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Season 1 – UFO

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A secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO defends Earth from alien invaders.

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UFO — Season 1

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Maureen Koch Los Angeles Free Press 01/07/2020
A British import that plays like a combination of the worst traits of Batman and Star Trek. Go to Full Review Tony Jones Starburst 09/25/2018
10/10
To a large extent UFO is still very watchable (and looks great thanks to the restoration), even if effects have moved on considerably in the past several decades. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Howard C @RT87813774 04/17/2022 Amazing for its time and it very largely holds up. Surprisingly dark. People pay dearly. Some excellent stories. Special efforts are very good: outstanding when you remember that it's 52 years old (and made on a British tv budget, but way ahead of the Doctor Who special effects of the day. I don't understand why it hasn't been remade. It's absolutely crying out for it. Two trivia: Wanda Ventham who plays Colonel Virginia Lake is Benedict Cumberbatch's mum. And Big Finish (best known for endless Doctor Who audio stories) is reimagining U.F.O. They are bringing out two audio sets of three stories each in August this year. (And NO, I'm not getting paid in any shape or form for the plug). One weakness: there are one or two jaw-dropping sexist scenes. And some aspects of the manly-men doesn't quite jive today but not egregiously. There's sensitivity in there too. I loved it as a kid and I love it now. See more 08/09/2021 This show is awesome because it takes everything we've known & they dive back into so many great stories like SKINWALKER RANCH for example...If you are interested in 👽Alien👽Shit you'll love this show! Also I know it's 1st episode just aired but I've watched all episodes for free online so LMK if you are interested in watching it for free 100% free no sign up or credit card ever required See more Dave S @RT88116482 07/11/2021 Love this series . Good effects and a fine cast . Plenty of action..great models See more 02/11/2020 Great scenario. Cinematography absolutely original. Unique. See more peter m @RT17062669 12/10/2018 This is one of my all-time favourites. Serious, even grim sometimes with good strong episode plot lines and victory is always achieved at such terrible cost. If you can only watch one episode, watch timelash. See more Read all reviews
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Gerry Anderson

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Sylvia Anderson

Creator

Reg Hill

Creator

George Sewell

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Ed Bishop

Actor

Philip Madoc

Actor

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Sep 16, 1970 Identified A wounded alien is captured after a flying saucer is shot down during an attack on a SHADO airborne mission. Details Episode 2 Aired Sep 23, 1970 Exposed Straker (Ed Bishop) commissions civilian test pilot Paul Foster (Michael Billington) to join SHADO as a colonel in the organization. Details Episode 3 Aired Sep 30, 1970 Kill Straker Straker tries to cure Craig and Foster of a hypnotic urge to murder him induced by aliens who followed their craft to Earth. Details Episode 4 Aired Sep 30, 1970 Cat With 10 Lives Aliens land secretly on Earth, hold SHADO pilot Regan's wife hostage, and place him under a hypnotic spell to obey them. Details Episode 5 Aired Oct 7, 1970 Conflict Foster risks his life and reputation to prove the abundant debris orbiting Earth creates potentially deadly threats to friendly vessels. Details Episode 6 Aired Oct 7, 1970 ESP Straker and Freeman investigate when a UFO smashes into a home, killing the wife of a man who can read minds and predict the future. Details Episode 7 Aired Oct 7, 1970 Sound of Silence SHADO mobile units search the countryside to find an alien saucer responsible for one man's death and another's capture. Details Episode 8 Aired Oct 14, 1970 Question of Priorities Straker must choose between risking everyone's life to save his young son, or stopping a downed alien spacecraft. Details Episode 9 Aired Nov 11, 1970 Square Triangle Straker intervenes when a woman and her lover kill an alien mistaken for her husband, then plot again to kill her spouse. Details Episode 10 Aired Nov 11, 1970 Sub-Smash SHADO appears helpless to rescue Straker and his crew from a submarine disabled at the bottom of the ocean in an alien ambush. Details Episode 11 Aired Dec 2, 1970 Destruction Straker investigates a woman working for naval authorities after learning of a naval gunship's shooting down of a UFO at sea. Details Episode 12 Aired Dec 9, 1970 The Computer Affair Lt. Ellis must prove herself fit for duty after an alien craft lands on Earth. Details Episode 13 Aired Dec 16, 1970 Close-Up SHADO places a powerful electron telescope inside an orbiting spaceship and circles the alien planet to spy upon its inhabitants. Details Episode 14 Aired Dec 30, 1970 Psychobombs Three extraordinarily strong people under alien control destroy secret SHADO bases and threaten to annihilate headquarters. Details Episode 15 Aired Jan 6, 1971 Survival Injured Foster must cooperate with an invader to reach the installation alive after an alien vessel incapacitates his Moonmobile. Details Episode 16 Aired Jan 13, 1971 Mindbender After a UFO explodes near Moonbase, people who touch the debris experience hallucinations bringing death to them and their friends. Details Episode 17 Aired Jan 20, 1971 Flight Path Traitors blackmail a loyal Moonbase operative into cooperating with them by threatening to murder his wife if he does not. Details Episode 18 Aired Jan 20, 1971 Ordeal SHADO crews rescue Foster (Michael Billington) from a saucer, but learn he now must breathe an alien liquid to survive. Details Episode 19 Aired Feb 3, 1971 Man Who Came Back Straker struggles to free the mind of a friend found on a Pacific island after inexplicably vanishing with his spaceship. Details Episode 20 Aired Feb 10, 1971 Dalotek Affair SHADO blames a private business firm's geological scanner for the disruption of visual and audio transmissions from the moon. Details Episode 21 Aired Feb 17, 1971 Timelash A human traitor interferes with Straker's attempts to rescue SHADO headquarters from an alien-induced state of suspended animation. Details Episode 22 Aired Mar 3, 1971 Responsibility Seat Straker notes strange behavior and odd incidents after a woman reporter assigned to interview him arrives at headquarters. Details Episode 23 Aired Apr 1, 1971 Long Sleep A woman just-wakened from a 10-year coma induced by hallucinogens tells Straker she alone knows where aliens placed a bomb. Details Episode 24 Aired May 1, 1971 Court Martial Straker and Freeman race to prove Foster innocent after he is tried and sentenced to death for the sale of military secrets. Details Episode 25 Aired Jul 10, 1971 Confetti Check A-OK Straker reminisces about the formation of SHADO in the 1970s, and how his duties as commander led to his failed marriage. Details Episode 26 Aired Jul 24, 1971 Reflections in the Water Aliens plan to infiltrate SHADO headquarters from a base under the ocean. Details

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Season Info

Creator
Gerry Anderson, Sylvia Anderson, Reg Hill
Network
PBS
Rating
TV-PG
Genre
Sci-Fi
Original Language
British English
Release Date
Sep 16, 1970