Captain Blue's Dad

by **Skybase Girl** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:48 am

I need a christian name for Blue's father in connection with a fanfic.

Does anyone know if his name was ever mentioned in the original character bios ? Most of the official stuff I've found just refers to him as General Svenson.

by **hazel** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 1:30 pm

In her story, Family Christmas ( http://www.spectrum-headquarters.com/fa ... istmas.htm ), Cat2 gives him the name of Abel. Seems logical enough, with his sons being called Adam, Luke and Benjamin.

Can't find anything official, though.

by **Intensity Angel** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 12:20 pm

There is very little offical information for the CGI characters, possibly due to the fcat that producers don't want to overload kids and all give what is given in the series really.

by **Marion** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 1:08 pm

Does that mean the viewers (kids) of the 60s were better able to deal with additional information than the children now? I doubt it. I suspect it all came down to money and the fact that ITV did not want to invest in promoting the show.

by **Intensity Angel** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:31 am

A really shame, Gerry Anderson was on to a winner.

It certainly would've been interesting to see what a Series Three had in stall for us. Maybe we'd have got more details on the other Angels.

by **Marion** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:34 pm

There was only ever one series of the original show - and that was a real tragedy. The difference is simply the extent of the merchandising that went along with it - we'd know very little about the original characters if we had to rely on the TV episodes.
The show was to entertain, the merchandise did the informing.

by **chrisbishop** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:38 pm

The show was to entertain, the merchandise did the informing.

... and also brought the money! :wink:

by **Skybase Girl** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 6:15 pm

Yes, Chris, it did bring in the money !

I think similar merchandise was in preparation for the new series, but it was such a damp squib that most of it was cancelled.

I still believe that all need not necessarily be lost with NCS. All it needs is someone with vision to present it differently. I accept that would take more money and investors would be understandably reluctant, but it could be done. After all, if you look at the music industry, there are many occasions of songs becoming hits on re-release,rather than on their first time around.

Getting back to Blue's dad, thanks for your comments, everyone. It would seem that there is no official christian name, which at least clarifies it for me. It's up to the fanfic writers from now on, I guess !

by **gojohnniegogo** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:53 pm

Marion wrote:There was only ever one series of the original show - and that was a real tragedy. The difference is simply the extent of the merchandising that went along with it - we'd know very little about the original characters if we had to rely on the TV episodes.
The show was to entertain, the merchandise did the informing.

All down to Lew Grade of course that.

by **Intensity Angel** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 12:36 pm

I wonder what Gerry Anderson thinks.

Y'know how we can give Captain Blue's dad any name in the world, well what would Gerry really think, seeing NCS expanding outwards into the unknown, with each fan fiction writer having their own different view points, own opinions on the characters, like me believing Rhapsody and Grey have naval backgrounds and serving along side one another, and then expanding on things within the series like the hinted fondness between Blue and Green.

It really is down to us to expand the series if you think about it.