It's a really tough call. Ms. Gabrielle Drake, and the character she played, Lt. Gail Ellis, totally won many, many, hearts & minds! Whether she's assigned to monitor duty on SHADO's Moonbase, or their Headquarters complex, on Earth, she was, without a doubt, totally, gob-smackingly BEAUTIFUL!
I cannot believe this is 54yrs old. Im an instant fan. Great acting, script, brilliant sound and lighting. The costumes! Miniature backgrounds. The camera angles, just brilliant. Serious but sexy and my favourite subject... ufos. Thankyou ❤🎉
@@blakeps192 1970's acting. For the time the acting in this movie was amazing. yeah sure it's bad acting today but better than most movies of it's time. And better than some modern movies, though not seen in a theater movie. You have to consider the era the movie was made and the comparable acting before judging. John Wayne was a great actor according to history, but today he would be a failure for not showing enough emotion... kinda like the actors in this movie. same time period too. *edit era not ere. Different words that mean different things.
The miniature work is incredible, considering the era this was made. You know they're obviously miniatures but you just don't care because they're so cool looking.
I was noting that too...And a show from the 60's..they must have been using the latest cinema cameras...I love the whole look of it too...i grew up with this show.. And Gabrielle? swoon!
it looks a lot nicer than the original because it has been upscaled to hd (edit: frame rate has also been increased), and some of the footage has been replaced entirely with new background imagery and effects. The upscaling is much appreciated but i would have preferred the original effect shots
Yeah,this was a series that I grew up ⬆️ with as a child 🧒 in the fourth grade in 1971.I watched it after school 🏫 at;3;30 p.m.Alway’s liked the series!I sure regret getting rid of my Ufo 🛸 book’s…oh well!You can’t win them all,I guess!
One of my earliest memories was running in the rain with a slice of pizza to the university common room where I hoped they would be watching UFO. My mom insisted she watch Masterpiece Theater on our tiny B&W TV set, which was on at the same time as UFO. I ran in the rain, got to the common room. The university students were not watching UFO and would not change it because some 5-year-old kid wanted to watch. I went without and ate cold, wet pizza by myself in the cafe.
Yes, and what we see here is scanned film that has been rezzed down a LOT for DVD transfer, then rezzed down even more for youtube. So this is an inferior image quality compared to what you would see if we were watching this projected onto a movie screen in a theater.@@NGC1433
It may be an unpopular opinion, but 2023 needs more Nehru jackets, turtlenecks, and minis to get us back on track! UFO and Space 1999 were instrumental in making me the sci-fi fan.
Can't believe I never heard of this! But growing up with Stingray and Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, I felt I was watching a live action version on those programmes; turns out that's exactly what is was! Good ol' Gerry & Sylvia Anderson 😊
Left out Fireball XL5, Supercar. Then their was what followed, Space 1999. Many of the shots in the feature film "Meteor" had a Gerry Anderson look, but I'm not sure about that.
I remember seeing part of the series on U.S. public television and never finding it again... I literally thought I might have imagined the purple wigs & sub-launched interceptor!
@@fyrchmyrddin1937 When my family was stationed in Iceland in 1970, we were visiting someone local and it was on their TV. I thought it was pretty cool, but our NTSC TVs couldnt receive it. Then we came back to the US just in time for it to run here. But I never got to see more than about 10 shows until I bought the DvDs.
I had no idea! In the US we only had krappy StarTrek... Your is COoL & Steamy. A time when ♀could be ♀without wanting to "sue"! (with all due respect:). Cheers!
One of my top shows as a kid! This was a masterpiece by the Andersons! If ever the timing was right to finally do the proposed movie from years ago, or launch a 2nd series. This would be the time, with all the heightened UFO talk. But, there is a strong caveat with the condition of the current movie industry. Until there is a change of personnel and attitudes. I would prefer this Diamond not be tarnished by today’s ‘messaging.’
@@shelbynamels973 I remember when trolls had some imagination and wit. Now you’re just pathetic, swivel-eyed crackpots peeing in alleyways and shouting at the wind.
Noooo! They would cast a black transexual in the shoes of Gabrielle and would make the aliens a poor race of refugees fighting against the patriarchy. Conserve and restore the original, period.
I would agree,but, the way the world is now, half the purple haired "women" would be sporting bulges lol and so much facial metal obscuring their faces.
Me. likevmany young Germans at that time were not aloud to see it in those yeas because NOT YOUTHFREE and because of the time it was running on TV. I watched it a few years later when I got older. Still I had collected all I could find about the show from beginning on like the VIEWMASTER PHOTOS.
I'm German and I want to say Thank you! Long before Tomb Raider you gave us this great entertaining serie in the early 70 th. It was cool, very British and sexy... Thank you Great Britain for all the fun ! 👌👍
@@stevesteve8098 Thank you, we should be aware of the engineering achievements of all western countries. Many European nations have given us technical achievements that have made our lives easier. Let's think of James Watt, Sir Isaac Newton, Mister Bernoulli, then Keppler's laws, the industrial use of iron and steel by the British, the telephone and Morse code, the production of electrical energy by the Siemens and Westinghouse generator, diesel and gasoline engines, the Internet of the US Army, penezilin and so much more...
I loved this show as a 9 year old just amazing how it entranced me! RIGHT around the 33:00 minute mark the UFO had landed in Canada and that may have had something to do with the fact this show did well here in early 70's!
Even though UFO lasted just one season/year, Gabrielle Drake was really just a guest star for several episodes. I think I read somewhere years ago that she had other work lined up after guest starring on UFO and was never meant to stay on any longer than just a few episodes.
there was an unexpected need to change studios in mid production - this caused a 6 month gap in filming so some performers were not available when production resumed in spring 1970 - Gabrielle and George Sewell disappear and Wanda Ventham and Delores Mantez are used to fill the gap - it is possible Gabrielle meant to move on anyway but that's the first I've heard she planned to go early - 🛸✨
@@FandersonUfo I also heard a disparaging note on George Sewell's further appearances on UFO was actually "let go" because either a senior producer or president of the studio didn't like the way he looked! In other words, George was fired because he wasn't (physically) attractive enough to be on this show. A show that was made up of rather attractive looking yet dramatically gifted actors. I found that to be a little dis-coloring and annoying. George Sewell was a very good actor and a great second-in-command next to Ed Bishop.
