15 August 1981:SS Sheerness attacked and sunk by UFO
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- Gerry Anderson - UFO TV Series - UFO (1970)
0:00:00 - 15 August 1981 - SS Sheerness attacked and sunk by UFO
0:02:54 - 20 August 1981 - Straker attends to Harlington Studio business
0:06:45 - 21 August 1981 - Straker meets with film investor again
0:14:43 - 22 August 1981 - Straker sees SHADO operative inside Alien base
0:19:43 - 23 August 1981 - Lt Anderson interrogated at SHADO HQ
0:24:57 - 24 August 1981 - submarine Alien base destroyed
0:41:05 - 25 August 1981 - mass attack by UFOs
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I was 6 y/o when thus episode came out, I was 17 when the ship would have been sunk. I'm 59 now watching this on RUclips today.
So, I am in they're future watching my past that came out when it was still in store in my future.
This was one of my favorite shows as a kid
very easy to do sci fi that is 100 or a 1000 years ahead - much more difficult to do 10 years ahead - 🛸✨
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Well, UFO isn't 10 years ahead of 1970 (when the series started).... A future without computers? Sci fi series age so fast.
@@willemvandeursen3105 - good sir there are many large "main frame" computers depicted on the show - artificial intelligence is also implied in how the SHADO computers handle information - in 1980 in Canada when I was studying computer programming there were only main frame computers - the smaller ones did not start showing up until 1990 - 🛸✨
@@FandersonUfo
My bad.
I based it on this clip from UFO, the only one I ever saw...
Star Trek was my favorite (I knew it was timeless then... and it proved out) but I also really enjoyed U.F.O. While Space:1999 had the superior models and SFX, it was fraught with so many problems. U.F.O. had more "plausibility" for me. I also felt like the whole SHADO HQ premise could've been expanded. So much more to do. Acting talent was decent but with better direction could've been improved. I really wish there had been a couple more seasons.
The very best british TV serial of all times...great actors all of them
Ed Bishop and the beauty lovely gals
Totally agree. There`ll never be another.
The HELL you say?! Are you forgetting one simple word? That word: MONTY. PYTHON! Two words, don't forget them, MONTY PYTHON's FLYING CIRCUS! FOUR words, four words that describe the height of British TV excellence that makes you fall on the floor with your sides hurting from laughter at least once...IF you know anybody that can watch "Argument clinic" and not at least crack a smile, they must be space aliens or cyborgs - cause they sure ain't humans...
@@robertmaybeth3434 I would not classify Monty Python as a serial.
@@robertmaybeth3434 Well, some were hilarious and others barely raised a chuckle. Some were only funny because of the swearing .Take that swearing out and they aren't funny at all.
ruclips.net/video/nzzH3CVvbXI/видео.htmlsi=fa-YwKWqE7hUYgFF Women of UFO.
I never EVER gave this show enough credit; for it’s time, this was fine sci-fi 🛸
Yep pretty much as good as TV sci fi got in the 1970's... compared to cheesy Buck Rogers this was Oscar-winning material
Well executed, but the basic premise was so stupid that even as a ten year old I couldn’t take it seriously.
Yep, fire and smoke in explosions taking place in the vacuum of space and even under water. In the early 1970's I think man was intelligent enough know that pyrotechnics only behave like that in an oxygen rich environment. Love how people just ignore the basic science part of the sci-fi. However, I do give credit for the fishnet uniforms.
Crikey, I forgot how bad this was. Back in the day I laughed at this utter rubbish, and today I weep! To me it was as ridiculous as Thundebirds and Joe 90, but at least they were aimed at small children..
@@dragongaming4509 when I first saw this on TV it gave me nightmares about Alien invasion. It never even occurred to me that WE’RE Aliens also!
This series aired in America early...maybe around '71,
watched all of them as a kid. Now I have them all on blu-ray!
Me too
Loved this show as a kid. Though i don't remember this episode. Where Shadow got to use all its assets at once.
Even the moonbase interceptors got to fire more than 3 missiles.
1981?...show aired in 1970...1980 was deemed the distant future in this amazing tv show.
When I was about 7 years old, my older brother and couldn't wait for this show to come on. It was always Saturday night at midnight.
