peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP (Peter Rowley) (08/25/83)
For more G&S Anderson series info., have a look at pg. 8 of the Aug 20 '83 issue of New Musical Express, a British weekly music newspaper. Excerpts: "Like the Beatles, Anderson's best-remembered period was the mid-60's (Peter Cook and Dudley Moore did their ``Superthunderstingcars'' parody then; that two of our swinging satirists could be bothered to get the details right indicates that Gerry and his wife Sylvia were very big time indeed)" "If Hollywood had Technicolor, then Gerry and Sylvia had Super-Marionation-- some of the best explosions in world history happened on Thunderbirds." "[Thunderbirds] is still entirely watchable, still actually exciting. When they go down the shute to Thunderbird 2..., when the pool slides back to let Thunderbird 1 take off... fab" "[Captain Scarlet] had the most attractive (read dangerous and mysterious) villain-- the unshaven Captain Black, a cross between Hugh Cornwell and Darth Vader, something like Jim Morrison, only realistic." "Sometimes UFO was too frightening to watch; Anderson played his cards beautifully, because you simply never knew what was going to happen next. The bit in the first series where they remove an alien's contact lenses pre-dates The Man Who Fell To Earth by about five years and the idea of spaceships raiding Earth for organ transplants... yeucch." I wish I'd seen these shows, especially UFO, as much as the author has... There's a lot more, including a vaguely political analysis of the work and some discussion of the others series such as Joe 90. Recommended.