Aren't you all grown up!

Thrilling news involving Pacey from Dawson's Creek (I mean, hot starlet Joshua Jackson):


He's to star in a new movie version of genius 1960s tv sci-fi series, UFO.


Made by those marianation Gods Gerry & Sylvia Anderson, UFO was meant to be the adult equivalent of Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the rest.


In fact, it was camper than an international Boy Scouts convention, due in no small measure to the costumes -- take the lovely Peter Gordeno, seen here in his uniform which I can only describe as a sort of string-vest style shirt:


All the crew on his submarine had to wear string-vests, including the laydeez, although in truth the crew on Moonbase had it worse -- there, the laydeez all had to wear silver lamé tights and, for some unknown reason, purple wigs:


I realise that, by now, I have almost certainly lost you, but this was 1969, the year of space possibilities (the moon landing had just taken place), and UFO was set in the futuristic time of, er, 1980.


Which is strange, because essentially they are refighting the Second World War (the all-female control room on Moonbase is just like those images of WRENs (the female Royal Navy), who staffed control rooms on land in WW2 while the brave boys were out at sea with the guns and the bombs and shit).


Did I tell you the lovely Peter Gordeno was in it, wearing his string-vest shirt through which you caught glimpses of his manly torso, his nipples and a forest of intra-pectoral manly hair...? I did? Er... there were some other blokes in it, too:


At the time, this was one of the most expensive tv series ever made, although clearly the budget didn't stretch to more than a single fighter plane (this one, piloted by the lovely, er, Peter Gordeno, appeared, on its own, week after week after week. God knows what would have happened if the aliens had managed to destroy it).


Still, luckily this frightfully advanced alien race, able to travel at, apparently, 75 million miles per second (!), had rubbish weapons that couldn't aim properly and had no means of defending their ultra-fast UFOs from the fearless Peter Gordeno, in his manly, er... [cont. on p.94].