Posted by Marc Martin on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/St-George-s-Day-tp4022414p4022423.html

Hi all,

If I might interrupt the conversion on "St George's Day", which
I initially thought might have had something to do with George
Sewell... :-)

Not too long ago, I was obsessing on the character name that
someone had given to Andrea Allan's UFO moonbase operative
character...

Well yesterday, I saw a post on Facebook that claimed that
Anouska Hempel's UFO character name was "Catherine Scott".
Since that was news to me, I thought I'd investigate.

First off, OFFICIALLY, Anouska's character has no name, as nobody
ever called her by name in the series, and in the end credits
it was always pretty generic ("Skydiver Operative", "SHADO Radio
Operator").

However, I did see that the SHADO Library and THE COMPLETE
BOOK OF UFO gave her the name "Catherine Scott", while IMDB
gave her the name "Tamara Paulson" (!)

So I went looking through my UFO scripts -- both those that have
been transcribed and posted online, and those that haven't.
What I found was this:

  -- in the original script for REFLECTIONS IN THE WATER,
     Anouska's character was named SYLVIA HOWELL, indicating
     that this part was meant for Georgina Moon (as she had
     always played the part named Sylvia Howell in the scripts).
     However, in the change pages (updates) of that script,
     the name was changed to "Catherine Scott".  So that would
     appear to be the origin of the one name.

  -- in the script for THE MAN WHO CAME BACK, her part is
     identified as "Girl Operator"

  -- in the script for MINDBENDER, her part is named "Pauline".

  -- in the original script for THE LONG SLEEP, her character
     isn't in the script at all, but in the change pages her
     part is identified as "Operative".

So there's one mystery solved.  I think I'll just stick to
considering her character as having no name, since there
are no two scripts that agree on a single name.

Marc