I remember it being called Project Bluebook

I remember it as Project Bluebook too.

Another vote here for "Project Bluebook." I watched this show religiously when it originally aired, even though it scared the bejeezus out of me, especially the alien in the window. My father actually worked at Wright-Patt after high school as a janitor and he cleaned the Project's offices. I have never heard of Project UFO until, like so many others here, I researched it, trying to see if it was out on DVD yet. I'm a pretty savvy TV viewer and have been since I was young; I'm pretty sure I would have recalled a different name. As you may have guessed, I was in Southern Ohio when I watched it in the 70's.

I must have been about 10 years old when it was on NBC back in the late 70's. I remember it as Project UFO...

Well ain't my face red....I would've sworn on a stack of bibles that the series was titled Project Bluebook BUT I happen to have the June 1979 MAD magazine issue which parodied the series and, sure enough, even MAD magazine calls the series Project UFO.

http://www.madcoversite.com/mad207.html

Maybe it's true that the pilot movie was called Project Bluebook and that's where the confusion comes in.

Human memory is a terribly fallible thing. I saw it broadcast as Project UFO on NBC, but the thing is, there are plenty of videos, still photographs, magazine articles in Starlog, Fantastic Films and other SF magazines of that era (I have a ton of scans of complete magazines and quite a few paper issues still treasured after 35 years), plus other evidence to back up my memory. Starlog 14 with a cover date of June 1978 had a feature article on the show interviewing producer Col. William Coleman, and every page called it Project UFO. Go to your local library and look at the microfilms of 1978 TV Guide issues. I can guarantee you they'll list Project UFO. Just think about it for a minute. "Project Blue Book" would be meaningless to someone looking through TV listings and not familiar with the show. But with the real title, anyone would instantly realize that it's about UFOs. The people who swear it was Project Blue Book can't produce a single shred of evidence. Not so much as one still frame with the credit, even though quite a few people had Betamaxes at the time, as evidenced by lots of 1978 commercials on YouTube. Which I guess is appropriate. The show covered UFOs, a topic in which people always made wild claims without any plausible evidence. How do you know you were abducted by aliens? "I remember it clear as day!"

In the Tampa area, it was Project U.F.O on WFLA. Loved it and Kolchak.

yeah, I was 12-13 and living in Seattle. it was definitely "Project Blue Book" there. I can see if they changed the title to perhaps gain audiences as "Project UFO" is more revealing a title regarding its content and it probably helped spell things out for the c areas of the country with lower IQs or more non-English speaking people




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I watched this show religiously as a kid. I'm sure I saw every episode, because like so many kids at the time I was fascinated by UFOs and this was the only show that took the subject seriously. I remember it being on NBC (Channel 13) and it was titled Project Blue Book where I lived in the Midwestern United States.

My memory is not faulty, nor is my grandmother's (or apparently the memory of many others who remember that title). I hadn't even thought of this show in years, I just happened to stumble onto the page while reading about the actress Virginia Gregg. And funny that even though I hadn't thought of it in years, I can remember quite a bit about it, like the opening credits, even specific episodes - including the one where the agents proved the UFO photo a fake because after careful analysis they found a wrinkle in the black velvet used as the background. So I have no doubt I remember the title correctly.

I even remember my grandmother telling me that she'd read about the show before it premiered and calling it Project Blue Book. It may have been titled Project UFO where some people lived - or in Australia- or when it was in reruns, but it was titled Project Blue Book where I lived when it was originally broadcast.

Recently I've seen the WWII show Baa Baa Black Sheep with Robert Conrad & John Larroquette is in reruns as Black Sheep Squadron. It was broadcast as Baa Baa Black Sheep when I was a kid, I remember quite clearly, because I also watched that show religiously (and my mom loathed it). So titles are changed. My guess from these two examples is so that syndication audiences can infer something about what the shows are about from the title. Project Blue Book and Baa Baa Black Sheep don't tell you anything, but Project UFO and Black Sheep Squadron do.