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One could get quite nostalgic over this article! One thing that particularly strikes a viewer of the DVDs is how practically everyone at SHADO smokes like a chimney in this series, you wouldn't see that in a modern SF series... The "Century 21" fashions were quite of their time too, with the crew of SkyDiver (male and female) all wearing string vests, and they never did explain why all the female crew of Moonbase had to wear purple wigs, but the males didn't... -- Arwel 22:42, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
One of the episodes featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 was of the 1969 film Moon Zero Two. In it, a lunar hotel employee has the same metallic purple wig that adorns the female Moonbase personnel of UFO. When I saw this, I checked IMDb for connections between the two productions. The closest thing I found was that Moon Zero Two director Roy Ward Baker worked with Gerry and Sylvia Anderson on their popular live-action TV show The Protectors three years later, two years after UFO started. It occurred to me that one of these shows might have gotten the idea from the other, if these folks knew each other in 1969 or before. Any thoughts? — Jeff Q (talk) 04:11, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I recent edit indicates that the pronounciation "you-foh" is the British way of saying UFO. I've never heard of this -- to my knowledge the Brits go "you-eff-oh" like everyone else. Can someone back this up? 23skidoo 18:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
I don't want to make an edit without being absolutely sure, but I don't recall any episode specifically saying the Interceptors used nuclear missiles. Can anyone confirm either way?
Considering the success of the new Battlestar Galactica and Dr Who, I'm surprised no-one has thought of bringing UFO back to the small screen. In spite of its shortcomings, the original series was imaginative and groundbreaking. It just needs updating a bit, perhaps it should be set in the 2080s :-)
The article says that the gull wing doors of the cars had to be opened manually by a guy just out of shot and gives the episode "Court Martial" as an example of when this perosn could be seen. I've just watched that episode and couldn't see anything (as Straker and George Sewell get out by the electronics shop). Could someone tell me where he is and when or post a pic? Thanks
The game X-Com seems very much inspired by this series. A team of people flying around the world chasing UFO's? Come on :) IceHunter 18:44, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
In the episode "Survival", after Foster is separated from the rest of his team at the site of a UFO landing, the others try to raise him on the radio, and getting no answer, simply return to base. That is so... negligent! Why wouldn't they investigate and try to find Foster alive or find his remains? Clear set-up to allow them to have Foster alone and found by the alien.
In "Ordeal", Foster seems to be abducted by aliens, but it turns out to be merely a dream. Wow! What a detailed dream! Foster even dreamt about Sky 1 missing in its shot, SHADO personnel finding the spa staff dead, Straker angry about Carlin missing the UFO, the UFO turning and crashing, Dr. Jackson commenting on the primitive conditions at the moon base. Reminds me of the original version of "Invaders From Mars" when the boy had a detailed dream about the army loading tanks onto a train and such. GBC 01:00, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Episode 2 Straker interrogates the alien in English. Proper english, not even american. Greglocock ( talk) 11:35, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
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What list is being used for the airdates on the episode list. A statement I wrote (which is still there) indicates that the Gerry Anderson book shows several different airdate variations, but this is no longer reflected in the chart. 23skidoo ( talk) 20:33, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Arthurvasey ( talk) 19:17, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
When SHADO was first formed, it was a clandestine organization. No one was supposed to know that you worked there or even that SHADO existed. But later in the series, this changed and SHADO became more overt with SHADO security people wearing uniforms with SHADO logos in public.
Can anyone remember in what episode did this “change” take place and was there any explanation for the change? In some of the episodes it appeared that the general public was fully aware of SHADO and what they did. Throckmorton Guildersleeve ( talk) 15:39, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Most of these form the individual episodes are unreferenced and not particularly encyclopaedic. Nick Cooper ( talk) 17:14, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
In Survival episode the Moonbase is located in the Mare Imbrium. Alessandro Crisafulli-- 147.163.48.49 ( talk) 16:27, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
Great article on a series I loved. BTW, I remember a party scene where the adults were all dancing to Get Back. I remember thinking that was very cutting edge and visionary, that real grownups would be grooving to the Beatles in the future... Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 21:03, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
That's not the title screen for the show. It's from the prologue sequence, to be certain, but the actual official title card is the one that appears at the end of the opening teaser, as it includes the copyright notice for the show. 68.146.81.123 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:20, 9 September 2010 (UTC).