@@KnowTrentTimoy - George did get shafted after the production break - executives in NYC were not impressed with his looks or style - admittedly Sewell was a bit much for 1970 US network broadcast - 👽✨
Love this. I remember, even as a kid, I thought if the aliens sent _four_ UFOs instead of three, the moonbase fighter ships with their one bomb each would be screwed.
Knowing that it takes the moon a month to circle the earth, I always wondered why they didnt attack from the other side so moonbase was eclipsed. I assume SID and moonbase orbited opposite each other, but I dont think canon establishes it. And of course the Soviets must have been laughing their butts off since the UFOs always attacked NATO countries.
They had other lines of defense, didn't they? If interceptors 1, 2, and 3 missed, they had that crazy looking submarine that would tilt back and launch a underwater fighter plane like a torpedo. It would burst up though the surface and fly normally through the air like an F-15 or Thunderbird 4. If the UFO landed, the final line of defense were those slow moving treaded land vehicles. I remember seeing them moving though the woods doing stuff against UFOs.
i loved this show when it came out, bought the DVD set of it some 15+ yrs ago, and still love watching it. it was ahead of its time in a dozen ways, and while showing its age, its still an epically good, well directed, written, and acted show for the most part. i have 5 decades of sci fi under my belt, ive gotten to automatically start talking to the screen things like " wait, why have you not called for back up already ? youre a squadron of 3 craft, you never send 1 in alone".. or "ok, why did you fire one rocket and just go "OK, hit the target, they are still airborne".. what the ..?? lolol.. i mean, seriously, if you HIT your target, its SLOWING down, you go in for the kill shot.. not simply bank away, and call Control to say" Yup, hit it, its still flying though, good luck on the ground finding it:".. yea,, i never "thought" much when i watched it, i just enjoyed it was Sci Fi.. so... its still good, you just have to overlook, it wasnt a massive budget show when compared to todays epics, vast/constant use of miniatures, repetitive "cut scenes" to save money, but doing its best at the time.. the quality and attention to detail of the miniatures, was actually pretty damn good for the time.. just allow for the era when it comes to clothes and makeup.. personally, i thought they looked nicely futuristic.. loved the gals purple wigs and silver suits. they had genuine Foxes on that show, and many of them, in positions of authority.
There's a lot of great stuff in entertainment going all the way back to the late 19th century. The old carbon arc lights, the costumes, "The roar of the greasepaint, and the smell of the crowd!" (sic) "Barbershop" quartets and tight harmonies. Burlesque, Vaudeville ("A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"). The earliest silent films. "Moving pictures" were brand new; nobody knew what they were doing, there was no "formula"; it was all experimental. Later, the classic comedies of film: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle, Harold Lloyd, W.C. Fields, the SIZZLING Mae West; Laurel & Hardy, Abbott and Costello, the 3 Stooges, the Marx Brothers, the Little Rascals, the Bowery Boys. The Epics, like "Lawrence of Arabia". The classic horror movies of the '30s; Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolf Man, the Mummy; early sci-fi, Buck Rogers; the classic gangster flicks, Jimmy Cagney, Edward G. Robinson. Westerns: Tom Mix and Hoot Gibson. It's almost limitless.And this is just from the 1890s to the 1930s. I didn't even TOUCH the '40s and beyond (although some of the stuff I mentioned did extend into the '40s, '50s, and even the '60s.) Someone like you might enjoy exploring.
@kellyrobinson1780 Thanks Kelly! I’m familiar with a lot of those names, especially Edward G Robinson, always one of my favorites. I enjoy watching the oldies but I had never even heard mention of this series, thus my surprise! I guess British TV didn’t make it to rural Tennessee back in the day. Great stuff for sure!
@@DougForce Ah. Got it. British TV, '60s? The Avengers. Spy-ish. Very cool. Diana Rigg 😍 'Nuff said. (10 bonus points for anyone who can say how they came up with the the name of the character played by Rigg, Mrs. Emma Peel.)
Was a kid when I watched this and was a fan. Never realized how expensive it must have been to make. Besides the various sets and special effect vehicles; there were A LOT of characters with speaking roles!
@@DIOSpeedDemon The day of the Cigarette 🚬 vending machines, I remember seeing them, and if nobody was looking, I would pull a handle for a Free book of matches In theory, Children were not supposed to purchase Cigarettes, but there was no way to prevent any such thing from happening.
7:20 Girl(Joanna?) dresses up behind a one way mirror while Gay changes into a mini skirt 9:50 oscilloscope sine and square waves 10:42 flashing IEE Projection readout clock display 14:33 Kitt style 6x5 super computer running light 57:20 the slide out antenna communicator 58:00 Mr Bean!(almost) 58:30 aliens in shiny red jumpsuits 1:14:30 room with lots of acoustic modems/phones/tape recorders to record 3 b/w images from space 1:16:00 they drive in the nice car to the office 1:16:30 Unload the big spool from the small suitcase to printout the "detailed" pictures Great work (love the UFO series since I found it on youtube a few years ago)
At 12 I was in love with cmdr.Straker Ed,he was my favourite character:intelligent,quite a guy,very handsome. Pity and sadly the series U.F.O. was cancelled too early.
My uncle Lewis was stationed at Lexfield airbase when he was in the royal canadian space force. He says there is a big maple syrup factory near there. That's probly what the ufo was after.
I watched this when it was originally on and loved the show and was so disappointed when no network or syndicate renewed it for a second season and I had a horrible crush on Gabrielle Drake. I was 18 then and 71 now. Thank you for posting this and I subscribed. I have a Shado appreciation scroll someone created on Ebay and several t shirts with the Shado logo on them.
Oh, Come ON man! No 'healthy', 'red-blooded', 'teenaged', male, no matter their nationality, could've had a "horrible crush", on Lt. Gay Ellis! (As portrayed by the Ravishingly luscious Miss Gabrielle Drake!) A "painfully unrequited" crush, yes! But horrible, I seriously doubt it, friend.
