UFO: The Alien Files 

Were you scared of the aliens in UFO? Would you like to have discovered more about them in the series? Let us know!

UFO is such a great series.

UFO was my introduction to science fiction, back in 1972. It has been one of my all-time favorite series. R.I.P. : Gerry & Sylvia Anderson Ed Bishop George Sewell Michael Billington Peter Gordeno Vladek Sheybal Harry Baird Grant Taylor

I'd love to see a reboot of UFO. Still one of my fave sci-fi series.

The costumes, the wigs, the make-up, the groovy music (the interceptor launch theme!!), the amazing models, the amazing special effects, the multi-racial cast...UFO was ahead of its time.

My favourite Gerry Anderson series of all time! Ultimately it’s demise was due to the failure to sell the second series to the American networks. Whether adult themes in some of the episodes was the reason they couldn’t market the series as a family show. Michael Billington (Col. Paul Foster) would’ve made a great James Bond!

I got to watch this series on it's very first pass over U.S. audiences! Way back in the early 1970's. I saw much potential for a long run and excited fan base. But suddenly POOF! And it was gone, not to be seen by me (or anyone I know?) for many years. Too bad too! It is still one of my favorites, from "The Golden Age" of television.

I loved this show, it was way ahead of its time. I still watch it now on DVD

If there was ever a sci-fi show that was ideal for a modern day reimagining then UFO is the one.

Great series, and one of the coolest theme songs in TV History.

Growing up these scared the living daylights out of me. I can only imagine how kids back in the 70s saw them in the age before CGI and so on. I loved this series, the dedicated Straker, the devil-may-care Foster, the sinister Dr Jackson, among others. Really well put together.

I remember watching it on ITV 4 and I am pleased to have the complete series on DVD.

As a child of the 60's I have wonderful memories of the Anderson's series beginning with Supercar. UFO was by far the best of their work and I am still watching it now.

Ayshea Brough never failed to raise my................interest in sci-fi.

Best TV series EVER!! Very well put together as to the history of The Aliens in UFO...

I was a kid and only saw sporadic episodes, but I bought both seasons on DVD when they came out. Always a big fan of of Gerry Anderson’s work.

This is a wonderful trip down memory lane and reminds me why I loved UFO so much. I must dig out my DVDs and binge watch it again soon.

Thanks Chris, excellent work.

There will never be another Gerry Anderson! He was a genius!

When UFO first aired hee in the USA I was about nine or ten years old, though I didn't see it then. Once on a shopping trip with my mom I saw a novel based on the show and managed to convince myself that it was a true story. :D

My favourite Gerry Anderson live action show

Great wee channel this, hope its more than a tribute and serves as a platform of interest to reboot this and other excellent Anderson works. Thank for all your work mate 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I wonder if UFO is what inspired the Vidiians in Star Trek Voyager.

Loved this as a kid! TODAY I have all episodes on DVD. I was fascinated by this show as a kid. Recorded the opening theme on cassette player. Long Live UFO

As a 10 year old back in 1970, i loved the episode when a Alien saved Paul Fosters life on moon base, a clip was shown at the end of this video.

This show was my introduction to Science Fiction what a great production this was !! I remember going to a UFO convention here in London back in 1986 met some of the cast is there any one else that attended that day ?

Ed bishop absolutely gorgeous not bad as an actor ether loved this series as a kid never get sick of watching over and over

What I saw of UFO reminds me a bit of the Captain Scarlet vibe

This was great! I actually learnt a lot about this series now, that I hadn’t really learnt before about UFO. Fantastic stuff!

The 2 episodes that do not feature the opening sequence are Confetti Check AOK and The Psychobombs. Patrick Allen played Turner in Timelash.

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This show deserves a 21st century reboot. Either cinematic or TV, I'd love to see that. Done right, it would be fantastic

I like that this inspired one of my favourite computer game franchises. *Hello, Commander.*

My all time favorite TV Series 💙!

At the tender age of 10 I had my first crush with Gabrielle Drake (Gay Ellis). I think it was the purple hair. I'm happy to report she is alive now at 76.

