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Topic: UFO (1970 British sci-fi television show)
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minipci
Member Posts: 384
From: London, UK
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 09-16-2020 12:15 PM
  
Today 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. |
randy
Member Posts: 2301
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 09-16-2020 02:52 PM
I remember it fondly. It was a good show, for its day. |
Rick Mulheirn
Member Posts: 4258
From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 09-16-2020 06:22 PM
Gerry Anderson could do no wrong! |
crash
Member Posts: 328
From: West Sussex, England
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 09-17-2020 02:36 AM
I 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. |
Graves
New Member Posts: 5
From: Pearlington MS
Registered: Jan 2019
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posted 09-17-2020 07:51 AM
I 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. |
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