Nearly 54 years old but the boy that lives on inside me can still happily watch this clip and the opening credits on a daily basis. Thank you Gerry Anderson, for keeping me young.
The Musical score by Barry Gray was also excelent. It was a wonderful show altogether and a shame that it didn't go on. The girls were just gorgeous in this too !
Loved Gerry Anderson's models. The one thing that always bothered me though were the interceptors. Who the hell designs their first line of defense with just one friken' missile?
My guess would be that they needed a big missile, and it was a compromise, but that doesn't explain why Sky One's mini-missiles could kill the UFO. Maybe the UFOs have force shields that only work in a vacuum?
My guess is that the interceptors were initially going for proximity blasts, because of the extreme distance and speed involved (coordinates given by computer), while Sky One was more traditional dogfighting (visual targeting).
When the UFO is going 1.5 million miles per second you are trying to track an object moving almost as fast as the sensor beams. The interceptors are the smallest platform capable of launching the missile. There isn’t time for multiple engagements the ufo is past the moon. You don’t want to be firing nuclear missiles back towards Earth. Either the missiles are going for an EMP pulse to kill it or they blast casing fragments in a net and hope the UFO runs into one of them. In Earths atmosphere the UFO mostly sub sonic to a viable target for guns and missiles.
Given the high delta V of the UFO hoping to catch it in a nuke blast in space makes sense. But the UFO can't go 1.5 million miles/s in atmosphere. So you can be more precise.
All iconography present and correct - the blokes sliding through the holes, the single-use phallo missile fighters, the underwater thing, the string vests, the purple hair, the spinning, whirring UFO, even a bit of Straker. The definitive UFO clip!
as a 60's70's kid, those UFO's freaked me out and the scared the crap outa me more than anything else on TV...and I don't really know why....I loved this show so much...but I remember being frustrated and upset there was not more of it!!...and the opening!!!
HA! ---- incredible flashback !! I used to watch this in Argentina in spanish back in the early 70s..... I didn´t know it was a brit series. I thought it was american, they had the technology then.... Well done you guys
I first watched this serie way back in 1985 when I was 14 . It was already a classic even then . This serie could be from the late 1960ees thru the early 1970ees . But still , its very entertaining even now , in 2012 . Why don't we make things as easy , as simple , as down-to-earth but still entertaining like S.H.A.D.O ?
Everyone has such a nonchalant attitude, like - "UFO destroyed, returning to base, have the tea ready and have we got any cream biscuits? - over! Hahaha
These those moon base guys must love that assignment. Playboy bunnies with purple hair and you get to fly groovy spacecraft. Gotta have a disco up there no??
Anti-static wigs. Those computers were sensitive to static discharges. On earth Lt. Ellis' hair was as brown as mine. God I wanted to be her so much. LOL
One of the biggest drawbacks of the "one and done" missile system on the interceptors, was if they missed, they're out of luck and defenseless. And how in hell do all three miss?
In response to: CaptC4t Oct 9, 2008 The UFOs approach earth at 1.5 million miles per second . That's approx 9 times the speed of light. And Shado tries to shoot the things down with missiles ?!? Yes 3 massive nuclear warheads - bigger than the Russian Tsar Nukes. Detonated in a spread pattern in front of an oncoming UFO have a pretty good chance of winging it - whatever course corrections the UFO makes,( Much like a shotgun discharge at a pheasant).
Something I always wondered about Sky 1; how did it mate back with Diver? Did they have to re-mate them back in port? How hydro dynamically efficient would Diver be after Sky 1 launched? Still, it was cool as a kid watching that plane launch.
Joe Soap Because that is why they carry huge one shot concussive torpedoes, they use S.I.D.s data to do predictive area aiming to create a huge shockwave to hopefully take out a or a bunch of UFOs, it's not ship to ship targeting until the UFOs slow down for earth approach.
The missile carried by the Lunar Interceptors are nukes. The idea - initially, anyways - isn't so much as to destroy an incoming UFO as to force it to alter it's course on a trajectory away from Earth.