The intro music was inspirational. The outro always left me wanting more. So far ahead of its time in so many ways. A miracle it was commissioned too….
This is astounding quality visually. From the technology of 1969-70 to this is remarkable. Gabrielle has never looked better. Even Ed Bishop and his cigarette smoking looks time correct. It all interlaces the live action with the modelling far better than the original. Hats off to the software programmer who facilitated the conversion of a schoolboy classic.
@@PauloPereira-jj4jv really? In 1970 they had resolution like that? Too long ago to remember clearly but seems highly unlikely a digital transfer would not have major image resolution enhancement applied? Either way it’s a great copy.
@@rjmacf0015 It was almost certainly shot on 35mm color negative film, probably Kodak/Eastman 5247 or the equvalent Agfa or Ilford. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motion_picture_film_stocks That said, it was almost certainly retransfered to video in the last 10 or 20 years, based on the quality, yes.
At first, I thought this was total schlock. Pretty funny shit (after the 4-2-0 kicked-in). I realized this needs to be viewed from a child's perspective. Saturday matinee stuff at it's finest, with kids crawling all over the theater. I watch intently now, as I did then, not focusing on the details and the campy melodrama, just taking-in the pure saturated 60's groove. The pastel tertiary color palette is so soothing... Gabrielle is magnetic in every scene.
The story lines are often very bleak and adult oriented. And you see Straker, a happy and friendly man initially, becoming harsh and abrasive as the pressure of his awful job tells on him.
Well said! Even without 420, it's all '60s; yeah, baby, yeah! And now for something completely different: Look up "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in", and "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour". For a real trippy experience, look up "Firesign Theatre". My favorite is "How Can You Be In Two Places at Once, When You're Not Anywhere At All". But you can start anywhere. And Frank Zappa, "Apostrophe".
I liked when he said (supposedly in 1984) i wonder how computers will be in 20 years, i.e. 2004. Now here we are another 20 years further on with sadly our Govts hand in hand with Big Tec spying on us 24/7 from all angles.
@@rodrigoolea3268 Under existential threat from extraterrestrial organ harvesters, nations of the world unite to focus their full scientific and technological capacity toward the advanced development of hot babes and cool cars. Less mission-critical technology was left to languish at the Univac I and Cathode Ray Tube stage.
5:25 - sounds like the voice of Scott Tracy. It wouldn't be out of place if he had said "International Rescue from Thunderbird One, changing to horizontal flight".
I wonder why they never commercialized the car of Commander Straker..i always loved it. I also remember when one of the blond girls drove a VW Porsche 914, another fantastic car....ah the 70s!
When I was a kid, I thought the Moonbase ladies were human / alien hybrids with purple hair. Little did I realize that the purple wigs were standard issue with the Moonbase duty uniforms for the command staff.
Das interessante an diesem Film ist, daß der Zeitgeist der 60er Jahre sehr gut eingefangen wurde. Wie sich der kleine Maxi die Zukunft vorstellte. Die Technik, lol. Die Dialoge, das Frauenbild, heute undenkbar, Nostalgie pur. Eine Zeitreise.
@@BlueBeeMCMLXI I read some of your other posts. You’re an angry person. If you’re old enough to remember this show, you should make peace with whatever it that’s eating you up inside. Time is not on your side.
I was initially trying to skip to the timestamps listed to study this Gabrielle (for science) but I just keep getting caught up in the darn story. Thank you for posting.
This a real mid 60's English si-fi classic! Love the costumes, set design , costumes styles and the music track. Classic kind of MST3k feature. I see this as a yank and I love it...
18:10 I always love how fake computers in movies always have tape drives where both reels move in unison, like an audio tape. Except when "rewinding" (which is a high speed thing - you couldnt hardly tell which way they are turning) that is pretty much the only thing that computer tape drives do NOT do. Theres a capstan that drives the tape across the heads but it moves at a low(ish) speed and is fed by vacuum columns where air suction pulls the tape (on both sides) down and when they expose an electric eye at the top that reel does a quick burst movement until it covers up another eye at the bottom which makes it slam to a stop. The other side does the same thing but in reverse pulling the tape out, but there is no connection between the reels movements.
@natehill8069 I don't think that's correct. Any reel-to-reel mechanism will have the reels move at different speeds except for the exact instance you are at the center of the length of media. It's a matter if simple geometry. At every point where there is more media on the left, the outside band of material is larger than the outside circle on the right. One rotation on the left will be more than rotation on the right. So the smaller side has to go faster to keep up. Forward or rewinding doesn't even matter. This principal is how bicycle gears do what they do.
@@keninnewmexico8763 Nate is talking about *computer* reel-to-reel tapes, not audio ones. I've worked with equipment like that in computer centers, and what Nate describes about the vacuum columns and a capstan to move the tape rapidly across the read/write head is accurate. It's magnetic tape though; the "electric eye" thing that he describes is used to know where the end and beginning of a tape is so that the machine doesn't just run the tape off the reel. A reflective bit of tape is placed on one edge of the tape or the other, to signify the load point or end of tape. When the "eye" sees a reflection one one edge or the other, it knows it's at the start of where the data is going to be written or read, or at the end. The capstan moves the tape back and forth as needed across the read/write head much faster than the reels would be able to react. Thus the vacuum columns which give things time to move accordingly while allowing quicker access to the data on the tape.
Gotta love how the dawn of the space age in the 50's and 60's infulenced automobile styling and even women's fashion. Those rocket bras are out of this world 😂
Purple wigs as part of the uniform. Very interesting concept. Visually appealing for TV. An unexplainable mystery for the story. There were other things going on equally as quirky. Two different mindsets at play: one for the TV viewers, and one for the story and characters.
My only complaints are that the interceptors have 1 shot each... they only have 3 interceptors.. they can't fire without moonbase giving them the shooting timing solutions. Why the hell can't the PILOT change course on his own for a short time to get the hell out of the way.. They fly the damn things. Can just use automated fighters and get the same result. Other than that.. LOVE THE SHOW
Loved the whole special “single function” machines they assumed would be the future. Nobody predicted it better than Kubrick with 2001: A Space Odyssey
I watched this on Saturday afternoons on Rhode Island television. I had the lunch box, too. I bought the complete series on DVD when they came out. Gotta love UFO.
