After a decade of creating pioneering puppet series
made for children, Gerry & Sylvia Anderson took their first steps into
live-action, with the 1969 feature film Doppelgänger (re-titled outside Britain
as Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun). This science-fiction film approached
its outer space subject matter with a gritty realism, and would set the tone
for what was to be their first live-action television series: UFO. This new
series took as a starting point the pioneering work of Dr Christiaan N.
Barnard, the surgeon who performed the world’s first heart transplant
operation. In UFO a dying race of aliens travel across vast distances of space
to harvest organs from human beings to help ensure their own survival. To
combat this threat the United Nations created SHADO, a top-secret organisation
utilising the latest technology available to defend the Earth. To complement
the series, the Andersons frequent musical collaborator Barry Gray created a
multifaceted score that gave the programme its own musical identity. Elegantly
crafted and a firm favourite with Barry Gray fans, the sound of UFO, particularly
its ethereal “World Music” closing credits is, quite simply, a joy. Includes a
bonus track, Trampoline performed by The Spencer Davis Group from the episode
Ordeal.
01 UFO Main Titles
02
S.H.A.D.O.
03 E.S.P. from
“E.S.P.”
04 Flashback from “Confetti Check A-O.K.”
05 The Choice from “Confetti Check
A-O.K.”
06 Space Junk from “Conflict”
07 Straker and the General from
“Conflict”
08 A Rose for Sylvia from
“Ordeal”
09 Harlington Straker from
“Identified”
11 Travelling Home from “Ordeal”
12 The Trip from The Long
Sleep
13 Taken from
Ordeal
14 Crash Landing / Dreambox from
Ordeal
15 The Leisure Sphere from
Survival
16 Enemy my Friend from
Survival
17 The Affair from The Square
Triangle
18 A Day at the Studio from A Question of
Priorities
19 Who Are You? / John’s Death from A Question of
Priorities
20 UFO End
Titles
21 Bonus Track – Trampoline from “Ordeal” - The Spencer
Davis Group