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In 1970 Peter Carlin and his sister Leila discovered an alien spacecraft in the woods. The aliens attack them and Peter managed to escape. But his sister remained missing since then.
In 1980 Carlin worked for SHADO. The organisation under the command of Ed Straker was founded to discover and defend earth against the alien thread. Until now it's still unknown why the aliens repeatedly land on earth to abduct or kill humans. But this time an alien landing results into the capture of an alien. Straker was surprised to learn that his heart was the one of Skydiver Captain Carlins sister. Straker suspected that the aliens were a dying species who are dependent on human organs in order to survive.
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Astronaut Ken Matthews was killed when an UFO collided with his Interceptor. Straker orders Lt. Ellis and Astronauts Mark Bradley and Lew Waterman back to earth. It was suspected that Lt. Ellis made an error while coordinating a defense situation. Straker ordered the trio to undergo intensive computer tests from Dr. Shroeder.
When another UFO crash landed in Canada, Freeman decided to take Ellis and Bradley with him. Again Ellis should coordinate the attack on the stranded aliens. To prove herself to Freeman she decided to send Bradleys Mobile into danger even if another Mobile crew was closer to the UFO. When they returned, Straker decided to send them back to their posts on the Moonbase.
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SHADO Computer technician Paul Roper was blackmailed. An unknown person wanted him to transmit important information to the aliens. In a debrifing test next day at SHADO, Alec Freeman assumed that he might become a security risk. Freeman decided to observe him and soon learned about Roper's contact to the aliens. Straker believed that his contact must be someone from SHADO since SID explained that Roper's information contained 3D coordinates that might be used as an attack vector for the aliens. But the SHADO traitor killed Roper's wife and got killed himself in the process. Roper suspected a UFO attack soon during heavy sunspot activities. Back on moonbase he voluntarily takes a spacesuit and a rocket launcher to destroy the UFO before it attacked. He was successful, but also died because his spacesuit lost all the oxygen.
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During a testflight of a XV-104 civilian aircraft, Paul Foster and his co-pilot detect a UFO. Unknown to them the UFO was already in pursuit by SHADO and about to be destroyed. During the attack the plane was damaged and crashed on earth. The co-pilot died but Foster managed to eject and survive. Later he insisted on seeing a UFO. Straker assigned Dr. Jackson and Janna Wade to check Foster up if he's a good addition for SHADO. Unknow to him Foster was slowly led to the filmstudios where he accused Straker to have falsified the film documentary that should have contained footage from the UFO but didn't. Straker was convinced that Foster had to join the oraganisation because he might never stop to dig into his affairs. When offered a leading position Foster agreed to his proposal immediately.
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A UFO landed in a nearby crater and a crewmember reached the moonbase and fired a bullet through a windows. The sphere was decompressed and Pilot Bill Grant got killed. When satellite photos revealed the UFO, Foster and Bradley took two Moonmobiles to attack the UFO. During the mission Col. Foster twisted his ankle, fell down and broke his radio. The UFO tried to escape but was shut down by an Interceptor. The vessel crashed into Col. Fosters Moonmobile. And since he didn't answered the calls he was beleived to be dead. With reluctance Bradley accepted command of the moonbase and started a search for Foster. But the alien survived the crash and found Foster first. To Foster's surprise the alien just wanted to survive and both helped each other to get to the moonbase. The alien even saved Foster's life twice. But when they were discovered by moonbase astronauts they killed the alien instantly. Foster couldn't help him.
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Straker want's the space debris removed from earth's orbit. The debris endangered every SHADO mission. What he didn't knew was that an automatic alien device was hinding behind a Apollo 8 rocket stage. When Lonarmodule 32 returned to earth it had to pass that rocket. The device attached to the module and forced it into a too steep reentry path. The module with Commander Steve Maddox aboard was destroyed. Handerson ordered code "Whashington Square", which forbit any moonbase spaceflights. Paul Foster took another Moonmodule on the same flightpath of Steve Maddox to prove that it wasn't a pilots error. His module was also attacked but he was able to land the ship savely. Straker then ordered the Apollo 8 to be destroyed and proved to Henderson that this device was only the first step for an alien attack on SHADO HQ. Henderson then approved to Straker's request.
