SkyDiver Operations

[@baronhyatt6729]

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

[@flyingphobiahelp]

Have the series on dvd

[@jamzst]

Watching this program as a kid whenever Sky One was launched it made my week! 😄

[@brianfuller7691]

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.

[@FandersonUfo]

3 amazings are worth 1 heart

[@dont-want-no-wrench]

purple girls rule.

[@internationalshito-ryufede9438]

I wanted to be a skyone pilot when growing up.

[@mad7206]

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

[@JESL_TheOnlyOne]

Yes, some details are delightfully pertinent.

[@jefftappan3091]

Same control stick in SKY 1 and interceptors.

[@billywilliams8708]

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 .

[@jonstone2466]

Skydiver was my all time favourite Gerry Anderson vehicle bar none.

[@FandersonUfo]

same here - 🛸✨

[@danielcifuentes7198]

I love this show. It was ahead anything of its time. Gerry Anderson passed away many years ago yet rules.

[@FandersonUfo]

🛸👽💚✨

[@MoivinSulunker]

I like the folks involved in this production, for the most bit.

[@fw1421]

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.

[@rolandoflores7626]

Simply...an awesome Tv 📺 series when I was 8,incredibles aereo & sea ships,thanx 🛸

[@deanthomas8026]

Brilliant series. I saw it In Awe as a Youngster in 1972.

[@authorknown1623]

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)

[@WynMills1]

Love those underwater smoke effects.

[@FandersonUfo]

The Skydiver launch footage is superb.

[@勝司堀川]

Stingray. Thunderbird4. and Skydiver … my favorite 😂

[@Dra741]

It was an amazing show they did a great job in the music fit thanks Barry Gray,

[@Valerifon1]

I can watch these episodes over and over! Simply the best! 😎👍

[@FandersonUfo]

Very glad you're enjoying UFO. Happy New Year.

[@williebowen1043]

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.

[@oldgoat142]

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.

[@christiane.g.4142]

it was cool wasn't it ?

[@davidmosley8699]

American Warhorse aw

[@RobertOconnor-vx9tf]

The sound of the UFO's scared the hell out of me as a kid

[@MoivinSulunker]

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"?

[@MoivinSulunker]

You should be thankful that hell is no longer inside of you.

[@RobertOconnor-vx9tf]

it's called auto correct so blame my phone ​@@MoivinSulunker

[@MoivinSulunker]

Honest to gosh? @@RobertOconnor-vx9tf

[@MoivinSulunker]

Auto incorrect. @@RobertOconnor-vx9tf

[@MichaelWilliams-mo1vv]

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.

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

Star Trek ships, vessels 🎬 seem to have the same problem. Except for TNG Star Trek Enterprise....

[@temujin0911]

never underestimate imaginary technology…

[@MichaelWilliams-mo1vv]

@@temujin0911 lol I also used to watch Voyage to the bottom of the sea and the 'Seaview' also had the same issue 😅

[@temujin0911]

@@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

[@toddcanipe1190]

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.

[@HansZarkovPhD]

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.

[@FandersonUfo]

Could not agree more but am doubtful that Hollywood would get it right

[@FandersonUfo]

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

[@christiane.g.4142]

So SO right !

[@christiane.g.4142]

this and 1999. Maybe they could retitle it "Space 2069" or something

[@screenPhiles]

@@FandersonUfo And they've tried.

[@bigkiwimike]

Love all of these shots especially the opening sequence in her pen. The model making is superb.

[@nihilistcentraluk442]

Goes well with the bathtub setting

[@maureencora1]

I Like All the SkyDiver Episodes.

[@marcphghilippart3638]

Everything was fine in all the scifi series of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson

[@FandersonUfo]

I'd go with superb rather than fine actually.

[@DiscoR53]

WOW 🤩 I haven’t seen this since I was a child! Thank you 😊

[@mikecollett9152]

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

[@jeffberger6162]

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.

[@magicdave93]

Yes I always used to think that lol, take moonraker for instance but it’s still a classic

[@KOLDBLU3ST33L]

I'm too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt....so sexy, it hurts."

[@bomberdog5543]

lmao!!! good one!!

[@scottn7cy]

Fred had nothing on these guys

[@NeillR]

:D

[@WalterDWormack214]

@@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.

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

Sky One looks like a flying brick! I love it!

[@iskandartaib]

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.

[@polestarg6512]

That's nostalgic. I watched every week when I was a kid in Japan.

