I absolutely love this TV show and I was a child and now that I'm an adult and the internet is all I can watch all these episodes over and over again still one of my favorite TV shows
I always thought that UFO was an amazing programme. Stipulated , SkyDiver was really amazing. And I'll admit that the ladies on Moobase were seriously amazing.
I loved this show back in the day. I watched all the Gerry Anderson shows from Supercar on when we could get them in the Tampa area. They were always on UHF and that little circle antenna didn’t always pick it up.
This still is good show to watch . I like to watch full episodes . UFO beats the Drama , the fake reality TV shows . UFO fits in with the things that's been going on for centuries .
I absolutely love this series watched it as a kid in the 70s. One amusing thing that confuses me. When you look at Skydiver, the detachable aircraft takes up about a third of the combined length of the whole craft. The aircraft is maximum 25 - 30f long so the rest of the craft is only about 50 - 60ft. Within that space all we see inside is the control room and captain's cabin. There doesn't appear to be space for crew's quarters, engine room, torpedo room as it does occasionally fire torpedoes. The craft really needs to be at least 3 times bigger than it is.
@@MichaelWilliams-mo1vv same here... that triggered our imagination back then and took things as they are... now, when confronted by real world engineering problems, you start to ask "where the heck did they put all of that?"... lol
There are torpedo tunes. One episode I think called sub crash had one of the crew to exit from the torpedo tube. She didn't however. She came back to the control room with Stryker.
Neil's Giant Leap, followed by a few more awe-inspiring Apollo missions...and 2001, were still fresh in the public consciousness. Audience sophistication was blossoming. Gerry Anderson got that. His model shop was always....... ....creative in designing air, space & watercraft for his shows. But now, we had much higher expectations for Sci-Fi vehicle authenticity. Studio models of SHADO's transportation & weapons inventory introduced a greater level of believably to television Sci Fi. They looked functionally practical, were far more detailed ...and a revolution in FX techniques for filming them had just taken-off... with full afterburners. Notice the weathering and heavily-used, worn look to UFO's Earth-origin crafts? Other's certainly did. Overnight, model making of every kind radically changed. Imaging media, architectural, scaled reproduction and hobbyists would never look back as "realism" was redefined. Finally, illusion was trying harder to look more like....REALITY. (Besides, the inverse wasn't quite working the way counter-culture had figured)
You have abused the apostrophe, Robert. Abuser. Can you prove that a letter has been omitted? What is the original word, before the substitution by the apostrophe: "UFOies"?
I always thought skydiver was one of the coolest sci-fi craft of all time. I saw a vid where somebody made an actual working model. Personally, I've always wanted to slide down that tunnel and into the jet. What a genius way to get in.
as fan of gerry anderson , i still get enjoy watch, people forget no computer aid, all models was hand build, , now i am 60yrs, , dont forget it only sci fiction
MOONBASE ALPHA - Best regards - you do realize that all those Moon Base Alpha sets were intended for a season 2 of UFO that never happened - FandersonUfo is not a big fan of SPACE:1999 sometimes - so I'm glad you did include that show in your mixture - thanks
MY FAVORITE GERRY ANDERSON 'S TV SERIES ARE SUPER CAR MINUS MITCH THE MONKEY. STINGRAY. THUNDERBIRDS, CAPT. SCARLETT & THE MYSTERONS & OF COURSE U. F. O.
@@polestarg6512 - I believe there is also a Japanese Blu-ray now. I'm very happy to hear from fans of the show in Japan. In a strange way I believe it is the Japanese fans who truly understand and fully appreciate how advanced this show was for a 1970 science fiction series. Most western viewers of the series can not understand why the girls on Moon Base are all wearing purple wigs. They wear purple wigs because they look fantastic with them. I doubt any one in Japan does not see that immediately. Thanks for your visit polestar. Please visit the channel page if you like where there are more UFO videos. I'd be happy to hear anything you have to say about the series.
There is a reason that missiles are shot out of subs under pressure and the fire their engines after they break the surface. In real life the sky craft’s engines would fry the diver sub to say nothing of its docking connections.
