A coloured globe would have been a distraction to the eye and from him. He was very alert to make that comment it seems. You don't want the scenery visually competing with the actor, and the viewers attention.
Wow well what do you know after all these years? For its time Space 1999 was for me anyway one of the best sci fi series on TV. With all the neutral décor I guess a colored globe would have looked out of place. Brilliant input, looked futuristic, hi tech & timeless design
On Judge Dredd, with Stalone...he wanted any GREEN removed from set, costumes etc. because Green suggested birth, growing in a stagnating crime driven society that was consuming itself. For him and I can understand GREEN offered or represented HOPE, BIRTH, GROWTH, all something that Mega City One is'nt So, from s point of view of 1999 as Dystopian Drama, a removal of Green in a Globe makes sence
Thing about this is Jamie Anderson being a bit dumb? The production team would of chosen colours that look good on screen, from models to puppet features, to set design etc.? In the days before colour, Torchie, through to Scarlet, even though from Stingray though filmed in colour, most people still had Black and White TV's, so how something looked in B+W, what colours used to get the greatest definition would matter ? Certain colours absorb light and others repel it. Martin Landau, star quality or not started working on TV when it was in B+W, so he could possibily be very aware how divisions of shade showed on a screen where colour was not available. I live in the Southwest, might of been born in London area, but we never had a colour TV till 1968/69...and we moved in Winter of 72/73 and had a colour TV that came with us....because the Southwest only started broadcasting in colour in 1972 ?, so locals here would of seen early UFO in B+W. People in this area of the world still had B+W TV's into the early 80's
Good call on Mr Landau's part imo...I loved that globe. In the same way I loved the same type of globe on Cmdr Straker's desk in UFO :) there was just something about it that looked right.
Martin was a very artistic guy, a very good illustrator - and it made perfect sense. The base was very monochromatic in season one, except for a few touches, sleeves, etc... and it made the alien worlds like Piri and Terra Nova, and those orange space suits really pop.
Landau did the show because he believed in it and he fought for quality. I think he was absolutely right in this case. The sets on Space:1999 were exceptionally stylish and cool and he was right to protect them from being ruined by a bad decision.
Actually a smart art direction call by Landau who was an artist himself. It's a small detail but a colour globe would be enough to unbalance the set's colour scheme. I'd guess Keith Wilson was grateful for the idea. :)
Love the moon base Alpha Sets. Something I would like to know is were did Cmdr Strakers desk paper weight come from who made it and were did it go. Nice one guys.
Well if the Eagles wound up almost rotting in a basement somewhere before being refurbished we can pretty well guess what they did with a paper weight.
I recall a twisted silvery sculpture topped with what appeared to be an ashtray next to his desk. Since Landau was a smoker, I figured he had requested that. By the way, I've always wondered why in Year 2, with one exception, he always wore a jacket in every episode.
One thing I never understood was why was Koenig pronounced Ko-neg on 1999, when actor Walter Koenig who played Chekov on Star Trek was pronounced correctly, Kay-neg?
I heard that Twizzle did something similar. Apparently he arrived first day on the set and demanded that everything be made of papier-mâché, that the set be painted black and white, and that the strings had to be prominent on every shot. Then after a dozen or so episodes were already in the can, Gerry was forced to reshoot all the episodes over again as Twizzle wasn’t happy with his lighting or his makeup. According to legend this added a total of 1 hour and 13 minutes to the entire shooting schedule at a cost of 3 shillings and sixpence. Because of this Gerry vowed never to work with puppets again, and that’s why eventually he went over to live action.
Remember, it was 1974, a time when every school classroom had such an earth globe in it! It was a common sight everywhere back then, the idea was to be away from Earth back then. Everything was made of wood back then even the inside of custom vans with wood panels and shag carpet. It was the ushering in of chrome, glass, florescent light tubes and translucent panels,anything wood and earthy wouldn't do for the futuristic space enthusiastI I remember the era well. Then Starwars came out to continue the beat.
Imagine the OUTRAGE from Landau if the Designer said to the director, "I don't like the way he's playing his character, can he speak more like this, walk more like that" However, I think a green and blue globe would have looked awful in this colour setting on Alpha. It would definitely have pulled focus. I like the grey globe. I have read somewhere that during filming for the very first story, that globe was still wet!
I wonder if the colour globe was more accurate than the grey-scale one, as it riddled with "errors" catacombs.space1999.net/main/cguide/umcoffice.html Sweden is submerged in an enlarged Baltic Sea. In Africa, Cameroon is drowned by a large delta from the Bight of Biafra to Lake Chad. The largest American lakes, the Great Lakes on the Canada United States border, are missing. North Vietnam is missing, as well as the southern peninsula of Thailand that connects to Malaysia. You can see the Finland and Norway around a large Baltic Sea that has drowned Sweden.
Gonna have to side with Landau because I'm sure it was a well painted globe and if it was in a scene the first thing I would have thought is that it was one used on an actual special effects shot for the show thus knocking you back into actual reality and when I was a kid I didn't want that!
