UFO Opening Sequence

[TheBholesurfer]

One of the best sci fi series ever !

[MrSkellen23]

cant wait to see new movie version. It better not be a like the Speed Racer movie!!!!!!!!!!!

[LoCLai]

This looks like one of those Japanese Ultraman series...

[moomintroll1963]

wow how futuristic i thought the 1980's would be when i used to watch this,and now we don't even go to the moon!

[RRAMJET82]

This was A bitch'n great show for the early 70's.I started watching the show when

I was in junior high and gave my writting creatity A big boost.my favorite things I

like were the vehicles,SKYDIVER,moonbase,LT. GAY ELISON.

[thedrewandstewshow]

ive had this theme song printed on my mind for 40 odd years!

[bleeptester]

Does anyone remember the sci fi programe The Invaders ? that used to really creep me out as a kid but still insisted on watching it !!

[bleeptester]

I loved this show as a kid. My hubby got me the entire series as a treat ! i spotted the box set in HMV a few yrs ago & was like a little kid @ crimbo & couldn't walk away from it. what a treat, like being 8 yrs old again. I loved UFO & Blakes Seven. They dont make them like that anymore.

[PaulusAlone]

Ooh boy...Memories of being about six years old watching this on black&white TV. And being in love with the vehicles, but scared shatless of the UFO/aliens at the same time...I also watched my first Japanese Anime (though I didn't know it) at this time on British TV ~ 'Marine Boy' (Saturday Mornings) aah...I can still hum the theme tune.

Sorry, err...I wandered a bit there, didn't I? I didn't think I was at the 'wandering' age yet. Oh dear...lol

[warpstar07]

love the soundtrack!!

[DeadHonky]

Hey. It's the second opening theme from The Big O. Awesome!

[PaulusAlone]

@DeadHonky Aah...The Big O. Loved that anime as well. And yes, I think you got a point there. Maybe it was a 'homage' to this show's (UFO) opening music and 'Queen's : Flash Gordon' theme song. They are both too close to be coincidence, I think!

Hehe...I feel the urge to dig my 'Big O' dvd's out now~lol

[squaddie67]

For years people said the design flaw of the Interceptor was that it only had one missile fep interceptor. It wasn't until I rewatched the entire seies it occurred to me why. The UFO's wer coming in at ridiculous speeds (i.e 0.8 of the speed of light) so in effect the three nukes the interceptors were essentially used as shotgun blasts. Just a thought...

[paktype]

1980. LOL. I always thought the UFO's looked like the little spindle wheels inside tape recorders that made the tapes turn.

[arwelp]

@MyLalinea - It was made in 1969/1970, so 1980 was safely in the future back then!

[arkady714]

This brings back great memories. In my part of the world, this show came on late afternoon/early evening on Saturdays. My buddies and I used to love it...all young boys. This stuff really appealed to us. Straker was the man. And you knew that once SID picked out up, you were toast!

[jpramas]

1980 ... good times ...

[ratanakul]

This is the best intro music to anything ever on tv, & they should use it on Emmerdale!

Fuck I'd watch that....

[rickker20]

Their are making a movie I think it comes out 2012.

[carbonsnail]

Holy shit! This is beyond vintage I remember watching as a child. Couldn't fully understand the plot, but at least large scale collectable toys were cool!

[MyLalinea]

in which year was this serie made? is it from u.k.? yes 1980

[kacknoobdeluxe]

WTF is this shit, XCOM in real?

Oo

[SoEightiesItHurts]

Lol..."1980"...!

[catman063]

@bakablues - you're right! I have the DVDs around here somewhere but couldn't find them to see, but heard the song this past Saturday on Adult Swim... it really IS a duplicate of this theme. I've noticed a number of great anime songs which have "borrowed" heavily from western sources.

[christopherraven]

I love the mesh submarine uniforms...imagine trying to save the Earth with your co-workers dressed like that!

