UFO and the awesome Ed Bishop held me captive on Saturday mornings as a kid... oh and so did the beautiful Gabrielle Drake, too! ;)
Just like Star Trek, the stories were great, the drama was real and the effects were rubbish! Just like Star Trek, the actors and everyone else involved took the show seriously which is how it has lasted.
It also helped the show by having unspectacular story lines in favor of real characters and good drama. No loose ends tied up to placate the viewers... just a solemn promise of more to come of the same the following week.
Amazingly, this show never made it into the Rolling Stone's top 40 Sci-Fi programs... and rubbish like Buffy (which isn't Sci-Fi) did make it in! Which just goes to show that these top lists are either deliberately designed to provoke commentary or they're researched by monkey babies! I suspect the latter.
UFO was a fantastic look at the future when the future was fashionable.
Just like Star Trek, the stories were great, the drama was real and the effects were rubbish! Just like Star Trek, the actors and everyone else involved took the show seriously which is how it has lasted.
It also helped the show by having unspectacular story lines in favor of real characters and good drama. No loose ends tied up to placate the viewers... just a solemn promise of more to come of the same the following week.
Amazingly, this show never made it into the Rolling Stone's top 40 Sci-Fi programs... and rubbish like Buffy (which isn't Sci-Fi) did make it in! Which just goes to show that these top lists are either deliberately designed to provoke commentary or they're researched by monkey babies! I suspect the latter.
UFO was a fantastic look at the future when the future was fashionable.