I remember this show on in the Boston area at about 7:00 on Saturday evenings. Loved it, the show had an mysterious quality. I was 10 or 11 then but still love it. This was way better than 1999.
Some people think these shows are too slow paced. But UFO is like a procedural drama and one of its key ingredients is the way SHADO follows a very clear step by step procedure when they investigate a UFO landing or try to fight them off. The very deliberate way the show depicts the procedures SHADO follows is part of what makes it involving and convincing to this day, if you watch it with care.
Indeed. I never felt it was slow at all when I first saw it many years ago. However I must confess the modern age has affected my attention span negatively since. There is also a problem with some who will take issue with one-shot interceptors, UFO's that always come in groups of three and why they don't just approach from an angle that avoids lunar defences. I do try to be nice about explaining the needs to be entertaining as well as the choices Anderson had to make to provide a consistent structure for an imagined tech and full blown Alien invasion portrayed on TV in 1970 but I wish I could just say "Forget real military tactics you boring pedantic twerps and just enjoy how bloody brilliant this was back in the day and still is." I guess there are some who must prove how extensive their knowledge of 21st military tech is. I am astonished they have no clue that there were no smart bombs, GPS guidance or combat drones until relatively recently. If Gerry did this show today they would probably be blown away by how well he would cover their silly criticisms. I hope you've been well my friend and as always I deeply appreciate your well considered remarks regarding Gerry's masterpiece.
Thank you! :) I always just assumed the government would not fund bigger, more heavily armed interceptors because of the sheer cost of a Moon based defense.
I always thought Gerry grew up in and was a part of that world right after ww2 that assumed almost unlimited budgets and everything would get better if we invent the right technology. Meanwhile he was trying to do the most with somewhat limited ITV resources and the limits of special effects in the 1960's. I think we both agree he did rather well but he had to make compromises. For the audience back in the day how complicated do you want the tech to be and expect a general audience to quickly follow what's supposed to be going on. Three one shot interceptors against usually three incoming UFO's is easy to for the audience to deal with and visually is a reasonable thing to depict on a 20inch cathode ray tube. The interception techniques are derived from Battle of Britain methods of tracking incoming hostiles although the girls tracking the bogies just happen to wear purple wigs not RAF uniforms. Most importantly although it's very easy for some to claim they could have used better machines and better methods, the choices Gerry made are consistently used and explained clearly and therefore immerse the viewer in this world of UFO in a highly entertaining way. It is fantasy world of course but at least it's rules are clear, reasonable easy to understand and set up endless scenarios that can interest the viewer. In regards to the slower pace compared to modern entertainment I'm starting to think that the current fast paced nonsense produced today may dazzle temporarily but after I've watched it I don't feel I experienced any sort properly conceived alternate reality at all. I'd like to think there is demand for some lower paced detailed intelligent sci-fi but the trend seems to be going sadly in the opposite direction.
If that works for you but I don't think stealth as we know it was a part of Gerry's equations at the time. There is a reference to special tracking equipment in the first episode "Identified" but I always interpret that as a way to track UFO's when they are in their faster than light approach "Sol 8" type speeds. There are many references to SHADO tracking UFO's with conventional radar. In a modern re-boot the idea of stealthy saucers and interceptors would be irresistible. It would also make more practical sense to intercept with drones in deep space and not put pilots in extreme harm's way but how boring and unengaging for the viewer to use such sensible methods. We all want to see a dogfight mano a mano in those situations. How would you justify using these classic interception techniques in our modern digital artificial intelligence enhanced era? Well even between the earth and moon there is a slight communication delay of a second or two due to speed of light. Trying to control an attacking drone in real time from a secure location would create unacceptable communication delays that can only be solved by placing the human in the actual space craft performing the intercept. Which works for me because I would have loved to see some real fur-ball dog fights with the saucers even more so than Gerry had the resources to depict back in 1969. I hope you'll pardon me my friend if I bore you with all this military tech type stuff about the show but after the girls that is my primary interest in the series. My only regret is that Gerry did not go as far as placing someone like Lt Ellis in an interceptor from time to time as the greatest fantasies in my life involve female fighter pilots but I'm sure you've noticed my shallow and sad priorities before now. When work slows down for me this winter I hope to master basic CGI well enough to create a few new space battle scenes as an addendum for this series. There are many things I would like do with Skydiver intercepts as well.
