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Post by beccabear67 on Sept 18, 2020 12:08:39 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. Sylvia Anderson on Tomorrow Today talking about her UFO designs... |
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Post by Confessor on Sept 18, 2020 18:08:27 GMT -5
This may've already been mentioned (probably by becca), but tragic late 60s/early 70s folk singer-songwriter Nick Drake's sister Gabrielle Drake was in UFO as Lt. Gay Ellis...  |
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Post by berkley on Sept 18, 2020 22:17:49 GMT -5
This may've already been mentioned (probably by becca), but tragic late 60s/early 70s folk singer-songwriter Nick Drake's sister Gabrielle Drake was in UFO as Lt. Gay Ellis... I did not know that. This is almost up there with the moment when I found out that Anthony Stewart Head of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was the brother of Murray Head. |
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Post by beccabear67 on Sept 19, 2020 13:00:41 GMT -5
This may've already been mentioned (probably by becca), but tragic late 60s/early 70s folk singer-songwriter Nick Drake's sister Gabrielle Drake was in UFO as Lt. Gay Ellis... I did know but I didn't at one time. I think it was the very first question I asked when I had hooked up to the Anderson fan-club Fanderson. I'm not even sure how I came to connect the two in any way, but maybe she was mentioned in a magazine article on Nick and I wasn't clear on why. Nick Drake's music has definitely grown on me over time, just an amazing guitarist and songwriter! There are a few ways the 'world of' the Anderson productions crosses over into the 'world of' music... the ones I know of are that: Pete Townshend and whatever his bandmates were known as pre-Keith Moon (The Detours?) made their first recordings including an original Townshend composition at Barry Gray's studio! The tapes did exist as another group recorded that original learning it from the tape, but it's whereabouts now are unknown. The Shadows group are heard and appeared in the big screen Thunderbirds Are Go movie as future puppet versions of their line-up at the time. The wee drum set and fender guitars are pretty detailed and much fun to see as Hank Marvel and the others as puppets. Later The Dire Straits hired some of the alumni of the Anderson puppet makers and manipulators to do them in a video. Big Jim Sullivan, ace session guitarist, played a gig on Moonbase Alpha! A solo set with one of those Coral electric sitar-guitars. He said later the polyester jumpsuit required was a bit of a nightmare. See Space:1999 The Troubled Spirit. |
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Post by beccabear67 on Sept 19, 2020 13:05:34 GMT -5
Gabrielle Drake in the early '80s was well known for her role running the Crossroads motel in the long-running soap Crossroads.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2020 17:02:22 GMT -5
Another great cover:  |
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Post by beccabear67 on Sept 28, 2020 17:45:30 GMT -5
Here's a clip from a '90s Noel Edmonds show with a lot of the original Anderson puppets along with various collectable... Jimmy from Supercar is looking frazzed!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2020 8:16:41 GMT -5
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 24, 2020 12:14:20 GMT -5
 New Andersonic, #26, out. There's a great interview with puppet modeller Joy Cuff in #25 who worked on the Thunderbirds tv series in the '60s (and was even the hands of Lady P), and went on to miniature moon surface sets for Kubrick's 2001. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2020 7:21:40 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2020 10:56:24 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2020 6:50:32 GMT -5
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 2, 2020 13:37:29 GMT -5
I see Fanderson has published a new UFO Annual... for 1972. And me with a lapsed membership. I have the original 1971 Annual from 1971 so this would be tempting.  fanderson.org.uk/shop/ufo-annual-1972/How about that inflation though... from 60p in 1971 to £17.50 in 2020!  At 70p in the '90s you'd also get a Pizza Hut coupon with your Graham Bleatham cutaway... 'The future is not so fab, earth men.' |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2020 14:06:49 GMT -5
The latest Fanderson magazine came through my door the other day. I’ll try and take a pic when my phone has charged (might not be today).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2020 9:30:37 GMT -5
Will try and take a pic again later (this Android phone is a pile of crap at taking good pictures; or maybe I’m just crap and blaming the tool). Anyway, until then:  |
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