UFO Vol 1-4
MGM/UA (1970)
TV Series  /  Action, Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction
In Collection
#1475
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Seen ItYes
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IMDB   7.9
10 hr 20 mins UK / English
DVD  Region 2   12
Ed Bishop
George Sewell
Michael Billington
Wanda Ventham
Peter Gordeno
Grant Taylor
Gabrielle Drake
Harry Baird
Antonia Ellis
Delores Mantez
Ed Bishop Cmdr. Straker
Dolores Mantez Nina Barry
Mel Oxley Space Intruder Detector SID
Michael Billington Col. Foster
Ayshea Brough SHADO Operative
George Sewell Col. Freeman
Keith Alexander Shado Radio Operator
Antonia Ellis Joan Harrington
Vladek Sheybal Jackson
Gabrielle Drake Lt. Ellis
Jon Kelley Skydiver Engineer
Gary Myers Capt. Waterman
Wanda Ventham Col. Virginia Lake
Norma Ronald Miss Ealand
Grant Taylor Gen. Henderson
Director
Cyril Frankel
Gerry Anderson
Jeremy Summers
Ken Turner
Producer Gerry Anderson
Reg Hill
Sylvia Anderson
Writer Gerry Anderson
Sylvia Anderson
David Lane
Cinematography Brendan J. Stafford
Musician Barry Gray


Around 1970, the British and American governments receive incontrovertible evidence that aliens exist and are abducting humans. In cooperation with the United Nations, they set up a secret worldwide organization, SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organisation), which operates in the 1980s. With resources and equipment under the seas, in the air, on land, in orbit and on the Moon, SHADO's purpose is to stop the alien incursions and find out why the aliens want humans.
Episodes
Disc 01
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    9/16/1970  1.  Identified
SHADO engages in its first battle with the enemy. Sky One cripples an alien ship which crash-lands in a lake. Straker's team capture its pilot, a strange blue-skinned humanoid - and the grim secret behind the aliens' are revealed
Director:  Gerry Anderson  / Джерри Андерсон  Writer:  Gerry Anderson  /  Sylvia Anderson 
Guest starring:  Basil Dignam, Maxwell Shaw,  Shane Rimmer, Stan Bray, Paul Gillard, Michael Mundell, Gary Files, Matthew Robertson, Annette Kerr, Gito Santana, Edwina Carroll, Dennis Plenty, Louisa Rabaiotti, Jack Silk, Penny Spencer
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    5/15/1971  2.  Computer Affair
After a pilot is killed when Moonbase operatives fail to give him course change information, the personnel are recalled to Earth for an investigation. A UFO crashes in northern Canada and the personnel are assigned to the operation to find the UFO. Gay Ellis is to coordinate the movement of the mobiles trying to approach the UFO.
Director:  David Lane  Writer:  Terence Feely  / Tony Barwick  / Тони Бэрвик 
Guest starring:  Gito Santana,  Harry Baird, Maxwell Shaw, Michael Mundell, Peter Burton, Nigel Lambert, Hugh Armstrong, Hein Viljoen, Dennis Plenty, Rosemary Donnelly,  Shane Rimmer, Hugo Panczak,  Keith AlexanderJon KelleyGary Myers, Basil Moss, Jean Marsh,  Robin Bailey, Paula Li Shiu, Arthur Cox, Matt Zimmerman, Sue Gerrard
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    1/20/1971  3.  Flight Path
A SHADO Technician, who is being blackmailed for information by an unknown party, is caught by Freeman, but not before the information is passed. The Technician, Paul Roper, divulges what information he gave to the blackmailers, to SHADO. After much work on the cryptic data, they discover it is part of a plan by the aliens to attack the Moonbase in a way that would be undetectable. Now it's up to Roper to redeem himself, as he is sent on the suicide mission to stop the attack. If he fails, the base will surely be destroyed.
Director:  Ken Turner  / David Tomblin  Writer:  Alan Fennell  / Ian Scott Stewart  /  David Tomblin 
Guest starring:  George Cole, Sonia Fox, Keith Grenville, Maxwell Shaw,  David Daker, Alexis Kanner, Geraldine Moffatt, Colin Gordon, Eleanor Summerfield, Lois Maxwell,  Steven Berkoff, Windsor Davies, Al Mancini, Andrea Allan
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    9/23/1970  4.  Exposed
An XV-104 test plane wanders into a UFO target area and the pilot, Paul Foster, makes sightings of both the UFO and Sky One. Angry and frustrated that no one believes his story, Foster suspects a cover-up and decides to conduct his own investigation into the activities of ex-USAF Colonel Ed Straker.
