The life of SHADO’s Commander Ed Straker is turned upside when a duty to save his son conflicts with the investigation of a UFO incident. A QUESTION OF PRIORITIES is considered a landmark episode of Gerry & Sylvia Anderson’s first live-action series, UFO. Today, Jack and Ben are going to review the episode and judge how successfully the science fiction series about aliens and spacecraft could handle tragic human drama.
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UFO: A Soap Opera with Aliens?
Having shaken off what he considered to be the curse of making puppet shows, Gerry Anderson was keen to make UFO as appealing to adults as he possibly could while also appealing to children so that the show could generate some money through merchandising. The result is a series full of cool machinery, aliens, and action but also very ‘grown-up’ themes like violence, sex, adultery, broken families, the death of family members, drug-use and even rape.