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06:32 Gabrielle Moonbase Commander
13:18 Gabrielle first UFO intercept
25:22 Gabrielle meets Colonel Freeman
36:10 Gabrielle in Straker's office
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Thank you. Good work!
It's a really tough call.
Ms. Gabrielle Drake, and the character she played, Lt. Gail Ellis, totally won many, many, hearts & minds!
Whether she's assigned to monitor duty on SHADO's Moonbase, or their Headquarters complex, on Earth, she was, without a doubt, totally, gob-smackingly BEAUTIFUL!
Yes, the video needs some serious editing done.
12:21 Oumuamua interstellar space objet
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ʻOumuamua
A whopping 2048 bytes of RAM and 512 KB secondary storage, which would be the size of a large room.
I cannot believe this is 54yrs old. Im an instant fan. Great acting, script, brilliant sound and lighting. The costumes! Miniature backgrounds. The camera angles, just brilliant. Serious but sexy and my favourite subject... ufos. Thankyou ❤🎉
and not an iphone in sight : )
@@michaelroman2172 just heroes living the dream!
Great acting??? The acting is right out of Thunderbirds are go.
@@blakeps192 1970's acting. For the time the acting in this movie was amazing. yeah sure it's bad acting today but better than most movies of it's time. And better than some modern movies, though not seen in a theater movie. You have to consider the era the movie was made and the comparable acting before judging. John Wayne was a great actor according to history, but today he would be a failure for not showing enough emotion... kinda like the actors in this movie. same time period too.
*edit era not ere. Different words that mean different things.
can I ask how old you are?
Incredible old series. It covered a huge range of social topics. I highly recommend the whole series. Cheers from Canada.
If only the future had turned out to be as fashionable as this show imagined
It is, but now the men are dressed in fashionable women's clothes
The verb in the comment puts the future in the past. The future is always in the future.
Lucky to be old enough to remember this series - and how much I fantasized being 'stuck' on the Moon with these babes!
This is pure awesomeness 😍The cars, the suits, the haircuts, the women... That's the right future style 😍
these days, purple hair on a woman is a signal to stay away. lol.
Yeah RetroFuturistic
Women … as long as they are waxed !!!
@@rjwintl Eh, nah!
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The miniature work is incredible, considering the era this was made. You know they're obviously miniatures but you just don't care because they're so cool looking.
Orgone energy helped them !
Gerry Andersen had made a bunch of shows with miniatures before this - Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, etc.
You can tell they are miniatures by the perfect focus and detail not normally seen in the full size versions.
Less irritating than cgi.👈🤷♂️🤷🏾♀️🤦♀️
Exactly what I was thinking.
Love how crisp and clear the colors, the interiors, the set design, the costumes, and everything associated with this production, just fell together.
I was noting that too...And a show from the 60's..they must have been using the latest cinema cameras...I love the whole look of it too...i grew up with this show.. And Gabrielle? swoon!
it looks a lot nicer than the original because it has been upscaled to hd (edit: frame rate has also been increased), and some of the footage has been replaced entirely with new background imagery and effects. The upscaling is much appreciated but i would have preferred the original effect shots
Yeah,this was a series that I grew up ⬆️ with as a child 🧒 in the fourth grade in 1971.I watched it after school 🏫 at;3;30 p.m.Alway’s liked the series!I sure regret getting rid of my Ufo 🛸 book’s…oh well!You can’t win them all,I guess!
@@chuckthebull this is an AI upgrade almost certainly and not at all the original resolution. Beautifully done.
@@chuckthebullNot onlyone Gabriele 😂❤
One of the many productions that motivated me as a young man to pursue a career in the motion picture industry and, especially, visual effects.
so you are a fellow pervert? Nice
One of my earliest memories was running in the rain with a slice of pizza to the university common room where I hoped they would be watching UFO. My mom insisted she watch Masterpiece Theater on our tiny B&W TV set, which was on at the same time as UFO. I ran in the rain, got to the common room. The university students were not watching UFO and would not change it because some 5-year-old kid wanted to watch. I went without and ate cold, wet pizza by myself in the cafe.
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Pizza made me hungry!😁
@@crazyedo9979cafeteria pizza at that.
@@clayz1It seems he brought it from home 🤔
@@wolfmauler Could of been a slice from the local deli window.
This is the future I was promised.
probably the best opening of any film ever
Shocked at how good he video quality of this is...
Well, it is filmed on er.. FILM. 4K plus resolution, without compression and other trash.
Yes, and what we see here is scanned film that has been rezzed down a LOT for DVD transfer, then rezzed down even more for youtube. So this is an inferior image quality compared to what you would see if we were watching this projected onto a movie screen in a theater.@@NGC1433
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Gorgeous Gabrielle Drake!!!❤
It may be an unpopular opinion, but 2023 needs more Nehru jackets, turtlenecks, and minis to get us back on track! UFO and Space 1999 were instrumental in making me the sci-fi fan.
@carlosrodriguez-dd4sb they will never come back... I think mini was one of the great inventions of mankind!
It’s those darn USB Flash drives instead of Reel-To-Reel Computer Tape. Ruined everything!
Same here, UFO and especially Space 1999. Though Star Trek TOS was the springboard for me.
Silver minis. You forgot to say silver minis.
Hahaha I remember when all that was in style. IF you tried coming out with a show like this nowadays some people would burst into flames.
Can't believe I never heard of this! But growing up with Stingray and Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, I felt I was watching a live action version on those programmes; turns out that's exactly what is was! Good ol' Gerry & Sylvia Anderson 😊
Yea Stingray was my favorite
I was going to ask - why does this have such heavy "Thunderbird" vibes? (It's the only one of the programs you listed that I saw here in the U.S.)
complete with wooden actors
Left out Fireball XL5, Supercar. Then their was what followed, Space 1999. Many of the shots in the feature film "Meteor" had a Gerry Anderson look, but I'm not sure about that.
Captain Scarlet?
I love these old Sci Fi shows. I remember when this show was first shown in the US. Great stuff.
I remember watching this as a kid, space was so much more fun back then.
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Fantastic times!
