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A single season of 26 episodes (including the pilot) was filmed over the course of more than a year; a five-month production break was caused by the closure of MGM-British Studios in Borehamwood, where the show was initially made. Production then moved to Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire. UFO was first broadcast in the UK and Canada in 1970, and in US syndication over the next two years.
Some episodes of the show were repackaged as part of a series called "Incredible But True?", which aired episodes of "History's Mysteries" as well as other shows (including "In Search of History" and "UFO Files", also narrated by Ackroyd). The show's last episodes were an anthology of clips from previous episodes (such as "Mysteries of the High Seas").
The episode "Survival" shows that SHADO's Moonbase is in the Mare Imbrium, or in the northeast part of it, according to a map that Foster and an alien studied while they were stranded on the surface. The map is a real one.[12]
Cyril S. Frankel (28 December 1921 – 7 June 2017) was a British film and television director. His career in television began in 1953 and he directed for over 30 TV programmes until 1990. He was born in Stoke Newington, London. He directed many episodes of popular British TV shows, such as "The Avengers", and the pilot episodes of the ITC Entertainment shows "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)" and "Department S" in 1969. In 1970, he directed "Timelash", an episode of "UFO", which he described as a very interesting script and one of his personal favourites.
It is located within the former township of West Flamborough of the Flamborough region and is a part of the amalgamated city of Hamilton. There is Millgrove Public School, a park, cemetery, a riding barn in the name of Foxcroft, a corner store and many other things.Gulliver's Lake RV Resort & Campground has been used to film episodes of the Cream Productions Paranormal TV Show "Evil Encounters". One such episode entitled "Terror From the Sky" features the famous Travis Walton UFO incident.
Two years after the 26 episodes were completed, the series was syndicated on American television and the ratings were initially promising enough to prompt ITC to commission a second season of UFO. As the Moon-based episodes appeared to have proven more popular than the Earth-based stories, ITC insisted that in the new season, the action would take place entirely on the Moon. Gerry Anderson proposed a format in which SHADO Moonbase had been greatly enlarged to become the organisation's main headquarters, and pre-production on UFO 2 began with extensive research and design for the new Moonbase. These developments were not without precedent in the earlier episodes: a subplot of "Kill Straker!" sees Straker negotiating with SHADO's financial supporters for funding to build more moonbases within 10 years. However, when ratings for the syndicated broadcasts in America dropped towards the end of the run, ITC cancelled the second season plans. Unwilling to let the UFO 2 pre-production work go to waste, Anderson instead offered ITC a new series idea, unrelated to UFO, in which the Moon would be blown out of Earth orbit taking the Moonbase survivors with it. This proposal developed into Space: 1999.[13]
This episode gained a final viewing figures of 6.52 million. TV Times gave this episode 4 stars in their review. This episode was also reviewed by TV critic Charlie Brooker in the final episode of his BBC Four show Screenwipe, and gave it a rave review saying that it was ""far better than Torchwood for instance."" ""Unashamedly Saturday night populist viewing for the masses"" with ""some of the best special effects I've ever seen in a British TV Show"". Some fans complained that there were too many Star Wars references in this episode and the creators have claimed that they were fine with that.
This episode highlights how the British empire expanded by way of exploration, including how colonies were established and developed in Australia. It also highlights how the Industrial Revolution propelled Britain into a new age with technological advancements. Manual processes were replaced with machinery to improve production efficiency, boosting the economy. The episode begins with Captain James Cook coming across the shores of New South Wales but takes a contrasting turn and lands the viewer straight in the middle of the Industrial Revolution. The episode also portrays how these advancements caused devastation when it explores one of the bloodiest conflicts in history, The Crimean War. This episode features multiple guest stars including Tracey Emin, Dougary Scott, Jessie J and Lily Cole.
Shows and hosts include world renowned UFO Researcher, Historian and Writer Richard Dolan with The Richard Dolan Show, Chase Kloetzke with FATE Magazine Radio, The Official MUFON UFO Radio Show with Race Hobbs, Phenomenon Radio with co-hosts Linda Moulton Howe & John Burroughs, Micah Hanks' The Gralien Report, The Jamie Havican Show with Jamie Havican, Jill Hanson's The Q.Psience Project, and many more.
