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The Complete UFO Megaset (2003)

Gerry Anderson (Director) | Rated: NR | Format: DVD
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (182 customer reviews)
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  • Directors: Gerry Anderson
  • Format: Box set, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 8
  • Rated: NR (Not Rated)
  • Studio: A&E; Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: October 28, 2003
  • Run Time: 1352 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (182 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000AZKJ8
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,926 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "The Complete UFO Megaset" on IMDb

Special Features

  • All 26 episodes on eight discs
  • Commentaries by cocreators Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, director Alan Perry, and actors Mike Billington, Ed Bishop, and Wanda Ventham
  • Alternate video outtakes
  • Production stills galleries
  • Gerry Anderson biography/filmography

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UFO was Gerry Anderson's first live-action TV series after a decade of producing such children's animated classics as Stingray (1963) and Thunderbirds (1964). The premise of UFO, which ran for a single season of 26 episodes in 1970, was like a more serious version of Anderson's Captain Scarlet (1967): in the near future of 1980, a high-tech secret organization, SHADO, waged covert war against mysterious alien attackers. Ed Bishop played the American head of SHADO--he had been previously featured in Captain Scarlet and Anderson's Doppelganger (1969)--though in all other respects this was a thoroughly British production. As with all Anderson series, UFO evidenced remarkable technological inventiveness and groundbreaking production values, coupled with startling lapses in fundamental logic too numerous to list.

Much more adult in story and content than earlier Anderson productions, and surprisingly dark with its pragmatic view of human nature and downbeat endings, the show now seems like a forerunner of The X-Files and the equally short-lived Dark Skies (1996). Barry Gray's memorable theme and atmospheric music greatly enhanced the overall impact. Stylishly made, though terribly sexist by current standards and featuring eye-catching costumes more fitted for a campy dress party than the front line of a futuristic war, this cult classic eventually evolved into Space: 1999 (1975).

The UFO DVDs have been beautifully designed and produced. The mono sound is exceptionally strong, and the restored and remastered picture is almost unbelievably good for a 1970 TV show. With barely a flaw anywhere, the episodes look so clear, colorful, and detailed that they could have been filmed last week. This eight-disc megaset features all 26 episodes. --Gary S. Dalkin

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Michael Billington, Ed Bishop, George Sewell. SHADO defends Earth against aliens in all 26 episodes of the live-action series created by sci-fi geek Gerry Anderson. 8 DVDs. 1969/color/22 hrs., 32 min/NR/fullscreen.

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235 of 238 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Plot, Great Consistency & Character Development July 14, 2005
By M. Hart
Format:DVD
"UFO" was a short-lived sci-fi fantasy TV series created by Gerry & Sylvia Anderson. The premise of the show was that the governments of the nations of the Earth discover that a dying, extraterrestrial civilization has been paying clandestine visits to Earth with the sole purpose of kidnapping & killing humans to harvest their body parts. The United Nations authorizes and funds a highly secretive international organization nicknamed SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organiztion) to combat the alien threat.

Under the command of Colonel Ed Straker (played by Ed Bishop), SHADO creates several different means of protecting Earth from the aliens:

1. A sosphistaced underground computerized headquarters pretending to be a major film studio in the heart of London.

2. A manned base on the moon (called Moonbase) armed with three fighters to attack UFOs before they reach Earth.

3. A sophisticated control & radar tracking satellite called SID (Space Intruder Detector) orbiting the Earth to detect incoming UFOs.

4. A fleet of submarine fighter carriers (called Skydivers) called upon to attack UFOs in Earth's atmosphere should the Moonbase fighters fail to destroy UFOs in space. Each Skydiver is capable of launching a single fighter called Sky One (or using some other numbered designation).

5. A fleet of sophisticated armored personnel carriers called Mobiles to seek out and destroy UFOs that manage to land.

6. Other support craft like moon rovers, the Lunar Module (used to shuttle Moonbase personnel between the Earth & moon), and other support aircraft.

The 26 episodes of the series focus on several recurring themes:

1. SHADO's continual attempts to avert the alien's plans & attacks.

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133 of 135 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Tackier Than I Remember, And That's Good! May 13, 2004
By Dean Anderson
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"UFO" had one of the most dynamic title sequences in television history. A great theme song, with a jazzy organ and brass group playing the theme and some fantastic editing of the notable Gerry Anderson FX cut with a teletype machine giving you facts about the SHADO organisation (well, it is British!) and the faces of the lead characters, finishing with the interceptors destroying a UFO right on beat!

But beyond that, the show itself was an interesting one. It's funny seeing it now, since we're much farther away from the futuristic year of 1980 than the people who made it were at the time! Cars with gullwing doors, guys (and even doctors!) wearing Nehru suits. And, of course, an established base on the Moon, (complete with girls in Nancy Sinatra white go-go boots, silver lamé jumpsuits and pastel purple wigs!) to prevent evil aliens from invading.

It's clearly a late 60s view of the early 80s, and that makes this series fascinating enough and tacky enough to recommend on its own!

