After a decade of creating pioneering puppet series made for children, Gerry & Sylvia Anderson took their first steps into live-action, with the 1969 feature film Doppelganger (re-titled outside Britain as Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun). This science-fiction film approached its outer space subject matter with a gritty realism, and would set the tone for what was to be their first live-action television series: UFO. This new series took as a starting point the pioneering work of Dr Christiaan N. Barnard, the surgeon who performed the world’s first heart transplant operation. In UFO a dying race of aliens travel across vast distances of space to harvest organs from human beings to help ensure their own survival. To combat this threat the United Nations created SHADO, a top-secret organisation utilising the latest technology available to defend the Earth. To complement the series, the Andersons frequent musical collaborator Barry Gray created a multifaceted score that gave the programme its own musical identity. Elegantly crafted and a firm favourite with Barry Gray fans, the sound of UFO, particularly its ethereal “World Music” closing credits is, quite simply, a joy. Includes a bonus track, Trampoline performed by The Spencer Davis Group from the episode Ordeal.
発売日：2019.9.13
トラックリスト
01 UFO Main Titles 02 S.H.A.D.O. 03 E.S.P. from “E.S.P.” 04 Flashback from “Confetti Check A-O.K.” 05 The Choice from “Confetti Check A-O.K.” 06 Space Junk from “Conflict” 07 Straker and the General from “Conflict” 08 A Rose for Sylvia from “Ordeal” 09 Harlington Straker from “Identified” 10 Alien from “Identified” 11 Travelling Home from “Ordeal” 12 The Trip from The Long Sleep 13 Taken from Ordeal 14 Crash Landing / Dreambox from Ordeal 15 The Leisure Sphere from Survival 16 Enemy my Friend from Survival 17 The Affair from The Square Triangle 18 A Day at the Studio from A Question of Priorities 19 Who Are You? / John’s Death from A Question of Priorities 20 UFO End Titles 21 Bonus Track - Trampoline from “Ordeal” - The Spencer Davis Group
1980年、既に人類は地球防衛組織シャドーを結成していた――
トラックリスト『サンダーバード』『キャプテン・スカーレット』『ジョー90』など、スーパーマリオネーションシリーズを製作したジェリー・アンダーソンが、初めて人間の俳優を起用したSFTVシリーズ『謎の円盤UFO』
この作品は『エヴァンゲリオン』の庵野秀明監督を始め、日本のクリエイターに多大な影響を与えたことでも知られている。
ミサイルを機首に装備したインターセプターや、船体全部が超音速ジェット機スカイ１として分離できる万能潜水艦スカイダイバーなど、メカデザインの秀逸さはさすがジェリー・アンダーソンと思わせるクオリティの高さ。
また、ストレイカー最高司令官や、エリス中尉などの未来感あふれるファッションも今の時代でも色あせることがない。
音楽を担当するのは、ジェリー・アンダーソンのほぼ全ての作品を手がけるバリー・グレイ。
今まで、バリー・グレイの作品集などで『謎の円盤UFO』の曲が数曲CDに収録されたり、ファンクラブ向けの2枚組CDがリリースされただけだったが、今回ようやく一般向けにリリースとなった。【国内盤】
After a decade of creating pioneering puppet series made for children, Gerry & Sylvia Anderson took their first steps into live-action, with the 1969 feature film Doppelganger (re-titled outside Britain as Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun). This science-fiction film approached its outer space subject matter with a gritty realism, and would set the tone for what was to be their first live-action television series: UFO. This new series took as a starting point the pioneering work of Dr Christiaan N. Barnard, the surgeon who performed the world’s first heart transplant operation. In UFO a dying race of aliens travel across vast distances of space to harvest organs from human beings to help ensure their own survival. To combat this threat the United Nations created SHADO, a top-secret organisation utilising the latest technology available to defend the Earth. To complement the series, the Andersons frequent musical collaborator Barry Gray created a multifaceted score that gave the programme its own musical identity. Elegantly crafted and a firm favourite with Barry Gray fans, the sound of UFO, particularly its ethereal “World Music” closing credits is, quite simply, a joy. Includes a bonus track, Trampoline performed by The Spencer Davis Group from the episode Ordeal.
発売日：2019.9.13
01 UFO Main Titles
02 S.H.A.D.O.
03 E.S.P. from “E.S.P.”
04 Flashback from “Confetti Check A-O.K.”
05 The Choice from “Confetti Check A-O.K.”
06 Space Junk from “Conflict”
07 Straker and the General from “Conflict”
08 A Rose for Sylvia from “Ordeal”
09 Harlington Straker from “Identified”
10 Alien from “Identified”
11 Travelling Home from “Ordeal”
12 The Trip from The Long Sleep
13 Taken from Ordeal
14 Crash Landing / Dreambox from Ordeal
15 The Leisure Sphere from Survival
16 Enemy my Friend from Survival
17 The Affair from The Square Triangle
18 A Day at the Studio from A Question of Priorities
19 Who Are You? / John’s Death from A Question of Priorities
20 UFO End Titles
21 Bonus Track - Trampoline from “Ordeal” - The Spencer Davis Group