Here Come The Double-Deckers (1970) - Invaders from Space - Gallery

Here are some much better pictures than I had back when I covered this episode of the Double Deckers the first time around.

Watching the episode again I noticed that the yellow and the green suits have white circular patches on the backs and I was trying to figure out where they might have been between this and their premier in Moon Zero Two and why they have this slight modification.

And then it dawned on me that these patches are most probably there simply to hide the holes made in the suits in order to connect the harnessed actors to the flying wires for the Zero G fight scenes at the end of the Hammer movie.  Get me, I'm like Captain Zep.

Anyway the only other question I have is what happened to the red and blue suits?  They're the only colours not to make it from the Moon to London Junkyard.  As speculated in the original post, I'm guessing that they were both too small to fit these actors but where did they wind up?  Surely they had a career of their own even if it was just modelling work on album covers or book jackets.  Anyone?

Enjoy the rest of the gallery.

 

 

 

 

 

Steve

Here Come The Double-Deckers (1970) - Invaders from Space

A joint American and British venture which managed 17 fun filled half hour episodes before getting its plug pulled.  It’s about a group of London kids whose club house just happens to be a Double-Decker bus in a scrap yard.

Its episode 12 we need to look at here which is called; Invaders from Space, and has the following set up;

Brains, the aptly named mad professor one of the gang, is working on an old TV, attempting to turn it from a Black and White to a Colour set.  It’s while doing this that the gang get to see images showing an alien invasion in progress.  It’s actually a commercial for a new bubble gum but the kids don’t know this.  The matter is compounded when the sweet company sends invaders out onto the streets to dispense free gum from gum shooting guns (Which is easier to type than say)

It obviously all gets cleared up in the end but just look at the costumes that the makers used for the alien invaders.  It’s my personal favourite; The Moon Zero Two suits, back out in public almost less than a year after their original airing.

Most of the colours seem to be here except maybe the red and the blue ones which if memory serves were originally made to fit smaller actors and so were perhaps not any good on these strapping chaps.

One point of trivia here is that Len the barman in Moon Zero Two was played by actor Sam Kydd who never got to pop on a suit in that film but is seen here sporting the yellow one.

Well fancy that!

Steve