MYSTERY FUTURISTIC BOAT

This was in my photo archive from last year. I have no idea what it is as I didn't label it. 

Presumably it reminded me of the Stingray Submarine Aircraft Carrier.

Those blister cockpits and split windscreens are totally Dan Dare too!

What do you think readers?

STARCOPS RADIO TIMES ARTICLE

I'm getting more and more intrigued by Star Cops and it's cult status, and that maybe I should re-access my thoughts on it.

Here's an article from the Radio Times I saw on the Star Cops fan page

The Radio Times front cover that Kevin D mentioned kindly provided from his own collection.

Cricket, Anyone ?

A quick Cricket refit in the style of the Molto Radar Car version, courtesy of some car paint and an Action Jack radar scanner!

KEVIN'S STAR COPS BADGES

It's becoming clear that our Kevin D is probably the world's biggest Star Cops fan, and has many items in his corner to reinforce this idea.

Here is Kev's latest addition to his Star Cops collection - an ESL-1 patch .This is a badge that would've been sewn onto the uniform of a crewmember working on the European Spacestation in the series (the 'Charles De Gaulle').Although it is certainly made for the series production though  Kevin couldn't swear it was actually used on the show.

 However, the other patches he owns  would have been used as they are sewn onto original costumes he already has in his collection.

To finish here's Kevin's original Star Cops prop gun, the pride of his collection.

A FEW MORE TITBITS

As Yorkie mentioned the Titbits magazine featuring Space I999 during his comment on my earlier Blake's Seven post, here's a reminder of the scans I took of my copy a while back.

STAR COPS THEME

Strictly for fans of the cult BBC 2 Sci-fi series, Star Cops (and Kevin)

'It Won't be Easy' performed by Justin Hayward, of Moody Blues fame.

When the series was beaten in the ratings by BBC 1 sitcom, Terry and June, I can see how apt the title was.

BLAKE'S SEVEN RADIO TIMES ARTICLE

A 1978 article heralding a new Sci-fi series for the BBC, Blake's Seven. 

I can still remember watching that first episode, and continued to follow it throughout all it's four seasons.

However it's not a series I've ever bothered to return to, as apart from the Liberator model, it just holds no appeal for me anymore. Maybe it's the pessimistic aspects of the story, or possibly the lack of what I consider to be  likeable characters - Avon tries to come close as the titular anti- hero, starting out as a Mr Spock clone in the early episodes, before finally evolving into a sardonic swash buckling space buccaneer.

I'll forgive the low budget effects, and the costumes that look like they came out of  a jumble sale. As we all know the BBC at the time just didn't have the resources to compete with glossy American space operas.  Not that it ever stopped them. Remember those other pedestrian  BBC dramas set in space, Star Cops and Moonbase 3!

X-40 SPACE ROCKET ADVERT AND TIMELINE ON ALPHADROME

If you like the X-40 from the X series of plastic Hing Kong toys [possibly JR21] then check out this cool thread on the uber-nifty Alphadrome forum re. a piccy of the space rocket in a US catalogue:

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