U:AE was launched by ATV in the UK in September 1961 in co-operation with CBS in the USA.
PREMISE:
It is the year 1997. Mankind has set foot on the moon and is embarking on a colonisation of Mars. Yet the Earth is in turmoil. The Cold War has led to the USSR and China becoming virtual pariah states with the Western World under constant threat from weapons of both conventional and non-conventional means.
In an attempt to prevent the UK being attacked the government has set up a secret scientific/military group.
UNIT: UNITED NEGATION of INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM is based in the heart of London and headed up by Dr Harry Sullivan ( Anthony Quayle) and Major Michael Yates (William Hartnell).
Together with their team and aided by the latest equipment Sullivan and Yates must defend the planet...