{"id":3021,"date":"2011-11-27T14:26:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T18:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2011-11-27T14:26:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T18:26:34","slug":"sunday-scifi-ufo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/movies\/sunday-scifi-ufo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday SciFi: UFO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0000AZKJ8\/eclipsswebwarren\">UFO<\/a>\u00a0was live action SciFi show from the puppet master himself, Gerry Andersen, that ran for a single season of 23 episodes\u00a0back in 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Great actors, dark thoughtful scripts that always didn&#8217;t have a happy ending, sharp\u00a0miniature\u00a0work, and a late 60s sense of style and fashion made this show really stand out. \u00a0Oh and the purple haired moon chicks in silver miniskirts. \u00a0The cast included\u00a0Michael Billington, who, according <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Billington_(actor)\">his wikipedia entry<\/a>, was screen tested for the role of James Bond more than any other actor.<\/p>\n<p>The show also other cool eye candy, including the gull wing door cars, nuclear submarines with a jet fighter mounted on their bow, space interceptors and S.I.D. (Space Intruder Detector). \u00a0What really made the show was the dark, thought provoking scripts, complex characters and some fine acting by Billington, Ed Biship and\u00a0Gabrielle Drake.<\/p>\n<p>There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/ufo-themovie.com\/shado\/\">UFO movie, based on the series<\/a> in the works. \u00a0Currently scheduled for a Summer 2013 release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFO\u00a0was live action SciFi show from the puppet master himself, Gerry Andersen, that ran for a single season of 23 episodes\u00a0back in 1970. Great actors, dark thoughtful scripts that always didn&#8217;t have a happy ending, sharp\u00a0miniature\u00a0work, and a late 60s sense of style and fashion made this show really stand out. \u00a0Oh and the purple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,24,27],"tags":[696,697,739,786],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-science-fiction","category-sunday-scifi","tag-science-fiction","tag-scifi","tag-sunday-scifi","tag-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-MJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}