"UFO", the predecessor, had better costumes and fewer explosions.[1]
The standard outro (if memory serves) had a very atmospheric sort of ambient soundtrack that, rather than using music, instead denoted a strong measure of fear and dread and a gut feel for the vast expanses of space.
Extremely sexist and misogynistic. That sort of stuff doesn’t worry me much usually but this was hard to watch.
Some good sci-fi though.
Get past the first episode and it’s great, like a sci-fi version of The Prisoner. Very much of its time but in a good way - filmed in 1970 but set in the eighties it’s like a vision of the future (past now) that never happened but could have - something very bad clearly happened in our timeline during the seventies to result in everything being so grim when just ten years earlier we were full of optimism.