Conflict

=Summary= Lunar Module 32 is destroyed when a limpet craft operated bu the aliens attaches itself to its side and blows it up. The wreckage is widespread. Straker then orders a clean-up operation to rid the countryside of all craft detritus. However, this is not enough for General James Henderson, the chief of the International Astro-Physical Commission, who believes that SHADO should be disbanded.

=Errors and Explanations=

Nit Central

 * 1) tim gueguen on Thursday, August 02, 2007 - 6:54 pm: Its interesting to see a TV script from 1969 that presents the idea that space junk might be a threat to spaceflight. Very precient, as the amount of junk in orbit is increasingly a concern.  However the method of getting rid of space junk used in the episode is a bad one. Blowing something up merely turns one piece of space junk into many smaller ones. The proper way of getting rid of it is to somehow make it enter the Earth's atmosphere so it burns up.  ScottN on Thursday, August 02, 2007 - 7:44 pm: They weren't concerned as much with it being in the way, as with it being a hiding place for UFOs. By blowing it up, they made it (by UFO TV logic) harder for UFOs to hide there.

=Cast= =Crew=
 * Gerald Norman (Pilot - Space Ship)
 * Alan Tucker (Navigator - Space Ship)
 * Ed Bishop (Cmdr. Ed Straker)
 * Grant Taylor (Gen. James Henderson)
 * George Sewell (Col. Alec Freeman)
 * Drewe Henley (Capt. Steve Maddox)
 * Michael Billington (Col. Paul Foster)
 * David Courtland (Lunar Module Crewman Stevens)
 * Antonia Ellis (Joan Harrington)
 * Norma Ronald (Miss Ealand)
 * Peter Gordeno (Capt. Peter Carlin)
 * Dolores Mantez (Nina Barry)
 * Keith Alexander (Lt. Keith Ford)
 * Ayshea Brough (SHADO Operative (as Ayshea))
 * Michael Kilgarriff (Joe Steiner)
 * Produced by Gerry Anderson (Executive Producer) and Reg Hill (Producer)
 * Music by Barry Gray
 * Cinematography by Brendan J. Stafford (as Brendan Stafford) (lighting cameraman)
 * Film Editing by Len Walter
 * Art Direction by Bob Bell
 * Makeup Department Henry Montsash (Hair stylist) Basil Newall (Makeup artist)
 * Norman Foster (Production supervisor)
 * Ron Appleton (Assistant director)
 * Art Department Don Fagan (Instrumentation)
 * Sound Department Peter Pennell (Sound editor) John Peverill (Sound editor) Ken Rawkins (Sound recordist)
 * Special Effects by Jimmy Elliott (Special effects senior director (as Jim Elliott)) Frank Hollands (Special effects production manager) Derek Meddings (Special effects) Harry Oakes (Special effects lighting camera) Mike Rainer (Special effects camera operator) Mike Trim (Special effects designer) Shaun Whittacker-Cook (Special effects director)
 * Camera and Electrical Department Derek Black (Camera operator) John May (Gaffer)
 * Costume and Wardrobe Department Kim Martin (Wardrobe)
 * Music Department Barry Gray (Musical director) George Randall (Music editor)
 * Other crew Tony Barwick (Script editor) Desmond Saunders (Assistant to producer (as Des Saunders)) Doreen Soan (Continuity)