Re: Anouska Hempel's UFO character

Posted by Griff on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/St-George-s-Day-tp4022414p4022424.html

Hi Marc,

Wow, that's a dedicated piece of detective work... That's what I love about UFO - even with what 44 years since the start - we're still discovering new things about it. But, that has always been one of UFO's greatest strengths... what was never explained, it leaves so much room for the imagination.

Thanks for the heads up!

Griff

--- In [hidden email], Marc Martin <marc@...> wrote:

>
> 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