In the fantastic fantasy worlds Gerry Anderson there is the story, interesting characters, vehicles/vessels special effects, sound effects and then there is that INCREDIBLE music of Barry Gray. From the opening and closing credit background music as well as all the mood settings in-between, he takes you there and puts you right in the middle where the (standby for) action is. At the 3:22 mark is my personal favorite adrenaline accelerant by Gray. And for some caught in the build up excitement, in an alternate reality it might as well be YOUR head rising up in the cockpit and strapping in as SkyOne gets ready for lift off. During the 1960s the entertainment industry was awash with TV and feature film science fiction of various types, replete with Anderson's MAJOR contributions of captivating millions of us. Up until late 1972 when I first saw UFO, I thought Irwin Allen's Flying Sub easing out from under the Seaview was the coolest thing ever. But seeing SkyDiver angle up, blast out as Sky One separates from Diver towards the surface...BLEW MY MIND. Derek Meddings did it to us AGAIN...
They even came up with a legitimate excuse for the mesh shirts. As a weight saving measure they cut down on the insulation for the reactor steam lines. It was very hot inside a skydiver
What I like is the gimmick where the words "SKY" on the aircraft and "DIVER" on the submarine spell "SKYDIVER" when the two craft are joined together. Only problem is, it doesn't work on the right side of the sub -- unless it's in Hebrew!
My hat is off to you sir. I had caught the clever word split idea but I never thought of the problem it would cause on the starboard side. Perhaps we can agree the lettering is standard only on the port side of SkyDivers. I think they would look rather elegant in such markings.
Loved this show - but I always wondered how sky 1 landed then reattached? And also why there wasn't a fleet given the limited flight time and presumably reset making it hard if more than one ufo got through.
a fleet of at least 6 SkyDivers is mentioned in dialogue of the series itself - that would still be too small to realistically cover the entire planet however only 3 interceptors on moon base is also not ideal but stays within the special effects possibilities of 1970 television production - as for Sky1 re-docking after a flight that is finally depicted and explained by Anderson productions - ruclips.net/video/hxFoUXZ8fSo/видео.html - 🛸👽
I loved that show, but today I think is funny to see Sky1 pilot looking vissualy for the ufo coming out from the sun. Radar was invented in WW2. It should track the ufo and fire missiles MILES AWAY
I remember the show when I was a kid a long time ago I always wondered about one thing they supposedly had a fleet of those submarines but the only one they ever showed was the one
OH HAHAHAHAHA!!!! I never noticed the fishnet t-shirts back in the day when we watched this on TV (it was a B&W set, so I had no idea the women on Moonbase wore purple wigs..). That's so funny.... you can see their chest hair. "Maintain speed 40 knots.." 40 knots!!!! (And they're obviously just creeping along...) IIRC there were supposedly ten SkyDivers, SkyDiver 4 got destroyed in one episode. I think they only showed SkyDiver 1 for the most part.
Would've been cool to get an interior shot of all crew members grabbing on to stanchions when she elevates and then the shudder as Sky is launched. (LIFTOFF, REALLY???)
I grew up watching these science fiction movies as a little kid in the 1970s. As a little kid I even wanted to join the US space military but yet it's only a movie not real. Nowadays they're making weapons, computers, UFOs, and other space age technology now.
It interesting how the pilot enters Skydiver by sliding into a tube that appears be tilted downward but there’s not enough distance for him to slide into the Skydiver. Plus how would he get up into the cockpit? Oh,the physics show business seems to always ignore!🤔🤔🤔
At a fire station the pole does not drop the engine driver right into his seat. It is just a quick way to transfer from the upper floor to a lower one. I agree the geometry of the SkyDiver set may be flawed. But without the schematics of the submarine to hand I'll guess that the slide ends at a hatch at the back of Sky1's cockpit. The pilot would open the hatch and then take his seat normally.