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When three UFO's approached earth they suddenly broke up their attack and returned the same way the came. Only one UFO dispatched a device that crashed on the moon leaving a small crater near a civilan 10 day mission of DALOTEC Corp. After that, SHADO experienced several communication blackouts that utimately led into the crashlanding of a Moonmobile, loosing all it's crew. Straker was convinced that the DALOTEC geo-scanner caused the problems. Col. Foster furiously confronted the DALOTEC crew and removed vital parts of the geo-scanner leaving it inoperable. But another blackout happened just when SID reported another UFO. When DALOTEC's Mark Tanner mentioned a device in that new crater, Straker was sure it's a jamming device causing the Interceptors being without any attack-data helpless in space. A Moonmobile was sent to neutralise the device so the UFO could be destroyed.
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Straker's son John from his divorced marriage with ex-wife Mary Ruthland had a terrible accident leaving him unconscious. He only has some broken bones but reacted allergic to antibiotics. His only hope was a new medicine from the USA. Straker sent a Mobile Transporter plane to get the medicine. On it's way back a UFO that was attacked by another UFO and crashlanded in Ireland. The only explanation could be that the alien wanted to defect. Straker decided that the seizure of the alien was more important and redirected the plane to Ireland to dispatch the needed Mobiles. Then the plane continued it's way to London. The alien found shelter in the home of an old blind lady and transmitted a strong signal for SHADO to find him. But when he left the shelter to surrender to SHADO another UFO appeared and killed him. When Straker returned to the hospital his son was already dead. The plane didn't made it in time due to his decision.
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After a long party Paul Foster reached the SHADO research facility to take part in a hard fitness programm. After that he used the sauna but fell asleep. When he woke up two aliens abducted him and dressed him in an alien spacesuit. They took him with them in one of their UFOs to get him to their him to their homeworld. But the craft was damaged and crashlandend on the moon. Foster was found by Moonbyse astronauts und brought into the moonbase-medical-facility. There Gay Ellis tried to remove the alien helmet. Paul Foster panicked and got unconcious. When he woke up again he was inside the sauna again. He never was abducted. Dr. Frazer explained that it was a reaction of alcohol and the extreme heat in the sauna that caused his blackout and strange dream.
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Josephine Frazer interviewed Ed Straker as a film producer. But accidently she listened to Lt. Ford referring to Straker as Commander Straker. Straker tried to get the tape back because she recorded Lt. Fords voice. When he finally found her she planned to get closer to him. But a security check revealed that she had a criminal record and may have tried to blackmail him.
On the moon a russian industrial mobile was in danger to collide with the moonbase. The russian crew lost some airpressure and wasn't aware of the danger they were in. Foster boarded the vehicle and stopped it in the last possible moment.
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When Straker let a UFO go unharmed through the SHADO defense grid, he hoped to get his hands on the alien alive. The UFO landed in south England and the pilot left his craft. To simulate his death he killed a man and left his remains in damaged UFO. Then he detonated it. Foster found the corpse in the wreckage and confirmed that it was human. When they found the dog of the deceased they followed it to a cotton where the alien headed before. But the alien was very unlucky and fell victim to a plot to murder the husband of Liz Newton. She and her lover waited for him to return any moment when die alien entered the house and was shot. Foster returned to SHADO HQ with Liz and her lover. Both were treated with an amnesia drug. This way they forgot anything about the alien, SHADO and even the plan to kill her husband.
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Straker got the idea to program a B142 space probe to follow a UFO on it's way home. The probe was equipped with a high resolution camera that should have taken pictures of the alien homeworld in best quality. When a UFO tries to make it's way to earth the vessel was stopped by attacking Interceptors. The UFO changed course back home and B142 followed immediately. Four month later the first pictures of the new planet arrived at SHADO. Straker was delighted, but specialist Dr. Kelly found an error in the cameras programming. At the end they weren't able to determin at what range the photos were made. Dr. Kelly presented some Photos to Straker that might show the planets surface but were indeed microscopic pictures of Gay Ellis' legs.
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Ten years back in 1970, Straker and his wife planned their honeymoon to greece. But it was canceled because General Henderson who was still recovering from the UFO attack on his Rolls Royce and needed Straker to form the SHADO organisation. In the following two years Mary Straker did often complained that she saw her husband not often. He also returned from secret SHADO meetings late at night. In 1972, Marys mother hired a detective to have Ed Straker observed. One day he attended a meeting at Nina Barry's home. He left at three AM with her and the detective took some photos of them. When he returned home he found Mary ready to leave him. She accused him to have an affair with that woman. When she got hysterical, Ed slapped her and she fell down the stairs. She was taken into hospital and when she woke up, Straker was already away in SHADO affairs. The marriage ended this way.
