs in their honor?
 
Evelyn  Duncan
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In a message dated 1/31/2011 10:02:54 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
[hidden email] writes:

It is  thus no problem assuming that a "Dagomir Januszkowski" might change
to "Doug  Jackson" upon moving to the  UK.




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