Spy satellite programs have been extant since 1959 when Corona first launched. Heck, Ice Station Zebra is a 1968 film! But the use of what came to be known as metadata as a plot device in Close-Up is a particularly nice touch. It's not called as such, but nonetheless I've switched the relative importance of the terms in the "Predictions" section. kencf0618 ( talk) 06:16, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Article says: "Most of the cast were newcomers to Century 21 although star Ed Bishop had previously worked with the Andersons as a voice actor on Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons."
Bishop was also a live actor (played USAF officer) in Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.102.219.165 ( talk) 22:03, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
The article states "Notably for science fiction, and uniquely for a television series,[citation needed] the alien race is never given a proper name, either by themselves or by human beings...". I believe the American 1960s series "The Invaders" also did not name the alien race, but I'm not absolutely sure of that. (First ever Wikipedia comment - hope I did it right!) Kerry2112 ( talk) 17:13, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
Almost none of the predictions listed in this section were anywhere near correct. I'm not sure whether the section should be rewritten so it doesn't imply that the show successfully predicted 1980, or just scrapped, but as it stands, it's embarrassingly misleading.
So, that's 1 hit out of 15 predictions, plus a few more that are "only" off by a decade or two (which isn't exactly a "near-miss" for a prediction aimed only a decade in the future). -- 70.36.140.238 ( talk) 16:10, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Two notable predictions do appear in the series that bear mentioning. One episode shows a VTOL aircraft that is very close to what the current Osprey aircraft looks like. The other is the remarkable resemblance of the mothership/rocket pod (use as a transport to the moon) to Burt Rutan's Whight Knight and SpaceShipOne. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.230.174.246 ( talk) 20:09, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
What does "the shows were copyrighted in 1969" mean? If the series dated from 1970, that is the date of copyright, which is the date of creation.
It seems a little silly to me to claim that a show that used toy models dangling from the end of a string had "outstanding special effects for its day." It's just not so; while it may be a fun show the "special effects" and model work are clearly not anything special. I feel that to support this claim it would be necessary to compare it to other '70s TV shows (and earlier - Lost in Space for example, and many 1950s movies). I think it's fair to say that when held up for comparison in that light, the claim wouldn't hold water.
Also, I'd like to toss out the idea that the word "Leitmotif" doesn't belong in an article discussing a children's Science Fiction show. In my opinion, it comes across as pretentious and it's unnecessary. And I think you'd find that that's the majority opinion. Never use the large word when the small word will do.
68.197.52.34 ( talk) 10:48, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Actually, as the page points out, it does not appear that the show was intended for an audience of kids; many of the "real life" background plots speak against it. And "toys on a string" was the technology of the day for planes or spaceships; the argument that these were special would be based on the fact that they often looked more lifelike than the competition, which, watching the show again in 2015, I would agree with. Sounds more like a conclusion is made here that because the Andersons did kid shows before (with puppets) this one must have been as well, or that all SF shows are automatically only aimed at kids, which is not warranted. Note also that some of the same models and techniques were used for the non-juvenile feature film, "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.124.48.170 ( talk) 08:35, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
When Kubrick was making 2001 he knew exactly where to go for top model work and he called Sylvia Anderson to invite her and Gerry for lunch. '"Fine," she said, "but I hope you're not going to ask for any of our special effects people?" "Oh, well, in which case there's no point having lunch," said Kubrick, and promptly put the phone down... His various production departments managed, nevertheless, to persuade plenty of modelmakers and technicians to defect from the Thunderbirds camp.' (Piers Bizony, 2001: Filming The Future, Aurum Press 1994, pp.97-8) I don't think he got Derek Meddings, but he would probably have liked to.
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I am currently in the process of creating individual episode articles but the airdate list in the Episodes section is completely different to a number of sources - primarily Chris Bentley's bible on the series The Complete Book of Gerry Anderson's UFO; as well as the list on the UFOseries website [1].