The area is today noted for a high number of reported UFO sightings and featured in one episode of a 2008 Five TV series on British cases. Reports have focused on the quarry and the wider steep valley either side of Newchurch Road. This area has even been locally dubbed 'UFO Alley'.
The series was spoofed in an episode of "Rick and Morty" in a segment where a "Plumbus" was being made, and again in a Captain Disillusion video showing how hoax UFO videos are made.
Me TV (known as "Мэн патологоанатом Телевизор" in Russia, "Mnie Telewizja" in Poland, and "Sa akin Telebisyon" in the Philippines), was a popular Nickelodeon interstitial show about children from around world and their many passions, hobbies, and interest. The live action show was shot all over Asia and Europe, where kids were asked to answer everything under the sun from what their favorite foods and movie stars were, to probing questions like "What would you do if you were President of your country?" Popular episodes filmed in the Philippines and India included "What's in your lunchbox?", "How do you get to school?" and "What would you do if you could design your own uniform"? The show aired from 1998 to 2001, and 26 episodes were produced in the length of two TV seasons.
Although many popular shows of recent years began life on BBC Radio, there have been many successful and influential series which were designed purely for TV. In contrast to their US counterparts, which have seasons of up to 26 episodes a year, British sit-coms traditionally have series of just 6 episodes. The main reason for this is that British shows are generally written by one or two dedicated writers - often the people that created the show in the first place - as opposed to the US model of having a larger writing team. In part, this is a reflection of the difference between the size of the TV audience in the two countries, and the economics of television production; for decades sit-coms were the shows on US television that delivered the highest ratings; in Britain the highest ratings figures were normally for soap operas, which generally run several times a week, year-in year-out, and as a result generally required larger writing teams.
Establishing the main character and principal location as the chief executive of a movie studio was a cost-saving move by the producers: the Harlington-Straker Studio was the actual studio where the series was being filmed, originally the MGM-British Studios and later Pinewood Studios — although the Harlington-Straker studio office block seen throughout the series was actually Neptune House, a building at the former British National Studios in Borehamwood that was owned by ATV. Pinewood's studio buildings and streetscapes were used extensively in later episodes, particularly "Timelash" and "Mindbender" — the latter featuring scenes that show the behind-the-scenes workings of the UFO sets, when Straker briefly finds himself hallucinating that he is an actor in a TV series and all his SHADO colleagues are likewise actors. In "The Man Who Came Back", the main set for The Devils, then in production at Pinewood, can be seen in the background of several scenes.
Released on VHS and Betamax, many of the "films" released by "ThrillerVideo" were actually episodes of the British TV shows "Thriller" and "Hammer House of Horror". Many of the titles in the series were hosted by TV horror hostess Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, who declined to be associated with slasher movies and films involving animal cruelty, so titles such as "Make Them Die Slowly", "Seven Doors of Death", and "Buried Alive" as well as later videos featuring episodes of "Thriller" were simply released without her. Several of the "Thriller" episodes included 2–3 minutes of additional footage that wasn't seen in the original British broadcasts.
The former British National Studios off Clarendon Road, referred to locally as "The Douglas Fairbanks studios" (which were bought by Lew Grade's ATV in 1962), are now the BBC Elstree Studios. The studios have, over the years, been home to Alfred Hitchcock's film "Blackmail", Gerry Anderson's TV series "UFO", Jim Henson's TV series "The Muppet Show" was also produced there, and now BBC's popular soap, "EastEnders" and their medical drama "Holby City". An episode of "Judge John Deed" included scenes of the Tesco Extra, but with Borehamwood crossed out and Lewes written in its place.
A remastered Blu-Ray box set was released in 2016, including all 26 episodes of the show and extras. The box set includes a 600-page booklet, explaining how the show was made and includes previously unpublished images.
