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Gerry Anderson's UFO Targeted For Bigscreenification!!
Merrick here...
This feel through the cracks yesterday, but is certainly worthy of mention all the same.
Robert Evans & ITV are teaming up for a cinematic adaptaion of Gerry Anderson's 1970s television series UFO.
The show was about an ultra high-tech organization called SHADO whose job was to combat aliens that are covertly invading our world & harvesting human body parts. Towards this end, SHADO had super submarines, mega-satellites, roving tank-like weapons, a moonbase + space fighters at its disposal. The series' opening titles looked like this:
The series debuted in 1970 and ran for three years, with characters created by Gerry Anderson. It was set in 1980 and revolves around Shado (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organization), a covert military organization that thwarts an alien race that has been kidnapping and killing humans for decades, then using the body parts. Shado headquarters is hidden beneath a Hollywood studio, and the studio mogul is actually the Shado commander.
The movie will be set in the year 2020.
...says THIS ARTICLE in Variety.
Variety is partially incorrect above: UFO ran for only one season (26 episodes). And, if memory serves, Anderson's SPACE: 1999 television series grew out of a proposed...but aborted...second season of UFO. Strong design influence from UFO can be seen in 1999's first season (in particular).
The movie will be set in the year 2020.
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My life is now complete! Take me now! It won't get any better!
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Keep the whole 70's vibe, set in futuristic 1980! And keep the groovy soundtrack as well. That looked cheesy but enjoyable.
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...the real 1999 was a disappointment (granted, I was in New Jersey, not in space). Not only did I not party like it was 1999, but no one was waring a suit made of tin foil.
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UFO was shit.
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The Moonbase Girls still have those Blue Wigs Im In.
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My prediction: if this has the hot chicks from the TV show, who wore those skin tight outfits and had those sexy purple haircuts, this will be worth seeing.But no hot chicks in skin tight outfits with sexy purple hair = BOX OFFICE FIASCO! Your guy hormones know this to be true!!!
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May 21, 2009 10:02:53 PM CDT
It BETTER have hot chicks with purple hair!!! by Big Dumb Ape
by arthurrex007
Your right Purple Hair what the hell was I thinking?! Skin tight outfits yeah. Hope it still set in a Movie Studio. Fucking Fox would be a good choice. LOL
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..with one missile!
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but from what I recall the chick in the subs were just wearing string vests, seemed like a great idea at the time, shit seems like a great idea now... talking of tits where's scriptgirly?
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a Captain Scarlet movie!
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Ed Bishop died.
Gabrielle Drake is still working and looking good. Promote her.
I hope this happens. An Australian producer tried to revive it ten years ago and nothing happened.
And focus on intercepting and killing aliens--not about humans and alien, like, talking about their, like, relationships. I'm looking at you, "V."
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Right. Fucking. On!! UFO was the shit. Am I one of the only people in the U.S. that has the complete box set? I watched this in the early 70's and nobody else in my area knew it was on. Rally an awesome TV show. Hot chicks who like to shag. Tough guys who drank and smoked. Cool fucking ships. This is awesome news!
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Someday I want to make a Stingray movie.
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...and the opening credits and theme song for this series ranks among the best ever!
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Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, UFO, Stingray. Anybody remember the CGI Scarlet revival a few years back on one of the Voom channels? I dug it. They were so good, those old ATV shows.
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I'm showing my age here, but I used to run home after school to watch UFO,Batman,Ultraman and Space:1999. Ahhhh...memories...
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The series was a combination of spy, disaster and science fiction movie. If they had used James Bond as template, instead of Spy Kids it would have been a good movie and closer to the original series.
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Good on you. Space:1999 had it's moments as well. I say they should do all of my favorites from childhood and give them the complete fanboy treatment if for nothing else than to make me personally happy. They can start with Starblazers. Live action. I mean, after UFO of course.
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...that craptacular remake of THUNDERBIRDS, directed by STTNGs Jonathan Frakes!
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I vaguely remembered these growing up, but always dug on the car and fishnet/purple hair chicks (however much digging I could do at like 5 or 6).Hahaha, always loved the giant one shot penis missile(oops missed, OK I'm done...).I tracked down a few episodes on BoobTube, and it has it's moments (a major character has a pretty epic death in the family, the freaky alien liquid immersion), and some laugh out loud wacky shit like the chase in the minicars around the fake movie studio!