Great models...love the methodical grid search of forest and the use of gear. Shado never seems overwhelmed they follow procedure and display preparedness. Nice change from oblivious humans screaming in other shows.
Did you notice the continuity error? The Interceptors were ordered to return to Moonbase without firing but when the shot of them returning was shown the missiles were missing. I could never understand why the Interceptors were not armed with rocket launchers that could dispense multiple smaller missiles rather than just the one.
colinip , The interceptors were designed by the same people who designed the Bradly vehicle that was supposed to carry 12 men and drivers and ended up carrying 6
I had the same question concerning the one rocket per Interceptor when I first saw UFO in the '70s. After thinking a bit, I sort of worked it out this way: In episodes where the rockets missed, they didn't just sail off into space, but, instead, always exploded at some point, so I figured that the rockets carried not only an explosive charge, but also a cargo of projectiles in front of the charge which would blast in all directions forward of the explosion like shrapnel, making them deadly even if they didn't score a direct hit.
Missing missiles noted also. I could never understand the "distances they always used". Here 11 million miles (and moving multiple millions in seconds) way out beyound the moon's orbit but they could already tell the target was 'southern England' gimme a break!!!! It was an exciting show!! Except for the purple wigs. LOL
Todo estaba muy bien hechito.Y habia algo...una atmosfera que causaba a veces i nquietud.Personajes nada simples;como el actuado por Bishop.Estupendo actor que merecio mejor carrera.👀🌹🍃🌹🍃🌠💎🌠💎
The episode closest to a session of UFO: Enemy Unknown aka X-COM, UFO Defense. God DAMN I wish I knew about this show when I was a massive X-COM geek already. (The 1990s X-COM, not the remake.)
Forgot to mention: great editing work putting this together! I might have gone with a mirror-reversed shot of the Moonbase Interceptors with missiles attached when Straker ordered the ships back, rather then the shot of them without missiles returning to base, as that introduces a big contiunuity error. But other then that, GREAT stuff.
@@exidy-yt - in the original version the interceptors are called back and the shot with empty interceptors is used - just the kind of thing you could get away with in 1970 TV - but I may use your suggestion eventually
@@exidy-yt - TBH I have pulled these shows apart so much I can't remember for sure but I remember interceptors recalled with no shots fired and they just used the standard 3 unarmed interceptors returning to moonbase shot - back in the day you forgave this kind of stuff on TV - especially if the girls wore purple wigs and silver cat suits
@@FandersonUfo Hahaha, no worries. I am 100% sure you are correct. The Andersons were always under time crunch and if there was any chance a previously filmed segment could be used they would use it, even if it didn't -exactly- match. This was totally SOP in the industry then as there was no internet with obsessed geeks comparing every segment for 'realism' and reporting on it which allowed for companies to re-use expensive sfx shots as often as they could get away with. Some like original Battlestar Galactica re-used combat footage from the pilot/movie to the point even mainstream media audiences pointed it out laughingly! Such an innocent time it seems like now, eh? But UFO influenced so many subsequent shows and movies, even some you would never suspect like Neon Genesis Evangelion. Once you sit down and compare the opening sequences of each show, one playing jazzy 60's pop the other playing upbeat 90s Jpop and both of them flashing dates and words related to the story you really start to notice, and then compare Cmdr. Ed Straker to Cmdr. Gendo Ikari as heads of their respective shadowy organizations to defend the earth against unknowable agencies from beyond known space/time and all you can do is bow down to the incredible writing and directing of UFO. Sorry for the massive wall of text, but I am kinda geeking out on a day off today. ;-) Have a good one!
Never understood why the aliens with their superior technology always sent only one UFO at a time and never did any maneuvers to avoid the interceptors.
Maybe Jack Sugden meant Straker (Commander Ed Straker, played by Ed Bishop), the head of SHADO? Straker always did seem to be "a calculated distance" from the edge of cracking up due to the stress (it's probably why he smoked so much, even at Moonbase, *and* why--despite having a bar in his Earthside office--he never drank, probably being afraid of "going on binges" and losing that fine 'edge' that he needed to run SHADO well).
for one episode his voice was re-dubbed later by the actor Robert Rietty - there may have been dialogue changes or sound problems with the original recordings and the actor (Keith Alexander) who plays Ford was not available to re-record his lines
I wish I had a good answer about the commander's uniform - he wore variations of jump suits that may have been SHADO uniforms for senior staff - that's a mere guess by me though bearing in mind some SHADO uniforms include purple wigs - 🛸✨
Sylvia Anderson designed all that. Wigs were big back in the late 60s early70s. She thought they would be common in the 80s. The wigs were used to keep ladies hair from floating all around in zero g, according to Ms.Anderson.