Where exactly was he sliding from and into? Was the pilot sliding from the conning tower to a back hatch of the plane and then walk to below the cockpit and lifted up? or was it some sort of pneumatic tube system where he is pushed through? Also the shirts look really uncomfortable on the male nipple area. I suspect the actors really didn't like them much
The slides and chutes used by the Skydiver and Interceptor pilots were a holdover from Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation shows, specifically Thunderbirds. The International Rescue crew entered their vehicles via slides, conveyor belts, and moving chairs so the puppets wouldn't have to walk. As any puppeteer can tell you, making marionettes walk believably is just about impossible.
Biggest disappointment of my childhood was waiting for Dinky Toys to put out a SkyDiver. It would've looked fine in the Emerald Green they insisted on painting the other Gerry Anderson vehicles (like the Interceptor and Eagle Transporter).
I loved UFO as a kid and watched it when ever i could. That being said, even as a kid the skydiver did not make much sense. A sub with all that crew to launch one aircraft and why launch it underwater. I never saw the sub launch weapons of its own.
Looks like those UFOs dread Sky-1 worst. When spotted by that jet, they just run. In one episode, their squadron attempted to attack Moon Base, but they never dared to attack Sky-1.
There is actually a scene where the plane pilot is shown coming back out of the slide door inside the submarine after a flight but how the aircraft part reattaches is not shown only implied. Would be less dramatic than a launch but visually might have worked well as a shallow dive back into the ocean near the sub. The plane sinks. I would then have the sub maneuver for re-docking. The aircraft would just station keep underwater.
A skydiver 6 is mentioned so there are least 6 subs - Skydiver 4 is sabotaged and blown up in one episode - not sure if a fleet of only 6 Skydivers would be adequate for global coverage though
The studio needed to make a Skydiver at least 3X the size for doing on water effects shots. The Seaview from Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea was over 17 feet long. While Skydiver miniature 5 feet. Also shoot outside in sunlight and real clouds and sky.
ty R5 - I'm not sure Derek Meddings had a big enough water tank available - his water stuff is stellar but I think the bigger model of Seaview looked amazing in Voyage whenever it was cruising on the surface - SkyDiver looks pretty good but not 17 foot long amazing like Seaview
The shots of Skydiver running on the surface were done in an effects tank, but the submerged shots were filmed "dry for wet" on a dry miniature set using smoke and diffusion filters.
The design of the plane is very problematic. If its a rocket no need for an intake. If its a jet its full of water and can't start. No way to rearm and refuel underwater. Has to be very heavy to withstand ocean pressure.
Why does Skydiver have multiple rockets available for interception mission but the stupid Moonbase Interceptors only have one each? Seems pretty stupid from a tactical standpoint. With only 3 interceptors...what happens if there are 4 incoming UFOs?
The Sky1 aircraft is never shown re-docking with the Diver submarine. A pilot does return an aircraft to a sub in one episode but he is only shown coming back out of the hatch to Sky1 inside the submarine.The Sky aircraft part of a SkyDiver can re-dock but that procedure was never filmed for broadcast in any episode.
@@FandersonUfo Thank you for the reply. I've seen the pilot return to the cabin after re - docking. The procedure of re - docking is mysterious , isn't it ? from Planet Japan
If I had to render a CGI version I would have the aircraft shallow dive ahead of the submerged Diver section. The sunken aircraft would station keep while the sub would come from behind and link up. It's a shame they never filmed it with models in 1969.
Ever notice that you only see the port side of the craft? When it splits, the front says "SKY" and the rear says "DIVER." If you were to see the starboard side, the aerial part would say "VER," and the submarine part would read "SKYDI." I know, picky picky picky!
@@cb-gz1vl - I would say UFO did a better job promoting roles for POC and women than Star Trek - even if it only had one season compared to 3 for Star Trek TOS
@@cb-gz1vl - well they were smoking in mission control when Apollo 11 landed - big change in the attitude towards smoking of course - and a few other 60s habits perhaps
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Skydiver was my all time favourite Gerry Anderson vehicle bar none.
same here - 🛸✨
I absolutely love this TV show and I was a child and now that I'm an adult and the internet is all I can watch all these episodes over and over again still one of my favorite TV shows
Have the series on dvd
Watching this program as a kid whenever Sky One was launched it made my week! 😄
I always thought that UFO was an amazing programme. Stipulated , SkyDiver was really amazing. And I'll admit that the ladies on Moobase were seriously amazing.
