Since then it aired on TVTV! Sylvia Anderson remembered that he often voiced criticisms of scripts during production of the first series. The first releases on American home video were in the VHS in the mid-1980s and consisted of the theatrical compilation films (see above). I could read all his vital signs. Several episodes of the first series hinted that the Moon's journey was influenced (and perhaps initiated) by a "mysterious unknown force", which was guiding the Alphans toward an ultimate destiny. Tanya appears at his open door and asks if she can share the music with him. The background of the series was retconned, with the events now stated as having taken place in the year 2100 A.D. rather than 1999.[28]. Dissatisfaction on Landau's part about scripts was not new to Year Two, though. Sonja Sohn, Clarke Peters and Dominic West in 'The Wire.'. Comparisons with Star Trek were used by both camps to show how the series had been either saved or destroyed by the format change. Humanity had been storing its nuclear waste in vast disposal sites on the far side of the Moon, but when an unknown form of "magnetic radiation" is detected, the accumulated waste reaches critical mass and causes a massive thermonuclear explosion on 13 September 1999. In 2005, Network re-issued Year One in the UK as a Special Edition seven-DVD box set. For the first six weeks, no usable footage resulted until the team discovered a dragging brake[clarification needed] had affected film speed. It's embarrassing to me if I am not the star of it and in the way I feel it should be. In addition to the alien Maya character, to be played by Catherine Schell, numerous other changes were made for what was branded Year Two. Gadgets and equipment with a futuristic appearance typical of contemporary science fiction were also more evident. We came from planet Earth, and we built this base, called Alpha, to learn more about space. Sandra Benes (Zienia Merton) remained with the series in an on-again off-again association, but the character only appeared in a fraction of the episodes, albeit more prominently in some than in many of those of the first series. Watch Space: 1999: The Complete First Series, Watch Space 1999 30th Anniversary Edition Megaset-Disc 3, Watch Space 1999 30th Anniversary Edition Megaset-Disc 7, Watch Space 1999 30th Anniversary Edition Megaset-Disc 16, Watch Space 1999 30th Anniversary Edition Megaset-Disc 10, Watch Space 1999 30th Anniversary Edition Megaset-Disc 8, Watch Space 1999 30th Anniversary Edition Megaset-Bonus Disc, Watch Space 1999 30th Anniversary Edition Megaset-Disc 5, Watch Space 1999 30th Anniversary Edition Megaset-Disc 4. One thing was for sure; fans fell in love with Jerome from day one. New series composer Derek Wadsworth's new theme dropped Barry Gray's alternation between stately, orchestral passages and funky rhythmic ones in favour of a more consistently contemporary piece. Produced by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, the creative duo behind the marionette cult classic Thunderbirds, the ambitious set-up sends the Earth's moon, along with the entire population of Moonbase Alpha . I hope they never try to do a remake. The first series in 197576 was shown regionally on some CBC owned-and-operated stations, the airtime varying. Thruster and engine sounds were similar to those previously used in Fireball XL5, Thunderbirds, and Captain Scarlet. (45 episodes) (1975-1978) Catherine Schell .. It's all so perfect. Leon Lopez - Now The first story "Breakaway", was adapted by Nicholas Briggs who previously reimagined The Prisoner and also acts as director. Space: 1999 drew a great deal of visual inspiration and technical expertise from the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). 2018: Maxwell Jenkins. In "Black Sun", Victor Bergman asserts the chances of their surviving the explosion which knocked them from orbit are "just about infinite." It's been almost 30 years since Night Court aired its final episode in 1992. She is featured in 23 Year 2 episodes (she is not in Devil's Planet except in flashback, but is still credited). This was first done in the 1960s, with movies from The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Storyline [ edit] This issue is left somewhat enigmatic in the first series as episodes involving other planets invariably begin with the Moon having already reached a planet and in the first few episodes of this kind, such as "Matter of Life and Death" and "Missing Link", the episodes actually begin with the Alphans on their way back from a planet, an initial Eagle flight having taken place before the episode even begins. Mandell was amenable, but stated he did not want a series set featuring people "having tea in the Midlands" and forbade any Earth-bound settings. When love-interest Tony Verdeschi offered her some of his home-brewed beer, Maya tried it, then turned herself into Mister