The Women of UFO | Documentary Featuring Gabrielle Drake, Wanda Ventham and Sylvia Anderson
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- The women behind many of UFO's beloved characters discuss their time on the show - from the purple wigs and string vests to on set anecdotes of pranks and laughter.
Featuring Gabrielle Drake, Sylvia Anderson, Wanda Ventham and many more of the female cast.
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Grew up with this show in the early 70’s and absolutely loved it, wish they’d made more of it. It had really strong female characters that weren’t overplayed as “strong female characters”. Great stuff.
What the hell does _overplayed as “strong female characters"_ mean? Is this an incel thing?
@@davidhoward4715 mmmm I had to look up what “incel” actually meant and if you read what I actually wrote you’d see I’m hardly a young man. What it means is that a strongly written character is just that….doesn’t need to be gender specific…..or written in a way to make some point that often is out of keeping with the story. Does that answer your question?
Wish they made more too.😔
Blame Lew Grade of every Jerry Anderson programme only having, at most, two series. I believe Space:1999 was in a large part based off the script for season two of UFO.
Actual strong characters in their own right rather than being given strength by a committee of writers making everyone else patheticly useless
Loved this show and still watch it today. The Champions, UFO and Thunderbirds were my favourites as a child. They just seem so much better than what children have today.
This is bloody-lovely. I was surprised by the sudden flood of nostalgia to wash over me while watching this. An excellent job guys.
Gabrielle Drake what a godess!!!!
@@johannesfeigl5309 My first ever crush! (I was six.) =:o}
Nostalgia wasn't the only thing to wash over me when I saw Gabrielle Drake.
@@johannesfeigl5309 Oh yeah she was gorgeous.
Always loved the theme tune for U.F.O, it`s really catchy!
UFO is responsible for giving me a lifelong love of women with brightly coloured hair. I'm not even joking.... Gabrielle Drake... need I say more?
The Moonbase girls are sexy and hot. ❤🌕
Back then blue hair didn't mean scary leftard.
@@paulpaintshop103 Awww didums! You scared of the widdle left? Bless your teeny heart
@@aliservan7188 Not scared of the widdle left - just worried that they have a vote, and are allowed to breed.
Amen to that..but this is an Era where women were women.... And you valued them for it.... Shame shows like this don't exist anymore.......
Great to celebrate the cast of this wonderful show 👍
What a great piece of nostalgia. I remember watching UFO as a young boy having received the Dinky Shado Mobile and Interceptor toys, thinking wow is this what 1980 would look like as the year flashed up in the titles. Still can’t believe it’s 2023 as these were the futuristic years. The ladies still look great. Wanda probably had most young boy’s attention on screen! Always wondered what Alec Freeman actually did as he always seemed to stroll round with just chatting with Ed Straker. Great show well ahead of its time.
He was there to remind us that ugly people hadn't been eliminated by some kind of eugenics program.
Alec got ditched because
the Yank's didn't like him
Wanda always seemed a bit "blousey" to me. But Gabrielle Drake.........oh, my word! As a ten year old I thought she was amazing; as a sixty three year old I still think so.
@@himoffthequakeroatbox4320 he was busy trying to kill Jack Carter😂
Have you never worked with anyone who seemed to have plenty of time on their hands? I know I have.
So many lovely ladies that we grew up with in this show. Could you imagine sitting down to dinner with them all, it would be a riot. Much love to them all and thank you for such golden memories. ❤️
I consider UFO to be the best thing the Anderson's made. Especially "A Question of Priorities" (with all due respect to the late Fd Bishop).
For it's time,realistic and included some seriously adult themes.
And it never felt the need to brow beat the viewers with the societal changes it portrayed.
This is a superb look back at the show. 😁👍👏❤
That was nothing less than bloody brilliant.
What fabulous women with equally fabulous stories to tell!
Lovely documentary that has prompted me to re-watch this utterly lush series. Beautiful colours, people, costumes and sets... not to mention great music and stories. I wish TV could still be like this today.
