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UFO is a 1970 British science fiction television series about the covert efforts of an international defence organisation (under the auspices of the United Nations) to prevent an alien invasion of Earth.
Three Interceptors are sent to frustrate a UFO attack but one collides with the UFO, killing the pilot, Ken Matthews. Lieutenant Gay Ellis was giving the pilots their instructions and Straker suspects she sacrificed Matthews to spare another pilot, Mark Bradley, her apparent lover.
UFO: Created by Gerry Anderson, Sylvia Anderson. With Ed Bishop, Dolores Mantez, Michael Billington, Ayshea Brough. The missions of the Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organization (SHADO), which defends Earth from extra-terrestrial threats.
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- 1972-09-16
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Set ten years in the future (1980), a race of aliens from a dying planet make individual attacks on the Earth in order to harvest human organs. SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organisation), a covert operation hidden under the Harlington-Straker Studios movie studios in England and headed by Commander Ed Straker who is a former United Sta...
General Cast
1. Doctor Shroeder- Maxwell Shaw 2. Dr. Frazer - Basil Moss 3. Captain Steve Minto - Steven Berkoff 4. Lieutenant Catherine Scott - Anouska Hempel 5. Lieutenant Carol Miller - Andrea Allan 6. SHADO Operatives - John Clifford, Maxwell Craig, Diana Reeves and Penny Spencer 7. Lieutenant Bill Johnson - Shane Rimmer 8. Lieutenant David Worth - Hein Viljoen 9. Lieutenant Geoff Manning - Robert Case 10. Dr. Murray - Peter Burton 11. Lieutenant Gary North - Mark Hawkins 12. Miss Holland - Lois Maxwe...
Notes
The broadcast order, is the premiere transmissions of each individual episode as shown around the various ITV regions, rather than the first transmission of ATV Midlands, Tyne-Tees and Border regions, who started their first transmission on September 16th 1970 (as usually listed in reference works). The difference is very significant as the ITV stations did not always show the episodes in the same order, a station that started screening the series months after the others have ended up screeni...
ITV Regions, Premiere Dates
1. ATVfrom September 16th 1970 2. Borderfrom September 16th 1970 3. Midlandsfrom September 16th 1970 4. Tyne-Teesfrom September 16th 1970 5. Anglia from October 2nd 1970 6. Southern from February 20th 1971 7. Yorkshire from April 17th 1971 8. Granada from July 17th 1971 9. Grampian from July 17th 1971 10. London Weekend Televisionfrom September 18th 1971.
Mysteriously, purple hair and alien descriptions are not revealed in the series.A considerable amount of the cast's Christian names were used for the characters.The Gull-wing doors had been around on the Mercedes 300SL since 1954 but where not again produced for road cars until the DeLorean DMC-12 in 1981Innovations include: Cordless phones, Car telephones (cell phones), spacecraft launched from aircraft, extensive use of computers in day-to-day life (also predicting and analysing human behaviour),...- 3 min
11 January 2021. (2021-01-11) –. 14 March 2022. (2022-03-14) UFOs (French: OVNI (s)) is a French science fiction comedy-drama [1][2][3][4] television series created by Clémence Dargent and Martin Douaire. The first season premiered on Canal+ on 11 January 2021. [5] The series was renewed for a second season before the series premiere, [6 ...
Feb 13, 2016 · UFO is a 1970 British television science fiction series about an alien invasion of Earth, created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson with Reg Hill, and produced by the Andersons Century 21 Productions for ITC Entertainment company.
UFO, Gerry Anderson's very first live-action television series production, was centred around the activities of the S.H.A.D.O., or Supreme Headquarters of the Alien Defence Organization, in its fight to defend Earth from the brutal attacks of a dying alien race that is harvesting human organs to...
