@@zulby09 I also had an Eagle toy with a lift on it, unfortunately I didn't get a chance to see many of the actual episodes with our horrible near-communist tv broadcasts.
Grew up with great enthusiasm for Martin Landau and Barbara Bain...great actors in anything they appeared in - as well as great role models. They were married for 36 years. Few remember this powerful duo who made the tv series Mission: Impossible a household name.
Indeed they did, now in my country we have a full re-run of Mission Impossible, didnt know Landau & Bain acted together back in the days. Love many of the old tv series..
Does anyone else notice and appreciate the silence in most scenes? The lack of annoying noise pollution and loud crapy and brain-numbing atmospheric background music and senseless effects in every second of film material! Music and sound effects only when needed and not of permanent nature.
Usually sound effect background noise is used to cover up different sounding backgrounds and keep original dialog recording . Without sound effects of humming buzzing rumbling and traffic or weather and music it would be obvious each camera shot was pieced together in editing . This show may have had a studio soundstage with no coughing or talking or airplanes .
I watched this show when I was a kid in Ethiopia. I didn’t speak or understand English, but I couldn’t wait for the next episode. When I moved to the states no one new what I was talking about. Thanks for posting this because now that I can speak and understand English I can’t wait to watch it. This is truly wonderful !!!
A very well expressed sentiment. I'm 56 and grew up on classic Star Trek, one of the major formative influences on my life. And l loved Space:1999. AND l was convinced that by now we would have fully populated bases on the Moon, on Mars, and would be well into at least interplanetary exploration in our solar system. But instead in 2019 the pinnacle of human technology and endeavor amounts to um Facebook and uh taking selfies. SMH
@@frankberst9849 We are just getting to the point of understanding the true realities of space travel. The technology we used in the 60s and 70s was not sufficient to really do what we wanted to do. The dreams of the generations prior are still being worked on. SpaceX and various other companies along with NASA are developing amazing technologies that will get us safely into space in a way that would make SciFi writers proud. Don't get too down!
Everything good always seems to take longer than we hope to come about, but give it a few more years and there will be bases on the Moon. It's always been too expensive in the past, but companies like Space X and Blue Origin are developing the infrastructure. I look forward to seeing something like the Eagle transporter flying for real in 10 or 20 years.
One of my favorite shows as a kid. Even had a toy eagle. I still think they are the most believable space ships of any show. They look like something we would build today, and would be totally functional.
There was a plastic kit of the eagle by Airfix in the UK it was also packaged by another company in america. They also made a very nice model of the Hawk a dedicated fighter ship that appeared in only one show.
Except for the lack of radiators to vent waste heat; Something that every scifi movie or show forgets, even 2001 (though that was a deliberate suggestion by Clarke to avoid audience confusion). Ironically, I think Avatar is one of the only films I've seen to actually have radiators on its spaceship and that ship was in the movie for, like, five minutes.
This series was so influential in my life, I was a kid and fascinated by it. Then later Space 1999 was one of the reasons to choose to be an Architect. It's still very sophisticated, all the design mainly.
As a kid, I watched this show and loved it. Now as an adult, after watching this, I can truly appreciate the high caliber of actors in this show. Their acting really helped make this show engaging and exciting.
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 they were back en vouge in "99...my question is, how come the technology back in 1999 was so much more advanced than it is now? They could even travel all around space back then, no problem.. 👽👽
This show, the original Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, etc along with Captain Kirk Star Trek was literally my childhood. No wonder I turned out weird.
Classic television off two serial on completely fully epsiode on dvds dont forget your game consoles off todays plays both blue ray as well dvds some television to watched its on need start socket and some tv as bulit in dvds player and remember laptops as over 1tb bites and games consoles allso have 1 tb bites thats makes 2tb bites more than your tablets and smartphones put together even 32gb 64gb or 128gb or even 256gb of os sofrware windows 7.0 from xp version or vista version and dont for get cd rom off wins98/2000/me not forget norton 360 and early ones thats you have to put its in your pc att the time what a bout a film called fame before televisions programme was showed by the bbc network and sometimes itv network before Netflix and orthers 2018/2019
I love how Koenig was willing to go out to a dangerous area himself instead of sending an underling. "I won't make you do what I won't do myself". Very admirable!
The only problem with that scenario is/was an eagle was lost and they sent another out that was remotely controlled. On Star Trek the captain would have sent the remotely controlled eagle first. Then if insufficient information was relayed back he would have goon himself.
@tessmage_tessera Are you kidding me? No, that's not how the real world has EVER worked. Generals don't go to the battlefield, because that's dangerous. Generals also are, presumably, more valuable to whatever mission than some peon is. In war, for example, it's not unusual for a general to purposely get people killed to obtain a larger objective, and they are never the ones that are being killed. Whatever, this is just a dumb show anyhow.
The pilot episode is very strong, and sets the tone for a great season one of this show. I personally think it's one of the most visually stunning TV shows ever produced, and this was before Star Wars. It still holds up today with the HD transfers.
@@sandokan1578 Nope. I can see just fine. Maybe it's just your lack of appreciation and visionary insight into the amount of work it took to produce a hi-budget TV series in the mid-1970s. I'm sure another 100 million pounds should have been added to the budget to reach the Star Wars level of FX, sets and non-existent CGI required to meet your standards of what's good. Now why don't you run along and troll the Doctor Who channels.
Agree, even though I have a problem with the physics! A massive explosion on the dark-side of the moon, which faces away from Earth, would propel the moon towards Earth, not away from us!
@@stevie-ray2020 Not necessarily... they never say exactly WHERE on the far side Area 2 was placed. It wasn't stated that area 2 was in the equatorial region, or even midway on the far side, longitude-wise. Explosion like that is the equivalent of hitting a pool ball with a glancing blow toward the edge of it. But yeah... many things happen on the show that are supposedly scientifically impossible... Koening and Sandra BOTH actually utter the phrase "That's impossible" in Breakaway (when the heat begins to rise without increase in atomic radiation). Many of the stories involed in the show are about the scinetifically impossible happening, and them grappling as to WHY it's occuring. Has our assumed scinetific knowledge always been wrong? Is some cosmic intelligence causing these things to occur? Is it GOD at work? The entire thrust of the series is to ponder those questions, and what is mankind's purpose in the universe, if indeed we have one. In War Games, we are told that mankind is a contaminating virus, a plague of fear to higher forms of life. fascinating stuff... even if it is a pessimistic outlook.
This series was way ahead of its time. Great sets, costumes and some brilliant episodes. My favourite show growing up. Mya was my favourite character. I still watch them now occasionally
This was a cinematic masterpiece, done for TV. The sets, lighting, sound design, music and cinematography were OUTSTANDING. I'd prefer season 1 over 2, but both have their own very special places in my heart. Please - whatever happens - don't try to reboot one of the finest examples in Sci-Fi television entertainment.
Yes - season 1 and even a few of those were so-so. I just noticed that part of Koenigs' dialogue from 31:56 - 32:05 was "sampled" by the band/artist Biosphere.