Beyond that, this DVD collection has a lot going for it. In addition to all of the episodes, carefully preserved by A&E, you get some bonus deleted scenes and/or other fx on each one of the eight disc collection. And the stories themselves are intriguing as they are improbable, so that's pretty entertaining!

It may not be Gerry Anderson's most famous work (cult kids classic, "The Thunderbirds" and "Space: 1999" are sure to be better known), but I think it's the best of the bunch!

Highly Recommended.

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63 of 64 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Looking Back on the Future March 2, 2006
By Kenneth Sohl
Format:DVD
I was surprised at how well this show has held up over the years. The special effects are often spectacular even by today's standards (I'd much rather see good model work than poor computer animation any day). The scripts are inventive and moody. The drama is occasionally great, but sometimes is cliche and serves as a distraction from the plot unlike, say original trek where the drama was a natural extension of the plot. The outdated view of the future is actually part of the charm, but also, if one considers that the future they were attempting to project was only 12 years off, perhaps it isn't that outdated after all. I found no rascism or sexism in this series however, unlike some overly sensitive viewers here (the freedom for women to bare their bodies was considered part of their "liberation" in the late 60s). In fact, the show sports an attractive female colonel who is taken seriously by her colleagues.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Speculative Fiction and Real Life Dramatragedy Together July 31, 2004
By Arthur C. Hurwitz
Format:DVD
When I watched UFO as a small child in the early Seventies, I was always looking for the gadgets. On some of the episodes, none of SHADO Control's vehicles, moon bases, submarines, mobiles, and interceptors would appear and I would be bored and dissapointed by my thwarted expectations. Although I was surprised that I remembered many of the plotlines re-watching the show now, they didn't speak to me at all as a six or seven year old child the way they do to me now as a 39-year-old adult.

There is, of course, the speculative, Science Fiction, facet to UFO. There is also, however, the dramatic, pessimistic, human, emotionally-wretching side. What happens to people who, because of circumstance, or duty or inertia, find themselves alone, as adults, aging, within a small, contained, almost trapped in a particular subcultural milleau? There were three episodes in which Commander Streaker has to give up anything emotional that means anything to him. In one, his wife, in another, his son, and in a third, another girl with whom he forms a real, human, emotional bond. Always it is because of duty, because of his serious, completely-committed devotion to the extreme secrecy of his calling: to investigate the reason and motives of the UFO attacks and to try to defend humanity from it.

That is why, today, I consider UFO to be special, unique in its form, complex and non-ideal-ideological in its content. In spite of the unrealized fashion projections of the show for 1980, the people are recognizable, and real, and like us. The other characters on UFO are also trapped by their jobs, and trapped by their possibilities because of their dedication to the cause. It doesn't come easy, or natural, to them, it only comes to them at a terrible personal cost. Read more ›
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars UFO still rocks!
I grew up in the '70's loving sci-fi. Gerry Anderson was one of my favorities.
It took a long time to find this.
Just wish I could have afforded it on Blu-Ray.
Published 9 days ago by Glenn Calame
5.0 out of 5 stars The definitive UFO collection!
If you're a fan of the series, this is really a must have. Video and audio quality is really good. But if you're expecting Blu-ray quality, keep in mind when the series was made. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Ratz
5.0 out of 5 stars An Underrated Series
Wigs (some of the purple) and bad fashions aside, "UFO" is a dark and ponderous series about members of a top-secret, international organization (SHADO), which protects... Read more
Published 1 month ago by K. R. Taylor
5.0 out of 5 stars A Vintage Sci-Fi Series
This series is Epic! I watched it when I was just a kid growing up and I was fascinated about the concept of aliens and UFO's. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Earthen Vessel
4.0 out of 5 stars UFO - 'Unknow Future Obsession'
I just barely remembered this show when I was a child growing up in the late 60's early 70's. So I decided to buy the set and watch. I found that I like it very much. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Bill the BO
3.0 out of 5 stars You Gotta Start Somewhere.........
I am a HUGE fan of SPACE 1999. A client from the UK informed me about this series created by Gerry Anderson. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Alpha Critic
5.0 out of 5 stars ok
It seems fine, was a gift for my brother and he enjoyed it, even posted on facebook about it, so it was a hit
Published 2 months ago by Joan A. Henault
5.0 out of 5 stars Great fun!
I only saw this show a few times as it was on when I was working, but now its way more fun to see!! Its very 70's in the fact that women are not treated very well, but the show is... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Stuart Sawtelle
5.0 out of 5 stars Must have viewing
This precursor to Space 1999 is a must view set, Very Awesome. I is amassing what they let on TV in the 60's, very sexy. Also very dark. Very happy with my purchase.
Published 3 months ago by Russell Desman
3.0 out of 5 stars UFO - Look, Up in the sky. It's a bird... it's a... turkey.
DVDs set up in an unnecessarily clunky manner, with individual DVDs stored in their own tray so that the box is three times thicker than most other single-season DVD collections... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Jason Toddman
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      Sadly, these discs have neither. A&E; Home Video, has been done away with both for several years now. They should have kept the captions if you ask me.
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