The interceptors carried massive nuclear concussion missiles. The idea was to predict - via the Space Intruder Detector satellite - where the UFO would be and detonate multiple nukes there. The first episode storyline is about the devlopment of a system that can track UFO's when they are travelling faster than light - without which the Moon based defences would not work. I believe it is actually stated that the Moon systems are built but remain non-operational without it. It is also noted that the Interceptors are the first defence line - and in numerous episodes (including the clip above), the UFO's do get past them. The UFO's cannot travel fast in Earth's atmosphere, they are deep space vehicles and are slower and less manueverable than the supersonic Sky One atmosphere fighter shown above. There is more than one Skydiver, in one episode I think it;s Skydiver 4 that is destroyed. Lastly, SHADO had heavily armed, armoured vehicles - the Mobiles - to destroy UFO's that actually landed. The show specifically stated that the Earth's atmosphere itself was, in fact, the best line of defence. It forced UFO's to travel slowly, they were not designed to operate in it, and moreover a UFO would decompose and eventually explode after some hours of exposure. This is why the aliens often operated from submerged UFO's and underwater bases. The show goes to great lengths to emphasis that the Alien technology is much more advanced and SHADO only stands a chance because the atmosphere evens things out....and that the UFO's are rather obviously not designed as warships, plus the Aliens are from a "dying planet" with few resources. iirc though the Interceptors were slow compared to the UFO's, they were by human standards extremely fast. I recall an episode where Interceptor speed is given as a significant "decimal SOL". SOL= Speed Of Light, and decimal indicated the fraction below it. Also note that the UFO is detected at least 75,000,000 miles away. That is well beyond the orbit of Mars.
Esta era una de mis series favoritas.. me encantaba la música del inicio, pero sobre todo las chicas del submarino... ja ja... qué tiempos. En todo caso no me perdía ningún episodio. Me emocionaba mucho ver este programa. Un bonito recuerdo...
During this interceptor take-off scene, it doesnt play original audio. Interceptors have a cool engine wind-up whine, then a righteous blast-off roar. In this video it cuts to a cheesy synthesizer music score, just as a blast-off roar ought to come in.
That's sad. Because your border guards thought I was an illegal alien. Just coming to London and Birmingham on a 2 week vacation. Please, I had no intention to stay. I would miss NYC too much.
Speed 1.5 million miles per second! Thats close to 9 times the speed of light! This show, which I loved by the way (when I was 10), could have at least had a astronomer on the proof reading team !?!
The best cover of the UFO theme I've heard is called UFO S.H.A.D.O. theme by Rocket Scientists. It's on TH-cam, and I highly encourage UFO fans to listen to it!
@galinneall Sexy girls, but being in SHADO was a risky proposition. An interceptor was picked off every other scramble, and the mobile vehicles ALWAYS took losses. I do not recall a single instance where ANY dismounted & armed mobile trooper survived. The time the mobile guys captured a live alien in a red liquid-breathing spacesuit, the entire detachment was wiped out to wound one alien. The followup rescue party found the vehicle a blown away wreck, and all the dismounted troopers killed.
Impressive print of this sequence from a show TX'ed in the 1970's even if lifted from a recent TX. I do ♥ a You Tuber with good access to top drawer material. One can imagine if certain parts of this planet were to be invaded by outworlders this would make good training footage for our defenders.
@LeeEnfield64 Had one of those matchbox type interceptors as a lad, wish I still had it. Probably be worth a bob or two now.
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Dinky Toys. At least mine was from them. Sadly, gone… together with my Space: 1999 Eagles (one with a passenger module, one with the nuclear waste module), both also Dinky.
Absolutely loved this show, but I never did understand the purple hair, but they must have glued them on because they looked perfect, not wishy washy purple and not a hair out of place.Seriously though, a terrific show, one of the best ever made.Also a very plausible reason for the aliens to keep attacking earth.There's a similar thread running through Doctor Who as well.There are several species of aliens who are hell bent on survival at any cost, most notably the Daleks and the Cybermen.These are my two favorite shows.I've always preferred English shows to American ones, the dialogue is always more intelligent and thoughtful.
"UFO" is a classic, but sometimes the episodes ended tragically. A good example is 'A Question Of Priorities ', in which Ed's son died and Ed's ex-wife Mary blamed Ed for the loss of the boy. Such a plot development belongs in a soap opera, not a sci-fi show!