Space 1999 I remember(ed) a little better, including the "space dragon" episode that gave me nightmares (WTF were my parents letting me watch this stuff?) -
make this hyperstylized and supah sexy!
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I mean come on...they even have the obligatory "butt shot" in the credits...no one ever actually thought this was serious, did they? did the MAKERS of it think so? holy hell that was retarded.
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...plus the typewriter (er, "teletype") reminds me of The Prisoner, which BTW, I can't believe hasn't been picked up for a theatrical remake.
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I can't stop laughing. That shit is hilarious. There is no way any one took that seriously. I literally can't stop laughing as I type this. Even if they try to update this, I'm gonna have this burned in my memory in the theater, and laugh the entire time. All those blinking lights!
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there's a concept that ought to be remade into a movie!
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Your geek credentials are revoked by committee!
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I loved that game. They even called their interceptors...well, interceptors!
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Man, I would much rather see an X-Com adaptation than UFO. However, I think there's some potential here for some really cool IP. That intro vid is undeniably "awesome". :D
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I hope they do it serious. IMHO, the campy send-up thing that people like to do when remaking '70s shows is just a cop-out. It's easier to parody than do something of depth. I always thought that UFO had a *lot* of potential if it was ever remade, though I'd prefer to see it as a series not a movie.Sorry Wonka & Richard: I remember an episode of UFO where Straker had to choose between capturing an alien defector and saving his own son. Straker makes the wrong decision, and the alien and his son die. It was actually kinda shocking and no pansy happy-ending hero-saves-the-day crap. I'm not saying it was great, but good stories can exist in campy premises too.
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add some "Space: Above and Beyond" style military action and a bit of "Starship Troopers" and Glactica and... I just may have pitched the most awesomest movie EVER 2009!
UFO was pretty good btw. It's been decades, but I particularly remember an episode with a girl that turns into a cat. Pretty cool when you're 5. -
This was such a part of a every Brit kids TV experience in the 70's. Don't screw it up guys. I didn't know Ed Bishop had died, every time some British show needed an American that guy was on hand. An underrated actor.
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But if it does, please let them use some of the original designs.
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I too own the box set of this series. Was one of the more hip shows of my youth and if done right, would be a great re-visit.
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Typewriters, that's just superior technology. No purple hair, Britney Spears ruined that look forever, just like a certain Austrian did for a type of moustache.
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That's about it.
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Though it is a law of nature that videogame movies inevitably suck I'd like to see that one.
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we have had X Files. Dark skies, Torchwood etc. If anything Torchwood is almost a tribute to UFO with their outlandish storylines.
UFO would only work has a type of psychological horror. It would need to focus on the aftermath of the aliens work. -
Swingers baby...Yeah!
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It was quite a leap from Anderson's earlier work, his first high profile work using actors instead of puppets, and was often quite dark in tone and while very much of its time, has some very interesting psychological aspects to the characters and episodes.
Yes, the technology in the SHADO base looks terrible now but look at any early seventies sci-fi and banks of whirring tape drives were the everywhere.
The idea of a secret miliray organisation conbatting alien incursions was always a good one and could translate well but with two provsions.
One - Gerry Anderson must be a production consultant
Two - Jonathan Frakes must be allowed nowhere near it because he's a fucking disaster,
UFO still airs here in the UK along with several other cult shows like Randall & Hopkirk Deceased (Now there's a show tailor made for a Hollywood movie), The Champions etc and despite the tech and fx work, the scripts and acting still stand up well.
Mind you, if anyone can take a good idea and fuck it up it's a movie studio so we'll have to see what happens. Anderson's stuff is still lenegdary, the CGI version of Captain Scarlet done a few years ago was very good. I'd sooner see UFO as a series than a movie though. -
Ayshea Brough as the radio operator in that tight catsuit and Wanda Venthan as Col Vernocal Lake. Even at nine years old I knew what a babe was when I saw one!
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OMG I cant believe this is rising from the dead. I hope its not gonna be a campfest. The original but far too short lived sci-fi drama was great... Maybe they can work that Zacharia Sitchin story about Nibiru and the idea the sun might have an as yet unseen brown dwarf companion star that has a planet with advanced humanoid aliens who could be our forebears or alien competitors for our own world... Loved the old show... This could totally rock.