The premise of the show is flawed. If you going to fly nuclear waste into space, why bury it on the moon? Why not get to space and send it to the Sun for instant evaporation!!! Lol. The most consistent Sci-Fi show and most long-running has to be Star Trek. One has to marvel at how many Start Trek things have actually come to pass. I suppose the only thing that has not happened as predicted is the Eugenics War (WW III).
Same here. I was absolutely stunned watching every part of the series. Sad to see it ended, although the Star Ears was a natural extension of my fantasies of the universe which made my interest in the development and man's position in that development crucial for my studies in astrology in my younger years. Now I am 76 and still extremely interested in the place we humans have in this development
My understanding to this very day Space: 1999 had the grandest sets ever built for TV taking up 2 or 3 sound stages at Pinewood Studios. This gave the series an epic feel. The first season was filled with spectacular grand sets and lighting. This is my favorite aspect of the show. It made you feel like you were in a very special place we could actually be in.
They really cheaped out in the 2nd season though, getting rid of the beautiful "Main Mission" set and replacing it with "Command Center" where all you could see were like 4 consoles in a cramped close-up shot
@@dalethelander3781 not to mention saving a s***load of money over lighting and preparing the original Main Mission set for filming. I hung out with some hardcore sci-fi fans back when the series was new and I can't tell you how furious they were that Freiberger came in to do the second season; they considered him the man who killed ST:TOS.
Thank you.so much.. one of my favorites. As a child of the 70's I was obsessed with all things space and lunar... It was a golden era for sci fi in both film and literature... I feel very fortunate to be in the time-line where I am. Anyone between 45-65 knows exactly what I mean too... what an explosive period of our technologic history... good bad or indifferent we are in it... and this show is part of that mid century burst... just AWESOME
Crazy, dude. You are HAPPY to be in this timeline ? We are all witnessing the end of our planet...you and I may be lucky enough to avoid a front row seat, those may well be reserved for our grandkids....I'd hardly be thrilled about that.
I was 5 in 1975,I still remember this opening sequence from the 1st episode,it literally blew my socks off.....and that was on an old black and white 20inch tv as well lol!
The 80s and 90s era in Tv is the most memorable, as wecwatched one best show after the other. Two thumbs up for space 1999,as it makes me remember other best shows like Star Trek, or Ark II
Love this show. It's not a masterpiece, but it has its own feel and tempo. Stylistically, it's unlike any other sci-fi show, and production-wise stands up very well, now 45 years old.
Considering this show started out as a way to use the pre-production work of the second UFO series, they did amazingly well. Don't get me wrong, I wish there had been more Gabrielle Drake as Gay Ellis in UFO but S:1999 was a favorite of mine when I was a little kid.
Season 1 was an amazing masterpiece... dark, a certain underlying feeling of desperation throughout. Season 2 not so much; a bit too campy and more tailored for a younger audience. Lost a lot of its magic. At the time Space 1999 was the most expensive series on the air. Each episode was over 1 million dollars to produce. The sets, costumes, effects.... brilliant!
@@mdsf01 not entirely sure of the exact finance behind the show? But if memory serves, season 1 reigned at about 3 million, not quite sure on season 2, definitely just as costly!
This masterpiece is unforgettable....thank you so much for posting. I love the fact that I was born in that golden era (cheers to my fellow 70's babies)
I was born in 1960 at the beginning of the US space program. I was a space baby! I was just the right age to enjoy the 1970s in my teens. Would not trade it for any other time period.
It never occurred to me watching this as reruns in the mid 80s that it would ever have been filmed on film and been made to look crisp on the big screen.
I remember watching this show , what a flashback !! Great times they were back then !! I am 52 now and I still love it . Great effects . Break through models and lighting . Great show for it's time !!! Would rival some shows of today
The show began on 9-9-99, it left Earth orbit on 9-13-99. It premiered on 9-9-75 - my 13th birthday... Still have all my 1999 toys I was given or bought in the late 70s.
I loved this show when I was a child in the 70's. As an Australian, it was great to have an Australian character in Carter. It's cool to see their video communicators. It was way past 1999 till we had that but now we do! :) And at a stretch you call the stun guns tasers. They also use an eagle as a drone.
I loved this series, from the sterile outfits to the Eagles and the many different species especially the beautiful shapeshifter in later episodes. This show definitely sparked a child's imagination. BRAVO !!!
Star Trek was also very inspirational....I was 8 years when I knew what I wanted to do: Become an engineer and work in NASA programs. My first job out of university was as a member of the XRS-2200 Aerospike development team, followed by the Space Shuttle Main Engine, etc., Those we very fun years.
The way they went through Eagles, I think they must have had about 10,000 of them stored away in a huge hanger under the moon's surface. Seems like every week "There goes another Eagle".
Oh yeah, I loved it too, when I was 6. Now, so many years later, after learning a thing or two about science, it is hilariously terrible. Scientifically, nothing in the show makes any sense. "physics? nahhhhh....we don't need no stinkin physics!" ONLY a child would be able to 'suspend disbelief' and enjoy this show.
@@ArizonaWillful There was one episode where there was a massive explosion in that hanger that wiped out God knows how many Eagles; maybe there was a manufacturing installation also underground somewhere where they could keep manufacturing new ones
53 years old and I'm about to get into every episode. This was one of my favorite scifi series I watched as a kid. Looking at it now I realize its better than most scifi series back then. Star trek can't touch this. Even though star trek I watched on a regular but it was cheesy but entertaining. Now this was before battle star Galactica. What's funny is if you miss the first episode or a few back then you can't go back and watch. Today you can binge it.
Yes, I never get tired of watching the episodes from both season 1 and season 2. The one with the energy monster still freaks me out, but when I was 8, it REALLY upset me.
Loved this when I was a child along with Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, Wonder Woman and The Six Million dollar man, all great albeit cheesy classics
When that was on TV we still had a Black and White TV. But I went to the house of my friend to watch it in colour. I even record every episode on a cassette and bought the toys and I was building the moonbase of wood. Great to find this jewel here on youtube!
@@delavan9141 In actual fact, I have watched many science-fiction shows and movies, as I enjoy them very much! One of my favourites is Space 1999, and I stand firm on my previous statement, as I’m entitled to my opinion!
I remember September 1999 well. I was coming off a long illness and I started a job that month. That job greatly helped me turn my life around. There was no moon base (and as a space exploration lover since childhood I had always hoped to see one), but one person turning their life around is building a new world in another way.
The second season is very different in plots, effects, and continuity than the first. Fred Freiberger who helped produce Star Trek season 3 (1968-69) produced Space: 1999 in season 2)(1976-77).
The first season was good. The second season was terrible, in my opinion. Wasn't surprised or even disappointed when it was cancelled. I was kind of ridiculous how the moon passed through a different star system every week. Must have been travelling several times the speed of light, then slowed down as it got near a planet then again jumped to warp speed. LOL But I did like the Eagles and special effects in the series. Even have a diecast Eagle that looks awesome.
@@greekpapi Oh God yes...I don't remember what the set-up was, somebody trying to blame someone else for something, but Lee responded with "there is no need for judicial vengeance" - I still love that line!
