You left out Judy Jetson! Or for that matter Rosie the Robot. For you older
guys, remember Princess Summerwinterspringfall?

Ok - Time For a Survey:<br>If you could have Any
of these Women for ONE NIGHT, who would it
Be?<br><br><br>Valerie from Land Of the Giants<br>Ginger from Gilligan's
Island<br>Betty Rubble from the Flintstones<br>Marcia from the
Brady Bunch<br>Lori from the Partridge Family<br>The
Red head Chick from Taxi<br>(I can't remember the
Friggin' name! Nardo was the last name - a little
help!)<br>A Young Gloria from All In the Family<br>Mary Ann
from Giligan's island<br>The Blonde Chick from F
TROOP<br>Ellie May Clampett from the Beverly Hillbillies<br>The
Three Chicks from Petticoat Junction<br>Bugs Bunny In
Drag<br>Any of the "FRIENDS" chicks<br><br><br>I would have
to say my personal favorite would be "TRIXIE" from
Speed RACER<br>Although she is a Cartoon, She
...Er..has....gotten me through lonley Nights when I was a Kid (Hey
-Cheaper Than Magazines!!!!)<br><br>AL

I will watch just to see how they will keep the
Star Trek Continuity Intact.<br>And I Don't want to
see Friggin' Q show up for an episode and the erase
everyone's mind either!<br>In fact the Whole show sounds
like a real bad Idea!<br>The only saving grace is that
Scott Bakula is in it.<br>And I saw a Picture of the
New/Old Enterprise.<br>If this takes place 100 Years
BEFORE Kirk's Time, Why does the New/OLD Enterprise look
More Advanced than the Enterpriseof Kirks time?<br>And
for the record, The last VOYAGER episode Sucked!<br>I
won't say anything about it as to not spoil it for the
British members here.<br>But it was worse than the DS9
finale.<br><br>Oh - By the way - My name is AL the Angryswordfish
and there's nuthin' I love better than to Bitch and
Nitpick!<br>Glad to be here!<br><br>AL

This club sure is busy! any of you gonna watch
Enterprise? when Sept 26 gets here i'm gonna check it out.
Scott Bakula as a Cap'n, who'd of thought. he did fine
in Quatum Leap in my opinion, now we'll see him as
the main man of a starship!

I added my briefcase to the links section. Loaded a couple of UFO clips in
quicktime format.<br><br>Retro

Glad everyone liked the UFO photos. I've only
heard of passing references to Saphire and Steel. Could
anyone enlighten me more on it.<br><br>I loved the
Invaders when it reran on my local independent station at
2 AM, just after the Avengers.<br><br><br>Retro

I admit it..I'm an old fart. Just ask coderedlion
(yo bro hows it hanging). Those old hazy, lazy days
of fantastic T.V and good enjoyable programming.Yes,
Adam West is THE Batman (now turning and bowing to the
signed photo). Yes Tom Baker is THE Dr Who.And last but
not least..Yes, John Noakes is the all time original
action adventurer.<br>In the ooolllddd days it was not
unusual for the likes of me and Roo (Coderedlion) and
other kids of our ilk to rush home from school and
watch stuff like Land Of the Giants,The Tomorrow
people, Project UFO et al and be amazed and have endless
times relating what we had watched.I even skipped a
party so I could see Jon Pertwee regenerate.School
lunchtimes were worth going home for so you could watch
Chorlton And The Wheelies and Pipkins.Who can ever forget
the famous Chef episode of Mr Benn.And I won't even
get into the debate over "The Sirius Triangle". I
could go on like this for pages extolling the virtues
of good old fashioned T.V and not the cheap animated
crap that is churned out for todays kids (What the
$%&* is Dragonball Z about anyway) but I just want to
show myself (ooh er) to a group of like minded
people.I shall visit and watch the posts.<br>Take
care<br>See Ya soon,Same Bat page, Same Bat web site<br>Steve
Yarwood

I've just spent this evening watching the second
video (on loan from a friend who has been trying to get
me to watch it for ages) and it was sooooooooo
spooky! Neither the box or the episodes give a title, so
it's the one about the ghost of the WWI soldier who is
haunting the disused railway station. The best (or should
I say "worst"... certainly the most creepy) bit was
when 'The Darkness' possesses Saphire and threatens to
steal her eyes (they snap open and they are just
black... oooohhhhhhh! I jumped about a mile in the air!!).
It's also so awful what Steel does to ghost hunter
Tully, at the end of the story.<br>This is the first
time I've seen the show. Are all the episodes as good
as this?

