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The Best Episodes Written By Tony Barwick

Every TV Episode Written by Tony Barwick Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

  1. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - The First Circle

    S1:E25

    Harry is hired to protect a disturbed Vietnam war veteran.

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    Director:Don Chaffey
  2. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - The AB Chrysalis

    S2:E12

    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.

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    Director:Val Guest
  3. 6.3/10(3 votes)

    #3 - Element of Risk

    S1:E15

    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.

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    Director:Gerald Mayer
  4. 6.3/10(3 votes)

    #4 - Nuisance Value

    S1:E18

    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.

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  5. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - The Heart of New York

    S1:E11

    As the Mysterons threaten to destroy the "Heart of New York", Captain Scarlet and Captain Blue investigate the theft of Grade A Security documents from the Spectrum security vaults.

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    Director:Alan Perry
  6. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Mindbender

    S1:E14

    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.

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    Director:Ken Turner
  7. 5.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Exposed

    S1:E2

    An XV-104 test plane wanders into a UFO target area and the pilot, Paul Foster, makes sightings of both the UFO and Sky One. Angry and frustrated that no one believes his story, Foster suspects a cover-up and decides to conduct his own investigation into the activities of ex-USAF Colonel Ed Straker.

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    Director:David Lane
  8. 4.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Identified

    S1:E1

    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.

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  9. 4.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - A Question of Priorities

    S1:E5

    "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.

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    Director:David Lane
  10. 4.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Close Up

    S1:E11

    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.

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    Director:Alan Perry
  11. 4.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - The Psychobombs

    S1:E12

    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.

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  12. 4.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Survival

    S1:E13

    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.

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    Director:Alan Perry
  13. 4.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Court Martial

    S1:E20

    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.

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    Director:Ron Appleton
  14. 4.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Computer Affair

    S1:E21

    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.

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    Director:David Lane
  15. 4.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Confetti Check A-O.K.

    S1:E22

    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.

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    Director:David Lane
  16. 4.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - The Responsibility Seat

    S1:E25

    Freeman takes over temporarily while Straker deals with a woman apparently determined to investigate what SHADO is all about.

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    Director:Alan Perry
  17. 2.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Ordeal

    S1:E19

    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.

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    Director:Ken Turner

Tony Barwick Ratings Summary

"The First Circle" is the best rated episode written by Tony Barwick. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Don Chaffey. It aired on 3/23/1973 and is rated 3.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "The AB Chrysalis".