Alternative 3 is a television program, broadcast only once in the UK in 1977, and then broadcast in Australia, Canada and New Zealand, as a fictitious hoax, heir to radio production Orson Welles' < i> The War of the Worlds . Acknowledged as an investigation into Britain's contemporary "contemporary brain drain", Alternative 3 finds plans to make the Moon and Mars fit for in the event of climate change and the ultimate environmental disaster on Earth.
The program was originally intended to be broadcast on April Fool, 1977. While its broadcast was postponed until June 20, the credit explicitly filed the movie to April 1st. Alternative 3 ends with credits for actors involved in production and displays interviews with fictitious American astronauts.
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This program is presented as an edition of the Anglia TV series called Science Report . The date of transmission is April 1, but it appears Anglia can not get an ITV network slot for the program on that date due to strike action/labor dispute. The manuscript was written by Chris Miles and David Ambrose. Music is supplied by Brian Eno, some of its value being released on the album Music for Films (1978). Regardless of the presenter Tim Brinton, all the characters in the program are played by actors who are explicitly credited in the end.
This episode begins by detailing what is called "brain drain:" a number of mysterious disappearances and deaths of physicists, engineers, astronomers, and others in related fields. Among the strange deaths reported were one "Professor Ballantine" from Jodrell Bank. Prior to his death, Ballantine sent a video recording to a friend in the media, but after it was screened, the tape seemed to contain only static.
According to the study presented in the episode, it is hypothesized that the missing scientists were involved in the secret plan of the Soviet/USSR in space, and further suggested that interplanetary space travel has been possible for longer than is commonly accepted. This episode features Apollo astronaut "Bob Grodin" (played by Shane Rimmer) who claims to have stumbled upon a mysterious moon base during his moonwalk.
It is said that scientists have determined that the Earth's surface will not be able to support life any longer, because of the pollution that causes catastrophic climate change. The physicist "Dr. Carl Gerstein" (played by Richard Marner) claims to have filed in 1957 that there are three alternatives to this problem. The first alternative is the drastic reduction of the human population on Earth. The second alternative is the construction of extensive underground shelters for government officials' homes and cross-section of the population until the climate has stabilized, a reminiscent solution at the end of Dr Strangelove . A third alternative, called "Alternative 3," is to populate Mars via a road station on the Moon.
The program concludes with some detective work; acting on the basis of information from Grodin, the reporters determined that Ballantine's videotape requires a special decomposition device. After finding the decoder, the resulting video turned out to describe the American and Russian joint landings on the surface of Mars in 1962.
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Production
The program was created with a stock movie used at the time to make it look like a conventional documentary program. In a 1989 interview, actor Richard Marner (Dr. Carl Gerstein) said he did not train his dialogue to make the delivery look as natural as possible.
Reception
Within minutes after the program ended, Anglia Television was flooded with phone calls demanding more information. The caller was told that the program was a lie. The Times on June 21 reported that "The independent television company last night received hundreds of protest calls after the Anglia program, Alternative 3 , gave alarming facts about changes in Earth's atmosphere. , originally intended for April 1. "It also shows that some of the characters in the program are played by famous actors.
Nick Austin, who was editor-in-chief of Sphere Books when Watkins's adaptation was commissioned and published, wrote that the book was "the best chance I've ever had to participate in Guy Grand's proportion scam - the best of its kind since Orson Welles War of the Worlds radio broadcasts. "
Austin writes that he is equally pleased and disturbed by the controversy of Alternative 3, and adds that the reason "clever hoax, acknowledged openly by its creator, should continue to train its appeal so clearly whether the best part of the generation after his first appearance was beyond my analytical skills and my weak explanations. "
A more detailed explanation of this trick is shown in the study of subculture and literary conspiracy theories, Conspiracy Culture: Apocalyptic Vision in Contemporary America (2003), where Michael Barkun devotes several pages to > Alternative 3 .
Barkun writes that "Alternative 3 is clearly a hoax - and not just because it was intended to be broadcast on April Fools." Interviews with scientists, astronauts and others who were thought to be too polished to have been spontaneous , and in any case, the episode cover credits calling actors taking on the roles of interviewees and correspondents.Although carefully produced, the false documentary of the event can hardly be expected to deceive many people.As televised spokeswoman Anglia , "We feel that viewers will be pretty sophisticated about it. '"
Barkun notes that television and newspapers were "inundated" with questions about Alternative 3 and Anglia Television's book sales to Leslie Watkins caused the story to spread far beyond the UK.
