Posted by andelendir on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/New-in-the-SHADO-Library-tp3037403p3065212.html

Hi Griff,
 
thanks for pointing these out.
 
Personally I have them, as well as Chris Bentley's book. However, neither are actual canon - not hard canon (which is exactly what you read, see and hear within the series), nor soft canon (what gets directly confirmed by the original creators of the characters etc.), nor even real grey canon (what can be strictly logically inferred from the first two).
 
E.g. That Strakers full first name is "Edward" could be considered grey canon, as Ed Bishop was credited as Edward Bishop in Identified and Gerry Anderson used to use the first names of the actors as the first names of the characters. Bishop confirmed that it was Gerry who told him to drop the "ward" of the name. However, I have yet to come across any reference for the "George" he puts into the name. The nameplate on Straker's briefcase reads E. Straker, he is addressed everywhere as E. or Ed Straker, no mention of a middle name. And Bishop's middle name was Victor.
 
Similar considerations go for the birthdate and a large variety of other data, which I find rather not very logical in places. I think with a closer look at the facts available one might come up with something nearer the really likely things.
 
Chris was truly excellent about gathering all those real fact and factlets regarding production and the actors etc., mind me. It's just his conjectures which I sometimes find a stretch. ;-)
 
Cheers
 
An
 

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