Nearly 54 years old but the boy that lives on inside me can still happily watch this clip and the opening credits on a daily basis. Thank you Gerry Anderson, for keeping me young.
A big thanks to the Brits for this and Space 1999.. We LOVED this stuff here in the states.
And for the X-Com game series which the original devs confirmed was inspired by this show!
Love it in Latin America also! Greetings from Peru!
Speak for yourself! It's garbage!
U.F.O. had the best music of any of the Anderson shows.
Thunderbirds music was also excellent
There's a group on TH-cam called Rocket Scientists that had an awesome cover of the UFO theme called the "UFO: S.H.A.D.O. Theme".
Filming started in 1969, so it was Swingin' 60s England. Yeah, baby, yeah!
This is a great mix: th-cam.com/video/2tP_Ta41nP0/w-d-xo.html
Both UFO & Thunderbirds had superb exciting theme music
The Musical score by Barry Gray was also excelent. It was a wonderful show altogether and a shame that it didn't go on. The girls were just gorgeous in this too !
Gerry Anderson was the master . best series ever !!!!!!
Loved Gerry Anderson's models. The one thing that always bothered me though were the interceptors. Who the hell designs their first line of defense with just one friken' missile?
My guess would be that they needed a big missile, and it was a compromise, but that doesn't explain why Sky One's mini-missiles could kill the UFO. Maybe the UFOs have force shields that only work in a vacuum?
They need the space Gatling guns they had in The Expanse
My guess is that the interceptors were initially going for proximity blasts, because of the extreme distance and speed involved (coordinates given by computer), while Sky One was more traditional dogfighting (visual targeting).
When the UFO is going 1.5 million miles per second you are trying to track an object moving almost as fast as the sensor beams. The interceptors are the smallest platform capable of launching the missile. There isn’t time for multiple engagements the ufo is past the moon. You don’t want to be firing nuclear missiles back towards Earth.
Either the missiles are going for an EMP pulse to kill it or they blast casing fragments in a net and hope the UFO runs into one of them.
In Earths atmosphere the UFO mostly sub sonic to a viable target for guns and missiles.
Given the high delta V of the UFO hoping to catch it in a nuke blast in space makes sense.
But the UFO can't go 1.5 million miles/s in atmosphere. So you can be more precise.
For something 50 years old, it's pretty amazing.
"Speed one and a half million miles a second " Ziiiiiiiiiiip ! 😵💫
No joke, I'm actually going to get the DVD of this show mostly because of how awesome this music is.
All iconography present and correct - the blokes sliding through the holes, the single-use phallo missile fighters, the underwater thing, the string vests, the purple hair, the spinning, whirring UFO, even a bit of Straker. The definitive UFO clip!
as a 60's70's kid, those UFO's freaked me out and the scared the crap outa me more than anything else on TV...and I don't really know why....I loved this show so much...but I remember being frustrated and upset there was not more of it!!...and the opening!!!
The liquid breathing, organ harvesting aliens ama right? 😂
HA! ----
incredible flashback !! I used to watch this in Argentina in spanish back in the early 70s..... I didn´t know it was a brit series. I thought it was american, they had the technology then.... Well done you guys
I was scared of the UFOs as a kid! The feeling when skydiver launched was a relief.
Kick-ass base line to the interceptors launch sequence
I first watched this serie way back in 1985 when I was 14 . It was already a classic even then . This serie could be from the late 1960ees thru the early 1970ees . But still , its very entertaining even now , in 2012 . Why don't we make things as easy , as simple , as down-to-earth but still entertaining like S.H.A.D.O ?
My favourite tv show as a kid .
Interseptors, shadow mobile trucks then birds with purple bob hair cuts .
Haha can't beat it
I love it when the bass line for hte music kicks in when the alert goes out really funky! pity you don't get music like that these days in programmes.
Everyone has such a nonchalant attitude, like - "UFO destroyed, returning to base, have the tea ready and have we got any cream biscuits? - over!
