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This the first episode of Gerry Anderson's UFO , a series I used to love watching as a child . Unfortunately after seeing the show as an adult I'm afraid the memory has cheated and is nowhere as good as I remembered which is a great pity since the show comes close to being a television classic if only a little bit more time and care had been taken The audience are treated to a great opening hook as three people come across a stranded UFO . It would have been even greater if Anderson had employed an actor who could act but instead cast Peter Gordeno whose resume on this site seems to suggest he's a dance choreographer . I certainly would't suggest dancing with him either since there's a very real danger of splinters . We then cut to a different scene where a government minister greets two American air force officers who show him proof that UFOs do exist and talk of the devil a UFO attacks their escort . It's an exciting enough sequence if you don't think about it but when you do you realise there's a plot hole of how did the aliens know about this meeting ? Since it's an introductory episode much of the episode sets up the premise of the show . Aliens are coming to Earth to abduct people for their organs . A scary thought but one that is undermined when you watch the next 25 episodes only to realise that the aliens agenda usually consists of them trying to destroy mankind . They need our bodies so try and destroy the human race ? There's also an alien autopsy which is fine until it ties in with the disappearance of one character's sister which involves so much unlikely coincidence that credibility goes out of the window For those of you who have seen the later episodes you'll notice a couple of characters are conspicuous by their absence , namely Paul Foster and Dr Jackson . One can't help thinking that Foster and Jackson are superfluous characters since respectively Freeman and Dr Harris are totally interchangeable , though Alec Freeman doesn't really work because the sight of a middle aged man trying to get a leg over every woman he comes across becomes laughable very quickly . Interesting to note once Paul Foster becomes a regular character Freeman becomes marginalized by the scripts All in all it's fairly indicative introductory episode . Good in some places but quite bad in many more . It does however remain watchable as does most of the series but it's such a pity the show settled for being merely watchable
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