3 amazings are worth 1 heart
purple girls rule.
I wanted to be a skyone pilot when growing up.
I loved this show back in the day. I watched all the Gerry Anderson shows from Supercar on when we could get them in the Tampa area. They were always on UHF and that little circle antenna didn’t always pick it up.
I love this show. It was ahead anything of its time. Gerry Anderson passed away many years ago yet rules.
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This still is good show to watch . I like to watch full episodes . UFO beats the Drama , the fake reality TV shows . UFO fits in with the things that's been going on for centuries .
I like the folks involved in this production, for the most bit.
I absolutely love this series watched it as a kid in the 70s. One amusing thing that confuses me. When you look at Skydiver, the detachable aircraft takes up about a third of the combined length of the whole craft. The aircraft is maximum 25 - 30f long so the rest of the craft is only about 50 - 60ft. Within that space all we see inside is the control room and captain's cabin. There doesn't appear to be space for crew's quarters, engine room, torpedo room as it does occasionally fire torpedoes. The craft really needs to be at least 3 times bigger than it is.
Star Trek ships, vessels 🎬 seem to have the same problem. Except for TNG Star Trek Enterprise....
never underestimate imaginary technology…
@@temujin0911 lol I also used to watch Voyage to the bottom of the sea and the 'Seaview' also had the same issue 😅
@@MichaelWilliams-mo1vv same here... that triggered our imagination back then and took things as they are... now, when confronted by real world engineering problems, you start to ask "where the heck did they put all of that?"... lol
There are torpedo tunes. One episode I think called sub crash had one of the crew to exit from the torpedo tube. She didn't however. She came back to the control room with Stryker.
I love the attention to detail on all the models and sets . You can see why these shows looked so good back in the day
Yes, some details are delightfully pertinent.
Same control stick in SKY 1 and interceptors.
Brilliant series. I saw it In Awe as a Youngster in 1972.
Neil's Giant Leap, followed by a few more awe-inspiring Apollo missions...and 2001, were still fresh in the public consciousness. Audience sophistication was blossoming. Gerry Anderson got that. His model shop was always.......
....creative in designing air, space & watercraft for his shows. But now, we had much higher expectations for Sci-Fi vehicle authenticity.
Studio models of SHADO's transportation & weapons inventory introduced a greater level of believably to television Sci Fi. They looked functionally practical, were far more detailed ...and a revolution in FX techniques for filming them had just taken-off... with full afterburners.
Notice the weathering and heavily-used, worn look to UFO's Earth-origin crafts? Other's certainly did. Overnight, model making of every kind radically changed. Imaging media, architectural, scaled reproduction and hobbyists would never look back as "realism" was redefined.
Finally, illusion was trying harder to look more like....REALITY.
(Besides, the inverse wasn't quite working the way counter-culture had figured)
Stingray. Thunderbird4. and Skydiver … my favorite 😂
Love those underwater smoke effects.
The Skydiver launch footage is superb.
The sound of the UFO's scared the hell out of me as a kid
You have abused the apostrophe, Robert. Abuser.
Can you prove that a letter has been omitted?
What is the original word, before the substitution by the apostrophe: "UFOies"?
You should be thankful that hell is no longer inside of you.
it's called auto correct so blame my phone @@MoivinSulunker
Honest to gosh?
@@RobertOconnor-vx9tf
Auto incorrect.
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I always thought skydiver was one of the coolest sci-fi craft of all time. I saw a vid where somebody made an actual working model. Personally, I've always wanted to slide down that tunnel and into the jet. What a genius way to get in.
it was cool wasn't it ?
American Warhorse aw
Simply...an awesome Tv 📺 series when I was 8,incredibles aereo & sea ships,thanx 🛸
Love all of these shots especially the opening sequence in her pen. The model making is superb.
