Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Blistering performances.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I got the set for Christmas and really enjoyed going through it.I have memories of this from my pre-school to early grade school years.It may be the first instance I saw of the "Do you hear that?" "Hear what?" "Nothing, that's what's wrong." cliché.It is probably also my first memories of ESP and a Ouija Board. Yeah, I probably had a few bad dreams thanks to this!My memories only included space ships with one missle shooting at a UFO and that unique UFO noise, tanks firing mortars into a lake where a UFO was, the car phone, hot chicks, an alien Siamese cat, a pyramid of light or something on a guy's head while an alien takes them over, the oddest mish mash of a time loop and driving funny little cars, groovy hair, and a human getting an alien helmet stuck on them as it filled up with black fluid- which freaked me out!That was it. My only memories of it but I liked it and always wanted to see it again.It was everything I hoped for and then some. Groovy music, future cars, stripper-iffic outfits, etc. I do not remember if it aired on some UHF channel we got, or on the WGBH as the fourth of our four VHF channels we got. It was a Saturday after cartoons sort of thing.Man, it brought back memories of how damn fun I thought it was going to be to grow up and be an adult! When I was a kid it was FUN to be an adult! Smoking indoors, drinking at work, no seat belts, etc. Well, it did not turn out that way, LOL.It also had themes I totally get that obviously I did not pick up on as a kid, but resonate now. High stress jobs, time away from family, some jobs that can't be shared at home, etc.This was a quality show. Far too cerebral to be a mainstream hit, but so wonderfully dated it's a blast.If you saw this as a child, or were a little kid during the golden age of Saturday morning cartoons/Saturday afternoon shows/movies, say from 68 to 80 or so, give this a try. Stryker really pulls off the acting, hard to believe he was the meek professor in Diamonds are Forever (great child hood memories on the Sunday night movie of that red Mach1 car chase as well!).

"UFO" is a pretty good show for 1970, though I am sure younger viewers will laugh at the special effects and strange kitschy 1970 sensibilities--such as the purple haired ladies, the weird underwater rocket plane, the clothing, the cars and the wild music. Despite all this silliness, the acting isn't bad and the episodes were mostly pretty interesting. In fact, I am watching the show again along with another famous Gerry and Sylvia Anderson series "Space: 1999" and think "UFO", despite more dated special effects, is a more enjoyable and better series. Plus, in a crazy way, the show seemed more plausible than "Space: 1999"--or at least they made it seem that way.Despite being a decent show, I wasn't particularly impressed with the DVD set I recently purchased. The episodes are all in no particular order!! This exact same problem occurs in the Anderson's next series, "Space: 1999"--the DVDs are all mixed up for no apparent reason! Additionally, the special features are quite sparse--with only some DVD commentary tracks and nothing more. One final complaint is that not many episodes are on each DVD and the boxes are full-sized, so just one season results in a HUGE box set! Decent show--lousy packaging. For shame. With packaging like this, I could actually see people avoiding the set or feeling entitled to download it. I am not excusing this, but there should be a lot more concern about the folks who buy this--they deserve better.

Being 11 years old at the time I found myself completing my home work early just to be able to go to my room that had no VCR to catch every episode, now that I own the series life is good. I put together my own version of skydiver and joined the model rocketry club to build my own interceptor.When the TV series with martin l came out i thought my Saturdays would be full but to my dismay it was not to be if only they could of given me one more season or the hint of a possible repeat. every time I saw the century 21 logo my heart skipped only to be greeted with the wrong sound track.hope still lingers in the air for a possible remake for is this not the era of been there done that so let's do it again bigger and hopefully, oh yes hopefully better...

It's alway's surprised me that this series never took off during it's originally transmission. It was (and is) incredibly, dark, menacing and atmospheric and it's budget allowed it to look brilliant. It was ahead of it's time and should have been one of the most popular adult science fiction series of the era. But it wasn't! However now it has become a cult and is recognised as one of the finest sci-fi series ever made. And so it should be! The images of Alien's are horrific (even today) and the writing and choice of cast were just spot on. The late Ed Bishop was just phenomenal really, a truly marvellous actor who played Ed Straker to perfection. George Sewell and later Wanda Ventham were also wonderful. It also has to be one of the scariest science fiction series of the 1970's just look at The Long Sleep - now that really is a scary episode, and it's also damn good! Confined to peoples memories for over 15 years the series was finally brought to us in 1986 (if you miss out Precision Video's release of the confusingly edited Invasion: UFO) when Channel 5 video released many unedited episodes of the series (including Invasion: UFO). From this point the show's popularity suddenly rose and an ITV repeat followed later in the year running into 1987. Interestingly even a 'UFO' convention was held in London in 1988 because of the show's increased popularity in the 1980's. UFO was again repeated this time on BBC2 in 1996, but it took them 3 years to show the entire series! The BBC have never been very good at scheduling. Nowadays the show's popularity is still thriving what with recent DVD and Video releases still available. The series was in short superb and I think grossly underrated. UFO didn't even appear in the 2001 Channel 4 programme 'Top Ten Sci-fi' but Space: 1999 did. Space: 1999 is a great series but sometimes the writing and UFO is just better! Getting back to UFO, it is a popular cult which will stay in peoples memories for many years to come.