Hahaha
Bad day if any of those ships needed a 2nd shot. LOL
Coolest-looking show ever
As a 9 year old when this came on I couldn't wait each week for the next episolder it was super cool
I’m a 49 year old American who only discovered UFO last month. I’m hooked. The bewigged babes, pilot slides and jazzy music are cheesy perfection.
British ingenuity always different from rest of the world rare and unique
Never understood, but loved the purple hair and sexy uniforms
Nobody I know remembers this show. But I loved it as a kid! Thank you for this!
Where are you from? here in Italy no one that was a child boy at the time has forgotten it..😂
1:48 One and a half million miles per second! That's amazing, since light can only do 186,000 miles per second!
The ¨checking boosters, checking boosters¨ chick is my favorite. Boosters, you bet!
That GEARING UP FOR BATTLE MUSIC "ROCKS".❤
Very cool series
Rip Gerry
RIP Peter Gordenho aka Capt Carlin (Sky One pilot)
Get that, aliens? Don't f**k with Earth!
Really ahead of their time. Discovered the purple Moonbase wigs are actually anti-static for protection.
謎の円盤UFOは中学生の時名古屋にいる時に
ソニーの提供で夜テレビでやっていました。
学校でも話題になりました。
Gabrielle Drake: whata babe.
I always thought George Sewell was sexy.
Gorgeous girl indeed...
Its good but Thunderbirds was better
Yes I agree completely she was so hot!
Yesssss!
Loved this when I was a kid
These those moon base guys must love that assignment. Playboy bunnies with purple hair and you get to fly groovy spacecraft. Gotta have a disco up there no??
Anti-static wigs. Those computers were sensitive to static discharges. On earth Lt. Ellis' hair was as brown as mine. God I wanted to be her so much. LOL
I developed a crush on women with purple hair in this show. LOL.
You see women today with purple hair (other colors, too) guess we finally caught up to the 80's!
I have always called this series Space a' Gogo.
Pity the purple haired ones today tent to be crazy banshees.
One of the biggest drawbacks of the "one and done" missile system on the interceptors, was if they missed, they're out of luck and defenseless. And how in hell do all three miss?
When she calls for "Interceptors immediate launch," two of the three pilots are already helmeted! I guess they sleep with them on.
Active standby.
They wear helmets because they are "special".
Interceptors always ready for launch.
Like pilots always wear their helmets.
Awesome stuff! I just built an RC Sky-1
All SPIRITS listen now
In response to:
CaptC4t Oct 9, 2008
The UFOs approach earth at 1.5 million miles per second . That's approx 9 times the speed of light. And Shado tries to shoot the things down with missiles ?!?
Yes 3 massive nuclear warheads - bigger than the Russian Tsar Nukes. Detonated in a spread pattern in front of an oncoming UFO have a pretty good chance of winging it - whatever course corrections the UFO makes,( Much like a shotgun discharge at a pheasant).
When I think of the new Space Force, this is what comes to mind XD
This show deserves a modern reboot
There have been many attempts even a movie in the works buts is a topic that powers that be do not want to be pushed..😀
Great show. Main opening theme as well as the incidental music are truly great too. Love those purple haired 'dollybirds'.
Something I always wondered about Sky 1; how did it mate back with Diver? Did they have to re-mate them back in port? How hydro dynamically efficient would Diver be after Sky 1 launched? Still, it was cool as a kid watching that plane launch.
me too cannot see it just reversing back would not work it was just good fun
see that smoke underwater?
likely on the surface
maybe a second Sky was flown out to mate, one that launched returned to a land base
Sky 1 reconnected with Diver underwater. I think they showed that later in this episode.
The UFO is doing 1.5 million miles per second. That's nearly seven times the speed of light. how could any missile catch it let alone hit it?
Joe Soap Because that is why they carry huge one shot concussive torpedoes, they use S.I.D.s data to do predictive area aiming to create a huge shockwave to hopefully take out a or a bunch of UFOs, it's not ship to ship targeting until the UFOs slow down for earth approach.
"That god for the atmosphere. It's the best protection we've got."
The missile carried by the Lunar Interceptors are nukes. The idea - initially, anyways - isn't so much as to destroy an incoming UFO as to force it to alter it's course on a trajectory away from Earth.
