UFO

UFO is a British television science fiction series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson and produced by the Anderson's and Lew Grade's Century 21 Productions for Grade's ITC Entertainment company. The Andersons had previously made a number of very successful marionette-based children's science fiction series including Stingray, Thunderbirds, and Captain Scarlet. They had also made one live-action science fiction movie, Doppelgänger, also known as Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, and now felt ready to move into live-action television and aim at a more adult market.

UFO was the Andersons' first totally live-action TV series. Despite the assumption of many TV station executives, the series was not aimed at children, but deliberately sought an older audience; many episodes featured adult themes such as adultery, divorce, and drug use.

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[pbanta62]

I like how you included the "Century 20" logo in the opening Montage. As a kid, that's all I had to see to start cheering, "UFO! UFO!"

[mollyvision]

@jenzeppelin ....No problem Jen' . This show rocked on many levels......  :D

[jenzeppelin]

you're right Jon great music!

[UFOSPACE1999]

The ONLY reason that Sylvia Anderson had the Ladys on Moonbase to wear Purple wigs, WAS that it was apart of the uniform, and She said it was EASY!!! That was it. She said in a interview, IT was easy to have them wear purple wigs, Blonde would of interfer'd she said.

[Mandi7882]

First understand that this was a series done in the UK in the late 60's who projected a vision of the 80's after aliens came to Earth to harvest humans body parts for their species. This was a team of folks on land, air, sea and on the moon whose job it was to protect and montor the earth against these aliens. As far as the fishnet shirts, this is one team that was positioned undersea and had to adapt quickly. Moonbase's personnel hair color relflected the vision of those inhabited there.

[LIBshark]

I never understood the outfits... purple wigs in space and mesh shirts in a submarine? Also like how 'advanced' things were in 1980