UFO!

Linda and I purchased and have been watching DVDs of the old Gerry Anderson series, UFO. The direction is a little leaden and the plots sometimes less than perfect, but overall I find it to be as entertaining as it was when I first viewed it in high school. You should check it out.
For those not in the know, Anderson was the brilliant creator of marionette TV shows in the 60's out of Britain that involved fantastic models with sci fi themes. They still have a significant cult following today. UFO was his first foray into a series with live actors (Space 1999 was another). It works. There's a certain low-key paranoia to the whole thing, as organ and body harvesting aliens raid earth and are combatted by a secret UN military unit called SHADO. It's got everything you could want for coolness - scientists wearing nehru jackets, beautiful astro-maidens wearing bubble wrap uniforms, alcohol drenched parties with Bealtes music on the stereo, (I believe this was only the second time the Fabs allowed one of their tunes to be used on commercial TV - the first time was on the Prisoner!), and did I mention bubble wrapped space babes? Like I said, check it out.
http://www.fanderson.org.uk/fanderson.html