Hi All :)

Firstly, Happy New Year and Health, Wealth and Happiness to you all.
Sorry I haven't visited the list much over the last year, it's been
due to prolonged illness....

Anyway, if you check out the original script for "Computer Affair" or
"The Computer Affair" as it was originally named) available for
viewing on Marc's fantastic UFO website, the original script gives
more depth into the relationship between Gay Ellis (in the original
script Ellis' character was called Paula Harris) and Mark Bradley.
Also, more detail as to how the interceptor came about being destroyed
and the circumstances around it... DEFINITELY worth reading if this
area of Computer Affair has always puzzled you.

Also, if you read the UFO Novel "UFO 2" by John Burke (AKA Robert
Miall), he went into more background still. I know for a fact (I
discussed the novels with Tony Barwick at one of the conventions) that
both the novels were written by John Burke with direct access to the
scripts and Tony Barwick made suggestions and even edited some of the
text (mainly technical references and areas). Also, Gerry Anderson had
a say as well. Both the novels had to be 'signed off' by Gerry
Anderson's production company. So, it is safe to say that both the
novels can be regarded as 'canon' if that is the right word in this
context. In this instance, read between pages 8 and 11. Or if you
don't have the novels, comment, and I will quote ALL the relevant
text.

E.G. Quote: Freeman thinking to himself... "Lieutenant Ellis and
Astronaut Bradley: oh, decidedly not in the rule book."

Perhaps annoyingly, except for the references in Computer Affair,
nothing else is stated other than at the end of the program where we
see Ellis and Bradley at the 'SHADO local' restaurant having a meal,
obviously things progressed once they both realized the computers were
right and they did have feelings for eachother...

Best to all :)

Griff




> Perhaps a point that isn't in the script is that Freeman knows Lt.
> Ellis, and might think of her as being a bit aloof, and that "Good
> luck, Mark" seems oddly out of character for her; that, as well as
> her apparent "hesitation" when telling the interceptor pilots what
> co-ordinates they should use to escape from the oncoming UFO whic
> results in one of the interceptors being destroyed, could make him
> think that something's going on. Remember, she did give Mark
> Bradley preferential treatment, giving him co-ordinates first, even
> though it seemed that the doomed pilot had priority.
>