Books
In 1978, Leslie Watkins wrote a science fiction book based on a screenplay for a television episode. Watkins has previously written several quite successful novel "suspense thrillers," and his novel Alternative 3 detailes many of the claims presented in the episode. It was published by Sphere Books Ltd, from Grays's Inn Road, London. In the book, many fictional characters are replaced with real people. For example, a quote from fictional astronaut Bob Grodin is associated with real-life astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Edgar Mitchell.
Jim Keith Handbook on Alternative 3: UFO, Secret Societies and World Control (Illuminet Pr) ISBN: 0-9626534-9-7, argues that some elements of the 1977 broadcast were correct.
Ken Mitchell's novel, Alternative 3 (HarperCollins) ISBN 0-7322-7703-5 uses the Alternative 3 scenario as background for techno-thriller. [1]
On June 20, 2010, the 33rd anniversary of the original Anglia television broadcast, an alleged "Untrenched" Alternate 3 text was released as an e-book. [2]
DVD release
The film was released on DVD in October 2007, along with 30 minutes featured with Tim Brinton presenter and writer David Ambrose and Christopher Miles who also directs Alternative 3 ; gallery production stills; and contemporary press cuttings are presented in slow-moving rostrum camera shots.
The film is taken from a 16mm mold with optical sound. According to Miles in the featurette, this is his personal copy, and the only survivor.
Influence
Barkun notes that Alternative 3 and the availability of Watkins's intermittent books "were lent to conspiracy interpretations," and although Alternative 3 does not mention UFOs or extraterrestrials, many of the plans are mentioned in Alternative 3 has been featured in various conspiracy theories later. Barkun argues that Alternative 3 is important because "its role in the growth of conspiracy theories lies in the later permutations" associated with UFOs and UFO conspiracy theories. Milton William Cooper, for one, displays similar stories in several of his writings.
Episode Dimension X shows a very similar plot to that later Alternative 3 : On July 14, 1950 episode "The Man In the Moon", a fictitious employee of United State "Bureau of the Lost "heard a radio broadcast from a man claiming to be held on the Moon. The employee investigated, and exposed the abduction of many people, including scientists and engineers, who were then forced to work hard on the Moon by German inspectors, who had colonized the Moon in the late 1930s, and were preparing for the invasion and expropriation of the Earth. In turn, the Iron Sky movie also tells the story of the Nazi month base and the planned Earth invasion.
The novel Sold for Space Ships (1973) by Philip High was set after the global ecological disaster; the ruling elite who fled into space to return to Earth, but found that they could not survive, while those who remained had adapted.
Canadian rock song Ian Thomas 1979 "Pilot" clearly has something to do with 3 Alternative myths.
The album of Liverpool doom metal band Anathema 1998 Alternative 4 is also named after the program.
The Psychedelic Monster Magnet rock band has a song about the conspiracy, entitled "The Third Alternative" on their Dopes to Infinity album.
Ben Elton's novel by Stark presents a rich and powerful conspiracy to escape from the cursed Earth that is very similar to those described in Alternative 3 .
The "Alternative Three" song on the album Karma Had It Coming by Nova Scotia's punk rock band, The Broomhandles took the inspiration from this program.
The Costa Botes quoted Alternative 3 as one of the influences that inspired it to produce a New Zealand Forgotten Silver imitation with Peter Jackson.
A character in the 1991 film Richard Linklater Slacker, described by Jerry Delony, claims that Alternative 3 is "really real" and that humans have been on Mars since 1962.
UK punk rock band UFX released a video using a cliche of Alternative 3 video footage, an alien Roswell autopsy and a Nazi flying saucer to accompany the title song of the 2013 Reverse Engineering album.
References
Further reading
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Barkun, Michael. The Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Vision in Contemporary America . ISBN: 0-520-23805-2.
External links
- Alternative 3 in IMDb
- Alternative 3 - The Most Dangerous TV Show Ever Been in Network Anomalies article on Alternative 3
- Guide to the Unknown: Alternative 3 - The Most Dangerous TV Show Ever Done in Livestream
- Christopher Miles
- Forty years on elaborate television tricks that shock the world | Anglia - ITV News
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