SpecialsTarget
Disturbing yet enthralling
Majorthebys
Charming and brutal
Billie Morin
This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
Taha Avalos
The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
Khun Kru Mark
UFO and the awesome Ed Bishop held me captive on Saturday mornings as a kid... oh and so did the beautiful Gabrielle Drake, too! ;)Just like Star Trek, the stories were great, the drama was real and the effects were rubbish! Just like Star Trek, the actors and everyone else involved took the show seriously which is how it has lasted.It also helped the show by having unspectacular story lines in favor of real characters and good drama. No loose ends tied up to placate the viewers... just a solemn promise of more to come of the same the following week.Amazingly, this show never made it into the Rolling Stone's top 40 Sci-Fi programs... and rubbish like Buffy (which isn't Sci-Fi) did make it in! Which just goes to show that these top lists are either deliberately designed to provoke commentary or they're researched by monkey babies! I suspect the latter.UFO was a fantastic look at the future when the future was fashionable.
Maddyclassicfilms
UFO was a live action series created by Gerry Anderson and his wife Sylvia. The series ran from 1970-1973. The series stars Ed Bishop, George Sewell, Gabrielle Drake and Michael Billington.The Earth is under threat by Aliens who are abducting humans and harvesting their body parts. SHADO is a secret military organisation whose sole mission is to fight the Alien invaders and protect humanity. The SHADO headquarters are based underneath a film studio.The head of SHADO is Commander Ed Straker(Ed Bishop), his deputy and closest friend is Colonel Alec Freeman(George Sewell). Together these two are in charge of a team on Earth and of a team on their Moonbase. Up on Moonbase you have Lt. Gay Ellis(Gabrielle Drake)and her team of purple haired colleagues, why they have purple hair is never explained and is utterly bizarre. The Moonbase crew track incoming UFO's and warn the SHADO Earth base.Other team members include Colonel Paul Foster(Michael Billington), Colonel Virginia Lake(Wanda Ventham)and Captain Peter Carlin(Peter Gordeno).An episode called A Question of Priorities shows Straker faced with an impossible choice, does he use a SHADO craft to fetch medical supplies that can save his dying son? Or does he use it to help defend Earth against an incoming UFO? This is a very memorable episode and Bishop does such a good job of showing how this choice tears Straker apart.A very good series with a very catchy theme tune and memorable title sequence. Many of the episodes feature some quite dark content and creepy moments. I've never been a fan of Anderson's puppet series but I've recently seen this for the first time and love it. I wish it had lasted longer. I'm not a fan of remakes or reboots but I think a new series of this set now would work well.
Degu
They've started work on a movie version of the TV show!http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118004006.html?categoryid=1237&cs=1Robert Evans, ITV team for 'UFO' film Ryan Gaudet, Joseph Kanarek writing script By MICHAEL FLEMINGCANNES -- Robert Evans is teaming with ITV Global on a feature film based on the 1970s British TV series "UFO." Evans is producing with Avi Haas and Henri M. Kessler. Ryan Gaudet and Joseph Kanarek are penning a script.[...]The movie will be set in the year 2020.
MARIO GAUCI
I'm a devoted fan of science-fiction, even if I prefer the intellectual rather than the cheesy stuff: this one - with its hilarious would-be futuristic fashions and gadgetry and the cheap effects - tends to lean towards the latter category, apart from the occasional psychological insight (particularly the contribution of Vladek Sheybal as the space organization's resident doctor), intriguing 'horror' theme or outburst of excitement and suspense...but I warmed up to it after a while and actually found its inherent naivete quite endearing! Given that each episode follows a different plot line, quality is bound to vary but they're all eminently watchable and entertaining (despite some dull patches and a general lack of pace); the series' creators had earlier made sci-fi TV shows involving puppet characters, such as THUNDERBIRDS (1965), but the level of maturity here is clearly higher (if inconsistent).The main characters - Ed Bishop, George Sewell and Michael Billington, supported throughout the series by a respectable array of guest stars - are surprisingly engaging and the score, as redolent of its period as the rest of it(!), is undeniably infectious. Just for the record, I'd name "A Question Of Priorities", "Court Martial", "E.S.P.", "Kill Straker!", "The Cat With Ten Lives", "The Man Who Came Back", "The Psychobombs", "Reflections In The Water", "Timelash" and "Mindbender" among the best episodes - many of which are comparable to what was being done in THE TWILIGHT ZONE series; on the other hand, the weakest would have to be "Flight Path", "Survival", "Ordeal", "The Square Triangle" and "Close Up" - verging from the pedestrian to the overly technical.P.S. The series shared a staggering 11 actors with the sci-fi feature DOPPELGANGER aka JOURNEY TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE SUN (1969) - apart from being partly shot on standing sets from that film, not to mention utilizing some of its music cues!; regrettably, I missed out on its sole broadcast (on late-night Italian TV) eons ago...