Hyde. He criticized the acting, saying, "The special effects are good, but the actors are awful, even Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, whom you will remember from Mission:Impossible; and Barry Morse, of The Fugitive. Part of it's charm is how 70s it is. High Definition digital transfers were then made from the interpositives using a state-of-the-art Philips Spirit DataCine. The first film would have picked up the story several years after the series ended, and would have featured a heavily redesigned Moonbase Alpha. But human error blasted this Moon out of the Earth's orbit. The TV MegaSite's Space: 1999 site is a small fan page with information, links, cast info, photos, . The first series was co-produced by ITC Entertainment and Italian broadcaster RAI, while the second series was produced solely by ITC. To fulfil the scheduling requirement and cut production costs, Freiberger used the "double-up script" solution. Response to the series varied; some critics praised it as a classic, citing the production values and multi-layered storytelling ("Space: 1999 is like Star Trek shot full of methedrine. At this point, the staff seemed to make creative changes that brought the series closer in concept and appearance to 2001: A Space Odyssey. $164.99. Although they were well-established, Leon Lopez only started playing the role of Jerome in 1999. [3] Landau is said to have personally contacted editors of TV Guide magazine in some markets to secure coverage of Space: 1999 in its pages upon learning of ITC's somewhat poor promotional efforts. Paul plays his guitar in his quarters. Fragrance oils are now used in diffusers and oil burners in order to create a healing atmosphere. As long as the various elements did not overlap, this produced convincing results. This release also contains a restored version of the feature length Destination: Moonbase Alpha film. In technical terms, the advantage was that all of the elements were recorded on the original negative, as opposed to blue screen, which would have involved several generations of duplication. A new Lost In Space, -- the show's fourth iteration -- debuted last year on Netflix, with an outstanding cast and special effects that gave young Millennials a taste of what the Baby Boomers hold dear. In late 2014, Network finally announced that Year Two would be released in 2015. Some missed the mystical plotlines, feature-film ambiance and the "British-ness" of the first series. Not long after leaving Earth's Solar System, the wandering Moon passes through a black hole and later through a couple of "space warps" which push it even further out into the universe. Maya had an impish sense of humour. Johnny Byrne's script "The Biological Soul", involving the Alphans' encounter with the unstable Mentor of the planet Psychon and his biological computer Psyche, was rewritten to include the new character Maya and the rest of the format changes; the episode produced from this script was retitled "The Metamorph". Example: Apex Class: public class TimeController {. Space: 1999 Cast List "Space: 1999" Actors and Characters! Drama, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction. Feb 13 Member-only UFOs,. Taking place twenty five years after the events of "Breakaway", Commander Koenig and Maya are mentioned during Sandra's message. Though Anderson and Grade were satisfied with this choice, Abe Mandell had concerns about why he was unemployed and available at the time.[6]. (Blair, Damon and Blessed each appeared in two episodes portraying different characters. Dozens of models for the various alien spaceships and the Mark IX Hawk from the "War Games" episode were built by model maker Martin Bower, often at several different sizes to account for the intended use. The Eagle 1 is made mostly of moulded plastic and has a number of parts and accessories. All of those things were on the verge of happening anyway. Most of the country saw Space: 1999 at 5 p.m. on Saturdays, a notable exception being the Atlantic Provinces in which it was broadcast at 6 or 6:30p.m. or as was the case in the summers sometime earlier in the afternoon to accommodate live sports coverage, the airing of which crossed into or totally over the usual Space: 1999 airtime. "[22] With Morse gone, the role of the boffin on Alpha was filled completely by Maya, whose people's science was far in advance of mankind's. Much of the publicity mentioned the then-staggering three million pound budget: as a part of the American promotion effort, a glossy magazine-sized brochure was produced, touting Space: 1999 as the Six-and-a-Half Million Dollar Series (an allusion to the then-popular American programme The Six Million Dollar Man) featuring American stars, American writers and American directors.