In New Zealand it was Friday nights 7:30 after Hogan's Heroes and before Mod Squad or Hawaii Fi e O.
@@bb21again.67 mid squad with Peggy liston. Hogan's heros was number 1 of all times
If you watched it that late, you must have been spooked by the end credits haunting outro
My favourite Anderson series. I do wish we'd got UFO:1999 as well though.
BTW: this video looks far far more vivid than my old DVD - like it was shot on video rather than film. Great for live action, less kind to the model shots.
And the Psychobombs were the reason for the moon getting blasted out of orbit!
44 minutes 33 seconds of UFO 🛸😍👌 wonderful work Fanderson
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I got scared !
Jerry Anderson's crew were brilliant in creating realistic explosions, many and aircraft, ship, car and of course UFO went up in smoke!
Excellent program never been equalled.
1981 was the year of the sad loss of my father, aged just 64. RIP my lovely father.
Derek Meddings scale models were so incredible
The evolution from Fireball XL5 and The Thunderbirds was truly fantastic. The mobiles especially. And while I thought the single-missile interceptor premise was seriously flawed (why not equip it with at least 3 missiles?), the design of so many crafts, especially Skydiver, was so fantastic. The proposed UFO remake had some terrific modernized designs of these crafts, but sadly, that movie never got off the ground.
I still think that Fireflash is the most beautiful plane ever built.
Check out the XB-70 Valkyrie, North American must have ripped off a Gerry Anderson design there :-)
Derek was brilliant
This looks like the frame rate has been digitally enhanced, so the live action scenes look like they were shot on videotape, unnaturally sharp and smooth.
That was so cool.
Loved this series back in the day.
Many fond memories !
Marvelous stuff, little tasters of the space 1999 awesomeness that was to follow shortly after 😊😎👍
That island, where the SS Sheerness sank, looked suspiciously like Tracy Island from Thunderbirds.
Beat me to it. Just about to post the same observation
My thoughts exactly
Compare the story of this episode with an average 'Stingray' episode.
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Shhh. Don't tell no one. It's a secret. Ok. SHHHH.
#24 "Reflections in the Water" written and directed by David Tomblin. First broadcast 24 July 1971.
Thank you Sylvia and Gerry for enriching my childhood.
Wrong date: should read 24 July 1970. UFO only lasted one season before being cancelled. 😢🛸🛸🇬🇧🇦🇺
David Tomblin, one of the masters behind the greatest ever TV show, the Prisoner. Be seeing you.
Definitely the best gerrymandering Anderson show. No monster of the week men in silly rubber suits. Good well produced si_fi
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea covered silly monsters and wet suits thoroughly - 🛸✨
No on has come close to the cool explosions in Gerry Anderson shows. It must have been a great time to work on the show
They used high speed film, plastic models and small charges of gunpowder wrapped in paper. I saw a documentary the other evening. On RUclips, of course!
Good special effects. But I have to wonder what Ray Harryhausen might have done if they had given him the project.
Also Freon rocket exhaust.. sadly very envoromentally unfriendly.
some miniature effects work is still being done today.
but on the whole GCI has taken over.
This old stuff was dangerous to do, and very toxic for the technicians.
Ed Bishop / Captain Blue was one cool cat
He was one of the Moon pilots on 2001: A Space Odyssey.
@@RSF-DiscoveryTime he was in one of the Bond films too diamonds are forever
What stands out to me about this series is the way the first episode prominently mentioned the possibility
of human organ harvesting but after the first episode the entire subject seemed to vanish! Almost as if
someone with power had suddenly silenced the subject, but for what reason would they do such a thing?
the exact nature of the Aliens in the series can seem rather mysterious - as you say it seemed pretty clear in Episode One but later on it was never defined clearly in the following episodes - 🛸✨
@@FandersonUfo I'm not a conspiracy theorist but considering all this I must confess there is a thought in my
mind this subject echoes: Were the writers of UFO hitting "too close to home" with mention of this subject?
Of course, one could argue the subject as being simply too gruesome, and that point would hold as well.
Nonetheless, as an American I took a lot of inspiration from UFO TV SERIES for what a good production can do.
