UFO: Survival (1971)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 6 January 1971
Episode Running Times: 50 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

SCRIPT
Script / Script Editor: Tony Barwick

DIRECTION
Director: Alan Perry

LOCATIONS
Locations: Neptune House, BBC Elstree Studios, Eldon Avenue, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire; Windermere Hall, Stone Grove, Edgware, Greater London

CAST
Ed Bishop (Commander Ed Straker)
George Sewell (Colonel Alec Freeman)
Michael Billington (Colonel Paul Foster)
Dolores Mantez (Lt Nina Barry)
Antonia Ellis (Lt Joan Harrington)
Harry Baird (Lt. Mark Bradley)
Mel Oxley (voice of SID)
Gito Santana (alien)
Suzan Farmer (Tina Duval)
Robert Swann (Bill Grant)
Ray Armstrong, David Weston (rescuers)

PLOT SUMMARY

When the sudden decompression of one of Moonbases's spheres kills his friend, astronaut Bill Grant, Foster sets out to investigate the cause. He quickly realises that it was caused by a bullet, fired by an alien who is still at large on the lunar surface. Foster leads the search for the alien, but is injured and cut off from Moonbase. With his air supply running low, Foster is forced to forge an uneasy alliance with the least likely of saviours...

1969
June
6: UK - filming begins

June
18: UK - filming ends

1971
January
6: UK - television broadcast (on ITV (ATV))

KEYWORDS

aircraft; aliens; the moon; organ harvesting; ufos