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Series Description:
Aliens are visiting the Earth and kidnapping humans. An organization called SHADO is formed
to defend us from them. SHADO has several lines of defense. Missiles can be launched from a
base on the Moon. High altitude aircraft can attack after being launched from submarines.
There are also a fleet of armored vehicles spread out all over the planet. The episodes typically
involve attempted alien attacks and how Earth defenses stop them.
UFO Tv Show Cast:
Ed Bishop ................. Colonel Ed Straker
George Sewell ............. Colonel Alec Freeman
Peter Gordeno ............. Captain Peter Carlin
Grant Taylor .............. General James Henderson
Michael Billington ........ Colonel Paul Foster
Gabrielle Drake ........... Lieutenant Gay Ellis
UFO Tv Show Trivia:
SHADO is an acronym for "Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organization". It is a control center hidden underground beneath a movie studio somewhere near London, England.
Earth had a satellite in orbit to detect the UFOs. It was called SID, another acronym for, "Space Intruder Detector".
Ed Bishop (Colonel Straker) was born with the name George Bishop. He had to change his first name because there was already an actor named George Bishop.
The UFOs on the tv show could travel many times the speed of light, but would overheat and blow up if they spent more than a few days in Earth's atmosphere.
The women on the Moonbase all wore purple wigs. Sylvia Anderson, who along with her husband Gerry created the show, thought that some day in the future wigs might become part of a uniform. It sounds silly today, but wigs were very popular at that time before all of the hair care products we have today. In fact, Ed Bishop, George Sewell and Michael Billington also all wore wigs on the show!
Gerry and Sylvia Anderson also created the tv show "Thunderbirds" and "Fireball XL-5" prior to UFO. They went on after UFO to create "Space 1999".
Colonel Straker's car had a few features that seemed pretty far off into the future in 1970 but are both available today. It had a car phone and an intruder alarm that automatically notified Headquarters in case he needed assistance of any kind. Science fiction usually becomes a fact of life sooner or later!
Either the writers made a major blunder or the aliens were also liars. In episode #6 "E.S.P." it is stated that the aliens' planet is dying and they meant us no harm. Then in episode #9 "Destruction", some aliens tried to wipe out all life on the planet.
UFO Dvds Are Available
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UFO Dvds Megaset - All 26 Episodes!
This 8 Dvd set also has some great bonus features including deleted scenes, photo galleries, commentary tracks by the series' creators/director/actors, a Gerry Anderson biography, ... Read More
Episodes List With Original Airdates
UFO Tv Show - The First Season
1... Identified (9/16/1970)
2... Exposed (9/23/1970)
3... The Cat With Ten Lives (9/30/1970)
4... Conflict (10/7/1970)
5... A Question Of Priorities (10/14/1970)
6... E.S.P. (10/21/1970)
7... Kill Straker! (11/4/1970)
8... Sub-Smash (11/11/1970)
9... Destruction (12/2/1970)
10. The Square Triangle (12/9/1970)
11. Close Up (12/16/1970)
12. The Psychobombs (12/30/1970)
13. Survival (1/6/1971)
14. Mindbender (1/13/1971)
15. Flight Path (1/20/1971)
16. The Man Who Came Back (2/3/1971)
17. The Dalotek Affair (2/10/1971)
18. Timelash (2/17/1971)
19. Ordeal (4/14/1971)
20. Court Martial (5/1/1971)
21. The Computer Affair (5/15/1971)
22. Confetti Check A-O.K. (6/10/1971)
23. The Sound Of Silence (6/17/1971)
24. Reflections In The Water (6/24/1971)
UFO Tv Show - The Second (Very Short) Season
25. The Responsibility Seat (5/8/1973)
26. The Long Sleep (5/15/1973)
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