Goes well with the bathtub setting
as fan of gerry anderson , i still get enjoy watch, people forget no computer aid, all models was hand build, , now i am 60yrs, , dont forget it only sci fiction
It was an amazing show they did a great job in the music fit thanks Barry Gray,
God I wish they would remake this in to a feature film with current CGI instead of all the crappy Marvel stuff and recent movie remakes.
Could not agree more but am doubtful that Hollywood would get it right
MOONBASE ALPHA - Best regards - you do realize that all those Moon Base Alpha sets were intended for a season 2 of UFO that never happened - FandersonUfo is not a big fan of SPACE:1999 sometimes - so I'm glad you did include that show in your mixture - thanks
So SO right !
this and 1999. Maybe they could retitle it "Space 2069" or something
@@FandersonUfo And they've tried.
Everything was fine in all the scifi series of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson
I'd go with superb rather than fine actually.
WOW 🤩 I haven’t seen this since I was a child!
Thank you 😊
I can watch these episodes over and over! Simply the best! 😎👍
Very glad you're enjoying UFO. Happy New Year.
MY FAVORITE GERRY ANDERSON 'S TV SERIES ARE SUPER CAR MINUS MITCH THE MONKEY. STINGRAY. THUNDERBIRDS, CAPT. SCARLETT & THE MYSTERONS & OF COURSE U. F. O.
I Like All the SkyDiver Episodes.
Sky One looks like a flying brick! I love it!
That's nostalgic. I watched every week when I was a kid in Japan.
Very glad you have happy memories of Gerry Anderson's UFO. Best regards Fanderson
@@FandersonUfo Since the DVD was released by Deagostini a few years ago, I have the part that was broadcast in Japan,
@@polestarg6512 - I believe there is also a Japanese Blu-ray now. I'm very happy to hear from fans of the show in Japan. In a strange way I believe it is the Japanese fans who truly understand and fully appreciate how advanced this show was for a 1970 science fiction series. Most western viewers of the series can not understand why the girls on Moon Base are all wearing purple wigs. They wear purple wigs because they look fantastic with them. I doubt any one in Japan does not see that immediately. Thanks for your visit polestar. Please visit the channel page if you like where there are more UFO videos. I'd be happy to hear anything you have to say about the series.
There is a reason that missiles are shot out of subs under pressure and the fire their engines after they break the surface. In real life the sky craft’s engines would fry the diver sub to say nothing of its docking connections.
Yes I always used to think that lol, take moonraker for instance but it’s still a classic
In the fantastic fantasy worlds Gerry Anderson there is the story, interesting characters, vehicles/vessels special effects, sound effects and then there is that INCREDIBLE music of Barry Gray.
From the opening and closing credit background music as well as all the mood settings in-between, he takes you there and puts you right in the middle where the (standby for) action is.
At the 3:22 mark is my personal favorite adrenaline accelerant by Gray. And for some caught in the build up excitement, in an alternate reality it might as well be YOUR head rising up in the cockpit and strapping in as SkyOne gets ready for lift off.
During the 1960s the entertainment industry was awash with TV and feature film science fiction of various types, replete with Anderson's MAJOR contributions of captivating millions of us.
Up until late 1972 when I first saw UFO, I thought Irwin Allen's Flying Sub easing out from under the Seaview was the coolest thing ever. But seeing SkyDiver angle up, blast out as Sky One separates from Diver towards the surface...BLEW MY MIND.
Derek Meddings did it to us AGAIN...
I watch this when I was still a kid...elementary in fact....just that it never last long
They even came up with a legitimate excuse for the mesh shirts.
As a weight saving measure they cut down on the insulation for the reactor steam lines. It was very hot inside a skydiver
ty Mr. Ricker - had not heard that excuse before now - 🛸✨
I was crazy for this show in the early 1970s a totally captured nine year old school boy, never missed an episode at all no way.
What I like is the gimmick where the words "SKY" on the aircraft and "DIVER" on the submarine spell "SKYDIVER" when the two craft are joined together. Only problem is, it doesn't work on the right side of the sub -- unless it's in Hebrew!