I remember seeing part of the series on U.S. public television and never finding it again... I literally thought I might have imagined the purple wigs & sub-launched interceptor!
@@fyrchmyrddin1937 When my family was stationed in Iceland in 1970, we were visiting someone local and it was on their TV. I thought it was pretty cool, but our NTSC TVs couldnt receive it. Then we came back to the US just in time for it to run here. But I never got to see more than about 10 shows until I bought the DvDs.
I had no idea! In the US we only had krappy StarTrek... Your is COoL & Steamy. A time when ♀could be ♀without wanting to "sue"! (with all due respect:). Cheers!
They certainly knew how to capture the imagination of young boys😊
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I was 11 when this series aired. Yes. Yes they did.
My bedroom wall looked like a Jackson Pollock painting.
One of my top shows as a kid! This was a masterpiece by the Andersons! If ever the timing was right to finally do the proposed movie from years ago, or launch a 2nd series. This would be the time, with all the heightened UFO talk.
But, there is a strong caveat with the condition of the current movie industry. Until there is a change of personnel and attitudes. I would prefer this Diamond not be tarnished by today’s ‘messaging.’
non binary earth to trans moon...do you copy?
Full agree. It's best that it remain untouched at this time.
I wonder how many times the set and clothing designers for 'Austin Powers' referenced this show...
I was waiting for him to just pop up
To this day, I still like ladies with purple hair and miniskirts.
SILVER miniskirts. You forgot to mention that they were silver.
Timeless style.
We truly need a retro funky show like this today
With DEI, ESG policies, CRT, and LBQT and trans visibility?? Better leave well enough alone, and appreciate what you find here.
@@shelbynamels973 I remember when trolls had some imagination and wit. Now you’re just pathetic, swivel-eyed crackpots peeing in alleyways and shouting at the wind.
You can watch all the "funky" politicans everywhere!
@@shelbynamels973 Sad but true...
We got The Kardashians to watch, life is going to downhill.
THIS SERIES NEEDS A REMAKE!!!!!!!!!! WHO'S WITH ME?
By the time everything was rewritten to be politically correct, it would be a total disaster.
I agree - Freeman's character would be saying, "May I put my arm around you?", every 5 minutes, lol!
Noooo! They would cast a black transexual in the shoes of Gabrielle and would make the aliens a poor race of refugees fighting against the patriarchy. Conserve and restore the original, period.
@@1crazypj yeah
I would agree,but, the way the world is now, half the purple haired "women" would be sporting bulges lol and so much facial metal obscuring their faces.
I like how Straker's car seems to have anticipated the AMC New Matador in the US. This series is so much more interesting than Space 1999.
Absolutly BEAUTIFUL GABRIELLE ❤️❤️❤️
Indeed
Google search ‘au pair girls’ 1972 for an early Gabrielle film
Nick Drake's sister.
I remember this excellent series as a child... and aside mention, those ladies were very beautiful...
I always wanted to meet purple-haired women from the moon! 😍😍😍😍
Me. likevmany young Germans at that time were not aloud to see it in those yeas because NOT YOUTHFREE and because of the time it was running on TV. I watched it a few years later when I got older. Still I had collected all I could find about the show from beginning on like the VIEWMASTER PHOTOS.
Women always look good
Yes. With that make-up and colored hair it's quite easy.
@@RonaldWall-yw3hxBut not Always
I'm German and I want to say Thank you!
Long before Tomb Raider you gave us this great entertaining serie in the early 70 th.
It was cool, very British and sexy...
Thank you Great Britain for all the fun ! 👌👍
Yes but we could not have got to the moon without German rocket technology....
@@stevesteve8098 Thank you, we should be aware of the engineering achievements of all western countries. Many European nations have given us technical achievements that have made our lives easier.
Let's think of James Watt, Sir Isaac Newton, Mister Bernoulli, then Keppler's laws, the industrial use of iron and steel by the British, the telephone and Morse code, the production of electrical energy by the Siemens and Westinghouse generator, diesel and gasoline engines, the Internet of the US Army, penezilin and so much more...
Until Putin screwed everything up @@stubi1103
I loved this show as a 9 year old just amazing how it entranced me! RIGHT around the 33:00 minute mark the UFO had landed in Canada and that may have had something to do with the fact this show did well here in early 70's!
Even though UFO lasted just one season/year, Gabrielle Drake was really just a guest star for several episodes. I think I read somewhere years ago that she had other work lined up after guest starring on UFO and was never meant to stay on any longer than just a few episodes.
there was an unexpected need to change studios in mid production - this caused a 6 month gap in filming so some performers were not available when production resumed in spring 1970 - Gabrielle and George Sewell disappear and Wanda Ventham and Delores Mantez are used to fill the gap - it is possible Gabrielle meant to move on anyway but that's the first I've heard she planned to go early - 🛸✨
@@FandersonUfo I also heard a disparaging note on George Sewell's further appearances on UFO was actually "let go" because either a senior producer or president of the studio didn't like the way he looked! In other words, George was fired because he wasn't (physically) attractive enough to be on this show. A show that was made up of rather attractive looking yet dramatically gifted actors. I found that to be a little dis-coloring and annoying. George Sewell was a very good actor and a great second-in-command next to Ed Bishop.
@@KnowTrentTimoy ...creo que Sewell daba el perfil perfecto para ser amigo, consejero y segundo de Straker
@@mariocarman Estoy de acuerdo, pero George fue despedido porque no era lo suficientemente guapo para el programa. ¡Eso es ridículo!
@@KnowTrentTimoy - George did get shafted after the production break - executives in NYC were not impressed with his looks or style - admittedly Sewell was a bit much for 1970 US network broadcast - 👽✨
Very ahead of it time it brings me back to wen I was young kid
Hats off to the casting director!
Hats off to wardrobe
Love this. I remember, even as a kid, I thought if the aliens sent _four_ UFOs instead of three, the moonbase fighter ships with their one bomb each would be screwed.
I was just thinking the same thing!
it's been hanting me since back then !
Knowing that it takes the moon a month to circle the earth, I always wondered why they didnt attack from the other side so moonbase was eclipsed. I assume SID and moonbase orbited opposite each other, but I dont think canon establishes it.