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This is truly my favorite science fiction series of all time, well, after The Twilight Zone, that is. I could go on, but I won't, however I love the morally ambiguous nature of the show. Sometimes the good, and innocent, would be left to die, for the greater good of all...and that was troubling, and awing to see, for me. As well, sometimes the heroes did not win in every case, hell, sometimes they were the bad guys. Take for instance the episode where Shado and its agents stumble upon a wife and her secret lover...plotting to kill her husband. With their mission to thwart the UFO threat coming first, Shado's command just allows the couple to kill the husband..and leaves the murderous couple mind-wiped and unaware of the UFO encounter they had, one that has exposed them to above top secret information about the alien invasion...and Earth defense's secret response plan to that invasion, and their intercept teams. The end of the episode cryptically features the shot of a graveyard, the husband having been buried...the couple is shown having successfully gotten away with murdering him, a murder Shado could have prevented. Now that is some cool and heavy stuff. What a show???!!!!!
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Space:2099 would be awesome to see in theaters.
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Much of the show still holds up.
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Space:1999 was born out of the aborted second season of UFO--a show that came too close to the truth...the reason it was cancelled.
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I remember watching this on Wednesday nights when I was about 11 years old! Very nice! Thunderbirds without the puppets!
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they had 1980 looking all futureistic and things and while that was the normal in those days, that was just 10 YEARS away!! did they really think the world would change that much in 10 years? damn. lol
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breathed liquid long before The Abyss brought the concept to the masses. Plus Gabriel Drake with purple hair was smoking hot.
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...of such 'masterpieces' as The Saint, Two Jakes and The Out-of-Towners - this is going to be shit.
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If it got the big-budget attention like Star Trek got, it's a sure-fire moneymaker.
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Yep, as a eight-year-old, this was pretty cool in 1970, and all my friends watched it, as well. I'll have to catch an episode, now, to see how it holds up. Also saw every episode of "Space: 1999". I guess it's not surprising that trolls shriek about it these days, but it was great to watch, back in the days.
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Like fuck she did.
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DAMN YOU!!!!
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Cool
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Plot sounds borrowed and modified. Still more interesting than most tv ones.
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I loved this show and Space 1999 gorwing up...back in the day where one season was 26 episodes..much higher then todays standards..
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... a series developed by a producer who was previously known for developing children's series featuring puppets and starring actors so wooden that they are indistinguishable from puppets.
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His shows were absolutely mindblowing to me as a kid, especially Thunderbirds. What an imagination this guy has. The characters, the adventures, the ships -- it was all super exciting shit, and light years beyond what today's kids get for entertainment. It's hard to describe what it was like, but if you were a kid back then you know what I'm talking about. That being said, whomever is responsible for this remake will fuck it up six ways to Sunday, of that you can be assured.
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TV series that was all but completely forgotten (I'd certainly never fucking heard of it) despite being the most brilliant fucking thing ever to grace our TV screens, apparently. What are they going to remake next, Stig of the Dump? Where's the fucking originality in television these days? Whatever happened to shows that are new bold and different, as opposed to rehash after rehash?
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Whatever. I need booze.
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"And that's why it was cancelled?"
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Uh... yeah, thanks for that little tidbit there, Whitley Strieber.
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No tags describing what the lights actually represent though.
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...damn man.... I just ate breakfast! Besides, would even Kong be capable of actually lifting Harry? The man is composed of white dwarf star matter for chrissakes... he has his own gigantic gravitation pull... small rocks and various objects rotate around him... he actually warps space time, to some extent.
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I actually had UFO toys...a SHADO Mobile and an Interceptor...God, I loved those things
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Can you say Christian Bale as Commander Koenig?
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That's what I'm talkin' about.
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check out this great website: ufoseries.com all you need to know about UFO including not so long ago proposed television series revival attempts including some concept artwork.
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I still have my old UFO toys! The SHADO tank thingie, the Interceptor and Straker's car. Somehow, in Midland, TX in the early 70's, a local station was running the series and a local toy/hobby store carried a full line of Dinky and Corgi (sp?) toys. All solid metal - you absolutely could not break those things! Somehow out of all my old toys, those are the only ones I ended up hanging on to. I even still have the little missiles (the SHADO could launch one of those suckers halfway across the living room!). Good times, good times.
