>
> 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