The interceptors carried massive nuclear concussion missiles. The idea was to predict - via the Space Intruder Detector satellite - where the UFO would be and detonate multiple nukes there. The first episode storyline is about the devlopment of a system that can track UFO's when they are travelling faster than light - without which the Moon based defences would not work. I believe it is actually stated that the Moon systems are built but remain non-operational without it. It is also noted that the Interceptors are the first defence line - and in numerous episodes (including the clip above), the UFO's do get past them.
The UFO's cannot travel fast in Earth's atmosphere, they are deep space vehicles and are slower and less manueverable than the supersonic Sky One atmosphere fighter shown above. There is more than one Skydiver, in one episode I think it;s Skydiver 4 that is destroyed.
Lastly, SHADO had heavily armed, armoured vehicles - the Mobiles - to destroy UFO's that actually landed.
The show specifically stated that the Earth's atmosphere itself was, in fact, the best line of defence. It forced UFO's to travel slowly, they were not designed to operate in it, and moreover a UFO would decompose and eventually explode after some hours of exposure.
This is why the aliens often operated from submerged UFO's and underwater bases.
The show goes to great lengths to emphasis that the Alien technology is much more advanced and SHADO only stands a chance because the atmosphere evens things out....and that the UFO's are rather obviously not designed as warships, plus the Aliens are from a "dying planet" with few resources.
iirc though the Interceptors were slow compared to the UFO's, they were by human standards extremely fast. I recall an episode where Interceptor speed is given as a significant "decimal SOL". SOL= Speed Of Light, and decimal indicated the fraction below it.
Also note that the UFO is detected at least 75,000,000 miles away. That is well beyond the orbit of Mars.
SCIENCE!
I've heard of this so being essentially X-COM the TV show... minus the immense casualties that the games are known for...
Top hole! Bally Greeny pranged his kite right in how's your father!
Esta era una de mis series favoritas.. me encantaba la música del inicio, pero sobre todo las chicas del submarino... ja ja... qué tiempos. En todo caso no me perdía ningún episodio. Me emocionaba mucho ver este programa. Un bonito recuerdo...
This theme song can not be listened to without bobbing your head.
Cutting edge edge effects.
+halfcab81 How many edges?
For 1970 television. Yes.
They were very much like those at Thunderbirds; another favourite of the time.
same Production house so yeah
Yes, lots of cutting edges
During this interceptor take-off scene, it doesnt play original audio.
Interceptors have a cool engine wind-up whine, then a righteous blast-off roar.
In this video it cuts to a cheesy synthesizer music score, just as a blast-off roar ought to come in.
LOVED THIS SHOW AND THE BEAUTIFUL GABRIELLE DRAKE 👌👌👈
Those were the days of great adventure for us Brits when we fought against real Aliens.....sadly today we have to fight illegal aliens!
yes thats true i loved commander straker had a right crush on him think it was the hair rip ed bishop
Technically the aliens from outer Space were illegal too.
Loved the purple haired girls.
That's sad. Because your border guards thought I was an illegal alien. Just coming to London and Birmingham on a 2 week vacation. Please, I had no intention to stay. I would miss NYC too much.
@@milkybar06 That "Gay Ellis"! Even TODAY, She could/CAN "PUT ME IN LOW LUNAR ORBIT!
Mighty nice of the aliens to only send as many ships as the moon had interceptors.
Speed 1.5 million miles per second! Thats close to 9 times the speed of light! This show, which I loved by the way (when I was 10), could have at least had a astronomer on the proof reading team !?!
you know that line about SOL 8? - SOL = Speed of Light. They knew about it.
Thats just warp 9 in Star Trek parlance. LOL
Used to watch this as a kid. I found the purple haired moon women fascinating.
Love the dramatic music as the moon base pilots slide into the chutes and into the cockpits.
Who needs X-COM.
We've got SHADO and their purple haired women..
And,yes!The music was great as always!I loved Barry Gray”s music!I just saw an animated version of:Ufo,last night!It was real cute to see!
Is the purple hair part of their uniform? I love the retro futureish style.
