I'm called Andrew actually.
Don't feel the need for a label. Actually, there are so few of us, I don't think it's ever really come up. Though some people seem to like "Alphans", which is fair enough.
Remember Space 1999?
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I'm called Andrew actually.
Don't feel the need for a label. Actually, there are so few of us, I don't think it's ever really come up. Though some people seem to like "Alphans", which is fair enough.
Remember it? I watch it every week.
Time to dust off my stock Space: 1999 response.
Alan Carter is my favourite character.
I wish Dragon's Domain had featured Carter, not guest character Tony Cellini (with a different ending!)
I wish they'd kept Paul and Victor in season 2.
I like Maya and Tony but their relationship was too adolescent for me.
Eagles are some of the coolest space vessels of SF.
Season one is awesome; season two not so much.
The Black Sun is my favourite episode.
surely that's Alan Carter, Ace Eagle Pilot? That's how I always think of him
Eagles are seriously cool, probably in my top five of sci fi ships. Which is saying something considering they're basically space transit vans...
Thank you, that is her alright. So she was supposed to be Russia then? I always had her down as German from the accent.
Dragon's Domain!
Thinking they were faked is more than a bit crazy. I don't know whether to laugh or cry about that sometimes.
Mr Awe
surely that's Alan Carter, Ace Eagle Pilot? That's how I always think of him
Of course!
Yeah, they didn't have to use their indicators and they had dispensation to park on double yellows and the zig-zags next to zebra crossings just by flashing their hazzards. Used to drive Koening crazy!
Why, yes I do. As a matter of fact I have a book based on it out this month...
http://www.captphilonline.com/powys...ace1999-born-for-adversity&catid=34&Itemid=60
Remember reading a fan fic years ago where the Moon with Alpha comes through Bajoran wormhole.
Seems one of the anomolies the Alphan's encountered flipped them into an alternate universe where the moon hadn't been blown out of orbit and Zephram Cochrane invented warp drive in the 2060s.
Seems one of the anomolies the Alphan's encountered flipped them into an alternate universe where the moon hadn't been blown out of orbit and Zephram Cochrane invented warp drive in the 2060s.
I love Space:1999, I watched it back in the '70s, when I was but a young Vorlon, on WUAB channel 43 out of Cleveland, Ohio. I liken it to the Babylon 5 of its day, ambitious and pretty far ahead of the other sci-fi shows going at that time. One thing that always bothered me though was all the changes made for the second season. It lost all of its very British character and became an "Americanized" action series. I love the quieter, British style of the first season.
Jesus f*ck that episode scared the crap out of me when I was a little kid...I had nightmares for *years* after it...and I still don't think I could watch it all the way through even today...
When those people got sucked into/under the monster - and then it spit out their crispified remains...that haunts me still...
Reading this and the youtube comments...glad to see I wasn't the only kid terrorized by the episode.
Great stuff man, great stuff!
Fred Freiberger -- heard of him? -- screwing up sci-fi shows like Star Trek, The Six Million Dollar Man and Space:1999 because he thought he knew best what the audience wanted.
Fred Freiberger -- heard of him? -- screwing up sci-fi shows like Star Trek, The Six Million Dollar Man and Space:1999 because he thought he knew best what the audience wanted.
Much as I hate what they did with series 2, I don't think it's fair to lay the blame at Freiberger's door. He was hired to do a specific job, and he did it. Gerry Anderson, who hired him, and who acquiesced to all the changes, needs to shoulder the blame for this.
Likewise, I really don't see what's so bad about Star Trek's 3rd series either - it's perhaps not as good as the first two, and there are a couple of really duff episodes, but there's still some very good stuff there, I think. Once again, you had an executive producer who let someone else shoulder the responsibility (and later on the "blame") for what happened to his show.
After watching another few episodes, it struck me that more than just that particular visual appeal, there was quite an atmosphere created. The Barry Gray music helped no doubt, but they were able to make the alien ships and planets look eerie too. All this with your bog standard funny-forehead or even just funny-clothed human as an alien.
Seeing that clip, after it was posted on a message board, reminded me to pull out my box set and get stuck in again.
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What really brought memories of Space 1999 back was not watching UFO but Stargate Universe. replace the Moon flying out of Eagle range with the timer count down to the stargate closing and Destiny flying off at warp we have the same basic set up.
http://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Moonb...dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
Anybody remember Welcome to Moonbase by Ben Bova?
http://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Moonb...dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
Anybody remember Welcome to Moonbase by Ben Bova?
There was talk of making a movie of Space 1999 in 1999 actually. NBC was going to produce it but never got made. I was hoping it would have as well. One of my favorite series. The SFX were ahead of there time. Modular ship design and basic construction principals seemed all to natural giving the show a could really happen look to it. Except for the blasting out of orbit thing but that in itself wasn't to bad.
