In November 2012 Norbert Steinert emailed me, giving his permission to post both this picture and the previous one, UFO: After Work. I heard no more from him and it was only today, while searching for his ‘pseudonym’ on Facebook that I discovered he had died in May 2013. I wish I had known earlier that he was ill. These are lovely pieces of work and a small tribute to his…
‘Room 28. Level 5.’ ‘Yes? Is there a problem?’ ‘It’s locked.’ ‘Is it?’ Straker didn’t look up. ‘Any particular reason? I mean.. does anyone ever go down there? The lower levels? It’s all distribution rooms and redundancy back-up systems.’ ‘So?’ ‘So why lock one room?’ ‘I don’t know. Maybe the janitor stores his collection of porn magazines there.’ Straker laid a hand on the map he was studying. ‘Looks as…
Dear Dr. Jackson As a new Lt. who is very shy when first meeting new people, can you give me any advice re the following: I am due to see Commander Straker tomorrow and it will be my first day on the job at SHADO H.Q. fresh out of recruit training. When I am nervous I tend to freeze in stressful situations and meeting the commander I fear will be…
A serious look at ‘The Responsibility Seat’ In the Carlton boxed set of UFO dvds, The Responsibility Seat is listed as the tenth episode, and indeed it was the tenth episode to be filmed, with production starting on August 21st 1969. However, the ‘film order’ of UFO was never clearly established and the Century 21 UFO synopsis for ITC has The Responsibility Seat in seventeenth place in the list –…
The long-awaited UFO film – initially lauded as the first in a trilogy of ‘tent-pole’ movies, looks to be dead and buried. The domain name expired on July 30th as so far has not been renewed. Not an auspicious sign. I may be wrong – I hope I am – but after so many years waiting for something, anything, to happen it looks as if UFO fans, yet again, are…
Are you a serious fan of U.F.O. and everything related to the series? – then go ahead! Test your knowledge about “The Responsibility Seat” with these questions set by Toria.. …………………… Question 1 . What does Commander Straker want to talk about, in this scene with Freeman? a. Paul Foster’s new girl friend. b. The leave roster for Moonbase. c. Alec’s drinking problem. ………. . Question 2 . What does Alec do after Ford…
Scarlet. I hadn’t intended it to end that way. It hurt. As always. That’s always the worst part, knowing that, whatever happens, it’s going to hurt. This was no different. Searing pain. And I couldn’t stop myself from screaming. Falling hundreds of feet isn’t much fun, especially when you aren’t wearing a parachute and you know how it’s going to end. The horror shrieks in my mind, the implacable truth…
