Survival (''UFO'')

"Survival " is the thirteenth episode aired of the first series of UFO - a 1970 British television science fiction series about an alien invasion of Earth. The screenplay was written Tony Barwick and the director was Alan Perry. The episode was filmed between 30 June 30th to 10 July, 1970 and aired on the ATV Midlands on 30 December 1970. Though shown as the thirteenth episode, it was actually the fourth to have been filmed.^[1][2]

The series was created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson with Reg Hill, and produced by the Andersons and Lew Grade's Century 21 Productions for Grade's ITC Entertainment company.^[3]

Story

Under the cover of a meteor shower, a UFO manages to evade SHADO's tracking and land on the moon. An alien then manages to get close enough to Moonbase to shoot out a window of the Leisure Sphere killing an astronaut inside and almost killing Foster.

Straker orders a search of the vicinity around Moonbase using moon mobiles and they locate the UFO in a crater. The UFO shoots at the moon mobiles and the interceptors are called in. The interceptors destroy the UFO as it tries to take off and it crashes into Foster's moon mobile. Thrown clear, Foster is slightly injured in the explosion and breaks his spacesuit's radio transmitter. SHADO believe Foster has been killed in the explosion.

Foster is not alone as an alien has also survived on the moon. The two adversaries realise that to survive they need to co-operate on the walk back to Moonbase. They get close to their destination but a search team locates Foster and believe the alien is a threat. Unable to contact this search team about the friendly nature of the alien due to his broken radio the rescue team shoot and kill the alien.^[4][5]

Cast

Production notes

Locations used for the filming included Neptune House, BBC Elstree Studios, Borehamwood; and Windermere Hall, London.

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