Posted by James Gibbon on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Why-England-at-ALL-tp1504789p1504794.html

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:03:42 -0000
"A" <[hidden email]> wrote:
> 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?"

The notion that England had "essentially zero" aerospace industry at
the end of the sixties is completely untrue; for example the world's
most advanced passenger aircraft from the '70s onward was Anglo/French
in origin.

In any case, the show was set ten years in the future from the time it
was conceived.