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Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On 8 Feb, 21:39, wdst...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(William December Starr) wrote:
>> Robert Carnegie <rja.carne...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
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>>> Oh, and the _U.F.O._ series is set in a film studio with a
>>> secret base rather pointlessly underneath it. The secret
>>> commander poses as, / is/, the studio head, and presumably is
>>> involved with scripts as well as everything else.
>>
>> It wasn't pointless -- it was a "hide in plain sight" operation in
>> which they could move uniformed/spacesuited/whatever personnel,
>> bizarre equipment, weaponry and vehicles, and even pieces of alien
>> spacecraft around in the open without anyone noticing.
>
> Hmm, is this actually explained?
I _think_ so. Mind you, it's been a few decades since I saw the show.
> I think a studio that launched actual submarines and moon rockets
> would be conspicuous even in far-future 1980, and it's not as
> though there aren't real military sites around with a secret
> status.
I don't think they did any launches from the studio grounds.
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William December Starr <wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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