Posted by John Wadsworth-Ladkin on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Personal-introduction-from-a-newcomer-tp1489512.html

Hi there everbody,

I have just joined the Shado egroup and thought it would be polite to
introduce myself to everbody for what I hope will be the start of a long
friendship.

I am currently 36 yrs of age which means I can just about remember the first
showings of UFO in the early 70's when I was just a kid and boy did it have
an impact on me!! I live in a little town called Elland which is West
Yorkshire England for those of you who are not from the UK.As for my job, I
am just completing my Microsoft certified system engineering exams, this
after spending 4 yrs lecturing in European Union politics at Leeds
University - what a change!!

Anyway, enough of the boring stuff, my interest dare I say affection for the
UFO series stems as indicated from my childhood. What I remember
particularly at that tender age were the groovy purple wigs, the green faces
and plastic shells on the aliens and perhaps most of all, that wonderful
haunting even sinister sound of the UFO's themselves.

But the impact the seies had on me at that early age has remained with me
until this day. On a more mature reflection, the actual quality of both the
scripts/stories and the special effects is outstanding. It is difficult to
pick out one particular episode which I can honestly say yeah baby thatis my
fav, but if pushed I would say 'The sound of silence' - geez I don't know
about you, but that ep really does send a shiver up my spine when I look at
that alien with those white shellson his eyes. What else about UFO is so
good, very briefly two things : 1) the absolutely fab music - both the
introducton and the incidental - I really believe it has not been bettered
since in any other sci fi series; and 2) the absolutely groovy fashions esp
the suits. I am a bit of a 60's fashion nut i.e I actually go to Caranaby St
in London to get some of my clothes and yeah baby - they are very
psychedelic. Moreover, have any you noticed how the nerhu coller type suits
as seen in UFO are back in fashion - I ve got a couple myself and they are
very popular in West London - the swinging 60's are still alive!! Very
groovy.

That's enough from me - I hope I haven't ranted on too much, but i look to
conversing with you very soon.

Be groovy,

JOHN WADSWORTH-LADKIN
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