Somthing for the Weekend - Barbarella (1968)

Welcome to 2019.  Its been a while since I posted although I've carried on replying to the various comments that have appeared over the last couple of months - thanks and keep them coming.

Anyway I'll try and pick up the pace a bit for this newest of years so lets start with something almost only half a spacesuit but full on sexy..... if Jane Fonda is your kind of thing...and why wouldn't she be!

What follows are some very nice images for just one of the outfits featured in the 1968 sci-fi classic Barbarella but after that I strongly recommend that you follow the link below to view the rest of her intergalactic wardrobe.  Its a fascinating collection of images and contains quite a few I hadn't seen before.

https://www.vintag.es/2018/08/barbarella-costumes.html

Once you've been over there and had a good look you might want to go watch the movie and get in on the fun.  It's kept me entertained for decades over repeated viewing and there really is nothing quite like it. 


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Steve

TV-Times Spetember 21 - 27 (1968)

I stumbled over this image a couple of days ago of the TV listing magazine  TV-Times from September 1968.  From what I can gather the cover is not a specific image from a TV show but it caught my eye because to me that looks like one of the Windak suits, which featured in a variety of places through out the 60s and 70s.  Ill update the post with more details should I discover them.

 

 

Steve

Behind the Scenes - A 12th Gallery

2001 A Space Odyssey  (1968)

 

Moontrap 1989

 

 The Quatermass Experiment 1953

 

Outer Limits - Moonstone 1964

 

Outer Limits - Moonstone 1964

 

 

Steve

Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space (1968) - A Gallery

We've been here before of course but that was before I was pointed in the direction of episode 6, one of the two surviving episodes of this second Doctor and the Cybermen, six part story from 1968.  And the reason to explore episode 6 in greater detail is that, as you will see, it reveals that the BBC actual used three Windak suits and not just two as originally blogged.  It is my belief that these were the same suits as featured the film; First Men in the Moon in 1964, and again in Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet, the first Doctor's last story and the Cyberman's first, in 1966.  I would make a fairly safe bet that between their appearance here in The  Wheel in Space and then guesting in Star Wars IV in 1977, they did feature in other sci-fi shows and films as well.  As of yet I've no idea what that might be but if anyone has caught a glimpse in an episode of Out of the Unknown or Doom Watch, etc, I would love to hear about it. Until then enjoy the images.

Thanks to Philip Ayres for telling me where to find these.  You are a star, sir.


Steve

Look and Learn (1968)

Look and Learn was a British weekly educational magazine for children published by Fleetway Publications Ltd from 1962 until 1982. It contained educational text articles that covered a wide variety of topics from volcanoes to the Loch Ness Monster, a long running science fiction comic strip - The Trigan Empire, adaptations of famous works of literature into comic form, as well as serialized works of fiction such as The First Men in the Moon.

Steve

I Dream of Jeannie - U.F.Oh Jeannie (1968)

Season 4, episode 1.

Landing in a flying saucer spacecraft, Tony and Roger are captured by hillbillies who think that they are Martians.

Mmm!  No face plates. A slight oversight


Steve

Vega 4 (1968)

Vega 4 is an Australian TV serial from way back in 1968.  I know very little about this show other than what I learned here; http://www.classicaustraliantv.com/phx5.htm.  Below are images from the opening credits.

Steve.

Danger: Diabolik (1968)

As part of our occasional feature of;  "Not Really A Spacesuit but..." I would like to present one of the stylishly super cool outfits as worn by John Phillip Law in 1968's Danger: Diabolik

I would like you to study them at length and pay no attention to Diabolik's super sexy girlfriend; Eva Kant.  This was not a feeble excuse to show pictures of the delightful Merisa Mell as that would be cheap and beneath us all.

This post is dedicated to all the people that have made my blog posts on Saturn 3 the most viewed of all posts during the 5 years of doing Say; Hello Spaceman by almost double those of any other post.  Because we all know that Saturn 3 has the very best spacesuits ever and there's no other reason it might be quite so popular

 

.....is there!

"Merry Christmas ya filthy animals"

Steve

The Heirs of King Kong (1968)

The Heirs of King Kong or "Gli eredi di King Kong" as they say in Italy is actually the film Destroy All Monsters, rebranded with a cheeky little reference to the greatest of the apes who of course isn't in the actual film.

And if you think  that's just a tad underhand and misleading perhaps you should have a closer look at the spacemen featured in both of these two Italian promotional posters.

Yes, those are indeed a couple of different images of Shado astronauts from the British TV series; UFO, who, unsurprisingly, also don't feature in this film. - Sneaky! 

This one is for you, Tim.  It seems you weren't the only one who thought the actual suits used in this film were uninspiring.


Steve

Destroy All Monsters (1968)

Destroy All Monsters, released in Japan as Kaijū Sōshingeki  (Attack of the Marching Monsters)is the ninth entry in the original Godzilla series.

I used to love these films as a nipper, a regular of the Saturday morning movies on TV, after or instead of TISWAS.  Unfortunately nobody seems to put them on any more and I also suspect they might not have translated through the years so I might just keep the memories intact.

Don't especially remember these chaps but then despite the bright colour, they're not an especially memorable design.

Thanks again Tim


Steve

UFO - Close Up (1970)

Just another episode of Gerry Anderson's UFO with its lovely often recycled space suits.  Here they are looking all yellow and freshly painted from being in Journey to the Far Side of the Sun.

You can even see both types of helmet and all the usual space-tech gubbins a chap might need in space

 No oxygen tanks on the back though, not in this show.  Its all in the shoulder unit

 Hang on a minutes!  What's all this about then

 Wow!  Is that what I think it is?

Blimey Crickey!   And Kubrick was adamant that everything should be destroyed after filming, lest it all get recycled and cheapen his original.

 Not sure?  Think its a copy?

Well, firstly, every other type of spacesuit's chest and back unit from 2001 turned up in Doctor Who and other shows through the 70's so why not this one.  And secondly picture 4 shows this...

which looks a lot like this.... 

...from picture 7.

My best guess is when they picked it out the skip at Shepperton Studios it needed a bit of repair work and the top seems far more likely a place to stick it back on than where it appears on the original.

All that remains is to say thanks to Mr Nowak for leading me to this.  You are a star.


Steve

2001 - A Space Odyssey (1968) - Lobby Cards

Steve