I'm going to re-order on this data:
Transmission gap
Transmission gap
Transmission gap (final two episodes delayed 20 months)
I'll be updating the episodes to reflect the above. Londonclanger ( talk) 10:53, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
The Fanderson website can serve as a source of episode data. Many of the first UK air dates differ from those in the article. https://fanderson.org.uk/productions/ufo/ ChainsawDude ( talk) 16:15, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
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When I saw the reference to a 600-page book released with the Blu-ray edition, I thought it was a typo for 60 pages. I checked online and the set did indeed come with a 600-page book. I am correcting the reference to read "book" instead of "booklet" as there is no definition on this green earth for "booklet" that covers a work of that length. 70.73.90.119 ( talk) 04:30, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
I removed the following essay on the history of electric typewriters from the article:
The machine typing out information in the intro uses an IBM Selectric typewriter mechanism with an Orator element, and is using a cloth ribbon cartridge. This eliminates any system used primarily for word processing, such as the IBM MT/ST or the IBM Mag Card Typewriter, or such third-party products as the DURA 1041, since those would be fitted with carbon ribbons. Thus, apparently they did have access to an IBM 2741 terminal connected to a computer system, or something similar, to take those shots. The first Selectric was released in 1961, eight years before the series was produced, and was already near-obsolete technology by 1970.
It's unsourced and looks suspiciously like OR. It doesn't explain why the text is assumed to have been produced by a computer, as opposed to a human typist. It's not clear why the alleged obsolescence of the Selectric typewriter is relevant, if they were using an IBM 2741 terminal. The claim that the technology was "near-obsolete" is pretty dubious in any case - the Selectric was replaced by the Selectric II in 1971, but the basic mechanism was unchanged. The whole thing is also trivia that tells us next to nothing about the show itself. But I'll leave it here on the off chance that there is actually a reliable source to back it up. 89.168.64.248 ( talk) 21:52, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
The article falsely says
"Every shot in which the car door was seen to open automatically had to be arranged so that a prop man could run up to the car, just outside the frame, open the door, and hold it open while Ed Bishop stepped out." |
The door opens unaided and in full view at 3 mins 23 secs in "The Long Sleep" . ChainsawDude ( talk) 23:11, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
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One could get quite nostalgic over this article! One thing that particularly strikes a viewer of the DVDs is how practically everyone at SHADO smokes like a chimney in this series, you wouldn't see that in a modern SF series... The "Century 21" fashions were quite of their time too, with the crew of SkyDiver (male and female) all wearing string vests, and they never did explain why all the female crew of Moonbase had to wear purple wigs, but the males didn't... -- Arwel 22:42, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
One of the episodes featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 was of the 1969 film Moon Zero Two. In it, a lunar hotel employee has the same metallic purple wig that adorns the female Moonbase personnel of UFO. When I saw this, I checked IMDb for connections between the two productions. The closest thing I found was that Moon Zero Two director Roy Ward Baker worked with Gerry and Sylvia Anderson on their popular live-action TV show The Protectors three years later, two years after UFO started. It occurred to me that one of these shows might have gotten the idea from the other, if these folks knew each other in 1969 or before. Any thoughts? — Jeff Q (talk) 04:11, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I recent edit indicates that the pronounciation "you-foh" is the British way of saying UFO. I've never heard of this -- to my knowledge the Brits go "you-eff-oh" like everyone else. Can someone back this up? 23skidoo 18:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
I don't want to make an edit without being absolutely sure, but I don't recall any episode specifically saying the Interceptors used nuclear missiles. Can anyone confirm either way?
Considering the success of the new Battlestar Galactica and Dr Who, I'm surprised no-one has thought of bringing UFO back to the small screen. In spite of its shortcomings, the original series was imaginative and groundbreaking. It just needs updating a bit, perhaps it should be set in the 2080s :-)
The article says that the gull wing doors of the cars had to be opened manually by a guy just out of shot and gives the episode "Court Martial" as an example of when this perosn could be seen. I've just watched that episode and couldn't see anything (as Straker and George Sewell get out by the electronics shop). Could someone tell me where he is and when or post a pic? Thanks
The game X-Com seems very much inspired by this series. A team of people flying around the world chasing UFO's? Come on :) IceHunter 18:44, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
In the episode "Survival", after Foster is separated from the rest of his team at the site of a UFO landing, the others try to raise him on the radio, and getting no answer, simply return to base. That is so... negligent! Why wouldn't they investigate and try to find Foster alive or find his remains? Clear set-up to allow them to have Foster alone and found by the alien.
