Posted by Clare Cross on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/UFO-ANNUAL-1972-tp4023946p4023961.html

Obviously the publishers of the annuals depended upon the Christmas market and although this is a huge potential window of opportunity, it's only open for a short while.  By the start of the following year, any annuals left on the shelves are usually priced down and in the sales.  I doubt that you'd find an annual from the previous year in the shops after January.  

In the case of UFO, we can see how this Christmas market was missed completely in several huge ITV regions.  London Weekend didn't start to show UFO until September 1971, Yorkshire in April 71, Granada in July 71 and Southern in February 71.  Absolutely disastrous for the Christmas 1970 annuals market in those areas.  Looking at these (and other) bad schedules, we can see that it was probably a certainty that the annual didn't sell and that there would not be another.  As I say, a terrible shame.  

Roll on September 2020 and a long-awaited landing!