Director:  David Lane  / Ken Truner  Writer:  Tony Barwick  / Тони Бэрвик  / Ruric Powell 
Guest starring:  Basil Moss, Jean Marsh,  Robin Bailey, Paula Li Shiu, Arthur Cox, Matt Zimmerman, Sue Gerrard,  Drewe Henley, David Courtland,  Michael Kilgarriff, Gerard Norman, Alan Tucker, Louisa Rabaiotti
Disc 02
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    1/6/1971  5.  Survival
Foster, whose radio is knocked out and his oxygen line cut, is presumed lost (but they did a crummy job, not even trying to find his body) during a confrontation with a UFO on the moon's surface. Foster is found by an alien, and together, they cross the lunar landscape, developing a friendship when the alien must try to do make-shift repairs on Foster's suit to keep him alive. At the end, a Moonmobile crew finds Foster and misunderstands his intent when he points them to the alien nearby. Contributed by GeoffYukon
Director:  Alan Perry  / David Lane  Writer:  Tony Barwick 
Guest starring:  Gito Santana,  Ray Armstrong, Suzan Farmer, Robert Swann, David Weston, Suzanne Neve, Mary Merrall, Barnaby Shaw,  Philip MadocPeter Halliday, Russell Napier, Richard Aylen, Andrea Allan, David Cargill, Penny Spencer
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    10/7/1970  6.  Conflict
When an Alien Limpet UFO causes the destruction of Lunar Module 32, Straker demands a clean-up programme by the International Astrophysical Commission to remove hazardous space debris from Earth orbit. But Straker finds himself butting heads with I.A.C. chairman James Henderson, who wants a complete shut-down of SHADO operations...
Director:  David Lane  / Ken Truner  /  Ken Turner  Writer:  Ruric Powell  / Тони Бэрвик  / Alan Fennell 
Guest starring:  Drewe Henley, David Courtland,  Michael Kilgarriff, Gerard Norman, Alan Tucker, Louisa Rabaiotti, John Stratton,  Douglas Wilmer, Deborah Stanford, Stanley McGeagh, Donald Tandy, Shakira Baksh
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    2/10/1971  7.  The Dalotek Affair
Two of the SHADO people, dining at a fancy restaurant, begin to recall this event after one of them sees a diner who was part of Dalotek. A private company installed a facility on the moon which discovered an alien device that disrupted Communications between Moonbase and SHADO on Earth. Contributed by GeoffYukon
Director:  David Lane  / Alan Perry  Writer:  Alan Fennell  / Ruric Powell  / Donald James 
Guest starring:  Philip Latham, Richard Poore, Clinton Greyn,  John Breslin, John Cobner, Basil Moss, Tracy Reed, Alan Tucker, David Weston, Dr. Frank E. Stranges, David Sumner, Steve Cory, Louise Pajo
Disc 03
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    10/14/1970  8.  A Question of Priorities
""Important? What can be more important than your own son's life?"" Straker faces the toughest decision of his career when his son is critically injured in an accident. The drug that can save his life can only be ferried from New York in time aboard a SHADO Transporter - the same Transporter that is in the prime position to track an Alien defector on the West Coast of Ireland
Director:  David Lane  / Alan Perry  Writer:  Tony Barwick  / Alan Fennell 
Guest starring:  Suzanne Neve, Mary Merrall, Barnaby Shaw,  Philip MadocPeter Halliday, Russell Napier, Richard Aylen, Andrea Allan, David Cargill, Penny Spencer,  Paul MaxwellAnthony ChinnJohn Golightly, Burnell Tucker, Alan Haywood
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    4/14/1971  9.  Ordeal
Foster is abducted by aliens from a health spa and is being taken out into space, presumably back to the alien homeworld. However, the UFO was damaged and returns to the moon, crashing there. While the Moonbase personnel try to free Foster of the alien environmental suit, Foster wakes up in the steam room at the health spa. The episode begs explanation for how Foster dreamed in such orderly detail, including Carlin missing a shot and Straker angry at the missed shot, and Dr. Jackson's off-line comments to Straker before they go onto a visual link to Moonbase to guide them through removal of Foster's alien helmet. Contributed by Geoff Yukon
Director:  Ken Turner  / David Tomblin  Writer:  David Tomblin  / Tony Barwick  /  Dennis Spooner 
Guest starring:  Gary Myers, Georgina Moon, Quinn O'Hara, David Healy, Mark Hawkins, Basil Moss,  Jon Kelley, Ayshea, Joseph Morris, Peter Burton,  Keith AlexanderJeremy WilkinPeter Blythe, Stephanie Beacham,  Edwin RichfieldPhilip MadocSteven Berkoff, David Warbeck, Barry Stokes,  Jimmy Winston, Michael Ferrand, Robert Lloyd
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    3/8/1973  10.  The Responsibility Seat
Freeman takes over temporarily while Straker deals with a woman apparently determined to investigate what SHADO is all about.