This was my show back in the day. Nothing came close!… Excellent throwback documentary. Ayesha is so funny, what a wonderful personality.
Thank you to all Producers, Cast and Crew that brought this gem (and others) into our collective living rooms so many decades ago.
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant!
I’m so lucky to have seen the whole series as a young boy growing up in the 60’s and 70’s.
Loved it!
An excellent production. All of the ladies look as lovely as ever and it is great that they have such vivid and fond memories of the show.
Thank you so much for a wonderful trip down memory lane.
Jane Merrow is a film director today in Idaho. She is still very recognizable as the younger Jane and has aged very well. You can find her latest endeavors on the internet. I also think Straker needed to have his head examined after the way the episode with Merrow ended. :)
I think this is the same Jane Merrow who wstared with Oliver Reed in 'The System' set in Roxham (Torquay) early 1960's another Brilliant Film.
This was my favorite show of all time. Thank all the beautiful women for their contribution to a fictional world of beautiful intellegent supportive women. Simply put, it worked. it was too good. It was going in a dirrection that the evil powers that be didn't want. I was crushed when it ended. Simply devastated. I was 7 years old. I don't believe I will ever get over that childhood trama when they cancelled my show. All the women were gorgeous. Who could ask for more? There will never be another UFO. Love to all the cast.
UFO was programme making that was WAY ahead of its time. Brilliant! 💎
And the women were wonderful... 😍 Goes without saying, really - but it has to be said! 🤗
Of course not forgetting the best THEME ever written! 🎶👍
M 🦘🏏😎
The Theme is also right up there for me. I have the complete series on my media server, haven't dipped in for a couple of years. I now need a complete re watch.
Hooray For The Women Of UFO! Happy International Women's Day!
Col Lake was my first crush. And yes... that purple blouse and scarf look Wanda!
She looked amazing!
@@susanscott8653I can only agree, she looked stunning.
Gabrielle Drake…what a babe.
Thank you not only Gerry but his equally amazing Sylvia Anderson, a wonderfully talented team.
This was absolutely fabulous. I remember wanting to watch all the episodes. Living in Canada, I am sure there was one or two I've missed. The ladies have aged fabulously, still pretty as ever.
I can imagine your fellow Canadian
James Cameron stole plenty of
ideas off Gerry Anderson's shows
That was great - thank you everyone!!!
OMG! Gerry & Sylvia Anderson's UFO of the 1970s >>> That's about 52 years ago come 2023! Brought back so many fond memories! Thank You So Much for this Tribute of the Women of UFO! 🌷🌿🌏💜🕊
I remember watching this in the states as a kid in the 70's. I still get excited when I hear that theme music. I wish someone would do a retro reboot. keeping all the music and costumes. it would be so fun!!
One of the best, it always will be.
Loved this show and the incredible women in the cast were a big part of that.
Wonderful. All the ladies are so fun and well spoken. The show always puts a smile on my face.
One of the best creations by the Andersons! And thank god for their vision for the female characters and roles. They were sensational, remarkably dynamic, and unforgettable. Love the fact, like Roddenberry's universe, everyone were equals.
I grew with Gerry Anderson and his wonderful creations. How marvellous to hear the UFO ladies now and how it helped them. 👍
Nice concept of a documentary, some classic episode sequences. informative 30mins+ Well done.
Excellent production lads, lovely to see them all again.
Great job! Lovely to hear from some of the cast who don't normally get to share their recollections and insights on the show
I just love UFO! we had cable TV back in the 70's and this show came through the Los Angeles channel. I was glued to the TV every Saturday Night when UFO was on. It was Amazing Sci-Fi for its time and the Women are all just Gorgeous and amazing actors! The UFO women are true leaders, each of them were main cast characters and not just supporting cast sitting on standby next to the men.