Barbara Bain made many demands on the Space: 1999 production - the most awful request being that she insisted Catherine Schell be put in makeup for the Maya character that downplayed her beauty as Barbara was jealous and wanted to be the prettiest woman on the set.
Oh sorry if I'm treading on any toes, but half the problem with the whole bloody series was that it was "beigey-grey". It might have lasted a bit longer with better writers and a bit more oomph!
As a teen watching the show it certainly looked futuristic... however realistically I doubt the whole beige/white aesthetic would go over well. It is to sterile, and grim. I would imagine that it would need to be much more earth friendly, colours the would evoke earth to make the inhabitants comfortable and at ease in their enclosed environment. My two cents as a designer.
I always thought colour was largely removed from 1999 because at the time we were mainly watching in black and white anyway. In the UK 1976 was the 1st year colour sets outsold B&W and they were expensive to the point there was a national chain of shops renting tv's vcr's.
@@billhosko7723 I didn't, none of my friends parents had a colour TV. It was a uk show, where were you watching? At the time colour tv's were expensive enough that renting was still commonplace. The price of VCR's was also astronomical.
@@billhosko7723 1976 was the 1st year on record in the uk that colour tv sets out sold black and white sets. A lot of people hung onto there B&W sets until they broke.
And from what Barry Morse said on the making of documentary in the extras on the season 1 boxset, Martin Landau was the reason he didn't come back as Victor in season 2
Great story.I think Martin Landau really got it right personally with the dulling down of colours.It also worked for Star Trek The Motion Picture.
So a picture of the globe was too difficult to include in the video?
I thought that!!! I was waiting for it
N worse than wasting time listening to these two Karians.
A coloured globe would have been a distraction to the eye and from him. He was very alert to make that comment it seems. You don't want the scenery visually competing with the actor, and the viewers attention.
Completely agree with Martin, a coloured globe would of really looked out of place.
100% agree with Martin
As a graphic designer, I would "of" to agree as well. The monochrome is much more stylish.
He knew what he was doing 100%. Totally right call, it supported the 'moonbase' feel.
I concur totally with Martin's decision. Martin's portrayal of John Koenig was so gutsy that he made Bill Shatner seem a softie in comparison.
I agree with Martin. I loved that globe, it was so stylish.
Wow well what do you know after all these years? For its time Space 1999 was for me anyway one of the best sci fi series on TV.
With all the neutral décor I guess a colored globe would have looked out of place.
Brilliant input, looked futuristic, hi tech & timeless design
The blue and green of the globe would've been out of place in Koenig's office. Good call on martin's part.
On Judge Dredd, with Stalone...he wanted any GREEN removed from set, costumes etc. because Green suggested birth, growing in a stagnating crime driven society that was consuming itself. For him and I can understand GREEN offered or represented HOPE, BIRTH, GROWTH, all something that Mega City One is'nt
So, from s point of view of 1999 as Dystopian Drama, a removal of Green in a Globe makes sence
Yes I agree it would have stood out like a sore thumb.
Well I must admit that on UFO I was always distracted by that big colourful mood light behind Strakers desk.
Thing about this is Jamie Anderson being a bit dumb? The production team would of chosen colours that look good on screen, from models to puppet features, to set design etc.? In the days before colour, Torchie, through to Scarlet, even though from Stingray though filmed in colour, most people still had Black and White TV's, so how something looked in B+W, what colours used to get the greatest definition would matter ? Certain colours absorb light and others repel it. Martin Landau, star quality or not started working on TV when it was in B+W, so he could possibily be very aware how divisions of shade showed on a screen where colour was not available.
I live in the Southwest, might of been born in London area, but we never had a colour TV till 1968/69...and we moved in Winter of 72/73 and had a colour TV that came with us....because the Southwest only started broadcasting in colour in 1972 ?, so locals here would of seen early UFO in B+W. People in this area of the world still had B+W TV's into the early 80's
@@kerryendacotte4146 interesting take on it cheers.
Good call on Mr Landau's part imo...I loved that globe. In the same way I loved the same type of globe on Cmdr Straker's desk in UFO :) there was just something about it that looked right.
I wish I had a beige globe in my house! Great Fact!
He was right. The colour one may have worked in the second series.
Martin was a very artistic guy, a very good illustrator - and it made perfect sense. The base was very monochromatic in season one, except for a few touches, sleeves, etc... and it made the alien worlds like Piri and Terra Nova, and those orange space suits really pop.
I also agree with Martin's choice.
He was right. That gray globe was distinctive and fit the aesthetic.
A lot of us still had black and white TV back then, so it probably looked better in that format
Having just checked photos of the globe which has never registered to me at all - I think the grey colour works with the set.
Landau did the show because he believed in it and he fought for quality. I think he was absolutely right in this case. The sets on Space:1999 were exceptionally stylish and cool and he was right to protect them from being ruined by a bad decision.
I do not recall the land being as dark as his sleeve. I shall have to rewatch the whole series again, (what an excuse!)
Actually a smart art direction call by Landau who was an artist himself. It's a small detail but a colour globe would be enough to unbalance the set's colour scheme. I'd guess Keith Wilson was grateful for the idea. :)
Love the moon base Alpha Sets.
