UFO Episode Guide

Episode 1: Identified

Skully’s Pick

SHADO becomes fully operational as Commander Straker directs Earth’s secret defence against hostile alien spacecraft. When an injured alien is captured, medical examination reveals the horrifying reason humans are being abducted.

Episode 2: Exposed

Test pilot Paul Foster witnesses a UFO during a flight that ends in disaster. Refusing to accept the official explanation, he investigates the incident and moves dangerously close to uncovering SHADO.

Episode 3: The Cat with Ten Lives

A UFO abducts interceptor pilot Jim Regan and his wife before apparently releasing him unharmed. SHADO discovers that an ordinary domestic cat may be allowing an alien intelligence to control his actions.

Episode 4: Conflict

A piece of space debris left in Earth orbit threatens SHADO’s lunar operations. Straker suspects the danger is not accidental when an alien influence begins manipulating flight paths and personnel.

Episode 5: A Question of Priorities

Skully’s Pick

Straker’s son is critically injured in a road accident while SHADO receives evidence that an alien may be attempting to defect. A single aircraft becomes essential to both emergencies.

Episode 6: E.S.P.

A man with powerful extrasensory perception blames SHADO for his wife’s death. Alien influence exploits his grief and abilities, directing him towards Straker and the organisation’s hidden headquarters.

Episode 7: Kill Straker!

Paul Foster and another officer return from a lunar mission determined to remove Straker from command. SHADO investigates whether professional resentment or alien conditioning is driving their behaviour.

Episode 8: Sub-Smash

Skully’s Pick

An underwater UFO attacks Skydiver and leaves the vessel sinking towards the ocean floor. Trapped crew members face dwindling air while Straker struggles to coordinate an increasingly desperate escape.

Episode 9: Destruction

SHADO investigates an alien operation connected to a naval vessel and a plan to dispose of dangerous material at sea. Straker must uncover the real target before military action produces a catastrophe.

Episode 10: The Square Triangle

A woman and her lover plan to murder her husband, but an alien arrives at the isolated house first. SHADO discovers the crime and faces the limits imposed by its secrecy.

Episode 11: Close Up

SHADO launches an advanced probe intended to photograph the alien homeworld. The mission appears successful, but a tiny technical error threatens to make the hard-won images useless.

Episode 12: The Psychobombs

The aliens abduct three civilians and give them extraordinary destructive abilities. Each is programmed to attack a different part of SHADO’s defence network, forcing the organisation to protect several targets simultaneously.

Episode 13: Survival

Paul Foster becomes stranded on the Moon after an alien attack and encounters an injured enemy. With both cut off from their own forces, survival requires an uneasy temporary understanding.

Episode 14: Mindbender

A strange rock recovered from a destroyed UFO causes vivid hallucinations among SHADO personnel. Straker experiences a reality in which his secret command is merely part of a television production.

Episode 15: Flight Path

The aliens coerce a SHADO operative into supplying information needed to attack Moonbase. His attempt to conceal the betrayal places his family, career and the lunar installation in danger.

Episode 16: The Man Who Came Back

An astronaut believed lost during a space mission returns to Earth in remarkable physical condition. Straker suspects alien interference when the recovered officer begins manoeuvring against Paul Foster.

Episode 17: The Dalotek Affair

Equipment failures disrupt Moonbase operations while a private mining company works nearby. Foster investigates whether the civilian installation is responsible or being used to conceal an alien attack.

Episode 18: Timelash

Skully’s Pick

An alien device freezes time around SHADO headquarters, leaving Straker and Colonel Virginia Lake among the few people able to move. They face an enemy operating at extraordinary speed within the silent studio complex.

Episode 19: Ordeal

Paul Foster visits a health farm for rest and recovery but is abducted by aliens. He awakens inside a spacesuit and is forced through the terrifying process used to prepare extraterrestrial visitors for travel.

Episode 20: Court Martial

Evidence indicates that Foster has leaked classified SHADO information, leading to his arrest and death sentence. Straker doubts the apparently conclusive case and searches for another explanation.

Episode 21: Computer Affair

Moonbase commander Gay Ellis and interceptor pilot Mark Bradley come under scrutiny after a mission goes wrong. A computer analysis suggests their personal feelings may have affected operational decisions.

Episode 22: Confetti Check A-O.K.

Skully’s Pick

A colleague’s pregnancy leads Straker to remember the establishment of SHADO and the collapse of his marriage. His growing commitment to secrecy makes an ordinary family life increasingly impossible.

Episode 23: The Sound of Silence

The aliens abduct a show jumper from his rural home and conceal a UFO nearby. SHADO searches the surrounding countryside while unfamiliar alien technology threatens anyone approaching the landing site.

Episode 24: Reflections in the Water

SHADO discovers evidence of an alien base beneath the ocean. Straker and Foster investigate a remarkable installation containing duplicates of Moonbase, its personnel and the organisation’s senior officers.

Episode 25: The Responsibility Seat

Straker becomes involved with a journalist while temporarily away from direct command. Her interest in the film studio creates a potential security problem as another threat develops inside the organisation.

Episode 26: The Long Sleep

Skully’s Pick

A woman awakens after ten years in a coma and recalls an encounter involving aliens, two young men and a hidden explosive device. SHADO must reconstruct her fragmented memories before the weapon is activated.