[@FandersonUfo]

Very glad you have happy memories of Gerry Anderson's UFO. Best regards Fanderson

[@polestarg6512]

@@FandersonUfo Since the DVD was released by Deagostini a few years ago, I have the part that was broadcast in Japan,

[@FandersonUfo]

@@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.

[@michaelalexander43]

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...

[@musiclover5023]

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.

[@scotpens]

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!

[@FandersonUfo]

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.

[@jamesmartin9401]

Wouldn't it be funny to find out it was in Hebrew, or Kanji on the starboard side?

[@sarasarah1810]

morse code dots...lol

[@avengersseven7357]

I have had a SkyDiver toy for years and I never noticed that it didn't have SkyDiver on the left (starboard) side.

[@bigdmac33]

Good Grief... all the years I watched this and it never occurred to me! Well done!

[@jamesricker3997]

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

[@FandersonUfo]

ty Mr. Ricker - had not heard that excuse before now - 🛸✨

[@joedpanopio5987]

I watch this when I was still a kid...elementary in fact....just that it never last long

[@intercommerce]

Love it, reminds me of Stingray

[@martingregoire8387]

I bet the retirement parties for the SHADO personnel were always fun. "Hey, before you go, have a cup of coffee!"

[@jorgelabrador4390]

I love the fishnet uniform.

[@billywilliams8708]

I don't know why ? UFO and SPACE 1999 SHOULD BE ON ME TV .

[@Jack-pm1ve]

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

[@FandersonUfo]

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

[@FranciscoPartidas]

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

[@martythemartian99]

Thunderbird 4 conversion with a drab paint job :)

[@eddiebrown120]

Loved it, and still do!

[@chrisjohnston4445]

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).

[@donaldclay9535]

Skydiver were My Favorite Episodes.

[@sansabark]

I like how it says Sky on the bit that flies and Diver on the part that dives.

[@viceroy7792]

That SkyDiver captain is an ACE!

[@FandersonUfo]

🛸✨

[@NothingMaster]

Nice special effects for its time.

[@stevenbaer4979]

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.

[@FandersonUfo]

There's trump's space farce now. It won't be flying soon though I'd guess.

[@kbrich-nn8od]

This was the coolest thing ever for kids growing up'/!!!

[@hankmessaros1835]

Shows today don't know how to do specail effects like they did back in the day, UFO was great

[@gouryg4774]

Well the current Thunderbirds Are Go series does a nice job of combining miniatures, practical effects, animatronics, and CGI for the show.

[@bridgetoofar8756]

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.

[@gruntsjh]

I loved this show!

[@MrJohn49g]

i always thought this show was so cool when I was a teenager.

[@jonmiguel]

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???)

[@WhiteRavenSong]

gotta love the fishnet shirts, LOL

[@jefftappan3091]

MHD turbines? A ' kids' show, ahead of adult dramas? Only Gerry Anderson.

[@russell5078084]

Wish they had shown how those 2 redocked.

[@0456vinvin]

「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。

[@michiganengineer8621]

I had forgotten how wonderfully unisex the uniforms were in this series.

[@jrpanciotti8863]

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.

[@rjust2297]

Yeaaa it was looking to see what you have to say about that

[@frankortolano5886]

I loved this show

[@isammolina4842]

Linda calidad de imagen y sonido.😊👍🌹🍃🌹🌠💎

[@stevekiberd3474]

I use to have to wear those string vests in the RAF Fire Service 😂😂😂😂

[@senoseno7763]

Good job fair

[@lancerevell5979]

One of my favorite SciFi series. And SkyDiver was my favorite vehicle on the show.

[@bc1953]

You knew it was going to be horrible by they're fishnet uniform shirts 🤣🤣

[@sng2225]

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.

[@FandersonUfo]

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 - kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqmpoIiOj52ZidE - 🛸👽

[@sng2225]

@@FandersonUfo Thanks so much! I will definitely have a look into this.

[@FandersonUfo]

@@sng2225 - 🛸👽💚👍

[@1701_FyldeFlyer]

Instead of half the crap on tv nowadays, UFO would be great for a re boot if done correctly.

[@FandersonUfo]

yep - most importantly "correctly"

[@RobertWilke]

@@FandersonUfo very much so. Would be fun to watch.

[@kennethneece4838]

In some ways the TV show UFO was kind of like Thunderbirds, with scenes and aircrafts and all!😏😄

[@masonhancock5350]

The future we deserved but didn't get.

