I've notice a slight blooper.
Miss Holland comes in from her office and strokes the cat which then attacks her, then you see the cat run off out the door but it runs out in to a SHADO HQ (thats probably an oxymoron :D)Corridor as you can see the cast concreate pillars ETC
This is a great episode. Fast-paced and well written (particularly when Dr. Jackson elaborates on his theories about the aliens). Col. Lake makes a poor replacement for Alec; she's rather timid here. Lots of new effects (the Interceptors are even shown escorting a Venus probe).
One nit though; at the end some mismatched shots. In long shots, the cat is shown sitting on the ground. Up close, it's shown to be about 4 feet off the ground. It's obviously being held up to the camera (and looks rather unhappy about it too).
What was the point of the card game? Regan didn't seem to possess any psychic (ESP) powers. If the aliens could hone in on his mind, why can't they hone in on everyone's mind?
Its surprising Foster wouldn't have some sort of panic button on him.
Apparently interceptor nuclear missiles can't be armed unless they're actually fired, or Regan would have set it to explode when he hit the ground. The interceptor seems to have crashed close enough to Moonbase that its nuke going off could have caused possibly fatal damage.
I wonder why Regan is always kissing his fingers when he's about to fire.
A spot of light representing mind control would turn up in Space: 1999 in several episodes, including "Ring Around the Moon" and "All That Glisters."
Apparently SHADO personnel are quite inattentive to their surroundings. The cat manages to walk around for a long period without anyone noticing it, or for that matter tripping over it or stepping on it.
Why does the Venus probe require a SHADO escort? Has SHADO been looking for signs of alien activity on Venus?
I should also add that the delivery of the ESP card game implies that the aliens have operatives on Earth familiar with Earth culture, as presumably a UFO crew wouldn't be able to acquire and deliver such a package.
It's a pretty horrifc bit of coincidence or revenge that the aliens happen to capture an interceptor pilot, and nearly wind up as one of their human organ donors. The scenes of his drugged view of entering an alien saucer, seeing his stunned wife carried by another alien, and the creepy music make for a powerful horror scene.
I'm not sure I could do the same as Regan-- allow the aliens to leave and not fire on them. My wife would be as good as dead on their ship, or may already be dead, but knowing that I would be vaporizing her and the aliens? Not sure I could handle that guilt.
When Regan is clean-cut, he's almost unrecognizable as 'The Kid', a cowboy illusion from an episode of 'The Prisoner'.
I don't agree with the producer's attempts to suggest that the aliens are actually completely human, and are just being used by yet another alien species, completely different than what we know. Just stick with the dying planet/aliens needing organ transplants from humans scenario.