@@RSF-DiscoveryTime - I don't think the writers censored themselves other than the normal parameters regarding public broadcast TV at that time - I think I understand a fair bit about how this show got cobbled together during production - very few TV shows are ever planned out in complete detail before cameras roll - Babylon 5 is a good example of a consistently told storyline over 5 seasons - but that is rare in the industry - only 26 UFO episodes which was an abbreviated full season in 1970 were completed - the Alien story might have got fleshed out and ordered consistently given more seasons but there is only season one available - 🛸✨
@@RSF-DiscoveryTimeit's one reasons why attempts to relaunch series have failed as covers some subjects too close to the truth..there have been stories by former vets who top ranking beret officers in the army during Vietnam War that often would encounter unknown craft would land and pick up bodies of dead soldiers.in the jungle.and these were not aliens as such staffed by what appeared to be Americans wearing a non identified uniform and been told to clear off and threats not to reveal what they have seen..😢
@@julianwalls1077 That's interesting. I've read about them, "big yellows", and Rock Apes.
MANY mysterious things have happened in that part of the world, including the strange, winged woman who flew around Khe Sahn(?) at night.
UFO very good show very good I would love to watch that again
Cuantas horas de entretenimiento con esta fabulosa serie de ciencia ficción!! muchas gracias por subirla a RUclips y recordar mi niñez con 12 años.... ahora 55 y la sigo disfrutando. Saludos desde Mar del Plata Arg.
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Hello Argentina from the US!
I just found this. It's sort of a new episode cut together from bits of the original show, maybe with some extra stuff thrown in? It hangs together pretty well! This is very cool! This is one of my favorite sci fi TV shows! 👍
Good old Derek Meddings! I think that was the beautiful Anouska Hempel in that as well!!
Yes did she become an interior designer.
ruclips.net/video/nzzH3CVvbXI/видео.htmlsi=fa-YwKWqE7hUYgFF Women of UFO.
@@paulmason6474 yes and an Hotelier as well, and for the record, I would have been all over "HER"
Anouska was absolutely gorgeous
@@nick666gof7 Yes! The original “it” blonde!
I remember watching as a kid and have on laptop. Such a shame show was never updated to this time era. They could rename it SHADO.
The brilliant James Cosmo 👍
pre - Knightswatch
I remember him in the Sweeney.
@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab he's always been there in British TV & Film doing his thing throughout the years. A recognisable and popular actor in many roles.
Great episode..Porthlevan Cornwall
Never give the women of Shadow enough credit!
Love the purple hair and silver suits.
They certainly were ahead of the curve with the purple hair!
Not to mention "check my boosters" but sadly she wasn't onboard for this one
The 70's.CORR!!! smashing birds!
ruclips.net/video/nzzH3CVvbXI/видео.htmlsi=fa-YwKWqE7hUYgFF Women of UFO.
Really, what a Carry On!
Straker was grateful for aliens for the first time in his career. He was bored by that guy 😀
Man, Gerry Anderson got so good you'd swear those were live actors!
A great show i have them all on dvd.
In Australia they wanted $130 and that was about 15 years ago.😢
I had a hugh crush on the moon base girls. The short one with purple hair was my favorite one
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We all did
It’s the uniforms snug or fishnet. Take your pick.
Yes, But the Blond in this one! 😮
@@stevenrowinski1459 Anouska Hempel is your crush. 😎
Made in 1969-70. It was suppose to be set in the early 80s. However fashions change. Still a brilliant series 😊
I'd say they got the early 80s basically right lol
Part of its charm.
I regard those fishnets inappropriate for SHADO, which is a military organization.
Comfortable in a climate controlled enviroment..
Also very unisex.
They're knit of expensive carbon nanotubes and are thus very good armor.
Aircrew wear fishnet underwear helps with healing after burns. But on a sub ?!
Aren't you a party pooper
This is perhaps the most exciting episode in the series. My favorite with Timelash and Sub-Smash coming in close seconds.
