Close Up

=Plot= Straker and the SHADO team are invited to sit in on the test for an immensely powerful new telescope as it takes the first known photographs of the alien homeland. The photos are indeed taken but what will they reveal and will they have been worth it?

Notes: The Aliens' homeworld is in Alpha Centauri, a star system 4.3 light years from Earth

=Episode Cast=
 * Jeremy Wilkin ... Skydiver Navigator Lt. Gordon Maxwell
 * Gary Myers ... Skydiver Capt. Lew Waterman
 * Georgina Moon ... Skydiver Operative Lt. Sylvia Howell
 * Keith Alexander ... Lt. Keith Ford
 * Ed Bishop ... Cmdr. Ed Straker
 * George Sewell ... Col. Alec Freeman
 * Alan Tucker ... Tracking Station Operative
 * James Beckett ... Dr. Young
 * Jon Kelley ... Masters
 * Neil Hallett ... Dr. Joseph Kelly
 * Grant Taylor ... Gen. James Henderson
 * Michael Billington ... Col. Paul Foster
 * Frank Mann ... Rocket Launch Controller
 * Gabrielle Drake ... Lt. Gay Ellis
 * Dolores Mantez ... Nina Barry
 * Antonia Ellis ... Joan Harrington
 * Mark Hawkins ... Interceptor Pilot Lieutenant Gary North
 * Ayshea Brough ... SHADO Operative (uncredited)
 * Peter Burton ... Dr. Murray (uncredited)
 * Clive Endersby ... Harry (Launch Control)[(uncredited)
 * Bob Howay ... 2nd Launch Control Operative (uncredited)
 * John Levene ... Interceptor Pilot (uncredited)
 * Mel Oxley ... Space Intruder Detector SID (voice) (uncredited)
 * Bob Sherman ... 1st Launch Control Operative (uncredited)

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