[net.games.trivia] Answer to UFO trivia

stu3@mhuxh.UUCP (Mark Modig) (10/04/84)

>Now I'll up the ante... on UFO, what were the different defense systems that
>were used to repel aliens?
>
>
OK, the name of the organization was SHADO (I've forgotten what the
initials stood for; I have not been able to find the show on
anywhere for years)  It used a movie studio as a front and the head
of SHADO (the character's name was Ed Straker) was supposedly a
movie producer or something.  There were several defense mechanisms.
The only ones I can remember are:

SID (initials for ??? something about Satellite Detector and Interceptor?)-
this was a satellite orbitting out around the Moon (tho it might
have been the earth).  This was the early warning device.  The
stupid aliens never really bothered to porperly attack this; the one
time I remember they did they had a cakewalk in to Earth; they tried
to jam it or something.  They did OK, but still lost in the end
anyway.

Moonbase-  Moonbase had little trucks they could send out to shoot at
UFOs on the moon.  They also used Interceptors that were vectored to
the approaching UFO by SID. Interceptors mounted one missile only in
the front of the vehicle; it just detached and blasted away. 
Somehow, the pilot never got fried by this.  Interceptors were either a
waste of time or unerringly accurate, depending on how critical
the situation was and the requirements of the plot.

Skydiver-  Skydiver was a combination air/sea vehicle.  It was a sub
(the crew were fishnet shirts, including the women) that had a small
plane that could be detached and then would shoot thru the surface
and into the air to shoot down UFOs.  They had several of these
units, I believe, since one could hardly reattach the plane to the
sub at sea.  These were fairly accurate.

SHADO also had little trucks to use on Earth, too, in case they had
to attack a UFO that had managed to make it down.

I think the name of the guy who played Straker was Ed Bishop.  He
also drove a neat sports car with gull-winged doors.  Now we know
what John DeLorean watched on TV in the early '70s.  All in all, the
series was usually fairly trashy, and its look and style are often
similar to Space:1999.

Whew!  That's about it, how did I do?
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Mark Modig
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moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) (10/05/84)

On the money -- SHADO is Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organization,
and SID was Space Intruder Detector.  God, I'd like to see this series
again!  Is it on video anywhere?

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