Lieutenant Gay Ellis (Gabrielle Drake) was the Moonbase Commander during the first half of the UFO television series. She was briefly reassigned to SHADO HQ…
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SHADO HQ was secreted in a subterranean base underneath the Harlington-Straker film studios in London. As on moonbase, the personnel were predominantly female and -…
Colonel Virginia Lake (Wanda Ventham) first appeared in the opening episode of the UFO series (‘Identified’) as the chief designer and head of the design…
Lieutenant Ayshea Johnson (Ayshea Brough) was an operative at SHADO headquarters, located underneath the Harlington Straker studios in London. She later became SHADO’s Communications Officer…
Miss Ealand (Norma Ronald) was a SHADO operative who masqueraded as Ed Straker’s secretary at the Harlington-Straker studios. She was the first line of defence…
While the female operatives based at SHADO HQ down on Earth seemed to do very little else but wander around in skin-tight clothing, the women…
The Second World War was over. In Britain, the National Health Service was newly created (1948) and the coal industry and the railways were nationalised.…
Sadly, while the string vests which were the standard uniform for all Skydiver operatives showed off the men’s nipples, female crew members did have a…
01. It is always possible to find a parking spot directly outside or opposite the building you are visiting. 02. When paying for a taxi,…
Australian Anthony O’Grady was a dedicated music fan and had written occasional record reviews for Go-Set and its early rival Soundblast. Ironically, the first encounter he…
What was the Seventies? A decade that had Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell’s psychotropic Performance, with its gender confusions and personality crises breaking down the walls…
If you thought Jefferson Airplane was a weird name, let some of these drop off your tongue. Talking Heads. Tuff Darts. Ramones. Planets. Heartbreakers. Shirts.…
What were the 80s? . . . Bueller? . . . Anyone? New Wave, Big hair, Pac-Man, the Sinclair ZX computer, Dallas, Dynasty, Thatcherism, the…
Dressed in a pair of white Levis you’re driving around London in an MGB with David Hemmings and one of the Redgrave girls, shaking your…
For children of the Sixties, life was so much simpler. A sunny optimism permeated everything, and possibilities seemed endless. This was the ‘permissive’ decade, and…
Dapto Leagues Club was formed on 12 July 1955 at a public meeting in Mr Jim Timbs’ Billiard Rooms in Bong Bong Road, which later…
Perusers of supermarket checkout displays will be familiar with the standard arrays of Kit Kats, Who Magazine’s 100 Most Infuriating People Who Are Already Famous and…
Idealised post-war Britain that no longer exists – warm beer and village greens, knotted handkerchiefs and women getting changed on the beach behind a wind-break.…
The intermission lights were dimming and scattered chatter was turning into a cacophony of high-pitched squeals and titters. OL’55 and TMG had carried off the…
Brian Clemens, the thriller writer who gave The Avengers its glossy coat, drives his blue Ferrari to a suite of offices in Pinewood Studios, gets behind…