The wonder of the 'On Demand' doobrie on Virgin Media is that you can catch up with late '60's/'70's stuff that's shown on ITV4, one of those being the Gerry Anderson show, UFO, and it's worn badly in a strangely entertaining way. Once you get over the jarring fact that some of the leading actors are now dead, it's an unintentionally funny representation of what the 1980's will be when militaristic set-ups are created to combat aliens who want to conquer Earth, one such outfit lying under a film studio which is used as a front to disguise its operations.
Oh, the gaudy, silver-suited future, with '21st Century fashions by Sylvia Anderson'! Purple-haired women in catsuits operating a base on the moon, and a chief officer with a blonde hairstyle that shouts 'WIG!' (along with many strange mens' hairstyles - George Sewell's resembles a rat that decided to have a makeover before expiring on the afore-mentioned bloke's head) and a style of command suggesting a flustered man beset with a particularly harsh stomach problem.
The stories are pure comic strip, yet are done with an earnestness that endears, it's earnestness also bringing laughs which weren't entirely planned.
A fond, yet slightly crap revisitation.
Oh, the gaudy, silver-suited future, with '21st Century fashions by Sylvia Anderson'! Purple-haired women in catsuits operating a base on the moon, and a chief officer with a blonde hairstyle that shouts 'WIG!' (along with many strange mens' hairstyles - George Sewell's resembles a rat that decided to have a makeover before expiring on the afore-mentioned bloke's head) and a style of command suggesting a flustered man beset with a particularly harsh stomach problem.
The stories are pure comic strip, yet are done with an earnestness that endears, it's earnestness also bringing laughs which weren't entirely planned.
A fond, yet slightly crap revisitation.
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