PROJECT UFO

PROJECT UFO
   US tv series (1978-79). A Mark VIII Ltd Production/NBC. Executive prod Jack Webb; created Harold Jack Bloom; prod Col. William T. Coleman. Starring William Jordan as Major Jake Gatlin, Caskey Swaim as Sgt Harry Fisk, Aldine King as Libby Virdon, Edward Winter (season 2) as Capt Ben Ryan. Dirs included Richard Quine, Dennis Donnelly, Robert Leeds, John Patterson, Rich Greer. Writers included Harold Jack Bloom, Donald L. Gold, Robert Blees. 2 seasons, 26 50min numbered episodes. Colour.
   In terms of the size of viewing audience, this was the most successful US sf tv series ever made. The premise is that USAF investigators, belonging to a special unit code-named Project Blue Book, each week look into a supposed UFO (i.e., flying-saucer) sighting. Some of the cases prove to be hoaxes, somemisunderstandings of other phenomena; but most turn out to be genuine. PUFO, which assumed the air of drama-documentary, was tabloid tv at itsmost naked, aimed directly and cynically at a credible audience greedy for wonders. Given the overall similarity of the plot-lines, it is astonishing that 2 seasons were wrung from it. Executive prod Webb is remembered by older viewers as the gravel-voiced presenter of Dragnet.
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   See also: PARANOIA.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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