Something I would like to know is were did Cmdr Strakers desk paper weight come from who made it and were did it go.
Nice one guys.
Well if the Eagles wound up almost rotting in a basement somewhere before being refurbished we can pretty well guess what they did with a paper weight.
@@WorldRespectForLife True ):
I recall a twisted silvery sculpture topped with what appeared to be an ashtray next to his desk. Since Landau was a smoker, I figured he had requested that.
By the way, I've always wondered why in Year 2, with one exception, he always wore a jacket in every episode.
Little about Y2 has anything redeeming for me. Including those silly jackets and turtlenecks...
One thing I never understood was why was Koenig pronounced Ko-neg on 1999, when actor Walter Koenig who played Chekov on Star Trek was pronounced correctly, Kay-neg?
I heard that Twizzle did something similar. Apparently he arrived first day on the set and demanded that everything be made of papier-mâché, that the set be painted black and white, and that the strings had to be prominent on every shot.
Then after a dozen or so episodes were already in the can, Gerry was forced to reshoot all the episodes over again as Twizzle wasn’t happy with his lighting or his makeup.
According to legend this added a total of 1 hour and 13 minutes to the entire shooting schedule at a cost of 3 shillings and sixpence.
Because of this Gerry vowed never to work with puppets again, and that’s why eventually he went over to live action.
Nice of them to show the globe in question. Landau was a smart actor. He didn't want anything taking the attention from him.
I understand Lady Penelope could be a bit of a diva!
Remember, it was 1974, a time when every school classroom had such an earth globe in it! It was a common sight everywhere back then, the idea was to be away from Earth back then. Everything was made of wood back then even the inside of custom vans with wood panels and shag carpet. It was the ushering in of chrome, glass, florescent light tubes and translucent panels,anything wood and earthy wouldn't do for the futuristic space enthusiastI I remember the era well. Then Starwars came out to continue the beat.
Imagine the OUTRAGE from Landau if the Designer said to the director, "I don't like the way he's playing his character, can he speak more like this, walk more like that" However, I think a green and blue globe would have looked awful in this colour setting on Alpha. It would definitely have pulled focus. I like the grey globe. I have read somewhere that during filming for the very first story, that globe was still wet!
Beigey Grey? Wasn't she in Crossroads?
That's a gyroscope not a globe .
I wonder if the colour globe was more accurate than the grey-scale one, as it riddled with "errors"
catacombs.space1999.net/main/cguide/umcoffice.html
Sweden is submerged in an enlarged Baltic Sea. In Africa, Cameroon is drowned by a large delta from the Bight of Biafra to Lake Chad.
The largest American lakes, the Great Lakes on the Canada United States border, are missing.
North Vietnam is missing, as well as the southern peninsula of Thailand that connects to Malaysia.
You can see the Finland and Norway around a large Baltic Sea that has drowned Sweden.
Gonna have to side with Landau because I'm sure it was a well painted globe and if it was in a scene the first thing I would have thought is that it was one used on an actual special effects shot for the show thus knocking you back into actual reality and when I was a kid I didn't want that!
Barbara Bain made many demands on the Space: 1999 production - the most awful request being that she insisted Catherine Schell be put in makeup for the Maya character that downplayed her beauty as Barbara was jealous and wanted to be the prettiest woman on the set.
Is there a source for this info?
Barbara Bain it was the prettiest
For her to be the prettiest woman on set she would have to have been the only woman on set .
@@marcushull12 it was unique
Go awaay karian. Good grief. Bain WAS the lead actress.
Oh sorry if I'm treading on any toes, but half the problem with the whole bloody series was that it was "beigey-grey". It might have lasted a bit longer with better writers and a bit more oomph!
As a teen watching the show it certainly looked futuristic... however realistically I doubt the whole beige/white aesthetic would go over well. It is to sterile, and grim. I would imagine that it would need to be much more earth friendly, colours the would evoke earth to make the inhabitants comfortable and at ease in their enclosed environment. My two cents as a designer.
Landau loved to chew scenery, apparently he was allergic to colour
Troll... 50 years later you rolls have nothing better to do...
Awful commentary... smug, colorless yourselves... Landau, if he did in fact have anything to do with the globe, was right.
I always thought colour was largely removed from 1999 because at the time we were mainly watching in black and white anyway. In the UK 1976 was the 1st year colour sets outsold B&W and they were expensive to the point there was a national chain of shops renting tv's vcr's.
Good grief... In 1975, 90% of homes had color sets.
@@billhosko7723 I didn't, none of my friends parents had a colour TV. It was a uk show, where were you watching? At the time colour tv's were expensive enough that renting was still commonplace. The price of VCR's was also astronomical.
@@billhosko7723 1976 was the 1st year on record in the uk that colour tv sets out sold black and white sets. A lot of people hung onto there B&W sets until they broke.
@billhosko7723 wrong.
And from what Barry Morse said on the making of documentary in the extras on the season 1 boxset, Martin Landau was the reason he didn't come back as Victor in season 2
BS.. Karien.