When you have an actor like George Cole guest starring, you might expect something a little special. What you get is a curiously flat performance and they gave Cole a stupid hairstyle.
Paul Roper is a SHADO technician who provides classified information to the aliens when his wife's safety is threatened. Not sure why he could not get protection from SHADO high command.
Roper's high stress levels are caught out in a routine medical check, he is also caught out giving information over to the aliens although Roper does not understand the nature of the information he is passing on. It is an approach to the Moonbase by the UFO which would evade detection.
To make amends, Roper volunteers to defend Moonbase himself by attempting to destroy the UFO with a rocket launcher. Straker meanwhile holds back information from Roper that his wife has been killed, after all there might be no need for him to hear the bad news as he himself in on a suicide mission on the lunar surface.
The episode has some very nice model work, there is a very effective car crash but somehow Roper comes out unscathed. Meanwhile his wife shoots an intruder with a shotgun and then freezes as the injured intruder reaches for his gun. Things like this lets the episode down. However the episode goes for a dark ending and from Straker, a cynical one.
Paul Roper is a SHADO technician who provides classified information to the aliens when his wife's safety is threatened. Not sure why he could not get protection from SHADO high command.
Roper's high stress levels are caught out in a routine medical check, he is also caught out giving information over to the aliens although Roper does not understand the nature of the information he is passing on. It is an approach to the Moonbase by the UFO which would evade detection.
To make amends, Roper volunteers to defend Moonbase himself by attempting to destroy the UFO with a rocket launcher. Straker meanwhile holds back information from Roper that his wife has been killed, after all there might be no need for him to hear the bad news as he himself in on a suicide mission on the lunar surface.
The episode has some very nice model work, there is a very effective car crash but somehow Roper comes out unscathed. Meanwhile his wife shoots an intruder with a shotgun and then freezes as the injured intruder reaches for his gun. Things like this lets the episode down. However the episode goes for a dark ending and from Straker, a cynical one.