I've said it before and I'll say it again: if any one television series seems to've been ripped directly from my psyche, it's Gerry Anderson's first live-action show, UFO. UFO combines science fiction, retro-futurism, and espionage glamor into a perfect package. The show details the efforts of top-secret military/spy agency SHADO to protect the Earth from organ-harvesting invaders from a distant planet. In SHADO's arsenal are cutting-edge machines including jets, rockets, submarines, cars, tanks, satellites, computers, and a fully-functioning secret base on the moon! Ed Bishop commands the whole operation, and there's just as much political and bureaucratic action as there is exploding flying saucers and undersea bases -foreshadowing the current run of dramatic science fiction shows, but doing it much better. Reportedly, the show was intentionally structured in such a way that a viewer could come in at any episode and quickly be up to speed.
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