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Focus Diode · 21st Feb 2019, 6:00 am

I'm very bored with the earlier puppet shows nowadays, nothing wrong with them but like The Beatles' Sgt Pepper LP I've seen/heard them far too often to wish to see them again.

UFO is an exception, some terrific episodes, notably the last few many ITV regions relegated to late night viewing as they were considered to be too adult for an earlier audience.

Witness the other stories such as, 'Confetti Check A-OK' about Straker's marriage and its subsequent breakdown and its follow up, 'A Question of Priorities. Heavy going stuff.

One thing I've not seen since 1974 is the break bumpers which I recall being the UFO zooming in with the words UFO forming with music first heard on the Thunderbirds Sun Probe episode. The other break bumper had the UFO zooming away. Sadly the DVDs don't include them.

The end theme was first heard in the Fireball XL5 episode Mystery of the TA2.

Also worth looking out for the film, Journey to the Far side of the Sun (Doppelganger) which features much of the UFO cast.

21st Feb 2019, 6:00 am	#57
Focus Diode Octode Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Borough of Gateshead, UK. Posts: 1,420	Re: 1970 UFO TV prog I'm very bored with the earlier puppet shows nowadays, nothing wrong with them but like The Beatles' Sgt Pepper LP I've seen/heard them far too often to wish to see them again. UFO is an exception, some terrific episodes, notably the last few many ITV regions relegated to late night viewing as they were considered to be too adult for an earlier audience. Witness the other stories such as, 'Confetti Check A-OK' about Straker's marriage and its subsequent breakdown and its follow up, 'A Question of Priorities. Heavy going stuff. One thing I've not seen since 1974 is the break bumpers which I recall being the UFO zooming in with the words UFO forming with music first heard on the Thunderbirds Sun Probe episode. The other break bumper had the UFO zooming away. Sadly the DVDs don't include them. The end theme was first heard in the Fireball XL5 episode Mystery of the TA2. Also worth looking out for the film, Journey to the Far side of the Sun (Doppelganger) which features much of the UFO cast.