UFO (TV series)

:This article is about the television show. For other uses, see UFO (disambiguation).

Trivia

• It is never explained why female Moonbase personnel were required to wear purple wigs and extensive eye make-up. Gerry Anderson said it made them look more futuristic and film better under the bright lights, while Sylvia Anderson said she believed wigs would become accepted components of military uniforms by the 1980s.
• Ed Bishop, who has dark hair in real life, initially bleached his hair for Bishop's unique white-haired look. He later began wearing a white wig when the bleaching began damaging his hair. Straker's unusual look may have been an attempt to make Bishop look like Captain Blue, the character he voiced in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. Bishop, until recently, possessed one of the wigs he wore on the show and took great delight in displaying it at science fiction conventions and on TV programs. He also kept a watch that was specially made for his character.
• Many other male characters in the series also wore wigs, again because the Andersons felt that they would become fashionable for both sexes by the 1980s. Early episodes in which Michael Billington does not wear a wig can be identified by his receding hairline and long sideburns.
• On both Skydiver and Moonbase, SHADO personnel enter fighter aircraft by sliding down tubes. This is a reference to Anderson's earlier series, Thunderbirds, which had the characters accessing their craft in similar fashion.