[catman063]

LOL - I was just watching the Japanese anime TV series "Big O" - and there was a fight scene where the background music sounded vaguely like the (amazing) music in this opening sequence! After I checked out this video, I think it was a LOT closer than I thought - wondering if they just LIFTED the music from this for "Big O"... (note - it was episodic music, and not the opening sequence)

Anyway, LOVE "UFO", one of my favorite British imports of all time... and that's really saying something.

[bakablues]

@catman063 The Japanese second season intro theme for the "Big O" is basically a duplicate of this theme.

[Shalott63]

Gosh, this brings back memories. Those purple hairdos for one ...

[VincentValdemar]

I love this programme with all my heart! Can't wait to see a BD release for this!!! <333

[Remington61189]

0:21 hugo weaving?

[goback3spaces]

I would describe the editing of this sequence as clunky.

[centurion180ad]

@Admail233 Mobiles were sitting ducks. 3 would roll off a cargo carrier to bag a downed UFO, and often the only survivor would be the radar tractor. Sky 1 missed as often as it hit. A single rocket hit would only force a UFO to land.

Interceptors had a high mortality rate. 1/3 the time they failed to intercept or were decoyed, 1/3 the time all 3 torpedoes missed, and 1/3 the time they destroyed a UFO. In the last 2 cases about every 2 or 3 times, a UFO would kill an interceptor too.

[Jalfmar3]

@centurion180ad If you think about the most advanced the technology could have been even if all our energy could have gone into S.H.A.D.O. in 1980, there's actually no way to pick up something coming in that fast at any type of range, much less follow it home like they had a satellite do at one point. So the fact that we held our own even with bad losses was pure fantasy anyway. Think of early WWII when both the Japanese and Germans had better planes but we had numbers and sheer guts.

[centurion180ad]

@Jalfmar3 Good points. I agree, it was pulp SciFi.

I though John Steakley had an excellent take on humans encountering a horrible alien species, and how our own failings become yet again our own worst enemy. The name of his book is ARMOR.

[DJLoyd99]

0:21 Dr. House with Blond Hair ;-)

[Stingray19681]

Join us in the incredible world of THE FUTURE (1980) where men have terrible bangs, women wear fishnet tops and silver miniskirts, and Tina Turner works at a Moonbase in a purple wig. And wasn't that Napoleon Solo's car? Done in 1970 but the style was still very Swinging '60s. It played in the US in '72 and even as kids we scoffed at the idea of 1980 being that futuristic.

[23vin850]

All this by 1980?, heh heh, the only thing in this show that happened by 1980 was the hot chicks in metallic clothes........

[jennifersman]

@23vin850 and the only girl on TV lately with purple hair is Hannah Montana's pal!

[SpeedTriple59]

How the hell can you be sad in Canada..? England has had it mate..

[ScotRanger1960]

@SpeedTriple59 So's Scotland. You did mean Britain though didn't you when you said England ?

[signus501]

What year is this t.v. show ????

[davepx]

1970-71. But we all know it's really 1980 and that's how we'll all look then. :)

[maninthestreet01]

They were filmed in 1969. Strangley, even though this was set in, and filmed in, England, whenever they showed any cars driving along a road, they were always driving on the right hand side of the road.

[38dragoon38]

Why did some of the men wear string vests with their nips showing? What was all that about?

[dankedoab]

I thik they were ahead of their time. Remember the mesh shirts from the 80's?

[prodprod]

@dankedoab Wasn't that right around the time we had those moon bases operated by hot birds with purple wigs and silver miniskirts?

[jay55also]

@38dragoon38 It was the 70's early 80's,they had that as their look of the future,ha ha ha ha ha.

[mylyrics]

That was awesome!

[BadNews88]

Hey, TV Land, get a clue and run programmes like "UFO" .. as opposed to the drivel that ya run on yer network!

This is a *classic!*

Thanx fer it, m8..

[thedarkpresence]

Good nostalgia trip. I remember getting a SHADO 2 tank when I was 5 or 6, my brother got an Angel Interceptor that fired that big nose missile.

[mooneepondskid]

If only 1980 was really like that..