Director:  Ken Turner  / Alan Perry  / David Lane  Writer:  Tony Barwick  / Alan Pattillo 
Guest starring:  Ralph Ball, Shakira Baksh, Mark Hawkins, Patrick Jordan, Janos Kurucz, Jane Merrow, Penny Spencer, Paul Tamarin,  Adrienne Corri, Patrick Mower,  Allan CuthbertsonAnthony ChinnGodfrey James, Hugo Panczak,  Gary MyersKeith Alexander, Ayshea,  Norma Ronald
Disc 04
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    12/9/1970  11.  The Square Triangle
""Unfortunately for them, an Alien came through that door instead of her husband."" In the woods between Clare Cross and Lingbury, an injured Alien stumbles into a lonely cottage and is shot down by Liz Newton and her lover Cass Fowler. Liz and Cass are taken to SHADO HQ for questioning, but when Liz's husband arrives at the cottage, Paul Foster realises that the Alien's death was no accident!
Director:  David Lane  / Alan Perry  Writer:  Alan Pattillo  / Tony Barwick 
Guest starring:  Adrienne Corri, Patrick Mower,  Allan CuthbertsonAnthony ChinnGodfrey James, Hugo Panczak,  Gary MyersKeith Alexander, Ayshea,  Norma RonaldJohn LeveneJames Beckett, Peter Burton, Clive Endersby,  Neil Hallett, Robert Hollowy, Frank Mann, Robert Sherman, Alan Tucker
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    5/1/1971  12.  Court Martial
Foster is suspected of being a security leak, but during the trial, Straker and gang discover that Foster's apartment was bugged and shut down the disreputable business that is selling the spy gear.
Director:  Ken Turner  / Ron Appleton  /  Jeremy Summers  Writer:  Dennis Spooner  / Tony Barwick 
Guest starring:  Louise Pajo, Georgina Cookson, Noel Davis, Michael Glover, Paul Greenhalgh, Jack Hedley, Tutte Lemkow, Neil McCallum, Pippa Steel,  Norma RonaldKeith AlexanderJon KelleyGary MyersPeter Blythe, Mike Pratt,  Christopher Timothy, Tom Adams, Gavin Campbell,  David Collings, Peter Davies, Alexander Davion, Hans de Vries, Peter Dolphin, Deborah Grant, Nigel Gregory, Robin Hawdon, Oscar James, Aiden Murphy
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    12/16/1970  13.  Close Up
Straker gets approval from above to build a probe with a camera that will track a UFO back to its home planet. Inexplicably, the Earth technology is capable of following a UFO travelling 8 or 9 times the speed of light and follows it home. The episode ends with a SHADO guy trying to convince Straker that they were wasting their time, even though they picked up some great pictures of the planet.
Director:  David Lane  / Alan Perry  Writer:  Alan Pattillo  / Tony Barwick 
Guest starring:  John LeveneJames Beckett, Peter Burton, Clive Endersby,  Neil Hallett, Robert Hollowy, Frank Mann, Robert Sherman, Alan Tucker, Gito Santana,  Ray Armstrong, Suzan Farmer, Robert Swann, David Weston
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    1/13/1971  14.  Mindbender
After a UFO inexplicably destroys itself less than two miles from Moonbase, a mysterious crystal rock is recovered, and it causes the person in its vicinity to hallucinate. The man on Moonbase who found it thinks Mexican bandits have taken over Moonbase. It gets transferred to Straker's office, and he hallucinates that SHADO is simply a set for a TV series, he is an actor named Mr. Burns, Moonbase can be reached by stepping through two doors from the main control room at SHADO HQ, and ""Mr. Straker"" is not available. Straker breaks the hallucination by jumping in on the scene while the ""character"" Gen. Henderson is doing a close-up of the line they were doing when the hallucination began.
