UFO - The Sound of Silence

episode 23

UK 1971
produced by
Reg Hill, Gerry Anderson (executive) for Century 21 Television, ITC
directed by David Lane
starring Ed Bishop, Michael Billington, Michael Jayston, Susan Jameson, Richard Vernon, Nigel Gregory, Burnell Tucker, Craig Hunter, Dolores Mantez, Andrea Allen, Ayshea Brough, Gito Santana, Tom Oliver, Malcolm Reynolds, Basil Moss
screenplay by David Lane, Bob Bell, created by Gerry Anderson, Sylvia Anderson, Reg Hill, visual effects by Derek Meddings, costumes by Sylvia Anderson/Century 21

TV-series
UFO

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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A UFO has made it to earth, and when the alien defense organisation SHADO wants to trace it, they fail to. So on a hunch, SHADO-head Straker sends his top man Foster (Michael Billington) to the countryside to investigate the disappearance of showrider (and rich fuck) Russell Stone (Michael Jayston), and eventually, with the help of his sister (Susan Jameson) and his horse, he finds traces of the man leading to a lake ... from which a UFO emerges. SHADO is quick to bring its heavy artillery in, and the UFO can be destroyed before it can take off - and then some kind of pod emerges ... which when opened is found to contain Russell Stone, on some kind of life support, as if he was to be sent to ... well, the UFO's home planet in suspended for experiments or something. Of course, he is revived, then he and his sister are brainwashed since SHADO is a top secret operation ...

One of the lesser episodes of UFO, since it ... well, it hasn't got any real story to tell, and I mean something with a narrative ark, tension and suspense, and comprehensible plot motives. Instead the story just seems to be compiled from loosely connected narrative building blocks, the sequence of which follows little rhyme or reason.

Well, at least some of the miniature effects are pretty cool, but as much is to be expected from the series as such ...

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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