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Post by brutalis on Sept 16, 2020 12:30:42 GMT -5
Ahhhhh UFO. Never saw it until it was gone and back as a syndication packet. Was very hard to catch on air as it was never shown in a regular time slot in Phoenix. Instead the station used it as filler and seldom if ever listed in TV Guide. Episodes would be joined in progress after sports programming so many times the opening was missed so I would only see the last 40-45 minutes.
During my high school time 1976 to 1980 UFO enjoyed a cult following among us teens. It was funky and different like Dark Shadows, Star Trek or Lost in Space with its wild visuals and effects and music that grabbed you.
Addendum: I did manage to record on VHS a lot of UFO and SPACE:1999 during the 80's but all out of sequence and not the entire series. So I could relive a bit of my youth at least. Jump to adulthood and the advent of DVD and now I have boxed sets of both! I can honestly say sometimes the future is good to us old fogeys!
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Post by Batflunkie on Sept 16, 2020 13:49:25 GMT -5
They're making entire episodes of these shows again, with retro adverts even!  Really impressive! So nice to see the old style kept alive |
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Post by beccabear67 on Sept 16, 2020 14:57:00 GMT -5
UFO was very popular in Japan for some reason, loads of books and models... and they even kept going with new stuff of their own based on it.  Space:1999 essentially started out to be a year two of UFO focused on the moon base, but some kind of American network buy-in failed to happen as expected and so it developed as a new show with new characters and actors not connected to UFO. I would love to have seen puppet versions of both UFO and 1999... that'd be a dream come true for me if nobody else on this planet! And more like Stingray than Captain Scarlet would suit me.  I never saw UFO at all until it came out on DVD, my BF remembered it vividly though, and we got most of the same tv channels but he's just under a year older than me, so... I was the Space:1999 generation! In Japanese cartoons though I could claim to be the Speed Racer and Marine Boy generation, but usually I will agree I am of the Starblazers and Battle Of the Planets generation.  |
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Post by beccabear67 on Sept 16, 2020 15:11:46 GMT -5
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Post by Batflunkie on Sept 16, 2020 15:50:20 GMT -5
Becca, check out Starfleet/X Bomber when you get the chance. It's Japan's attempt at doing Gerry Anderson level stuff
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2020 15:51:05 GMT -5
Jeez, I remember that. It was surreal!
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Post by Batflunkie on Sept 16, 2020 16:03:45 GMT -5
Jeez, I remember that. It was surreal! I think Go Nagi of Devilman fame also had some involvement in it? |
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Post by brutalis on Sept 16, 2020 16:05:08 GMT -5
At one time I did have quite a lot of the Anderson puppet shows on VHS. Sold them for a nice lump of change when VHS went out of style during the beginning of the DVD era. I was lucky that a local antiques and collectible shop here in town specialized and focused upon anything British. Sold my Brtish comics of Action Force, 2000 A.D. and Captain Britain to them as well before they yellowed and died the newsprint death.
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Post by beccabear67 on Sept 16, 2020 19:09:42 GMT -5
Becca, check out Starfleet/X Bomber when you get the chance. It's Japan's attempt at doing Gerry Anderson level stuff I have the complete series on DVD (the slimmed-down budget edition, but it does have a bonus documentary with Go Nagai and Gerry Anderson), plus the Mike Noble drawn comics that ran in Look-In, plus the Brian May CD 'tribute' to it. Just missed getting the vintage Starfleet annual a couple times though. starlogged.blogspot.com/2017/06/1983-look-ins-star-fleet-strip-episode-1.html |
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Post by beccabear67 on Sept 16, 2020 19:24:52 GMT -5
Here's where you can read the entire Starfleet comic from Look-In... www.sfxb.co.uk/ivs/stftgallcomics.html Looks like Channel 4 was starting when Starfleet was first shown in English... I liked some of their early show like S.W.A.L.K. (with Nicola Cowper and Prunella Scales), Nightingales (nightwatchmen comedy) and Brookside (soap set in Liverpool suburb). |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2020 20:04:03 GMT -5
At one time I did have quite a lot of the Anderson puppet shows on VHS. Sold them for a nice lump of change when VHS went out of style during the beginning of the DVD era. I was lucky that a local antiques and collectible shop here in town specialized and focused upon anything British. Sold my Brtish comics of Action Force, 2000 A.D. and Captain Britain to them as well before they yellowed and died the newsprint death. I know there’s a very good chance that U.S. VHS covers would have had different artwork compared with UK releases, but I have to say, there were some fantastic covers done for various Anderson releases over here. I’ll provide two examples:   |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2020 13:08:01 GMT -5
The word “indestructible” means that you cannot be destroyed. You can be hurt. You can bleed. You can feel pain. You just cannot be destroyed.
The world “invulnerable” means you can’t be hurt in any way, shape or form. It may not be absolute. Superman is invulnerable to bullets and bombs, but not to Kryptonite.
What of Captain Scarlet? Well, despite being indestructible, he did experience much pain in the series, often being knocked out. He did spend time in hospital beds. Yet the intro suggests he is invulnerable:
It’s a mystery. Invulnerable in the opening credits, but frequently hurt in each episode!
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Post by beccabear67 on Sept 17, 2020 15:23:11 GMT -5
Yikes, I always thought puppets could feel no real pain. Now I feel terrible about Lady Penelope in the episode with the alligators and Venus in XL-5 getting blown to smithereens.   It's all fun and games until someone loses a leg.  "B-but Mam'selle Sylvia, I know I have a stiff upper lip, but can we not get ze stunt double for zis one scene?" |
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Post by beccabear67 on Sept 17, 2020 15:46:11 GMT -5
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Post by berkley on Sept 17, 2020 17:14:37 GMT -5
I'm old enough to remember UFO, but mostly just the basic idea of an agency tasked with holding off some kind of alien invasion of earth and also some of the look and feel of the show - especially all the pretty girls with the bobbed haircuts and mesh uniforms. Definitely look forward to watching it as an adult some time in the future.
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