Michael M

Following on from the excellent UFO series I remember having high hopes for it. It started with another catchy Barry Gray theme, and it looked great. Unfortunately it was just plain silly. The science behind it might have taken in young children, but considering it was aimed at a more adult audience, it asked us to stretch reality a little too far. The scripts weren’t much better either - it was one unconvincing alien after another, and we were asked to believe that there was a proliferation of alien species all on Earth’s doorstep. If you can get past that, there were some good performances from the leads, who were very convincing, even with the scripts they were given. It’s such a shame that something that looked that good and had a great cast suffered from poor scriptwriters.