[33]. Ever since its release, the Paul Verhoeven -directed. Space 2099 Science Fiction UFO Ufo And Aliens Get an email whenever John Ege publishes. Two series of the programme were produced, each comprising 24 episodes. Much of this music was reused in other episodes. [47] Year One was released on Blu-ray in the U.S. on 2 November 2010 by A&E Home Entertainment, with new High-Definition restored transfers and a newly remastered 5.1 DTS-HD MA surround sound re-mix. 1,561 views Sep 13, 2019 Space: 1999 has been reimagined in this two part audio drama from Big Finish Productions.. Other Anderson shows influenced the Space: 1999 spacecraft and elements. On 12 August 2019, Anderson Entertainment announced that they would collaborate with Big Finish to create an audio drama reboot of Space: 1999 starring Mark Bonnar[39] as John Koenig, Maria Teresa Creasey as Doctor Helena Russell, Timothy Bentinck as Commissioner Simmons and Clive Hayward as Victor Bergman. The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space. Production of the first series was from November 1973 to February 1975; production of the second series was from January 1976 to December 1976. Space: 1999, which ran from 1975 to 1977, exemplifies everything good - and bad - about scaling down the genre to fit the small screen. "[25] One particular episode ('All That Glisters', which dealt with the threat of an intelligent rock) was of such allegedly deficient quality that it sparked a confrontation between Freiberger and the cast. Mandell countered that this concept might be off-putting to viewers, to which Anderson replied he would "blow up the Moon".[7]. [29] It was released on 14 January 1975, a year before the series was broadcast in the country, and compiled scenes from the episodes "Breakaway", "Ring Around the Moon" and "Another Time, Another Place", accompanied by scores from noted soundtrack composer Ennio Morricone. The French-language CBC Television, Radio-Canada, showed Cosmos: 1999 several times (both series) between 1975 and 1980, first on Mondays (19751976), then on Saturdays (19761977), then on Mondays (1979), and finally on Wednesdays (19791980). The cast of Stargate SG-1 hold a particularly special place in the franchise's canon, since they launched the exploration of multiple galaxies that was continued in Stargate Atlantis and. Landau disliked the story so strongly that he wrote the following notes on his copy of the script: "All the credibility we're building up is totally forsaken in this script. The second series was scored by jazz musician and composer Derek Wadsworth; American producer Fred Freiberger wanted a more "driving, searing" score for his new action-adventure format. In early episodes, Maya's eyebrows are much longer. "[26] Johnny Byrne said that Freiberger was a good man and good producer, but not good for Space: 1999. The characters seem aware of the apparent implausibility of their situation. Space: 1999. In a show like this, that's one line they should have avoided at any price." The original Space:1999 show was first aired on ITV in 1975, running for two series before it was cancelled. The crew of Moonbase Alpha can. For this release, to coincide with the series' 30th Anniversary, each episode was digitally restored by creating new 35mm film elements (a new interpositive made from the original negative which is then used to make further copies). Alien Attack, though the second of these films to be released, was an expansion of the show's pilot episode. Anderson re-wrote several key scenes and, after three days of re-shoots, re-edited the pilot into a one-hour episode that appeased the fears of ITC. In the half-hour opening episode "Zero-G" penned by the Andersons, Earth's deep space probes have discovered an advanced extraterrestrial civilisation. TV Series Announced. [3] Also appearing as regular cast members were the Canadian-based British actor Barry Morse (as Professor Victor Bergman in the first series) and Hungarian-born, US-raised Catherine Schell (as the alien Maya in the second series). For the first series, Stage L housed the "standing sets"; such as Main Mission, the Eagle interior, the travel tube, and a small section of corridor. A monster, the 'cloud creature' appears out of the cloud and runs amok on the base. The seven-minute film features Zienia Merton reprising her role as Sandra Benes delivering a final message to Earth as the only crew member left on Moonbase Alpha while a massive exodus to a habitable planet, Terra Alpha, takes place with the rest of the crew. George Clooney George Clooney is no doubt the most famous actor to have come from ER. Landau and Bain were high-profile stars in America after three years in the popular CBS espionage series Mission: Impossible. Grade had one stipulation: the new series would be set primarily on the Moon within the environs of an expanded SHADO Moonbase; the ratings indicated the Moon-centric episodes had proved the most popular with audiences. YTV Canada broadcast both series with reportedly good ratings from 1990 to 