Re: UFO ANNUAL 1972
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URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/UFO-ANNUAL-1972-tp4023946p4023962.html
It's true. I think the TV regions didn't know what to do with UFO.
As SHADO-cabinet has found it's confusing that it's a Gerry Anderson but not for kids. The Annual market is very much driven by Christmas gifts for children who will never see the show. I saw it as a very young child at 11pm+ when I came downstairs in the night. I'd seen reruns of Thunderbirds I expect. Don't recall much tbh. But I do remember that 5 minutes of UFO!
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On 20 Aug 2020, at 08:17, Clare Cross [via SHADO] <[hidden email]> wrote:
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!