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UFO - E.S.P.
episode 6
UK 1970
produced by Reg Hill, Gerry Anderson (executive) for Century 21 Television, ITC
directed by Ken Turner
starring Ed Bishop, George Sewell, Michael Billington, John Stratton, Douglas Wilmer, Deborah Stanford, Gabrielle Drake, Norma Ronald, Dolores Mantez, Keith Alexander, Antonia Ellis, Harry Baird, Maxwell Shaw, Donald Tandy, Stanley McGeagh
screenplay by Alan Fennell, 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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A UFO on a conspicuous flight pattern crashlands into a farmhouse in
the middle of nowhwere, killing the lady of the house (Deborah Stanford).
Her husband John (John Stratton) is devastated, and he blames SHADO, the
secret alien defense organisation, for his wife's death. Since SHADO is a
maximum security outfit, this shouldn't be much of a problem, but John is
suffering from a severe case of ESP and soon has access to all of SHADO's
dirty secrets by means of telepathy, and with that information, he lures
SHADO boss Straker (Ed Bishop) and his second in command Alec (George
Sewell) into an ambush - but they don't come unprepared, they actually
have learned about John's condition - and have found out that his
abilities have partly been taken over by the aliens. So they try to
cinvince him to resist his alien suggestions and remember being a human -
and they succeed in part, but in the end, it's Foster (Michael
Billington), another SHADO operative who just happened to be in the
neighbourhood carrying a gun, who saves the day by shooting John dead. But
the fact that he must have telepathically known that Foster was to shoot
him and he didn't resist suggests that his human side won after all. Douglas
Wilmer plays John's psychiatrist. One of the lesser episodes of
UFO, mainly because its plot is too far-fetched (yes, even
within the rather generous realm of science fiction), rather easy to
guess, doesn't make too much sense and is not all that compelling. And while most of the performances are
good as usual, John Stratton overdoes the creepy guy a bit too much.
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