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The wife of John Coxley died when a UFO crashed into their house. Coxley was in psychiatric treatment before that, because he was convinced that his wife was about to have a visitor. What they didn't knew was that he had a very high ESP rate. The aliens were able to get information through him this way. Stracker checked him out and found out that Coxley had detailled plans of SHADO HQ in his possession. Coxley who met Col. Foster for a brief moment had contact to him through his ESP. And Foster who was in hospital that time felt that he was observed by someone.
Straker and Sewell returned to the ruins of Coxley's house. Coxley, who felt that Straker was responsible for the murder of his wife, also went there and threatened them to kill them at midnight. Through Coxley's ESP Foster was able to feel the danger Straker was in and also went to that house. He shot Coxley just before his ultimatum ended.
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Foster and Craig were bathed in a strange light coming from a UFO. The treatment brainwashed them, made them believe that Stracker had to be killed. They lost control of the Lunar Module and were found 16 hours later after their crash.
Back on the moonbase Straker fought of Craig who was trying to kill him. Craig was killed later. Foster tried to convince Henderson that Straker is unfit for command because he wanted to buld his little moonbase empire. Later, Foster locked himself with Straker inside a Sphere and threatened him with a gun. When a shot was fired during a struggle the Sphere was damaged and lost pressure. Both went down and could be recovered alive. Later Straker learned from Dr. Jackson that Foster could overcome the brainwashing. So Straker tested him and Dr. Jackson was right.
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A UFO used a manned NASA spaceship for cover to reach earth. Straker ordered a full sweep of the forrest where the UFO landed. In the forrest lives Ben Culley who lusts for Anne Stone who lives at a nearby farm. At night he tried to get ti her but was killed by an alien in the process. The day after Anne's brother Russel was thrown from his horse during a ride. When the horse returned to it's staple she and her fahter searched for her brother. But there was no sign of him anywhere.
Foster assumed that the UFO was submerged in a lake and bombed it out of it. It crashlanded and the crew was killed. But in a sealed container they found Russel's body alive in cryogenig sleep. The Stone family was returned to their farm by SHADO after they were treated with the amnesia drug.
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Lt. Jim Regan and his wife were captured by aliens who connected his mind to a siamese cat. But only his wife stayed back on the UFO. When he entered SHAOD HQ the cat stayed there. Straker ordered Regan back to moonbase to oversee the Venus Probe mission. But when he was ordered to destroy the UFO with his wife on board, the aliens took over and forced him to let them escape. Straker ordered him back to earth to replace him with Col. Foster. But Regan attacked Foster, using a cat-like figting style and returned to the moonbase. There he took an Interceptor. The aliens took over again and forced him to plot a course to crash right into the moonbase. When Foster suspected the cat to be the link between the aliens and Regan, Straker ordered the cat to be killed. When Regan regained control over himself he managed to pull up the Interceptor, avoiding moonbase but crashing it into nearby hills.
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The Daily Gazette's headline told of a UFO shut down by a Navy Cruiser. Navy Admiral Sheringham's secretary Sarah Bosanquet was suspected to leak the cruisers course, so that a UFO could attack it. Foster managed to make a relationship to her. And to his surprise he found a powerful telescope in her apartment. Straker explained that her father was one of the architects of the Moonbase, but he vanished from the moons surface one day and was beliebed to be abducted by aliens. He supected that he was held hostage to force Sarah to give away confidential information. When another target was plotted, Straker learns that the ship had a nervegas on board that could kill the population of the entire planet. Col. Lake followed the crusier in Skydiver and when the UFO showed up, Sky 1 destroyed it during it's attack on the cruiser.
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Astronaut Craig Collins returned to earth when a UFO broke to Moonbase defenses and seriously damaged SID. Collins lost control over his ship and crashed on earth. He was believed to be dead but was found on an uninhabited island two month later. His ship seemed to have crashed into the ocean. When he returned to Moonbase he behaved repulsive in front of Col. Virgina Lake. Later he was assigned with Col. Foster to conduct the repairs on SID but in a training exercise with Collins Foster broke a rip. That left Straker to be the only one with the knowledge to repair SID. Collins, who was under alien influence attacked him during the repair in order to kill him. But during the fight with Straker his personality took over for a moment leaving Straker the chance to cut his air supply off. Collins died in space.
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Three people were changed by a UFO crew into human bombs wich explode when exposed to high voltage. But still a nearby UFO is necessary to keep the changes of the bodies working. Straker was attacked by one of those people. He left a message. Three targets are threatened to be destroyed unless SHADO closes the Moonbase, surfaces all Skydivers and suurenders all it's forces.
