• 20.10.2019
      00:30 Uhr
      UFO (5) A Question of Priorities | ARD alpha
       

      Out-of-this-world action and suspense in orbit as Earth's defence organisation comes under threat from aliens. At Moonbase Control, the defence team wages a spectacular battle with alien invaders, explores mysteries of the universe, discovers computer love affairs and encounters dying extra-terrestrials who need human organs for survival. Episode 5, "A Question of Priorities": Ed Straker faces a searing problem when he has to choose between his duty to protect Earth and risking his son’s life.

      Nacht von Samstag auf Sonntag, 20.10.19
      00:30 - 01:20 Uhr (50 Min.)
      50 Min.
      HD-TV Stereo

      Out-of-this-world action and suspense in orbit as Earth's defence organisation comes under threat from aliens. At Moonbase Control, the defence team wages a spectacular battle with alien invaders, explores mysteries of the universe, discovers computer love affairs and encounters dying extra-terrestrials who need human organs for survival. Episode 5, "A Question of Priorities": Ed Straker faces a searing problem when he has to choose between his duty to protect Earth and risking his son’s life.

       

      Stab und Besetzung

      Colonel Alec Freeman George Sewell
      Commander Ed Straker Ed Bishop
      Colonel Virginia Lake Wanda Ventham
      Dr. Doug Jackson Vladek Sheybal
      Colonel Paul Foster Michael Billington
      Lieutenant Gay Ellis Gabrielle Drake
      Captain Peter Carlin Peter Gordeno
      Autor Gerry Anderson

      Out-of-this-world action and suspense in orbit as Earth's defence organisation comes under threat from aliens. At Moonbase Control, the defence team wages a spectacular battle with alien invaders, explores mysteries of the universe, discovers computer love affairs and encounters dying extra-terrestrials who need human organs for survival. One of the best of its genre, UFO combines the remarkable talents of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson with those of special effects director Derek Meddings. With a stellar cast including Ed Bishop, Michael Billington and George Sewell. ARD-alpha presents this british pioneer SciFi-Series in the original English version.
      Episode 5, "A Question of Priorities": Ed Straker faces a searing problem when he has to choose between his duty to protect Earth and risking his son’s life.
      SHADO commander Ed Straker (Ed Bishop) has one contact left with the girl he loved, married but neglected in the zealous pursuit of creating the organisation to defend the world against threats from outer space. Their son John (Barnaby Shaw) brings them together briefly once a month when John spends a day with his father. When taking him home, Straker meets his divorced wife Mary (Suzanne Neve), although she has now remarried. It’s a moment to which he looks forward, for his feelings towards her have never changed. But he has never been able to tell her the truth behind his apparent neglect.
      This time … tragedy. Young John runs into the road and is knocked down by a car. His condition is soon critical because of an allergy of antibiotics. But there is one drug which could save him, and it would have to be collected in America. Straker promptly orders a SHADO air transporter to collect the drug.
      Simultaneously, Col. Freeman (George Sewell) is puzzled by the actions of two UFOs which have been sighted. One suddenly veers off; the other hurtles towards Earth at a speed which soon makes clear that it will have to crash. Crash it does, in Ireland, but no one sees the alien pilot (Richard Aylen) eject safely and make his way towards a lonely cottage occupied by a blind old lady named Mrs. O’Connor (Mary Merrall). Through her, the alien tries to make contact with SHADO, and Straker and Freeman realise that he must be a defector from his own planet.
      The second UFO is again sighted and appears to be homing-in on the deserter. Meanwhile, Freeman has realised that there is just one hope of SHADO getting there first, and that is to divert the transporter which is on its way from America carrying, though he doesn’t know this, the life-saving drugs for Straker’s son.
      When Straker discovers what has happened, he faces a terrible choice - to cancel Freeman’s instructions or to do his duty to protect the world at the expense of his own son’s life. And he knows that he would never be able to explain this to Mary …

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      Nacht von Samstag auf Sonntag, 20.10.19
      00:30 - 01:20 Uhr (50 Min.)
      50 Min.
      HD-TV Stereo

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