@@1monki Y2K was no where near an Armageddon or even a bang, it was a true dud and an excuse for merchants to sell software and hardware to old institutions, Governments, still using antiquated systems, being I have always used computers, 8 months before 2000, I took 3 computers and reset the calenders to simulate the year 2000, and lo & behold, the 3 computers worked just fine. I told everyone I knew that the Y2K thing was simply a Chicken little Fairy story.
I don't know, man. I wouldn't change my Pokémon. But then, if you would explain the concept of it to someone from the 70s, or even in the 90s before it became famous, and then add, the perfect game for 11 year olds... But then at that age we were smart enough to know that we were chasing wild, free beings, beat them, captured them, enprisoned them, to be used as a tool FOR OUR GLORY AND GREATNESS, to be shaped and thrown away whenever, only to teach us that they are intelligent beings who love US and are thankful for US helping them, a sick case of Hostage syndrome towards US the 11 year old slavemasters who go on to lord over godlike beings. YEAH!
Loved this show as a kid! I appreciate it even more decades later especially the first season....the intro sequence is still one of my all time favorites. A great underrated sci-fi series.
Same here. Being a child then, this series made a great impression on me. From the perspective of an experienced adult, it may seem dated, but you simply have to admire the dedication with which all the effort was conducted in the mid-seventies with the tools of that time.
I still prefer the Ufo series with Edward Bishop,and Wanda Ventham!This show holds up well for being made in the late 1960”s,and 1970”s.They are still selling Ufo merchandise on E-bay,as well as Gerry Anderson merchandise and Star Trek merchandise.Too,last year,Fanderson produced a Space 1999 radio show for all the Space 1999 fan’s out there!
This was my favorite saturday evening show and through watching this with my dad I finaly turnt to a scifi writing myself. These days I am author writing all kinds of novels myself my scifi stays in my heart.
I was a kid when the series came out and I only got to see a few scattered episodes and they left me unsettled. I understand why now. There is zero levity at play here. Now I'm going to have to watch the whole series because this is better than modern tv.
The show was coproduced by the Italian TV network RAI. There was a very slick "Italian" style of graphics & design at the time the show was made & I think a lot of that style made it into the show
All these years later I still love this show. The sane goes for Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica from the same period. Absolutely wonderful to see this again after so long.
Space 1999 was made in the early to almost mid 1970s but I do not consider it to be "the same period" as Buck Rogers and BSG. It was before Star Wars. The other 2 shows were after Star Wars. Imho Space 1999 definitely had an early 1970s look, the trousers and those broad belts, the main computer where a strip of paper is coming out.... But yeah the overall look of the rest was okay. To be honest I think some of the costumes of Buck Rogers looked a bit over the top. But I also loved and still love it and BSG.
I used to watch this show as a young teen but never saw the explosion. I knew it was an explosion that blew them out of orbit but never knew how it happened. Now at 59 years old I finally found out!
Amazing to see 45 years old SCI FI TV show in such clarity and sharpness. Restoration work is impressive perhaps it was not that clear when originally aired in 1975, as many seniors would recall this TV show was shot on 35 mm film and not on some video tape.
When I studied screenwriting we got assigned to watch as many random pilots as we could, and I've kept that up since graduating. This was just wonderful and I can see how it captivated audiences back then, both young and old.
Just caught this on prime video. At first I thought it was something produced today but in a retro fashion. Love the funky intro credits. Score is incredible. Love this show
Absolutely fantastic, well acted, great plots, brilliant special effects for the time, and it had it's fair share, of scary moments. Martin was pure class in this, as he was in everything else. I love the toupee too.
I had heard that some of the folks that made 2001 Space Odyssey tried to take some sort of legal action because the special effects seemed so similar. I have no idea if this is true or not.
I remember going to an audience with Gerry Anderson. Brilliant guy, brilliant imagination and he told the audience that the only reason he used puppets was as a precursor to being , he hoped, a director of live actors. Well he and his companions really developed special effects into an art form that took some of these into future big budget motion pictures.He actually regretted using actors, because of their nature whereas puppets didn't argue back.Great listening to him and his thoughts about his career, and his regret that he really wasn't as financially savvy as he could have been. His biggest regret it appeared was giving up the rights to Thunderbirds, IMO the best thing he ever did.Space 1999 was just silly but the effects were superb.
Summer 2023 and this show is still ahead of its time. Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, and of course Barry Morse; great acting, great supporting cast, great sets, great FX, and the sum of these parts made something AMAZING~! Lately, NASA is talking about colonizing the moon, so there may be a Moonbase Alpha IRL soon...
A lot of that is due to laziness on humanity's part. We could have permanent bases on the moon decades ago, but the will has been lacking. We got some catchup to do.
@@LarryWhite-kw5mj Agreed. I saw Barry Morse in a made - for - TV movie, Barbara Bain did some childrens' books reading, and Martin Landau had a bit part in the movie 'X Files: Fight The Future'.
That's because Star Trek uniforms weren't tan disco leisure suits with bell bottoms and platform heel shoes lol. But l still think it was a great show. Those hand lasers were awesome, liked them almost as much as classic Star Trek phasers.
I'm an 80's child I've literally NEVER heard of this show! Weird. Anyway I just watched the first episode and thought it was bloody good, so I'll probably buy the whole boxset when I've got some spare cash.
I grew up watching this show with my dad back in 1975. I was 10 at the time. I remember it was the coolest thing I'd ever watched on TV. The series was very popular in Sweden back then, but then again we had only 2 TV channels back then so any show that was shown on Swedish television back then was popular.
Just loved this series as a kid (still does). Great theme (best in tv history only bested by Hawaii 5 0), realistic set designs as well as a great cast. Also liked the second season, again with a grand music theme.
I was once chatting with Ben Bova, a noted science fiction author (don't you *dare* say "sci-fi" to him!) and editor of "Analog" sci-fi magazine.(Whoops, sorry Ben!) He had the best line on the subject: "Space: 1999, marked down from 2001"
I dunno that shot where they are standing in front of the eagle bay and there are like 20 eagles visible.. man thats done nearly perfectly. Rear projection is my best guess.
Watched this when I was a little kid. Haven't seen it in decades. Surprised at how well a lot of the visual effects hold up. The black skies with few visible stars is very realistic. Most space based movies and shows fill the sky with stars because they think the audience will be bored with a black sky.
The 'few stars" were because the series didn't have a lot of $$$ for optical effects, so they had to do a lot of in-camera compositing & they didn't want the ships to seem transparent with stars shining right through them
I remember going to my cousin's home in the 1970's and Space: 1999, The Odd Couple, and Six Million Dollar Man would always seem to be playing on the TV. I miss those carefree days.
It finally just occurred to me, like 45 years later, that I never thought how bad it would be for earth to not have a moon. No tides, etc. That's messed up.
The details went down for the regular episodes. For example, in the pilot when someone would be seen speaking on a video monitor, the backgrounds would be of the room they were supposed to be in, but in the regular episodes there would just be a grey background.