We have to thank Sylvia Anderson (and Gerry) for their vision of the future and how these incredible ladies were portrayed with intelligence and strength while not minimizing their femininity- they were sexy and smart. I was too young to fully appreciate the adult relationship themes, but I do remember wow, these are all beautiful and smart ladies and they are in charge of the men lol. Yes, this show was ahead of it's time on so many levels. And have to mention the visual effects, the vehicles and the moon base. The production value was amazing! A great Documentary, thank you for sharing with us
I absolutely loved this show when it came out, and now I have found it again on Legend, It looks even better now as it was shot on film and now with HDTV it pops. The special effects still look fantastic in HDTV I was expecting to see big flaws but apart from reused interceptor scenes for cost saving the effects are still top notch.
Thank you for this mature show.
Just showa how Sylvia and Gerry had their finger on the pulse.
Marvelous! I was barely and teenager during the run of the show...they were all goddesses to me me!
A fantastic series and, because of my age at the time, my favourite TV actresses. What a great video - thank you for putting this up on YT.
Just 3 years later in 72, I had the pleasure of starting to work with the Woman of the RAF..they were in uniform ,minus the wigs but every bit as professional as the UFO crew which captures the military sprit so well. In fact recently it was re broadcast twice on the Forces TV channel.
This is fantastic, Ayshea sounds like a right laugh. Loved the purple wigs for moonbase, think I've found my next hair colour 💜, brilliant video.
She was a bombshell back in the 70s.
I had such a crush on Ayeshea Brough back in the early 70s.
Me too!!!
My crush was definitely Gabrielle Drake. Ayesha Brough was a close second though.
@@Nooziterp1 Oh hell, I had a thing for all the Moonbase women!
Oh wow, so did I, right back from when she did Lift Off in the 70's, come to think of it I still do..! I'm a 69yr-old female by the way, not sure what that says about me, but who cares, she was gorgeous 😍 By the way, her name is spelt Ayshea.
I remember this show. The part that stood out to me as a little boy was Stryker"s car with the gul wing doors and the purple wigs
This was such. JOY watching this and seeing the ladies from back then in this video - thanks for having this up on TH-cam! ❤💯
The ladies had me rolling w\their commentary - the "Jockstrap", and especially about the filming of the opening sequence "I don't think you can see my face?..." 😂🤣
(With the camera truck all close behind her w\a bunch od dudes, umm, camera men following close behind her - PRICELESS!! 😋💥💯)
If I've only ever done ONE thing right it my life, it was WATCHING this show and listening to one of the BEST THEME SONGS ever for a SciFi \ TV show!
If I could go back in time, one stop would be to see who and how they produced the theme music for this show!! 👍♥️
Heck, I'd be excited to watch a video about the UFO music production all by itself!
Again, absolutely marvelous video! ⭐💯
I had never heard of this show until a few years ago, finding some segments here on YT. It has an unmistakable charm and is very entertaining.
I remember UFO fondly,still dip into it now,it was years ahead of its time,a marvellous series.
What a lovely nostalgia trip this is, and it's great that the female roles were seen as radical even at the time. I didn't watch it when it was on originally (I was born in 1966), but the repeats hooked me. I'd love to watch it from start to finish. Wasn't the theme tune brilliant, too?
Welcome to the channel Steve! Sounds like you’re in the right place
Delores Mantez was brilliant in 'Subsmash', my fave episode! ❤
Awesome series!
Everything from the costumes, the actors and actresses (especially them!) and the great theme music!
The women *still* look great!
Loved this show back in the day and still do. BTW Wanda Ventham (Colonel Virginia Lake) is the mother of Benedict Cumberbatch. She and her husband (Timothy Carlton) played the mother and father of Sherlock Holmes, which was of course played by their real life son.
Fantastic! Such lovely women, then and now.
Great documentary! I enjoyed it. Brought back many souvenirs of the show.
I was a kid and loved this show.
I even had my own string T shirts. 😂
Excellent!. Boy, that takes me back!. A very popular and ahead of its time show that oozed excitement. Thanks for the memories.
amazing how this takes me back, together with all my enjoyment and love for this series
Having been an admirer of Nick Drake’s music, to see his sister on TV always had me glued to the screen even when she joined the awful Croddroads Soap. And having been a lover of all things Gerry and Syliaa Anderson since their first popular series.
