| A Question of Priorities | |
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| Episode A-05 | |
| Production Info | |
| Director | David Lane |
| Screenplay by | Tony Barwick |
| Producer | Reg Hill |
| Music | Barry Gray |
| Cinematography | Brendan J. Stafford (as Brendan Stafford) |
| Editor | Harry MacDonald |
| Production Code | |
| IMDB Ref | tt0735617 |
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| Transmission Info | |
| Episode | UFO A-05 |
| Airdate | 14 October 1970 |
| Previous | Conflict |
| Next | E.S.P. |
Plot
Straker's son John lives with Straker's ex-wife Mary, who has re-married. Straker is having a day out with the boy, but it ends in an argument with Mary and John is run over and seriously hurt. Drugs can be obtained to save him in America and a SHADO craft is sent to fetch them. However, Straker gets an alert call to say that an alien defector which could do untold damage to Earth is in the range of the SHADO craft. SHADO can destroy the alien but it means diverting the means to save John.[2]
Cast
- Barnaby Shaw - John Rutland
- Ed Bishop - Cmdr. Ed Straker
- George Sewell - Col. Alec Freeman
- Keith Alexander - Lt. Keith Ford
- Dolores Mantez - Nina Barry
- Gabrielle Drake - Lt. Gaye Ellis
- Suzanne Neve - Mary Rutland
- Philip Madoc - Steven Rutland
- David Cargill - Car Driver
- Andrea Allan - Nurse
- Penny Spencer - SHADO Operative
- Peter Halliday - Dr. Segal
- Peter Gordeno - Capt. Peter Carlin
- Norma Ronald - Miss Ealand
- Ayshea Brough - SHADO Operative (as Ayshea)
- Mary Merrall - Mrs. O'Connor
- Russell Napier - Dr. Green
- Richard Aylen - Alien
- Jon Kelley - Skydiver Engineer
- Jeremy Wilkin - Skydiver Navigator Lt. Gordon Maxwell
- Georgina Moon - Skydiver Operative Lt. Sylvia Howell
- Mel Oxley - Space Intruder Detector SID (voice) (uncredited)
Episode Crew
- Casting by Rose Tobias Shaw
- Art Direction by Bob Bell
- Makeup Department
- Henry Montsash - hair stylist
- Basil Newall - makeup artist
- Production Management
- Roger Connolly - unit manager
- Norman Foster - production supervisor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Ron Appleton - assistant director
- Art Department
- Don Fagan - instrumentation
- Fred Gunning - construction manager
- Harry Solomons - production buyer
- Keith Wilson - assistant art director
- Sound Department
- Peter Pennell - Sound editor
- John Peverill - Sound editor (as John Peveril)
- Ken Rawkins - Sound recordist
- J.B. Smith - dubbing mixer
- Special Effects
- 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
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
- Sylvia Anderson - Fashions
- 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
References
| Season 1 |
| Identified I Exposed I The Cat with Ten Lives I Conflict I A Question of Priorities I E.S.P. I Kill Straker! I Sub-Smash I Destruction I The Square Triangle I Close Up I The Psychobombs I Survival I Mindbender I Flight Path I The Man Who Came Back I The Dalotek Affair I Timelash I Ordeal I Court Martial I Computer Affair I Confetti Check A-OK I The Sound of Silence I Reflections in the Water I The Responsibility Seat I The Long Sleep |