Free Astronomy Magazine November-December 2021

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2021 there, after which, due to the clo- sure of those studios, the produc- tion was moved to just a few kilometers from Heathrow Airport to Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, in the facilities of Pinewood Studios - the James Bond “house.” Here, starting from June 1970, the other nine episodes that completed the UFO series were shot. In September of the same year, the episodes began to be broadcast by Inde- pendent Television (a commercial network, rival of the better-known BBC), with weekly programming (with some breaks) until July 1971. For unclear reasons, the last two episodes were instead broadcast in March 1973. Almost simultaneously, the UFO episodes were also broad- cast in the US and Canada by ITC Entertainment, the British company that financed and distributed the series. The series takes place in what was then the near future, the ‘80s, where the Earth had been subjected to occasional raids by alien flying saucers for a decade. Coming from a dying planet, the inhabitants of this civilization are aliens trying to counteract physical deterioration through the transplantation of or- gans taken from previously ab- ducted terrestrials. To defend humanity from this growing threat, which could have been the prelude to an invasion on a planetary scale, a secret military agency called “SHADO,” acronym for Supreme