The episode that scared me the most when I was a kid was 'Force Of Life'. Seeing that charred body with glowing eyes getting up and walking into the reactor freaked me out. I was a kid then though.
I often wonder what it would look like today with today's technology in SFX how they could do an even better job. They perhaps would need a 'Next Generation' type of series though as much of original cast is really getting up in age and some like Barry Morse 'Dr Bergman' have passed. It would also be interesting if they did a reboot of the series as that is so popular these days. What would such a show would look like? Would they change the Nuclear Waste explosion to something else? Perhaps a cold fusion reactor explosion instead. One of many that would be powering Alpha.
Currently there are plans to return to the moon and build a base there. They have found frozen water on the moon essential to such a base. Transporting raw materials from earth currently would be quite expensive.
The conspiracy theorists out there that say the moon was never touched by humans kind of scare me a little. It would seem they would have spent a ton of money well several tons of money and work so hard and yet get the pictures wrong..???
Space 1999 was one cracking good show and I'd watch it again and definitely watch a newer (rebooted) version if made..
The episode that scared me the most when I was a kid was 'Force Of Life'. Seeing that charred body with glowing eyes getting up and walking into the reactor freaked me out. I was a kid then though.
I often wonder what it would look like today with today's technology in SFX how they could do an even better job. They perhaps would need a 'Next Generation' type of series though as much of original cast is really getting up in age and some like Barry Morse 'Dr Bergman' have passed. It would also be interesting if they did a reboot of the series as that is so popular these days. What would such a show would look like? Would they change the Nuclear Waste explosion to something else? Perhaps a cold fusion reactor explosion instead. One of many that would be powering Alpha.
Currently there are plans to return to the moon and build a base there. They have found frozen water on the moon essential to such a base. Transporting raw materials from earth currently would be quite expensive.
The conspiracy theorists out there that say the moon was never touched by humans kind of scare me a little. It would seem they would have spent a ton of money well several tons of money and work so hard and yet get the pictures wrong..???
Space 1999 was one cracking good show and I'd watch it again and definitely watch a newer (rebooted) version if made..
There was this project too:
http://www.space2099.tv/
which didn't seem particularly necessary but was certainly a labour of love.
http://www.space2099.tv/
which didn't seem particularly necessary but was certainly a labour of love.
I grew up on the show; and I had a toy Eagle...lol
I remember actress Sybil Danning did some intro to the show for VHS some years ago; it was sort of out of place because she comes off all sci-fi/fantasy sexy dressed in boots, gloves, hot pants, top...and holding a big laser rifle...
Too, the show was edited into only two(?) videos, IIRC. The first two episodes were edited into one 'movie'...and two other episodes edited into another 'movie.'
I remember actress Sybil Danning did some intro to the show for VHS some years ago; it was sort of out of place because she comes off all sci-fi/fantasy sexy dressed in boots, gloves, hot pants, top...and holding a big laser rifle...
Too, the show was edited into only two(?) videos, IIRC. The first two episodes were edited into one 'movie'...and two other episodes edited into another 'movie.'
There were several "movies", "Destination Moonbase Alpha" and "Cosmic Princess" comes to mind, can't think of the others.
Four of those compilation movies were made:
"Alien Attack" joins together Breakaway and War Games with some additional material to try and link them together - unsuccessfully in my opinion, but the two episodes are pretty much intact within the movie.
"Journey through the Black Sun" joins Collision Course and Black Sun, possibly the two best episodes of the series - the join is very bad, and the two episodes have loads of crucial scenes hacked out, and additional music badly dubbed over them in places - also one important line of dialogue moved from Collision Course to be a voiceover in Black Sun, to try and give the impression that the alien entities in the two episodes might be the same. The real upshot of this is that the two best episodes didn't get a proper video release for years because they were tied up in this monstrosity...
"Cosmic Princess" was a combination of The Metamorph and Space Warp.
"Destination Moonbase Alpha" probably works the best as it's a compilation of the two part story The Bringers of Wonder, so at least the two halves of the movie are meant to be joined together.
"Alien Attack" joins together Breakaway and War Games with some additional material to try and link them together - unsuccessfully in my opinion, but the two episodes are pretty much intact within the movie.
"Journey through the Black Sun" joins Collision Course and Black Sun, possibly the two best episodes of the series - the join is very bad, and the two episodes have loads of crucial scenes hacked out, and additional music badly dubbed over them in places - also one important line of dialogue moved from Collision Course to be a voiceover in Black Sun, to try and give the impression that the alien entities in the two episodes might be the same. The real upshot of this is that the two best episodes didn't get a proper video release for years because they were tied up in this monstrosity...
"Cosmic Princess" was a combination of The Metamorph and Space Warp.
"Destination Moonbase Alpha" probably works the best as it's a compilation of the two part story The Bringers of Wonder, so at least the two halves of the movie are meant to be joined together.
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