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In 1980, the Earth is threatened by an alien race who kidnap and kill humans and use them for body parts. A highly secret military organization is set up in the hope of defending the Earth from this alien threat. This organization is named SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organization) and operates from a secret location beneath a film studio. They also operate a fleet of submarines and have a base on the moon as well as an early warning satellite that detects inbound UFOs. UFOs can be destroyed in space by Interceptors which are launched from Moonbase. If one gets through it can be attacked in the Earth's atmosphere by a high altitude aircraft launched from one of the submarines. If a UFO also avoids this and manages to land it can be tracked and destroyed by a number of Mobiles (armored vehicles) which are deployed throughout the world.
The missions of the Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organization, which defends Earth from extra-terrestrial threats.
This was a fanciful TV program which I believe was filmed and cast in Britain. The special effects were somewhat cheesy with UFOs that looked like huge spinning metal tops from the 1930s. I don't recall ever seeing the aliens, but I believe I watched the same UFO crash repeatedly each time one was shot down. The organization that was responsible for blasting the alien spacecrafts to smithereens was SHADO which seemed to win every battle with the aliens. Each week, you'd see a huge UFO plunging to earth, totally destroyed by SHADO's defense network. What I always had a little difficulty understanding was how a race of aliens who were able to develop a craft that carried them across billions and billions of miles of the universe, was unable to come up with a weapons system that could effectively blast SHADO's defense craft. It seemed like the poor wretches were always out gunned. It would seem that such an innovative and technically capable race would realize the folly of their repeated attempts to break through SHADO's defenses and either come up with a ray gun that would atomize the defenders or cut their losses and move on to easier pickings. Having said all of this, I always watched the program and was quite entertained by it. I don't know whether that was because it was actually a good series or simply so cheesy that I just had to watch it to see just how cheesy it could get. Wow! 9 out of 11 junior space cadets with no life and no grasp of reality were unimpressed by my review. I best be careful they don't zap me with their Mattel jr. space ranger ray guns. Maybe I should have said the series was only cheesy if you're not out of touch with reality. LOL.
This series is about another invasion of UFOs from space (Well, where else, eh!?) SHADO, (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organisation)is set up to protect Earth from a race bent on destroying us, intelligently, it should be said with a plot involving using human body parts to replenish their own. Basically, the 'spacemen' as it were, were humanoid with a small amount of variation (They had green liquid inside their space helmets). SHADO uses a film studio as 'cover' for its operation.

This was a fantastic series, with the 'Commander' Ed Straker (Played by Ed Bishop) aided by British actors, Michael Billington as Colonel Paul Foster, George Sewell as Colonel Alec Freeman and the beautiful Wanda Ventham as Colonel Virginia Lake.

As with all Gerry Anderson productions, a fantastic array of craft, not least the UFOs themselves provided the action and excitement and was very well handled, even in spite of today's CGI generation.

Particular favourites, were the Interceptors - the name speaks for themselves, which were guided from SHADO's 'Moonbase' to intercept the UFOs before they hit Earth. These had a bulbous 'one shot and forget' missile mounted in the front of the craft and there were three of them that emerged from craters on the moon/Moonbase. Although of course, many attacks were engaged against SHADO's Moonbase. The Moonbase itself was staffed by sexy looking girls (Gabrielle Drake, Antonia Ellis and Dolores Mantez) in skimpy outfits with purple-metallic wigs! Some uniform! But in spite of this, the scenes involving the girls were serious, with them monitoring and co-ordinating counter-attacks against UFO activity.

Although the UFOs DID look like they were twirling around on a string, the 'flying' was done quite well. Another craft was the 'Skydiver' - a submarine basically with a submersible aircraft at its front end (Bow?!) which of course would launch from beneath the water into the atmosphere to take on the UFOs. Land-based 'Mobiles', tank-like APCs that had a machine gun turret and missiles took them on at times also.

The fashions by Sylvia Anderson, shows she definitely had an eye for style. The men tended to wear many one-piece outfits, with suits that had buttons all the way up to a stub collar (It's been forgotten, but a style of suits like this appeared in Britain in the early 1990's). Why go on about fashions? It seemed to be an integral sub-conscious part of the show. On the Earth base, the women went around in - you guessed it -skimpy tight outfits (apart from Colonel Lake unfortunately!).

Although a British series, obviously Ed Bishop was employed to catch an American audience, where the series was very well received. He was sometimes at odds with the gruff 'General Henderson' who acted as the UFO operations sceptic constantly at loggerheads with him.

Interesting to note that, Michael Billington, now sadly departed in just 2005 was a handsome actor, and was added to give the series just that bit of sex appeal for the ladies, as most Sci-Fi would be seen as a more 'boys' own' adventure - unless of course you had 'reality Sci-Fi' TV shows in some form! He actually died within a couple of days of Ed Bishop in that same year.

Episodes took a strange turn at times. One was where Ed Straker's son was seriously ill following a road accident, showing the angst between him and his missus. But this tied in with Straker desperately searching for a quick way to have vital drugs flown in from America for his son's aid using SHADO's craft - only to have to let his son die when he needed the craft for SHADO operations at the last minute. My favourite episode, I'm unsure of the name, was when 500 UFOs attacked the over-stretched SHADO defences at once.

Currently in the UK, the series is being re-run on ITV4. Though the repeats are only a few of the run's episodes and the fact my favourite episode hasn't made it into these re-runs shows they are only running select or minimal ones to keep the sale of the DVD box set firmly on the cards. A lot of British talent appeared, strangely the likes of George Cole, Windsor Davies and Derren Nesbitt along with Canadian Alexis Kanner and even playwright Steven Berkoff appeared as one of the interceptor pilots.
The following web page is an excellent on-line FAQ:

http://www.ufoseries.com/faq.html

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