Destruction (UFO)
"Destruction" is the ninth 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 Dennis Spooner and the director was Ken Turner. The episode was filmed between 4 June to 16 June 1970 and aired on the ATV Midlands on 2 December 1970. Though shown as the ninth episode, it was actually the twentieth to have been filmed.
2012 phenomenon
The UFO conspiracy TV series "The X-Files" cited 22 December 2012 as the date for an alien colonization of the Earth and mentioned the Mayan calendar "stopping" on this date. The History Channel aired a handful of special series on doomsday that included analysis of 2012 theories, such as "Decoding the Past" (2005–2007), "2012, End of Days" (2006), "Last Days on Earth" (2006), "Seven Signs of the Apocalypse" (2009), and "Nostradamus 2012" (2008). The Discovery Channel also aired "2012 Apocalypse" in 2009, suggesting that massive solar storms, magnetic pole reversal, earthquakes, supervolcanoes, and other drastic natural events could occur in 2012. In 2012, the National Geographic Channel launched a show called "Doomsday Preppers", a documentary series about survivalists preparing for various cataclysms, including the 2012 doomsday.