Col LAKE of SHADO

[@bels4116]

The best tv series ever! I couldn't have been more than 7 or 8 when it first came out, but the names Straker and Paul Foster and their faces were indelibly etched in my mind. And forever.

[@altha-rf1et]

we could not pick it up where we lived at my friend and I paid my brother to take us to a park where we can pick up the single, we had a battery-operated TV it uses to come on Saturdays we did not see all the esp but most of them

[@devjaxvid]

This is the greatest go-cart chase in TV History!

[@mariobernard5583]

Hey! Miss Moneypenny!!

[@richardwallace1405]

SHADO having the cover of being a movie studio just gives it that extra surreal touch.

[@unowen-nh9ov]

Funny seeing them go underground, like Stingray & Thunderbirds.

[@TheDejael]

Classic British sci-fi TV series, produced for ITV by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson 1970-71. Great episode featuring Col. Virginia Lake (Wanda Ventham). Wanda's second son from her second marriage is famous actor Benedict Cumberbatch.

[@RobertStewart-i3m]

I love space opera, and the special effects of the 70s. My neighbor growing up had the interceptor toy, with the immense rocket that fired! I love how the ufos can't hit the side of a barn, but the bonehead humans pop the ufos all day long. A good series that I'm glad you preserved and posted- thanks

[@CamosAmos]

There were good Times,long time ago ...🍷👁️👁️🍷📺📺📽️🎥👣💔🎭🎁

[@blaster-zy7xx]

Looks like the 1960s to me. Just like the Thunderbirds.

[@andrewcharles459]

@@blaster-zy7xx UFO came out in 1970.

[@blaster-zy7xx]

@@andrewcharles459 Ah, that explains why something from "the 70's" looks so much like the 60's.

[@davidbarber7487]

In the early episodes, they couldn't hit the UFOs hardly at all. SHADO got better as time went on.

[@StickySyrupEverywhere]

Wonder if they climb back up those chutes they slide down to get to the cockpits of their ships, or use a regular hatch, ladder, hallway, whatever? A bunch of this show would be right at home in an Austin Powers movie. Easy as it is to pick this apart, there's something really, um, far out groovy about it. All that ultra high tech science and fashion! The hot babes and manly men! I also had no idea Ben Orr played Straker before he played bass for the Cars. So cool. I was a very small child when this show debuted, and remember my older brother being fanatical about it. I can't choose a word for this, like campy, cheesy, etc. I don't think they fit. This show has something that modern shows don't have. It's entertaining.

[@Skank_and_Gutterboy]

I was born in 1970. I never heard of this show until I accidentally saw it on Hulu around 2015. There's plenty of campy stuff but I still really like the show.

[@CamosAmos]

​@@Skank_and_GutterboyI never heard about Hulu.I am afascinated about ALL Vintage pelicula,pictura,movies.Modern fashion design,almost ALL are utterly poorly compare to the past.New Jaguar compare to Old,Land Rover or Ford.Too cheesy right now😂❤

[@unowen-nh9ov]

Straker?

[@TorToroPorco]

The lighting effects with the UFO against the night sky with the road and trees in the foreground was remarkably well done. I think this show represented the pinnacle of miniature model effects in its day.

[@iamgod6464]

Colonel Virginia Lake without a doubt was the Best S.H.A.D.O. Button Pusher in the Organisation.😊👍❤

[@guardian33]

She'd scowl at that. Grin.

[@MrRoadWorrier]

Those go-karts 😁😂🤣 Still, you can't deny that Bennedict's mum displayed a couple of fine points as an actress 👀

[@chrisoleson9570]

I thought this was a frat-boy-free zone

[@rubensanmaurodelbosqur1950]

Excelente serie de Ciencia ficción. 👏👏

[@melvingee9553]

I'm from north borneo .i was just around 9 years old back then. One of my fav childhood tv series and just i've just fiinished watching it full eposide a week ago.

[@FandersonUfo]

🛸✨

[@2001subway]

I was obsessed with it 55 years ago! Long live Anderson!

[@Hoxson1]

Col. Virginia Lake is Benedict Cumberbatch's mother

[@RobertStewart-i3m]

No way! Are you serious?

[@Hoxson1]

@@RobertStewart-i3m Yep. And she appeared with him in his Sherlock series playing his mother also :)

[@RobertStewart-i3m]

@@Hoxson1 Dang that's cool. Thanks for the reply and info!

[@gilbertogbarreraa1052]

Yes. And that's some seriously beautiful lady.

[@maundamartin59]

He has her EYES.