As a boomer I remember The Great Sci-Fi TV Drought of the mid-1970s," between the end of Star Trek and the beginning of Star Wars - "Space 1999' in the middle of that period and it definitely filled a vaccum for a while, but everyone was hungry for some sci-fi to come along that would *really* deliver the goods; and then on one fateful day in 1977...
That "Eagle" design still looking great!
I got one toy model of Eagle One medic design - it always remnded me of a gecko lizard😊
I made a 2" model of it with UHU glue and match sticks when I was 6.
And we have to think that 50 years later (25 after 1999) we still have nothing similar 🙀😼
@@zulby09 I also had an Eagle toy with a lift on it, unfortunately I didn't get a chance to see many of the actual episodes with our horrible near-communist tv broadcasts.
I recreated them in a game called Kerbal Space Program and landed them on the moon (Mun)
Grew up with great enthusiasm for Martin Landau and Barbara Bain...great actors in anything they appeared in - as well as great role models. They were married for 36 years. Few remember this powerful duo who made the tv series Mission: Impossible a household name.
Remember, they also did the final Gilligan's Island TV movie. 😄
Indeed they did, now in my country we have a full re-run of Mission Impossible, didnt know Landau & Bain acted together back in the days. Love many of the old tv series..
......and their daughter co-starred in BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER as Drusilla.
You are so right.
they were part of my childhood how could i forget them
Does anyone else notice and appreciate the silence in most scenes? The lack of annoying noise pollution and loud crapy and brain-numbing atmospheric background music and senseless effects in every second of film material!
Music and sound effects only when needed and not of permanent nature.
Reminds me of soap opera non-ambient audio. Youre right, though. The sound effects are engramed into the masses conscience.
Probably saved money as well
@@kaidron507 its SO irritating to have music that tells you how to feel/what mood to be in, when seeing a movie...😬
Usually sound effect background noise is used to cover up different sounding backgrounds and keep original dialog recording . Without sound effects of humming buzzing rumbling and traffic or weather and music it would be obvious each camera shot was pieced together in editing . This show may have had a studio soundstage with no coughing or talking or airplanes .
No music in 1999. Only two tunes allowed on earth, one creepy and one other tune. Music was a crime
I watched this show when I was a kid in Ethiopia. I didn’t speak or understand English, but I couldn’t wait for the next episode.
When I moved to the states no one new what I was talking about. Thanks for posting this because now that I can speak and understand English I can’t wait to watch it.
This is truly wonderful !!!
It's amazing how big our dreams were back in the 60's and 70's. Sad how small we've made our reality.
A very well expressed sentiment. I'm 56 and grew up on classic Star Trek, one of the major formative influences on my life. And l loved Space:1999. AND l was convinced that by now we would have fully populated bases on the Moon, on Mars, and would be well into at least interplanetary exploration in our solar system. But instead in 2019 the pinnacle of human technology and endeavor amounts to um Facebook and uh taking selfies. SMH
well said
@@frankberst9849 We are just getting to the point of understanding the true realities of space travel. The technology we used in the 60s and 70s was not sufficient to really do what we wanted to do. The dreams of the generations prior are still being worked on. SpaceX and various other companies along with NASA are developing amazing technologies that will get us safely into space in a way that would make SciFi writers proud. Don't get too down!
You know what you're absolutely right!!! And now l can't wait to hear about the uh um first selfies in space
Everything good always seems to take longer than we hope to come about, but give it a few more years and there will be bases on the Moon. It's always been too expensive in the past, but companies like Space X and Blue Origin are developing the infrastructure. I look forward to seeing something like the Eagle transporter flying for real in 10 or 20 years.
There was nothing chessy about this series it was a work of art.
Sorry, but it was, still is and always will be, corny crap.
@@Steve20127 According to you
It was an amazing show at it's inception and still is
Not cheesy, at least season 1.
Beige.....
U.F.O. , Space 1999, The Star Lost , Lost in Space, Dr Who and Battlestar Galactica. I was one Nerdy Kid.
Land of the Giants!!! Twilight Zone
The Expanse
That moment when you realize you're watching a show about the future that was 24 years in the past
This is from the 70s more Like 40 years
@@vonsauerkraut The time of the show 1999, not when it was made is what I meant
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vonsauerkraut didn't get your comment!😅
Alternative timeline perhaps?
Yeah...um 53 now..remember this show.makes me feel ancient 😢
One of my favorite shows as a kid. Even had a toy eagle. I still think they are the most believable space ships of any show. They look like something we would build today, and would be totally functional.
Agree
Wish I still had my toys also lol
There was a plastic kit of the eagle by Airfix in the UK it was also packaged by another company in america. They also made a very nice model of the Hawk a dedicated fighter ship that appeared in only one show.
Except for the lack of radiators to vent waste heat; Something that every scifi movie or show forgets, even 2001 (though that was a deliberate suggestion by Clarke to avoid audience confusion). Ironically, I think Avatar is one of the only films I've seen to actually have radiators on its spaceship and that ship was in the movie for, like, five minutes.
I agree with the fact that they could be mass produced, module form of space craft. They are a brilliant design for its time.
I still have my lunch box!
This series was so influential in my life, I was a kid and fascinated by it. Then later Space 1999 was one of the reasons to choose to be an Architect. It's still very sophisticated, all the design mainly.
I saw more comics of this series than actual episodes. Man I love the old times when comics and arcade games were it.
I became an electronics lover and technician from this.
As a kid, I watched this show and loved it. Now as an adult, after watching this, I can truly appreciate the high caliber of actors in this show. Their acting really helped make this show engaging and exciting.
This tv series and Galactica from 1982 my favorite..yes as a kid love to watch..but Galactica is much better..
If its 1999 why do they have 70s style desk lamps?
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 tv show Space 1999 was make in early 70s..that why have desk lamp from that years..obviosly not know future style..
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 you clown
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 they were back en vouge in "99...my question is, how come the technology back in 1999 was so much more advanced than it is now? They could even travel all around space back then, no problem.. 👽👽
Such a thrill to watch this episode again. I watched every episode back in the 1970s. Not seen it again since. A good celebration for my 70th year!
Happy Birthday from sunny San Diego,Ca😊
I was only a couple of years old when these episodes aired but somehow they still stuck to my imagination and memory...
The quality of the video is excellent. Impossible to watch it like this in 1975
This show, the original Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, etc along with Captain Kirk Star Trek was literally my childhood. No wonder I turned out weird.
Classic television off two serial on completely fully epsiode on dvds dont forget your game consoles off todays plays both blue ray as well dvds some television to watched its on need start socket and some tv as bulit in dvds player and remember laptops as over 1tb bites and games consoles allso have 1 tb bites thats makes 2tb bites more than your tablets and smartphones put together even 32gb 64gb or 128gb or even 256gb of os sofrware windows 7.0 from xp version or vista version and dont for get cd rom off wins98/2000/me not forget norton 360 and early ones thats you have to put its in your pc att the time what a bout a film called fame before televisions programme was showed by the bbc network and sometimes itv network before Netflix and orthers 2018/2019
Yes you are wierd
You weird man! :-)
Haha I grew up watching this too, dig those bell bottom uniform pants .
