# I Watched Episode 1 Of "UFO" last night. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 24, 2011, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-episode-1-of-ufo-last-night/586738 "2011-06-24T18:11:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 27
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-episode-1-of-ufo-last-night/586738/27 "2012-12-26T19:59:50Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > Not too shabby. Rather darker than I remembered, in a good way. 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? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-episode-1-of-ufo-last-night/586738)._