Awesome Thankyou
ASHEA BROUGH IS RAW AND REAL I LOVE HER ❤❤❤
THANKS GIRLS YOU WERE AHEAD OF YOUR TIME AND YOU GREAT TO WATCH BLESS YA ALL
I've only recently been given the entire series on DVD.. Wonderful...
I remember watching UFO as a mesmerised young boy, blown away because this was the future! On some level the attractiveness of the ladies was apparent but I didn't know why lol. I also didn't realise that many of the themes were aimed at an adult audience and they parted my hair as they zoomed over my head. Then there was the hardware of which I won't go on at length, this is not that video but it was a major attraction. Gabrielle Drake is still a goddess in my heart, even more so after I discovered she had starred opposite the late, great novelist J.G. Ballard in a video-documentary he made based on his novel ''Crash''. It is on TH-cam. Thank you for this, some great memories and some humanising of my personal icons.
"They parted my hair as they zoomed over my head." If you don't mind, I'd like to use that line myself sometime in the future.
Just one brilliant line in a wholly wonderful comment.
@@teeteringonthebrink.305 Be my guest and thank you for the compliment. If you use it in a movie then I expect a credit and to receive the usual residuals. 🙂
@@CMDR_Verm That's a deal - can't say fairer than that. Wish me luck. 🤞
@@teeteringonthebrink.305 Obviously the best of luck 🙂
I wonder if it's just a bloke thing but 'Checking Boosters' will stay with me the rest of my days! I love this series, very much of it's time but I think that's one of it's many charms. Quite hard hitting stories, stealing human body parts for transplanting into aliens? Very dark and definitely not for kids, I was always surprised that they ran it in the afternoon through the seventies when I was 8, 9, 10 plus, pretty sure my parents weren't watching it with me. Gerry and Sylvia Anderson formed a very big part of my formative years, I am still very much immersed in all things sci-fi. Thanks for a great look at the superb female actors, very interesting to have their personal take on what it was like to film the series.
I was a little kid when this was on and I was at once both excited and often terrified by it. I've rewatched it since and it doesn't quite elicit that response in me but I still absolutely loved it. That and 'Space 1999'. Add into this Star Trek and Dr Who and I was a pre-adolescent, sci-fi fiend. I loved the characters and the imaginings of how people may dress and interact in the future. What a great channel. Subbed.
UFO series brings back memories of youth. It was my favourite show
Tinha 12 anos quando assistia na tv aqui no Brasil essa série. Saudade.
UFO brings back fond memories. I saw this the first time as a very impressionable 8 year old kid, and have been into sci-fi ever since! Of course, these days I see it in a whole different light…at the time all the implied sexuality in the show went over my little head🤣🤣.
Brilliant fun, thank you!
Great show takes me back to childhood intelligent smart stong beautiful women
Hot diggity!!! Now this is what I'm talking about! A great cast and not a dud in the bunch. All of them strong in their own ways. Personally I thought Lt. Barry, (Dolores Mantez), was the toughest of them all. I really enjoyed this. Thank you very much for posting.
It was such a leap forward,and a great time for actresses,who could really act like real women for once. The episode with Jane Merrow stays in my mind,and no wonder! I always wonder how she got home after leaving Straker,because her car was miles away in a ditch. I felt sorry for the man because I think she would he been good for him. She was attracted to him,and I reckon a relationship would have developed. God knows,he was lonely enough due to the job. Those girls are unforgettable. I have the complete series and have just watched it all recently. The last episode was The Long Sleep,ending with Ed and Virginia walking off into the distance. England was still very much old fashioned,and this adventure into the future strained the attitudes of the day. But it worked,that is for sure.
Called an uber innit.
Good to hear the thoughts of these loved Ladies.