After the destruction of the Fairfield tracker station, another man manages to get aboard Skydiver 3 and alos destroyed it. When they connected the two attackers together the clues led to Linda Simmons. Col. Foster contacted her and brought her back to SHADO HQ But she turned out to be the last of the attackers. When she got her hands at the HQ's power supply she didn't explode because the UFO was detected and destroyed at the same time. She died in Fosters arms.
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Deep Space Probe 87 reported a concentration of 25 UFO's in space, waiting for something. On earth a frighter was attacked by a USO and destroyed. Straker ordered Skydiver to check the area and what they found was a huge underwater dome that was connected with a powerplant on a nearby volcanic island. Straker and Foster met Skydiver and dived to check the dome. Inside the dome they found a perfect replica of SHADO HQ. Even Straker and Foster had doppelgänger in there. The dome was transmitting false instructions to the Moonbase to give the invading force of 50 UFO's a clear path to earth. Skydiver destroyed the dome and Straker and Moonbase layed down a trap for the aliens who continued on their attack course while expecting no resistance. But the aliens recieved a proper welcome of Sky and Interceptors that destroyed them all.
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In SHADO HQ Straker suddenly went amok and was trying to destroy electronic equipment. When he was restrained he was brought to medical. Dr. Jackson discovered that Straker had a mental shock and injected him with a drug that unlocked his mind.
Hours ago Straker and Lake were attacked by a UFO and were surrounded by a strange light. When they reached SHADO HQ night turned suddenly into day and everyone and everything seemed to be motionless. The aliens had stopped time. When they discovered a active crewmember they learned that the aliens promised him to put him in charge in exchange for his help. Straker killed the man and destroyed the UFO with a rocket launcher and time returned to normal.
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Paul Foster faced the death sentence when he was accused of high treason. General Henderson was looking for a security leak in SHADO and all clues were pointing at him.
Dr. Jackson was told to do an official hearing of Foster and several other of the SHADO personell. But Straker did his own detective work wich led to an industrial spy named Jane Grant. When Straker learned that Foster decided to flee from SHADO to escape from certain death he threatened Mrs. Grant with a gun to sign a confession. Foster was shot during his escape. But SHADO security was using tranquilizers to send him to sleep. That was Dr. Jacksons idea. Because of him and Straker wo believed in him, Foster was able to recover and declared innocent.
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A frighter was attacked on the open sea by a USO (Unidentified Submerged Object). When Straker learned about that he thought about the possibility that taking human bodies from ships may be easier for the aliens. He boarded Skydiver 1 and ordered a sweep of the ocean in search for the USO. But soon later, Skydiver was attacked and damaged. Sky 1 was able to hunt the USO out of the sea and destroy it. When the submarine came to rest on a ledge, Freeman made plans for a rescue. He took some rescue divers and flew over to the submarine. Freeman ordered to use explosives to turn the submarine around so the divers could board the Skydiver through the weapon tubes. Just before the Skydivers crew went unconcious they were rescued.
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Ten years ago Straker had hit a young woman with his car. She was an eyewitness in a UFO sighting in 1970. Now Straker got the message that she woke up from the coma but still looked the same like 10 years ago. But Catherine Frazer had no memory of the incident at all. Later she had a visitor. It was Tim who was at the farmyard with her when she had the encounter of the third kind. When Tim injected her a drug, she remembered that the aliens deposited an artefact there. Tim told her that he had to recover the artefect for the aliens who saved his life back then. When Straker learned about that, he and Foster also went to the yard. But Tim already activated the device and during a short struggle he fell from a roof and died. His body turned into a skeleton immediately. SHADO recovered the device and sent it into space to detonate it savely there. At the same moment Catherine died in the hospital of old age.
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When a UFO was destroyed on the moon's surface a moon-diamond was found at the crashing site. Soon after a astronaut started to shoot people, believing he fought of mexican outlaws. When the diamond was brought to earth, another crewman went amok believing that he was fighting alien invaders.
Later, Straker has shown the diamond to General Henderson in his office in SHADO HQ. Suddenly the whole scenery changed and the base looked like a film set. After desperatley lookung for an answer to his situation he believed the diamond to be the reason. So he returned to the set of his office and agreed to play the last scene again where he presented the diamond to Henderson, This time he smashed the diamond at the wall and everything returned to normal. Straker learned that he went crazy and tried to destroy SHADO equipment.
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