[@Bill23799]

The orbital craft Straker and Collins use to go up to repair S.I.D was a model re-used from Gerry Anderson's film , " Journey To The Far Side of the Sun ". ( 1969 ) Anderson also used the Space suits and helmets from that film for the " UFO " series.

[@FandersonUfo]

indeed and the cars as well of course - re-using expensive props always scores points with studio management and just makes production and budgeting easier to deal with - 🛸✨

[@michellevey9608]

Love it!!!

[@FandersonUfo]

🛸✨👽⭐💚

[@albertorafaelcisnerosperfe4899]

Excellent 👏🤗💕

[@quarkgluonplasma3614]

Kudos to scenography and photography

[@bhbluebird]

I haven't seen this scene since it first aired in the early 70s. I always remembered it because it was like a puzzle that Straker had to solve before taking out the bad guy at the end.

[@williebowen2965]

Reflections in the Water The Psychobombs,Sub.Smash & the pilot episodes are my favorites from U.F.O.

[@Skank_and_Gutterboy]

I really like Timelash, too. Just the idea of being trapped in a millionth of a second so that everything (almost) and everybody is frozen, that is such a cool concept. So is the idea that the aliens gave Turner the ability to hop around different points of time at will in return for whatever help he gave them makes it a very intriguing story. He wound up getting what he deserves. That's a very real issue, a guy thinking that he'd curry some kind of favor in the new order by selling out his people and government. Nobody respects a turncoat, 99.999% chance they'd have zero respect for you and you'd probably be the first to die. I would've copped a feel on a few chicks if Col. Lake wasn't there.

[@robertmaybeth3434]

A very excellent show, and I well recall being thrilled to watch it in the late 1970's when it aired on channel 9 KCET Los Angeles. Back then, original programming, especially of something as relatively sophisticated as "U.F.O.", was strictly for the major networks ABC CBS and NBC - so to see this show on prime time TV, on a local network, was unusual and it hit just a little differently. Even Ed Bishop commented later, on how he thought there were too many scenes in the shows that diverted the narrative, like the boy-girl stuff, that dropped the plot down a rabbit hole. Obviously most of that was filler, and to offset all the expensive space scenes and miniatures; but Bishop felt they usually only served to stray too far away from the main storyline - which was always meant to be SHADO vs. the UFO's. An example of a good solid non-network series, that stayed true to its fundamental storyline and is still watchable today, Is "Supernatural". I've often felt if the same people who did "Supernatural" were put in charge of a remake of "U.F.O.", they'd probably get it right!

[@orientalmaster]

「Timelash」is One of my favorite episode in UFO！

[@FandersonUfo]

probably the best episode - 🛸

[@hamburgers140]

It's amazing how much this show influenced both Evangelion and the XCOM game series. Two cousins across the pond.

[@jozefnovak7750]

Super! Thank you very much!

[@victorwadsworth821]

Ed Bishop was in the James Bond movie "Diamond are Forever".

[@SteveBrant55]

Miss Holland was played by the same actress who played Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond films! 4:13

[@paulkrapp]

I noticed that as well.

[@ropeyarn]

Me three!

[@paulkrapp]

@@ropeyarn God bless you Donald, you are a good Patriot.

[@unowen-nh9ov]

Lois Maxwell, used to write a column in the Toronto Sun called Moneypenny, studied @ RADA with Moore, had 🌟ing roles early in her career, sometimes playing villain. Eventually played a Mom in Adventures in Rainbow Country.

[@derfischkoch]

Wunderschöne Frauen in schicken Uniformen! War das schön!

U.F.O.was aired here in my Country in 1971..in black and white..and dubbed to.spanish..sadly it was cancelled too soon...rest in peace all the actors and actresses which are not with us...👍😑🇸🇻

[@geraldscott4302]

I wish Wanda Ventham had been in more UFO episodes.

[@oldgoat142]

Ah my brother, a splendid way to spend 90 minutes of my day. Colonel Lake is such a beautiful woman but I must admit, I don't fancy her in the purple hair. Only a couple of the girls could pull that off well and we both who those are. 😉😉 As always, splendid job threading things together. Thank you.