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And show the moon as it really was in 1999 with nobody on it and a few abandoned pieces of hardware from NASA. It would be as exciting as the show's 2nd season which was produced by Fred "I killed Star Trek" Frieberger. I do dig the Space 2099 idea, since it gives us another 90 years to actually get a permanent base set up on the moon. And we need Eagles, too. Except we've got to come up more scientific idea of faster than light moon-propulsion caused by a series of nuclear explosions. Finally didn't AICN do a article on September 13th, 1999 about the moon breaking out of orbit, or was that "The Onion"?
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Yeah, those Dinky / Corgi die-cast toys were all but indestructible...I even had an Enterprise at one point with photon torpedoes and a couple of Space:1999 Eagles. That was back before anyone put an eye out or swallowed a plastic missile. Alas, mine are all long gone now...they just don't make 'em like they used to...I've often considered picking up the UFO DVD set, it's probably just a matter of time before I do. Nostalgia is fun as long as you set your expectations correctly and realize it's not gonna be anywhere as good or cool as you remember - I was actually alarmed when I purchased a couple of sets of Space:1999 that the show I once loved was really rather talky and dry in a lot of spots.
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And was that a young Lance Henriksen I saw in that opening?!
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I think there was a concept bouncing about that scientists on the moonbase were testing a device for opening a jumpgate/wormhole kind of thing. That would allow the moon to jump throughout the universe..maybe they could automatically zoom in on earthlike planets. Another consequence of the field would minimise gravitational pertubations. Somehow the hyperspace jump would reset every 5 or 6 days and the moon would leave again..
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...isn't that what King Kong is doing to Harry in the new animation?
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I Flat-Out LOVE Me some Gerry Anderson!!! Grew up on: Stingray; Captain Scarlet; Thunderbirds; UFO, and SPACE: 1999. Hell, the first resin prop kits I produced are the laser & comm unit from SPACE: 1999, and they're still selling strong after 12 years... Guess I have to tool up a UFO and and Interceptor in my copious free time...
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This could be good. His CGI update of Captain Scarlet is mesmerizing; Anderson controlled that production. Thunderbirds he had no input in and that became a kids movie. Not all that bad for what it was, but not the same disaster rescue adventure format as on TV. I read somewhere Peter Jackson wanted to do Thunderbirds but the budget would have approached 200 million? Anyway, Gerry Anderson created some of the most imaginative and loved TV shows ever. I hope he has some part of this, if it materializes.
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May 22, 2009 12:32:47 PM CDT
That is the coolest fuckin' breakbeat I've heard in years
by mel's rockpile
Somebody's gotta sample that.
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I never knew what would happen if Captain Scarlet got exploded or ripped in half or something. In the end credits they used to show paintings of him facing certain death, as if to suggest he'd be alright anyway because he's indestructible. But did that mean you couldn't harm his flesh in any way? Or that he'd reassemble if he was blown to smithereens? If he was torn in half, would the two halves reattach themselves? Or would it be impossible to tear him apart? Questions that need answers.
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Yeah, Supercars
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God help me, but I loved this series as a kid. I recently watched a few episodes, and while the effects and acting are a little grim, the stories hold up.
And one of the mysteries of the series is that you were never totaly clear WHAT the aliens were up to. Harvesting human organs sometimes, but that doesn't explain everything they did during the one season run. For the nay-sayers....if they can make hit movies out of toys, why not this???? -
Does anyone else find the little cartoon of Harry reenacting the scene from the '77 KING KONG remake...disturbing????
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....was the 2nd season of Space 1999....
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the opening sequence FUKING ROCKED LIKE NO OTHER SCI FI SHOW PEOPLE!!!! LOOK IT UP!!!!!!
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I had the two of the toys........the Interceptor and the Shado. It was so eerie. The guy with white hair..... etc....
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God, I remember being tantalised by her string vest outfit. It almost, but never quite did, show her tits. They filmed it so her tits were never quite front and centre. God, it was frustrating.
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Yeah, I remember that one -- just. I must have been a toddler at the time. But I was in high school for UFO, and remember visiting the moonbase set at some exhibition in England... very cool. But those "spinning top" UFOs were really lame. I'll be really surprised if this ever gets to production as a new movie. I think Stringray would be much cooler.
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For those of us who, back in the day when UFO was on, were teens and felt all nice and inside looking at those gorgeous moonbase girls in their purple hair and tight silver outfits. The movie needs LOTS of scenes like this!http://www.ufoseries.com/movieClips/ellis.wmv
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His indestructibility was covered in the first episode: He was captured by an alien race called the Mysterons and genetically enhanced with Wolverine-like healing powers. When they put him back on Earth as a double-agent, he snapped out of the mind-control they had laid on him and became Spectrum's MVP...