And of course the Soviets must have been laughing their butts off since the UFOs always attacked NATO countries.
They had other lines of defense, didn't they? If interceptors 1, 2, and 3 missed, they had that crazy looking submarine that would tilt back and launch a underwater fighter plane like a torpedo.
It would burst up though the surface and fly normally through the air like an F-15 or Thunderbird 4.
If the UFO landed, the final line of defense were those slow moving treaded land vehicles. I remember seeing them moving though the woods doing stuff against UFOs.
@@RaptorFromWeegeethat's Sky-Diver, Sky being the launch able aircraft component.
Serie favorita en mi niñez, muy adelantados a los tiempos, genial
Que de souvenir. Merci. J'adorais. Il n'y a plus rien de semblable aujourd'hui. Nous rêvions à tout moment.
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Moi aussi - bonjour de Montréal
i loved this show when it came out, bought the DVD set of it some 15+ yrs ago, and still love watching it. it was ahead of its time in a dozen ways, and while showing its age, its still an epically good, well directed, written, and acted show for the most part. i have 5 decades of sci fi under my belt, ive gotten to automatically start talking to the screen things like " wait, why have you not called for back up already ? youre a squadron of 3 craft, you never send 1 in alone".. or "ok, why did you fire one rocket and just go "OK, hit the target, they are still airborne".. what the ..?? lolol.. i mean, seriously, if you HIT your target, its SLOWING down, you go in for the kill shot.. not simply bank away, and call Control to say" Yup, hit it, its still flying though, good luck on the ground finding it:"..
yea,, i never "thought" much when i watched it, i just enjoyed it was Sci Fi..
so... its still good, you just have to overlook, it wasnt a massive budget show when compared to todays epics, vast/constant use of miniatures, repetitive "cut scenes" to save money, but doing its best at the time.. the quality and attention to detail of the miniatures, was actually pretty damn good for the time..
just allow for the era when it comes to clothes and makeup.. personally, i thought they looked nicely futuristic.. loved the gals purple wigs and silver suits. they had genuine Foxes on that show, and many of them, in positions of authority.
Really excellent sci-fi with great special visual effects! Love it!
It's like Kerbal Space IRL!!!!
@@Rayman1971 what's that?
@@TheDejael I was being facetious!
I’ve never seen or heard of this before! What a great show! Thanks for sharing this!
There's a lot of great stuff in entertainment going all the way back to the late 19th century. The old carbon arc lights, the costumes, "The roar of the greasepaint, and the smell of the crowd!" (sic) "Barbershop" quartets and tight harmonies. Burlesque, Vaudeville ("A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"). The earliest silent films. "Moving pictures" were brand new; nobody knew what they were doing, there was no "formula"; it was all experimental. Later, the classic comedies of film: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle, Harold Lloyd, W.C. Fields, the SIZZLING Mae West; Laurel & Hardy, Abbott and Costello, the 3 Stooges, the Marx Brothers, the Little Rascals, the Bowery Boys. The Epics, like "Lawrence of Arabia". The classic horror movies of the '30s; Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolf Man, the Mummy; early sci-fi, Buck Rogers; the classic gangster flicks, Jimmy Cagney, Edward G. Robinson. Westerns: Tom Mix and Hoot Gibson. It's almost limitless.And this is just from the 1890s to the 1930s. I didn't even TOUCH the '40s and beyond (although some of the stuff I mentioned did extend into the '40s, '50s, and even the '60s.) Someone like you might enjoy exploring.
@kellyrobinson1780 Thanks Kelly! I’m familiar with a lot of those names, especially Edward G Robinson, always one of my favorites. I enjoy watching the oldies but I had never even heard mention of this series, thus my surprise! I guess British TV didn’t make it to rural Tennessee back in the day. Great stuff for sure!
@@DougForce Ah. Got it.
British TV, '60s?
The Avengers.
Spy-ish.
Very cool.
Diana Rigg 😍
'Nuff said.
(10 bonus points for anyone who can say how they came up with the the name of the character played by Rigg, Mrs. Emma Peel.)
When men weren't afraid to be men and women weren't afraid to be women and people weren't afraid to smoke.
People weren't afraid. Todays thin skinned snowflakes are insufferable.
“About as much cloud cover as a G string on a belly dancer” Fabulous!
Great opening scene with superb camera angles.
Best part of the movie.....
You goddann right!
Was a kid when I watched this and was a fan. Never realized how expensive it must have been to make. Besides the various sets and special effect vehicles; there were A LOT of characters with speaking roles!
$10 a day actors, a 3D printer and some video editing software you could make this show in your Garage today.
I like it better than Space1999
I imagine cigarettes were cheap though.
Cigarettes were like 25 cents a pack and free matches of course. That was 1967
@@DIOSpeedDemon
The day of the Cigarette 🚬 vending machines, I remember seeing them, and if nobody was looking, I would pull a handle for a Free book of matches
In theory, Children were not supposed to purchase Cigarettes, but there was no way to prevent any such thing from happening.
7:20 Girl(Joanna?) dresses up behind a one way mirror
while Gay changes into a mini skirt
9:50 oscilloscope sine and square waves
10:42 flashing IEE Projection readout clock display
14:33 Kitt style 6x5 super computer running light
57:20 the slide out antenna communicator
58:00 Mr Bean!(almost)
58:30 aliens in shiny red jumpsuits
1:14:30 room with lots of acoustic modems/phones/tape recorders
to record 3 b/w images from space
1:16:00 they drive in the nice car to the office
1:16:30 Unload the big spool from the small suitcase to printout the "detailed" pictures
Great work (love the UFO series since I found it on youtube a few years ago)
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And a f@ckin mini bar....perks of the job..🤣🤣🤣🤣
clown. u better make timecodes with gals legs n essoes. also
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up there are tears, down there is urine. hahahah. pork.
This might be old, but it never get's old. 😄🌏🛸🚀
Gabrielle was my first TV crush. You never forget your first.
Same here. And Lt Uhura, obviously.
Did you see her nude in the movie Connecting Rooms (1970)❤😮❤
@@twenty2082 She was a free-spirited girl!
