“Court Martial” is episode twenty of season one of UFO.
At a room in SHADO, General Henderson reconvenes what appears to be a court and tells Colonel Foster that he’s been found guilty of the charge and the sentence is execution. There’s time for an appeal.
Straker leaves SHADO HQ and calls Colonel Freeman from his car. Then gets an e-alarm and finds a bug. He and Freeman head to see Henderson, who’s meeting with Jackson. Jackson confirms the bug is theirs. Henderson says it was planted for two reasons. One, to test security. The second, and real, reason, is that he had to quash a story about where Skydiver was going to rendezvous with a supply ship. The story knew too much. There’s a security leak and it’s at SHADO HQ. Someone Straker knows.
Freeman meets with Straker, who tells him the leaked message was authorised and sent by Foster. Straker heads to see Foster, who says the information was shared with no-one else. Meanwhile, Freeman gets a call from Henderson. He calls Straker and says there was another security leak about a routine flight to MoonBase, planned and authorised by Foster. Straker tells Foster there will be a military court.
Henderson convenes the court martial, Jackson acting as the prosecuting officer. According to Lt. Ford, the device used to send the message will only accept such from Straker, Freeman and Foster. He confirms it stores a copy of the message, but when printed out it’s in code that needs a computer to decode, and no such run has been done. Captain Waterman of Skydiver confirms that neither he nor his crew had access to an uncoded transmission, so couldn’t leak it.
When $10,000 turns up in Foster’s account, it doesn’t look good either. But there’s something going on at the film studio that turns out to be connected. Though Foster is found guilty, Straker doesn’t believe he is and keeps poking into the matter.
This may well be the only episode in which there are no UFOs or aliens, no appearance by MoonBase or any of SHADO’s equipment.