Director:  Ken Turner  / David Lane  Writer:  Tony Barwick 
Guest starring:  Stuart Damon, Charles Bud Tingwell, Al Mancini, Craig Hunter,  Steven Berkoff, Anouska Hempel,  Philip MadocPeter Halliday, Stanley McGeagh, Stephan Chase, Norton Clarke, Basil Dignam, Paul Greaves, John Lyons,  James Marcus
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    1/20/1971  15.  Flight Path
A SHADO Technician, who is being blackmailed for information by an unknown party, is caught by Freeman, but not before the information is passed. The Technician, Paul Roper, divulges what information he gave to the blackmailers, to SHADO. After much work on the cryptic data, they discover it is part of a plan by the aliens to attack the Moonbase in a way that would be undetectable. Now it's up to Roper to redeem himself, as he is sent on the suicide mission to stop the attack. If he fails, the base will surely be destroyed.
Director:  Ken Turner  Writer:  Alan Fennell  / Ian Scott Stewart 
Guest starring:  George Cole, Sonia Fox, Keith Grenville, Maxwell Shaw,  David Daker
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    2/3/1971  16.  The Man Who Came Back
Reported missing, presumed dead, after a UFO incident which has left SID disabled, astronaut Craig Collins turns up alive and well. But as an operation to complete repair work on SID is planned, Colonel Lake and Colonel Grey discover that Collins is not the man he used to be...
Director:  David Lane  / Alan Perry  Writer:  Terence Feely  / Donald James 
Guest starring:  Derren NesbittGary RaymondRoland Culver, Lois Maxwell, Robert Grange, Anouska Hempel, Andrea Allan,  David Savile, Nancy Nevinson, Fred Real, Mike Stevens, Rona Newton-John
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    2/10/1971  17.  The Dalotek Affair
Two of the SHADO people, dining at a fancy restaurant, begin to recall this event after one of them sees a diner who was part of Dalotek. A private company installed a facility on the moon which discovered an alien device that disrupted Communications between Moonbase and SHADO on Earth. Contributed by GeoffYukon
Director:  David Lane  / Alan Perry  Writer:  Alan Fennell  / Ruric Powell 
Guest starring:  Philip Latham, Richard Poore, Clinton Greyn,  John Breslin, John Cobner, Basil Moss, Tracy Reed, Alan Tucker, David Weston, Dr. Frank E. Stranges
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    2/17/1971  18.  Timelash
While picking up Lt. Lake at the airport, Straker and Lake find that time has been frozen except for them. Sawdust hangs in mid-air, Lt. Ellis is frozen mid-word on a viewscreen, and one man is taunting them, apparently working for the aliens.
Director:  David Lane  /  Cyril Frankel  Writer:  David Lane  / Terence Feely 
Guest starring:  Patrick Allen, John J Carney, Kirsten Lindholm, John Lyons, Douglas Nottage, Ron Bember, Jean Vladon
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    4/14/1971  19.  Ordeal
Foster is abducted by aliens from a health spa and is being taken out into space, presumably back to the alien homeworld. However, the UFO was damaged and returns to the moon, crashing there. While the Moonbase personnel try to free Foster of the alien environmental suit, Foster wakes up in the steam room at the health spa. The episode begs explanation for how Foster dreamed in such orderly detail, including Carlin missing a shot and Straker angry at the missed shot, and Dr. Jackson's off-line comments to Straker before they go onto a visual link to Moonbase to guide them through removal of Foster's alien helmet. Contributed by Geoff Yukon
Director:  Ken Turner  / David Tomblin  Writer:  David Tomblin  / Tony Barwick 
Guest starring:  Gary Myers, Georgina Moon, Quinn O'Hara, David Healy, Mark Hawkins, Basil Moss,  Jon Kelley, Ayshea, Joseph Morris, Peter Burton,  Keith AlexanderJeremy Wilkin
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    5/1/1971  20.  Court Martial
Foster is suspected of being a security leak, but during the trial, Straker and gang discover that Foster's apartment was bugged and shut down the disreputable business that is selling the spy gear.
