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see, I'm just the opposite here....I loved the look and clothing and purple hair (and music) of UFO. It's the future that we were robbed of. Very AUSTIN POWERS-ish. The purple wigs were explained as preventing static sparks in the oxygenated environment of Moonbase. The miniskirts were eye candy.
I would say let's wait and see what they do with it before being overly critical (though I'm not holding my breath)
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I wonder if the carpet matched the drapes?
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It was a good series, but it fell awkwardly between the two stools of kids adventure series and adult drama.
Not a fan of this series, I always like this entry for its existential premise in the line of "The Twilight Zone":
"Mindbender"
http://ufoseries.com/guide/mindbender.html
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The episodes like A QUESTION OF PRIORITIES and CONFETTI CHECK A-OK dug into Straker's personal home life and were pretty moving for the time, emotionally. (IMO) I recall one Sunday evening in the early 70s when a musician friend and I were on a "psychedelic journey" and watched MINDBENDER....appropriately titled episode. We had a great time!
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Not a fan of this series, I always like this entry for its existential premise in the line of "The Twilight Zone":
"Mindbender"
http://ufoseries.com/guide/mindbender.html
"Mindbender" follows the path of "A World of Difference" (3/11/1960) written by Richard Matheson and deals with the nature of identity.
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Despite the purple wig silliness and kitsch, UFO could be a deceptively nasty series at times. The show was peppered with graphic killings, blood and gore, plus the central idea that aliens come to steal human organs leaving mutilated corpses in their wake is exceptionally unpleasant even today. The kitsch bits only made the nasty bits more startling when they appeared. I think it took considerable balls on Gerry Anderson's part to make the show like that.
As such, the series ignored the obvious pointlessness of all aliens-vs-earth stories, from the abovementioned UFO to V: any extraterrestrial race with the technology to voyage interstellar space would also have developed the technology to economically synthesize molecules, both organic and inorganic, in any form or quantity. They wouldn't need to eat us, drink our blood, cut out our organs or steal our water (although Mars does need women), and would also surely have found the gene for male-pattern baldness, thereby establishing Jean-Luc Picard as the genetically-engineered mutant he certainly must be.
As for the purple wigs.... well, at least they had staggeringly gorgeous actresses underneath them.
They were certainly attractive, but...staggeringly? I guess some of us set the bar for this sort of thing higher than others do.
PS: While we're on the subject, Ed Bishop, UFO's Commander Straker, and I went to the same high school, albeit several decades apart.
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Despite the purple wig silliness and kitsch, UFO could be a deceptively nasty series at times. The show was peppered with graphic killings, blood and gore, plus the central idea that aliens come to steal human organs leaving mutilated corpses in their wake is exceptionally unpleasant even today. The kitsch bits only made the nasty bits more startling when they appeared. I think it took considerable balls on Gerry Anderson's part to make the show like that.
As such, the series ignored the obvious pointlessness of all aliens-vs-earth stories, from the abovementioned UFO to V: any extraterrestrial race with the technology to voyage interstellar space would also have developed the technology to economically synthesize molecules, both organic and inorganic, in any form or quantity. They wouldn't need to eat us, drink our blood, cut out our organs or steal our water (although Mars does need women), and would also surely have found the gene for male-pattern baldness, thereby establishing Jean-Luc Picard as the genetically-engineered mutant he certainly must be.
like our technologically advanced human race uses state of the art digital tech and pheremone chemicals to hunt and track down deer? The storyline of UFO mentions the alien race is getting increasingly sterile...something synthetic organs wouldn't solve. And from their guns they don't appear to be that far ahead of us, perhaps a few hundred years.Plus in THE CAT WITH TEN LIVES it's hypothesized that the real aliens don't have corporeal form at all but use their pieced together bodies to navigate around in physical form.
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Nov 23, 2009 - 9:35 PM
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Charles, thanks for posting those Deborah Grant pix. Wow!!! 
I remember watching that ep on the DVD and immediately looked her up on imdb and she's had a long career in the UK. Obviously, there are many actresses and actors who never crossed the pond yet have done quite well in England.
I will say this, however, especially noting your avatar--Grant's ep suffers compared to a typical Invaders ep for financial reasons, as her key opening scene was clearly shot day for night, as opposed to The Invaders, where they pretty much always shot night for night. It makes a big difference. For me, day for night shooting always reminds me I'm watching a production, and it hinders my ability to suspend disbelief.
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