My hat is off to you sir. I had caught the clever word split idea but I never thought of the problem it would cause on the starboard side. Perhaps we can agree the lettering is standard only on the port side of SkyDivers. I think they would look rather elegant in such markings.
Wouldn't it be funny to find out it was in Hebrew, or Kanji on the starboard side?
morse code dots...lol
I have had a SkyDiver toy for years and I never noticed that it didn't have SkyDiver on the left (starboard) side.
Good Grief... all the years I watched this and it never occurred to me! Well done!
Skydiver were My Favorite Episodes.
Loved this show - but I always wondered how sky 1 landed then reattached? And also why there wasn't a fleet given the limited flight time and presumably reset making it hard if more than one ufo got through.
a fleet of at least 6 SkyDivers is mentioned in dialogue of the series itself - that would still be too small to realistically cover the entire planet however only 3 interceptors on moon base is also not ideal but stays within the special effects possibilities of 1970 television production - as for Sky1 re-docking after a flight that is finally depicted and explained by Anderson productions - ruclips.net/video/hxFoUXZ8fSo/видео.html - 🛸👽
@@FandersonUfo Thanks so much! I will definitely have a look into this.
@@sng2225 - 🛸👽💚👍
I bet the retirement parties for the SHADO personnel were always fun. "Hey, before you go, have a cup of coffee!"
That SkyDiver captain is an ACE!
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I love the fishnet uniform.
This was the coolest thing ever for kids growing up'/!!!
I loved that show, but today I think is funny to see Sky1 pilot looking vissualy for the ufo coming out from the sun. Radar was invented in WW2. It should track the ufo and fire missiles MILES AWAY
Love it, reminds me of Stingray
How is he sliding downwards into Sky 1 when theres no higher structure as seen on the outside view?
Shows today don't know how to do specail effects like they did back in the day, UFO was great
Well the current Thunderbirds Are Go series does a nice job of combining miniatures, practical effects, animatronics, and CGI for the show.
Thunderbird 4 conversion with a drab paint job :)
I loved this show!
I remember the show when I was a kid a long time ago I always wondered about one thing they supposedly had a fleet of those submarines but the only one they ever showed was the one
It's SkyDiver 4 shown leaving the sub pen and I think SkyDiver 6 is shown in the same pen. Who many in total is never defined
Linda calidad de imagen y sonido.😊👍🌹🍃🌹🌠💎
OH HAHAHAHAHA!!!! I never noticed the fishnet t-shirts back in the day when we watched this on TV (it was a B&W set, so I had no idea the women on Moonbase wore purple wigs..). That's so funny.... you can see their chest hair. "Maintain speed 40 knots.." 40 knots!!!! (And they're obviously just creeping along...) IIRC there were supposedly ten SkyDivers, SkyDiver 4 got destroyed in one episode. I think they only showed SkyDiver 1 for the most part.
Loved it, and still do!
I like how it says Sky on the bit that flies and Diver on the part that dives.
Would've been cool to get an interior shot of all crew members grabbing on to stanchions when she elevates and then the shudder as Sky is launched. (LIFTOFF, REALLY???)
gotta love the fishnet shirts, LOL
I grew up watching these science fiction movies as a little kid in the 1970s. As a little kid I even wanted to join the US space military but yet it's only a movie not real. Nowadays they're making weapons, computers, UFOs, and other space age technology now.
There's trump's space farce now. It won't be flying soon though I'd guess.
Wish they had shown how those 2 redocked.
Nice special effects for its time.
I'm too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt....so sexy, it hurts."
lmao!!! good one!!
Fred had nothing on these guys
:D
@@scottn7cy And don't get me started on, THE LADIES of SKY DIVER!
Next to Lt. Gaye Ellis! They were the most Eye-Popping 'human' feature of UFO.
I don't know why ? UFO and SPACE 1999 SHOULD BE ON ME TV .
