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I thought it was cool at the time

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70's, wadnit?

early 70's?

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I caught this show a while back when SciFi still did science fiction.

Good material, even though its aged pretty badly.

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Got to love the girls with the purple hair

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Late 60s, I believe. Yes, it was cool.

Some excellent stories, especially the ones where ordinary people came face to face with an alien .

I'd like purple hair.

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Then you'd have hair to dye for.

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this is a perfect example of how different the future turned out from what was imagined

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Oh come on! It was very accurate - apart from the moonbase and regular spaceflights, and people driving on the right in Britain, and racial prejudice burning itself out five years earlier...

...But you do see purple hair.

More seriously, it stands up as a reasonably credible future that didn't happen to happen, as it were.

A future vision that really jars for me is that of William Gibson. As I type, I am listening to a reading of Burning Chrome. I find it hard to express exactly why it clunks so much for me, but I think it's to do with the fake casualness of the turns of phrase, and the deliberateness of each impact-word. It's trying way too hard. I recently listened to part of a reading of his more recent work, Pattern Recognition, about a Coolhunter who is allergic to logos... I just had to switch it off. And yet nobody else seems to have a problem with Gibson, so perhaps it's just me.

Sounds like a grape idea.

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It was miserable, utterly miserable. Not one
happy ending as I remember. That Straker actor
made a better Moon ferry pilot in 2001. At
least he gave a cheesy smile to Dr Heywood
Floyd! And he did not speak!

They did a couple of "UFO" novels back in the 70s, and as I recall the purple hair was suppose to be anti-static wigs that the women wore around the electronics on moon base.

I also read an article a couple of years back on"UFO", and one of the things they mentioned was driving on the right. According to the article, in the late 60s in England, they were seriously considering switching over to right-hand driving. They just guessed wrong on which one would win in the show.

David.

Let's see- it was made in 1969-1970, and was about the 1980's.
They seriously thought that people would be wearing purple wigs on the Moon by 1980- just ten years in the future?

This seems to be an example of the tendency for sci-fi writers to make the near future *too* weird and advanced. In reality 1980 was very like 1970- except for the lack of spaceflight to the Moon, and the comprehensive collapse of traditional industry in Britain. Oh- and the rise and fall of glam-rock and punk.

I do remember being fascinated by it at the time- especially the cars; but the cars all look like tacky Deloreans to me now.

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UFO was Andersons first 'Live Action' show, you can tell, it's all very static with lots of model shots. It is quite 'dark' though and theres a lot of psychology. It's being repeated on one of the Cable channels in the UK at the moment.

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Yeah thats dead right - after the show finished, there was a comic of UFO for a while, and they went into detail there. I am particually fond of UFO because the episodes didn't always have a happy ending. In fact if memory serves, the majority of the episodes had dark endings

Mind you, I always wondered why the aliens never sent more than three ships at a time - seriously, four ships, three interceptors, you can guess the rest lol.

And cudos to Shado's HR department - How they found so many wonderful looking women who are obviously smart and well credentialed at the same time is beyond me

They executed mass attacks in the episodes The Cat With Ten Lives and Reflections in The Water. SHADO dealt with them using ground-based lunar missile launchers, (presumably) re-equipped interceptors, and various Earth defences (including Sky Diver).

Amusingly, the mass attacks were identical, almost as if they were reusing footage... Also amusingly, Straker remarked, "They won't be trying that again!" after one such attack.

Incidentally, it was clearly stated in one episode that they had at least 3 Sky Divers (although it always seemed to be Peter Carlin who piloted Sky 1 - probably because he never missed). It's possible that there were more interceptors as the moonbase developed, although you never see more than three at once.

might make a good candidate for "re-imagining" provide they could do as good a job as was done with BSG

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I'm not sure how much it needs reimagining. Apart from the very poor episode Close-Up (which I've just watched) it's perfectly watchable on its own terms.

More to the point, do we need yet another Alien Invasion series?

But I'm interested to hear other views.

I think a lot of 60's things would be really cool if they were re-imagined.
Like, what if the Fantastic Four had been trying to win the X-Prize?

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Re-imagining a story can be a good idea-- if it's done well. The whole Heroes Reborn FF mess shows what happens if it's done poorly. A good story must first and foremost be a well-written story; there have been plenty of promising premises ruined by bad writing (coughEnterprisecough).

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Also willing to wear a uniform top almost entirely made of string aboard the SkyDiver...

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Wow, this show looks Space1999ish. There is some confusion over its name as there is an old American series called Project UFO. Dreaded youtube link.

Was that the one where they were in the teleporter accident. Yeah, I hated that- they're astronauts, people.
Still, what if...

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No, that's the Ultimate Marvel version. The mid-90s was the era of Heroes Reborn, after a management-mandated slaughter of superheroes, who then reappeared in several short-lived and generally unmourned parallel-universe reboot series. FF, Avengers, a naked and mute Hulk, and the infamous Rob Liefeld Craptain America. Ugh. Turned out the whole thing was retconned as All Just A Dream in the mind of Reed and Sue's scary mutant "think you into the cornfield" kid.

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"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Space: 1999 was originally conceived as UFO: 1999. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_%28TV_series%29)
"After the 26 episodes were completed plans were drawn up for a sequel to be called UFO: 1999 which would have been set in a much bigger Moonbase. A subplot of the episode "Kill Straker!" sees Straker negotiating with SHADO's financial supporters for funding to build more moonbases within 10 years, which could be seen as a prologue to the UFO: 1999 concept. When American broadcasters dropped their support for a second season of UFO, the idea was dropped, but a couple of years later the concept was revised into an even more far-fetched story about the moon being blown out of orbit and Moonbase along with it — Space: 1999. When Space:1999 was broadcast there was no trace of the show that it was supposedly born from."

As for Re-Imaging. Anderson has already re-done Captain Scarlet in CGI. It's very good., thew Hardware is impressive and the plots still have the brutal edge of the original. It has the highest body count of any Puppet show lol.

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After blowing an inch or two of dust off my memory, I seem to recall on episode of this series that actually throroughly and completely impressed me. The one with the downed human and alien pilot having to work together to get to the moon base, only to have the alien blasted on site by the human rescue team.

Depressing, but stunningly well done.

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The episode I remember is where Straker
returns his son to his estranged or divorced
wife and the kid gets run over outside the
gate. With the boy very ill, he promises
special help from overseas. But events
frustrate this and the boy dies. And this
was broadcast at tea time on a Saturday.
Must have really upset some young viewers!