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The fact that I remember that so well (having seen it like 35 years ago) removes any doubt that I am a total fucking dork.
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HE'LL THINK HE'S REMAKING MANIMAL, THAT FUCKING PONCE NO-TALENT ASSHOLE.
THEN, WHEN THE FILM IS DONE, ALL YOU JJ ASSRIMMERS WILL BE HAILING IT AS A REMARKABLE MASTERWORK. -
I APPLAUD YOU. THE REST OF YOU? IT'S PAINFULLY FUCKING OBVIOUS THAT YOU HAVEN'T A FUCKING CLUE.
RUN ALONG NOW BACK TO YOUR PRECIOUS 'DOLLHOUSE' AND 'FRINGE' YOU FUCKING WORTHLESS CUNTS. -
Looks like a winner.
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http://tinyurl.com/odop2w
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But they can never, ever replace Gabriella Drake as the voluptuous, purple be-wigged Lieutenant Gay Ellis...
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Okay
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I'm all for the silver jumpsuits and the purple wigs of the Moonbase trackers. Got my Lt. Ellis action figure, Skydiver sub, SHADO Mobile, and Interceptor right here.
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What WAS the deal with the Interceptor design. One missle, that's it! You miss, Earth is toast. and of course, you have SID up there as a big old target. Can't wait- hope this works.
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Most of the plots were pretty serious and fairly straightforward, more along the lines of the thriller or spy genre. There was little attempt to update technology beyond a few token nods to design such as Straker's car, and of course the inexplicable Moonbase. Hell even the aliens used projectile weapons.
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Another cool '70s Brit low-budget sci-fi series. I don't recall if it was Anderson or not. It was about a bunch of teenagers developing psychic powers a la X-Men.
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The show was shit. Boring and next to impossible to follow. I would much rather see "Space 1999" to the big screen, it's flaws duly noted of course but a much more fun series, despite its absurd premise. It should have instead been a Space Station blown into space instead of the entire Moon, which would be impossible.
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Christ! That music sounds like something from Benny Hill sketch.
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And, it was much more intelligent in terms of the science fiction value. Space 1999? Even if a nuclear blast could knock the moon out of orbit, it would take EONS to reach other solar systems. The story was total BS.
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... it's the premise of the show. Duh.
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..I HAVE REGISTRED JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE A COMPLETE CUNT.
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Loved both shows as a kid and had all the Dinky toys. The giant missle shooting Interceptor was great. It had machine guns too. Loved it when the Moonbase pilots would scramble and jump into these tubes that would drop them right into the Interceptor cockpit, and then the Interceptor would rise up on a launch pad hidden in a moon-crater. Hell, remake UFO and bring on SPACE:2099. I like the idea of the moon displacing accident being part of a wormhole/FTL drive accident instead of the hokey nuke dump exploding. To really make it interesting, have the accident take place on a rival chinese-ran moonbase and have both moonbases have to get over their problems with each other and pool resources to survive.
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Many of the effects team including Meddings and Brian Johnson became respected specialists in the film industry. Impressed by their work on the TV series, director Stanley Kubrick poached several of the Anderson effects team to work on his science fiction masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey. One of the guys went on to the first Superman movie and won an Oscar. I want to be buried with a diecast Corgi Thunderbird 2.
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...Meddings, did some James Bond films.
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the theme music. Hollywood is afraid to use any music except bland wallpaper noise, screaming explosion themes, or pop hits. God forbid that they ever use anything you could hum or whistle.
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But alas, Ed Bishop and Michael
Billington(both Bond film vets) have passed away....Suggestion...
cast Shane Rimmer as supreme head of SHADO. And start fitting Megan Fox, Jessica Alba and whatshername from "Transporter 3" into short purple hair! -
Look up SPACE: 2261, a fan tribute to 1999 and BABYLON 5, using the opening credit format of the former, but using scenes from the latter. It's a hoot. Makes me wish I had a time machine to go back and show it to fans of 1999 back when and blow their minds. ;-)
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Most of the actors and actresses working on that series were very good, managing to convey the ruthless, cold-blooded sorts who would be part of an organization which would as soon shoot one of their own as look at them. They'd be hard to replace. The one I'd miss most, though, would be the late Vladek Sheybal who played the creepy Dr. Jackson ( SHADO's head Pshych, no relation to the STARGATE one) who exemplified the expression "with friends like these who needs enemies?" Maybe Lance Henricksen could have played him ten or fifteen years ago. Now? Probably not.
