Posted by James Gibbon on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Alec-Freman-tp1507190p1507224.html

On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 09:39:00 -0800 (PST)
Edward Straker <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I find it implausable its that simple. what other shows lost main
> characters during breaks, I cant see star trek loosing spock because
> Lenord Nemoy was offered another job, Alec Freeman was certainly a
> main figure in the show its not like he would not be missed, add to
> that the fact that George Sewell claimed not to remember doing UFO is
> strange you have to admit that. I am not saying anything against him
> just trying to work out what the thinking was and also did the
> producers think that we would not notice him gone.

Well - TV shows do lose main characters from time to time because
they want to do something else! Red Dwarf springs to mind, so does
M*A*S*H.

I don't think it's instructive to compare George Sewell's role in UFO
with Leonard Nimoy's in Star Trek; that part was career-defining to
Nimoy in a way that Alec Freeman simply wasn't to George Sewell.
Although it became something of a cult, UFO was just one of a number
of TV parts he appeared in; he probably didn't expect it to become
particularly successful.



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