The Saucers have landed! CBS has just bought 26 (hour-long!) segments on a new British TV series entitled “UFO.” It’ll be aired in New York, Philadelphia and LA going nationwide if it’s a hit.
The Series stars American-born Ed Bishop, George Sewell, Peter Gordon, and luscious Gabrielle Drake. It takes place in 1980 and concerns an organization called “SHADO” (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organization.) (Only the Shado knows.) They have a moon base, space stations, super-submarines, rocket ships, and computer wizardry programmed by the most glamorous girls of the space age.
Everyone, male and female alike, wear see-thru fish- nettops as uniforms! The miniatures look fair, special effects reasonable, and if they have pretty good scripts, they might have a hit. Let’s hope “UFO” won’t mean Undeniable Failure Overall,
As you can see, there seems to be a real boom in television science-fiction as well as horror. All this stems from the incredible success of the made-for-TV movies.
There is a wealth of stories and books by some of the finest authors of the horror circle available for filming. I certainly hope they make use of them.