Yes, when Lt Ellis was on earth she didn’t wear it. It must have been for low g. 
Paul and Lt Bradley should have had to wear them on the moon. Or the mad Russian doctor “Jackson”.
I remember seeing UFO a long time ago as a kid in the 1970s, in syndication but not sure what channel (NY Metro area) it was broadcast on. I recalled only a few things from that time (bits of the episode where they send a spy craft after a retreating alien craft to view the alien home world, the gull-wing cars, the purple wigs, the snappy intro music (“SHADO” “1980” etc.) vs the ambient ‘otherworldly’ outro music…
…until a few years ago, when I found the episodes on-line and watched them all. I did not realize till then that the aliens were harvesting human organs (although this sub-plot seems to have faded away after a few episodes), nor that the SHADO defense budget was somewhat constrained. The spy-craft episode “Close-up” (upon review) made even less sense - OK, so they lost the image measuring scale, and then demonstrated why this mattered to Stryker with the extreme close up of the woman’s leg (IIRC), but unless the craft crashed and buried itself in alien soil, the images it took should have been of some use - after all they knew the relative sizes of the aliens and their craft.
I rather liked “Timelash”, where a human traitor controls the flow of time (I think the producers just used the stand-still method of showing frozen time, except much of the episode was outdoors where there’s breezes blowing…). Not sure why the human traitor sept zipping around in his little cart while Stryker was firing away with a machine gun.
On the whole a neat little show with some decent episodes, although a bit cheaply made…
Well, between when I posted last in this thread and today, UFO is no longer available “with your Prime membership.” Damn it. However, it is still available on Youtube and, damnit, Mikemike2, I’ve already watched 9 episodes and it is all. your. fault.
Rewatching, there’s something I can’t figure out.
They’re looking for organs to keep bodies going. So why are they shooting up the potential donors? Those bullets are messing up most of the major organs.
The writers were idiots.
I somehow missed this entirely back in the day, but have started going through the eps available on YouTube. It’s a real hoot, a bizarre mixture of kiddie-level sci-fi and surprisingly heavy emotional content.
I’ve also enjoyed playing ‘spot the actor from another, perhaps better-known role’:
So far (3 episodes in) I’ve seen George Sewell as Col. Freeman (Con McCarty in the classic gangster flick Get Carter); Vladek Sheybal as the decidedly odd Dr. Jackson (played the chess grandmaster/SPECTRE agent in From Russia With Love; and best of all, Lois Maxwell as SHADO receptionist Miss Holland, basically an exact duplicate of her iconic Miss Moneypenny from the Bond films.
Have you spotted Benedict Cumberbatch’s mom yet? The two look amazingly alike.
She’s the scientist in charge of the Utronic equipment in the first episode, and she appears in 8 more.
ETA: We were living in the UK when this was broadcast, so I got to see (most of) it first run as a child. We came back to the States in August 72, so I don’t think I’ve ever seen the last few episodes.
Because their objectives are 1) get organs, unless it conflicts with 2) don’t get stopped by SHADO. There are millions of potential “donors”, and they’d be a lot easier to harvest if SHADO were eliminated. So killing SHADO agents isn’t a problem in the big picture.
The very first scene is an alien using a machine gun to shoot 3 kids who have only an 8mm camera, almost 10 years before SHADO is established. Two died, one survived to become the first pilot for SKY 1. One of the ones killed was his sister, and they confirmed that several of her organs were implanted in the alien they captured in that episode. Including, I think, her heart, which was hit when she was shot.
I’m inclined to go with the writers were idiots who liked things going “bang”.
Yes. Yes, it is.
At the age of 14 I made a board-game based on this series, with one player acting as SHADO and the other playing the UFOs. Unfortunately the game was heavily biased in favour of the aliens, and they won every time.
They’ve got quite a few fine examples of the male physique, also, for those of us inclined to admire that part of the population.
The men on the Skydivers seem to not wear anything under their mesh tops, but the female crew seem to. Seems unfair.
At least they’re not being forced to wear aqua green wigs.
I liked to imagine that the women weren’t wearing anything under those suits.:o
I loved the elevator-office. I wondered what someone taking a walk outside would think as they glanced through the windows.
I liked Straker’s escape corridor behind his breakaway window.
While it was more dramatic for the Interceptors to have just one missile, I felt so sad for the ships when they had to shlep back home with their stubby noses.
As mentioned, I wondered about the crew when SkyDriver tipped up for launch. But that, at least, wasn’t as bad as Seaview in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, where I expect the entire crew was jelly after the sub breached.
Straker was shown to have lost his family as the demands of his calling and keeping secrets to protect the Earth weighed on him. There was the episode where he was driving off with what-looked-like-his-secretary, but they were actually going off on a training exercise.
Instead of coming up with silly alien disguises (and costly at that), they had the aliens use human bodies. They fitted them with contact lenses to protect the eyes, and they had liquid atmospheres in the spacesuits to protect from the “tremendous acceleration”. They tried for some good science fiction elements at times.
Nowadays, the ShadoMobiles, SkyDiver, space plane, Interceptors, etc. would all be CGI. I respect their attempt to make their cool ideas a reality with models, on a budget that wouldn’t allow full-scale sets.
I have the UFO Theme on my iPhone. I play it once in a while when I’m taking a noon walk through the underground tunnel - it helps me pick up my pace.
The loyal fan base is almost entirely comprised of actual aliens who are just now picking up the original TV transmissions in deep space. They think it’s a hoot. 
The “historical documents”, surely?
And it’s totally unnecessary. Straker never uses the above ground office as a SHADO office, just an elevator. So why can’t he just have an elevator? or a fire pole? I think it’s because in-universe, Straker is an empire builder. he wanted it because no one else had one, and he could. The TV reason is, it looked cool.
I always picture it working like Elmer Fudd’s house. Skip to 4:52
Without even LOOKING at that video link, I know what it is.
“Don’t push the red button! Don’t EVER push the red button!”
ETA: That bit comes far earlier in the cartoon, and the consequences of pushing it later, but it’s my FAVORITE BIT.