Ah the classic ‘if we are not back in an hour destroy the dome’. Firefly sci-fi series ridiculed that line and changed it to ‘if we’re not back in an hour…come rescue me’ 😂
I believed that it was in homage to the shows that inspired that series
@@gregorycampbell448 yes many shows had that line about destroying the base if we're not back in an hour. I'm not saying it was in response to UFO.
Maybe that line comes from old war movies where the destruction of the base was paramount and if captured the soldiers would expect no mercy form the nazis
Obviously from the second stint of production after the hiatus, with cast changes. A very young James Cosmo at 4:05 - and at 8:30 I am reminded of the island of Lemoy in Stingray.
The undersea base, the lone island, the flying fish missiles, the two men leaving a submarine in scuba gear and on sea-tows, the magical entry into and from the base, the cable connecting to the volcano, the island exploding, the ships ambushed at sea, it's a 'Stingray' script expanded by making two trips there and back.
Another detail: this story is compressed in time to an almost impossible extent, typical of early Anderson stories.
Loved this is a a kid especially Gabrielle Drake 😍 Fancy those pesky aliens knowing Ju-Jitsu.
I don't think UFO (especially when using an old 'Stingray' script) was this complex, but I like to think the copies somehow have the skills of the originals, another mysterious detail never to be explained.
They always show periscopes being put back UP when they're finished with. 8m 30s . On submarines ,the captain raises the scope up from the floor so it pokes out above the water and it goes back down when it's not being used.
Good eye, I never noticed that.
Ah. It's the future. They use erm, quantum entanglement periscopes. High running temperature, so they have to wear those kinky fishnet shirts. The dolly birds still make the coffee, though. 15:10
I loved this show when I was growing up/////////in the u.s.a even with its imperfections. due to low budget cuts. they should bring it back someday
This episode "Reflections in the Water" was actually first aired on 24 July 1971. And the ship was a freighter called KINGSTON not Sheerness. The name is clearly shown on its side at 00:55 and Straker also mentions it at 7:55. I used to love watching this show.
One of my favorite video games is Xcom. I've always felt this series was one of the inspirations for it.
This was the last episode of the series. It left with a Big Bang for sure.
3:00 "I found this place last year and made a 3 hour video of it" Straker: "Marvellous, sir!"
🛸👽 - Merry Christmas
When the producer is going on about the fishing boats, some of the harbor shot are of Whitby.
A mobile phone used. Nearly missed it as it seemed so normal
The captain of the Sheerness was Conrad Phillips, Exeter’s gunnery officer in Battle of the River Plate.
New Zealand's great naval victory.Who played W C Perry and Langsdorf?
@@bb21again.67 Langsdorf was played by Peter Finch. Not sure who Perry was. Do you mean Parry? That was Jack Gwillim.
But I had to look Parry up…😁
William Tell innit?
Everyone’s Dad fancied Wanda Ventham (Benedict Cumberbatch’s Mum), and there was the equally lovely Anouska Hempel to appeal to us younger ones…..
On top of that, this had all the great hallmarks of a Gerry Anderson production; full of action and all of those spectacular explosions which were so brilliantly done given that this was many years before CGI.
I think in someways this series was ahead of its time, maybe just a little too far, it certainly scared me as a kid at times. For me this was a bold vision and an implied threat a series 2 could have explored many more angles, and even a dual race which may have explained why there dying one that needed earth more than they let on, that would be an interesting angle to play on. weve always seen the UFOs as enemies, what if they wereacting that way because of a bigger threat unseen. That could have been even more interesting to look at. Either way barry grays music phenominal on this, the sets and style. UFO had it in quite a big way.
Only thing I didn;t like about this episode is the attack on Moonbase. The series firmly established that there are only three interceptors available, and they only have one shot each. Also, the aliens who are shown to be centuries ahead technologically, are terrible shots! They should have scored at least one hit on Moonbase. In fact, it would be good strategy on their part for a single UFO to kamikaze Moonbase; exchanging one UFO for pretty much SHADO's entire first line of defense and one which would take years to replace, at massive cost ofmaterial and personnel. It's weird that Moonbase was such an exposed surface building.
a big hole in the story , but
if you did have a fleet of
intercepters on moon-base
then there would be no
threat of alien invasion ....
and then no action and
no drama and no story 😮
so writers always have
failure in their story ❤
add on note that should
have read ....
full fleet of intercepters !!!!
