Exposed

"Exposed" is the second 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 David Lane. The episode was filmed between 13 May and 23 May 1969 and aired on the ATV Midlands network on 23 September 1970. Though shown as the second episode, it was actually the fifth to have been filmed. The episode introduces Colonel Paul Foster (Michael Billington), who was to become a regular character for the rest of the series. The series was created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson with Reg Hill, and produced by the Andersons and Lew Grade's Century 21 Productions for Grade's ITC Entertainment company. Story When the Sky One interceptor aircraft intercepts and destroys a UFO, the explosion causes the nearby experimental test aircraft XV-104, whose pilot refused the order to leave the area, to crash. While the co-pilot Jim is killed, the pilot Paul Foster (Michael Billington) survives, temporarily blinded.