Anyone else been following this Kickstarter? I hope it happens, but it looks like it's going to fall short.
I wish that Eaglemoss hadn't gone bankrupt because they previewed a pair of Eagles for their upcoming releases. I wonder if it was an attempt to guage reaction from the buying public. If so, we could have seen a whole series of Space: 1999 models.
That's the discussion that Bergman and Koenig had in Black Sun. IMDB trivia for the episode notes that an ITC executive in the U.S had an absolute shitfit over it. He didn't like the show in general and didn't understand the episode and demand changes (though fortunately didn't impact the episode too much). Problem was this executive demanded that all future scripts go through him. As Black Sun was one of the earliest filmed it probably killed any future mentions of higher powers guiding the Alphans.
Actually, whether put to words by the characters or not, it tended to remain as a subtext during many first-year episodes. You could certainly say a higher power saved them all from the killer soap suds by the skin of their teeth, for example.
Testament of Arcadia pretty much makes it clear. But Alpha's destiny is then fulfilled, so no MUF in season two (though maybe if it hadn't been for Freiberger. Comment from an ITC exec "We wanted an American, and he was available. In hindsight, we should have asked why he was available.")
This is the same individual who, back when it was still going to be a second season of U.F.O., wanted no stories set on Earth because he didn't like any of the Straker family drama. Which led to Gerry Anderson proposal that they blow up the Earth if he didn't want any stories set there. That, in turn, led to the initial idea of the aliens moving the moon out of Earth's orbit, which morphed into the nuclear waste dump explosion.
It used a lot of prop from Space: 1999 apparently. That ship, the Antares, seems to be built from the Ultra Probe featured in the Space: 1999 episode "Dragon's Domain".
it was also a fallback position for Anderson if S:1999 didn't get a second season otherwise I'm not sure he would have cast Nick Tate (though it might have made Martin Landau happy). But it never went past the pilot, we got an a season 2 and Nick Tate nearly didn't return anyway.