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The Complete Book Of Gerry Anderson's
UFO by Chris Bentley check out website: www.rhbooks.com
With this book on the Gerry and Sylvia Anderson 1970 ITV SF series 'UFO', the two things I was most forward to seeing was actress Antonia Ellis (Space Tracker Joan Harrington) was a picture of her without her anti-static purple wig and that of the man behind the voice of SID - Space Intruder Detector, Mel Oxley.
This is really a nice gem of a book to get your hands on at a nice price. I hope the publishers will consider releasing a deluxe version one day with colour photos because outside of the Japanese Town Mook book on the subject, this is also one of the best selection of UFO photos I've seen. There is also a lot of insight into the pre and post-production info in getting this series made and in many respects it's a wonder the series looks as good as it does. What I do love and this always scores extra brownie points with me is having complete episode guides. Granted the odd minor detail has been left out in the two page format for each episode but that's something that can be lived with. What I did find amusing is the number of 'Ooops!' errors cited were non-existent on the some episodes. Whether that was a reflection of perfection or not is debatable. Truth to tell, even watching the series periodically, I still didn't spot that many errors but that's mainly cos I'm not always looking for them when I'm not in critic mode. If something's enjoyable, any imperfection is rarely dwelled upon in my opinion. Of the Anderson shows, this is has a firm fondness for being their first live-action series and with a unique style that has lost little over the years. The only regret being that it never made it to a second series and was relatively gold compared to the more space operatic 'Space: 1999'. If you've recently picked up on 'UFO's DVD release then this book will make a suitable companion piece to impress those you want to introduce to this series and give you a chance to spot the details. GF Willmetts
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Whenever
I look at non-fiction books where I'm very familiar with the subject
matter, it's inevitable that that the first things you look for
are things you haven't spotted in other books on the subject. I'm
sure you do the same thing. 
Both
pretty specialised on my wants list and both missing although the
biographical notes here will at least allow me to look up Ellis
in some films she acted in. Any niggles with this book are really
few and far between really and you'd need to get really anal retentive
to worry if Lt John Masters should really be Lt Jon Masters as indicated
in all previous books about this series. 
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