So the aliens in this program were just as a vulnerable as us humans they just mastered traveling faster than light. But why didnt they just travel in. Bigger fleets.?or were they just lacking human common sense.?
Larger fleets of UFOs are discussed in some episodes. Please bear in mind the series was filmed on a limited budget with 1970 special effects. A large fleet of UFOs on screen was probably not possible with the money available.
@@FandersonUfo thanks fander.Because the SHow itself is extremely engaging. I stumbled upon it and it is beautifly presented. Using action figures and all.Im 46 and i thought I knew ABOUT ALL of the GOOD SCI-FI. They did try to break down why the aliens had the limitations I am conjecting about..i got to start from episode one again. And that lady being The jj abrams version of Khan ...F×CKED...ME...UP BRUH! BUT THEY HAVE THE SAME EYES. JUST AWESOME. BEST SCI FI SERIES.... BESIDES 2004 BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. BE EASY MY FRIEND AND THANKS.
What is the moving light display behind Strakker's desk at SHADO HQ? How was the effect achieved? I would like that as a screensaver for my tv and monitor.
In 1969 it was probably some kind of rear projection on a translucent screen - probably 16mm film on a quiet mechanical projector behind the set while the action was being filmed in 35mm
@@FandersonUfo Thank you for your reply. I gather you would have mentioned its raison d'etre had that ever been revealed in the script or after filming. If it was not supposed to have a purpose other than looking pretty, is it the only work of art on display in SHADO HQ, Moonbase, submarine, etc.?
@@cylon5741 - There was never any dialogue explaining it - it was not a view screen etc. - it did look cool on TV which I think was it's only purpose - Straker has a spiral techno looking sculpture in his office - can't think of other UFO art off hand - I think most of the art direction was mainly clothes and wigs - the light could also be done in other mechanical ways back then - as long as it were quiet enough for filming sound
@@FandersonUfo Thank you for your willingness to share your detailed knowledge. I will look for the spiral sculpture. I was asking, in part, as if the Strakker and SHADO and all were non-fictional. Recent revelations about UAPs suggest the ET business is rooted very deeply in our reality.
@@cylon5741 - UFO is fictional television and not meant to depict anything other than an entertaining version of an imagined future - I am open minded about UFOs but I doubt they would really be as depicted here - I've always enjoyed the series as just a fun premise - with very pretty art direction at it's best - they did not have a huge budget but spent what they had well
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Men in the late 60’s had terrible haircuts and hairstyles. 💇♂️
I always wondered why they only had 1 missile an no guns in case they missed. Overall the show wasn't to bad just corny like a lot of sci-fi shows then. If they had the telescopes of today maybe we could follow the UFOs to their planet and send stealth weapons to devastate them or negotiate peace with them. Naaaaa....
according to the UFO tech manual the interceptors did have two forward firing cannon for close in dog fights although that scenario was never depicted in the 26 episodes filmed - 🛸✨
![SHADO Interceptor: Century 21 Tech Talk [2.3] | Hosted by General Ed Straker [UFO]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/DEEWO7XHYU8/mqdefault.jpg)
![SHADO Mobile: Century 21 Tech Talk [2.9] | Hosted by General Ed Straker [UFO]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/csDHTZIkKIM/mqdefault.jpg)
I remember this show on in the Boston area at about 7:00 on Saturday evenings. Loved it, the show had an mysterious quality. I was 10 or 11 then but still love it. This was way better than 1999.
Lt. Ellis should've been Captain Ellis...lot of responsibility on her shoulders.
Absolutely
R. I P Mr Bishop...
Its something SO COOL about the CHEEZYNESS of this show. And the "BROADS" were 🔥.
Absolutely fantastic series, loved it a kid & have the full series on DVD today
🛸👽✨
Here’s welcoming in 2022 with Ufo!As alway”s it’s a good show,even if it’s dated,now!
Some people think these shows are too slow paced. But UFO is like a procedural drama and one of its key ingredients is the way SHADO follows a very clear step by step procedure when they investigate a UFO landing or try to fight them off. The very deliberate way the show depicts the procedures SHADO follows is part of what makes it involving and convincing to this day, if you watch it with care.
