Space: 1999 -Tribute to the eagles-

[spacefan1962]

Very nice piece of work! I always liked the Eagles and had two airfix kits, one of which I cannibalised into a craft of my own design. Ah, happy days...

[CoyoteBuddy]

Awesome slideshow!  I had an Eagle hanging from my ceiling for years. Best damned spacecraft ever designed for vacuum!

[chaney1]

the dinky eagles were one of my fav toys ever,i went for the green one rather than the blue cargo one must be worth something now.

[SE09uk]

My nephew and myself use to wait for space 1999 to start every week way back in the 1970's.

i had a air-fix eagle and a space 1999 laser water pistol :)

[manuelherrera777]

The Eagles were the only cool thing about a very disappointing TV show. When we watched the show in 1975, Space 1999 was not very far away and the Eagles were futuristic enough to be realistic but not fantasy sleek as in Star Wars or Star Trek.

[PilgrimGB]

Just that first part of the theme tune sends me back. One of the coolest toys I ever had.

[aristo4949]

greets from Italy to the fans!

[Keruaran]

I don't remember the show. But I remember as a small child finger painting these craft because I remembered them though I didn't remember where from...

[Mbasealpha]

Fantastic tribute to the finest spacecraft ever! Thanks so much for creating this--love it!

[MikeE381]

@Mbasealpha Thx. And love Your profilename!

[ParaglidingManiac]

Where did we go wrong?! It's 2011 outside the window!

[gtrefghuk]

Eagles are hands down the coolest looking spacecraft ever!

[dynagravitomagnetic]

Few people know or care that these eagles, (modeled after thunderbird two) were supposed to use gravity compensators in the landing pod nacelles. "thunderbird six" featured this technology in the "skyship one". This is probably how they were able to effect planet-fall re-entry and without burning up due to atmospheric friction. They would gently "float down" using marconi vortex dynamo / super fluid gravity centrifuge technology! (Higgs-God particle accumulators?)

[echozgus]

@dynagravitomagnetic wow!!!

[MEDASI7211]

i had the big toy and when i got oledr i bought the model. COOL design.

[michaelhviper]

What I liked about the Eagles was how the different modules could separate and the different kinds, Emergency rescue Eagle refueling Eagles the Super one like the one they showed in ''The Metamorph''.

[TRUMPER007]

This was one of the best sc-fi shows ever made. Unfortunately series 2 (Like Buck Rogers) was'nt as good.

[signus201]

Hemosas naves

[signus201]

A 6 imbeciles no les gusto el video.

[AdrianWaitemusic]

This was my favorite sci fi show after Star Trek! Tried to steal my buddies eagle when I was a kid. Good memories!

[moogug]

Rocketry and spacecraft designers say this design is one that would actually work if built. A sci-fi rarity!. I loved 'em. They always seemed to blow one or two up every episode though. I always wondered how many they had, and when they would run out.

[OLDSMARKARL]

Wild man, wild......

[cristianruiz1972]

No me había dado cuenta que la Cruz de San Jorge escandinava estuviera en las Aguilas(en los trenes de aterrizaje).

[MikeE381]

@cristianruiz1972 Sure....?

[paulocarpediem]

In Brazil this series began in the 80s in defunct TV Tupi. I can not find chapters dubbed. Really liked this series.

[KJOSCOT]

Star Trek: Deep Space 9 tried to capture the basic elements of the Eagle with their Danube Class Runabout. They even emerge from a dorsal hatch just like them, and have detachable modules both in the front, and in the middle as well. The runabouts were cool, but we can see where they get the idea from. I actually think that those craft can actually work if we were to build those. It is totally feasible. My cousin had a large Eagle model that I used to love to play with when I was a kid. Fun!

[jasoncottles1]

i used to have a metal eagle spaceship- one of my favourite toys ever, it had the detachable mid section and all. what ever happened to all your old toys? i would never have thrown away this one !!

[XpCorba]

need to remake the movie, but with more more moon base, russian, china, usa,europe, for a better story without monster or alien at each episode, human conflict risk and surviv, sometime ennemy sometime allied.