The series aired on both Global and CH in Canada. In March 2009 3e started showing "Runaway" for the first time in Ireland. In June 2007, British Television channel E4 started showing "Runaway". In the UK, the fifth episode was due to be shown on July 18, but was replaced by How to Look Good Naked; the episode was eventually shown early the next morning at 1:35am and since then had a very late timeslot of around 1 am, Thursday morning. The show's slot was moved from late evening to early morning due to poor ratings. All nine episodes were aired in the UK.
The Barasana were the subject of Disappearing World (TV series), episode 4, "The War of the Gods", aired on 22nd June 1971 for British Granada Television. The episode shows four young anthropologists travelling into the jungle to show how to live as a Barasana, before getting into a deeper debate about what it means to be a marginalised tribe in a changing world and documenting Barasana magical rituals and traditions.
The Andersons' live-action science fiction movie, Doppelgänger (also known as Journey to the Far Side of the Sun) is considered an immediate precursor to UFO, which was their first live-action TV series.[3] The series featured actors, costumes, props, locations and music that had appeared in the film, and eleven cast members of the film appeared in at least one episode of UFO.[1]
Every episode had a different theme to it (e.g., "Hawaiian Day" or "Astronaut Day") and saw the Anipals usually getting into some sort of trouble, not wanting to do whatever their happy-go-lucky host had in mind for the day. The Comedy Central version of "TV Funhouse" premiered in December 2000 and was not picked up for a second season. Interviews with Smigel indicate that Comedy Central believed in the show but was disappointed in how it went over budget every episode. Smigel has also expressed how difficult the show was and how tedious the puppet-live animal segments were to shoot.
The show was released on DVD July 22, 2008 under the title "Comedy Central's TV Funhouse".
Owing to the fragmented nature of the ITV network in the United Kingdom at the time, the 26 episodes of UFO were broadcast out of production order, and every broadcaster showed the episodes in a different order. The list below, drawn from Chris Bentley's The Complete Book of Gerry Anderson's UFO, details the running order shown on ATV (in the Midlands) and on Thames Television in London.
Perhaps surprisingly Cuthbertson also had a talent for playing comedy, which led to his best known role, although again playing a mustachioed military character, as Colonel Hall in the "Gourmet Night" episode of the hit sitcom "Fawlty Towers" in 1975. He appeared in many roles on British television, including with Tommy Cooper, Dick Emery and Frankie Howerd, and in "All Gas and Gaiters", "Danger Man", "UFO" (1970 episode "The Square Triangle") and "Terry and June", where he played annoying neighbour Tarquin Spry. He was a regular guest on "The Morecambe & Wise Show" from 1973 to 1976. One of his last TV appearances was in Michael Palin's "East of Ipswich" in 1987.
The color (1965–70) episodes were shown in syndication for many years after the show's cancellation. However, the rights to the black-and-white (1963–65) episodes were not resolved, and they were not included in the syndication package until the Me-TV Network began broadcasting the black-and-white (1963–65) episodes on Tuesday, July 12, 2011. The airings of the black-and-white episodes airings were short lived, and on Thursday, July 21, 2011, Me-TV started airing the color episodes once again. Me-TV began to air the first two black-and-white seasons of the show again on November 4, 2013. The show has rotated on and off of the Me-TV schedule in various time slots. 
On March 12, 2018 Decades TV Network and on April 23, 2018 Punch TV Studios began broadcasting the black-and-white episodes, both networks are continuing through with the color episodes.
In Italy, many episodes were united (with slight changes in dubbing and music, which was provided by John Barry and included some tracks from the James Bond films) by ITC (for UFO - Distruggete Base Luna and UFO - Annientate SHADO... Uccidete Straker... Stop!) Italian film company INDIEF (for UFO - Prendeteli vivi and UFO - Contatto Radar... stanno atterrando...!) in a long series of compilation films, seen by many as a cheat. The films, which usually had titles which resembled SHADO communications or orders transmitted by the extraterrestrial chiefs via telegraph (maybe in reference to the theme sequence of the TV series), were: