Revisiting Space: 1999...

[BJ Wagner]

It worked I thought because it added to the weird 70s sci-fi vibe of the show. It was almost like an alien was among the crew.

When series one came out on Blu-ray a few years ago, I rewatched it. Her performance really struck me as odd, but I see your point.

 

[BJ Wagner]

Yes I remember that. Why does he always play the bad guy?

Because the bad guys have the best parts.

 

[locutus101]

Because the bad guys have the best parts.

One thing's for sure. To play a convincing bad guy you need talent.

 

[BJ Wagner]

What about the monster from, Dragon's Domain? Or Maya turning into a bumble bee to stop Darth Vader in, The Beta Cloud?

I love the huge moonbase sets from season one. Looked like most of them were transplanted into the Death Star a few years later.

 

[Marc]

Yes I remember that. Why does he always play the bad guy?

but he wasn't a bad guy - but unlike Alan Carter he wasn't sober, particularly likeable (which was a good thing for Tate as Carter was initially a one episode character), a good pilot with a reliable ship.

 

[Marc]

I love the huge moonbase sets from season one.

Can't remember specifics but what looked some of the main mission consoles from S1 turned up in either B7 or Doctor Who in the late 70s.

 

[diankra]

I thought it looked fantastic and still looks pretty good. The cast were good and it was mostly let down by the plot and writing.

What I've often wished is that Anderson had made Blakes 7, which had fantastic writing but looked like it was made by an eight year old in it's parents garage...

But... Blake's 7 was what it was because the production team knew they had no chance of competing on FX. They got back from a Star Wars screening a few months into production, saying "We're dead," went to the pub, and once drunk realised the only hope was to concentrate on the character interplay: jokes and arguments.

 

[diankra]

S2 of Space:1999 can be summed up with two words :-
Fred Freiberger.

According to his wiki entry he claims credit to the show's second season going ahead by the ideas he pitched but given the way things were executed perhaps it would have been best if the show had had a single season.

That's definitely not true, from the dates on record.
What did happen is that the September 75 transmissions (in the UK and US) did well enough for ITC New York to agree to fund a second season... on condition that an American producer was hired, to do a revamp in the hope of getting a network sale for a fresh start.
Then Freiberger came on-board and outlined his proposals for change in November 75, before shooting began in January 76.
It's known that Freiberger viewed eight episodes from season one; unfortunately we don't know which ones - Good, bad or indifferent!

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Can't remember specifics but what looked some of the main mission consoles from S1 turned up in either B7 or Doctor Who in the late 70s.

I know the lamps, or ones exactly like them, if not actual leftovers from the show, have shown up in things.

From http://catacombs.space1999.net/main/cguide/furn/umfsorella.html:

The Sorella lamp can also be seen in the 1979 James Bond movie Moonraker, seen in Drax's space station. It can also be seen (briefly) in the Dr Who serial "The Invisible Enemy", 1977, which also features a Gaudi chair and two Pileo lamps.

So, yeah, there's your furniture, right there.

 

[Warped9]

Talk about resurrecting an old thread. This one is four years old.

 

[MacLeod]

Now Now, it was only natural a thread about Space 1999 would surface on or around the 13th September.

 

[locutus101]

Now Now, it was only natural a thread about Space 1999 would surface on or around the 13th September.

Better to resurrect that one than to start a new one.

 

[Skipper]

The main problem of Space 1999's S1 was that they wanted to do something 2001ish, but they weren't Kubrick. So we had a sluggish pace, wooden characters and trippy mysticism.

 

[locutus101]

The main problem of Space 1999's S1 was that they wanted to do something 2001ish, but they weren't Kubrick. So we had a sluggish pace, wooden characters and trippy mysticism.

Kubrick never made a low budget tv series. If he had then he too would have had to lower his standards, or go over budget.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Talk about resurrecting an old thread. This one is four years old.

This thread wasn't resurrected, it's been remastered and rebooted.

 

[Warped9]

This thread wasn't resurrected, it's been remastered.

As long as they don't enhance it with new f/x

 

[Mr. Adventure]

As long as they don't enhance it with new f/x

This thread will now be known as Space: 2016.

 

[locutus101]

As long as they don't enhance it with new f/x

I didn't care for those fixes.

 

[Warped9]

This thread will now be known as Space: 2016.

Problem is it will be obsolete in only four months.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Can the flared trousers (pants) be digitally altered? Alternatively, bring back 70s' fashion.

A few cool links:

https://poetryandtruecrime.wordpress.com/tag/space-1999/
http://catacombs.space1999.net/cybermuseum/MATN/matnindex.html (Moonbase Alpha technical Notebook)
http://catacombs.space1999.net/ (Martin Willey's site)