[@FandersonUfo]

it took me several years to recognize Wanda under the purple wig - I always thought that was some random extra for a long time - her narrow long face doesn't carry the wig well - now when it comes to purple blouses omg - the buttons on that blouse were put through some extreme testing by Ms. Ventham's performance and personal attributes of course - I guess we should be pleased the buttons did not fail but 1 or 2 more undone would have been totally justified by the storyline here - 🛸✨👽⭐💚

[@oldgoat142]

@@FandersonUfo As an engineer, I can certainly appreciate the strain the buttons were under. Personally I wished there would be catastrophic overload of a couple of them, especially during all of the running around but alas, those over engineered threads did not cooperate with my wishes. Pity. 😁

[@FandersonUfo]

@@oldgoat142 - more importantly she handles a firearm well in a very tricky situation - it is so annoying that more of this series was not filmed - so much potential of story and character wasted - 🛸

[@oldgoat142]

@@FandersonUfo I completely agree. She can absolutely handle a firearm. I would have no problem having her back me up in a dicey situation. She had a great deal of potential character arc that really could have been cutting edge for the time. Perhaps as a counterspy investigator or some other such role. The same could be said of other situations, such as Lt. Barry and Commander Straker. There was so much wasted potential.

[@FandersonUfo]

@@oldgoat142 - most series are nothing special until their second or third seasons - UFO had such a great start and was so tragically cut off before it's true potential had a chance - Sci Fi on TV became junk like Buck Rogers and the first Battlestar Galactica type shows for a decade after - nothing serious was tried again until the mid 1980s and this show was still ahead of Star Trek Next Generation or even Babylon 5 - a very adult drama this sci fi show - 👽

[@dougsmith1622]

Why are all of the doorways so short. If I lived there I would have to take a saw to the doorframes.

[@scotpens]

Notice that they drive on the right and the cars have left-hand drive. I guess the producers figured that by 1980, the U.K. would have switched.

[@annoyed707]

Let us thank our considerate alien adversaries for so consistently passing by our moon when they attack.

[@DIOSpeedDemon]

Watch the Movie- Journey to the far side of the sun, produced by the same director and producer of UFO, I believe. GREAT SPACE MOVIE...!!!

[@CamosAmos]

Better in all way that to Newest TV shows😂❤❤❤❤

[@AegisPupus]

1:04:00 Using speed to counteract time slowing down! Genius

[@SnowDaulphin]

No mentions of Miss Moneypenny?

[@yannbeelen1630]

She would a lookalike of erin Gray from buck Rogers . Ufo music sounds à bit like music from it followup series space 1999 . In this episode also The one who played tarkin ?

[@concept2realitysobellc453]

Pleasant memories...pleasant times...

[@dlwaterloo2221]

Ne guy from the Rat Patrol and the guy who was the Gestapo officer in Where Eagles Dare.

[@FandersonUfo]

correct

[@albertetheridge4052]

I love the sci Fi movies

[@DarthVibrator]

Met DERREN Nesbit at Kings Cross station when I was a Space Cadet and he was a very nice gentleman. I got his autograph and he was happy I asked. Completely different from his “gangster” characters he was playing in the 60s movies !

[@FandersonUfo]

he's 88 at this point and last worked in 2020 apparently - God bless him - 🛸✨

[@tjordulf]

He will always be indelibly imprinted in my mind as an SS Stürmbanführer, (although described as GeStaPo) in Where Eagles Dare. "I zeem tu reymember, ze kazeedral voss on ze uzzer site of ze squayer"

[@dailyqwikbytes]

Wanda Cumbermum. Giggity.

[@SnowDaulphin]

I am content with 2023 CGI technology. Back then 2023 would be an appropriate timeframe for a futuristic science fiction movie.

[@wonton8983]

Not the same but similarities in the first 5 minutes between Craig Collins's words and situation in his space craft to Dave Bowie's space Oddity.

[@80sGenKid]

I wonder if some of this show had an influence on some of the Japanese Anime of the 80's...Project A-Ko comes to mind...

[@tontonbeber4555]

It's extremely similar to Space 1999, even the music ... I suppose it's the same team (ITV, Anderson), but strangely I remember Space 1999 as if it was yesterday, but I don't remember this one ...

[@TheCarin12]

Yes, I believe this show was cancelled after one season, so they just built out the moon base more and changed the name to space 99.

[@andrewmorke]

Zoolander looking at the model props: What is this? A moon base for ants?

[@SnowDaulphin]

Star Trek got 3D chess right the first time even though I have no clue how it plays.

[@Mr67Stanger]

Those were great times (born in the 60's!). Imagine a woman in TV and cinema today taking orders from men like that in those days!😄

[@unowen-nh9ov]

She's a Colonel & they were part of a TEAM, The Avengers only had strong women because they lost their lead actor & Honor Blackman replaced him. Sylvia Anderson contributed, like Hitchcock worked with his wife for decades, Thunderbird's London operative was a woman & Stingray had 2 female roles.

