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 6, "E.S.P.": How can you cope with a man who can predict your every thought and movement? Straker and Freeman face death from a man with a strange mind ... Stella Croxley (Deborah Stanford) is understandably worried about the behaviour of her husband, John (John Stratton). That he is abnormal is something he himself realises only too well, but psychiatric treatment has been unable to help him. Life is now reaching a climax for him, and there is tragedy ahead as a UFO, making an erratic course, crashes into his lonely country cottage, killing Stella. SHADO, tracking the UFO, have been unable to stop it, but have pin-pointed its landing., with Paul Foster (Michael Billington) arriving on the spot simultaneously and narrowly escaping death. He is injured and taken to hospital, where he seems to be suffering from delusions that he is seeing a strange visitor. Investigating, Commander Straker (Ed Bishop) and Col. Freeman (George Sewell) are mystified by a conversation they have with Croxley, in which he accuses them of being responsible for his wife's death. He seems to know, in advance, exactly what they are going to say. Even more mystifying, and worrying, is the receipt a couple of weeks later of a film script in which Croxley reveals every detail of the SHADO organisation and its personnel. They discover, when tracing the psychiatrist he has been visiting, that Croxley has powers of extra sensory perception which are so pronounced that he can feel the future. When Croxley asks Straker and Freeman to meet him at the ruins of his house, they face a demented man, intent on killing them. And they are defenceless. He can anticipate their every thought and movement. But his tortured mind reveals the truth a mind that has been taken over by aliens from outer space who are using him as their agent to destroy SHADO. As the mystery strange, at the hospital, he has been able to learn everything about the organisation through reading Foster's mind. Now Straker and Freeman have only one hope. Can Foster save them?