Nearly 54 years old but the boy that lives on inside me can still happily watch this clip and the opening credits on a daily basis. Thank you Gerry Anderson, for keeping me young.
The Musical score by Barry Gray was also excelent. It was a wonderful show altogether and a shame that it didn't go on. The girls were just gorgeous in this too !
as a 60's70's kid, those UFO's freaked me out and the scared the crap outa me more than anything else on TV...and I don't really know why....I loved this show so much...but I remember being frustrated and upset there was not more of it!!...and the opening!!!
Loved Gerry Anderson's models. The one thing that always bothered me though were the interceptors. Who the hell designs their first line of defense with just one friken' missile?
My guess would be that they needed a big missile, and it was a compromise, but that doesn't explain why Sky One's mini-missiles could kill the UFO. Maybe the UFOs have force shields that only work in a vacuum?
My guess is that the interceptors were initially going for proximity blasts, because of the extreme distance and speed involved (coordinates given by computer), while Sky One was more traditional dogfighting (visual targeting).
When the UFO is going 1.5 million miles per second you are trying to track an object moving almost as fast as the sensor beams. The interceptors are the smallest platform capable of launching the missile. There isn’t time for multiple engagements the ufo is past the moon. You don’t want to be firing nuclear missiles back towards Earth. Either the missiles are going for an EMP pulse to kill it or they blast casing fragments in a net and hope the UFO runs into one of them. In Earths atmosphere the UFO mostly sub sonic to a viable target for guns and missiles.
Given the high delta V of the UFO hoping to catch it in a nuke blast in space makes sense. But the UFO can't go 1.5 million miles/s in atmosphere. So you can be more precise.
HA! ---- incredible flashback !! I used to watch this in Argentina in spanish back in the early 70s..... I didn´t know it was a brit series. I thought it was american, they had the technology then.... Well done you guys
All iconography present and correct - the blokes sliding through the holes, the single-use phallo missile fighters, the underwater thing, the string vests, the purple hair, the spinning, whirring UFO, even a bit of Straker. The definitive UFO clip!
I first watched this serie way back in 1985 when I was 14 . It was already a classic even then . This serie could be from the late 1960ees thru the early 1970ees . But still , its very entertaining even now , in 2012 . Why don't we make things as easy , as simple , as down-to-earth but still entertaining like S.H.A.D.O ?
These those moon base guys must love that assignment. Playboy bunnies with purple hair and you get to fly groovy spacecraft. Gotta have a disco up there no??
Anti-static wigs. Those computers were sensitive to static discharges. On earth Lt. Ellis' hair was as brown as mine. God I wanted to be her so much. LOL
Everyone has such a nonchalant attitude, like - "UFO destroyed, returning to base, have the tea ready and have we got any cream biscuits? - over! Hahaha
Something I always wondered about Sky 1; how did it mate back with Diver? Did they have to re-mate them back in port? How hydro dynamically efficient would Diver be after Sky 1 launched? Still, it was cool as a kid watching that plane launch.
In response to: CaptC4t Oct 9, 2008 The UFOs approach earth at 1.5 million miles per second . That's approx 9 times the speed of light. And Shado tries to shoot the things down with missiles ?!? Yes 3 massive nuclear warheads - bigger than the Russian Tsar Nukes. Detonated in a spread pattern in front of an oncoming UFO have a pretty good chance of winging it - whatever course corrections the UFO makes,( Much like a shotgun discharge at a pheasant).
One of the biggest drawbacks of the "one and done" missile system on the interceptors, was if they missed, they're out of luck and defenseless. And how in hell do all three miss?
The best cover of the UFO theme I've heard is called UFO S.H.A.D.O. theme by Rocket Scientists. It's on RU-vid, and I highly encourage UFO fans to listen to it!
Esta era una de mis series favoritas.. me encantaba la música del inicio, pero sobre todo las chicas del submarino... ja ja... qué tiempos. En todo caso no me perdía ningún episodio. Me emocionaba mucho ver este programa. Un bonito recuerdo...
Speed 1.5 million miles per second! Thats close to 9 times the speed of light! This show, which I loved by the way (when I was 10), could have at least had a astronomer on the proof reading team !?!
Impressive print of this sequence from a show TX'ed in the 1970's even if lifted from a recent TX. I do ♥ a You Tuber with good access to top drawer material. One can imagine if certain parts of this planet were to be invaded by outworlders this would make good training footage for our defenders.
That's sad. Because your border guards thought I was an illegal alien. Just coming to London and Birmingham on a 2 week vacation. Please, I had no intention to stay. I would miss NYC too much.
During this interceptor take-off scene, it doesnt play original audio. Interceptors have a cool engine wind-up whine, then a righteous blast-off roar. In this video it cuts to a cheesy synthesizer music score, just as a blast-off roar ought to come in.
Absolutely loved this show, but I never did understand the purple hair, but they must have glued them on because they looked perfect, not wishy washy purple and not a hair out of place.Seriously though, a terrific show, one of the best ever made.Also a very plausible reason for the aliens to keep attacking earth.There's a similar thread running through Doctor Who as well.There are several species of aliens who are hell bent on survival at any cost, most notably the Daleks and the Cybermen.These are my two favorite shows.I've always preferred English shows to American ones, the dialogue is always more intelligent and thoughtful.
@LeeEnfield64 Had one of those matchbox type interceptors as a lad, wish I still had it. Probably be worth a bob or two now.
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Dinky Toys. At least mine was from them. Sadly, gone… together with my Space: 1999 Eagles (one with a passenger module, one with the nuclear waste module), both also Dinky.
@galinneall Sexy girls, but being in SHADO was a risky proposition. An interceptor was picked off every other scramble, and the mobile vehicles ALWAYS took losses. I do not recall a single instance where ANY dismounted & armed mobile trooper survived. The time the mobile guys captured a live alien in a red liquid-breathing spacesuit, the entire detachment was wiped out to wound one alien. The followup rescue party found the vehicle a blown away wreck, and all the dismounted troopers killed.
"UFO" is a classic, but sometimes the episodes ended tragically. A good example is 'A Question Of Priorities ', in which Ed's son died and Ed's ex-wife Mary blamed Ed for the loss of the boy. Such a plot development belongs in a soap opera, not a sci-fi show!
@@JedForge I have this personal fanon that the UN kludged XCOM together with assets from SHADO, the CIA Bureau's playbook on repelling Terror Missions (from the XCOM Bureau), and whatever assets Japan's Kiryu-Kai had plus better Interceptors since the Japanese organisation failed to intercept a single UFO with whatever fighters and radar they had (referenced from XCOM94).
