I am 62 . i remember when i was a child . Year 1971 for the first time from italian television. but its the same adrenaline for me at today.... maybe i am not so normal ..or i do not want be old...

@FUBAR1966

2 жыл бұрын

I’m 54 and I remember this show vividly, so many elements that are permanently engrained on memory - glad you enjoyed it 👽

@eganmacegan3724

7 ай бұрын

66 now, loved this show then.

@charlesblithfield6182

3 ай бұрын

I get the same. I’m 60.

@emmanuelsantana3369

29 күн бұрын

same situation i am 63

64! Watched every show with awe. Someone stole the future we had hoped for as children. Keep’em coming. Thanks

Barry Gray was incapable of writing a bad tune- this one is a banger 🙂

@FUBAR1966

5 ай бұрын

You’re not wrong!!!

I was 10 years old and loved this show. Now, I own the entire series on DVD. A classic. Great version of the intro.

@FUBAR1966

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for your kind words!

One of my all-time favs. They showed it at some ridiculous time in the afternoon in New Zealand when I was young in the early seventies. I'd have to race home from school to try and catch it... at that time I didn't fully understand daylight saving, and I thought the time changing would mean I'd get to see it in plenty of time!!

I remember this show well from I was a boy, loved it in the early 70's! Cool music, space age style, and lots of action! I saw it on my folks 1st color TV, a 19" Zenith portable. The prequil to another of my old favs, Space: 1999. The way they flashed 1980, and showed those now very dated, looking old computers w the tape reels is funny today. What seemed futuristic and exciting to us in the 70's is now nostalgic, heck even the 1990's are now, as we approach 2024. Thanks for posting, live long and prosper, as that guy from another cool show I won't mention here would say! 🖖 🛸😁

I love how, just in case there was any doubt/ confusion, the uniforms for the underwater crew were nets. Brilliant.

@doctordetroit1217

4 ай бұрын

Basically they were string vests with sleeves, funny how you could see the men's nips, but not the womens!

Wow, I remember watching this as a kid, loved it.

I loved this as a kid.

Groovy tunes, hot chicks and very slow UFOs. What's there not to like?

No doubt one of the best opening theme series of all times.

@catsupchutney

7 ай бұрын

I have it as a ring tone.

@horsenuts1831

7 ай бұрын

Apart from the greengrocer's apostrophe at 0:34 My Dad would have appreciated the lovely sashay at 0:24 - I certainly do now, but I wouldn't have at that the age of 5.

@TheHorsebox2

5 ай бұрын

​@@catsupchutneyNo way...super cool.

I forgot all about this show, thanks for letting me remember some of my childhood!!

@FUBAR1966

2 жыл бұрын

You’re very welcome , glad you enjoyed it!

This looks like an awesome show!!!! Come on Hollywood, get wise.

I’m 62 and still remember this series like I watched it yesterday. I’ve always been a fan and always will be. One day they will do a remake but I don’t think it’s going to be anything like the original. Does anyone know if Strakers car still exists? Such a beautiful car ❤

My farther sat down and watched this series with me in the 70s I'm 56 now.I know why he did and it wasn't the purple hair.Those were the days when life was more simple and magical.

I am now nearly 58 and love all these shows ufo, space 1999. What a childhood we had back then. Nowadays it seems dull in comparison. Watching as much as i can from the 70s plus others including sapphire and steel, x-files and stargate.

@FUBAR1966

5 ай бұрын

I’m 57 myself, I’m gloved all of these shows as a kid. There wasn’t a ton of sci-fi on back then so you really had to make the most of it and you would really get into your favourite programme. There is so much available today, but the downside is you can get spoiled for choice. Thank you for your comments.

WOW they nailed it! Purple hair !

Idk why but i much prefer this series than to modern sci-fi ones, maybe cuz this was truly revolutionary especially in its very serious approach to sci-fi, especially on tv, which is now way over-saturated. That score is phenomenal too, very unique

I love this show soooooo much!!

I'm 61. UFO was aired weekly on prime time on one of my local t.v. stations in Denver, Colorado. The same with SPACE:1999. ~~Live Long & Prosper 🖖🏻👽🛸✨️ 🌌🔭

You have to love the optimism of those old 60s and 70s sci-fi shows having such advanced technology and off world bases before the end of the 20th century.

@jim2lane

3 жыл бұрын

Well, considering that we had gone from jets to landing on the moon in a little over twenty years it did kind of seem like the sky was the limit and that these trips to the moon would simply continue and become even more ambitious. If it had been widely advertised that each of those moon landings cost about a billion dollars a piece (in 1960's dollars mind you), then I think everyone's expectations might have been properly tempered to know that it was simply unsustainable

@dfgggg89

3 жыл бұрын

@@jim2lane That has always been the mistaken argument.

