Posted by sigourneysslave on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Neil-s-comments-tp1498919p1498933.html

> I always felt watching UFO as a teen that they WERE big names. Well, I'm a
> Hollywood buff myself, so it's not hard to see why I thought that. I mean,
> they ran a studio! So cool. As an adult, I can see that they made the
> studio out to be pathetic, almost satirical. I decided for my UFO fan fic
> stories to make Harlington-Straker the way I had always envisioned it: as a
> successful enterprise.

Interesting, Denise. The UFO novelisation goes into this just a
teensy bit more. Apparently, according to them, H-S studios
'specialises in flops'. The novel then goes on to state that they
made two pictures that were 'really terrible, I swear'. They
subsequently, and totally against expectations, went over big at
the box office. Straker was furious. Apparently because

"you can't account for a profit in military terms"

I never bought into this myself. Surely SHADO would welcome
every additional penny that it can get into its coffers. They always
seemed to be fighting Henderson for more cash.

Dave.