UFO

Out-of-this-world action and suspense in orbit as Earth's defence organisation comes under threat from aliens. At Moonbase Control, the defence team wages a spectacular battle with alien invaders, explores mysteries of the universe, discovers computer love affairs and encounters dying extra-terrestrials who need human organs for survival. One of the best of its genre, UFO combines the remarkable talents of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson with those of special effects director Derek Meddings. With a stellar cast including Ed Bishop, Michael Billington and George Sewell. Episode 15, "Flight Path": A man's devotion to his wife is used as a weapon to force him to turn traitor. But how can forces from another planet achieve this? The link between Paul Roper (George Cole), of SHADO Moonbase, and a SHADO H.Q. medical technician named Dawson (Keith Grenville) is remote, but it spells drama and tragedy for Roper from the day Dawson is the victim of a UFO attack. Roper is a worried man when he leaves the moon for a spell of leave, and he arrives home to find his wife Carol (Sonia Fox) in a terrified state after an intruder has entered her home. A telephone call to Roper later that night convinces him that the mystery man who has been threatening him is in earnest and that Carol is in danger unless he obeys the instructions he has received. The first indication Commander Straker (Ed Bishop) and Col. Freeman (George Sewell) have that something is wrong with Roper is when he reports to H.Q. for normal de-briefing tests, and stress factors are discovered. Under close observation, he is heard telephoning a set of figures to a contact - but what they mean is a mystery, except that they suggest he is a traitor. Freeman suspects that Carol is being used to force his hand. It is not until later that the significance of the figures becomes clear. They represent a flight path for a major UFO attack. But Roper has two of the figures wrong, either accidentally or deliberately. It means that the aliens have received false information, which they would rapidly detect. And they'll be seeking a reckoning with Roper which they do, through his wife. Carol pays the penalty. But, as she is being attacked, she shoots her assailant. He is revealed as Dawson, the innocent traitor who, during that earlier UFO attack, was indoctrinated with an electronic probe inserted in his temple. It now appears that the big attack will coincide with sunspot activity which would make the UFO undetectable. But one man, on his own and stationed at a pre-determined position on the moon's surface, could change the whole pattern and wreck the planned attack. That one man is Roper. It's his chance to even the score ...