UFO: DESTRUCT POSITIVE!
The Coming Of SHADO
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173 minutes | CD/download
► Publisher Big Finish
AUDIO DRAMA After previously tackling Space: 1999, Big Finish’s latest Gerry Anderson reboot rewinds to the early days of SHADO, the top-secret organisation defending Earth from organ-harvesting aliens.
If you cringed at Han being awarded the sobriquet “Solo”, you may prefer the TV show’s approach. If you’re dying to hear Ed Straker coming up with that acronym, or having the brainwave of a film studio front, you’ll be in heaven. Introducing Straker as a test pilot buzzed by a UFO, who is fast-tracked to Commander within days, doesn’t really fly. Some tweaks are sensible modernisation, though: second-incommand Alec Freeman no longer hits on every woman in a half-mile radius, for example.