Keith Alexander, who, like Jeremy Wilkin, had seemingly vanished from the series by this point, can be heard as the voice of the lead interceptor pilot.
'We can't risk firing on the capsule.'
Isn't that more or less what you did in Exposed?
I didn't like this episode. The scenes of the hippie being 'hunted' down on horseback were rather unsettling. A nit about the hippie's dog; the most phoney dog barking sounds were dubbed in. They sounded very much like a person doing a bad impression of a dog.
Just as bad was the black wig the hippy was wearing!
The voice of the space probe pilot sounds like it was dubbed over by Ed Bishop. And I agree the dog barks are very phony.
Bringing what might be a bomb to SHADO HQ doesn't seem like a very bright idea. They also apparently make the questionable assmumption the device is only a threat if its explosive, when it might be filled with poison gas or a biological agent.
Is Foster visiting the horse farm at the end a good idea? You'd think exposure to him might weaken the effects of the amnesia drug. On the other hand perhaps he's there to check that it is working.
This episode has a pretty much happy ending. The UFO is destroyed and the captive released without any apparent long term effects. Of course given the way TV is written today we'd probably see him turn up in a later episode. On the other hand at least a couple of SHADO Mobile crewmen are apparently killed, not to mention the hippy, potential rapist that he might have been, and the dog.
That's quite the leather or vinyl dress. Of course it doesn't look much like what someone in our 1980 would wear.
I thought the gal had woken up in the middle of the night, but it seemed awfully bright when the brother went outside.
So why was the hippie killed unlike the brother who was sealed in a can still alive?
Why not just move the brother to a real hospital that they could bring the sister to?
Was the father given a shot of amnesia medicine as well as the daughter & son? How much time was erased for them?
I'm under the impression that the alien came to Earth to hunt down suitable humans to bring back, some as intact as possible. It's possible the brother was in very good shape and all of his organs could be transplanted into aliens, whereas the hippie had only a few valuable organs, and the rest messed up by drugs and bad living.
I liked seeing the mobiles display their firepower, at last, but so many shots landed in the lake! They were virtually point-blank range with their UFO target, and they missed again and again, before scoring a decisive hit.
Bringing something dangerous to a questionable location would show up again in Star Trek the Next Generation, when Data and geordi plug in a mechanism just a few yards from the warp core. Brilliant. NOT!
Why pay an actor for an unconvincing dog bark, when you could save money and use a pre-recorded actual dog bark? Weird.
The Simon and Garfunkel song comes to mind here.