Re-Watching Space: 1999

[Redfern]

That wouldn't happen to be this one, would it?

From the Lost In Space episode "Wreck of the Robot" as described at Midnight Reviews

YES!!! That's the one! Looks like I "flipped" the pose in my mind, thinking it was his right claw raised to the bubble.

No, wait! The image was flipped! The horizontal, red scanner "spoon" should be on his right with the vertical, yellow "spoon" on his left.

 

[Marc]

Seems like Shrapnel was all over the place!

watch out - people got sent to work disposal area #2 for less

 

[Maurice]

YES!!! That's the one! Looks like I "flipped" the pose in my mind, thinking it was his right claw raised to the bubble.

No, wait! The image was flipped! The horizontal, red scanner "spoon" should be on his right with the vertical, yellow "spoon" on his left.

I'm guessing they either had some extension for Bob May's arm to get the claw up that high or he squatted down in the suit to jam his shoulder into the arm socket so he could get his hand up high enough.

 

[Redfern]

I'm guessing they either had some extension for Bob May's arm to get the claw up that high or he squatted down in the suit to jam his shoulder into the arm socket so he could get his hand up high enough.

Makes sense. One could ask somebody who has worn a replica to determine what can be achieved.

Apropos of nothing, but one "studio tale" claims The cast and crew paused for lunch, leaving poor ol' Bob in the suit. Bored. he pulled a cigar from his pocket and lit it. Someone walked by (supposedly Irwin Allen) and saw smoke wafting from the costume. The person's first instinct was to assume the suit had caught fire and was about to obtain tools or persons to douse it. Before conditions could escalate, Bob calmed the person, explaining he was merely taking a smoke break.

Whether or not this actually happened (I have my doubts), it does make for a comical mental image!

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Are you going to watch any more episodes @Mysterion ?

 

[Mysterion]

I've pretty-much hit the wall at this point. I may pick it up again, but cannot ay when that'll be.

 

[diankra]

I'd also say that the last phase of season one has a lot of strong episodes.

 

[Skipper]

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[Steven P Bastien]

I've been waiting to ask a question about "End of Eternity" and didn't want to ask until the episode was watched, but I'll ask it now.

Spoiler: Question about the ending

At the end of the episode Balor is forced out of Alpha onto the moon's surface. Since he is both immortal and strong, shouldn't he just be able to get back into the facility? It almost seems as if the idea is to jettison him into space, but the moon has gravity, so this won't happen. I feel like I'm missing an important point here.

 

[diankra]

I've been waiting to ask a question about "End of Eternity" and didn't want to ask until the episode was watched, but I'll ask it now.

Spoiler: Question about the ending

At the end of the episode Balor is force out of Alpha onto the moon's surface. Since he is both immortal and strong, shouldn't he just be able to get back into the facility? It almost seems as if the idea is to jettison him into space, but the moon has gravity, so this won't happen. I feel like I'm missing an important point here.

If there had been a season three, Johnny Byrne wanted to do a sequel, starting with your questions, partly because he felt he'd missed a point by just making Balor evil, rather than asking why is he evil?

 

[publiusr]

Space 1999 had some nice ships. I even liked the craft in STARLOST
https://forums.scifi-meshes.com/discussion/81944/starlost-reboot

However, if you pay close attention, "Breakaway" does have a lot of dialogue about the nuclear waste dump generating a freakishly powerful magnetic field, and there's a line about "the magnetic output from the artificial gravity system." And Bergman mentions "facing a new effect," a phenomenon never encountered before So I suspect maybe the idea was that the explosion, which was bigger than any in history, generated some kind of hitherto-untheorized magnetic/gravitational effect that negated the Earth's pull on the Moon, and maybe even created some kind of space warp effect, like a subspace field in Trek.

It was as if Moonbase Alpha was the only object in that universe to have dark energy--perhaps also interacting with dark matter/strange matter worlds. That might be a good way to get to the surreal.

I've toyed with the idea of a weakless universe killing souls of anyone going there--it be a great place to dump nuclear waste
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakless_Universe

In terms of a "black sun"--we might have something similar nearby
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.11090.pdf

That was the second episode, if memory serves.

 

[diankra]

Originally, when it was still UFO 1999, the aliens reduced the Moon's gravity, causing it to throw out of orbit (makes no sense, but the UFO aliens often had inexplicable metaphysical powers for one episode). The idea remained as Zero-G became The Void Ahead and then Breakaway, and the UFO carry-over was dropped.

 

[JD]

So does that mean it was originally going to be in the same universe as UFO?

 

[Christopher]

So does that mean it was originally going to be in the same universe as UFO?

That's my understanding, that it was originally conceived as a sequel or spinoff.

 

[diankra]

That's my understanding, that it was originally conceived as a sequel or spinoff.

Yep, originally it was a continuation of UFO, new cast apart from Commander Straker, who was heading the expanded Moonbase 15 years on (a late UFO episode refers to 1984)

 

[Christopher]

(a late UFO episode refers to 1984)

Hmm, the opening title sequence said it was 1980. Long season.

Anyway, it was the '60s-est '80s I've ever seen.

 

[diankra]

In one of the later episodes they drink a 1984 bottle of wine. Seems that the season stretches over five years, not including the flashbacks (seeing as Close-Up probably stretches over some time, and Moonbase duty shifts might be several months, not that improbable).

 

[Skipper]

Originally, when it was still UFO 1999, the aliens reduced the Moon's gravity, causing it to throw out of orbit (makes no sense, but the UFO aliens often had inexplicable metaphysical powers for one episode). The idea remained as Zero-G became The Void Ahead and then Breakaway, and the UFO carry-over was dropped.

From SMBC

For Space: 1999 they haven't even done this

 

[Zeta]

Note to Amazon Prime Video subscribers: Space 1999 season 2 is available as of today for streaming. Sadly, season 1 is still pay-per-episode, but hopefully that changes for members soon.

https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/space-1999/season-2

 

[Galileo7]

ShoutTV has both SPACE:1999 season 1 and 2 to watch for free:
http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/series/space-1999