Gripping story with well-crafted characters

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

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.

I got the set for Christmas and really enjoyed going through it.I have memories of this from my pre-school to early grade school years.It may be the first instance I saw of the "Do you hear that?" "Hear what?" "Nothing, that's what's wrong." cliché.It is probably also my first memories of ESP and a Ouija Board. Yeah, I probably had a few bad dreams thanks to this!My memories only included space ships with one missle shooting at a UFO and that unique UFO noise, tanks firing mortars into a lake where a UFO was, the car phone, hot chicks, an alien Siamese cat, a pyramid of light or something on a guy's head while an alien takes them over, the oddest mish mash of a time loop and driving funny little cars, groovy hair, and a human getting an alien helmet stuck on them as it filled up with black fluid- which freaked me out!That was it. My only memories of it but I liked it and always wanted to see it again.It was everything I hoped for and then some. Groovy music, future cars, stripper-iffic outfits, etc. I do not remember if it aired on some UHF channel we got, or on the WGBH as the fourth of our four VHF channels we got. It was a Saturday after cartoons sort of thing.Man, it brought back memories of how damn fun I thought it was going to be to grow up and be an adult! When I was a kid it was FUN to be an adult! Smoking indoors, drinking at work, no seat belts, etc. Well, it did not turn out that way, LOL.It also had themes I totally get that obviously I did not pick up on as a kid, but resonate now. High stress jobs, time away from family, some jobs that can't be shared at home, etc.This was a quality show. Far too cerebral to be a mainstream hit, but so wonderfully dated it's a blast.If you saw this as a child, or were a little kid during the golden age of Saturday morning cartoons/Saturday afternoon shows/movies, say from 68 to 80 or so, give this a try. Stryker really pulls off the acting, hard to believe he was the meek professor in Diamonds are Forever (great child hood memories on the Sunday night movie of that red Mach1 car chase as well!).

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.

I had vague memories of this show from when I was a kid. No one I asked could remember it and I wasn't sure it really existed. Fast forward to now and a search of the good ol' IMDb and there it was. even more surprising was it was (is) available on DVD. I rolled me own smokes and didn't buy any video games for the month of July and half of August. I bought a pre-paid VISA and ordered it. Oh, happy happy joy joy!! It arrived on a Friday, allowing me to hole up and spend the weekend with it. WOW! It was worth every crappy self-rolled cigarette. Some complicated characters, great writing, and lots of fun make it more than a treat. It also shows black characters as members of the team, no more and no less. Isn't that what equality is all about? Anglophiles, sci-fi buffs, and wanna-be film makers (myself included) should watch every minute. The models are great and the fashions for 1980 are hip, slick, and cool. By all means, check it out. You won't be disappointed.