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Since I seem to have confused UFO and Space:1999 episodes and it's been about 20 years since I watched any of this: how are the two series related? Is Space a spinoff? Do they share the same cast?? I'm confused.
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Yes, the two are connected via the same timeline (bit like Star Trek TOS and Voyager) Check it out here:http://tinyurl.com/pey6hp More of this, please!
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http://tinyurl.com/qf5fah
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Never missed an episode as a kid and had the annual, which I drew all over, but there you go. I still think the theme stands up and it's probably one of the best TV themes ever. Barry Gray was a fucking genius.
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Look at the speed of that typewriter! You know there were big happenings afoot when that thing got going.
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With Steve Zodiac! It showed in the US around 1963. After Supercar.
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take it easy guys just remember a couple of things about UFO this a 40 year old TV show and the special effects and the vision for this show were high tech back then,the now deceased special effects and model building legend Derek Meddings worked on many movies like the 1970s Superman, a few James Bond movies etc. UFO filming started in 1969 just after Kubricks 2001.
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oh by the way JJ Abrams and Dean Devlin etc. please don't apply for UFO we want good writing and a movie that lets you use our cerebral process and not a bunch bubble gum special effects and explosions that infect todays scifi movies what a big let down these days I'm 46 years old now and I thought the movie industry would come out with some memorable scifi movies these days but I hope someone will get this right and use the now 80 year old Sir Gerry Anderson as a consultant on this project,God Bless You Gerry !!!
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May 23, 2009 11:39:48 AM CDT
Gabrielle Drake is still fine looking; Wanda Ventham has aged
by kabong
http://tinyurl.com/o2en5w
I want to be a SHADO operative under that Commander. It would be the fulfillment of a youthful ambition.
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Gabrielle Drake is indeed still fine looking. However she used to be walking Viagra...
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Jesus. I used to watch a soap back in the day called Crossroads, just cos she was in it.She's well tidy.
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and thanks for the youtube longer version link above, kabong
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If I'd seen that picture when I first saw "UFO" on TV, my interceptor would have hit S.I.D.
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If you want to see how HOT she was, try viewing "Au Pair Girls" IF you can find it anywhere.
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Found a short clip where Gabrielle gets wet and takes off her panties.
http://tinyurl.com/quscqa
About the 30-second mark, one may discern that she did really take off her panties.
Also found a short film based on J.G. Ballard's "Crash," starring Gabrielle and Ballard himself.
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...after that scene she disrobes and she is quite a sight to behold.
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I'm sensing you gentlemen are English fellows of a certain age like myself. Perhaps you also remember Madeline Smith?http://tinyurl.com/qftantAh, the nostalgia of Seventies crumpet!...and ThereWolf - you ought to be ashamed of yourself...Crossroads?!?
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but this will reek of another disaster by the bubble gum film makers of Hollyweird. Leave the 60's and 70's alone. Come up with your own shit....oh wait, I'm asking them to THINK and use what's left of their drug rotted brains to come up with something new and original. Naw thats just tooooo damn hard. It's easier to just rehash an old TV series or movie that somebody else "originally" came up years ago so the greedy studio suits can make an EASY buck with little effort and remember kids...it's all about the bottom LINE and the almighty DOLLAR.
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Not only did it have a kick ass openening, but the stories were dark and "realistic" there's even an episode in which the protagonist's son dies due to his duty to the SHADO organization.UFO was X-Files before X-files and a bit of SHIELD thrown in.I have all one eps on DVD and would love to see a live action treatment..I know it has to be better than GIJoe.Right?!?
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1.Subsmash
2.Question of Priorities3.The Long Sleep4.The Psychobombs5.Timelash6.The Square Triangle7.Reflections in the water.Any asshole that says this show was shit, ned to check out these episodes via Netflix.UFO was the best thing from England since The Clash and Captain Scarlett.If a remake is to be made, the cast has got to be predominetly British. I love how those cockney cocksuckers pronounced UFO as You-foh.Bloody funny. -
that is all.
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Opening music must be incorporated. As vital as the Speed Racer theme!
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