Indeed. I never felt it was slow at all when I first saw it many years ago. However I must confess the modern age has affected my attention span negatively since. There is also a problem with some who will take issue with one-shot interceptors, UFO's that always come in groups of three and why they don't just approach from an angle that avoids lunar defences. I do try to be nice about explaining the needs to be entertaining as well as the choices Anderson had to make to provide a consistent structure for an imagined tech and full blown Alien invasion portrayed on TV in 1970 but I wish I could just say "Forget real military tactics you boring pedantic twerps and just enjoy how bloody brilliant this was back in the day and still is." I guess there are some who must prove how extensive their knowledge of 21st military tech is. I am astonished they have no clue that there were no smart bombs, GPS guidance or combat drones until relatively recently.
If Gerry did this show today they would probably be blown away by how well he would cover their silly criticisms.
I hope you've been well my friend and as always I deeply appreciate your well considered remarks regarding Gerry's masterpiece.
Thank you! :) I always just assumed the government would not fund bigger, more heavily armed interceptors because of the sheer cost of a Moon based defense.
I always thought Gerry grew up in and was a part of that world right after ww2 that assumed almost unlimited budgets and everything would get better if we invent the right technology. Meanwhile he was trying to do the most with somewhat limited ITV resources and the limits of special effects in the 1960's. I think we both agree he did rather well but he had to make compromises.
For the audience back in the day how complicated do you want the tech to be and expect a general audience to quickly follow what's supposed to be going on. Three one shot interceptors against usually three incoming UFO's is easy to for the audience to deal with and visually is a reasonable thing to depict on a 20inch cathode ray tube. The interception techniques are derived from Battle of Britain methods of tracking incoming hostiles although the girls tracking the bogies just happen to wear purple wigs not RAF uniforms. Most importantly although it's very easy for some to claim they could have used better machines and better methods, the choices Gerry made are consistently used and explained clearly and therefore immerse the viewer in this world of UFO in a highly entertaining way. It is fantasy world of course but at least it's rules are clear, reasonable easy to understand and set up endless scenarios that can interest the viewer. In regards to the slower pace compared to modern entertainment I'm starting to think that the current fast paced nonsense produced today may dazzle temporarily but after I've watched it I don't feel I experienced any sort properly conceived alternate reality at all. I'd like to think there is demand for some lower paced detailed intelligent sci-fi but the trend seems to be going sadly in the opposite direction.
These days, I tell myself SHADO and the UFOs were using stealth technology, so they had to attack the old fashioned way. :)
If that works for you but I don't think stealth as we know it was a part of Gerry's equations at the time. There is a reference to special tracking equipment in the first episode "Identified" but I always interpret that as a way to track UFO's when they are in their faster than light approach "Sol 8" type speeds. There are many references to SHADO tracking UFO's with conventional radar. In a modern re-boot the idea of stealthy saucers and interceptors would be irresistible. It would also make more practical sense to intercept with drones in deep space and not put pilots in extreme harm's way but how boring and unengaging for the viewer to use such sensible methods. We all want to see a dogfight mano a mano in those situations.
How would you justify using these classic interception techniques in our modern digital artificial intelligence enhanced era? Well even between the earth and moon there is a slight communication delay of a second or two due to speed of light. Trying to control an attacking drone in real time from a secure location would create unacceptable communication delays that can only be solved by placing the human in the actual space craft performing the intercept. Which works for me because I would have loved to see some real fur-ball dog fights with the saucers even more so than Gerry had the resources to depict back in 1969.
I hope you'll pardon me my friend if I bore you with all this military tech type stuff about the show but after the girls that is my primary interest in the series. My only regret is that Gerry did not go as far as placing someone like Lt Ellis in an interceptor from time to time as the greatest fantasies in my life involve female fighter pilots but I'm sure you've noticed my shallow and sad priorities before now.
When work slows down for me this winter I hope to master basic CGI well enough to create a few new space battle scenes as an addendum for this series. There are many things I would like do with Skydiver intercepts as well.
What a wonderful program
I'm glad you're enjoying Gerry Anderson's UFO sir. Still entertaining 50 years after it was filmed.
The sound the UFO made terrified me as a child to the extent I'd imagine the sound outside my bedroom window.