Always loved the sound of space at the end
Growing up with UFO and Space:1999 was such a lucky break for my generation and began many of us on a journey into scientific and educational fields... including my own love and career with computers from Tandy in high school to the PC in my first career position in 1986. So lucky! 🙂
To all involved in this program series . Thank you. I have bought the DVD's and re watched it. And relived my child hood. Still want to work with the girls on moon base..
Que oportunidad maravillosa el poder verlas actualmente contando sus experiencias de época. Aun más ver las escenas en calidad óptima. En mi caso, hasta la década de 1990, nada más tenía la posibilidad de verlas en TV blanco y negro
Gerry and Sylvia were just the best at what they did and everyone looked fantastic. Only the cost prevented more episodes being made.derrick meddings was a genius of special effects.
What a lively, engaging and entertaining group of actresses they all were / and still are 👍… go sisters 😀
What a cracking video thankyou so much for uploading
Ayshea! It's been so long!
What a wonderfull TV show, toghether with Space 1999 they were fascinating Si-Fi shows which kept me glued to the screen, simply brilliant!!!
Loved UFO and Space 1999. The style and music pulls you in.
I loved Gerry Anderson's work but I've never heard of this show till now.
😱😱😱 Sounds like you need to check out our Primers series! You might uncover more hidden gems
Oh, my sweet summer child...
DVD box set for Christmas. Start asking now.
I'm rewatching this series now and found this documentary! Great job on this! Very cool to see all the women of UFO talking about the series. It's too bad the series didn't last very long, I watched it early on in the 70's and have loved it ever since. The sound of the UFO was my favorite sound effect. It would be interesting to see it remade now as a series, as long as they don't screw it up! Gabrielle Drake is hot!
they'll screw it up
Interesting to see similarities between some the costumes in UFO and those worn by Alphans on Space 1999. The music at 26:28 also reminded me of ‘99.
Space 1999 grew from the cancelled second series of UFO.
A lovely documentary celebrating UFO's women. 💖
🤔Have you done something similar for the guys? (I know some of them are no longer with us, but I am sure interviews could be found in the archives).🤔
Gabrielle Drake!She was my one!!
The UFO noise still frightens me, more than 40 years later! Great series, great girls.
The show was light years ahead of Star Trek. And watching it now the format it was shot on was superior too. The colors in UFO were outstanding.
Amazing stuff! I love how Jane bottoms the clutch whilst slamming on the brakes as she takes the Porsche into the weeds after 19:04 . Have to keep the mill running so she can back back out if the landing is ok.....top-shelf, that!
My three favorites were Wanda ( purple outfit ), Jane ( in the red dress ), and Georgina back then. 15-16 YO at the time. Now days it would likely be Wanda, Gabrielle, and Jane.
UFO was a great series. So was Space: 1999. Great practical effects.
Gabrielle Drake was among the top ten most beautiful and sexy women I had ever seen as a young teenager, just so far beyond mere sexy she was a living pinup doll! Even today she's still near the top of my list!
LOVED this show back in the day. Went out and got the haircut thereby aquiring the nickname ☺
This was wonderful! By strange coincidence this showed up for me. I had watched The Fog, the Ray Bradbury story done by the BBC. I immediately recognized Ed Bishop's voice. But he was not credited on the video anywhere, not even on IMDB. But it's him. So, somehow maybe the ALGO knew.
UFO was one of my favorite TV shows growing up that I never got to see enough of. In the States, we had it on probably Sunday nights like they scheduled Space:1999. Not a great time for young boys to enjoy sci-fi (and gorgeous girls!) when you had to go to bed early and wake up for school the next day.
Magnificent! Thank you for putting this together. I too grew up with UFO in the early 70s and wish more had been made. Such an eye for technology and the future of "what if". Bravo!!
great to see these gorgous women again real classy and also good sense of humor
Brilliant. This took me back big time. Thank you all, Beautiful ladies.🙏
Nice that Gabrielles brother the late musician Nick Drake is becoming more and more known bless him.