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UFO - The Cat with Ten Lives
episode 3
UK 1970
produced by Reg Hill, Gerry Anderson (executive) for Century 21 Television, ITC
directed by David Tomblin
starring Ed Bishop, Michael Billington, Alexis Kanner, Geraldine Moffat, Wanda Ventham, Colin Gordon, Eleanor Summerfield, Dolores Mantez, Dolores Mantez, Steven Berkoff, Al Mancini, Windsor Davies, Lois Maxwell, Vladek Sheybal, Ayshea Brough, Andrea Allan
screenplay by David Tomblin, created by Gerry Anderson, Sylvia Anderson, Reg Hill, visual effects by Derek Meddings, costumes by Sylvia Anderson/Century 21
TV-series UFO
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Exhausted beyond belief, Regan (Alexis Kanner), a top interceptor pilot
on the secret alien defense organisation SHADO's moonbase, returns to
earth ... only to be dragged to some boring dinner party by his wife
(Geraldine Moffat). On the way home, even though she is driving, he brings
the car to a screeching halt ... to pick up a cat. Then the two are
attacked by a UFO, and Regan's wife is abducted. He is of course
devastated, but SHADO's commander Straker (Ed Bishop) sees him fit for
duty. Somehow, the cat has made her way into SHADO's secret headquarters,
too. Then he seizes a rocket to the moon to escort some sattelite ... but
suddenly he breaks away from formation and soon is on his way to crash
right into the moonbase. Meanwhile back on earth, Straker is informed by
SHADO's doctor Jackson (Vladek Sheybal) that the aliens actually abduct
earthlings to take over their bodies. With the crisis of Regan about to
crash into moonbase at hand, Straker figures that he must be controlled by
his cat, so he has the cat hunted down and killed by a pack of dogs just
in time, and thus Regan comes to virtually moments before crashing his
interceptor into moonbase, and instead he crashes into a nearby formation
of rocks ... A weirdly disjointed episode that throws a seance,
a mind controling cat and aliens overtaking humans all into the same mix -
to rather less than stellar results. As a matter of fact, this episode
sucks plotwise because it lacks any real stringency, seems to go into no
direction in particular, and end at a rather random point in story
development, just when running time is over it seems. Not really worth
your while, even if you're into the series as such.
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