Not sure how many of you even remember this show, but I loved it when I was a kid. https://medium.com/war-is-boring/ade3afd0c1c2
Michael
Oh yeah! Thank you for that. I LOVED it too. Fingers crossed for a Guy Ritchie or Quentin Tarantino remake.
I watched the whole series again about 2 years ago - fond memories!
Trivia point: The producers speeded up Commander Straker's voice during editing. I think in real life, he actually had a New York accent.
Michael
Somewhere in my parent's basement, there is a box that contains my Shado Mobile 2 missile tank made by Dinky toys.
I wasn't even aware of this show having existed until a few years back, when a couple of friends and I watched the entire series.
How the Hell does one get a hard liquor dispenser at work? I'd like a piece of that business.
It was the Swinging '60s...I mean the '80s. We knew it was 1980 because the intro told us so.
Gabrielle Drake - yummy!
Never heard of this. Not surprising as a) it's English and I'm not and b) it was on (mostly) before I was born. Just checked in to it on iMDB and found this bit of trivia you folks in the know might want to, well, know: Gerry Anderson (the creator of the series) intended the second season of the series to focus on alien attempts to destroy the Moon. When "UFO" was cancelled, Anderson developed this idea into Space: 1999 (1975).
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