UFO - Alien Helmet (1970)

A couple of scans sent to me quite a while ago by friend to this blog: Tim Armstrong.  If I recall we were discussing where the Doppelganger/UFO spacesuits had ended up and as Tim revealed, with evidence to back it up, that at least one of the alien helmets from the show had been saved for posterity by a collector.

 

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Sorry its taken a while, Tim, I had trouble getting them to appear larger than a thumb-nail on my computer but I seem to have cracked it now. 

 

Steve

Kadoyng (1972) Part 4

UFO (1970)

Kadoyng (1972)

 

 

 

...and then obscurity.  Doesn't seem right does it.

 

Steve

Kadoyng (1972) part 2

Kadoyng, a Children's Film Foundation production from 1972, was one of my earliest posts on this blog and interesting in as much as it appears to be the only other appearance of the aliens spacesuit from Gerry Anderson's UFO TV series.

I'm fairly sure I watched this back in the day, although it would have been on TV,  a couple of years later, probably during the summer holidays and I would have been nought but a nipper at the time.

They're beginning to release double features from the CFF and I would hope they'll get round to this one soon but until then we'll settle for this single image and the video cassette artwork from what I believe to have been the Spanish release.

Steve

UFO (1970) Gallery Part 3

 

 

 

Steve

Kadoyng (1972)

Leo Maguire writes and stars in this Children’s Film Foundation film about an alien who befriends a group of kids and helps them to stop a motorway from being built through their village by using his strange alien powers. Sound like good clean family fun to me!

As you can see; this alien shops at the same outfitters as those in Gerry Anderson’s UFO series although his behaviour would suggest that he’s a much nicer chap and far less likely to steal your internal organs.

Steve

UFO (1970) Part 2: The Alien Spacesuits

These are the chaps that lurk within the UfOs.  For aliens, they're sort of human looking except for the dead-fish eyes and the fact that they breathe green liquid instead of air.

An image that lurks from childhood is of a captured human being converted to alien, his helmet filling up with the green stuff.  I sort of remember him drowning inside his helmet as he fights against breathing the alien goo in.  The image sticks in the mind’s eye along with all of those Public Information Films that haunted our childhood back then.

Anyway, these are the bad guys that give SHADO all the trouble.   As a general rule you never see more than one of them at a time and I’ve heard that there were only two suits made.  So you can understand that there was a bit of a problem when in one story there was a scene where two of them needed to be seen carrying a third between them.  Clever camera editing managed to crop either the front or back alien out of the shot so as presumably not to reveal the other actor dressed in his jeans and a T-shirt.

There are a couple of alterations made to the suits over the shows run, the biggest being the replacement of the silver chain mail for a less ornate material finish.

To the best of my research, this space suit only makes one future appearance after the show finished and that was in a Children’s Film Foundation feature.  Blog post pending.

Steve