UFO

Season 1 Episode 5

A Question of Priorities

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A Question of Priorities
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When his young son is critically injured in an automobile accident, Straker must make the hardest choice of his life: save his son or gain invaluable intelligence about the aliens.
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  • Finally Straker gets a personal life and some character development, although not good ones.

    7.8
    Most UFO episodes are full of action (at least the excitment of all their toys being used) and skimp on the characters. Straker especially just chews people out & demands more out of them. This story shows us that the job has cost Straker alot (his marriage and estrangement from his son) and will cost him even more. I find it hard to believe the transport with the drugs for his son is the only one available, SHADO usually seems to have countless aircraft around. Secrecy is apparently more important than catching aliens to SHADO. Of course, Straker loses on both counts in perhaps the show's darkest ending. Killing people is one thing but to let a child die? Wouldn't get away with that on a family show now I bet.moreless
Suzanne Neve

Suzanne Neve

Mary Rutland

Guest Star

Mary Merrall

Mary Merrall

Mrs. O'Connor

Guest Star

Barnaby Shaw

Barnaby Shaw

John Rutland

Guest Star

Peter Gordeno

Peter Gordeno

Captain Peter Carlin

Recurring Role

Gabrielle Drake

Gabrielle Drake

Lt. Gay Ellis

Recurring Role

Mel Oxley

Mel Oxley

Voice of SID

Recurring Role

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