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G4YVM David · 14th Feb 2019, 9:21 pm

Did anyone else live enthralled by the Gerry Anderson programme UFO?

Im just rewatching these episode and I find them now just as I did then (I was little kid, DoB 1962)...utterly captivating. Today of course I see awful scripts, terrible acting and sloppy sets, but...the models are genius (Meddings I think) and the UFOs eerily creepy. There's something about the programmes that is truly captivating. The wildly cumbersome computers, big screens and erm, pseudo porno Century 21 costumes, and yet...

The models are just superb (as are the girls) and the whole concept screams to be redone but I know the Americans would get it badly wrong as they did when they remade Thunderbirds. There's something about the whole series which is magical. I wish I could stop watching it but it is simply another example of Gerry's genius.

Its not proper vintage technology but it is vintage film making and I am sure many of you see vintage kit re-assigned to a futuristic role in '1980'

14th Feb 2019, 9:21 pm	#1
G4YVM David Heptode Join Date: May 2014 Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK. Posts: 998	1970 UFO TV prog Did anyone else live enthralled by the Gerry Anderson programme UFO? Im just rewatching these episode and I find them now just as I did then (I was little kid, DoB 1962)...utterly captivating. Today of course I see awful scripts, terrible acting and sloppy sets, but...the models are genius (Meddings I think) and the UFOs eerily creepy. There's something about the programmes that is truly captivating. The wildly cumbersome computers, big screens and erm, pseudo porno Century 21 costumes, and yet... The models are just superb (as are the girls) and the whole concept screams to be redone but I know the Americans would get it badly wrong as they did when they remade Thunderbirds. There's something about the whole series which is magical. I wish I could stop watching it but it is simply another example of Gerry's genius. Its not proper vintage technology but it is vintage film making and I am sure many of you see vintage kit re-assigned to a futuristic role in '1980' __________________ David, G4YVM.