@SLOBeachboy

3 жыл бұрын

@@jim2lane- Going from jets to the moon in 20 years is nothing. What’s really incredible is that we went from horse drawn carriages to landing on the moon in only 80 years. And because of this nobody back in the early 70’s had any doubt that by 2000 we would have a base on the moon and probably on mars as well - not to mention flying cars. And science fiction writers really overestimated where we would be by then. For example I think Blade Runner (the book) was supposed to take places in 1992. This guy actually envisioned that we would have androids and have colonies on other planets by the 1990’s. And of course when the book was made into a movie we were already in the 80’s so they moved the timeline up to 2019 which was still absurdly over optimistic of them. Gene Roddenbery was a little more realistic however when he put the events of the original Star Trek in the 23rd century - although personally I doubt we will have warp drives even by then. As for the UFO TV show, although I loved the all the high tech vehicles and gadgets, as a kid I was fantasizing more about the hot women on the show than I was about future technology.

オリジナルは想像力を刺激する構成だけど 日本では矢島正明氏のナレーションによる装備や施設を解説して設定の巧みさに唸らせる構成でした。

Man loved this show as a kid.

@donlengel4770

3 жыл бұрын

Got the box set of dvds / figured maybe someday they would transfer it to bluray.

@vikj1255

3 жыл бұрын

same

Nice cover😊👌

OMG! I loved this!!!

Who would have thought purple hair would look so good!

Nicely done, got the Barry Gray swing down

I miss the Barry Gray Orchestra. That natural big band sound cannot be duplicated. But, its a nice rendition of a great theme tune!

@FUBAR1966

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, and thank you for the kind words!

Loved this show!

Nice work. A great show, a great theme, and a great new cover version

IN THE FANTASTIC FUTURE WORLD OF............1980! Good lord how old is this show if the future is now 41 years old.

子供頃観てました。 今観てみも素晴らしい! GOOD!👍

何度観ても何時観ても、素晴らしいオープニングだと思います！ 「タイプライターの印字が凄くカッコ良い！」を出した、初期の演出だと思います！

I’ve got a fever, and the only cure is .....MORE SNARE!!!!

Splendid cover!!!

This was and still is some pretty good stuff. I remember this from being a kid. Still love the silver suits purple hair and big racks. :))

Really accomplished playing, a great cover :-)

That old typewriter type printer brings back memories.

@msquaretheoriginal

13 күн бұрын

Just an IBM Selectric keyboard typewriter. The wild thing about this show is that it's supposed to take place only a decade into the future. The problem is that the technology couldn't have advanced that quickly. Moonbases like that 10 years after we just set foot on it? At least the computer and communications tech was about where it would be in the early 1980's when tapes were still being used to store data. The moonbases aren't even possible 50 years later, let alone 10. And people aren't going to dress like that only 10 years ahead either. At least Roddenberry realized that space travel like on "Star Trek" was more likely centuries ahead, not decades. Although technology leapfrogged both it and TNG in a number of ways.

Great work! 👍🛸 You've done superbly to create a variation which holds true with the vibe of the original. I enjoy all of Barry Gray's music, and I believe UFO is one of the finest themes ever produced.

Fond memories watching the show with my late dad, he loved it, the camp and the futuristic all rolled together. He laughed his head off at the ridiculous idea not that aliens might invade breathing green liquid, or that fighter control might be dolly birds with purple hair, but that telephones could exist without wires.

@FUBAR1966

5 ай бұрын

There wasn’t an awful lot of science fiction back in the day, it did feel pretty futuristic for the time! Thanks for the feedback on the music, there is an alternative take of the main theme which does have a real swing groove to it; Barry Gray is a British institution and incredibly underrated and my opinion. Thanks for the feedback!

Unforgattable.

It's a pity this show never got a second series as it was way ahead of its time.

@SgtBilby

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, Space: 1999 was initially intended to be the second series of UFO however, Lew Grade cancelled UFO because of declining ratings in the US

@STho205

3 жыл бұрын

It was a show of its time. The last of the 60s MOD shows with MOD music and clothes. It's a uniform BABY! by the mid 70s TV networks had crumpled up the bright shiny future and we're telling audiences to just survive a dark age crisis.

@HepCatJack

3 жыл бұрын

Are there plans for people to wear purple wigs on the moon ?