Because scenario was limited, saison 1 was good, but the saison 2 was a massacre.

but i love eagle



[Roadracer987654321]

The Eagle Spaceships were very Cool in the 1970s. In the Remake they should be be just as Cool.. Maybe different types of Eagles would be assigned to Moonbase Alpha.

When they lifted up out of the Hangar on their Elevators they Just Looked Badass... Even the Superior Alien Technologies out there were no match for them.

[echozgus]

@Roadracer987654321 like the new Galactica they keep the old vipers with a few adjustments.

[vdoman]

as a kid i had the Eagle, the communicator, and the laser/ray gun...loved the show.

[vdoman]

Loved this show back in the day, I still enjoy watching it on DVD. Effects were awesome for the time, and the stories and plots were great. I beleive there were different classes of Eagles if I remember correctly. Some were for combat, some were for personnel transpo and some were for cargo.

[SammyPrairiechicken]

Wan't it like the ones with red or orange were the combat eagles?? Wasn't eagle four the shit, cant quite remember... lol good memories, thanks for posting

[handpratze]

L*ck mich am Ar***; von der Serie habe ich als Kind keine Folge versäumt, und sogar nen Eagle mit Lego nachgebaut - wie geil ist das denn? :D

[GETTOBOMBER]

@handpratze Den Adler aus Lego hatte ich auch nachgebaut. war sauschwer. Davon hatte ich sogar ein Foto gemacht. Mein erstes überhaupt. Der Eagle ist als einziges Tattoo auf meinem Arm verewigt. Sowas hat wohl niemand. Commander Koeng hat ein Poster von mir bekommen, wo ich vor dem "grossen" Adler stehe. Noch nichtmal der Bauer der Film-Modelle kannte den grossen.

[ScruffyandPuffy21]

I used to have toy eagles when I was a lad

Ioved it

I think a lot of people have missed out on one of the best tv series ever by simply being born too late.

I'm so grateful for being born in the 60s so I could appreciate shows like this.

[riverdale999]

I had the model. The Space 1999 Eagles looked great (despite being somewhat phallic). The SFX of the show was pretty high calibre in general. However I always thought the interior Eagle shots didn't makes sense with the external look, particularly in the "head" section. The four big engines on the back don't make sense either. (And how did they generate artifcial gravity??) But - regardless - they still look pretty darn cool!

[horrgakx]

Brilliant images!

I remember having a toy Eagle as a kid - my prized possession.

What version is the music? I have a funky version which is awesome, but I liked that too.

[MikeE381]

@horrgakx THANKS! Dont know who did the song, ive got it from:

user1198 maybe he can help.

Mike.

[ubermick]

@horrgakx

Nice, had one of those as well!! There was a wee button in the middle where the "cargo box" could attach!

[altha2008]

@horrgakx me too until my brother broke it

[tuesdayjoe]

@horrgakx So did i....which one did you have? I had the one with the nuclear bottles.

[El135o]

Who the hell had the idea that these shouil;d be called 'Eagles'? They look more like Newts or Salamanders to me!

[MIGUEL2005LIMA]

all of this is pre starwars.

[tenjouin1]

In the backward USSR-scary Finland of 70s the series was aborted both in 1976 and 1978 by the YLE. The Finnish Kindergarten Teachers' Union wanted to abort the series by claiming the series rouse horror and hysteria among the children. Well, the cultural and social norms in mind, I did feel fear, the show came very late at night, maybe as a last program of the day, making it more scary. I was allowed to watch it only if my parents were with me.

[bopkick5]

interesting friend. i remember watching it in the 70s and loved it. i was always askin mi dad how the things worked . . . i still have a model eagle from the 70s . i just have it sitting on the table as i watch TV. cool yeah

[tuesdayjoe]

@tenjouin1 Can children watch it now? Can't really see the horror or the hysterics...what is the YLE? Tim.

[Roadracer987654321]

The Eagle Transporters in the Remake should be a Little Larger. They should have some Color.Some new attachments and be better proportioned and explained in how they are constructed. in teh show teh Eagles were capable of almost anything. They were Tough, Versatile and durable.

Who can play Super Tough Austrailian Eagle Pilot Captain Alan Carter ?

Captain Carter was in the Austrailian Air Force.....

[piginasack]

The Eagles were cool - Like most of you here, I too spent my hard earned pocket money on one. I do think however, that they should have been called Panda's, because they look like.... well, Panda's!