Long past time for a remake of this brilliant show

This needs a reboot so badly.. Maybe end with the eventual Moonbase Alpha progression to Space 1999 (2099??)

I must have missed this when I was younger!!! Darn! Time to catch up!

I was 7 aos yes they spooked me out at time,but I couldn't stop watching it was all so well produced and acted!

An astute friend of mine once convincingly theorised that the Aliens of UFO are the inhabitants of the counter-Earth from Doppelganger/Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun...

Yes I used to watch this when I was 9 years old. I always wanted to work for this agency.

As a young boy I was mesmerised by UFO and convinced that this was the 1980 I was going to grow up to. We did at least get cars with gull-wing doors ( as long as you're a millionaire lol) but everything else stayed grim and grey. I'd love to see UFO reborn as a proper adult series with the serious themes they were only allowed to touch on back in the 70's. It's not as if UFO's have gone away have they?

That was a great little film.

BEST sci-fi show ever. It treated it’s audience with the utmost of respect.

Any alien race that has creme de menthe inside their helmets, can take over Earth happily as far as I am concerned.

Back in the 1990's that ran reruns of this series on the Sci-fi channel.

I always loved the UFO's. In fact my mobile ringtone was the sound they make!

Great series

Another great video from Chris Dale! #UFOFOREVER!

This information is so groovy about the TV show UFO that needs to be more of it

Enjoyed that, thank you

Very fun to watch.. Enjoyed the show ... Thanks

I wish there were more UFO.

amaba esa serie,siempre espere que se haga un remake!

“Dr Doug Jackson’s” Eastern European accent was always rather charming. 😊

Alien space ship, life span of Greg's sausage roll once it's hits our atmosphere!

I LOVE THIS SHOW. i have seen a digital version of it online. i wish it would be used as a new series.

Whatever happened to the cool scifi style of the sixties? Who stole my space age future?

I grew up with this show. It's still the coolest thing I've seen on tele.

I'd love to see a remake of this. It was a great series...

Fantastic..!

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Great. Never saw this " true " show before this , 🤔🚂🇺🇸🙏✌👍

Great series with uncanny parallels to recent info on the web , MMMM!

I like the idea of bodysnatcher idea for the aliens.

No physical body, mayby a relative of the mysterons

It's a shame that series two never happened. Yes I know that we got Space 1999 instead but I still would have liked to have seen what happened in the end. I think that was my only real gripe with some of the TV shows that Gerry and Sylvia did. No proper endings. 😈

Who knows if some of this things which in this films happened are in some ways the truth? I am sure there is something out around our earth.

There's no doubt this was one of many of Gerry Anderson's ingenious series, it lead to Space 1999 which was just as amazing. One thing though, for the aliens being a so called "Advanced Race" with space craft that can fly at Sol 12 and have a powerful laser to destroy big objects, isn't it a bit odd that the weapons they carried were similar to earth machine guns and not a laser type weapon?

muy buena serie ya es un clásico

Incredible show that still works 😉

I've always wondered how an Earth probe could have followed a UFO to another star system when humanity doesn't have faster-than-light technology! However; my fan fiction novella intends to answer that question. Writing it starts next month...

Now hold on just a doggone minute there, Chis boy. It took them until 1980 to get SHADO operational and almost immediately straight away they got results, so the clip of Straker saying that they had waited a long time was out of context. HE had been waiting since the attack on the car but that was before the conception of the organisation and planning of the strategies.

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Sounds like a Mysteron from Captain Scarlet.

Gerry Anderson was a complete one off. Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons,Joe 90 and Secret Service. where so ahead of there time , only a British producer could come up with characters and storylines like that . Add to that he put together a creative team second to none with writers , directors , modal makers and special effects which made things WORK so well….. Then came the live action work, before UGO there was a film called Journey to the far side of the sun , a brilliant film and concept, staring Roy Things who was in the Quinn Martin tv series The Invaders another si-fi classic from the sixties. When he killed the aliens they would explode into fire and no evidence was left…. Then came UFO , which had it all just one brilliant show but was cancelled. And then came Space 1999, which for me as a kid of the seventies with the re-runs of Thunderbirds on Sunday between 11-12 o’clock are fantastic memories. Space 1999 first season was the classic one , fantastic writing and direction, brilliant special effects and the iconic Eagle Transporter . Gerry Anderson was and always will be a legend …….

