Can’t be a coincidence that the accident that sent the moon out of its orbit happened on 13 September - that’s Barbara Bain’s birthday, and as that is today happy birthday Barbara Bain, who is 93 today
Year one is my favorite scifi show. I was 8 years old when it premiered in 1975 and loved it. I remember being bewildered by season 2. Though I still enjoyed the show the sense of wonder and terror of the unknown was gone.
Thank you for this episode. I LOVE Space:1999. I was 9-10 when this came out and didn't miss an episode. While Star Trek was available via syndication, this was a new show and I ate it up. I had many toys and models from the show (still have my Dinky eagle). The music from both seasons was great. Also, desktop visors(?) would make their way onto Drax's space station in Moonraker. Space:1999 was/is good fun.
To this day the Eagle remains one of my fave sci-fi spacecraft .... I remember this so well as a kid, even looking forward to getting the annual at Christmas etc..
I always believed the Eagle was the one sci-fi ship we could build in real life (along with the _Botany Bay_ which, according to Star Trek lore, should already be flying).
As a true-blue '60s sci-fi dude, the criticisms I have for "Space:1999" are legion, to be sure. However, that theme song is freakin' dynamite, no notes, it still slaps even now.
Out of all the surprise guest casting Bernard Cribbins and David Prowse were the most surprising. Loved this show, can't wait for part 2 of your review. My favourite Episode was Black Sun.
I too use to watch Space:1999 on a Saturday night with my family aged 9. I use to wonder then what 1999 would be like. I had my son in 1998 and things were not like the series lol 😅❤❤
introduced my little ones to this when they were small, watching them leaping around the room to the original theme tune pretending to play guitar are still moments that bring tears of joy :)
I’m only halfway through the video and I’ve learned so much! Always been a fan of this show (despite its foibles) and the Andersons’ entire body of work. Your videos are always fantastic and I’m amazed at the time and effort you put into them, but this one is above and beyond! Thank you, thank you!
What an appropriate day for this one. I’m on a bit of a Space:1999 kick because now Season 1 makes sense. I first saw this on AFN in Germany. In fall 1984 AFN showed this on Saturday mornings at 0730. I was rather young then but I didn’t get it. (I was only reminded of it as a college student, when I was taking notes in class on Monday - September 13, 1999, when I thought to myself “this was the day they always mention in the opening of that show, Space:1999 - why?” It was much later that I blundered into the show’s premise. Forty years after I first heard of it, in a restless night in DC, on the road, Space:1999 popped up on my YT feed. I was like “what the hell”. The first episode I saw since 1984 was “Missing Link” - “what were they on when they made this?” I wondered. Then, “Guardian of Piri”. The light switch came on. I Got It. Unlike when I was a kid. So I got into Season 1 in a huge way. My take: it’s like Star Trek, without all the damn homework. (I could never get into Star Trek.) In 1984, as a kid, I did like the Eagles. I still do. 😎
Thank you mucho Mr Fine. A video of high hilarity. Love your stuff. The 'Space 19 ninety ninety ninety.... err' observation had me spluttering with recognition. I loved this show back in the day. I think mainly because ST was off air.
We often had this played on tv but at the age I was at the time I couldn’t appreciate it n the way it deserved. I loved the vibrancy of Star Trek and the action of battlestar galactica. This fell in the middle.
I always loved how Professor Bergman's response to most questions was a shrug, a puzzled look, or him saying "I don't know, John". Sometimes all three! "Professor", huh..?
I can see how this show influenced Farscape, Battlestar Galactica (both versions), and Star Trek: The Motion Pictures. Defiantly an underrated classic.
I was at the 50th Anniversary convention in London last weekend. It had a sort of elegiac feel. The remaining actors and production team are getting older and it might be the last time there is anything on that scale. Space 1999 has only ever appealed to a minority, but that minority seem to enjoy it very much. Visually, it is often stunning, sublime even.
This is a wonderful review/overview of the series. Lots of humor, but it hits on all the main aspects of the show. Looking forward to individual episode reviews.
Loved this show. Everything from the uniforms to that 'Italian' style of the 1st series and of course its wonderful stars: The Eagle Transporters! A true classic and by far my favourite ever space ship even if they did crash more often than a computer running Windows ME. Also that wonderful theme tune with the funky guitar underneath. Class!!!
I loved both seasons of Space 1999 equally. However, even as an 8-year old watching it during its first runs, I was always perplexed that they were excited about possible life on Meta and being able to go there as the rogue planet passed by our solar system. But then, once they started encountering and engaging with other life on future episodes, they were so nonchalant about it.
This was on Sunday lunchtime in my area of the UK. The slow pace , dull dialogue and drab look fitted Sundays in the 1970’s perfectly. When it was over there was plenty of time to get ready for the “long dark teatime of the soul”
an hour video on a weekly release schedule?! yeoman's work, Stam. And on September 13th too! How's the TNG episode survey coming? No rush; just saying I enjoyed the first installment. Thanks again. Your videos are always a joy.
I find that one of the most amusing aspects of this show is the opening credits, at which they edit together split-second takes of performers moving about or doing something Action-specific, to give the upcoming episode the feel of a fast-paced American adventure series. A feel belied by the actual episodes, which tended towards being more sedate and thoughtful.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! And I haven't watched it yet! I meant to do write the above in the comments for your second Blake's 7 video too, but was unable to, because I wasn't logged into TH-cam and I'd forgotten my password.
Thank you for this wonderful nostalgic retrospective I didn't realize I needed! I was a big fan of this series as a boy. I was about 12 when it first premiered in the US. To this day, every time I think of September 13th in any context I can't help following it in my mind with "Massive nuclear explosion... Moon torn out of earth orbit..." I always preferred the first season, perhaps because Victor Bergman was my favorite character (though I had a fan-boy crush on Sandra Benes).
Happy memories and frustration of trying to build stun guns and comlock out of Lego as a kid back in the 70s. Having them constantly fall apart trying to wear them on my belt.
This video sparked my memory of Saturday nights in the early 70's. UFO at 5 PM on channel 9. Star Trek at 6 PM on channel 11, and Space: 1999 at 7 PM on the same channel.
Stam you are so Fine you slip in some of the most clever jokes between so much respect and knowledge of the material your reviewing it's breath taking. Hat off to you
Space 1999 is the hands down best Gerry Anderson series ever made! I enjoy the whole series however season two had a few bomb episodes (Brian the Brain, etc). Stu.
I know, right ?? I was just a little boy back then and I had nightmares for a whole month after that 😄😄😄 I still remember the helpless victims being sucked inside that horrible monster and spit out burnt to a crisp minutes later...It wasn't science fiction it was a horror movie ( episode )...Wow...
There are similar episodes with Star Trek TNG, DS9, and Voyager that affected people as children and still to this day, which seem to just miss the mark of the actual horror they’re trying to portray. “Conspiracy” and the exploding Remmick head is one them.
Interesting - in my market, it aired at 7pm on Sunday. Right before The Wonderful World of Disney and/or the ABC Sunday Night Movie. I don't ever think it aired in the morning.
Carters character is interesting. He is both impulsive to a degree but also VERY responsible and excellent pilot who gets the job done and doesant get anyone killed unnecessarily. As a pilot myself, i would fly with him and feel confident he could get me out of a ajm if needed without being dangerous unless as last resort pushing it to the wire as he did in a few stories. Dangerously close to be 2nd in command due to these skills and straight up and down attitude and no nonsense appraisal of situations. Very close to Konig's ability to command perhaps. He got all the fan mail and kept getting beaten up although his strength belies that; however the writers used him as a punching bag many times. Sad Tate and Landau wernt closer as its a bit frosty on screen but between the two of them, they could have taken on the universe!! I love stories from both seasons but the first is for the purist and how it was made and designed white and clinical and 2nd season all fruity and laughs and monsters so in a way you have plenty to choose from .Plenty there for many seasons but money is money or ratings?
I enjoyed this view of the series more than I enjoyed the series itaelf. I must have been a serious child.I was about 10 when it ended, but always found the.stories very silly. Re: Auf Wiedersehen Pet. As a proud Geordie who moved to the States 20 odd years ago, it was a challenge introducing my american wife to that show, though she came to love it. It's still a masterwork in my eyes.
"Death's Other Dominion" "The Force of Life" and "The Troubled Spirit" also contain moments of real terror. Nothing matches for pure horror the "cardigan" that Martin Landau wears briefly in "The Metamorph" (and which, appallingly, seems to be one of the costumes that still survives from the production) but these are still episodes with scary scenes.
As a kid, I watched this show every week, desperately hoping it would get better, or at least make sense. Many years later, I bought an episode on DVD for my older brother as a joke. It was one we had laughed at hysterically when it first aired. The moon gets an atmosphere, and Koenig and Victor go over to a window to watch Alphans playing outside in their regular uniforms. Then Victor presses a button near the window and it slides open so they can small the fresh air. The idea that a moon base was designed with windows that could be opened by the press of a button that could easily have been accidentally bumped was so funny to us that we remembered it 20 years later. Thanks for another great video. Looking forward to more, and please show the clip of Victor opening the window. 😂
For me the first season is beautiful the cinematography, the very clever set design, the art direction in general - it was an extraordinarily well-shot dumb show. (Watch the opening sequence to ‘the troubled spirit’ for a fine example) and in the second season, this was all pretty much gone. Static camera setups, not much motion, the more interesting shot compositions gone, and while the sets *could* be rejiggered, they seldom were. The first season was cinematic, the second season was kinda generic, with a few exceptions. I give the show mad props for making Alpha feel like a real place, since we saw so much of it, frequently just one time. In the second season it felt more like studio sets, but the first season is pretty remarkable in evoking a sense of “place” that most shows struggle and fail to do
Rose-tinted memories from childhood are curious things. I bought the DVD box set but only managed to watch a handful of episodes. I had an Airfix Eagle in the 70s... which of course I broke as it was so fragile! Ninjas are mandatory for "loose/lose" as well as "should of". 😁👍
Another top class edit here. Anyone who has tried to compile an hour of anything will know just how hard that can be but to create an engaging and humourous programme is remarkable. The amount of detail in the backstory is also amazing, no doubt gleaned from watching many hours of documentaries about the series from many sources. I really appreciate the effort out into this (and all of your YT productions). Anyway, my 'little git' still likes chicken. Do you want to sell yours?
I watched every episode of season one on first broadcast. I think the CBC carried it in Canada. I know that it was well-promoted, because the first episode was an event. I moved from BC to southern Ontario before season two. My memory was that the US station out of Rochester or Buffalo played it at semi-random times on Saturdays, so it was harder to catch every episode. I was in love with Maya. Moon Zero Two is an interesting SF movie from 1969 that Catherine Schell was in.
I didn’t realise the series was made that early in the 70s. I assumed, and my memory placed it, after Star Wars. My school friend had a toy Eagle and one of the guns.
Living behind the Iron Curtain at the time I remember watching it in the very late 70s, a couple of years after it was released. I was seven or eight at the time and none of it made any sense to me, but of course I watched every episode.
More often perhaps? Early 90s Manchester (UK), Late 90s Everywhere (Nicole Fahri etc), 2010s (Boho/70s revival generally), mid 2020s (just starting, but Brad Pitt recently seen wearing).
Interesting side note: there was a planned spin-off centered on Maya, as she was seen as the breakout star of Year 2. The spin-off was supposed to have run concurrently with Year 3, but was cancelled along with the parent show. I've always thought that in this current age of recycling the past, it would be interesting to reboot the spin-off as it was a show that was planned but never made.
Loved this when I was a kid, born in 72 so I must have watched it on repeat in the late 70s. It was such a part of my childhood as I had an Eagle toy that at midnight on new years eve as we turned into 1999 I took my missus outside, pointed up and said "look, space 1999" 😂
I suspect Victor Bergman lied on his CV when applying for the role of Chief Science Officer as his stock answer to Koenig's question "What do you think it is Victor?" is nearly always "Well, I don't know John..."
Bergman also specialised in baffling "explanations". "You know, John, I think it is not what it was when we first realised that it isn't what think it is now. It's that simple"
In the UK I remember the season 2 episodes being repeated on Saturday mornings. Then in 1998 BBC2 screened them in the 6pm "cult TV" slot that was popular at the time.
A fun and insightful review as always! I've been re-watching the show recently, and except for the 70s flares on the pants, the show on the whole holds up remarkably well. Often quite cinematic looking (Breakaway, War Games, Mission of the Darians), especially in comparison to other sci-fi tv attempts at the time (Starlost, Fantastic Journey, Logan's Run tv series).
How about a companion show which describes what the Earth would be like without tides, let alone the effects of removing the moon's gravity circus from the lives of everybody and everything on our planet? We'd have it far worse off than the unfortunate denizens of Moon Base Alpha.
It was shown on Granada on a Friday about 6.30pm. "Force of Life" was shown second so you can imagine the effect the ending had on me at a young age! There is a chronology to the 1st series, and what I didn't pick up on the first time but have done on later viewings is the inference that there is something influencing events. Look forward to seeing your future videos on the episodes.
I was introduced to Space: 1999 via Cosmic Princess being screened on the KTMA era of MST3K. Honestly liked it and plan on tracking down the episodes to watch the series proper.
I still watch "1999" occaisonally. Most episodes have some pretty questionable science and even plot holes in them but I "suspend my disbelief" and just enjoy it.
My memory of this series can be summed up with: I liked the Eagle ship (everyone had that Dinky toy back in the day, and they hung around for years and years in toy chests) but the ships weren't featured enough; the clothes were really 70's, and made the show look incredibly dated when I watched it in the 80's; every plot seemed to be - aliens taking over people's minds, or plagues killing people in horrendous ways. What I don't remember about it at all... is fun. And for a kid watching a sci-fi show that was a killer. It was a slow, depressing, dated looking show, featuring well-past middle-age people being unhappy on a moon base.
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Can’t be a coincidence that the accident that sent the moon out of its orbit happened on 13 September - that’s Barbara Bain’s birthday, and as that is today happy birthday Barbara Bain, who is 93 today
Alway found Barbara attractive intelligent and effective, like in Mission Impossible. I just found out she married Maetin Landou.
First actress in television history to receive three consecutive Emmy Awards.
Season 2 was Crap.
@@garyzod8818 That was the fault of Fred Freiberger. He was the jackass in charge during Star Trek:TOS' 3rd season.
Year one is my favorite scifi show. I was 8 years old when it premiered in 1975 and loved it. I remember being bewildered by season 2. Though I still enjoyed the show the sense of wonder and terror of the unknown was gone.
I’m 100% with you, man. I was 7 in 1975 and Space: 1999 is the show that made me a sci-fi fan.
I was in middle school when this series aired. That skeleton-spitting space monster, as cheesy as it looks NOW, haunted my psyche for decades.
Lol! Join the club. Dragons Domain will forever have a certain place in 1999 fans mind.
Thank you for this episode. I LOVE Space:1999. I was 9-10 when this came out and didn't miss an episode. While Star Trek was available via syndication, this was a new show and I ate it up. I had many toys and models from the show (still have my Dinky eagle). The music from both seasons was great. Also, desktop visors(?) would make their way onto Drax's space station in Moonraker. Space:1999 was/is good fun.
To this day the Eagle remains one of my fave sci-fi spacecraft .... I remember this so well as a kid, even looking forward to getting the annual at Christmas etc..
Still one of my favourites. I have a Product Enterprise 12" Eagle on my bookshelf, alongside loads of other memorable sci-fi ship models.
The model work really holds up
Though UFO moon Interseptor was close 2nd 😊
I always believed the Eagle was the one sci-fi ship we could build in real life (along with the _Botany Bay_ which, according to Star Trek lore, should already be flying).
Stunning. Tough as nails and with a very clean realistic look. A stunner.
I watched this as a kid when it was broadcast! I absolutely love this show!!! Thanks for the great look back!!
I remember watching 1st episode when broadcast Was original wonderful with nothing like it at the time
That funky theme tune!!! Iconic stuff! and the whole orchestra comes in for Barry Morse title card. good times
The U.F.O. theme tune was also super cool.
@@James-os5fh The UFO theme was and remains the grooviest theme in TV history, baby!
As a true-blue '60s sci-fi dude, the criticisms I have for "Space:1999" are legion, to be sure. However, that theme song is freakin' dynamite, no notes, it still slaps even now.
I frequently wondered what British Star Trek would be like. Then I remembered this exists. Well done.
god forbid
Any Sci Fi with Brian Blessed is wonderful 😊
199999999999999999999999...Hilarious Stam!
Out of all the surprise guest casting Bernard Cribbins and David Prowse were the most surprising. Loved this show, can't wait for part 2 of your review. My favourite Episode was Black Sun.
What role did Prowse play ?
@@lbricks7631 it’s subject to change, but as of this moment, my fave is “Guardian of Piri”.
@@ricardocantoral7672 Big Monster in Season 2 that comes in to steal the life support if I remember correctly
As a kid, Alan was my favorite character, probably because he was the pilot.
Have fond memories of watching this series in the 1970s with my family on a Saturday night. 🤗
I too use to watch Space:1999 on a Saturday night with my family aged 9. I use to wonder then what 1999 would be like. I had my son in 1998 and things were not like the series lol 😅❤❤
I loved this as a kid, I tried to get my kids into it and immediately felt really really old. Thanks again for a great video stam!
introduced my little ones to this when they were small, watching them leaping around the room to the original theme tune pretending to play guitar are still moments that bring tears of joy :)
Bless them! I still jump around to it now and I'm 53!
this so needs a reboot , the idea is awesome! the stories were terrifying
this so needs a decently written five series reboot.
I’m only halfway through the video and I’ve learned so much! Always been a fan of this show (despite its foibles) and the Andersons’ entire body of work.
Your videos are always fantastic and I’m amazed at the time and effort you put into them, but this one is above and beyond! Thank you, thank you!
What an appropriate day for this one. I’m on a bit of a Space:1999 kick because now Season 1 makes sense. I first saw this on AFN in Germany. In fall 1984 AFN showed this on Saturday mornings at 0730. I was rather young then but I didn’t get it. (I was only reminded of it as a college student, when I was taking notes in class on Monday - September 13, 1999, when I thought to myself “this was the day they always mention in the opening of that show, Space:1999 - why?” It was much later that I blundered into the show’s premise.
Forty years after I first heard of it, in a restless night in DC, on the road, Space:1999 popped up on my YT feed. I was like “what the hell”. The first episode I saw since 1984 was “Missing Link” - “what were they on when they made this?” I wondered. Then, “Guardian of Piri”. The light switch came on. I Got It. Unlike when I was a kid. So I got into Season 1 in a huge way. My take: it’s like Star Trek, without all the damn homework. (I could never get into Star Trek.)
In 1984, as a kid, I did like the Eagles. I still do. 😎
Season Two is awful crap Fred Freiberger the series killer got hold of it, then it was as good as dead/cancellef
@@melina001a there was a Season 2?
@shadowchaser3836 Yes unfortunately it was when Fred Fruedberg got hold if the show
@@melina001a proof that sarcasm doesn’t do well in digital formats. 😎. (Yes, I know this, but I refuse to acknowledge Season 2. Hence my question.😎)
Thank you mucho Mr Fine. A video of high hilarity. Love your stuff. The 'Space 19 ninety ninety ninety.... err' observation had me spluttering with recognition. I loved this show back in the day. I think mainly because ST was off air.
What a treat for Breakaway Day! Stam Fine is Damn Fine. (Can't wait for part 2.)
loved this show I was a little kid had alot of the toys they had produced for it. Huge Fan!
I loved this as a kid and the theme was amazing
I absolutely adored this show as a kid, totally blew my mind
Me too.The Brits also: UFO-which I also watched.
I absolutely loved this show when I was about 11 years old, and still find a lot to admire about it. Thanks so much for this spot-on review!
I remember where I was when the moon left
9/13 never forget ✊
Yeah,in deep trouble. LOL.
We often had this played on tv but at the age I was at the time I couldn’t appreciate it n the way it deserved. I loved the vibrancy of Star Trek and the action of battlestar galactica. This fell in the middle.
I never watched it religiously but do remember liking the episode where they encountered God. God was a woman.
How could they change the most funk-tastic intro music ever for S2? It was sacrilege
Fred freidberger Producer from TOS was responsible for the changes.
I always loved how Professor Bergman's response to most questions was a shrug, a puzzled look, or him saying "I don't know, John". Sometimes all three! "Professor", huh..?
Stam! I asked for a review of this show a couple of years ago (IIRC) and you've done it! Can't thank you enough!!!!
I loved this show as a kid. I had a full sized Eagle Transporter as a present for Christmas. But then I had asbsolutely corslossall brian dammmmmage.
I can see how this show influenced Farscape, Battlestar Galactica (both versions), and Star Trek: The Motion Pictures. Defiantly an underrated classic.
I was at the 50th Anniversary convention in London last weekend. It had a sort of elegiac feel. The remaining actors and production team are getting older and it might be the last time there is anything on that scale. Space 1999 has only ever appealed to a minority, but that minority seem to enjoy it very much. Visually, it is often stunning, sublime even.
Awesome video! Caught episodes as a child and have owned whole series for a while. Even have an old Eagle toy from my cousin :)
You gotta feel for Commissioner Simmonds and how that episode ends
This is a wonderful review/overview of the series. Lots of humor, but it hits on all the main aspects of the show. Looking forward to individual episode reviews.
Loved this show. Everything from the uniforms to that 'Italian' style of the 1st series and of course its wonderful stars: The Eagle Transporters! A true classic and by far my favourite ever space ship even if they did crash more often than a computer running Windows ME. Also that wonderful theme tune with the funky guitar underneath. Class!!!
Brilliant. I hoped you would do this! X
Long live Kart rest! Loved Space: 1999, it was ahead of its time.
I loved both seasons of Space 1999 equally. However, even as an 8-year old watching it during its first runs, I was always perplexed that they were excited about possible life on Meta and being able to go there as the rogue planet passed by our solar system. But then, once they started encountering and engaging with other life on future episodes, they were so nonchalant about it.
I was always perplexed by why the first episode ended with a signal from Meta, but Meta was never mentioned again. (Correct me if I am wrong.)
I’m loving this super deep dive / long form version of your videos.
This was on Sunday lunchtime in my area of the UK. The slow pace , dull dialogue and drab look fitted Sundays in the 1970’s perfectly. When it was over there was plenty of time to get ready for the “long dark teatime of the soul”
Well Done Stam Fine a "Brilliant prepared review of Space 1999"
Excellent! I've been rewatching (well, series 1) and the Eagle is never far from my thoughts. "Rock out with your comlock out!" Epic.
an hour video on a weekly release schedule?! yeoman's work, Stam. And on September 13th too! How's the TNG episode survey coming? No rush; just saying I enjoyed the first installment. Thanks again. Your videos are always a joy.
TNG Season 1 will probably show up sometime in the next few months
I find that one of the most amusing aspects of this show is the opening credits, at which they edit together split-second takes of performers moving about or doing something Action-specific, to give the upcoming episode the feel of a fast-paced American adventure series. A feel belied by the actual episodes, which tended towards being more sedate and thoughtful.
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And I haven't watched it yet! I meant to do write the above in the comments for your second Blake's 7 video too, but was unable to, because I wasn't logged into TH-cam and I'd forgotten my password.
The Battlestar Galactica reboot had a This Episode intro for a little while. The creator said it was an homage to 1999.
Thank you for this wonderful nostalgic retrospective I didn't realize I needed! I was a big fan of this series as a boy. I was about 12 when it first premiered in the US. To this day, every time I think of September 13th in any context I can't help following it in my mind with "Massive nuclear explosion... Moon torn out of earth orbit..." I always preferred the first season, perhaps because Victor Bergman was my favorite character (though I had a fan-boy crush on Sandra Benes).
Happy memories and frustration of trying to build stun guns and comlock out of Lego as a kid back in the 70s. Having them constantly fall apart trying to wear them on my belt.
Journey to the far side of the sun movie ( 1969 ) TV Series U.F.0 ( 1970 ) Space 1999 grew out of those 2 super cool.
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Feel like catching up with this again? Why you are in the right place, the episodes are right here on TH-cam. I do miss my DVD box set though.
This video sparked my memory of Saturday nights in the early 70's. UFO at 5 PM on channel 9. Star Trek at 6 PM on channel 11, and Space: 1999 at 7 PM on the same channel.
Stam you are so Fine you slip in some of the most clever jokes between so much respect and knowledge of the material your reviewing it's breath taking. Hat off to you
Thanks!
Space 1999 is the hands down best Gerry Anderson series ever made! I enjoy the whole series however season two had a few bomb episodes (Brian the Brain, etc). Stu.
Aww Brian the Brain is one of the episodes I remember quite fondly. Kinda like a homicidal version of Edgar from Electric Dreams.
Still can't believe they thought Dragon's Domain was suitable for Saturday morning TV.
I used to think it was just me that was a little messed by that episode…
I know, right ?? I was just a little boy back then and I had nightmares for a whole month after that 😄😄😄
I still remember the helpless victims being sucked inside that horrible monster and spit out burnt to a crisp minutes later...It wasn't science fiction it was a horror movie ( episode )...Wow...
That’s the episode that really drew my attention to the show.
There are similar episodes with Star Trek TNG, DS9, and Voyager that affected people as children and still to this day, which seem to just miss the mark of the actual horror they’re trying to portray.
“Conspiracy” and the exploding Remmick head is one them.
Interesting - in my market, it aired at 7pm on Sunday. Right before The Wonderful World of Disney and/or the ABC Sunday Night Movie. I don't ever think it aired in the morning.
Great video Stam, I used to love the theme music and even had an Eagle! I wish I still had it. I remember reading the novelisation too.
Carters character is interesting. He is both impulsive to a degree but also VERY responsible and excellent pilot who gets the job done and doesant get anyone killed unnecessarily. As a pilot myself, i would fly with him and feel confident he could get me out of a ajm if needed without being dangerous unless as last resort pushing it to the wire as he did in a few stories. Dangerously close to be 2nd in command due to these skills and straight up and down attitude and no nonsense appraisal of situations. Very close to Konig's ability to command perhaps. He got all the fan mail and kept getting beaten up although his strength belies that; however the writers used him as a punching bag many times. Sad Tate and Landau wernt closer as its a bit frosty on screen but between the two of them, they could have taken on the universe!! I love stories from both seasons but the first is for the purist and how it was made and designed white and clinical and 2nd season all fruity and laughs and monsters so in a way you have plenty to choose from .Plenty there for many seasons but money is money or ratings?
My favourite was the Peter bowls episode as being a friend of the good life seeing him as an immortal sadist was pretty memorable.😂
I loved this show as a kid.
thanks for great video interesting , Space:1999 season 1 was classic season two had some good episodes too.
have a great breakaway day September 13
My local TV station used to run this show daily at 4:00pm in the mid-70's as replacement for Star Trek re-runs.
Hey! Bad News was a good band! And they played the main stage at Glastonbury!
Vim Fuego lives! Although nowadays he plays a banjo... 😁🤘
I loved this show as a kid. Then again, back in the days of VHF/UHF, 3-5 channels, and rabbit ear antennas, our choices were limited.
I enjoyed this view of the series more than I enjoyed the series itaelf. I must have been a serious child.I was about 10 when it ended, but always found the.stories very silly. Re: Auf Wiedersehen Pet. As a proud Geordie who moved to the States 20 odd years ago, it was a challenge introducing my american wife to that show, though she came to love it. It's still a masterwork in my eyes.
The episode 'Dragons' Domain' is not for kids and is genuinely frightening
"Death's Other Dominion" "The Force of Life" and "The Troubled Spirit" also contain moments of real terror. Nothing matches for pure horror the "cardigan" that Martin Landau wears briefly in "The Metamorph" (and which, appallingly, seems to be one of the costumes that still survives from the production) but these are still episodes with scary scenes.
Over an hour on Space 1999? Now we're talking! I guess the housework will have to wait!
As a kid, I watched this show every week, desperately hoping it would get better, or at least make sense. Many years later, I bought an episode on DVD for my older brother as a joke. It was one we had laughed at hysterically when it first aired. The moon gets an atmosphere, and Koenig and Victor go over to a window to watch Alphans playing outside in their regular uniforms. Then Victor presses a button near the window and it slides open so they can small the fresh air. The idea that a moon base was designed with windows that could be opened by the press of a button that could easily have been accidentally bumped was so funny to us that we remembered it 20 years later. Thanks for another great video. Looking forward to more, and please show the clip of Victor opening the window. 😂
TBH honest didn't age well though was wonderful for the time
For me the first season is beautiful the cinematography, the very clever set design, the art direction in general - it was an extraordinarily well-shot dumb show. (Watch the opening sequence to ‘the troubled spirit’ for a fine example) and in the second season, this was all pretty much gone. Static camera setups, not much motion, the more interesting shot compositions gone, and while the sets *could* be rejiggered, they seldom were. The first season was cinematic, the second season was kinda generic, with a few exceptions.
I give the show mad props for making Alpha feel like a real place, since we saw so much of it, frequently just one time. In the second season it felt more like studio sets, but the first season is pretty remarkable in evoking a sense of “place” that most shows struggle and fail to do
Once of my favorite shows growing up- my brother agreed on this. Bionic Woman and Wonder Woman were two of my other favorites.
Rose-tinted memories from childhood are curious things. I bought the DVD box set but only managed to watch a handful of episodes. I had an Airfix Eagle in the 70s... which of course I broke as it was so fragile!
Ninjas are mandatory for "loose/lose" as well as "should of". 😁👍
Another top class edit here. Anyone who has tried to compile an hour of anything will know just how hard that can be but to create an engaging and humourous programme is remarkable.
The amount of detail in the backstory is also amazing, no doubt gleaned from watching many hours of documentaries about the series from many sources.
I really appreciate the effort out into this (and all of your YT productions).
Anyway, my 'little git' still likes chicken. Do you want to sell yours?
I watched every episode of season one on first broadcast. I think the CBC carried it in Canada. I know that it was well-promoted, because the first episode was an event.
I moved from BC to southern Ontario before season two. My memory was that the US station out of Rochester or Buffalo played it at semi-random times on Saturdays, so it was harder to catch every episode. I was in love with Maya.
Moon Zero Two is an interesting SF movie from 1969 that Catherine Schell was in.
I didn’t realise the series was made that early in the 70s. I assumed, and my memory placed it, after Star Wars. My school friend had a toy Eagle and one of the guns.
