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UFO had a large ensemble cast; many of its members came and went during the course of the series, with some actors – such as George Sewell and Gabrielle Drake – leaving midway through the series, during the production break necessitated by the change of studio facilities. It is established early on that SHADO personnel rotate between ...
A UFO lands in England, and takes control of the minds of two men and a woman (Linda Simmons, Daniel Clark and Clem Mason). Each is given superhuman strength as well as being made into a walking bomb. Simmons strangles a policeman close to her home, and each of the three is sent to destroy a SHADO installation.
Drake first gained wide attention for her portrayal of Lieutenant Gay Ellis in the 1970 science fiction television series UFO, in which her costume consisted of a silver suit and a purple wig. [4] In the series, the character is the commander of the SHADO Moonbase, which is Earth's first line of defence against invading flying saucers. Drake ...
Carol, the wife of Paul Roper, a Moonbase operative, is being threatened by Dawson, a SHADO medical operative under alien control. Roper is blackmailed into feeding false information into SID - the satellite that tracks incoming UFOs. The information being sent to SID will allow a UFO to attack Moonbase using heavy sunspot activity as cover.
Colonel Edward Straker, United States Air Force, Commander-in-Chief of SHADO, is the main character of British TV series UFO.He is one of the original promoters of Project Angel, an international organisation to found the Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organisation (SHADO), in order to fight incoming flying saucers carrying hostile extraterrestrials.
After the UFO lands safely, a lone alien survivor has a fight with a game warden and his dog, causing the alien's uniform to rip and his helmet to shatter. The alien kills the human with a machine gun-style weapon, drags the corpse to the UFO, and then self-destructs the craft in an attempt to get away by substituting the human with himself.
The UFO continues into Earth's atmosphere and tracks and fires at the transporter, but is shot down by Sky One. The UFO disintegrates in the sea. An injured alien occupant survives the UFO crash and is examined at SHADO's medical laboratory. The effects of Earth's atmosphere cause the alien to revert to his true age and die.
Review website AnorakZone.com ranks "The Man Who Came Back" the ninth-best episode of UFO, praising Nesbitt's guest role as a "real fun addition to what could otherwise have been a pedestrian 'alien control' plot". However, he criticises Collins and Lake's "curious" romantic relationship as well as the "burgeoning" attraction between Lake and ...