The three stories in this box set, all written by Andy Lane, are as follows: Then, one day, his aircraft is attacked by a UFO. And aliens are already here.Įd Straker is a test pilot in the US Air Force. An array of familiar SHADO characters also feature including Colonel Alec Freeman (Samuel Clemens – award-winning film-maker, former RSC member, and son of Brian Clemens), Lieutenant Gay Ellis (Lynsey Murrell – Eastenders and the Sherlock Holmes Chapter One video game), General James Henderson (Harry Myers – The Sandman, Bernice Summerfield), and Lieutenant-Colonel Virginia Lake (Jeany Spark – Wallander, Collateral, RSC). UFO - Destruct: Positive! and UFO - Volume 2 (Title TBC) are each available to pre-order as a collector’s edition 3-disc CD box set (+ download for just £19.99 each) or digital download (for just £16.99 each), exclusively from Big Finish. It’s a journey that will eventually take him to the top job at SHADO. It opens with three action-packed full-cast audio adventures, following Ed Straker (Barnaby Kay – Wallander, Doctor Who and former RSC member) as a US Air Force test pilot who gets sucked into the world of alien infiltration and human kind’s fight for survival. It featured all the explosive, action-packed hardware hallmarks of an Anderson series, but also tackled very human, emotional themes.īig Finish’s version is written by Andy Lane (known for his Young Sherlock Holmes YA novels) and script edited by Jamie Anderson (son of Gerry) and Nicholas Briggs (Big Finish’s award-winning creative director). This sci-fi cult favourite, originally launched in 1970 but set in the then ‘futuristic’ 1980, centred on the struggle between SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organisation) and mysterious, alien would-be invaders.

An audio drama reimagining of Gerry Anderson’s classic live-action ITV series UFO is coming to Big Finish Productions, with the first of two box sets due for release in August 2022.

UFO by Jamie Anderson