Director:  Ken Turner  / Ron Appleton  Writer:  Dennis Spooner  / Tony Barwick 
Guest starring:  Louise Pajo, Georgina Cookson, Noel Davis, Michael Glover, Paul Greenhalgh, Jack Hedley, Tutte Lemkow, Neil McCallum, Pippa Steel,  Norma RonaldKeith AlexanderJon KelleyGary Myers
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    5/15/1971  21.  Computer Affair
After a pilot is killed when Moonbase operatives fail to give him course change information, the personnel are recalled to Earth for an investigation. A UFO crashes in northern Canada and the personnel are assigned to the operation to find the UFO. Gay Ellis is to coordinate the movement of the mobiles trying to approach the UFO.
Director:  David Lane  Writer:  Terence Feely  / Tony Barwick 
Guest starring:  Gito Santana,  Harry Baird, Maxwell Shaw, Michael Mundell, Peter Burton, Nigel Lambert, Hugh Armstrong, Hein Viljoen, Dennis Plenty, Rosemary Donnelly,  Shane Rimmer, Hugo Panczak,  Keith AlexanderJon KelleyGary Myers
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    7/10/1971  22.  Confetti Check A-O.K.
A flashback episode in which Straker recalls his marriage, followed by stormy days as he must work covertly to get SHADO up and running and recruit personnel. All this leaves his wife angry at his absence, suspicious at the things he might be doing (her father photographs Straker meeting a woman in a parking garage, a woman who will be working at SHADO). In the end, she gives birth to their son.
Director:  Jeremy Summers  / David Lane  Writer:  Tony Barwick 
Guest starring:  Suzanne Neve, Michael Nightingale, Jack May, Jeffrey Segal, Gordon Sterne,  Alan Tilvern, Julian Grant,  Shane RimmerGeoffrey Hinsliff, Donald Pelmear, Frank Tregear, Tom Oliver, Penny Jackson, Michael Forrest
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    7/17/1971  23.  The Sound of Silence
A UFO hides in a lake on a country estate of a well-known equestrian, and the equestrian himself vanishes. When SHADO tracks down the UFO and manages to destroy it in an exchange of pot-shots, the UFO breaks up and leaves a thing floating in the water. Treated as if it is a bomb, it is brought back to SHADO and examined, with unexpected results.
Director:  David Lane  / David Tomblin  Writer:  David Lane  /  David Tomblin 
Guest starring:  Michael Jayston, Gito Santana, Susan Jameson, Burnell Tucker, Ayshea, Andrea Allan, Nigel Gregory, Craig Hunter, Basil Moss, Tom Oliver, Malcolm Reynolds,  Richard Vernon
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    7/24/1971  24.  Reflections in the Water
A mysterious dome is found under the sea, that at first looks like the Moon crashed into the ocean. Inside the dome, they find duplicates of SHADO HQ personnel, using non-alien technology - cassette tape recorders - to imitate SHADO instructions to Moonbase and Skydiver.
Director:  Cyril Frankel  / David Tomblin  Writer:  David Tomblin  / Terence Feely 
Guest starring:  James Cosmo, David Warbeck, Barry Stokes, Anouska Hempel,  Steven Berkoff, Conrad Phillips, Richard Caldicott, Gordon Sterne, Keith Bell, Gerald Cross, Mark Griffith
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    3/8/1973  25.  The Responsibility Seat
Freeman takes over temporarily while Straker deals with a woman apparently determined to investigate what SHADO is all about.
Director:  Ken Turner  / Alan Perry  Writer:  Tony Barwick 
Guest starring:  Ralph Ball, Shakira Baksh, Mark Hawkins, Patrick Jordan, Janos Kurucz, Jane Merrow, Penny Spencer, Paul Tamarin
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    3/15/1973  26.  The Long Sleep
A woman awakens from a 10-year coma and begins telling the tale about her encounter with aliens, along with her boyfriend, while they were high on drugs. They toyed with the aliens, and the man apparently falls to his death from a bridge or building. The aliens drag him off. She has an accident and falls into the coma. She can't remember quite everything, but the old boyfriend is back, resuscitated by the aliens, and he drugs her so she tells him where the missing part of a device is. He activates what turns out to be a thermo-chemical bomb that will wipe England off the map when the four chemicals meet in a central chamber.
Director:  Cyril Frankel  Writer:  David Tomblin 
Guest starring:  Christopher Robbie, John Garrie, Anouska Hempel, Christian Roberts, Tessa Wyatt, Ayshea
Edition Details
Edition Collector's Edition
Series UFO
Release Date 6/10/2002
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Subtitles English (Closed Captioned)
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Mono
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Discs/Tapes 4

Features
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  • Ed Bishop Episode Commentary
  • Doppelganger Illustrated Text Featurette
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