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It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I believe that this was the first Gerry Anderson TV show that utilized real actors and not marionettes. It depicts an international anti-UFO organization hidden deep below a British movie studio. Each show involves a chess-like interplay between the aliens, a dying race who come to Earth allegedly to scavenge human body parts and re-incorporate them to enhance their own survival. Ed Bishop, one of the Orion moon-ship pilots from 2001, A Space Odyssey, plays the embattled director, Commander Ed Straker, complete with a platinum-blonde wig which makes him look a little like one of Anderson's marionettes from an earlier show. Is this show campy...Yes ...Is the acting Emmy quality?...No ...But it still is so much fun to watch. There are well-thought-out spaceships, flying subs and the best model-made UFO to date in my mind. The moon-base girls are sexy in a very tongue-in-cheek kind of way with purple hair and skin-tight foil mini- skirt uniforms. And if you place it back in the context of late 60's early 70's technology...it's damn imaginative and simple fun! Loved this show as a kid and still occasionally enjoy taking in a Youtube episode. Many thanks to the late brilliant producer/creator Gerry Anderson!

"U.F.O." (pronounced YOU-foe by Ed Straker) was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid. I still have my original Dinky Interceptor toy. When the remastered DVD box set was released, I bought it immediately. I finally finished watching the series, and although it brought back fond memories, it struck me how wonderfully inept the show actually was.Derek Meddings' models were fantastic, of course, and the effects were on par with the other Gerry Anderson shows like "Thunderbirds," but dramatically, technically and logically, it was downright awful. (For example: On Moonbase, you can shut off your roommate's oxygen supply and no alarm will sound. And the best way to deal with an alien-controlled woman who wants to blow up your base is to spend 6 hours falling in love with her and then TAKE HER TO THE BASE.)It's like it was written by kids and realized by adults. It's a kids' show masquerading as a show for grown-ups. (I'm still fond of it, of course.)

I was hooked on this show from episode one, although I seem to be one of the few of my friends who remembers it. I was maybe twelve years old, but I loved the adult themes and personal stories. Plus I had a huge crush on Paul Foster....bet I'm not the only one. He was front and center for the whole last half of the series, by Straker's side every moment. Poor bugger, in almost every episode he gets the crap beat out of him. Or gets to kiss the girl. Or both. So glad I bought the series on DVD.Straker is a super cool character. The platinum hair gives him just the right icy touch, and he is believable as the commander of this life-and-death organization. He is constantly fighting for funding against beurocrats who can only see the bottom line, and his devotion to his work has cost him his marriage and his family. His isolation and loneliness are a constant theme, although they're never spelled out....only illustrated by Ed Bishop's wonderful performance.

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!).