1992, in a late Saturday afternoon airtime closely matching that of the CBC English network in the 1970s. 21. He's had major roles in 2018's Monsters . In addition to the cosmetic changes, the characters were "warmed up." As stated by series writers Christopher Penfold and Johnny Byrne, it was Bellak who created and polished the series' defining concepts. into the opening credits, more specifically the "This Episode" section, which was something of a Gerry Anderson trademark. "; "Story is told poorly. Moviestore/Shutterstock. So the datetime data type is used only for dates after January 1, 1753. The actor Zienia Merton, who has died aged 72, appeared regularly on British television during a 50-year career during which she found fame as one of the regular cast of the Gerry Anderson. Production Designer Keith Wilson stated in an interview in Destination: Moonbase Alpha that he was always being ordered by Producer Fred Freiberger to make sets smaller, taking away the expansive (and expensive) look of the first series' interiors. HTV did not pick the series up until 1984 and then only showed nineteen out of the twenty-four episodes from Year Two (the last episodes were not screened in Wales until the series was repeated in the 1990s). Freiberger had produced the third and final season of Star Trek in 19681969 and eight episodes of the first season of The Wild Wild West (including one in which Martin Landau guest-starred) before being dismissed. Immediately after Space: 1999 he would go on to produce what would be the final season of The Six Million Dollar Man. [12], One week before live action filming commenced, Visual Effects Supervisor Brian Johnson and his team began work on the visual effects sequences for the first episode at Bray Studios near Maidenhead, Berkshire on 5 November 1973. Alexandra Paul (Lt. Stephanie Holden) From 1992 to 1997 Alexandra Paul played the love interest to the show's protagonist Mitch Buchannon (Hasselhoff) until her character, Lt. Stephanie Holden . Sure, a few things have changed. The Moonbase Alpha Technical Manual produced by Starlog magazine picks up this explanation, stating Bergman died due to a faulty spacesuit per the scripted scene. In 1994, Patankin was cast in the hit show "Chicago Hope," winning an Emmy Award for his performance. [citation needed], Rather than relying on the expensive and time-consuming blue screen process, as for Star Trek, Johnson's team often employed a technique that went back to the earliest days of visual effects: spacecraft and planets would be filmed against black backgrounds, with the camera being rewound for each successive element. On the strength of Anderson and Freiberger's proposal of adding an alien character from the planet Psychon named Maya, Mandell approved a renewal of the series for a second year. Fred Freiberger felt that these characters were one-dimensional and had no fan support; he told Nick Tate that the audience would not remember them and that, as far as he was concerned, they were just "somewhere else" on Alpha, lost in the crowd of three hundred other people. Scheduled for ten days' filming, "Breakaway" overran an additional fifteen days. After the show, the cast of the original series remained sci-fi icons. "Space Warp" would not be shown until 21 May, after many weeks of repeats. Around the base, the Alphans await the Moon's entrance into the black sun in various ways, some playing cards, chess, etc. [20] ITC's compromise was to hire a high-profile American staff writer-producer. [44] The Blu-ray set includes all of the extras on the 2005 Network DVD release as well as some of the extras that were on the 2001 Carlton DVD release (including a Lyons Maid ice-lolly commercial, and an SFX segment from the British documentary series Horizon). His main storyline revolved around his on and off relationship with Suzanne Collins's character Nikki Shadwick. Space:1999 was an epiphany for sci-fi fans in the mid-70s, appearing sporadically on TV worldwide 6 years after Star Trek but before Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica took over in 1977-1978. The scenes re-mounted for "The Last Enemy" concluded principal photography on 28 February 1975. Katzin was not asked back to the programme after the filming of his second episode "Black Sun", which also ran over schedule. For instance, a spaceship could be seen approaching a planet from the side, but could not move in front of it without the elements overlapping.