UFO: Identified (1970)

[Series 1, Episode 1]

Country of Origin: UK
Date of Original Broadcast: 16 September 1970
Episode Running Times: 50m
Format:
Colour Format: colour
Ratio: 1.33:1
Sound: mono

DIRECTION

Directed by: Gerry Anderson

PRODUCTION
Copyright: © Century 21 Pictures Limited MCMLXIX [1969]
Production Company: A Gerry Anderson Century 21 Television production
An ITC world wide distribution
Format: Gerry & Sylvia Anderson with Reg Hill
Executive Producer: Gerry Anderson
Produced by: Reg Hill
Production Supervisor: Norman Foster
Unit Manager: Roger Connolly

SCRIPT
Teleplay: Gerry & Sylvia Anderson with Tony Barwick
Script Editor: Tony Barwick

DIRECTION
Assistant Director: Leo Eaton
Continuity: Doreen Sloan

PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting Cameraman: Brendan Stafford
Camera Operator: Derek Black

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Alan Killick

MUSIC
Music Composed and Directed by: Barry Gray
Music Editor: George Randall

SOUND
Sound Recordist: Ken Rawkins, J.B. Smith
Sound Editors: John Peverill, Jim Hopkins

COSTUMES AND MAKE_UP
Century 21 Fashions: Sylvia Anderson
Wardrobe: Kim Martin/Iris Richens
Make Up: Cliff Sharp (real name: Cliff Sharpe)
Hairdressing: Alice Holmes

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Supervisor: Derek Meddings

Visual Effects
Director: Bill Camp
Production Manager: Frank Hollands
Lighting Cameraman: Harry Oakes
Camera Operator: Mike Rainer
Assistant to Supervisor: Jim Elliott
Designer: Mike Trim

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

OTHER CREW
Assistant to Producer: Des Saunders

LOCATIONS
Made at MGM British Studios, Borehamwood, England and Century 21 Studios, Slough, England and on location [Black Park, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK; Burnham Beeches, Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK; Handley Page Ltd., Radlett Aerodrome, Frogmore, Hertfordshire, England, UK; Neptune House, BBC Elstree Studios, Eldon Avenue, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK]

STUNTS
Stunt Arranger: Jack Silk

CASTING
Casting Director: Rose Tobias Shaw

CAST

Edward Bishop (Commander Ed Straker)
George Sewell (Colonel Alec Freeman)
Peter Gordeno (Captain Peter Carlin)
Gabrielle Drake (Lt Gay Ellis)

Grant Taylor (General James Henderson)
Basil Dignam (cabinet minister)
Shane Rimmer (Seagull X-Ray co-pilot)
Antonia Ellis (Lt Joan Harrington)
Gary Myers (Lt Lew Waterman)
Michael Mundell (Ken Matthews)
Harry Baird (Lt Mark Bradley)
Keith Alexander (Shado radio operator [Lt Keith Ford])
Jon Kelly (SkyDiver engineer)
Georgina Moon (SkyDiver operative)
Dolores Mantez (Lt Nina Barry)
Jeremy Wilkin (SkyDiver navigator)
Paul Gillard (Kurt Mahler)
Wanda Ventham (Colonel Virginia Lake)
Gary Files (Phil Wade)
Matthew Roberton (real name: Matthew Robertson) (Dr Harris)
Maxwell Shaw (Dr Schroeder)
Annette Kerr (nurse)

UNCREDITED CAST

Norma Roland (Miss Ealand)
Vladek Sheybal (Dr Doug Jackson)
Ayshea Brough (Shado operative)
Mel Oxley (voice of SID)
Gary Myers (Lew Waterman)
Keith Alexander (Shado radio operator)
Edwina Carroll (Leila Carlin)
Gito Santana (alien)
Louisa Rabaiotti (Shado operative)
Penny Spencer (Janis)
Dennis Plenty (Lt David Worth)
Jack Silk (motorcyclist)

PLOT SUMMARY

1970: three young people film a strange craft they find sitting in a clearing in a forest. An unseen figure pursues them through the forest, randomly firing at them with a high tech machine gun. Elsewhere, Colonel Ed Straker, an ambitious young USAF officer, and his superior Colonel Henderson are attacked by a UFO while en route to an important meeting about UFO sightings. 1980: Commander Straker is now head of SHADO, an organisation dedicated to fighting the alien threat. A UFO is shot down by Sky 1 and a body is recovered. Returning the badly wounded alien to SHADO HQ, the organisation's crack medical teams set to work. Before the aliens prematurely ages and dies, they make a staggering discovery - many of its internal organs are of human origin...

1969
April
28: UK - filming begins

May
12: UK - filming ends

1970
September
16: UK - television broadcast (on ITV (ATV))

1972
September
16: USA - television broadcast (on WBZ Channel 4 Boston)

1973
March
18: USA - television broadcast (on WPRI Channel 12 Providence RI / WTIC Channel 3 Hartford CT)

1996
September
16: UK - television broadcast (on BBC2)

2000
July
13: Italy - television broadcast (on TMC2)

August
28: Italy - television broadcast (on Canal Jimmy)
30: Italy - television broadcast (on Canal Jimmy)
31: Italy - television broadcast (on Canal Jimmy)

September
1: Italy - television broadcast (on Canal Jimmy)
2: Italy - television broadcast (on Canal Jimmy)
3: Italy - television broadcast (on Canal Jimmy)
4: Italy - television broadcast (on Canal Jimmy)
7: Italy - television broadcast (on Canal Jimmy)

Finalmente Identificato - Italian title

KEYWORDS

aircraft, aliens, organ harvesting, UFOs

Last Updated: 13 March, 2009