One of the worst things about acting is that people consider you will do anything for money. This could not be further from the truth. I myself am very, very picky about my work, and limit myself to leading man, romantic lead, supporting roles, tv cameos, tv main roles, extra work, radio, commercials, product endorsement, voice overs, charactorisation, character voices, webcasts, chat shows, panel games, opening supermarkets, judging vegetables, judging cat, dog, horse and reptile shows, opening fairs, book signings, reality television, writing, appearing at literary festivals, doing childrens' travelling theatre, hosting radio discussion shows, writing scripts, promoting my new range of dietary products, the shopping channel and of course hand shadows.
It is with great pride then I notice the SciFi channel are repeating 'USF Collosus', the sci-fi series I made some years hence with Windsor Davies. I played Captain Trent Tugbote, a rough and ready captain exploring the depths of space with his intrepid crew, which included Davies as First Officer Llew, an alien from the planet Kharki. There was a scottish engineer, Mr McTavish, and a Doctor we called 'The Spine'. Although his real name was Eric. Now, some of you are thinking 'this is just a Star Trek rip off'. You would be wrong. It was a different from Star Trek as it is possible to be. For a start, our mission was seven years, and there were no pointy ears. Windsor did have a gelatinous moustache, but I am not sure that was down to make up or the soup at lunch. Plus, our space ship resembled a plate, balanced on a pile of old tyres, painted green with a tv ariel coming out the top. Which in fact, it was. We explored planets, not worlds. We didn't seek out new life or civilisations, but we did stumble across a few inhabited worlds which seems to have a social structure. Plus our teleport technology consisted of a curtain and a big ladder.
We didn't have Phasers, we had Phosers, and they could be set to Stun, Stun some more or Gobsmack. But never kill. And Windors' character didn't have a tricorder. He had a quadcorder, which could detect aliens with ten miles, analise whatever world we were on for dangerous gases and toxins, and most importantly, get Radio 5 live.
So completely different.
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