The aliens are cousins to the stormtroopers. They use the same practice ranges and all
Logic is very oddly placed in a SciFi Show!
@@WanderfalkeAT Not really - the best science fiction is firmly grounded in reality . i.e. you can create a moonbase, but apply logic to it's contruction and location.
There is a real ship ,the Richard Mongomery sank off the coast of Sheerness ,which is on the island of Sheppey .
This episode may be a nod to the real events thst happened in WW2.
No aliens were involved according to history.😮
The Richard Montgomery went aground on August 20th 1944 because it was directed to anchor in the wrong place by the Harbourmaster on HMS Leigh ~ the wartime designation for Southend Pier under naval control. She dragged her anchor, ran aground and as the tide ebbed she broke her back. It held 6,127 tons of explosives and ammunition, so any attack by this UFO would have meant bye-bye to Mr. Alien.
The Montgomery is still in situ where she ran aground and still has around 1400 tons of explosive material on board and I can see her from the beach in Southend. Some authorities say she’s safe whilst other experts say the complete opposite. If the entire lot DID detonate, it would be one of the world’s largest non-nuclear explosions ever. That would definitely NOT be a good day to go to the beach…..
@@davidpope3943 Quite right, if it goes up, it's likely Sittingbourne will be beach front property. I lived a mile or so a way from it in Sheerness, as the Crow flys
I think the mindset is, leave it be, messing could do more harm than good.
There was talk of cutting the heavy masts off the ship, incase they fell onto the wreck,and triggered an explosion, that idea went quiet too......
@@ianhill4585Yes, I wondered why that ‘essential’ safety work just seemed to fizzle out, then I remembered they’d said that a preliminary survey found a problem ~ bombs loose on the seabed. Amazing, isn’t it, finding bombs on the seabed next to a wreck full of bombs, especially when they already knew a few years ago that there were at least 72 ‘objects’ loose on the seabed adjacent to the wreck.
Personally, I’d leave the masts or just lower them slightly. They must at least provide a return on the radar of all of the large vessels that already pass oh so closely to it!
Incidentally, whenever I get into discussion on the climate, ahem, ‘crisis’ with the threatened screams of ‘we’re all going to drown ‘cos of catastrophic rising sea levels’, I always ask why it is then that I can still see as much of the Montgomery and the Phoenix Caisson on Spring tides now as I could in the 1960’s. No answer is forthcoming…..
As always for a Anderson production cool AFV
9:04 Benedict Cumberbatch's mum!!! Wanda Ventham.
Yes it is
The ship is actually called The Kingston. The episode is called Reflections In The Water.
I love how the music is so similar to Space :1999. Loved both shows!
Barry Gray was composer for both - 🛸✨
Great video...👍
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AUGUST 15 , 1981... My baby sisters birthday... l sent her this , she laughed said l probably watched it at home instead of coming with Dad to visit her
Gerry Anderson liked to have explosions in his films and TV shows.
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WHAAAATTT? No cool montage title intro? That's what I was waiting for after the boat sinking. Why is it missing ?
Klaus Hergersheimer’s meteoric career rise led him from checking radiation shields at W.W. Tectronics to Head of SHADO. Respect.
not quite - Diamonds are Forever (1971) - UFO (1970)
@@FandersonUfo OH NO! You’re telling me it was, in fact, a meteoric fall?!
Great episode of UFO. Love the ‘flying fish’ alien tech. Straker asks the female skydiver crew member for coffee, not something you’d see now, thank goodness.
What's wrong with asking a female for coffee? I suppose it's alright for a female to ask a male for coffee? Misandrist.
@@dougie1968 Wow.
Same producers of "Thunderbirds". Also "Supercar", "Fireball XL5", "Captain Scarlet", etc--Gerry and Sylvia Anderson.
Very good.
These shots looked much more impressive on the fuzzy and grainy televisions we watched this show on back in the 70's 😉
I have it all in 1080p from the Blu-rays and indeed some things are a bit wonky by current standards but always looked good in 480i TV - 🛸✨
@@FandersonUfo It has a strange look... like all Anderson productions of the era, would have been shot on film, but this has a "video" look to it, but without chroma blur, timing artifacts, etc.. I'm guessing this was from an "original" film print, somehow digitally restored, de-noised, and sharpened.
