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14. Court Martial Though he doesn't realise it at the time, his very life is in jeopardy when Colonel Paul Foster - in his cover capacity as a movie executive - interviews a young actress and her agent. For it is very soon afterwards that he is accused of espionage. Commander Straker is...

13. Sub- Smash When a freighter is sunk mid-Atlantic by an undersea UFO, Straker joins the crew on Skydiver to investigate despite his claustrophobia. As they search in the area where the ship was lost, Skydiver is attacked by the UFO and damaged, sinking to a ledge above the sea bed. However...

12. The Sound Of Silence A UFO uses a NASA craft entering Earth orbit to avoid SHADO weaponry by using it as a shield. The UFO lands near a farm where Russell Stone, Showjumper lives with his father and visiting sister. SHADO search the area and move onto the farm after Russell Stone is...

11. A Question Of Priorities Commander Edward Straker's son Johnny is hit by a car and taken to hospital. Straker arrives at the hospital with his ex-wife, Mary, to find that Johnny is allergic to the antibiotics the hospital has available - Straker uses his position to order an experimental...

10. The Man Who Came Back Captain Craig Collins is presumed killed when his spacecraft, Ship 534, disappears during a successful UFO attack to disable SID (the Space Intruder Detector, the early warning satellite). However, he is located on an island a few weeks later with very little memory of...

9. Survival Under the cover of a meteor shower, a UFO manages to evade SHADO's tracking and land on the moon. The alien pilot gets close enough to Moonbase to shoot out a window of the Leisure Sphere -the resulting explosive decompression kills an astronaut inside and almost kills Paul Foster...

8. ESP Returning home after seeing his psychiatrist, John Croxley, a man with very powerful ESP, is stopped by SHADO personnel due to an incoming UFO. The UFO crashes into Croxley's house killing his wife and injuring Col. Foster who was monitoring the UFO from a SHADO mobile. Foster is taken...

7. Confetti Check A-O.K The birth of Lieutenant David Grey's twins by Caesarean section brings back uncomfortable memories for Edward Straker as his own mind casts back to his wedding day.... In December of 1970, United States Air Force Colonel Edward Straker and his new wife, the former Mary...

6. The Dalotek Affair The episode is almost entirely a flashback that Colonel Foster has as he sees a woman while dining with Colonel Alec Freeman: Unexplained communication blackouts are affecting the SHADO Moonbase. Foster believes that the nearby Dalotek Corporation lunar base may be causing...

5. The Square Triangle Straker allows a UFO to land in Southern England in an attempt to capture the craft, and its alien crew, by sending out a fleet of SHADO mobiles. After the UFO lands safely, a lone alien survivor has a fight with a game warden and his dog, causing the alien's uniform to...

4. Conflict Lunar Module 32, commanded by Steve Maddox, departs from the Moon bound for Earth; its radar picks up an unidentified object shortly before re-entry. The audience sees that this is a small alien limpet-like UFO, hiding in the Apollo 8 space wreck, which interrupts communications...

3. Flight Path Carol, the wife of Paul Roper, a Moonbase operative, is being threatened by Dawson, a SHADO medical operative under alien control. Roper is blackmailed into feeding false information into SID - the satellite that tracks incoming UFOs. The information being sent to SID will allow a...

2. Exposed When the Sky One interceptor aircraft intercepts and destroys a UFO, the explosion causes the nearby experimental test aircraft XV-104, whose pilot refused the order to leave the area, to crash. While the co-pilot Jim is killed, the pilot Paul Foster (Michael Billington) survives...

3.6 Private View Neil, a nurse present to assist a visually impaired person, is pushed onto a chair with blades built-in the back of it by an unseen assailant, where he bleeds to death. Carrie, a fame-obsessed former Big Brother contestant, exits a lift to Fragments, a retrospective exhibition...

3.5 Diddle Diddle Dumpling Spring David, a middle class stay-at-home dad, lives with his wife Louise and daughter Sally. While out jogging, he encounters a single slip-on dress shoe. David keeps an eye on the shoe, and, by the time Louise arrives home that evening, has moved it to the dinner...

3.4 Empty Orchestra Greg, dressed in a sumo-themed fatsuit, enters a karaoke booth and begins singing The Human League's "Don't You Want Me". Connie, dressed as Amy Winehouse, arrives; the two kiss, but break apart when Greg's partner Fran (dressed as Britney Spears) enters. Roger arrives with...

3.3 The Riddle Of The Sphinx On a stormy night, Nina lets herself in to a University of Cambridge room, where she is found by Professor Nigel Squires. He is holding a gun, but it is not loaded. Nina's boyfriend Simon is a fan of cryptic crosswords, but she is never able to help him. She has...

3.2 The Bill Anya closes a restaurant where four men—northerners Archie, Malcolm, and Kevin are entertaining Londoner Craig—have finished a post-badminton meal. After a misunderstanding between Craig and the thickly accented Anya, Malcolm takes the bill, but he and Archie both wish to pay. Craig...

Series 3 3.1 The Devil Of Christmas The episode opens with a VT clock slate for a film named The Devil of Christmas. Set in December 1977, the film follows Julian, his pregnant wife Kathy, his mother Celia and his son Toby as they are shown into an Austrian Alpine chalet by Klaus. The party...

2.6 Seance Time Tina arrives at a Victorian villa for a séance. Hives settles Tina before retrieving Talbot , who arrives shrouded in black and carrying a doll. Talbot, an elderly woman with heavy cataracts, speaks in a high-pitched voice, unnerving Tina. When the séance begins, objects fly...