The movie versions would vary depending on whether they had access to the film masters, and also whether the bosses would pay for that.
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Some of the 1999 'movies' had new framing sequences with Patrick Allen back around Space Control on Earth.
I think, not seen them since the original episodes came out in the 90s.
I think you're right about that. I just rewatched Space:1999 with the new (for the US) blu ray set that just came out. I remembered additional scenes on Earth and was waiting for them to appear in the episodes, but they never did. I think I'm remembering those extra scenes from the movies. But, it's been a long time so it's all kind of vague!
It was called Alien Attack. It was 2 episodes spliced together, Breakaway and War Games. I actually still have it on vhs. http://catacombs.space1999.net/main/epguide/t00aa.html
That was the sort of thing where they rework TV episodes into feature films for overseas theatrical release or TV syndication. I've seen a couple of the movies they made from episodes of The Man from UNCLE back in the '60s, where they added more sex and violence for European theatrical audiences. There's one where they add a new opening sequence of one of the main guest villains breaking into a military base at the start of the episode, killing a succession of guards under the movie credits. He had a shaved head in the original, but the new footage was filmed later and he has a pretty obvious bald cap (because bald caps are always obvious). And then the new footage of him breaking into the base ends and we cut to the episode footage where he's still outside the base and breaks in "again"!
Then there's the one where they added Yvonne Craig as a sexy UNCLE receptionist. Most of her material was in scenes where Napoleon Solo called up UNCLE HQ on his pen radio and they'd just insert a few moments of her taking his call, flirting, and relaying the call to the person he was actually contacting in the episode.
Although a more interesting case concerns the pilot episode. They shot a whole extra subplot to expand the hourlong pilot to feature length, then later they built a whole new episode around the movie subplot footage, dubbing over a character name from the pilot to hide the connection.
Oliver Onions did the song for Italian edition's end credits tooThen there was Cosmic Princess with two Maya-centric episodes, including her debut with Brian Blessed. Plus if memory serves, The Bringers of Wonder was also movie-fied with chintzy end credits music by ''Oliver Onions.''
Lyrics (google translated)
Maybe we should get Neroon to merge this with the Space: 1999 rewatch thread.
Threads converge. Particularly if they're about 1970s series that ended after a massive second series revamp.
So, we should include the classic BSG as well. I guess that's an upcoming topic!
They were blowing up NAZIs with those Turbikes by episode 3.
If the show had continued, the scouts would have borrowed the bikes, had a joyride and gotten caught by CHP officer Poucherello.
If the show had continued, the scouts would have borrowed the bikes, had a joyride and gotten caught by CHP officer Poucherello.
Fine by me. I've pretty-much run out of gas of the 1999 Rewatch at this point. Might pick it up again, but can't say when.
I watched the full series twice through and the 2nd time around I dropped out on the episode where that giant ship with the big wheels was rolling across the Moon. I mean it was a good story but that just looked so silly.
The first time around I watched the full series and did enjoy it for what it was.
The first time around I watched the full series and did enjoy it for what it was.
Kolchak was excellent. I did like voyagers though. Yeah it was made for the younger crowd and was ridiculous in some ways but was entertaining. Another excellent show as space 1999 from the 70s. I think a lot of the critiquing of older shows is based on what we see today. We tend to think everything is better today and older stuff is crap or simplistic. Simply not true. It's different today in that we get more retreads or adaptations of books that are done a second or even third time.
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I was 14 when Voyagers! aired, and even then I thought it was ridiculous. They never explained what was causing history to "go wrong" or why and by whom the version in school textbooks was deemed the "right" version. Logically, if history would spontaneously go a certain way unless time travelers intervened to make it go a different way, then surely the spontaneous version should be the "right" one, yet the show insisted it was somehow the "wrong" one. Drove me crazy. (And in retrospect I know that a lot of what textbooks at the time taught as the "right" history was frequently fictitious and ethnocentric, so it would probably come off even worse to me now.)
Not an opinion I've heard about it often. It's generally considered one of the worse ones, though it did have cool production values, and season 1 is often interesting if you take it as surrealist/existentialist fantasy rather than SF.
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