@@anthonyx916 - you are correct in all your assumptions about this video - the original file was 640x480 25fps - I'll never release videos like this again as I have them all on Blu-ray at 1080p now - 🛸✨
Captain was slow to order "abandon ship!"
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This show was right up there with Star Trek in quality
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In 1981?????
How long did they keep that show on the air?
I remember being 8 or 9 and seeing it, back in the early 70's here in the states.
Wow
Remarkably slow in calling Mayday.
Has a very different look to it in the sense the film used looks very studio as apposed to film
20:58 just wow
ty 🙏🙏
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7:30 Straker 's cover was film producer, Paul Foster's was playing for West Ham.
never heard that about Paul before - ty Mike - 🛸✨
Wow I can see myself watching this when I was young
Never heard of this show til just now, but about 30 seconds in I suspected it was
a live action "Fireball XL5 / Supercar" type production. Gerry Anderson ?
WHAT!? You’d never heard of this series until now?! UFO was only one of the greatest sci-fi shows of the 1970s. Purple wigs, silver mini-skirts, Gabrielle Drake, and flying saucers - it had everything an 11 year old me needed. And yes, it was Gerry and Silvia Anderson.
Indeed.
Wonderful series ive enjoyed seeing it on tv
My mum and dad loved it must have been 60s or 70s time.
1970
UFO did better in syndicated reruns, but it never explained the reasons for the green-skinned humanoids wanting to conquer Earth, nor was it always clear what their motives were. Great episode, but why the missing opening sequence?
Did the 1980 movie shed any light on this aspect of the TV series?
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The string tops the guys wearing was the same as i use to wear under my fire suit in the RAF!!!!
1:12 Seaview Rock and Roll!
Hello everyone, this has always been my favorite show of all time!!!!! Straker is my favorite actor,, I need models and action figures
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Straker: I think I'll have a cup of SkyDiver Coffee, Lieutenant....
I think its 1970 1971 when this was released, (made In 1969/70) not 81, 81 was the date of the Imaginary future of the story, for those who were wondering.
@@jaymorris3468 - it's a chronology of the imaginary timeline sir
@@FandersonUfo you didn't have to tell me, it was info for the watchers, but it was great for it to be posted. 👍
Ever noticed the uniforms on the skydiver. The men’s shirts are see-through fishnet. But you can’t see through the women’s uniforms. Not that I’m complaining mind you 🦸♀️💃
A lot of you kids are too young to remember the UFO wars of 1981.
As a big fan of the series and knowing it aired in 1970/71 reading 1981 in the title of this video through me for a loop. Then i realized 1981 was the "future date". This episode is entitled "Reflections in the Water" and is #24 (in the "official" release) of the 26 episodes in the series.
What is this? Why does it looks like tv-theater outed rushes? I know that show but it look more cinematic than this. Interesting.
Love the string vests you had to be thin in those days😅😅😅😅
the little blond reading the printout in the computer room is looking super good to my old eyes.
wow, the black haired gal looks good too.
Aggressive aliens 👽
Reagan was the president of the USA when the ship was sunk.
+ you could buy a computer with 16K of RAM for $1500.00....no internet, but dial-up text chatboards were emerging.
Shades of Captain Scarlet.
1970s VFX even after Star Wars changed 'the meta' took a while for the industry to catch up.
The six million dollar man discovered that they dropped off bigfoot.
And they returned looking big foot and landed in Fargo.😅
The lights at Minute 0:26 are incorreect. After light higher than forward
The ship was called the SS Kingston
The stringvests worn by the skydiver crew were the same as what the RAF firefighters had .....in the 80,s anyway when i was on ATC summer camp
Yep. They stop sweat boiling and scalding the firefighters.
I love Strakers eye shadow and liner. It's dreamy. 💕💕💕
Thought that was Carl sagen for a moment as the skipper
that's Conrad Phillips - who looks a bit like Sagan I suppose - 🛸✨