Editing Alternative 3 (section)

==Broadcast==
The programme was presented as an edition of an [[ITV Anglia|Anglia]] series ''Science Report''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://theunredacted.com/alternative-3-secret-space-program/|title=Alternative 3 – Secret Space Program|date=9 March 2016|newspaper=theunredacted.com|language=en-UK|access-date=18 November 2016}}</ref><ref>[https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/-/director-returns-to-norwich-to-relive-tv-hoax-that-shocked-the-world Director returns to relive TV hoax that shocked the world – Press Release – UEA]</ref> The intended transmission date was 1 April, but it seems that Anglia was unable to obtain an ITV network slot for the programme on that date due to strike action or labour disputes.{{citation needed|date=December 2017}}

Having aired once in the [[United Kingdom]], ''Alternative 3'' was later aired in [[Australia]], [[Canada]], and [[New Zealand]]. The programme was originally meant to be aired on [[April Fools' Day]] 1977, but its broadcast was delayed to 20 June.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/exopolitica/esp_exopolitics_ZJ01.htm|title=Alternative 3 – The Saga Lives On|website=www.bibliotecapleyades.net|access-date=18 November 2016}}</ref> ''Alternative 3'' ended with credits for the actors involved in the production and featured interviews with a fictitious American astronaut.

The interviews with supposed [[scientist]]s, [[astronaut]]s, and others were far too dramatically polished to have been spontaneous, and in any case, the episode's closing credits named the actors who took the roles of interviewees and correspondents.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}} Though artfully produced, the show's counterfeit [[documentary film|documentary]] style could scarcely have been expected to fool many.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}} As an Anglia TV spokesman put it, 'We felt viewers would be fairly sophisticated about it.'"{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}