Posted by Andrew Shaindlin on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Why-England-at-ALL-tp1504789.html



First posting here - have be viewing the DVD episodes at home and
thoroughly enjoying each and every detail.

Many interesting and valid questions come up in this group, which
makes it fun to read and ponder the postings. But a really fundamental
question, which I remember discussing at home when I watched the show
as a kid in the '70s, is "What is the likelihood that a super-secret
anti-alien defense organization with sophisticated space facilities
and weaponry would originate and be based in England, a country with
essentially zero aerospace industry at the time the show was
conceived?"

I know the obvious answer, which is the show was produced in England
so it made sense for it to be there. And yes, Straker is American and
the authority behind SHADO came originally from the U.N. But it still
seemed really funny to me that England would have been the leader in
this endeavo(u)r. Of course, it's fiction, so anything goes.

No disrespect intended to our friends overseas who have
well-established space exploration programs. In a couple of days I
expect that the European Space Agency will have a spectacular success
with the Huygens probe at Titan.

AS