[gavinsolar]

Oh! Gabrielle Drake mmmmmmmmmm Shmokin!!! She is on corrie soon..!! Niiiiiiiiice

[tonymontana1974]

I maybe stupid but this seems very similar to space 1999 were they made by the same people ?

[jaimymoore]

Not stupid. Good eye. 

yep, same people

[slavemale2]

Wrell spotted. Gerry & Sylvia Anderson wre indeed responible for "UFO". In fact UFO was made before Space 1999, & never really met with the same succses as the Anderson's other shows (Thunderbirds,Stingray,Joe 90,Supercar, etc)

[Razorwind01]

@tonymontana1974 yep, Gerry Anderson, he of Thunderbirds and other exploding puppet shows. I believe Space 1999 was concieved as a sequal show to UFO, but got changed.

[palacio154]

@tonymontana1974 Yes, both shows were made by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. Space:1999 is unofficially the spin-off of UFO.

[leftcoast67]

@tonymontana1974

Yup same people

[Beamshipcaptain]

I used to watch this show in New York on Saturday evenings in 1971-1972-73, on Channel 2, WCBS-TV Manhattan (they used to show a lot of cool sci-fi movies on the late-show and the movie of the week on channel-2). Then at 8:30 pm was CREATURE FEATURES on WNEW-TV Channel 5, FRIGHT NIGHT on Channel 9, and CHILLER THEATRE on the great WPIX-TV channel 11. New York TV in the 1970s was incredible! I believe there is an international organisation since the 1970s defending Earth with Hi-tech weaponry.

[Banks1042]

I also first saw this in NYC on Channel 9. A fantastic show. I have the entire DVD set. Get yours now.

[Deckardpr]

Subliminal.

[papamoapie]

It was a long time ago but I had an interceptor style toy and cant remember if it was from UFO or another show. As I recall it was green had orange skids (3) and fired a rocket from the front. Any one know if it was from UFO if not which show? thanks

[whiteknightgb11]

definitely U F O

[cleanestair]

Absolutely, I had one too, wonder if it's still in the attic?

[tootsiejoon]

I really love this show. I have the whole DVD set. I used to watch it when I was 10 or 11 years old. This show is timeless. Considering it was made 40 some years ago, still is ahead of it's time, even today. What a magnificent show. I love all the caractors and the music and just about everything about this show. Thanks to all who post them.

[eromacque]

Er, timeless seems a bit generous. It was an anachronism the day it premiered. Doesn't mean it's not a lot of fun, though.

[insut07]

There was this urban myth in my area which said that Dinky toys did a replica toy of the UFO... I've seen the interceptors and know where you can still buy them "boxed"... How ever i'm too ashamed to ask weather there is any truth in this! Guess not, cus i would have seen one by now. can u ever see a modern day remake?

[bigshow112]

classic stuff thanks for posting

[MoveOnSoulClub]

I used to have a Shado toy and my borther had an Interceptor, the top of the Shado flipped over and it fired rockets. I suppose if you flew and Interceptor you had to make that one shot count... :(

[dominoize]

OH.....MY.....GOD!

I remember this freakin show! It used to come on on channel 9 in NYC on Saturdays! Best theme ever!

WOW!

[Pinkletoony]

this was the best kids show ever .... imo

[ManicMalcolm]

ITV 4 (UK TV) still show repeats of this

[vntr2006]

Heard that a bigger budget was assigned to an additional series but the tv company pulled it at the last minute. Shame....this was great when I was a kid (and the repeats are good). Those UFO's still scare me...lol Always thought Skydiver was cool.

[flametop93]

Hi vntr, yes, the second series was to've been called UFO:1999, which of course became "Moonbase Alpha One", as my Swiss friend knew it !!

[DoctorDee5100]

Just wanna ask if anyone considers Space: 1999 to be the successor to this series?

[genonyc99]

i do

[mbaldelli]

I don't.. While the Producers were the same for both shows, Space:1999 lacked the alien menace out to farm humans for their parts like UFO did.

[TheUTubeTeamSucks]

Awesome. One of Barry Gray's best ever themes.

[amandacerasale]

I liked the ending of UFO with just the credits and everything was from SPACE has anyone got that at all?

