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List Price: $69.95 Our Price: $34.49 You Save: $35.46 Features • Box set • Color • DVD-Video • Full Screen • NTSC In Theaters : 1970 DVD Release : 28 October, 2003 |
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The Complete UFO Megaset description UFO was Gerry Anderson's first live-action TV series after a decade of producing such children's animated classics as Stingray (1963) and Thunderbirds (1964). The premise of UFO, which ran for a single season of 26 episodes in 1970, was like a more serious version of Anderson's Captain Scarlet (1967): in the near futu ... review details |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | great sci fi from the late 60's |
| Set in the near future of 1980 this late 60's sci-fi show is set in a world where the government knows UFO's are real and aliens are visiting earth to harvest organs from humans.
If knowledge of this were to leak out, there would be a panic, so the UN set up SHADO, a secret military organization designed to combat the aliens without the public catching on. Their main base is at a movie studio, so if anything slips out, it can be laughed off as a prop gone astray. further forces are a base on the moon, submarines at see and tank like ground vehicals. More than a 'shoot-em-up though "UFO" is more about mind games and plots in a dark world where the aliens and human defenders both move in the shadows. For example in one episode a test pilot witnesses a fight between SHADO and aliens, and finds himself caught in a conspiracy to convince him that he saw nothing, even though his plane was destroyed. This packet has the first half of the show's 26 episodes. You can tell how they are feeling their way along but it still works quite well. For example in the first episodes ships in space make no noise, but they realized while factual this is boring, and later ones are more dramatic. The real charm of this series, beyond the sci-fi plots, was that it was filmed in late 1969 and early 1970 and they set it in the 'near future' of 1980. The desingers tried to guess what the styles would be like in the near future and cloths and cars and such are, well laughable. One episode where you see the commander's house, what is supposed to be the home of a successful executive, looks like something from an episode of "Trading spaces" that went horribly, horribly wrong. For all that, this show is a wonder. In the days berfore George lucus anderson's models and effects were state of the Art and the writing, showing the possibility of a dark future that leaves you wondering, 'what if...' and isn't that what sci-fi is supposed to do? |
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