[@JohnnyPaulTutaki]

This show scared the sh%t out of me as a five year old. There was reported ufo activity in the vicinity of where i lived at the time - ufo's observed coming out of the Waikato River, NZ. Oddly, I would dream of men in black suits with black cars chasing me on dark rural roads.

[@darrellgarrison5732]

It wasn't a dream, niz...

[@menow.]

I watch these for a glimpse of Gabrielle Drake.

[@DreamMonster7X]

Wanda Ventham was so freaking beautiful. Even as a 10 year old, I loved older women. Antonia Ellis and her purple hair. Boy did I ever know I wasn't gay. (Not that there is anything wrong with that.) lol

[@FandersonUfo]

🛸✨

[@thomaswebb9705]

It's like a swinging shin-dig in outer space! Yeah baby!!!

[@TheManamba]

Is this a merging of episodes or a feature film ? I wasnt aware a feature film of UFO existed

[@FandersonUfo]

this is a FandersonUfo compilation with parts from several episodes - there was a motion picture derived from episode footage called "Invasion UFO" released to theatres and then re-run on English language TV variously around the world late last century from 1980 - Invasion UFO was dubbed into Italian and Japanese - there were also 6 separate Italian dubbed compilation films released to theatres in the 1970s as well - 🛸✨

[@BrianWestSeattle]

These are two episodes strung together: #16 "The Man Who Came Back" (originally aired 3 Feb 1971) and #18 "Timelash" (aired 17 Feb 1971. See the excellent wikipedia article for more background at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_(British_TV_series)

[@alanhutchins5916]

Benedict calls her Mom....

[@teddy2738]

Esa serie Inglesa la daban en la TV Chilena a mediados de los años 70s. 😎... lo mejor eran las mujeres bellas y agraciadas fisicamente 😍😘😘🤔

[@williebowen2965]

S.H.A.D.O is awesome

[@FandersonUfo]

🛸✨👽⭐💚

[@amc8394]

Genial 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@iowa_don]

20:50 - Aah, an inflatable plastic pillow. How dreadfully uncomfortable is sleeping in the future. 26:41 - On Earth, that left barbell would be about 365 pounds, on the Moon, a mere 61.8 pounds. Not working up much of a sweat, are we? 1:20:47 - Really!!?? A go kart chase scene??

[@derekwagner157]

Hey Moneypenny!

[@M.Voelkel]

13:41 ... warum wohl die Türen zu klein Waren ?! Hat jemand eine Antwort oder weis jemand den Hintergrund dafür ?

[@FandersonUfo]

Die Türen trennen die unter Druck stehenden Aufenthaltsbereiche der Mondbasis - sie können bei einem Druckleck leicht abgedichtet werden - ähnlich wie U-Boot-Drucktüren - 🛸✨

[@evilborg]

Did any of the cars survive the show?

[@wszystkiejulkisapiekne9429]

why no english subtitles? :(

[@afreezaphorogiancossack2194]

I remember this show from when I was 12. The only episode I really remember is the one where the aliens slowed down time for everybody but themselves and so they had to keep taking amphetamines to keep up.

[@rudiknaus4139]

Top! ✨

[@SnowDaulphin]

A little mixture of Godzilla and Battlestar Galactica sound effects.

[@danieluhl6131]

"Disorientating" is not a word. LOL.

[@FandersonUfo]

Oxford English Dictionary lists it

[@satoshi-q5w]

good ! [dani no motojime]

[@Bill23799]

Astronaut Collins has a head that looks like a puppet head made by Gerry Anderson puppet shop.

[@deckruler3802]

Do japanese writers and designers got ideas from this show or vice versa?

[@unowen-nh9ov]

Andersons had been producing Supermarionation for years, different shows annually.

[@tracywegers7694]

They were still making godzilla movies when this came out

[@RisingTidesAC]

35:48 I want that crescent moon lamp or whatever that is.

[@PauloPereira-jj4jv]

Where is the series overture? Was it cut off?

[@BlancGivre]

Col Lake was great. Much more well tempered than Straker. Ahahah!

[@mariakelly90210]

Every other member of the cast was better tempered than Straker.

[@guardian33]

​@@mariakelly90210 amnesia drug in 3, 2. 1...😅

[@samuelweir5985]

Is Straker an American? I just noticed that he seems to speak with an American accent while all the others around him sound like Brits.