You and me both, man.
I love how Koenig was willing to go out to a dangerous area himself instead of sending an underling. "I won't make you do what I won't do myself". Very admirable!
Because that's what the script said to do.
I had a relative who did that on a dangerous mission in WW2. He made sure to include himself among several participants even though he didn't have to.
The only problem with that scenario is/was an eagle was lost and they sent another out that was remotely controlled. On Star Trek the captain would have sent the remotely controlled eagle first. Then if insufficient information was relayed back he would have goon himself.
That's not how the real world works.
@tessmage_tessera Are you kidding me? No, that's not how the real world has EVER worked.
Generals don't go to the battlefield, because that's dangerous. Generals also are, presumably, more valuable to whatever mission than some peon is. In war, for example, it's not unusual for a general to purposely get people killed to obtain a larger objective, and they are never the ones that are being killed.
Whatever, this is just a dumb show anyhow.
The pilot episode is very strong, and sets the tone for a great season one of this show. I personally think it's one of the most visually stunning TV shows ever produced, and this was before Star Wars. It still holds up today with the HD transfers.
I'm sorry but there must be something wrong with your eyes...
@@sandokan1578 Nope. I can see just fine. Maybe it's just your lack of appreciation and visionary insight into the amount of work it took to produce a hi-budget TV series in the mid-1970s. I'm sure another 100 million pounds should have been added to the budget to reach the Star Wars level of FX, sets and non-existent CGI required to meet your standards of what's good. Now why don't you run along and troll the Doctor Who channels.
@@bastidface This looks better than CGI crap made today.
Agree, even though I have a problem with the physics! A massive explosion on the dark-side of the moon, which faces away from Earth, would propel the moon towards Earth, not away from us!
@@stevie-ray2020 Not necessarily... they never say exactly WHERE on the far side Area 2 was placed. It wasn't stated that area 2 was in the equatorial region, or even midway on the far side, longitude-wise. Explosion like that is the equivalent of hitting a pool ball with a glancing blow toward the edge of it. But yeah... many things happen on the show that are supposedly scientifically impossible... Koening and Sandra BOTH actually utter the phrase "That's impossible" in Breakaway (when the heat begins to rise without increase in atomic radiation). Many of the stories involed in the show are about the scinetifically impossible happening, and them grappling as to WHY it's occuring. Has our assumed scinetific knowledge always been wrong? Is some cosmic intelligence causing these things to occur? Is it GOD at work? The entire thrust of the series is to ponder those questions, and what is mankind's purpose in the universe, if indeed we have one. In War Games, we are told that mankind is a contaminating virus, a plague of fear to higher forms of life. fascinating stuff... even if it is a pessimistic outlook.
This series was way ahead of its time. Great sets, costumes and some brilliant episodes. My favourite show growing up. Mya was my favourite character. I still watch them now occasionally
Those zippers up the left arm sleeve never caught on though... hard to figure why.
@@mccommas2 LOL...was thinking the same!
We used to "play" Space: 1999. I was Tony and my friend was Maya.
@@mccommas2 People like myself with hairy arms would keep getting them caught! 😬
It was completely behind the times, which is why it went the "fantasy" route. I guess you're not "old" enough to remember.
This was a cinematic masterpiece, done for TV. The sets, lighting, sound design, music and cinematography were OUTSTANDING. I'd prefer season 1 over 2, but both have their own very special places in my heart. Please - whatever happens - don't try to reboot one of the finest examples in Sci-Fi television entertainment.
Yes - season 1 and even a few of those were so-so. I just noticed that part of Koenigs' dialogue from 31:56 - 32:05 was "sampled" by the band/artist Biosphere.
Your comment saved my life.
Cinematic masterpiece lol! It was decent enough some of the special,effects were cheap af.
I say reboot it. But do it right and not politically correct.
The premise of the show is flawed. If you going to fly nuclear waste into space, why bury it on the moon? Why not get to space and send it to the Sun for instant evaporation!!! Lol.
The most consistent Sci-Fi show and most long-running has to be Star Trek. One has to marvel at how many Start Trek things have actually come to pass. I suppose the only thing that has not happened as predicted is the Eugenics War (WW III).
I used to love this series when i was a kid. It sent me to my happy place.
Same here. I was absolutely stunned watching every part of the series. Sad to see it ended, although the Star Ears was a natural extension of my fantasies of the universe which made my interest in the development and man's position in that development crucial for my studies in astrology in my younger years. Now I am 76 and still extremely interested in the place we humans have in this development
Sorry, mean astronomy, of course, if you noy are talking to S Freud; slip of the tongue meaning your unconscious is talking
They sent me to my sleepy place since most episodes were so damned boring
I found it as scary as a child as Dr Who. Needed to hide behind the couch on occasion.
@@aegisgfx I see the good side in it, when you sleep you not talk, beautiful deal we got there
My understanding to this very day Space: 1999 had the grandest sets ever built for TV taking up 2 or 3 sound stages at Pinewood Studios. This gave the series an epic feel. The first season was filled with spectacular grand sets and lighting. This is my favorite aspect of the show. It made you feel like you were in a very special place we could actually be in.
They really cheaped out in the 2nd season though, getting rid of the beautiful "Main Mission" set and replacing it with "Command Center" where all you could see were like 4 consoles in a cramped close-up shot
@@joestrike8537 Yeah they blew it with that one!
In season 1 the Command Center and the Power generating section were mind boggling big. Who can forget the door to the reactor core?
@@joestrike8537 Fred Freiberger felt that a smaller control room would be more intimate and increase the drama between the characters.
@@dalethelander3781 not to mention saving a s***load of money over lighting and preparing the original Main Mission set for filming.
I hung out with some hardcore sci-fi fans back when the series was new and I can't tell you how furious they were that Freiberger came in to do the second season; they considered him the man who killed ST:TOS.
70's tv themes were the best! And OMG the picture clarity!
Made on film, so yeah :)
When we watched in off the air, there was often a lot of snow! If you were lucky enough to have a color TV!
35mm film even!!!
Thank you.so much.. one of my favorites. As a child of the 70's I was obsessed with all things space and lunar... It was a golden era for sci fi in both film and literature... I feel very fortunate to be in the time-line where I am. Anyone between 45-65 knows exactly what I mean too... what an explosive period of our technologic history... good bad or indifferent we are in it... and this show is part of that mid century burst... just AWESOME
Im with you on that Josh,,good days,,,,and it still don't look that bad now.
When l first watched space 1999 in 1977,l was 11 years old
Crazy, dude. You are HAPPY to be in this timeline ? We are all witnessing the end of our planet...you and I may be lucky enough to avoid a front row seat, those may well be reserved for our grandkids....I'd hardly be thrilled about that.
I was 5 in 1975,I still remember this opening sequence from the 1st episode,it literally blew my socks off.....and that was on an old black and white 20inch tv as well lol!