Good design of the equipment from decades ago🥝🇳🇿😎
It interesting how the pilot enters Skydiver by sliding into a tube that appears be tilted downward but there’s not enough distance for him to slide into the Skydiver. Plus how would he get up into the cockpit? Oh,the physics show business seems to always ignore!🤔🤔🤔
At a fire station the pole does not drop the engine driver right into his seat. It is just a quick way to transfer from the upper floor to a lower one. I agree the geometry of the SkyDiver set may be flawed. But without the schematics of the submarine to hand I'll guess that the slide ends at a hatch at the back of Sky1's cockpit. The pilot would open the hatch and then take his seat normally.
@@FandersonUfo It was a cool concept for the viewer.
@@jamesfrench7299 - it's marvelous - never gets old - 🛸✨
Yeaaa it was looking to see what you have to say about that
Where exactly was he sliding from and into? Was the pilot sliding from the conning tower to a back hatch of the plane and then walk to below the cockpit and lifted up? or was it some sort of pneumatic tube system where he is pushed through?
Also the shirts look really uncomfortable on the male nipple area. I suspect the actors really didn't like them much
The slides and chutes used by the Skydiver and Interceptor pilots were a holdover from Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation shows, specifically Thunderbirds. The International Rescue crew entered their vehicles via slides, conveyor belts, and moving chairs so the puppets wouldn't have to walk. As any puppeteer can tell you, making marionettes walk believably is just about impossible.
i always thought this show was so cool when I was a teenager.
The Sky 1 pilot was Peter Gordeno
yep
Biggest disappointment of my childhood was waiting for Dinky Toys to put out a SkyDiver.
It would've looked fine in the Emerald Green they insisted on painting the other Gerry Anderson vehicles (like the Interceptor and Eagle Transporter).
I loved UFO as a kid and watched it when ever i could. That being said, even as a kid the skydiver did not make much sense. A sub with all that crew to launch one aircraft and why launch it underwater. I never saw the sub launch weapons of its own.
One of my favorite SciFi series. And SkyDiver was my favorite vehicle on the show.
Looks like those UFOs dread Sky-1 worst. When spotted by that jet, they just run. In one episode, their squadron attempted to attack Moon Base, but they never dared to attack Sky-1.
These Were My Favorite UFO Episodes.
The future we deserved but didn't get.
I use to have to wear those string vests in the RAF Fire Service 😂😂😂😂
hate to be a killjoy and all - but how did the plane get back onto the sub?
There is actually a scene where the plane pilot is shown coming back out of the slide door inside the submarine after a flight but how the aircraft part reattaches is not shown only implied.
Would be less dramatic than a launch but visually might have worked well as a shallow dive back into the ocean near the sub. The plane sinks. I would then have the sub maneuver for re-docking. The aircraft would just station keep underwater.
1:54: How many captains are there?
A skydiver 6 is mentioned so there are least 6 subs - Skydiver 4 is sabotaged and blown up in one episode - not sure if a fleet of only 6 Skydivers would be adequate for global coverage though
@@FandersonUfo i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/992/383/5f9.gif
One of the better Next Gen episodes - she played that part very well even though there were some hand eye co-ordination issues
@@FandersonUfo Okay, now you're goofing on me. 😀
nope - I truly enjoyed the episode and the actress - very good story that was well performed
Good job fair
Que copado !!! Muy bueno
I loved this show
I have never seen this program before. When was it on and is it an American show or where does it come from
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I had forgotten how wonderfully unisex the uniforms were in this series.
The studio needed to make a Skydiver at least 3X the size for doing on water effects shots. The Seaview from Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea was over 17 feet long. While Skydiver miniature 5 feet. Also shoot outside in sunlight and real clouds and sky.
ty R5 - I'm not sure Derek Meddings had a big enough water tank available - his water stuff is stellar but I think the bigger model of Seaview looked amazing in Voyage whenever it was cruising on the surface - SkyDiver looks pretty good but not 17 foot long amazing like Seaview
The shots of Skydiver running on the surface were done in an effects tank, but the submerged shots were filmed "dry for wet" on a dry miniature set using smoke and diffusion filters.
