UFO (TV series)
Following poor ratings for "Joe 90" (1968–69) and the cancellation of children's espionage television series "The Secret Service" (1969) after only one series, Lew Grade approached Gerry Anderson to look into creating his first live-action TV series. Anderson worked with his wife, Sylvia, and producer Reg Hill to create a sci-fi adventure series based around UFOs. Anderson said the core idea for the series was that UFO sightings were a common issue during the late 1960s and that idea of aliens harvesting human organs came from the work of Christian Barnard and his pioneering transplant operations. The creative team initially envisioned an organisation called UFoeDO (Unidentified Foe Defence Organisation), which was to become the secret SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organisation).
Mindbender (UFO)
"Mindbender" is the fourteenth episode aired of the first series of "UFO" - a 1970 British television science fiction series about an alien invasion of Earth. The screenplay was written Tony Barwick and the director was Ken Turner. The episode was filmed from 30th June to 10th July, 1970 and aired on the ATV Midlands on 13 January, 1971. Though shown as the fourteenth episode, it was actually the twenty-fifth to have been filmed.