Yes, I remember that one! My favourite episode
was "The Spores". It was truely frightening. The
Invaders try to reproduce by growing embryos like plants.
A suitcase full of alien spores is stolen by a
group of kids and David tries to recover it. Gene
Hackman plays one of the Invaders. I'll bet he leaves
this one off his resume. There were a lot of "future
stars" on this show. Robert Duvall plays an alien in
another episode.

Re: the purple wigs - I found the following in a
the "UFO"/"Space:1999" companion by Chris
Drake:<br><br>"One of the most intriguing features of Lieutenant
Ellis and the other Moonbase girls has to be their bobs
of metallic mauve hair. Far from being purely
decorative, the wigs serve to protect the wearers from the
migraine-inducing electromagnetic fields which, unfortunatly, are
produced by the powerful Control sphere equiptment.
<br><br>Being more of a "Space:1999" fan than a "UFO" devotee,
I couldn't tell you if that is an explanation from
the series itself or one made up by Chris Drake for
the book. It certainly does not explain why the male
occupants of SHADO Moonbase, don't wear purple wigs though.

Prior to UFO, Gerry Anderson's first fully
fledged venture into the realm of live-action production
was a spectacular and imaginative SF movie called
"Doppelganger" (AKA "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun"). The
film starred none other than Roy (David Vincent)
Thinnes himself, and also many of the actors who would
make up the principal cast of "UFO" (including Ed
Bishop).

My favourite episode of The Invaders was called
'Valley of the Shadow'. In it, an alien is killed before
the inhabitants of a small American town, and does
the disintegrating-in-a puff-of-red-smoke thing
before their eyes. You'd think that this would be a
dream come true for David Vincent - instead it's a
nightmare. The aliens can put up with one David Vincent
knowing the truth but a whole town is a different matter.
Soon all forms of communication with the outside world
are cut off as the aliens prepare to kill evereyone.
This isn't a satisfactory way of dealing with the
situation for the Invaders either, people are going to
question the death of an entire town. For once, Vincent
must work with the aliens to save the townsfolk.

"Spiderman. Spiderman.<br> Does whatever a spider
can.<br> Spins a web, any size.<br> Catches thieves- just
like flies.<br> Look out! Here comes the
Spiderman!<br> Is he strong? Listen, bud.<br> He's got
radioactive blood.<br> Can he swing, from a thread?<br> Take
a look overhead.<br> Hey, there! There goes the
Spiderman!<br> In the chill of night, at the scene of a
crime.<br> Like a streak of light, he arrives just in
time!<br> Spiderman. Spiderman.<br> Friendly Neighborhood
Spiderman.<br> Wealth and fame? He's ignored. <br> Action is his
reward.<br> To him, life is a great big bang-up. <br>
Wherever there's a hang-up,<br> you'll find the
Spiderman!"

I thought the justification of not killing David
was that the show would be over. To answer an earlier
question, no, we never saw what the invaders looked like
but they were completely nonhuman and so hidiously
ugly that the only person who saw one went insane and
died. One of the disapointments with that ninties
remake was that they showed the aliens and made them
look no differant than the humanoid ones we see on
Star Trek. The 60's version was more scientificly
accurate. Aliens would have to be completly nonhuman. Do
you have a favorite episode?

Alright, help me out here guys.  I recall the line: "Is he strong? Listen bud,
he's got radioactive blood" (brilliant!), but I'm afriad that the rest escapes
me.  c'mon, someone MUST know them all!

What I always wanted to know was why those girls
on the moonbase had to wear purple wigs? Paul Foster
never did when he was on the moon (which is a pity
because I think he would rather have suited one)!

