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jamesgibbon

a familiar face in 'Moonbase 3'

Recorded roughly three years after his appearances in UFO,
Anthony Chinn had a small part as General Chiang, head of
(Chinese-owned) Moonbase 4, seen here in teleconference
with his counterpart on Moonbase 3.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jgibbon/mb3.jpg

Interestingly, despite being set about twenty years further into
the future, Moonbase 3 is a fair bit less ambitious in projected
technology and 'futuristic appearance' than UFO.

As a somewhat off-topic aside, while watching Moonbase 3 tonight,
I experienced a terrible feeling of being 'cheated out of the
future'. One of the characters, a chap in his early 40s, is asked
when he was born. He replies '1961'. I suddenly remembered
watching that bit of dialogue as a 13yr old, and thinking wow -
this grey-haired middle-aged bloke is a year younger than me!
When I'm his age we'll have bases on the moon with artificial
gravity, automatic speech-operated typewriters, huge computers
with flashing lights, and space travel will be commonplace!

Well, here I am, 42 years old and it all just never happened.
Bummer! Seriously, I feel a bit depressed. I mean I'm grateful
for mobile phones, widescreen TVs, DVD players and PDAs, but I
want to go to the Moon.

James

Anthony D

Re: a familiar face in 'Moonbase 3'

And James --- there are days when I wish you were there. ;-)

But I do know what you mean....the future is less than fantastic. :(

Anthony
----- Original Message -----
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Subject: [SHADO] a familiar face in 'Moonbase 3'

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> Well, here I am, 42 years old and it all just never happened.
> Bummer! Seriously, I feel a bit depressed. I mean I'm grateful
> for mobile phones, widescreen TVs, DVD players and PDAs, but I
> want to go to the Moon.
>
> James

SumitonJD

Re: a familiar face in 'Moonbase 3'

In reply to this post by jamesgibbon

Gee, I wish you had posted this about Anthony Chinn about a week ago before I
had to send my latest edition of Video Raiders in to be printed in SHADOFILE.
Oh well, that another one to write down for future use.

James K.

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Gareth Bevan

Re: a familiar face in 'Moonbase 3'

In reply to this post by jamesgibbon

I watched Rollerball last night (the original), and Anthony Chinn appeared
in that, together with Shane Rimmer!

>>Gee, I wish you had posted this about Anthony Chinn about a week ago
>>before I
>had to send my latest edition of Video Raiders in to be printed in
>SHADOFILE.
> Oh well, that another one to write down for future use.
>
>James K.
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bel3762001

Re: a familiar face in 'Moonbase 3'

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I saw "Moonbase 3" on the Sci-Fi Channel some years back and while it was
cool to actually see the show, it didn't exactly bowl me over.

And hey, as to the future being a letdown, I can remember an elementary
school science book I had (published, I think, in the late 50s, early 60s
and still in use in the 70s!) which ended with a page asking the student
"...where will you be in 1970 (I think)? Flying an atomic-powered carpet
over the Taj Mahal or leading the first expedition to Mars..." Hey, even at
10 years old, I thought that was pretty far-fetched!

Brian

>Recorded roughly three years after his appearances in UFO,
>Anthony Chinn had a small part as General Chiang, head of
>(Chinese-owned) Moonbase 4, seen here in teleconference
>with his counterpart on Moonbase 3.
>
>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jgibbon/mb3.jpg
>
>Interestingly, despite being set about twenty years further into
>the future, Moonbase 3 is a fair bit less ambitious in projected
>technology and 'futuristic appearance' than UFO.
>
>As a somewhat off-topic aside, while watching Moonbase 3 tonight,
>I experienced a terrible feeling of being 'cheated out of the
>future'. One of the characters, a chap in his early 40s, is asked
>when he was born. He replies '1961'. I suddenly remembered
>watching that bit of dialogue as a 13yr old, and thinking wow -
>this grey-haired middle-aged bloke is a year younger than me!
>When I'm his age we'll have bases on the moon with artificial
>gravity, automatic speech-operated typewriters, huge computers
>with flashing lights, and space travel will be commonplace!
>
>Well, here I am, 42 years old and it all just never happened.
>Bummer! Seriously, I feel a bit depressed. I mean I'm grateful
>for mobile phones, widescreen TVs, DVD players and PDAs, but I
>want to go to the Moon.
>
>James

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Michael

Re: a familiar face in 'Moonbase 3'

Brian:

You and I caught "Moonbase 3" at the same time (and Lord don't I wish
the Sci-Fi Channel would go back to running more eclectic stuff like
that). I thought the show wasn't too bad.

When I was growing up I was reading science-fiction which had
families owning their own personal helicopters. Given the way most
people handle ground transportation I'm privately relieved we've
avoided that particular scenario!

I still miss the personal jet packs, though! What a letdown.

Michael

--- In SHADO@y..., "Brian Lindstrand" <brianlindstrand@h...> wrote:
>
> I saw "Moonbase 3" on the Sci-Fi Channel some years back and while
it was
> cool to actually see the show, it didn't exactly bowl me over.
>
> And hey, as to the future being a letdown, I can remember an
elementary
> school science book I had (published, I think, in the late 50s,
early 60s
> and still in use in the 70s!) which ended with a page asking the
student
> "...where will you be in 1970 (I think)? Flying an atomic-powered
carpet
> over the Taj Mahal or leading the first expedition to Mars..." Hey,
even at
> 10 years old, I thought that was pretty far-fetched!
>

SumitonJD

Re: a familiar face in 'Moonbase 3'

In reply to this post by jamesgibbon

>I watched Rollerball(the original) last night, and Anthony Chinn appeared in
it along with Shane Rimmer.<

Thanks for the info Gareth but I had seen him in it when it was on Sci-Fi
Channel about a month back and put it in my article, but thanks anyway.

James K.

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