The Defenders – Red Alert

SHADO HQ

The Harlington-Straker Film Studios appear to the outside world to be rather glamorous buildings in and around which exciting and profitable movies are made. Yet, beneath those same buildings is a vast network of tunnels and halls, offices and laboratories where the top secret and vitally important work of SHADO is controlled.

The Aliens are Coming !

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Outside the Earth’s atmosphere, SHADO’s main firepower is provided by the Interceptors under the control of Moonbase. These single-seat vertical take-off machines are housed in craters beneath the Moon’s surface and operate in packs of three. In order to destroy UFOs, each Interceptor is equipped with the Earth’s most powerful computer-assisted missile.

The New Boss Issues 12-18

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A UFO arrives on Earth and collides with General Henderson’s car as he returns from a vacation in America, causing a crash and injuring him. General Calper, who accompanies Straker in a ShadAir jet, takes his place at an International Astrophysical Commission meeting. Calper is hostile to SHADO, but a UFO is spotted homing in on them in flight.

The Force Field Issues 19-25

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Dennis Skipton, a SHADO technician, has created an invisible force-field and shows it to Straker and Freeman by setting it up in the control room and walking into it! Six UFOs enter the solar system, change course, and disappear before Straker can take any further action! Six more UFOs are tracked while attempting to determine their location, and their path leads them to Mars.