The best cover of the UFO theme I've heard is called UFO S.H.A.D.O. theme by Rocket Scientists. It's on TH-cam, and I highly encourage UFO fans to listen to it!
totally superb , am 42 now and still have my model interceptor
@galinneall Sexy girls, but being in SHADO was a risky proposition. An interceptor was picked off every other scramble, and the mobile vehicles ALWAYS took losses. I do not recall a single instance where ANY dismounted & armed mobile trooper survived. The time the mobile guys captured a live alien in a red liquid-breathing spacesuit, the entire detachment was wiped out to wound one alien. The followup rescue party found the vehicle a blown away wreck, and all the dismounted troopers killed.
I always loved the purple hair.
Those interceptor pilots _always_ got their mealtime interrupted.
Interesting that their speed was solid and not soggy. Also good they were having a maximum security alert instead of a half assed mild security alert.
these shows were entertaining,love em.
That female skydiver crew member is in liftoff stations
Shado would make a solid modern remake.
Impressive print of this sequence from a show TX'ed in the 1970's even if lifted from a recent TX. I do ♥ a You Tuber with good access to top drawer material. One can imagine if certain parts of this planet were to be invaded by outworlders this would make good training footage for our defenders.
She speaks like the Queen in The Crown
I've never seen this show but boy does it look like Ultraman.
Intercepters immediate lunch! Hahaha
launch... please.
@LeeEnfield64 Had one of those matchbox type interceptors as a lad, wish I still had it. Probably be worth a bob or two now.
Dinky Toys. At least mine was from them.
Sadly, gone… together with my Space: 1999 Eagles (one with a passenger module, one with the nuclear waste module), both also Dinky.
Love this show!
THAT'S XCOM BABY!!
moytank Not enough friendly fire incidents to be XCOM!
Top vídeo,intercept enemy ufo
Presumably the casting director was under orders to find actors who looked and moved like Gerry's puppets, but underplayed more.
Oh, that is not the cool engine wind-up roar of the interceptors! Somebody put in a cheezy music overlay to drown out the righteous lift-off roar.
This program should be remade
Those chix are hot and funky like katy perry.
Absolutely loved this show, but I never did understand the purple hair, but they must have glued them on because they looked perfect, not wishy washy purple and not a hair out of place.Seriously though, a terrific show, one of the best ever made.Also a very plausible reason for the aliens to keep attacking earth.There's a similar thread running through Doctor Who as well.There are several species of aliens who are hell bent on survival at any cost, most notably the Daleks and the Cybermen.These are my two favorite shows.I've always preferred English shows to American ones, the dialogue is always more intelligent and thoughtful.
The women at SHADO's Moonbase were the original Punk Rockers!
I had never noticed the heavy "Thunderbirds are Go!" vibe before.
Their wigs were almost as good as Michael Billington's.
He had better hair everywhere else, though.
Of course!♥️
I had it as well. Wasn't it made by Dinky? Had the plastic yellow missle and orange landing gears? Going WAY back in time here.
Bomp Bomp Bomp - Bompbompbompbomp ...that’s what’s missing at my workplace: our own theme music.
1:07 "You do realise we'll have to change the bulb for that?"
It’s rather silly now, but when your a 9 year old boy, THIS IS AWESOME!
"UFO" is a classic, but sometimes the episodes ended tragically. A good example is 'A Question Of Priorities ', in which Ed's son died and Ed's ex-wife Mary blamed Ed for the loss of the boy. Such a plot development belongs in a soap opera, not a sci-fi show!
Ах, какие девушки! И, главное - он и девушки... а не трансы-шмансы ))))
Ahhhh, the Chinese balloon that was shot down last month. I'm glad we finally figured that out.
TERRIFIC DOCUMENTARY HERE! Those are the bravest men and women I have ever seen.
This show literally screams for a reboot...!
デジタルを知らなかった50年前のアンダーソンの名作！
Лютый фильм.
I always wondered if the apertures on the nose anti-glare panel of the Interceptor were cannons or part of the crafts RCS?
Love the purple hair.
One and a half million miles per second? That's EIGHT TIMES the speed of light! How are they even measuring this?
Су-24 на перехвате НЛО.
Давно я так не орал 😅
Great stuff! I hope the movie does it justice.
Oh my I wish i was good at doing that sort of thing. model building and i are not quite up to spec. Well done.