That was great ,shame series two was never made ,Lew grade should of thought about it more ,I’m sure it would included in the end a truce to help them stracker would of wanted that I believe ,in a trade for knowledge on light speed for eg

Hmm! Survival is one of a strong reason for attacking. It's very clear that there's no easy way to win over them!

Goodness this HD version really shows up the actor's makeup

Gerry Anderson was the Gene Roddenberry of Britain.

Fantastic and brilliant Fabulous and beautiful Fun and beneficial

I always thought it was cool that the aliens were ultra-advanced, but used machine guns instead of some cheesy ray gun. It lended an aura of realism to the show.

Such a shame these are not to buy digitally..

5:41, moon tank built on the same chassis as the Mobiles....

Man...how I MISS THIS SHOW. You can talk about Firefly and you can talk about Smallville, but there should have been a bigger FAN SOCIETY and fan following of this great british cult SCI FI SHOW...ufo. UFO which was created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson!! STraker, moongirls at moon base. and Strakers "number 2" guy. Michael Billington! Even the psychologist doctor guy, was great.

So same storyline as captain Scarlet 😊 "this is the voice of the Mysterons"

Those guys were really bad.I loved the adult themes. Wish there was second season.

When you look at scale models of the saucer, there is absolutely no room for a pilot, let alone an escape capsule.

The Interceptors should have been launched by 'magnetic slingshot' or booster stage; this would have given them some good, starting delta-v to get fast out into space.

If somebody was to reboot UFO with todays technology i.e. CGI, green screen etc, it would be a very different gravy.

Only the aliens that had guns and the ones that carried people off, but the younger captured aliens no especially after their motives were explained. I hoped there'd be another series maybe an updated one obviously by now: with the next gen of shado operatives. more exploration of the aliens planet while still keeping some secrets and with more background to the aliens and the shado operatives. There is lot s of potential for many more stories /episodes. Although many fans icludig me will miss Ed Bishop and the original cast if another series or more could be made and not be a hightly American influenced production to maintain the feel of the original but with the quality of say BABYLON 5 in terms of story and acting That would be great. I am sure many ufo fans would love it if any new ufo series or more had flashbacks to the original cast ,say in the present shado operatives induction briefings or something similar . ufo had tons of potential for many stories when it ended and hopefully more than 5o years later when economic conditions eventually improve ufo could return. Some episodes might not be as dark but others be dark and others a mix . That would lend it more realism as life isn't all good or all bad. so surely ufo if ever remade could reflect that. there so much potential in ca ufo the further generations or something with maybe some desendents of Straker and some of the original characters like freeman or colonel lake and foster ufo was agreat series very enjoyable looking abit dated in the style and some of the music now but could have great potential. I still like the original but a new series yes please

Watching this as a small child, I didn’t understand what the aliens wanted. It’s actually quite disturbing.

Little known fact: The green liquid in the helmets is minty fresh. :)

You know there's a possibility that the UFOs aren't from a distant planet but time it self there's never a clear way to say what their were alien yes but where in space or time did they come from, or when? After all Shado is set in the 80s surprisingly and given the aliens method of slowing age down they could be from a alternate timeline or the other Earth on the other side of the sun there's a movie from Gerry Anderson with the cast of UFO in it so there's a bit of possibility this series could be connected to it? And Captain Scarlet?

I wonder if the Aliens lived on the planet known as Meta in the series Space:1999

They seemed to change the idea of the aliens as the series progressed. At first a humanoid race trying to obtain body parts....towards the end the race didn't have a particular form. Did you notice that actor Anthony Chinn played a member of Skydiver's crew in one episode and was an Alien in another?

Humans are not a race. Humans are a species.

The people are not the aliens, the ships are the aliens....and there are different factions of aliens with their own plans and agendas for earth!

The original Vidiians.

Hated the aircraft. Its like like the person who designed one had never seen one before!