Mine may have been Shari Lewis. She was so pretty, seemed so sweet, and she always seemed happy.
At 12 i was in love of Miss Drake...U .F .O was aired here in my country in 1971...dubbed to spanish...sadly the serie was cancelled too soon...😔😔🇸🇻🇸🇻
Every teenage boy was. Sge sure was something,
At 12 I was in love with cmdr.Straker Ed,he was my favourite character:intelligent,quite a guy,very handsome.
Pity and sadly the series U.F.O. was cancelled too early.
Culturally, Britain in the 1960s-70s was damned near heaven on earth.
GINKEES! those headlamps
One of the best shows at the time
In a way a lot like the German done RAUMPATROULILLE , a Science Fiction series also done at about the same time. Cuts can also be found on TH-cam.
Stellar
The Model Scenery and live action is so well done in this faked Western Canada episode... Derek Meddings was so talented
"CLOSE UP" was a good one too!
@@mmm-mmm 'of course it's a job for Thunderbird 4, it's the only submarine we've got'
Generally yes. But the underwater sequences made me laugh
Loving the perkies!!
UK at its best in making sci-fi/UFO series in the 70's
My uncle Lewis was stationed at Lexfield airbase when he was in the royal canadian space force. He says there is a big maple syrup factory near there. That's probly what the ufo was after.
That explains a lot!
YUMMY!😋😁
It was a Canadian plot to steal it and blame the Martians.
I watched this when it was originally on and loved the show and was so disappointed when no network or syndicate renewed it for a second season and I had a horrible crush on Gabrielle Drake.
I was 18 then and 71 now. Thank you for posting this and I subscribed.
I have a Shado appreciation scroll someone created on Ebay and several t shirts with the Shado logo on them.
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Oh, Come ON man!
No 'healthy', 'red-blooded', 'teenaged', male, no matter their nationality, could've had a "horrible crush", on Lt. Gay Ellis! (As portrayed by the Ravishingly luscious Miss Gabrielle Drake!) A "painfully unrequited" crush, yes! But horrible, I seriously doubt it, friend.
May be an "other side of the pond" issue. I got that he meant it in an extremely positive light. As in "She's terribly pretty!"@@WalterDWormack214
Was this on british tv? (BBC)
British series, same folks who did Stingray, Fireball XL5, Thunderbirds. @@garygentzel7924
I've been 14 years old, when I saw this and loved it.
My favourites were the tank mobiles.
Have the series on DVD.
Outfits, cars, decor - The 60s Aesthetic here is beautiful.
The intro music was inspirational. The outro always left me wanting more. So far ahead of its time in so many ways. A miracle it was commissioned too….
This is astounding quality visually. From the technology of 1969-70 to this is remarkable. Gabrielle has never looked better. Even Ed Bishop and his cigarette smoking looks time correct. It all interlaces the live action with the modelling far better than the original. Hats off to the software programmer who facilitated the conversion of a schoolboy classic.
Wait... this IS the original footage. No effects were applied 👍🏻
@@PauloPereira-jj4jv really? In 1970 they had resolution like that? Too long ago to remember clearly but seems highly unlikely a digital transfer would not have major image resolution enhancement applied? Either way it’s a great copy.
@@rjmacf0015 It was almost certainly shot on 35mm color negative film, probably Kodak/Eastman 5247 or the equvalent Agfa or Ilford.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motion_picture_film_stocks
That said, it was almost certainly retransfered to video in the last 10 or 20 years, based on the quality, yes.
@@rjmacf0015 yes, originals looked like this in nearly all shows. It was the broadcast technology where the quality was lost.
@@rjmacf0015 This will blow your mind, its shot on film so can easily do 4K transfer.
"There's an alien attack coming in. You take over here. I'm going to put on a shiny miniskirt and prance around the station."
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This is quite fabulous and funny at the same time. I would like to see something inspired by this work.
28:52 "I can now confirm that the thing we didnt know what it was is now positively identified as an unidentified flying object."
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Hahaha!!!
At first, I thought this was total schlock. Pretty funny shit (after the 4-2-0 kicked-in). I realized this needs to be viewed from a child's perspective. Saturday matinee stuff at it's finest, with kids crawling all over the theater.
I watch intently now, as I did then, not focusing on the details and the campy melodrama, just taking-in the pure saturated 60's groove. The pastel tertiary color palette is so soothing... Gabrielle is magnetic in every scene.
The story lines are often very bleak and adult oriented. And you see Straker, a happy and friendly man initially, becoming harsh and abrasive as the pressure of his awful job tells on him.
Well said! Even without 420, it's all '60s; yeah, baby, yeah!
And now for something completely different:
Look up "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in", and "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour".
For a real trippy experience, look up "Firesign Theatre". My favorite is "How Can You Be In Two Places at Once, When You're Not Anywhere At All". But you can start anywhere.
And Frank Zappa, "Apostrophe".
I hear that this was one of the inspirations for UFO-Enemy Unknown. One of the bests strategy games of DOS era
you are correct sir - 🛸✨
thanks for that tid bit.... I must now go to the great interweb information highway to requisition this game of which you speak!!! : P
@@excitingleopard6976There is an open source game that is very much inspired by it: UFO Alien Invasion (or AI for short).
Absolutely wonderful.... In so many ways..
Boy, did they ever get the future wrong. Loved this show anyway.
Yes, unfortunately.
I liked when he said (supposedly in 1984) i wonder how computers will be in 20 years, i.e. 2004.
Now here we are another 20 years further on with sadly our Govts hand in hand with Big Tec spying on us 24/7 from all angles.
Gabrielle is a very beautiful and talented woman. Love watching her on this program
Great show and still holds up today. You don't need CGI to make an awesome show.
Man OOO Man,,This is better than Netflix
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This entire movie is a serious present day HR complaint report.
Which is why it’s so awesome…in the future the defense agencies care more about fashion than defending the planet…😂😂😂
@@rodrigoolea3268 Under existential threat from extraterrestrial organ harvesters, nations of the world unite to focus their full scientific and technological capacity toward the advanced development of hot babes and cool cars.
Less mission-critical technology was left to languish at the Univac I and Cathode Ray Tube stage.
