Posted by Clare Cross on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Review-for-UFO-How-it-Ended-parts-1-and-2-by-Anthony-Appleyard-tp4024056p4024069.html

The author is correct to ignore the Dr Jackson theory presented in the 'Cat with 10 lives' episode since the writers & producers of the UFO strip in the Countdown comic have also ignored this. In 'The Snatch' serial the aliens on their homeworld are shown to be humanoid beings who all know how to perform organ transplants because they frequently require them in order live forever (ie: no 'formless beings' possessing earth abductees ala 'Captain Scarlett' etc). And since the Countdown comic is basically an Anderson production then the UFO strip is a definitive companion piece to the TV show (and the alien homeworld presented in the 'How it Ended' story does match this depiction in the comic, and so is arguably more 'canon' than the theories presented by Dr Jackson in the 'Cat with 10 lives' episode etc).


Well obviously Gerry Anderson had some input over the UFO strip as he co-owned the company that published the Countdown comic (TV21 productions). And I am pretty sure he would have had a say over 'The Snatch' serial as it does something the show doesn't do which is fully reveal the aliens and their homeworld)


Shado-cabinet.  I am rather bemused as to why you cite 'The Snatch' as providing some kind of 'evidence' that Jackson's theory is rubbish.  Perhaps you could elaborate?  I'm not sure who wrote 'The Snatch', it could have been Dennis Hooper, but there is no reason to suppose that he was watching UFO every week and thinking "That's rubbish, I'll ignore that."  You also state that Countdown was '...an Anderson production'.  Not true.  Countdown was published by Polystyle Publications, which had no direct affiliation with Gerry Anderson or Century 21.  Yes, Dennis Hooper had worked on TV Century 21 , but this does not mean that Countdown came under the auspices of the Andersons as did the earlier comic.  Sorry, no disrespect intended, but you obviously don't know what you're talking about - see above quotes - and so I think it best if I leave it there.