I almost lost an eye to a toy Interceptor's
missile when I was a kid! Those things were lethal, LOL!
All of Gerry Anderson's shows have produced great
toys. In Britain, I think that Dinky Toys had the
monopoly on producing them. I think that during my
childhood I must have had everything from toy Stingrays to
Thunderbirds to UFO toys and even a toy Eagle from Space:1999
(although I was probably a bit old for toys by the age that
came out). Even now you can still buy Thunderbirds
toys in the shops.<br><br>Thanks to 'Retro_TV_Bert'
for the great UFO album he's uploaded in the Photo's
section (I loved the Lt. Ellis cartoon!). I've added a
few pics of my own, hope that's ok.

I became a fan of UFO a few years back when
Sci-Fi ran it on Sunday afternoons. It did not take long
to appreciate the drama and character interaction.
<br><br>The effects were what the technology at the time
would allow. Out of the hardware, I find Skydiver most
interesting being an old naval type.

I adored UFO. In a way Commander Straker (Ed
Bishop) was an even more tragic figure than David Vincent
in The Invaders. Despite the fact that Straker had
all sorts of fantastic devices at his command in
defense of the world, his personal life was utterly
destroyed. His single minded devotion to fighting the aliens
costs him his marriage and (most tragic of all) the
life of his son.<br><br>Because UFO was Gerry
Anderson's first live action drama after years of producing
puppet shows, the critics took every opportunity to call
the acting on the show "wooden". That was a cheap
shot and not at all true. What many of the shows
detractors missed was that there was a very real 'human'
drama going on behind S.H.A.D.O.'s battle with the
aliens.

I think that the justification for the Invaders
not killing Vincent was that if he died, people might
start to wonder if there was some truth in what this
"crank" had been saying. <br><br>Actually people did
start to believe David Vincent. Part way through the
second season an alliance called 'The Believers' was
formed by people who, like Vincent, had realised the
truth and were commited to fighting the aliens.
Personally, I didn't like this move - I much preffered the
scenario of David Vincent as a lone David battling a
multitude of Goliaths.

The disc used caused a cerebral hemmorage. It's
funny the invaders never try to kill David but never
hesitate to kill any one else who gets in their way. In
the early episodes you could spot an invader by the
stiff pinky finger,the fact that they had no pulse or
heartbeat, and that they had no blood. There was one episode
where an invader was married to a human female and
fooled her with a pacemaker which faked a heartbeat! I
wonder how he faked the rest of hs anatomy? Another
episode David slashed the face of an invader to expose
that he had no blood. The entire series was put out on
tape in a box set here in the USA. I don't know if
it's still avalable. I have several episodes on tape.
It's one of my favorites!

Greetings all! i just got word there was a new
sci-fi/fantasy club. so here i am. as far as 5o's shows, i'm not
familiar with those, however i watch real Star Trek with
Kirk, Spock, and Bones Mccoy in it. i have seen the 6
million dollar man, Bionic Woman, Lost in space, and
original Batman! Adam West is the real Batman, as
Christopher Reeves is the real superman to me or you.

'The Invaders' was good but my favourite alien
invaders appeared in Gerry Anderson's 'UFO'.<br><br>The
show first aired (in Britain) in 1970 but it was set
10 years into the then future of 1980. The Earth is
threatened by an alien race who kidnap and kill humans and
use them for body parts. A highly secret military
organization is set up in the hope of defending the Earth from
this alien threat. This organization is named SHADO
(Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organization) and
operates from a secret location beneath a film studio.
They also operate a fleet of submarines and have a
base on the moon as well as an early warning satellite
(SID - Space Intruder Detactor) that detects inbound
UFOs. UFOs can be destroyed in space by Interceptors
which are launched from Moonbase. If one gets through
it can be attacked in the Earth's atmosphere by a
high altitude aircraft launched from one of SHADO's
'Skydiver' submarines. If a UFO also avoids this and manages
to land it can be tracked and destroyed by a number
of SHADO-Mobiles (armoured vehicles) which are
deployed throughout the world. <br><br>Secret bases;
spaceships; submarines and hostile aliens... what more could
a boy ask for? Well... the ladies in charge of
Moonbase wore very sexy silver catsuits. Yup, UFO had
everything!

I remember that you could sometimes identify an
Invader by a crooked small finger - caused by some
imperfection in the process that made them look human (I don't
recall if we ever saw what an Invader really looked
like?). Didn't they have discs which they carried in
their palm and if they slapped it on the side of your
neck you'd have a heart attack and die ('natural
causes')?