@@cikgurazak2734 you're an old fart like me! I was the same age. XD
The 80s and 90s era in Tv is the most memorable, as wecwatched one best show after the other. Two thumbs up for space 1999,as it makes me remember other best shows like Star Trek, or Ark II
Love this show. It's not a masterpiece, but it has its own feel and tempo. Stylistically, it's unlike any other sci-fi show, and production-wise stands up very well, now 45 years old.
48 years old
Considering this show started out as a way to use the pre-production work of the second UFO series, they did amazingly well. Don't get me wrong, I wish there had been more Gabrielle Drake as Gay Ellis in UFO but S:1999 was a favorite of mine when I was a little kid.
It’s a masterpiece
Season 1 was an amazing masterpiece... dark, a certain underlying feeling of desperation throughout. Season 2 not so much; a bit too campy and more tailored for a younger audience. Lost a lot of its magic.
At the time Space 1999 was the most expensive series on the air. Each episode was over 1 million dollars to produce. The sets, costumes, effects.... brilliant!
@@mdsf01 not entirely sure of the exact finance behind the show? But if memory serves, season 1 reigned at about 3 million, not quite sure on season 2, definitely just as costly!
This masterpiece is unforgettable....thank you so much for posting. I love the fact that I was born in that golden era (cheers to my fellow 70's babies)
I was born in 1960 at the beginning of the US space program. I was a space baby! I was just the right age to enjoy the 1970s in my teens. Would not trade it for any other time period.
My god, this remaster is clean as a whistle.
It never occurred to me watching this as reruns in the mid 80s that it would ever have been filmed on film and been made to look crisp on the big screen.
@@tactileslut Sadly the clearer it gets, the more obvious it is they used tiny little models for almost everything
@@aegisgfx That does make things easier to store: maybe some lucky collector has the aerial view set in a 2x2x0.3 ft acrylic display case.
The first mainstream sci fi show that was filmed so clearly. 2001 A Space Odyssey quality.
You should see my wife remastered.
I remember watching this show , what a flashback !! Great times they were back then !! I am 52 now and I still love it . Great effects . Break through models and lighting . Great show for it's time !!! Would rival some shows of today
Barbara Bain spinning on a lazy susan during opening credits of Space: 1999 was the pinnacle of television.
The Eagle is still one cool looking ship !
Yep.
They made a real life size one. Just can't fly
I had a toy one.
@@WilfChadwick I still got mine :)
@@cattflap1447 Bastard!!!!!!!!!!!:(
the best !
I was 10 years old when this series come out. Me and my best friend Andy never missed an episode!
The show began on 9-9-99, it left Earth orbit on 9-13-99. It premiered on 9-9-75 - my 13th birthday... Still have all my 1999 toys I was given or bought in the late 70s.
I was about 10, too. But I thought it was biggest bomb ever created.
Same with me and my best friend Paul - probably 11 or so. We were Scifi obsessed! He used to play the theme on his Stylophone...
How's Andy?
This show looks so brilliant because they actually filmed it ... on celluloid ... not video.
Yes.
Watching this is equivalent to listening to vinyl.
@@Cola.Cube. it’s velvety
I loved this show when I was a child in the 70's. As an Australian, it was great to have an Australian character in Carter. It's cool to see their video communicators. It was way past 1999 till we had that but now we do! :) And at a stretch you call the stun guns tasers. They also use an eagle as a drone.
Remotely piloted vehicles have been a thing since just after the First World War.
I loved this series, from the sterile outfits to the Eagles and the many different species especially the beautiful shapeshifter in later episodes. This show definitely sparked a child's imagination. BRAVO !!!
Star Trek was also very inspirational....I was 8 years when I knew what I wanted to do: Become an engineer and work in NASA programs. My first job out of university was as a member of the XRS-2200 Aerospike development team, followed by the Space Shuttle Main Engine, etc., Those we very fun years.
The way they went through Eagles, I think they must have had about 10,000 of them stored away in a huge hanger under the moon's surface. Seems like every week "There goes another Eagle".
You mean Maya the Metamorph. Grrrrowlll!
Oh yeah, I loved it too, when I was 6.
Now, so many years later, after learning a thing or two about science, it is hilariously terrible. Scientifically, nothing in the show makes any sense. "physics? nahhhhh....we don't need no stinkin physics!"
ONLY a child would be able to 'suspend disbelief' and enjoy this show.
@@ArizonaWillful There was one episode where there was a massive explosion in that hanger that wiped out God knows how many Eagles; maybe there was a manufacturing installation also underground somewhere where they could keep manufacturing new ones
Been exactly 20 years to this day the moon broke away. My personal favorite TV show for many different reasons.
53 years old and I'm about to get into every episode. This was one of my favorite scifi series I watched as a kid. Looking at it now I realize its better than most scifi series back then. Star trek can't touch this. Even though star trek I watched on a regular but it was cheesy but entertaining. Now this was before battle star Galactica. What's funny is if you miss the first episode or a few back then you can't go back and watch. Today you can binge it.
Yes, I never get tired of watching the episodes from both season 1 and season 2. The one with the energy monster still freaks me out, but when I was 8, it REALLY upset me.
Space 1999 and UFO had the greatest intro ever written. it gave me a thrill back in the 70's and still does to this day.
Loved this when I was a child along with Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, Wonder Woman and The Six Million dollar man, all great albeit cheesy classics
How'd you foget the Bionic Woman
Charlie's Angel's. Fantasy island...
Logan's Run,gemini Man,misadventures of Sherif Lobo
Don’t forget soylent green
When that was on TV we still had a Black and White TV. But I went to the house of my friend to watch it in colour. I even record every episode on a cassette and bought the toys and I was building the moonbase of wood. Great to find this jewel here on youtube!
I haven’t seen Space 1999 in years
It’s such a wonderful distraction from the normal.
Its on the Horror Channel at 8pm after Star Trek Voyager and is usually repeated on Forces TV regularly.
Space:1999 should never be rebooted. Keep the classics as they are.
I still love this show as much as I did as a child. What a legendary, brilliant sci-fi masterpiece!❤❤
Funny this, but as a child I found it watchable and some parts of it pretty good, and I feel the same way about it now.
Wow. For real? You haven't seen many sci fi movies and shows, have you?
@@delavan9141 In actual fact, I have watched many science-fiction shows and movies, as I enjoy them very much! One of my favourites is Space 1999, and I stand firm on my previous statement, as I’m entitled to my opinion!
The first season was good but the second season seemed like the writers were doing acid.
This show scared the crap out of me when I was little!
But now, after half a century I got to say, it's just brilliant!
Same here ,
Me too
so true
Especially that tentacles monster episode that sucked you into it’s orifice! Horrid..truly.
Ditto. And its where my infatuation for sci-fi started.
I remember September 1999 well. I was coming off a long illness and I started a job that month. That job greatly helped me turn my life around. There was no moon base (and as a space exploration lover since childhood I had always hoped to see one), but one person turning their life around is building a new world in another way.
It's hard to imagine this was made way back in 1975. It's so well done!
Yes it's much better made than the moon landing by NASA.
1970!
ROFLMAO. Really. Disco-boogie intro track didn't clue you in?
