Posted by Clare Cross on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Review-for-UFO-How-it-Ended-parts-1-and-2-by-Anthony-Appleyard-tp4024056p4024075.html

I am pretty sure Anderson & co were consulted about 'The Snatch' serial even if it was just to provide more information about the aliens and their homeworld as this serial literally 'reveals everything' about these mysterious antagonists.  

Why are you 'pretty sure' ?  Have you ever worked in publishing or television?  Have you any idea at all how comics and comic strips are written, edited and produced?  Have you any idea how busy Gerry and Sylvia would have been during 1971-1972?  Do you really believe that they would have had time to advise the writer or editor of a comic on a TV show they created two or three years earlier?  

Incidentally, I pointed out (although obviously not clearly enough) that Dennis Hooper was editor of Countdown in my earlier post.  I'll also point out that he (in all probability) shared editing duties on Countown and TV Action with art editor Roger Perry.

There seems to be a lack of understanding here on the part of some and a breakdown in communication. So, I'll leave you to discuss fan fiction, Countdown and the level of Gerry's involvement with it.  Have fun.