Unidentified flying object

• Season 1
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Identified

UFO

In the year 1980 the Earth is threatened by an alien race who kidnap and kill humans and use them for body parts. A highly secret military organization is set up in the hope of defending the Earth from this alien threat. This organization is named SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organization) and operates from a secret location beneath a film studio. They also operate a fleet of submarines and have a base on the moon as well as an early warning satellite that detects inbound UFOs. UFOs can be destroyed in space by Interceptors which are launched from Moonbase. If one gets through it can be attacked in the Earth's atmosphere by a high altitude aircraft launched from one of the submarines. If a UFO also avoids this and manages to land it can be tracked and destroyed by a number of Mobiles (armored vehicles) which are deployed throughout the world.

Cast

• Mel Oxley
• Ed Bishop
• George Sewell
• Michael Billington
• Antonia Ellis
• Vladek Sheybal
• Ayshea Brough
• Dolores Mantez
• Keith Alexander
• Peter Gordeno
• Norma Ronald
• Gary Myers
• Wanda Ventham

• Season 1
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Identified
  SHADO - an acronym for Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organization - is located beneath a suppos...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: Exposed
  Colonel Paul Foster is a test pilot whose aircraft is accidentally caught up in a battle between an ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: The Cat with Ten Lives
  SHADO pilot Jim Reagan is on leave and is driving down a country road at night when he sees a Siames...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Conflict
  Henderson's middle initial is revealed to be "L"....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: A Question of Priorities
  Straker's son John lives with Straker's ex-wife Mary, who has re-married. Straker is having a day ou...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: E.S.P.
  John Croxley is a man with Extra Sensory Perception, which enables him to read the minds of other pe...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Kill Straker!
  Paul Foster and his co-pilot Frank Craig are attacked by a UFO which infiltrates their minds and hyp...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Sub-Smash
  After an underwater UFO has attacked and sunk a freight ship in the ocean, Straker, Foster and SHADO...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: Destruction
  Aliens attempt to destroy a naval ship dumping toxic waste into the ocean but their craft is shot do...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: The Square Triangle
  Keith Alexander is dubbed by Robert Rietty....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: Close Up
  Straker and the SHADO team are invited to sit in on the test for an immensely powerful new telescope...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: The Psychobombs
  A trio of innocent civilians, Linda Simmonds, Clem Mason and Daniel Clark are captured by aliens usi...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 13: Survival
  The date the shooting supposedly took place, April 12, 1981, was the 20th anniversary of the flight ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 14: Mindbender
  Lieutenant Andy Conroy is investigating a crash involving an alien craft on the Moon when he suddenl...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 15: Flight Path
  Paul Roper is a SHADO technician with a pretty, younger wife and aliens have threatened to kill her ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 16: The Man Who Came Back
  The character of Blind actor Sir Esmond played by Ronald Culver was based on real life blind actor E...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 17: The Dalotek Affair
  A meteorite lands on the Moon following an abortive UFO attack and the Moonbase's video and radio li...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 18: Timelash
  Cmdr Ed Straker and Col Virginia Lake disappear and are discovered unconscious next to a dead body o...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 19: Ordeal
  Following a wild night out with a girl called Sylvia, Foster is receiving a refreshing sauna bath at...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 20: Court Martial
  When Straker complains to Henderson that his phone has been tapped he is told that it is to trap a s...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 21: Computer Affair
  Although aired near to the end of the series' original run, this was the second episode made and sho...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 22: Confetti Check A-OK
  When the wife of a SHADO officer, Lieutenant Grey, gives birth Straker is put in mind of events of t...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 23: The Sound of Silence
  An alien craft lands in woodland near the home of horseman Russell Stone. When Stone goes missing su...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 24: Reflections in the Water
  Following the sinking of a freighter ship and the death of an underwater cameraman, Straker and Fost...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 25: The Responsibility Seat
  Freelance journalist Jo Fraser comes to Straker's office, looking for a story but she plants a bug a...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 26: The Long Sleep
  Last show of the series....