@vibrolax

3 жыл бұрын

@@HepCatJack I don't know about NASA, but I'm sure SpaceX would welcome the entire fashion-forward approach of UFO.

@jondrew55

3 жыл бұрын

@@vibrolax Even Gerry Anderson would not dress his actors in those stupid SpaceX outfits

That's a great version of an iconic theme ☺

They got the purple hair right. I watched this. It was over my head.

Muy buen Arreglo!,fenomenal!!.

I remember this series very well from the very early 70s

Esperaba con ansias que llegara 1980 para ver si ya venían los UFO...jajaja! No llegaron..pero es lo maravilloso de la ciencia ficción.....te permite soñar.

Groovy Man!

One of the best shows ever made. Nice alternative version of the theme.

When this was made they had a wildly optimistic view of how the future of space travel and exploration would develop ! 1980 was 44 years ago and no human has set foot on the moon since 1972 !

Superb G.

I love it; high-tech in space with an IBM Selectric typewriter LOL

In early 70s when I was watching this series, video recorders were still not available for ordinary people so if I missed it, then I could never watch it again. Thanks KZread!

Well done cover!

Brilliant cover version,so close to the original,had Barry Gray not been around,and you were,well i can imagine you would of been the composer for all of Anderson`s shows,well done,love your work.

@FUBAR1966

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, just wanted to pay homage to the great man 🙏

Groovy, man.

I do not recall ever seeing this show but I wish I had...

@eventsotherthingswithchris9019

3 жыл бұрын

This used to come on in the 1970's on UHF channel 27 I think.

@brianday6433

3 жыл бұрын

I missed them too! Only had 3 channels to choose from in those days. I have seen a lot of these shows on KZread. I think this was made in England.

@cavestoryfan10

3 жыл бұрын

You absolutely should

They got one thing right about 1980, we still had the IBM Selectric typewriter in use.

@kegginstructure

2 жыл бұрын

Back then, Selectrics were getting into various odd places. In 1975 the Univ. of New Orleans had a Selectric hooked up to one of the serial channels on their 36-bit mainframe. I got permission to use a typesetting program that could feed the Selectric and ended up doing my dissertation print-out on it. I believe (but can't prove, unfortunately) I was the first person on that campus to use a form of word processing for a dissertation. Took me about five nights to run the paper through the Selectric by hand. I recall buying two carbon ribbons and a huge pack of paper to make the original. Then had to make 10 collated copies and bring them to a monastery for bookbinding. I still have two copies.

this is 100% accurate to how the 80's actually were.

@NAANsoft

7 ай бұрын

I'm 63 and can confirm this. Either that, or my bad memory...

Moon Base - YESSSSS!!!! :P

One of the best sci-fi themes ever...

@christrotter3052

3 жыл бұрын

Right? I can dig it

@FUBAR1966

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

British Sci-fi at it's best.

Great cover

Ayshea - gorgeous

That scene removing the contact lens always freaked me out as a kid

@FUBAR1966

7 ай бұрын

Same!

Sexy girls, a really sexy car which never got shown much and a great theme

I SO wanted 1980 to be that cool. Oh well.

Apparently inspiration for the original X-Com UFO Defense

Rockin'! \m/

Imagine if they decided to remake the show today the special effects possible, and a great story line

@TheHorsebox2

5 ай бұрын

They'd probably fill it with woke nonsense. Best sticking with this version.

Ahh, the cheesy (reproduced) sounds of the Hammond electric organ. Great memories.

very talented rendition and arrangement that sounds great compared to the original. More punchy and precise so could be adapted to be a dance track or even used as a basis for a fast re-edit version of an episode or even a fan based new story. In other words you have created well as recreated which makes you a true musician. Do more please Mr Wood. You have a fan now in far away New Zealand.

@FUBAR1966

2 жыл бұрын

WOW thank so so much for the kind words, you are incredibly kind! I have done a bunch of themes, but I’m not so good with Premiere, there is a video of Hammer House of Horror on my channel, I’m very proud of it. Do check it our if you have time; kind regards from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@roytait629

2 жыл бұрын

@@FUBAR1966 Your talent got me dancing. I will listen to your other themes. Thanks for your reply. Kind regards from us in New Zealand.

Lieutenant Gay Ellis ❤️, I grew up in love with her 🥰

@slimjimnyc270

3 жыл бұрын

Let's not forget COL Virgina Lake, a computer genius and a real "babe" to my 11-year-old self. An amazing woman who is also Sherlock-Holmes' mum in real life (Benedict Cumberbatch).