Before that. I watched it while in jr high, and I graduated from J.H. in 1974.
MCMLXXIV = 1974. Read the credits
Best first episode of any sci-fi series, ever. Just sublime.
I cannot believe they only made two seasons of this masterpiece.
Plus Landau and Barbra made it difficult to continue.. it's all in the wiki about the sad end of the show.
@@hawkdsl I didn't know that, I'll check that out thanks
The second season is very different in plots, effects, and continuity than the first. Fred Freiberger
who helped produce Star Trek season 3 (1968-69)
produced Space: 1999 in season 2)(1976-77).
@Edwin Arnold I think it was just one hour... ruclips.net/video/Y6BXaGEuqxo/видео.html
The first season was good. The second season was terrible, in my opinion. Wasn't surprised or even disappointed when it was cancelled.
I was kind of ridiculous how the moon passed through a different star system every week. Must have been travelling several times the speed of light, then slowed down as it got near a planet then again jumped to warp speed. LOL
But I did like the Eagles and special effects in the series. Even have a diecast Eagle that looks awesome.
This show was my emotional anchor as I was making the transition into high school. RIP Koenig and Sandra.
Awe I didn't know martin landau died 😢
Sandra passed?
Love the way everyone are adults and not full of teens.
Still the best sci-fi show to date in my opinion. Loved watching it when I was a kid, and it just brings great memories.
BSG: R
@@tmmartinesq.6216 Soap opera disguised as sci fi.
B5
Best episode was "Earthbound" With Christopher Lee
@@greekpapi Oh God yes...I don't remember what the set-up was, somebody trying to blame someone else for something, but Lee responded with "there is no need for judicial vengeance" - I still love that line!
This 1999 was much more interesting than my 1999.
We were promised that the moon would be blown out of earth's orbit, and the only armageddon we got was Y2K, big let down
@@1monki
Y2K was no where near an Armageddon or even a bang, it was a true dud and an excuse for merchants to sell software and hardware to old institutions, Governments, still using antiquated systems, being I have always used computers, 8 months before 2000, I took 3 computers and reset the calenders to simulate the year 2000, and lo & behold, the 3 computers worked just fine.
I told everyone I knew that the Y2K thing was simply a Chicken little Fairy story.
True
...and that 1999 is much more interesting than this 2021.
I don't know, man. I wouldn't change my Pokémon. But then, if you would explain the concept of it to someone from the 70s, or even in the 90s before it became famous, and then add, the perfect game for 11 year olds... But then at that age we were smart enough to know that we were chasing wild, free beings, beat them, captured them, enprisoned them, to be used as a tool FOR OUR GLORY AND GREATNESS, to be shaped and thrown away whenever, only to teach us that they are intelligent beings who love US and are thankful for US helping them, a sick case of Hostage syndrome towards US the 11 year old slavemasters who go on to lord over godlike beings. YEAH!
That opening theme song always gave me goosebumps.
I've seen that an awesome show as a kid it's were aired in the T.V iraq in the year of 1983and now watching it again as an old man 😊😊
Loved this show as a kid! I appreciate it even more decades later especially the first season....the intro sequence is still one of my all time favorites. A great underrated sci-fi series.
Same here. Being a child then, this series made a great impression on me. From the perspective of an experienced adult, it may seem dated, but you simply have to admire the dedication with which all the effort was conducted in the mid-seventies with the tools of that time.
I still prefer the Ufo series with Edward Bishop,and Wanda Ventham!This show holds up well for being made in the late 1960”s,and 1970”s.They are still selling Ufo merchandise on E-bay,as well as Gerry Anderson merchandise and Star Trek merchandise.Too,last year,Fanderson produced a Space 1999 radio show for all the Space 1999 fan’s out there!
@@bettyleeist ufo was 6 years earlier and didn't have the Moon (for God's sake) travelling FTL
@@TheShootist good goobalee god! Focus man. 🤣🤣🤣
This was my favorite saturday evening show and through watching this with my dad I finaly turnt to a scifi writing myself. These days I am author writing all kinds of novels myself my scifi stays in my heart.
NEVER FORGET! 20 years today 9/13/1999
LOVE This show! The clarity of the Film work is just AMAZING! Its like you can see 3D Angles in the actors faces and the Set. Just Remarkable!
Video quality is excellent. Thanks for the upload!
Moonbase-Alpha was actually what made me love Sci-fi in both book form and movies.
Rest in peace Commander he also passed away this year
I was a kid when the series came out and I only got to see a few scattered episodes and they left me unsettled. I understand why now. There is zero levity at play here. Now I'm going to have to watch the whole series because this is better than modern tv.
I remember the music so well! So distinctive!
I watch this show now mainly for the interior decoration: absolutely fantastic. As a nostalgic of the 70's it makes me feel at home.
Update: now that I watched them after 40+ years, I like the majority of the episodes too. Very well made show.
The show was coproduced by the Italian TV network RAI. There was a very slick "Italian" style of graphics & design at the time the show was made & I think a lot of that style made it into the show
It's clinical
Now, THIS is a series worth re-booting !
Please don't, we don't need another woke version of a good show. They would just ruin it for good, like everything else.
There have been a few attempts, but they all had the same result....nothing.
One of the many shows i loved and grew up with in the early 80s
this isnt the 80's. first aired around 75 ended around 77 i think
I'm sure they meant in reruns, I watch it, It was always on in the early morning on Saturdays in the early eighties
It was indeed around early 1982 as I saw the Season 1 reruns in the LWT area.
Me too...
Got it on blue ray
All these years later I still love this show. The sane goes for Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica from the same period. Absolutely wonderful to see this again after so long.
Don't forget Logan's Run which was made I think just after or in the same decade as Buck Rogers and original Battle Star Galactica with Lorne Green .
All great shows that were all utterly ruined with revamped, abysmal 2nd seasons.
Space 1999 was made in the early to almost mid 1970s but I do not consider it to be "the same period" as Buck Rogers and BSG. It was before Star Wars. The other 2 shows were after Star Wars. Imho Space 1999 definitely had an early 1970s look, the trousers and those broad belts, the main computer where a strip of paper is coming out.... But yeah the overall look of the rest was okay. To be honest I think some of the costumes of Buck Rogers looked a bit over the top. But I also loved and still love it and BSG.
You can't buy the original Battlestar where I am :(
@@rickseifert5139 YES!!!!!!!!
This was my favorite show growing up in the 70’s, awesome show and great memories 👍🏼
This was my favourite show when I was a kid i never missed one episode i still love it today i wish i could back to the 70s glorious time ......
I used to watch this show as a young teen but never saw the explosion. I knew it was an explosion that blew them out of orbit but never knew how it happened. Now at 59 years old I finally found out!
Ha the exact same, 59 years old and just found out today how it all happened. Loved this show!
I must admit, on September 13, 1999, I kept an eye on the Moon...just in case.
I threw a house party. We watched this episode and had astronaut/moon themed food and drink. Most of my friends are actors, it was a hoot.