It still terrifies me 50 years later.
U.F.O. SUCH A GREAT SERIES SO AHEAD OF IT'S TIME.
Great models...love the methodical grid search of forest and the use of gear. Shado never seems overwhelmed they follow procedure and display preparedness. Nice change from oblivious humans screaming in other shows.
You could cut glass with Gabrielle Drake's accent... what a class act!
her RP is magical - marvelous for technobabble - 🛸👽
As a kid, I preferred this to Space: 1999.
Did you notice the continuity error? The Interceptors were ordered to return to Moonbase without firing but when the shot of them returning was shown the missiles were missing. I could never understand why the Interceptors were not armed with rocket launchers that could dispense multiple smaller missiles rather than just the one.
There is no footage of armed interceptors returning (with their missiles still on their noses that is} or I would have used it.
colinip , The interceptors were designed by the same people who designed the Bradly vehicle that was supposed to carry 12 men and drivers and ended up carrying 6
I had the same question concerning the one rocket per Interceptor when I first saw UFO in the '70s. After thinking a bit, I sort of worked it out this way: In episodes where the rockets missed, they didn't just sail off into space, but, instead, always exploded at some point, so I figured that the rockets carried not only an explosive charge, but also a cargo of projectiles in front of the charge which would blast in all directions forward of the explosion like shrapnel, making them deadly even if they didn't score a direct hit.
Missing missiles noted also. I could never understand the "distances they always used". Here 11 million miles (and moving multiple millions in seconds) way out beyound the moon's orbit but they could already tell the target was 'southern England' gimme a break!!!! It was an exciting show!! Except for the purple wigs. LOL
colin Paterson
Couldn't possibly land with them, what! Too dicey man!
Serie futuristica e avveniristica.
Avevo 11 anni quando mi sono appassionato
Watching this now as an adult with these silly little toy trucks is the devils work!🤣🤣
The better serie what e seen in me Life
the UFO were my favourite
me too michela
@@FandersonUfo theres a channel on here called gerry anderson, legit?? yours is better
@@vicsaul5459 - can't not heart that one
Todo estaba muy bien hechito.Y habia algo...una atmosfera que causaba a veces i nquietud.Personajes nada simples;como el actuado por Bishop.Estupendo actor que merecio mejor carrera.👀🌹🍃🌹🍃🌠💎🌠💎
Enigmático y con un gran magnetismo... Ed Straker no podía interpretarlo nadie más que Ed Bishop...
Extraordinaria actuación , propio de las producciones británicas
The Freakiest 'UFO' Sound,
and the
Hottest Futuristic Hair Color (💜)
They have tape drives, and paper
maps in the future (21stC),
ya' know.
filmed in 1969-70 the year depicted is supposed to be 1980
@@FandersonUfo I was 13 in 1980 and it was not much different technology-wise.
"Alert mobiles 1, 2 and 3." "That's the combination on my luggage!"
You might want to change that.
The aliens left the ship dizzer than hell.
explains all the green vomit in the helmets
Fantastica serie
Boa noite excelente série espetacular
AMAZING UFO 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
The episode closest to a session of UFO: Enemy Unknown aka X-COM, UFO Defense. God DAMN I wish I knew about this show when I was a massive X-COM geek already. (The 1990s X-COM, not the remake.)
Forgot to mention: great editing work putting this together! I might have gone with a mirror-reversed shot of the Moonbase Interceptors with missiles attached when Straker ordered the ships back, rather then the shot of them without missiles returning to base, as that introduces a big contiunuity error. But other then that, GREAT stuff.
@@exidy-yt - in the original version the interceptors are called back and the shot with empty interceptors is used - just the kind of thing you could get away with in 1970 TV - but I may use your suggestion eventually
@@FandersonUfo aaah, it's been a while since I watched the ep in question, It was in my head they didn't even show the interceptors going back. Thx!
@@exidy-yt - TBH I have pulled these shows apart so much I can't remember for sure but I remember interceptors recalled with no shots fired and they just used the standard 3 unarmed interceptors returning to moonbase shot - back in the day you forgave this kind of stuff on TV - especially if the girls wore purple wigs and silver cat suits
@@FandersonUfo Hahaha, no worries. I am 100% sure you are correct. The Andersons were always under time crunch and if there was any chance a previously filmed segment could be used they would use it, even if it didn't -exactly- match. This was totally SOP in the industry then as there was no internet with obsessed geeks comparing every segment for 'realism' and reporting on it which allowed for companies to re-use expensive sfx shots as often as they could get away with. Some like original Battlestar Galactica re-used combat footage from the pilot/movie to the point even mainstream media audiences pointed it out laughingly!