Una serie favolosa che mi fa tornare indietro nel tempo. Che meraviglia U.F.O ❤️✨🇮🇹
If this wasn't Mike Myers inspiration for Austin Powers, I'll eat my hat.
I was about 10 when this show came out, even then Lt Ellis did it for me.. :)
What a pleasant surprise. First time I have watched this ever. Super dee duper cool
¡¡¡¡Amo mi serieee!!!¡¡¡Los atuendos de las chicas de la base en la luna!
5:25 - sounds like the voice of Scott Tracy.
It wouldn't be out of place if he had said "International Rescue from Thunderbird One, changing to horizontal flight".
Thankyou for posting this , made me very happy, I think I now know why orange is my favorite colour.
I wonder why they never commercialized the car of Commander Straker..i always loved it. I also remember when one of the blond girls drove a VW Porsche 914, another fantastic car....ah the 70s!
When I was a kid, I thought the Moonbase ladies were human / alien hybrids with purple hair. Little did I realize that the purple wigs were standard issue with the Moonbase duty uniforms for the command staff.
Wow this is amazing! Extremely entertaining and well made. Instant fan💗
Das interessante an diesem Film ist, daß der Zeitgeist der 60er Jahre sehr gut eingefangen wurde. Wie sich der kleine Maxi die Zukunft vorstellte. Die Technik, lol. Die Dialoge, das Frauenbild, heute undenkbar, Nostalgie pur.
Eine Zeitreise.
Great special effects everything looks so real😮
This is very creative and well done for its time. Don’t know how I never heard of it before.
This is the movie.
There's a TV series that's the same.
Because you had not seen it? LOL. Good grief.
@@BlueBeeMCMLXI Huh?
@@BlueBeeMCMLXI I read some of your other posts. You’re an angry person. If you’re old enough to remember this show, you should make peace with whatever it that’s eating you up inside. Time is not on your side.
I was initially trying to skip to the timestamps listed to study this Gabrielle (for science) but I just keep getting caught up in the darn story. Thank you for posting.
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This a real mid 60's English si-fi classic! Love the costumes, set design , costumes styles and the music track. Classic kind of MST3k feature. I see this as a yank and I love it...
Never knew about this series.
Those future folk have quite the fashion sense.
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18:10 I always love how fake computers in movies always have tape drives where both reels move in unison, like an audio tape. Except when "rewinding" (which is a high speed thing - you couldnt hardly tell which way they are turning) that is pretty much the only thing that computer tape drives do NOT do. Theres a capstan that drives the tape across the heads but it moves at a low(ish) speed and is fed by vacuum columns where air suction pulls the tape (on both sides) down and when they expose an electric eye at the top that reel does a quick burst movement until it covers up another eye at the bottom which makes it slam to a stop. The other side does the same thing but in reverse pulling the tape out, but there is no connection between the reels movements.
Man! It's a movie!😁
@natehill8069 I don't think that's correct. Any reel-to-reel mechanism will have the reels move at different speeds except for the exact instance you are at the center of the length of media. It's a matter if simple geometry. At every point where there is more media on the left, the outside band of material is larger than the outside circle on the right. One rotation on the left will be more than rotation on the right. So the smaller side has to go faster to keep up. Forward or rewinding doesn't even matter. This principal is how bicycle gears do what they do.
@@keninnewmexico8763 Nate is talking about *computer* reel-to-reel tapes, not audio ones. I've worked with equipment like that in computer centers, and what Nate describes about the vacuum columns and a capstan to move the tape rapidly across the read/write head is accurate. It's magnetic tape though; the "electric eye" thing that he describes is used to know where the end and beginning of a tape is so that the machine doesn't just run the tape off the reel. A reflective bit of tape is placed on one edge of the tape or the other, to signify the load point or end of tape. When the "eye" sees a reflection one one edge or the other, it knows it's at the start of where the data is going to be written or read, or at the end. The capstan moves the tape back and forth as needed across the read/write head much faster than the reels would be able to react. Thus the vacuum columns which give things time to move accordingly while allowing quicker access to the data on the tape.
@@SuperDave1426 this is actually fascinating stuff...thanks for your time
Most people don't know that. Thank you for describing it...🇺🇸 👍☕
Gotta love how the dawn of the space age in the 50's and 60's infulenced automobile styling and even women's fashion. Those rocket bras are out of this world 😂
I had a toy of one of those interceptors, so cool.
Purple wigs as part of the uniform. Very interesting concept. Visually appealing for TV. An unexplainable mystery for the story.
There were other things going on equally as quirky. Two different mindsets at play: one for the TV viewers, and one for the story and characters.
As a child I was under the assumption the moon babes were from another planet.
The future was soo much cooler in the past.
My only complaints are that the interceptors have 1 shot each... they only have 3 interceptors.. they can't fire without moonbase giving them the shooting timing solutions. Why the hell can't the PILOT change course on his own for a short time to get the hell out of the way.. They fly the damn things. Can just use automated fighters and get the same result. Other than that.. LOVE THE SHOW
Birds were absolutely lovely back then. Yes, I’m that old
You should see them now. LOL
As a 70s teen, i hadda major crush on all the female SHADO, ermm .. personnel🤭😅
I remember this show! I was a big fan as a child futurist. I had most of the toys from the show.
I just love the design and fashion so much. Can't we just make furniture and clothes like this again?
Holy cow, the future is full of polyester. I better get my wardrobe updated!
Loved the whole special “single function” machines they assumed would be the future. Nobody predicted it better than Kubrick with 2001: A Space Odyssey
Yeah 2001 got a few things shockingly right, like glass cockpits and tablets.
Kubrick know much more after sponsoring conversation with guys from IBM and others.
@@vratisavslezny9394 yes, HAL, one letter off each position, from IBM, JCN just does not sound right ;)
So true. I'm tempted to say that 2001: a spc odys is the best sci-fi ever created.
and how people would still use pen and paper 📝
I love how at the very beginning she almost gets run over by that car but everybody acts like its no big deal.
I always wanted his car and thought it was the first Doctor posing out front. Lol
I watched this on Saturday afternoons on Rhode Island television. I had the lunch box, too. I bought the complete series on DVD when they came out. Gotta love UFO.