In "Ordeal", Foster seems to be abducted by aliens, but it turns out to be merely a dream. Wow! What a detailed dream! Foster even dreamt about Sky 1 missing in its shot, SHADO personnel finding the spa staff dead, Straker angry about Carlin missing the UFO, the UFO turning and crashing, Dr. Jackson commenting on the primitive conditions at the moon base. Reminds me of the original version of "Invaders From Mars" when the boy had a detailed dream about the army loading tanks onto a train and such. GBC 01:00, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Episode 2 Straker interrogates the alien in English. Proper english, not even american. Greglocock ( talk) 11:35, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
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What list is being used for the airdates on the episode list. A statement I wrote (which is still there) indicates that the Gerry Anderson book shows several different airdate variations, but this is no longer reflected in the chart. 23skidoo ( talk) 20:33, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Arthurvasey ( talk) 19:17, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
When SHADO was first formed, it was a clandestine organization. No one was supposed to know that you worked there or even that SHADO existed. But later in the series, this changed and SHADO became more overt with SHADO security people wearing uniforms with SHADO logos in public.
Can anyone remember in what episode did this “change” take place and was there any explanation for the change? In some of the episodes it appeared that the general public was fully aware of SHADO and what they did. Throckmorton Guildersleeve ( talk) 15:39, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Most of these form the individual episodes are unreferenced and not particularly encyclopaedic. Nick Cooper ( talk) 17:14, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
In Survival episode the Moonbase is located in the Mare Imbrium. Alessandro Crisafulli-- 147.163.48.49 ( talk) 16:27, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
Great article on a series I loved. BTW, I remember a party scene where the adults were all dancing to Get Back. I remember thinking that was very cutting edge and visionary, that real grownups would be grooving to the Beatles in the future... Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 21:03, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
That's not the title screen for the show. It's from the prologue sequence, to be certain, but the actual official title card is the one that appears at the end of the opening teaser, as it includes the copyright notice for the show. 68.146.81.123 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:20, 9 September 2010 (UTC).
Spy satellite programs have been extant since 1959 when Corona first launched. Heck, Ice Station Zebra is a 1968 film! But the use of what came to be known as metadata as a plot device in Close-Up is a particularly nice touch. It's not called as such, but nonetheless I've switched the relative importance of the terms in the "Predictions" section. kencf0618 ( talk) 06:16, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Article says: "Most of the cast were newcomers to Century 21 although star Ed Bishop had previously worked with the Andersons as a voice actor on Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons."
Bishop was also a live actor (played USAF officer) in Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.102.219.165 ( talk) 22:03, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
The article states "Notably for science fiction, and uniquely for a television series,[citation needed] the alien race is never given a proper name, either by themselves or by human beings...". I believe the American 1960s series "The Invaders" also did not name the alien race, but I'm not absolutely sure of that. (First ever Wikipedia comment - hope I did it right!) Kerry2112 ( talk) 17:13, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
Almost none of the predictions listed in this section were anywhere near correct. I'm not sure whether the section should be rewritten so it doesn't imply that the show successfully predicted 1980, or just scrapped, but as it stands, it's embarrassingly misleading.
So, that's 1 hit out of 15 predictions, plus a few more that are "only" off by a decade or two (which isn't exactly a "near-miss" for a prediction aimed only a decade in the future). -- 70.36.140.238 ( talk) 16:10, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Two notable predictions do appear in the series that bear mentioning. One episode shows a VTOL aircraft that is very close to what the current Osprey aircraft looks like. The other is the remarkable resemblance of the mothership/rocket pod (use as a transport to the moon) to Burt Rutan's Whight Knight and SpaceShipOne. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.230.174.246 ( talk) 20:09, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
What does "the shows were copyrighted in 1969" mean? If the series dated from 1970, that is the date of copyright, which is the date of creation.