[@60_daysff_per_year]

Georgina - Moon is charming!!

[@CritterFritter]

I’d be more focused on extricating my undershorts from my buttocks after sliding down the ramp, and miss the battle completely. Hate it when that happens.

[@maureencora1]

These Were My Favorite UFO Episodes.

[@federicoestrella2567]

still love the effects

[@FandersonUfo]

1969

[@fw1421]

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!🤔🤔🤔

[@FandersonUfo]

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.

[@jamesfrench7299]

@@FandersonUfo It was a cool concept for the viewer.

[@FandersonUfo]

@@jamesfrench7299 - it's marvelous - never gets old - 🛸✨

[@johnrettig1880]

I'm glad that I'm not onboard that Sky 1 when they launch Everything and everyone would be sliding Bas Accerds That's why I'm onboard the SeaVeview DON'T have that problem to launch the Fling Sub

[@hugobidinost2705]

que epoca!!!!! siempre miraba esta serie desde chico. para esa epoca buenos efectos

[@leandroborrajo8149]

Que copado !!! Muy bueno

[@andrewmacdonald8076]

Good design of the equipment from decades ago🥝🇳🇿😎

[@Dra741]

The girls on Moonbase even to this day there on the height of my fantasy

[@donaldclay9535]

Yeah, 5'8" 38*28*38 (smile)

[@scrmepal]

Life seems so dull nowadays.............I remember the days when we humans had to protect ourselves from UFO invasions........:)

[@mzmadmike]

No fair that the female crew get undershirts and the men only have mesh.

[@williebowen1043]

Love the S.HA.D.O. SKYDIVER Submarine. Just wished that it was equipped with Laser cannons.

[@trevorgwelch7412]

I like the uniforms .

[@fooman2108]

I always thought it was nice that someone modified the F-86 Sabre (from the Korean War) to swim! LOL

[@Oxygene1841]

I didn't realise Timothy whatshisname was in UFO on the Skydiver,I only knew him from that vet tv series .

[@FandersonUfo]

Christopher Timothy. Can be tough to remember as the first and last names are interchangeable.

[@ShimaJiro2205]

American and Soviet military engineers would have said: "The top secret has leaked!" The idea of skydivers was groundbreaking.

[@高津浩幸]

小学生の頃､スカイダイバｰのプラモデルを作って遊んでいました｡スカイ1の中には､シャドウモｰビルが収納されておりました｡月面基地にある､インタｰセプタｰも作りました｡敵のU.F.O.は､紡績糸で吊るすタイプでした｡海中から､スカイ1が出撃するシｰンは､今見てもカッコイイのであります｡

[@patrickfullan9509]

Ever notice how it always launches in the EXACT same location in the ocean?

[@bb21again.67]

I loved this show as a kid but I couldn't grasp was the major discrepancy in scale which is a major sin in all scifi vehicles, "the inside is always much bigger than the outside".

[@lantastic1]

“Keepin mind it’s just a show....”

[@JulioHernandez-zs5pb]

Recuerdo está serie cuando era yo muy pequeño y por el horario en que la transmitían , de noche, no me dejaban verla por qué se supone debería estar dormido.

[@silviofrancisconi2813]

Sensacional 👏😃👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 AMAZING 💯💥💯💥💯💥💯💥💯💥💯

[@gooscooby5988]

It would not be unusual for an advanced alien ufo capable of travelling millions of miles to be shot down by a 20mm cannon or rocket. You only have to look at how an outdated aircraft like the fairy swordfish defeated the advanced German battleship Bismarck in the last unpleasantness with Germany. Plus if I was an alien and I had flown past moonbase and caught a glance of the personnel running that base, I would have slowed my ufo down a bit and my attention would have been elsewhere other than defending m6 spacecraft I would wager ".....it might just be me though !

[@nx1941]

Bloody hell thats , Christopher Timothy from All creatures great and small ,

[@FandersonUfo]

yep

[@annoyed707]

One can only surmise that the two parts are combined again by a squad called the King's Men in a procedure known as Operation Humpty Dumpty.

[@FandersonUfo]

lol - indeed they never show them re-docking but imply that it's happened a few times

[@garcare]

Never heard of the the series in the '70s

[@reyvellcasillas4894]

es una magnifica serie de mi adolescencia

[@FandersonUfo]

gracias por sus comentarios señor