Amanda

[VenetianIsle]

OMG, I remember this show from when I was just a little kid of about 6. I can't remember what the premise of the show was? Watching the vid brings back some of it. Didn't the UFO folks have like blue dye in their helmets?

[VanWADebbie]

I dressed better in the 1980s than these ladies. I wore maxi and miniskirts, not some sterile looking clothing. My hair didn`t look like a coloring disaster either. In fact, i didn`t have to color my hair in the 80s.

There there days in which I wish could slide down a chute and into my car too.

[mojah99]

Kewl! Haven't seen this for 35 years, yet I can remember elements of it.

[Eamon15]

I still have my UFO lunch box!It's made of metal!

[pipomaomy]

Opening of Neon Genesis Evangerion was inspirated from this Fab opening.

[biukufilm]

I'm waiting for steve irwin to be attacked by a gerry anderson STINGRAY!

[TheUTubeTeamSucks]

Apparently they interviewed Marina, but she wouldnt say anything ... :-)

[Brianboro88]

Great title music,fab!

[19sabi80]

Me and all my friends couldnt wait to watch this each week..I always liked the "1980" flashing on the screen lol

[SPCLPONY]

I used to watch this and Space 1999! Both were great shows. I used to build plastic model kits when I was a kid. I remember when one of the plastic model companies released the Eagle-one ship from Space 1999. But, I built my own with some tin foil and a paper towel roll. My friends thought it turned out pretty cool. I think they also released the Intercepter ship from U.F.O. also. Great video clip Thanks for posting!

[flashpod]

Ed Bishop rocked.  Rest in peace Ed.

[Brianboro88]

I had a very pleasant surprise at xmas,i got the entire series,all 26 episodes,i`ve been having a bit of a UFO week! brings back memorys of avidly waiting for saturday afternoon`s as a kid to watch this first time round,fantastic stuff!!

[tmolesky]

where did you get it? I am dying to see the series again - the last time i saw this show i was no older than 7 or 8 years old...

[Brianboro88]

As far as i know,it can be found on e-bay,& i`ve seen it in the DD Home Entertainment catalogue,maybe HMV shops? anyway,cant stop,"intercepters,immediate launch!"

[mak1759]

@tmolesky amazon also netflix

[spib65]

@Brianboro88

me too Brian, cracking stuff!

[Jayfive67]

Cool openeing! I wish I could watch this show on the Sci-FI Channel!

[DogPatch1149]

The shot from inside the Skydiver where the pilot jumps in and slides down is the same set used as the main area of the Eagles leading to the cockpit (changed to a door) in Space:1999.

[LadyViewer]

Fantastic video and clothes!!

LadyViewer

[shadoUH]

This was may favourite show in the 70's. Ed Bishop was fantastic as Ed Straker

[slipperydoodah]

ed straker n shadow saving us from martians,had ed straker car and cant remember the name...the spacecraft that fired a single rocket from the front,wish i was 10 again....

[phillipaj]

gotta love the fashion

[nils216]

Can't remember the last time I saw anyone use a typewriter.

[KBandolo]

Yeahh ... The best opening sequence ever.

[flashpod]

agreed

[masilon]

Yes, both created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson

[KRB1960]

was this from the same people a Space 1999?

[StargateCommando]

LOL. This really brings back memories of when sci-fi wasn't really called sci-fi.

[Sillabnaed]

Love this show , I remember it when I was a kid....it used too scare me , thinking that UFO where attacking earth seems silly now

[mercdriver]

The best opening sequence and theme ever!

[LISTERUK]

I agree

[MugsySkull]

One of the best theme songs ever! Show is priceless. They need to update it for a new age. Maybe a movie.

[maricosu]

"Update it for a new age"? Hell no.

[wanker64]

ahh, memories... tacky special effects, women in skintight coveralls and purple wigs... interceptors and their notoriously unreliable missiles (one UFO always got through)

[ACME76]

AWESUM! Straker? and now it's 2006...Space Shuttle Discovery just launched...Dubya's prez. DUH.