It seems a little silly to me to claim that a show that used toy models dangling from the end of a string had "outstanding special effects for its day." It's just not so; while it may be a fun show the "special effects" and model work are clearly not anything special. I feel that to support this claim it would be necessary to compare it to other '70s TV shows (and earlier - Lost in Space for example, and many 1950s movies). I think it's fair to say that when held up for comparison in that light, the claim wouldn't hold water.
Also, I'd like to toss out the idea that the word "Leitmotif" doesn't belong in an article discussing a children's Science Fiction show. In my opinion, it comes across as pretentious and it's unnecessary. And I think you'd find that that's the majority opinion. Never use the large word when the small word will do.
68.197.52.34 ( talk) 10:48, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Actually, as the page points out, it does not appear that the show was intended for an audience of kids; many of the "real life" background plots speak against it. And "toys on a string" was the technology of the day for planes or spaceships; the argument that these were special would be based on the fact that they often looked more lifelike than the competition, which, watching the show again in 2015, I would agree with. Sounds more like a conclusion is made here that because the Andersons did kid shows before (with puppets) this one must have been as well, or that all SF shows are automatically only aimed at kids, which is not warranted. Note also that some of the same models and techniques were used for the non-juvenile feature film, "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.124.48.170 ( talk) 08:35, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
When Kubrick was making 2001 he knew exactly where to go for top model work and he called Sylvia Anderson to invite her and Gerry for lunch. '"Fine," she said, "but I hope you're not going to ask for any of our special effects people?" "Oh, well, in which case there's no point having lunch," said Kubrick, and promptly put the phone down... His various production departments managed, nevertheless, to persuade plenty of modelmakers and technicians to defect from the Thunderbirds camp.' (Piers Bizony, 2001: Filming The Future, Aurum Press 1994, pp.97-8) I don't think he got Derek Meddings, but he would probably have liked to.
Khamba Tendal (
talk) 16:20, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
I am currently in the process of creating individual episode articles but the airdate list in the Episodes section is completely different to a number of sources - primarily Chris Bentley's bible on the series The Complete Book of Gerry Anderson's UFO; as well as the list on the UFOseries website [1].
I'm going to re-order on this data:
Transmission gap
Transmission gap
Transmission gap (final two episodes delayed 20 months)
I'll be updating the episodes to reflect the above. Londonclanger ( talk) 10:53, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
The Fanderson website can serve as a source of episode data. Many of the first UK air dates differ from those in the article. https://fanderson.org.uk/productions/ufo/ ChainsawDude ( talk) 16:15, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
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When I saw the reference to a 600-page book released with the Blu-ray edition, I thought it was a typo for 60 pages. I checked online and the set did indeed come with a 600-page book. I am correcting the reference to read "book" instead of "booklet" as there is no definition on this green earth for "booklet" that covers a work of that length. 70.73.90.119 ( talk) 04:30, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
I removed the following essay on the history of electric typewriters from the article:
The machine typing out information in the intro uses an IBM Selectric typewriter mechanism with an Orator element, and is using a cloth ribbon cartridge. This eliminates any system used primarily for word processing, such as the IBM MT/ST or the IBM Mag Card Typewriter, or such third-party products as the DURA 1041, since those would be fitted with carbon ribbons. Thus, apparently they did have access to an IBM 2741 terminal connected to a computer system, or something similar, to take those shots. The first Selectric was released in 1961, eight years before the series was produced, and was already near-obsolete technology by 1970.
It's unsourced and looks suspiciously like OR. It doesn't explain why the text is assumed to have been produced by a computer, as opposed to a human typist. It's not clear why the alleged obsolescence of the Selectric typewriter is relevant, if they were using an IBM 2741 terminal. The claim that the technology was "near-obsolete" is pretty dubious in any case - the Selectric was replaced by the Selectric II in 1971, but the basic mechanism was unchanged. The whole thing is also trivia that tells us next to nothing about the show itself. But I'll leave it here on the off chance that there is actually a reliable source to back it up. 89.168.64.248 ( talk) 21:52, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
The article falsely says
"Every shot in which the car door was seen to open automatically had to be arranged so that a prop man could run up to the car, just outside the frame, open the door, and hold it open while Ed Bishop stepped out." |
The door opens unaided and in full view at 3 mins 23 secs in "The Long Sleep" . ChainsawDude ( talk) 23:11, 20 June 2023 (UTC)