Living behind the Iron Curtain at the time I remember watching it in the very late 70s, a couple of years after it was released. I was seven or eight at the time and none of it made any sense to me, but of course I watched every episode.
To be fair, bell bottoms came back in style at least twice since
More often perhaps? Early 90s Manchester (UK), Late 90s Everywhere (Nicole Fahri etc), 2010s (Boho/70s revival generally), mid 2020s (just starting, but Brad Pitt recently seen wearing).
You guys got our "Wide World of Sports" too? Holy crap.
As a kid in the U.S. during its syndicated run, I completely missed it. Never saw an episode. I do remember the toys, though.
Interesting side note: there was a planned spin-off centered on Maya, as she was seen as the breakout star of Year 2. The spin-off was supposed to have run concurrently with Year 3, but was cancelled along with the parent show. I've always thought that in this current age of recycling the past, it would be interesting to reboot the spin-off as it was a show that was planned but never made.
That’s why this show has been on my mind lately!! Also the recent audio remake(?) are amazing even funkier intro.
The Auf Pet dubbing, genius.
I saw the first season episodes as a kid and even in a small screen they were scary as hell
I've always been aware of this show through merchandise, but never actually watched any of it. I might have to give it a go.
Compilation "movies" were such a 70's thing.
Loved this when I was a kid, born in 72 so I must have watched it on repeat in the late 70s. It was such a part of my childhood as I had an Eagle toy that at midnight on new years eve as we turned into 1999 I took my missus outside, pointed up and said "look, space 1999" 😂
Seeing Sandra Benes after all these years explains one of my preferences in women
Yes, I do remember having seen this all before.
Thanks Stam, nice stuff
I suspect Victor Bergman lied on his CV when applying for the role of Chief Science Officer as his stock answer to Koenig's question "What do you think it is Victor?" is nearly always "Well, I don't know John..."
Bergman also specialised in baffling "explanations". "You know, John, I think it is not what it was when we first realised that it isn't what think it is now. It's that simple"
In the UK I remember the season 2 episodes being repeated on Saturday mornings. Then in 1998 BBC2 screened them in the 6pm "cult TV" slot that was popular at the time.
A fun and insightful review as always! I've been re-watching the show recently, and except for the 70s flares on the pants, the show on the whole holds up remarkably well. Often quite cinematic looking (Breakaway, War Games, Mission of the Darians), especially in comparison to other sci-fi tv attempts at the time (Starlost, Fantastic Journey, Logan's Run tv series).
One of my favorite guilty pleasures.
How about a companion show which describes what the Earth would be like without tides, let alone the effects of removing the moon's gravity circus from the lives of everybody and everything on our planet? We'd have it far worse off than the unfortunate denizens of Moon Base Alpha.
I never watched this show, but i had a toy of the moon buggy and astronaut. I didn't know it was from anything, i got it when i was 3 or 4.
It was shown on Granada on a Friday about 6.30pm. "Force of Life" was shown second so you can imagine the effect the ending had on me at a young age! There is a chronology to the 1st series, and what I didn't pick up on the first time but have done on later viewings is the inference that there is something influencing events. Look forward to seeing your future videos on the episodes.
I was introduced to Space: 1999 via Cosmic Princess being screened on the KTMA era of MST3K. Honestly liked it and plan on tracking down the episodes to watch the series proper.
You will not be disappointed. Like MST3K, not everyone "gets" it, but the right people get it, and that is the important thing really.
I love the brain clip. I was hoping to see it when you mentioned season 3 of Trek.
Nick Tate had a long career as a voice artist for movie trailers.
I never noticed until this video that they only seem to show the same face of the moon. I guess it's tidally locked to... the show? 😄
I still watch "1999" occaisonally. Most episodes have some pretty questionable science and even plot holes in them but I "suspend my disbelief" and just enjoy it.
My memory of this series can be summed up with: I liked the Eagle ship (everyone had that Dinky toy back in the day, and they hung around for years and years in toy chests) but the ships weren't featured enough; the clothes were really 70's, and made the show look incredibly dated when I watched it in the 80's; every plot seemed to be - aliens taking over people's minds, or plagues killing people in horrendous ways. What I don't remember about it at all... is fun. And for a kid watching a sci-fi show that was a killer. It was a slow, depressing, dated looking show, featuring well-past middle-age people being unhappy on a moon base.
It just occurred to me how much the two lead puppets on Terrrahawks look like Landau and Bain in Space: 1999!