Production commenced on Monday 28th April 1969 with Identified which concluded Monday 12th May. From here on, the episodes would take about nine days to be made in production across two weeks, plus one day obviously for the read-through. Filmed at Borehamwood Studios, production continued through all the way to November until the Borehamwood Studios closed with Sub-Smash being the very last production filmed there. This was because, so Century 22 hears, is that Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey had taken so much space filming without actually paying rent meant that Borehamwood had now become an uneconomical place to run.
Whilst filming remained in good form at the Century 21 Studios in Slough, Gerry Anderson noted that with actors instead of puppets that with actors you are stuck with their features such as their height, facial structure, hair etc, yeah you can change it maybe with make-up, gels or wigs or whatever, but Anderson also realised that actors give backchat, which of course wasn't the case with puppets. Other actors argued over their parts being reduced or the number of lines or the fact that not being available for other work when they fail to appear in every episode or in reduced roles which they now feel unhappy with. When production would return, lots of the regular cast had changed and was now filming at Pinewood...
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UFO: The Vault
Non-FictionGerry Anderson's UFO was the first big budget British live-action television series of a secret government organisation named SHADO (Supreme Headqauters Alien Defence Organisation) combat a dying alien race who have come to Earth in order to survive...
