UFO: Conflict (1970)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 7 October 1970
Episode Running Times: 50 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Executive Producer: Gerry Anderson
Producer: Reg Hill (uncredited)
Production Supervisor: Norman Foster
Unit Manager: Roger Connolly

SCRIPT
Script: Ruric Powell
Script Editor: Tony Barwick

DIRECTION
Director: Ken Turner
Assistant Director: Ron Appleton

PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting Camera: Brendan Stafford
Camera Operator: Derek Black
Processing: Rank Film Laboratories

EDITING
Editor: Len Walter

MUSIC
Music: Barry Gray
Music Editor: George Randall

SOUND
Sound Recordist: Ken Rawkins
Sound Editors: John Peverill, John Pennell
Dubbing Mixer: J.B. Smith

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Basil Newall
Hair: Henry Montsash
Century 21 Fashions: Sylvia Anderson
Wardrobe: Kim Martin

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Derek Meddings
Special Effects Production Manager: Frank Hollands
Special Effects Senior Director: Jim Elliott
Special Effects Director: Shaun Whittacker-Cook
Special Effects Light Cam: Harry Oakes
Special Effects Camera Operator: Mike Rainer
Special Effects Designer: Mike Trim

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Bob Bell
Assistant Art Director: Keith Wilson
Instrumentation: Don Fagan, Century 21 Film Props
Construction Manager: Fred Gunning
Buyer: Harry Solomons

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Doreen Sloan
Assistant to Producer: Des Saunders

LOCATIONS
Locations: Neptune House, BBC Elstree Studios, Eldon Avenue, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire; Sudbury House, 15 Newgate Street, London EC1
Studios: MGM British Studios, Borehamwood, UK; Century 21 Studios, Slough, UK

CASTING
Casting: Rose Tobias Shaw

CAST
Ed Bishop (Commander Ed Straker)
George Sewell (Colonel Alec Freeman)
Michael Billington (Colonel Foster)
Peter Gordeno (Captain Peter Carlin)
Grant Taylor (General James Henderson)
Gerald Norman (pilot - space ship)
Alan Tucker (navigator - space ship)
Drewe Henley (Steve Maddox)
David Courtland (crewman - lunar module)
Antonia Ellis (Joan Harrington)
Norma Roland (Miss Ealand)
Peter Gordeno (Captain Peter Carlin)
Dolores Mantez (Lt Nina Barry)
Keith Alexander (Lt Keith Ford (credited as SHADO radio operator))
Michael Kilgarriff (Steiner)

PLOT SUMMARY

The aliens have a new plan - using the masses of space debris circling the Earth as cover, they've despatched a remote device that forces a SHADO lunar module into a steep orbit, causing it to explode. While Straker haggles over expenses with a sceptical Henderson, Moonbase is temporarily closed down, leaving Freeman and Foster stranded with the Moonbase crew. Straker is convinced that the lunar module disaster was caused by pilot error, though Foster is not so sure and sneaks off on an unauthorised flight aboard a lunar module to prove his point. (Full Synopsis)

1969
July
2: UK - filming begins

July
14: UK - filming ends

October
7: UK - television broadcast (on ITV (ATV))

Ambush - working title

KEYWORDS

aliens; the moon; moonbases; re-entry; space travel; submarines; ufos