8.0/101 votes#1 - Nuisance Value
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/14/1972
After Danny is accused of kidnapping his blind date, a rich man's spoiled daughter, Brett and Danny decide to help rescue her from the real kidnappers but have problems keeping her rescued.
Director: Leslie Norman
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.0/101 votes#2 - The AB Chrysalis
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 11/18/1976
The Alphans land on a planet seemingly devoid of any human existence but being run by a group of machines. The machines explain to the visitors that their human overlords are in a state of regeneration but the chief machine, the Guardian,sees the Alphans as posing a threat and it is down to two newly regenerated females known as A and B to decide their fates.
Director: Val Guest
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.0/101 votes#3 - Element of Risk
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/24/1971
At a London airport, a gang of crooks who are planning a bullion heist mistake Danny for a criminal mastermind when the man's suitcase accidentally ends up in Danny's luggage cart.
Director: Gerald Mayer
Writer: Tony Barwick
6.0/101 votes#4 - The Heart of New York
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1967
A professional vault break-in duo seek out a minor Spectrum Security Vault, near the coast of New York, where ""useless"" documentation is taken, which proves quite valuable to the lawbreakers. Along with another gang member, they simulate a fake play-act for a forest lookout warden, just on the outskirts of tthe American capital, as hopeless, potentially dangerous drunks. They set-up their car with fake look alike puppets to deceive the warden into thinking that the 3 drunken men that he just warned, has helplessy crashed off the high mountaineous road, and exploded into a fireball. The gang then take care of the warden and, deliberately posing as Mysteronised humans, they announce the force's latest peril to destroy the Second National Bank of New York, however the real Mysterons have yet to announce this at all, except for stating that they will destroy ""The Heart of New York"", but Colonel White understands that the bank is more than vital to full-fill the threat, as it stocks the en
Director: Alan Perry
Writer: Tony Barwick
6.0/101 votes#5 - Mindbender
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/13/1971
After a UFO inexplicably destroys itself less than two miles from Moonbase, a mysterious crystal rock is recovered, and it causes the person in its vicinity to hallucinate. The man on Moonbase who found it thinks Mexican bandits have taken over Moonbase. It gets transferred to Straker's office, and he hallucinates that SHADO is simply a set for a TV series, he is an actor named Mr. Burns, Moonbase can be reached by stepping through two doors from the main control room at SHADO HQ, and "Mr. Straker" is not available. Straker breaks the hallucination by jumping in on the scene while the "character" Gen. Henderson is doing a close-up of the line they were doing when the hallucination began.
Director: Ken Turner
Writer: Tony Barwick
4.0/101 votes#6 - Identified
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1970
SHADO engages in its first battle with the enemy. Sky One cripples an alien ship which crash-lands in a lake. Straker's team capture its pilot, a strange blue-skinned humanoid - and the grim secret behind the aliens' are revealed.
Director: Gerry Anderson
Writer: Tony Barwick
4.0/101 votes#7 - A Question of Priorities
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1970
"Important? What can be more important than your own son's life?" Straker faces the toughest decision of his career when his son is critically injured in an accident. The drug that can save his life can only be ferried from New York in time aboard a SHADO Transporter - the same Transporter that is in the prime position to track an Alien defector on the West Coast of Ireland.
Director: David Lane
Writer: Tony Barwick
4.0/101 votes#8 - Close Up
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/1970
Straker gets approval from above to build a probe with a camera that will track a UFO back to its home planet. Inexplicably, the Earth technology is capable of following a UFO travelling 8 or 9 times the speed of light and follows it home. The episode ends with a SHADO guy trying to convince Straker that they were wasting their time, even though they picked up some great pictures of the planet.
Director: Alan Perry
Writer: Tony Barwick
4.0/101 votes#9 - The Psychobombs
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/30/1970
A UFO imbues three young people with incredible powers. One blows up a radar station, a second steals fingerprints and tries to get aboard a Skydiver sub, blowing it up. The third, a woman, tries to blow up SHADO HQ but the UFO that is feeding her power has now been destroyed.
Director: Jeremy Summers
Writer: Tony Barwick
4.0/101 votes#10 - Survival
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/6/1971
Foster, whose radio is knocked out and his oxygen line cut, is presumed lost (but they did a crummy job, not even trying to find his body) during a confrontation with a UFO on the moon's surface. Foster is found by an alien, and together, they cross the lunar landscape, developing a friendship when the alien must try to do make-shift repairs on Foster's suit to keep him alive. At the end, a Moonmobile crew finds Foster and misunderstands his intent when he points them to the alien nearby.
Director: Alan Perry
Writer: Tony Barwick
4.0/101 votes#11 - Court Martial
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/1/1971
Foster is suspected of being a security leak, but during the trial, Straker and gang discover that Foster's apartment was bugged and shut down the disreputable business that is selling the spy gear.
Director: Ron Appleton
Writer: Tony Barwick
4.0/101 votes#12 - Computer Affair
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/15/1971
After a pilot is killed when Moonbase operatives fail to give him course change information, the personnel are recalled to Earth for an investigation. A UFO crashes in northern Canada and the personnel are assigned to the operation to find the UFO. Gay Ellis is to coordinate the movement of the mobiles trying to approach the UFO.
Director: David Lane
Writer: Tony Barwick
4.0/101 votes#13 - Confetti Check A-O.K.
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 7/10/1971
A flashback episode in which Straker recalls his marriage, followed by stormy days as he must work covertly to get SHADO up and running and recruit personnel. All this leaves his wife angry at his absence, suspicious at the things he might be doing (her father photographs Straker meeting a woman in a parking garage, a woman who will be working at SHADO). In the end, she gives birth to their son.
Director: David Lane
Writer: Tony Barwick
4.0/101 votes#14 - The Responsibility Seat
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/8/1973
Freeman takes over temporarily while Straker deals with a woman apparently determined to investigate what SHADO is all about.
Director: Alan Perry
Writer: Tony Barwick
2.0/101 votes#15 - Ordeal
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/14/1971
Foster is abducted by aliens from a health spa and is being taken out into space, presumably back to the alien homeworld. However, the UFO was damaged and returns to the moon, crashing there. While the Moonbase personnel try to free Foster of the alien environmental suit, Foster wakes up in the steam room at the health spa. The episode begs explanation for how Foster dreamed in such orderly detail, including Carlin missing a shot and Straker angry at the missed shot, and Dr. Jackson's off-line comments to Straker before they go onto a visual link to Moonbase to guide them through removal of Foster's alien helmet.
Director: Ken Turner
Writer: Tony Barwick
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"Nuisance Value" is the best rated episode written by Tony Barwick. It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Leslie Norman. It aired on 1/14/1972 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "The AB Chrysalis".