[9]. His character was designed to serve primarily as a secondary male action hero, and became a romantic interest for Maya. Based on Stephen King's novel by the same name, Carrie stars Sissy Spacek as the young leading lady who gets her ultimate revenge by killing all of her high school enemies and even her. In 1972, Sir Lew Grade, head of ITC Entertainment, proposed financing a second series of the Century 21 production UFO to show-runners Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. In the months leading to the beginning of the autumn 1975 series, Landau and Bain participated in special preview screenings in select cities. [9] Aside from the new theme music, which was more synthesised than the theme for Year One, Wadsworth also composed original music for the episodes "The Metamorph", "The Exiles", "One Moment of Humanity", "The Taybor", and "Space Warp". In Canada, CBC Television was the broadcaster of Space: 1999 from 1975 into the 1980s. The necessity to telex story outlines and scripts to New York for approval caused further production delays. Following the series' cancellation, four feature-length films were compiled from various episodes for syndication and foreign theatrical release: Destination Moonbase Alpha (1978), Alien Attack (1979), Journey Through the Black Sun (1982), and Cosmic Princess (1982). [36], In February 2012, a new series, to be called Space: 2099, was announced as a reboot of the original series and was planned to be made by ITV Studios America in conjunction with HD Films. Security Chief Tony Verdeschi also joined as a new character, played by Tony Anholt. As one of Arrow's original cast members, Katie Cassidy brought to life the character of Laurel Lance across all eight of Arrow's seasons, although this was reduced from a regular role to a. Space 1999 Volume 01 - Space 1999 - Big Finish", "Space: 1999: The Bringers of Wonder Pre-buy", "Space: 1999: The Complete Series 2 [BLU-RAY] Pre-buy", "Space: 1999 30th Anniversary Edition DVD Information", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Space:_1999&oldid=1141665313, Alan Carter, third in command, chief pilot, Paul Morrow, base second in command and Main Mission controller, Tony Verdeschi, second in command, head of Security and Command Center controller, This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 05:17. The unisex "Moon City" uniforms for the first series were created by Austrian fashion designer Rudi Gernreich, a personal friend of series star Barbara Bain. Is "Space: 1999" anyway linked to other TV shows? Having judged Maddox a noble example of mankind, they return him unharmed. It concludes with the termination of the message as Sandra closes down Alpha's operational systems and transmits the message- which turns out to be the mysterious signal received shortly before the events of "Breakaway". Anderson responded that in the series opener, he would "blow up the Earth". August 10, 2022. The first series was co-produced by ITC Entertainment and Italian broadcaster RAI, while the second series was produced solely by ITC. During their interstellar journey, the Alphans encounter an array of alien civilisations, dystopian societies, and mind-bending phenomena previously unseen by humanity. A synopsis for Space: 1999 - Volume 1 reads: The Moon has been sucked through a wormhole in space and has arrived countless miles away from its proper place. The headline stars of Space: 1999 were American actors Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, who were married to each other at the time and had previously appeared together in Mission: Impossible. The disadvantage was that the number of possible angles was more limited. Someone would simply be lying on the floor half dead, and I would [scan them] with this funny little thing that was a prop. Price: . Moonbase Alpha safeguards the nuclear waste shipped from Earth and carries out research. Verdeschi, who assumed the base's second-in-command role, neither appeared, nor was ever mentioned, in Year One. Space: 1999 - Volume 1 is now available to pre-order at the special price of 19.99 as a collector's edition three-disc CD box set or 16.99 as a download, exclusively HERE! 1965: Bill Mumy. Filming & Production The cockpit of the Eagle has a slight resemblance to the cockpit of an earlier Anderson Supermarionation series, Fireball XL5. With most of the crew indisposed through illness, it is down to Maya to employ her shape-shifting skills to beat the creature. They can pretty much do that [with a medical device] nowadays. Another benefit was that the camera's exposed negative contained completed effects thereby avoiding the costs of the blue screen "optical" technique. An article regarding a third series was printed in the trade papers: "Now entrenched in its successful second season boom, ITC is looking forward to a third season with more fantastic events and additions, although mum's the word at the studio. The second series eliminated this montage. I used to love to watch Space: 1999 when I was a kid in the 70's. I really loved the characters, the costumes, and the monsters. Martin Landau .. Cmdr. When interviewed, many of the actors state they were asked to accept less money, including Landau and Bain (who were the only ones with enough clout to be able to refuse). 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