Series Description:

The UFO TV show was a sci-fi series about aliens who were visiting the Earth and kidnapping humans. An organization called SHADO was formed to defend us from them. SHADO had several lines of defense. Missiles could be launched from a base on the Moon. High altitude aircraft could attack after being launched from submarines. There were also a fleet of armored vehicles spread out all over the planet. The episodes typically involved attempted alien attacks and how Earth defenses stopped them.

Cast Members:

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

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.

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Episodes List With Original Air Dates

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)

The Second (Very Short) Season

25. The Responsibility Seat (5/8/1973)
26. The Long Sleep (5/15/1973)

Series Description:

Cast Members:

Trivia:

Episodes List With Original Air Dates

The First Season

The Second (Very Short) Season

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