I just re-watched the series. Hadn’t seen it since I was probably about seven years old. Oddly, there was one episode I remembered in some detail. Darker than you remembered? In one episode, Straker’s son dies when the plane carrying a drug that could save him gets diverted to look for a UFO. Later, Straker hallucinates that he is actually an actor filming a TV show about invading aliens, and in a screening room he watches the footage of his son dying all over again. That is fucked up; it’s the clip show from hell.
Interesting show, though. Fascinating to see what 1970 thought 1980 would be like. (I wonder if I could do any better predicting 2023.) Thought I saw Straker using a whiteboard at one point. A few familiar faces show up; Lois Maxwell in a couple episodes.
Is there a term for this sort of show, where there is such loving attention to the vehicles and technology? “Gadget porn” seems to apply more to real-world electronics than fictional space ships. Or do we not need a term, since Gerry and Sylvia Anderson seem to have the genre to themselves?