I love time travel stories, and that's why I like this one, even with all its flaws! And it never hurts to see an episode where Straker is front and center through most of the action. *grin*

When Straker comes back to the control room at the end, we see a shot of the frozen SHADO personnel. Watch Ayshea, and she moves her lips for some reason.

When Straker knocks out the guy on the hover-disc car thingy near the start, he looks at his watch and sees that time has restarted. It looks like 13.40 or 20.10, but the clock in Miss Ealand's office was frozen at 18.00pm.

I heard a rumour that Ed Bishop has a stunt double for the fight at the start of this ep. Really?!?! I certainly can't make him out out all.......

'Why haven't Moonbase reacted? They must know something's wrong! They could have had SKydiver over the base by now!'

Shall I picky......? Yeah! SKY 1! Sky 1!

At the start of the episode where the SHADO personnel are chasing Straker all over the film studio, they pass Patrick Allen's character who is slumped in a go-kart going round in circles. Later in the episode, when Straker shoots and kills him, his go-kart is set off going in circles, but it is now going in completely the opposite direction!

This is a fast-paced and exciting episode. Col. Lake makes for a credible action figure in this one. The director should have told the makeup person to ease up on Straker's eyes in sickbay; the blue eyeliner looks overdone.

The bits with people standing still (as if frozen in time) were hokey due to the fact that some moved. One ridiculous frozen couple featured a man 'frozen' staring at a woman's cleavage. The frozen cigarette smoke and machine sparks were well done (as was the chair in mid-air).

The scenes of Straker's car evading the UFO were ridiculous too. That car manueveres through huge explosions without so much as a scratch. The rod controlling the miniature car (from below) was also visible.

Continuity error: When Wanda Ventham's stunt double jumps into the moving car, her scarf is a different color than Wanda's.

...picky, picky!

Time has been frozen at SHADO Control, and the movie studio above it...except for the wind! A couple times a breeze is passing through Colonel Lake's hair.

There has to be more than one entrance into SHADO Control, other than Straker's office (and there is), because that would mean every SHADO operative would have to enter through Straker's movie studio office.
Everyone says that Straker and Lake never entered the base, but what about that stairwell to the surface from the security station? Lucas, the alien operative, escapes up an elevator and Straker and Lake follow up adjoinig stairs. So other than the gate guard claiming they never passed through there, why couldn't Straker and Lake have come in via a different entrance? It's also not safe having a single exit from the base if an evacuation became necessary.

Straker's clothing is in disarray when he barges into Control and starts fighting everyone (and WHY was he fighting everyone by that point? The danger had apparently passed with the UFO being destroyed by his own hand). However, after he blows up the UFO his clothing isn't in such bad shape.

So why did it go from night to day? Did the UFO send them back in time a few hours, or forward in time? An explanation would have been nice.

Would work at the studio still be going on at 6 pm? Or do/did English film studios have a different schedule then 9 am - 5 pm?

I think that red dress has made three separate appearances on this series, each time on a different actress.

Straker figures that some things work because they weren't moving through time.
Actually they were, they just weren't in motion (relatively speaking) when time was 'frozen'. Not that that is a good explanation either, but it would have been more accurate.

"Fossilized in time".
Actually fossilization is the replacement of the original life form with minerals. "Frozen" would have been a better metaphor.

Offhand I don't think the story needed the drug nonsense. I think the writer added it to add some tension, but it just creates more problems.
1. Just the idea that there is a superspeed drug. Talk about coming out of nowhere with that idea.
2. Straker says they are moving 50 times faster, but later the traitor says they are trapped in a millionth of a second.

Sooooooo, why didn't the aliens ever try this technique again?
I call it Lex Luthor disease. Only use one technique once then give up & never try it again.

steve McKinnon - WHY was he fighting everyone by that point?
The only thing I can figure is that maybe the drug he was taking messed with his head so he wasn't aware of what he was doing by that point. Whether that's what the writer intended, I have no idea.

MD, Hpool - Patrick Allen's character who is slumped in a go-kart going round in circles. Later in the episode, when Straker shoots and kills him, his go-kart is set off going in circles, but it is now going in completely the opposite direction!
Not only that, but now he's leaning the other way with his other arm out of the cart.

I like how Straker comes face to face with a UFO-- perhaps the first time he's ever had a chance to stand there and really get a good look at his enemies. I suppose in the 10 years that he's been in command and all those trips to Moonbase this might not be the case, but for viewers it's kinda neat that he finally sees who he's been fighting all this time.
The shell he fires at the UFO severely damages the ship, and presumably it crashes to the ground, so I hope it didn't blow up inside the studio grounds or nearby buildings.
And speaking of which, shouldn't that UFO be firing at the studio/base like crazy? You're at Ground Zero of SHADO HQ, and you don't attack?
Lucas, the alien operative, grabs Lake and tries to choke her with her own scarf. To warn Straker to come back and help her, Lake fires off her machine gun. Just one thing-- why not use THAT as a weapon, and swing it backwards to smash it against Lucas's head, and THEN call Straker back?

Of course, this episode shares its title with the infamous Doctor Who one.