Such an innocent time it seems like now, eh? But UFO influenced so many subsequent shows and movies, even some you would never suspect like Neon Genesis Evangelion. Once you sit down and compare the opening sequences of each show, one playing jazzy 60's pop the other playing upbeat 90s Jpop and both of them flashing dates and words related to the story you really start to notice, and then compare Cmdr. Ed Straker to Cmdr. Gendo Ikari as heads of their respective shadowy organizations to defend the earth against unknowable agencies from beyond known space/time and all you can do is bow down to the incredible writing and directing of UFO.
Sorry for the massive wall of text, but I am kinda geeking out on a day off today. ;-) Have a good one!
Immortali ancora oggi fa piacere rivedere la serie bei ricordi
Genio e bellezza vivono insieme per sempre in questa serie.
I 😘 ved this series so much
The 80s are going to be wild
yep
Arent they? Et, empire strikes back, EDDIE MURPHY and the blossoming PURPOSELY CREATED HIV VIRUS. JUST MONUMENTAL.
Funniest is that at 8:24, the actor right next to Foster plays an alien in another episode…
Just cool.
He finally got one!
Never understood why the aliens with their superior technology always sent only one UFO at a time and never did any maneuvers to avoid the interceptors.
Straker made Churchill's Choice.
Steamer always gambled time. Lived on borrowed time. He was on course to self destruction.
You have me at a disadvantage sir. I cannot follow your remarks in detail but they are very interesting. Who is/was Steamer?
Maybe Jack Sugden meant Straker (Commander Ed Straker, played by Ed Bishop), the head of SHADO? Straker always did seem to be "a calculated distance" from the edge of cracking up due to the stress (it's probably why he smoked so much, even at Moonbase, *and* why--despite having a bar in his Earthside office--he never drank, probably being afraid of "going on binges" and losing that fine 'edge' that he needed to run SHADO well).
Nice analysis of Straker's character sir. I am sure you understand my confusion with the original remark. Spell check run a muck perhaps.
@@j.jasonwentworth723 Straker also had horrible things happening in his personal life, so he really didn't have anyone to turn to for support.
skillful edit together of two episodes
ty - the original production techniques lend themselves to some additional edits - Anderson was a production genius - best regards FandersonUfo
It took plenty of shooting but, UFO no longer "intact."
Cmdr. Straker will not be pleased.
not exactly to plan I will grant
That's true, Straker did say fully intact. I guess he didn't plan on his Mobile crews being trigger happy.
@@gabrielvazquez7147
The entire battle by the lake was from a different episode.
3:48 - '' UFO maintaining course - confirm speed 4 point 7 decimal 4 ''
Anyone see the error in that message?
We got kicked off the world planet were trying survive in space for real we got radation ladies and gentlemen
Why do the 🛸 UFOs look like and spin like the tops I had in my toy box as a kid?
Keith Ford's voice is different in this episode.
for one episode his voice was re-dubbed later by the actor Robert Rietty - there may have been dialogue changes or sound problems with the original recordings and the actor (Keith Alexander) who plays Ford was not available to re-record his lines
"..contact the Japanese ambassador"
aaaaah ¡¡ Gabrielle !! beautiful women ...
But they must have had severe vulnerabilities.
My dad invited those little ones ufo things video on youtube of him devolping it on work table it's used in space by bush market trader
Awfully dizzy being in that U.F.O. lol
lol - you would definitely think that was the case
Sensacional 👏😃👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
The late Ed Bishop's characterization of Çdr. Ed Straker played a major role in the show's success, but why didn't Straker wear a uniform?!
I wish I had a good answer about the commander's uniform - he wore variations of jump suits that may have been SHADO uniforms for senior staff - that's a mere guess by me though bearing in mind some SHADO uniforms include purple wigs - 🛸✨
@@FandersonUfo I know what you mean. The female personnel at Moonbase always wore purple wigs which I didn't care for.
@@allenjones3130 - Gerry's wife did the costumes - the choices can be a bit eccentric
Could be that Straker was more in the public eye and had to dress less conspicuously.
