SHADO Col LAKE UFO

Wanda Ventham as Col Virginia Lake
Gerry Anderson - UFO TV Series - UFO (1970)
Sci-Fi Science Fiction

[@devjaxvid]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@Hoxson1]

Col. Virginia Lake is Benedict Cumberbatch's mother

[@user-io9ie5cs8j]

No way! Are you serious?

[@Hoxson1]

@@user-io9ie5cs8j Yep. And she appeared with him in his Sherlock series playing his mother also :)

[@user-io9ie5cs8j]

@@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.

[@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?

[@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

[@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.

[@user-io9ie5cs8j]

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.

[@exposingproxystalkingorgan4164]

This show has a retro view of the future and that makes it look good. 😂

[@chrisoleson9570]

the joke is on us

[@quarkgluonplasma3614]

Kudos to scenography and photography

[@mariobernard5583]

Hey! Miss Moneypenny!!

[@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 - 🛸✨

[@victorwadsworth821]

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

[@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.

[@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]

🛸✨

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...👍😑🇸🇻

[@michellevey9608]

Love it!!!

[@FandersonUfo]

🛸✨👽⭐💚

[@jozefnovak7750]

Super! Thank you very much!

[@albertorafaelcisnerosperfe4899]

Excellent 👏🤗💕

[@annoyed707]

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

[@hamburgers140]

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

[@geraldscott4302]

I wish Wanda Ventham had been in more UFO episodes.

[@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.

[@orientalmaster]

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

[@FandersonUfo]

probably the best episode - 🛸

[@SnowDaulphin]

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

[@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.

[@derfischkoch]

Wunderschöne Frauen in schicken Uniformen! War das schön!

[@CamosAmos]

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

[@AegisPupus]

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

[@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...

[@albertetheridge4052]

I love the sci Fi movies

[@alanhutchins5916]

Benedict calls her Mom....

[@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...!!!

[@SnowDaulphin]

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

[@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.

[@amc8394]

Genial 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@rudiknaus4139]

Top! ✨

[@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 - 👽

[@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"

[@andrewmorke]

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

[@thomaswebb9705]

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

[@dailyqwikbytes]

Wanda Cumbermum. Giggity.

[@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...

[@williebowen2965]

S.H.A.D.O is awesome

[@FandersonUfo]

🛸✨👽⭐💚

[@dougsmith1622]

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

[@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.

[@SnowDaulphin]

No mentions of Miss Moneypenny?

[@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.

[@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 😍😘😘🤔

[@SnowDaulphin]

A little mixture of Godzilla and Battlestar Galactica sound effects.

[@Bill23799]

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

[@JimAllen-Persona]

Was there ever an episode where it shows how Col. Lake became Straker's co-commander?

[@FandersonUfo]

not really - there was an unexpected need to change studios during production - during the hiatus Gabrielle Drake George Sewell Peter Gardeno and a few others were not available when filming started up again in Spring 1970 - originally Alec Freeman was a pretty obvious 2nd in command to Straker but after he left Virginia Lake began to fill that role - Paul Foster may have been out ranked by her seniority at SHADO although I think the idea of a female as number 2 was what drove choices back in the day - I won't discuss Wanda's original role as a SHADO research scientist in the series pilot - that only complicates what is already rather messy - 🛸✨👽⭐💚

[@JimAllen-Persona]

@@FandersonUfo I wonder how much of a role Sylvia had in the decision. Paul had Moonbase so I guess she was a logical choice. I kind of figured that the first episode in the set was leading his to his poor judgement which gave Henderson the excuse to put her in Alex’s spot.

[@FandersonUfo]

@@JimAllen-Persona - I'm not sure if anyone actually reasoned out whether Henderson or anyone at SHADO put Lake above Foster back in 1969 - the discussion between the Andersons and probably Reg Hill would have been can they use Wanda Ventham as a second in command that the audience in UK and US will accept at that time - I think they were very creative perhaps as the easy choice would have been Michael Billington moves into the George Sewell spot - whether Sylvia influenced that choice much I can't say or guess but I doubt she would object - in a way Foster's character actually became a little less important after he got burned for the promotion - he became a skirt chaser and easy pray for cat claws etc during the second filming session more often than not - Wanda got all the good parts in 1970 and she handled them very well - 🛸

[@unowen-nh9ov]

​@@JimAllen-PersonaFoster was brought on board because he was test pilot who witnessed UFO.

[@guardian33]

He had a concussion and they sedated him?

[@RisingTidesAC]

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

[@byteme007]

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

[@victorwadsworth821]

Miss Moneypenny is in this.

[@carlosc1238]

🛸

[@FandersonUfo]

🛸✨👽⭐💚

[@PauloPereira-jj4jv]

Where is the series overture? Was it cut off?

[@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.

[@wszystkiejulkisapiekne9429]

why no english subtitles? :(

[@user-lb7xf3wl3j]

good ! [dani no motojime]

[@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 - 🛸✨

[@BrianAllenWS]

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)

[@valriastabile8933]

Mitici

[@FandersonUfo]

a myth of UFO - 🛸✨

[@JustReed]

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]

🛸✨

[@derekwagner157]

Hey Moneypenny!

[@evilborg]

Did any of the cars survive the show?

[@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...😅

[@TheRealRedRooster]

From the Rat Patrol to SHADO.... LOL

[@jgrab1]

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

[@user-tr3py5nz2j]

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

[@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??

[@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 - 🛸✨

[@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

[@phrayzar]

Completely bonkers.

[@Barry101er]

Benedict Cumberbatch’s mum, how sweet

[@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

[@palushvatiqi7035]

Interesting 🤨 Alain invasion 💆🏼‍♂️

[@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!

[@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...

[@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.

[@stevesculptor1]

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

[@guardian33]

Straker stole Moneypenny.

[@KPsTboy]

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

[@hadji828]

59:41 LOL 🤣🤣🤣 1:04:00 Drug use! 😳

[@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.

[@Les537]

I AM OUTSIDE OF TIME! HAHaHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[@unowen-nh9ov]

Claire Outlander.

[@jimhanty8149]

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

[@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.

[@victorwadsworth821]

British Teeth, lol.

[@nvkulk]

That’s fine with me 59:44

[@MrShadowpanther3]

Lol BUSTED!

[@CORRADOCAMERONI]

👍🌠🌌☄️👽💞✌️✨🌞🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

[@Farokudagelap]

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

[@DavidRice111]

complete Brit nonsense

[@unowen-nh9ov]

As only they can do & for years now.