Posted by SumitonJD on Jan 02, 2003; 3:40pm
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Neil-s-comments-tp1498919p1498920.html

In one of the two UFO novels which were adapted from the TV scripts
Robert Miall mentions that the Harlington of Harlington-Straker is Geoffery
Harlington the orginal owner of the Studio and that he went into partnership
with SHADO to save his studio.
This to me sounds a more reasonable explaination of the name
Harlington-Straker than Harlington being the town the studio is located in.
I mean there are studios named for there locations like Elstree and
Borehamwood and Pinewood and studios named for people like Bray, Hammer,
Samuel Goldwyn, Fox, Warner Brothers, but you never hear of one being both
the name of the place it is at and the owner.
The only reason to put the name of the town with the name of the owner
wourld be if there was more than one studio location, say such as
Burbank-Straker, or Rome-Straker, or Paris-Straker, or Sydney-Straker. As
there is just the one studio it seem more likely that Harlington is a person
and Robert Miall game him the first name of Geoffery.

James K.


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