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T O P I C R E V I E WminipciToday is the 50th anniversary of the first TV broadcast of UFO. A memorable TV show for space fanatics in the era of Apollo. Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's UFO – their first live-action TV series after a string of puppet-show hits including Stingray, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons – was not only dark and more adult but properly frightening.UFO's premise concerns visitors from a dying world who come to Earth to abduct humans and steal their organs for their own survival (they wear red spacesuits and tiny-pupil contact lenses to protect their eyes from the green oxygenated liquid in their helmets). And the efforts of SHADO, a massively resourced, quasi-military organisation operating covertly from beneath a film studio, to both repel alien incursions and keep them secret from the rest of the world.randyI remember it fondly. It was a good show, for its day.Rick MulheirnGerry Anderson could do no wrong!crashI couldn't agree more however I'm struggling to get the kids to watch it. I'm slowly working my way through UFO as well as Space 1999 which was broadcast on Forces TV. GravesI remember greatly enjoying the show as a child, watching it as an adult, I have questions about their worldbuilding, but nonetheless quite interesting. It was quite unusual in episodic television in that the good guys didn't always win a clear victory and didn't always stop all evil they encountered.
Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's UFO – their first live-action TV series after a string of puppet-show hits including Stingray, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons – was not only dark and more adult but properly frightening.UFO's premise concerns visitors from a dying world who come to Earth to abduct humans and steal their organs for their own survival (they wear red spacesuits and tiny-pupil contact lenses to protect their eyes from the green oxygenated liquid in their helmets). And the efforts of SHADO, a massively resourced, quasi-military organisation operating covertly from beneath a film studio, to both repel alien incursions and keep them secret from the rest of the world.
UFO's premise concerns visitors from a dying world who come to Earth to abduct humans and steal their organs for their own survival (they wear red spacesuits and tiny-pupil contact lenses to protect their eyes from the green oxygenated liquid in their helmets). And the efforts of SHADO, a massively resourced, quasi-military organisation operating covertly from beneath a film studio, to both repel alien incursions and keep them secret from the rest of the world.
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