What the story on those purple wigs,spacestation command center dresscode?
Ahead of their time.
Sylvia Anderson designed all that. Wigs were big back in the late 60s early70s. She thought they would be common in the 80s. The wigs were used to keep ladies hair from floating all around in zero g, according to Ms.Anderson.
Those electronics is real that's real live shit
I know they're not real computers but if they were your smartphone would be far better than everything they have.
I think the average smart phone today has at least 10 times the computing power that all of NASA had available for Apollo 11.
The personality of Straker was a bit overdramatic or over played at times but it doesn't really hurt the show. :)
That was the big plan ?!
Cdr Straker uses an aviation E6B Whiz Wheel at 2:11. In another ep he uses a slide rule.
1969 - NASA techs were flying Apollo with slide rules then
@@FandersonUfo And Mr. Spock used an E6B in two Star Trek TOS episodes..
@@trs80model14 - it was sort of a round slide rule thing if I'm remembering correctly
An E6B is an aviation navigation slide rule type instrument.@@FandersonUfo
@@trs80model14 - you are the expert here sir - although Spock was not using his for navigational calculations per se
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So the aliens in this program were just as a vulnerable as us humans they just mastered traveling faster than light. But why didnt they just travel in. Bigger fleets.?or were they just lacking human common sense.?
Larger fleets of UFOs are discussed in some episodes. Please bear in mind the series was filmed on a limited budget with 1970 special effects. A large fleet of UFOs on screen was probably not possible with the money available.
@@FandersonUfo thanks fander.Because the SHow itself is extremely engaging. I stumbled upon it and it is beautifly presented. Using action figures and all.Im 46 and i thought I knew ABOUT ALL of the GOOD SCI-FI. They did try to break down why the aliens had the limitations I am conjecting about..i got to start from episode one again. And that lady being The jj abrams version of Khan ...F×CKED...ME...UP BRUH! BUT THEY HAVE THE SAME EYES. JUST AWESOME. BEST SCI FI SERIES.... BESIDES 2004 BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. BE EASY MY FRIEND AND THANKS.
A You-Foe huh?
www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/12/weve-pronouncing-word-ufo-wrong/
Interesting. History is fun.
What is the moving light display behind Strakker's desk at SHADO HQ? How was the effect achieved? I would like that as a screensaver for my tv and monitor.
In 1969 it was probably some kind of rear projection on a translucent screen - probably 16mm film on a quiet mechanical projector behind the set while the action was being filmed in 35mm
@@FandersonUfo Thank you for your reply. I gather you would have mentioned its raison d'etre had that ever been revealed in the script or after filming. If it was not supposed to have a purpose other than looking pretty, is it the only work of art on display in SHADO HQ, Moonbase, submarine, etc.?
@@cylon5741 - There was never any dialogue explaining it - it was not a view screen etc. - it did look cool on TV which I think was it's only purpose - Straker has a spiral techno looking sculpture in his office - can't think of other UFO art off hand - I think most of the art direction was mainly clothes and wigs - the light could also be done in other mechanical ways back then - as long as it were quiet enough for filming sound
@@FandersonUfo Thank you for your willingness to share your detailed knowledge. I will look for the spiral sculpture. I was asking, in part, as if the Strakker and SHADO and all were non-fictional. Recent revelations about UAPs suggest the ET business is rooted very deeply in our reality.
@@cylon5741 - UFO is fictional television and not meant to depict anything other than an entertaining version of an imagined future - I am open minded about UFOs but I doubt they would really be as depicted here - I've always enjoyed the series as just a fun premise - with very pretty art direction at it's best - they did not have a huge budget but spent what they had well
Men in the late 60’s had terrible haircuts and hairstyles. 💇♂️
I always wondered why they only had 1 missile an no guns in case they missed. Overall the show wasn't to bad just corny like a lot of sci-fi shows then. If they had the telescopes of today maybe we could follow the UFOs to their planet and send stealth weapons to devastate them or negotiate peace with them. Naaaaa....
according to the UFO tech manual the interceptors did have two forward firing cannon for close in dog fights although that scenario was never depicted in the 26 episodes filmed - 🛸✨
@@FandersonUfo thanks for the info.👍
Fatelo vedere per la tv
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Interesting how Lt Ellis mysteriously left the show and then Lt Barry took over.
There was an unexpected production break mid season and when production resumed Ms. Drake was not available.