I felt so sorry for David Vincent. In every
episode he would be close to achieving something, and in
every episode the Invaders would stop him. Think of how
frustrated he must have been. Nobody would listen to him -
or if they did, they died by the end of the episode.
But he kept plowing ahead; in a way I found that
really heroic.

BBC2 repeated this show when I was a kid and I
used to sit and watch it with my dad (who watched it
the first time around in the 1960's). I remember
being really scared by the opening of one particular
episode (bare with me - this is a hazy memory from my
youth so it might be less than accurate, LOL!)... a guy
is making a phone call in a cubicle inside a
restaurant, when he finishes he pushes at the door but it
won't open. The guy cries out for help but all of the
other patrons just sit and ignore his screams. When the
guy is finally on the brink of a major panic attack
(perhaps he was agrophobic?), the other diners get up and
slowly begin to crowd around the cubicle where he is
huddled on the floor in a crumpled heap. I can't remember
if they were actually Invaders or they just seemed
to be acting strangely from the mans perspective.
That was the beauty of The Invaders as I recall, you
never knew who might be one of "them".<br>Great stuff,
I wouldn't mind seeing it again now as an adult.

It's amazing that David Vincent didn't spend more
time at the dentist; it seemed as though he spent the
entire series gritting his teeth. The more frustrating
the situation, the harder you'd see him clench his
jaw.<br><br>Did you see the 1990's remake? I thought that it was
really disappointing that Vincent hadn't made any
headway during the intervening years. Poor guy.

Is anyone else out there a fan of 'The Invaders'?
I used to love this 1960's TV show which starred
Roy Thinnes as "architect, David Vincent" (not that I
recall him doing much architecture on the show, lol).
The opening narration explained the series' premise
to viewers each week thus:<br>"The Invaders, alien
beings from a dying planet, their destination: the
Earth, their purpose to make it their world. David
Vincent has seen them. For him, it began one lost night
on a lonely country road looking for a short cut
that he never found. It began with a close deserted
dinner and a man too long without sleep to continue his
journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another
galaxy. Now David Vincent knows that the Invaders are
here, that they've taken human form, somehow he must
convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has
already begun"<br><br>The Invaders was quite chilling in
an 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' kind of a way.
Poor David Vincent never knew who he could trust - it
was a really paranoid trip. This was a great show
which deserves far more recognition than it gets
(although, I do believe that it is very popular in France -
go figure).

For those of us SF fans of a certain age - who
can still recall television sets that took time to
warm up and then only showed a monochrome picture –
there are many TV shows that we loved when we were kids
and just never grew out of. Sometimes the science in
the fiction was a bit dodgy. Often the special
effects were less than special. We didn’t (and still
don’t) care if the acting was a bit wooden or the plots
a bit thin – we loved them anyway, and that’s all
there is to it.<br><br>In recent years I have found
myself having an increasingly hard time explaining the
appeal of shows I grew up with and love to a new
generation of fans brought up on CGI FX and zillion dollar
production values. Many times I have found myself having to
justify my love for an old favourite to a cynical young
audience. That’s not right – we should never have to
apologise for a show we love just because “it’s black &
white” or “you can see the strings”. At this club you
must never ever feel that you have to apologise for
liking any television show that means something special
to you as an individual. Let’s try and recreate some
of the magic that we felt watching those shows and
get away from the cynicism that is currently
overrunning SF fandom.<br>I’ll conclude this little rant with
one of my all time favourite introductions for a TV
show. I think that it’s appropriate:<br>“THERE IS
NOTHING WRONG WITH YOUR TELEVISION SET. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
ADJUST THE PICTURE. WE WILL CONTROL THE HORIZONTAL; WE
WILL CONTROL THE VERTICAL. FOR THE NEXT HOUR, SIT
QUIETLY AND WE WILL CONTROL ALL YOU SEE AND HEAR. YOU ARE
ABOUT TO EXPERIENCE THE AWE AND MYSTERY THAT LEADS FROM
THE INNER MIND TO… THE OUTER LIMITS.” <br><br>Welcome
aboard, friends. Enjoy!

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