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UFO: Season 1
1970 — 1971 / 26 × 60 Minutes / ITV / Colour
All episodes of UFO have been released on Region 2 DVD in the UK over two sets:
Volumes 1-4 (Amazon.co.uk / HMV.com)
Volumes 5-8 (Amazon.co.uk / HMV.com).
The complete series has been released on Region 1 DVD in the United States (Amazon.com).
1970 — 1971 / 26 × 60 Minutes / ITV / Colour
Mindbender
Flight Path
The Man Who Came Back
The Dalotek Affair
Timelash
Ordeal
Court Martial
Reflections in the Water
Computer Affair (Script) (Novelisation)
Confetti Check A-OK
The Sound of Silence
The Responsibility Seat
The Long Sleep
Flight Path
The Man Who Came Back
The Dalotek Affair
Timelash
Ordeal
Court Martial
Reflections in the Water
Computer Affair (Script) (Novelisation)
Confetti Check A-OK
The Sound of Silence
The Responsibility Seat
The Long Sleep
Identified (Script) (Novelisation: 1 2)
Exposed (Novelisation: 1 2)
The Cat with Ten Lives
Conflict
A Question of Priorities
E.S.P.
Kill Straker!
Sub-Smash
Destruction
The Square Triangle
Close Up
The Psychobombs
Survival (Script) (Novelisation: 1 2)
Exposed (Novelisation: 1 2)
The Cat with Ten Lives
Conflict
A Question of Priorities
E.S.P.
Kill Straker!
Sub-Smash
Destruction
The Square Triangle
Close Up
The Psychobombs
Survival (Script) (Novelisation: 1 2)
All episodes of UFO have been released on Region 2 DVD in the UK over two sets:
Volumes 1-4 (Amazon.co.uk / HMV.com)
Volumes 5-8 (Amazon.co.uk / HMV.com).
The complete series has been released on Region 1 DVD in the United States (Amazon.com).
Eager to move away from producing the puppet series with which they had made their names, UFO was Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's first attempt at a totally live action sci-fi TV series.
Set in the 1980s, the series saw the Earth being visited by aliens whose intentions were certainly not friendly. Defending us from this alien menace was the secretive SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organization), under the control of Commander Ed Straker. Being a military organisation SHADO was well equipped to deal with the menace — the orbiting SID (Space Intruder Detector) was on permanent watch for any incursions into Earth's solar system, and any ships detected would immediately find themselves under scrutiny from the Interceptors which could be launched from SHADO's base on the moon at a moments notice.
After a first season of twenty-six episodes it was thought that the series would return for a second year, but plans for another season were hastily shelved after the ratings for the series went into decline in the United States.
Rather sadly, the proposed UFO: 1999 soon found itself mutating into the rather more unwelcome form of Space: 1999...
All twenty-six episodes of the series have been released on DVD.
Further Reading
UFO and Space: 1999
Chris Drake / Boxtree / 1994
The Complete Book of Gerry Anderson's UFO
Chris Bentley / Reynolds & Hearn / 2003