[@FandersonUfo]

the character Straker was originally a US Air Force colonel - he was appointed head of SHADO as US provided most of the funding for operations - the actor Ed Bishop who plays Straker was born and raised in Brooklyn NY - he migrated to UK in the 50s and picked up a lot of speaking roles in UK films where his natural US accent was an asset - 🛸✨

[@unowen-nh9ov]

Ditto Diamonds Are Forever.

He was indeed...

[@thecarrow4728]

what if there were 6 ufos

[@FandersonUfo]

in the episode "Reflections In The Water" dozens of UFOs attack together - interceptors can land and re-load - they also have cannon for close in dog fights - moon base has surface defences and mobile AA tanks - 2nd layer of defence is the SkyDiver fleet - 🛸✨

[@byteme007]

I loved this show as a child, now I'm monumentale embarrassed.

[@ariels3372]

this is what alot of ufo pepole ripped off from what i herd good call putting this up this is the mars super solder story were that got the idea

[@carlosc1238]

🛸

[@FandersonUfo]

🛸✨👽⭐💚

[@victorwadsworth821]

Miss Moneypenny is in this.

[@valriastabile8933]

Mitici

[@FandersonUfo]

a myth of UFO - 🛸✨

[@guardian33]

Straker stole Moneypenny.

[@Dragonbear13-k2r]

Got the orange makeup on kinda thick in this episode, it appears. 😅 Go-karts? OMG. Must have been a no-budget week for filming. 😢

[@Barry101er]

Benedict Cumberbatch’s mum, how sweet

[@ralfschnippkoweit9596]

Is this moneypenny ?

[@jeffreytan2948]

Any reason why all the moonbase female staff have to wear purple wigs?

[@Skank_and_Gutterboy]

Odd but I like the length of the skirts.

[@gordonanderson3111]

Either a form of helmet to protect against cosmic radiation or perhaps something so repulsive/ugly they counter act the effect of the exteemely revealing rest of the uniform might have on other crew members?

[@unowen-nh9ov]

Gravity related somehow, anti-static.

[@jgrab1]

Those people don't do a very good job of being frozen in place. ;-)

[@TheRealRedRooster]

From the Rat Patrol to SHADO.... LOL

[@chrissnyder2091]

After watching this episode, i opine that was a "jumped the shark"..

[@FandersonUfo]

where is the jump precisely if you don't mind

[@MrRoadWorrier]

I think the whole 60s actually jumped the shark 🤣

[@unowen-nh9ov]

SCIENCE FICTION!

[@palushvatiqi7035]

Interesting 🤨 Alain invasion 💆🏼‍♂️

[@phrayzar]

Completely bonkers.

[@KPsTboy]

The amount of adds at this point is ridiculous...

[@mrvayne01]

Even in 2 thousand and whenever-this-was, UK automotive design continued to lag shockingly behind the rest of the civilized world. Also their hand-to-hand combat style had regressed to pre double-O levels, believed by mid 22nd century researchers to be in large part due to the ill-advised Brexit policy during the resurgence in popularity of dark ages and tinfoil headwear for gentlemen. Additionally, due to austerity, osha had stopped requiring the use of rudimentary hvac failsafe mechanisms and Tesla cam security monitoring. Add in improper lifting technique and using cheap packaging material as bed cushioning and it nearly set in motion a domino effect leading to the destruction of the fish-and-chips industry.

[@stevesculptor1]

Wanda Ventham is the mother of Benedict Cumberbatch PS why are all the freaking doorways to low?

[@hadji828]

59:41 LOL 🤣🤣🤣 1:04:00 Drug use! 😳

[@jimhanty8149]

Well this episode was not bad…I will give y’all another chance…Kirk out.

[@r.daillee1034]

My Gawd! Can you imagine the destruction on any one of these spaceships if a member of the crew loosed an enormous fart at the moment a careless member of the crew lit a cigarette? BOOM!

[@unowen-nh9ov]

People used to smoke on commercial flights.

[@Farokudagelap]

With all the flat earthers , no moon landing believers, i wonder how many believe this is true.🤣😂🤣😂🦇💩

[@stephenlucas5130]

KZbin algorithm brought me here. Plopped me down and said binge human...Notice how the purple hair is only while on duty for the moonbase? Showed proved you don't need money for effects. They made up for it with short skirts, net shirts, skintight uniforms.....& purple haired hotties on the moon.

[@FandersonUfo]

🛸💜✨

[@nvkulk]

That’s fine with me 59:44

[@MrShadowpanther3]

Lol BUSTED!

[@Les537]

I AM OUTSIDE OF TIME! HAHaHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[@unowen-nh9ov]

Claire Outlander.