Who Is Professor Buzby?

This is obviously a codename to hide someone one's true identity. After all Buzby was the fictional mascot of BT at the time

Buzby

But it doesn't stop there. Buzby is also a bee:

Buzby the Bee 

Ty Collectables

The birds and bees?!?! Whatever next? Cats?

Buzby by Julia Hoban

Oh dear

 

But wait! It could be a real name, after all

Buzby Family Name 

 

But, real name or not, there's still the problem of his behaviour. Why did he run away? If it was a secret government project, he would've been well protected. So what made him distrust this protection and set off on his own?

The Plot thickens - much like Bisto

 

Are There Hidden Messages In "The SK79 Formula"?

If you Google "SK79", you get some interesting results

Søhus Kegleklub 1979 (SK79)

Skegness Kit 1979

1979 Camaro Complete Stripe Kit - Orange/Tomato Red - Product Code SK79

Staab and Knaus, 1979

“Foreign Development and Application of Automated Controls for the Steel Industry, ” S.K. 79-10010

Schachklubs 1979

It is also a type of lock

a flexible solar panel

a plane route

and an old Ordnance Survey map reference Ordnance Survey, 1902-1906, 25 Inch Ordnance Survey County Series Map - Second Edition, SK 79 SE (Map). SLI3566

What could an an orange stripe possibly have to do with an old Ordnance Survey map?

Then when you look at the number "79", you get  this  and this and this:

If you add the two numbers together, you get 16

If you multiply them, you get the number 63

And is it just coincidence that the borg on Star Trek: Voyager is called 7of 9?

Then it gets really odd when you look up "Sheridan", the nom de plume of the film's producer, Chris Nott.

Sheridan Luxury Bed Linen 

Sheridan, Indiana  

Sheridan, Oregon

Sheridan County, Colorado
Sheridan City, Wyoming
Sheridan College, California
 

But by far the strangest things come up when you look at the name "Nott". Could this too be another nom de plume?
Oxford English Dictionary definition 
The Norse God of Night 
and let's not forget Nott The Brave

The SK79 Formula In Context

The Events
The Music
The Films

Was The SK79 Formula Discovered Or Invented?

It sounds like an invention doesn't it? A "formula" sounds like something you would create

However, it is ambiguous. Einstein deduced (that is, "discovered") his famous formula E=MC2

Of course, it is possible that Professor Busny was trying to invent something and discovered something else by accident

Or he could've invented something and then discovered that this wasn't the first time that it had been invented. If the earlier invention had been associated with dark calamity, that might explain why he ran away.

What Is The SK79 Formula?

"The SK79 Formula". An open and closed case - or is it?

The story that the film would have us believe is:

• That Professor Busby discovers the formula for synthetic fuel and runs away to France to escape enemy spies who wish to steal the formula
• On the very precipice of failure, the formula is passed on to a bunch of kids from Jersey who return home after a day trip to St Malo
• On their return to home, they are going to hand the formula over to authoriies but are prevented from doing so by those pesky enemy agents who kidnap the girl
• However, thanks to the law abiding citizens of Jersey, they're brought to justice and the formula was saved.

Or was it?

You see, there's one awkward problem that isn't addressed by this story: the girl, Diane, still knows the formula. She still has a copy in her head. What's stopping enemy agents from kidnapping her later and obtaining their own copy? True, the Black Shadow and three of his team are captured and stopped but he can't be the only one looking for it. And did we capture the entire team? Why do the spies have three digit number codes if there aren't hundreds of them?

For the safety of the formula, Diane, really needs to be locked away in a secure facility.

But she wasn't - so why not?

Now there are two possibilities:

1. She was hypnotised and given a false formula to recall if she was ever to be captured. That way, she could act as bait to trap any further enemy agents
2. She was locked away and was replaced by a clone or a robot. This one's less likely because Diane knew exactly where to find her fiance Terry at the end of the movie. Although, having said that, it wouldn't take much surveillance for a crack team to have tracked him down and informed her. Replacement by a clone or a robot would've been a little much for 70s technology but a lookalike given emergency cosmetic surgery could've done it. There is no indication of the time period between the capture of the enemy agents and the release of Diane

Either way, the SK79 Formula isn't what it appears to be.

And that means that nothing in the movie is what it appears to be because the nature of the formula defines everything else - the shadowy British Department, Professor Busby, the trip to France, the enemy agents and the ease with which they were defeated.

So the question is "What is the SK79 Formula?"