I DID ALSO BOTH DATES! CAMPY SHOW BUT FUN TO WATCH AS A KID!
google , is the moon moving away from earth ....lol
I was locked up.
August 29, 1997. Was waiting for Skynet to come online . I was sweatin a bit that day.
Amazing to see 45 years old SCI FI TV show in such clarity and sharpness. Restoration work is impressive perhaps it was not that clear when originally aired in 1975, as many seniors would recall this TV show was shot on 35 mm film and not on some video tape.
When I studied screenwriting we got assigned to watch as many random pilots as we could, and I've kept that up since graduating. This was just wonderful and I can see how it captivated audiences back then, both young and old.
This has the most incredible production value ever
The special effects on this show still hold up.I was a kid when aired on tv.Loved this show and the back grounds.And outer space.
The soundtrack... Something I always remember. Really, that disco guitar... and the orchestral bottoms A W S O M E!!
Just caught this on prime video. At first I thought it was something produced today but in a retro fashion. Love the funky intro credits. Score is incredible. Love this show
Absolutely fantastic, well acted, great plots, brilliant special effects for the time, and it had it's fair share, of scary moments. Martin was pure class in this, as he was in everything else. I love the toupee too.
I used to love watching this. Good old days, much more civilised than the self importance people about the world now.
Production values on this show were off the charts
It was the most expensive British tv show made at the time if I remember correctly.
Wrong
Star Trek was the best in every way possible
I had heard that some of the folks that made 2001 Space Odyssey tried to take some sort of legal action because the special effects seemed so similar. I have no idea if this is true or not.
Space:1999 was mind blowing.
Wow the quality is unbelievable
I remember going to an audience with Gerry Anderson. Brilliant guy, brilliant imagination and he told the audience that the only reason he used puppets was as a precursor to being , he hoped, a director of live actors. Well he and his companions really developed special effects into an art form that took some of these into future big budget motion pictures.He actually regretted using actors, because of their nature whereas puppets didn't argue back.Great listening to him and his thoughts about his career, and his regret that he really wasn't as financially savvy as he could have been. His biggest regret it appeared was giving up the rights to Thunderbirds, IMO the best thing he ever did.Space 1999 was just silly but the effects were superb.
Summer 2023 and this show is still ahead of its time.
Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, and of course Barry Morse; great acting, great supporting cast, great sets, great FX, and the sum of these parts made something AMAZING~!
Lately, NASA is talking about colonizing the moon, so there may be a Moonbase Alpha IRL soon...
A lot of that is due to laziness on humanity's part. We could have permanent bases on the moon decades ago, but the will has been lacking. We got some catchup to do.
And that intro music! One thing I love about 70s production, aside from the nostalgia, is the liberal use of "free-jazz" funky bongo drum rhythms.
'Space 1999' years ahead of its time,most actors there are gone now.
@@LarryWhite-kw5mj Agreed.
I saw Barry Morse in a made - for - TV movie, Barbara Bain did some childrens' books reading, and Martin Landau had a bit part in the movie 'X Files: Fight The Future'.
Better than most stuff on tv today !
Most of what's on tv today is nothing but insipid, formulaic garbage. Except Mountain Monsters. Now there's a quality drama wait 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
NOT, really.....
Tbh it hasn't really aged well. It's being shown on The Horror Channel after the original Star Trek series and that has aged much better!
That's because Star Trek uniforms weren't tan disco leisure suits with bell bottoms and platform heel shoes lol. But l still think it was a great show. Those hand lasers were awesome, liked them almost as much as classic Star Trek phasers.
This was my favorite Saturday morning tv show!
Probably the most exiting theme tune of the era.
And then they replaced it with the worst in the second series!
Ah.....another one of the many shows I watched as a boy growing up in the 70s.
Cool. My brother use to watch this. Think it was mid 70s. Thought it was boring. Maybe because I was young. I appreciate it now.
We were all too young to get our head around the science. I just wanted to see the eagles do their thing.
I'm an 80's child I've literally NEVER heard of this show! Weird. Anyway I just watched the first episode and thought it was bloody good, so I'll probably buy the whole boxset when I've got some spare cash.
I grew up watching this show with my dad back in 1975. I was 10 at the time. I remember it was the coolest thing I'd ever watched on TV. The series was very popular in Sweden back then, but then again we had only 2 TV channels back then so any show that was shown on Swedish television back then was popular.
I grew up with this in the 70's! Original broadcasts, Star Trek reruns had stopped and I totally got involved in this story! Wonderful show!
Just loved this series as a kid (still does). Great theme (best in tv history only bested by Hawaii 5 0), realistic set designs as well as a great cast. Also liked the second season, again with a grand music theme.
I always loved that it looked exactly like an extension of the 2001: A Space Odyssey universe.
It might have been cheesy,but TV since then has become Velveeta.
I was once chatting with Ben Bova, a noted science fiction author (don't you *dare* say "sci-fi" to him!) and editor of "Analog" sci-fi magazine.(Whoops, sorry Ben!) He had the best line on the subject: "Space: 1999, marked down from 2001"
There is a starship(seen in "Wargames" and "Alpha Child") that resembles '2001''s starship Discovery.
This series showed that the originals are always the best.
Space 1999 and Battlestar Galactica were my favourite tv sci fi series.
I watched this on it's first broadcast. The special effects were so thrilling at the time. Now it's nostalgically quaint.
The more Netflix produced movies i see the less i agree with you.
I dunno that shot where they are standing in front of the eagle bay and there are like 20 eagles visible.. man thats done nearly perfectly. Rear projection is my best guess.
First it's should be its.
Watched this when I was a little kid. Haven't seen it in decades. Surprised at how well a lot of the visual effects hold up. The black skies with few visible stars is very realistic. Most space based movies and shows fill the sky with stars because they think the audience will be bored with a black sky.
The 'few stars" were because the series didn't have a lot of $$$ for optical effects, so they had to do a lot of in-camera compositing & they didn't want the ships to seem transparent with stars shining right through them
Yes, Star Trek, they're talking to you.
I remember going to my cousin's home in the 1970's and Space: 1999, The Odd Couple, and Six Million Dollar Man would always seem to be playing on the TV. I miss those carefree days.
It finally just occurred to me, like 45 years later, that I never thought how bad it would be for earth to not have a moon. No tides, etc. That's messed up.
Attention to detail was amazing. At 32:10. You can see the earth outside one of the main mission windows as the camera pans to the right.
The details went down for the regular episodes. For example, in the pilot when someone would be seen speaking on a video monitor, the backgrounds would be of the room they were supposed to be in, but in the regular episodes there would just be a grey background.
It's pretty amazing that this came before Star Wars and was a TV series and still was great for its time.
As a boomer I remember The Great Sci-Fi TV Drought of the mid-1970s," between the end of Star Trek and the beginning of Star Wars - "Space 1999' in the middle of that period and it definitely filled a vaccum for a while, but everyone was hungry for some sci-fi to come along that would *really* deliver the goods; and then on one fateful day in 1977...
Watched this as a kid, loved space because of this series.
Space1999, the avengers, the prisoner,the saint were among my favorites
That, would be telling