I wonder how the plane is reattached to the sub after landing.
there is new CGI showing how that is done - ruclips.net/video/hxFoUXZ8fSo/видео.html
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Did they flood the Hanger of Thunderbird 2 ??????
You weren't supposed to notice the recycled set.
Looked more like a redress of Stingray's cavern to me....
Georgina - Moon is charming!!
que epoca!!!!! siempre miraba esta serie desde chico. para esa epoca buenos efectos
MHD turbines? A ' kids' show, ahead of adult dramas? Only Gerry Anderson.
es una magnifica serie de mi adolescencia
gracias por sus comentarios señor
I like the uniforms .
American and Soviet military engineers would have said: "The top secret has leaked!" The idea of skydivers was groundbreaking.
Excelente la miraba🎉🎉
Sensacional 👏😃👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 AMAZING 💯💥💯💥💯💥💯💥💯💥💯
Sky 1 had the same or very similar nose of the American F-86 sabre jet..
A brit will say it is the english electric lightning jet's nose but both planes have a similar front intake set up
@@FandersonUfo tally ho!!!
Or the FIAT G91.
The design of the plane is very problematic. If its a rocket no need for an intake. If its a jet its full of water and can't start. No way to rearm and refuel underwater. Has to be very heavy to withstand ocean pressure.
Why does Skydiver have multiple rockets available for interception mission but the stupid Moonbase Interceptors only have one each?
Seems pretty stupid from a tactical standpoint.
With only 3 interceptors...what happens if there are 4 incoming UFOs?
luckily the special effects budget was never enough for more than 3 UFOs per show
Actually, the Moon Base Interceptors fire a single nuclear warhead.
But yes, it was awfully decent of the aliens not to send 100 at once.
Ever notice how it always launches in the EXACT same location in the ocean?
With remakes happening now...🤔🤔🤔
How does Sky One return to Sky Diver after shooting down UFO ?
The Sky1 aircraft is never shown re-docking with the Diver submarine. A pilot does return an aircraft to a sub in one episode but he is only shown coming back out of the hatch to Sky1 inside the submarine.The Sky aircraft part of a SkyDiver can re-dock but that procedure was never filmed for broadcast in any episode.
@@FandersonUfo
Thank you for the reply.
I've seen the pilot return to the cabin after re - docking.
The procedure of re - docking is mysterious , isn't it ?
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If I had to render a CGI version I would have the aircraft shallow dive ahead of the submerged Diver section. The sunken aircraft would station keep while the sub would come from behind and link up. It's a shame they never filmed it with models in 1969.
「バンダイ」さんから「UFO」のプラモデルを「ウルトラマンタロウ」と一緒に復刻して欲しいです。「UFO」の「スカイ1」や「インターセプター」、そして「タロウ」の「スカイホエール」に「コンドル1」と「スーパースワロー」、どちらの戦闘機陣も全て再現度が高かったです。
In some ways the TV show UFO was kind of like Thunderbirds, with scenes and aircrafts and all!😏😄
You knew it was going to be horrible by they're fishnet uniform shirts 🤣🤣
still love the effects
1969
Ever notice that you only see the port side of the craft? When it splits, the front says "SKY" and the rear says "DIVER." If you were to see the starboard side, the aerial part would say "VER," and the submarine part would read "SKYDI." I know, picky picky picky!
I don't remember seeing any lettering on the starboard side - the SkyDiver split only applies to the port side markings - 🛸✨
I didn't realise Timothy whatshisname was in UFO on the Skydiver,I only knew him from that vet tv series .
Christopher Timothy. Can be tough to remember as the first and last names are interchangeable.
Wow this show was pretty diverse. I forgot about that.
1969
@@FandersonUfo Yeah pretty impressive. But then Star Trek was also pretty diverse.
@@cb-gz1vl - I would say UFO did a better job promoting roles for POC and women than Star Trek - even if it only had one season compared to 3 for Star Trek TOS
@@FandersonUfo And cigarettes. UFO was definitely a "smokey" show.
@@cb-gz1vl - well they were smoking in mission control when Apollo 11 landed - big change in the attitude towards smoking of course - and a few other 60s habits perhaps