@vikj1255

3 жыл бұрын

@@slimjimnyc270 100%

@tommcdonough674

3 жыл бұрын

The actress who played Col. Lake turned out to be Benedict Cumberbatch's mother in real life.

I would love to have this on a 7inch 👍👍👍👍

it would be interesting to see a modern remake with them able to do special effects a bit better.

@FUBAR1966

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

Secret Location...Beneath Film Studio...how convenient for the producers :-)

It seems technologically advanced bad guys can't hit the broad side of a barn with a directed energy weapon. You'd think the aliens would have nailed that mobile with their laser.

@Laceykat66

3 жыл бұрын

Not necessarily. Have you ever read Footfall by Larry Niven and Gerry Pournelle? Maybe these aliens were given the technology and did not develop it themselves. Like given rifles to aborigines. You are right of course, if they can find earth in all of space they should be able to fire an energy weapon with some accuracy.

Cool...when 1980 was "the future."

I used to have this for my ringtone

We got the daisy wheel printer, but not the moonbase..

日本版はここに俳優の矢島正明氏のカッコ良いナレーションが重なります。世界の諸君一聴あれ。

I love the women on Moonbase oh, I wouldn't have a problem going there if I knew they were there

@STho205

3 жыл бұрын

Don't gawk. It's a uniform.... BABY!

A good arrangement of the original music. Personally, I will stick with the original but good work nonetheless. 👍

@digitalporch2062

3 жыл бұрын

I also like the original better.

@FUBAR1966

2 жыл бұрын

I aspire to be as good as the original, Barry Gray and his Orchestra set the bar very high with all his music!

@pauld6967

2 жыл бұрын

@@FUBAR1966 How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice,.practice. :-) As I said in my original comment, good work. 👍 I am confident that you are on the right path.

Way ahead of its time. Do you think this is where the Xcom games were based? Loved this when I was 11

I wish someone would do a monthly paid Gerry Anderson network. I would gladly pay to have these shows aired again

@chrisst8922

2 жыл бұрын

They're on the Horror Channel on Freeview at 18.00 every night at the moment.

@cyberleaderandy1

2 жыл бұрын

Currently on in the UK now. George Cole was on tonight. Couldn't help thinking of minder 😊

That car - you never saw them driving very far because they were only able to fit in about a one-liter gas tank.

@Oldbmwr100rs

2 жыл бұрын

And had no ventilation or working windows, visibility was awful and they were almost impossible to drive any distance. The custom car world is full of stuff like that. Strangely useless nonfunctional cars, i guess the future was more about style.

🙆❤🙆❤UFO

It always amazed me how the UFO's would always fly past the moon on their way to earth. Just a lucky break for S.H.A.D.O.W. I guess. lol

My second series purchase on dvd. In the future, every female is hot!

cool

These women were naturally HOT, they didn't try and turn themselves into human Caricatures / or cartoons of themselves like the women of today. Sure they had the purple wigs on moon base alpha but that was to distinguish them from the Earth based women. I was in Elementary school back then but I remember this series well and get to enjoy it even today on Prime Video. I'll take these older series over the "crap" that hides behind special effects like today!

A great arrangement but this is an example of why actual instruments sound better than recreation of then with a digital replica. Sounds so tinny and lacking . Thanks for doing it as the organ part sounds fantastic .

@FUBAR1966

2 жыл бұрын

I realise it’s still not a patch on the original, but it was a pleasure to produce, thank you so much for the kind words ❤️

This series got me through puberty.

A great theme from;Ufo,here!No,I don’t think it’ll(ufo)will ever be re-made?I think,it was too expensive to do this,today?So…..I’ll stick with the original film!

再放送したら五輪よりも視聴率が上かも知れない❤

I never felt so safe knowing that purple haired women in radiation proof leotards were keeping us safe from UFOs🤣

Ufo hosted some of the most beautidul ladiesto be seen on tv in those days gabrielle drake.ayshabroughand loads morethwy were veriyable godesseswith their silver catsuitsand😅urple wigstheymay be gone but never forgotten!

Even as a kid watching this show, I could never understand the moon base interceptors that only carried one missile each.

@lingeriedeparis7274

7 ай бұрын

And also why was not Sid destroyed

@PaulCashman

6 ай бұрын

@@lingeriedeparis7274 the UFOs came close, once.

Love that theme tune. But watching the video shows how badly they got the predictions of technology in 1980! Is that machine called a "tele typer"? Which I think is a fax machine before fax machines where invented.

Shoutfactory has the "Capt. Scarlet" DVD. I would love to get a blu-ray boxset of "UFO". They have the dvds on Amazon but I think it is $35 for 3 episodes :c .