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UFO the Series Vol 4 [VHS]

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I absolutely LOVED this series as a boy and I loved watching this video as an adult. Vol. 4 contains one of the very best scripts for this sci-fi cult classic in the episode "The Psychobombs. Three ordinary citizens fall under mind control of the aliens when a UFO lands in rural England. The aliens have given them super-human strength to destroy SHADO installations. There is a BRILLIANTLY directed scene where Psychobomb # 2 tries to gain access to a SHADO submarine but gets no further than the conning tower when the order is given to submerge. This episode also has an unusually strong soundtrack of mysterious music courtesy of the brilliant composer Barry Gray. The other episode on this video is "Court Martial", a rather mediocre episode but "Psychobombs" alone makes this volume worth buying.

The series that had decent writing takes a break in these two episodes and enters the land of "cliches and plot devices". The Psycho-Bombs starts with an interesting theory that adrenelline driven people could do superhuman things but degenerates from there to the point that they can only be beaten by the heroes and that the aliens were too stupid to make more of them. "Court-Martial" is the story of the wrongly accused man who no one believes (except the main hero). It's an ok episode but really predictable with the usual cast you find in these kind of dramas. And of course the one "amatuer detective" that is able to deduct what all the investigators can't. You might want to give this one a miss but if you're trying to get the whole series, go ahead!