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Catweazle, the magician from 1066, who escaped from The Normans and ended up in 1970's England runs into Hexwood Farm Yard, looking for Carrot, the young boy who befriended him. He looks skyward as an aeroplane roars overhead. Confused and scared he turns looking for a hiding place, he sees...

Catweazle is in the woods near his Castle Saburac water tank home. He is looking for Touchwood his toad, when he sees a strange sight, strange to him. Naturalist Professor Fitton is crouching down in the woods, tape recorder slung over his shoulder, and a high tech ( for 1970) microphone...

61. If you take a word association test and the tester says " black" you've just gotta say " white" because if you say anything else like " bird" you'll be assumed to he having a crush on a black work colleague and be trying to hide it.

TOP THREE 3. A Question Of Priorities Probably the best remembered episode as Straker has to decide what is more important, his son's life or tracking an alien who wants to help. Straker's son is run down by a car, but the SHADO plane bringing a life saving drug from the U.S. is diverted by...

5. Kill Straker Second best IMO of the first batch of episodes made at Borehamwood sees Paul Foster and another SHADO operative entering Earth orbit when their ship is captured by a UFO. Foster and Gray are are brainwashed into killing Straker and go about trying on their return to the moon...

6. The Psychobombs Three members of the public come under alien influence and imbued with superhuman strength in order to assassinate Straker and destroy SHADO bases. Another way out theory by Dr Jackson, this time postulating that the aliens have turned the unfortunate three people into human...

7. The Man Who Came Back Derren Nesbitt as Craig Collins a SHADO astronaut who is missing presumed dead after a UFO attack, but is found alive on an island in the Pacific. SID the in orbit SHADO satellite is damaged and Collins and Foster prepare to launch in a rocket to repair it. But Collins...

8. The Square Triangle Always like seeing Patrick Mower, and here he plays Cass a guy plotting to murder the husband of his lover Liz. Cass and Liz have lured the husband to a country cottage but unfortunately for them kill an alien instead. SHADO are in the area tracking the aliens down and...

9. The Cat With Ten Lives An astonishing revelation here or conjecture by Dr Jackson after examining an alien corpse after a Moonbase attack. The body is human! Are the aliens actually formless, have no physical bodies at all, just intellect using humans to come to Earth and collect organs for...

10. Court Martial Into the top ten and this episode makes it despite having no Sci Fi trappings at all. It's all about espionage as Foster is accused of selling SHADO secrets to the press, is put on trial and sentenced to death. What makes this work is the tension as time ticks away until...

12 Computer Affair Simple but effective story as a UFO crashes in a Canadian forest and SHADO sends in a team to get the aliens. Nice scenes as SHADO vehicles enter the forest and are fired upon by laser beams from the landed UFO. There's a gunfight among the trees and an alien is captured...

13. The Sound Of Silence Into the top half now, and I know which episodes are my top three, positions 4 to 13 are tricky. There's lots of great episodes, but I'll put this episode as 13th because it does run out of steam with 15 minutes to go. Show jumper Russell Stone is kidnapped by aliens...

15. Destruction Good cast in this one, Stephanie Beacham and Philip Madoc and Edwin Richfield who played Captain Hart in Dr Who The Sea Devils playing a Naval Officer here too. The aliens plan to attack a Naval vessel dumping toxic gas at sea, thus releasing poison and destroying mankind. This...

58. If the Aliens give you mastery over time, enabling you to dodge bullets fired at point blank range , it really is jolly hilarious and guffawing is something you have to do. 59. If aliens burn out the personality centres of your brain and control you by radio waves it really improves your...

17. Flight Path From here on there certainly are no duff episodes, all good stuff, and this one is good but maybe a bit illogical. George Cole stars as a Moonbase operative, Roper, who is forced to give the Aliens information on how they can dodge SHADO defences and fly just above ground level...

18. Sub-Smash This is dramatic but a bit of a departure from SHADO'S ongoing battle with the Aliens which is why I've put it down in this position. Skydiver submarine sinks to the sea bed after clashing with an alien underwater craft and it's a race to get everyone out before the air runs out...

19. Reflections In The Water Plenty of action in this, boy there's action, of the far fetched kind. 50 UFOS plan to attack Earth, but first alien constructed duplicates of SHADO personnel, operating from a base under the sea are going to pose as the real SHADO personnel and give orders to let...

20. Exposed A solid episode that introduces Paul Foster though not particularly exciting. Foster is a test pilot who while in the air sees SHADO attack a UFO, and his aircraft is hit and he ends up in hospital. Returning to work he realises his photographic evidence of the UFO is being covered...

21. Conflict Discarded space junk from previous Appollo missions is being used by the Aliens to hide a craft to attack Moonbase shuttles. First battle of wills between Straker and General Henderson is the highlight here, and overall it ticks along nicely. Straker's reasoning for working out...

22. The Dalotek Affair A bit of a predictable outcome to an average story, but some nice hardware seen, and new recruit Paul Foster as Moonbase commander in an early episode. A radio blackout on the Moon is blamed on the private Dalotek corporation who have geologists on the moon. A rouge...