[iscrapman]

This is a fine example of a well made serie .

No CGI and the special effects looks great .

Don't get me wrong , cgi helps a little in realism in certain cases but they tend to overuse it these days , noting like a scale model to make a spaceship look real .

[TRUMPER007]

Great video & music score. I loved Space 1999 and remember buying the Dinky Eagles when they came out - I think they were about £2.45 each. (alot of pocket money!)

[Kodos13]

Excellent; a fine tribute to one of the most sensible, well-designed, and practical spacecraft even designed for sci-fi!

Liked the "old-school" theme music!

[MikeE381]

!!!

[bjeh001]

Agreed, even though the series played loose with science as a whole, the Eagles were really a great design.

[2012meltdown]

Cool, exellent work dude!!

[MikeE381]

THX

[CutterKenneth]

I loved the show too. Your vid is wow wow wow. I was wondering if you made one showing the insides as well as the outsides.

[jhol1177]

electrical arcs don't happen in a zero environment because there are no gases to separate and recombine.

[jgrd1971]

Awesome show I used to watch when I was a kid. In my country, the title show was changed to Cosmos 1999 (someone always change movie titles I don't know why).

Regards from Uruguay

[psyslo]

Loved the show, and yes I too had the Eagle toy and action figures...

[marshalllucky]

The eagles were the best TV spacecraft ever, they actually looked then and even more so now that they could actually fly. I doubt they could make a better sci fi show even today.

[lightspeed302]

I wanted an eagle so bad.

[smokebeerdrinktabs]

FANTASTIC!! loved this show as a kid, had a toy eagle too, and what intricate models they are huh? wonder how big they really were?? thanks for putting this up, great!

[luismichelito]

bakan la musica

saludos desde Chile

[joeconeo]

Had a model of the Eagle and wz a fan of all the Anderson shows..Wz in Ireland recently and saw 1999 and UFO reruns...Wz hopin 'Syfi chanell would show it but the money is on Stargate which I CANNOT understand why

[signus501]

NICE VID.

[SandmanPaul5]

Excellent ! I've always loved the Eagles ! Thanks for the great photos !

[xatanos]

Es que algunas personas no entienden lo que trato de expresar y me he dado cuenta hasta lo que hablan mi idioma...

BACAN = chevere, majo, cool,macanudo,chido.

RELAJATE Longibando o te haras viejo antes de tiempo y de paso no hagas la guerra, consiguete una mujer y haz el AMOR.

[MikeE381]

??????

[xatanos]

COOL STAR SHIP.

hi performance

EAGLES = SPACE-VOLKSWAGEN.

[longibando]

¿Sois bobos o qué? ¿Escribes en tu idioma y en cuanto un yanqui te lo ordena le haces el gusto y le hablas en su mierda de idioma? Así vamos.

[xatanos]

En Perú esta serie nos llego en formato de pelicula lo emitio canal 2 como "DESTINO BASE LUNAR ALFA" alla por 1985. Esas navecitas llamadas "AGUILAS" eran bien bacanes, y eso que habia visto Star wars, pero estas "Aguilas" Eran como los VOLSWAGENS de las peliculas de ciencia ficcion.....Eran todo terreno, con su forma de DINOSAURITO.

[MikeE381]

In English please...

[longibando]

Nunca conseguiréis imponer el inglés al resto del planeta. Tal pretensión es absolutamente fútil. No perdáis el tiempo. Don't you understand? I don't mind!

[ZMagnum1]

It's 2009. Where's our Moon Base Alpha?

[bigkitten]

Ha ha ha! I said that sort of thing 30 years ago. Year 2000, my arse!

[knoxvilleguy2]

Ask NASA. They've been busy with the Space Trucking Company in orbit. Project Constellation & the single - stage Orion craft w / help take us to the Moon & Mars using " Can - Do " era Apollo - era technology re - vamped for the 21st century. If things had happened a little differently, if NASA hadn't scuttled the Apollo program, we'd likely be on Mars by now, at least a FEW outposts. & spaceship like small cities - Think Battlestar Galactica or Enterprise - D sans warp drive or FTL.

[knoxvilleguy2]

With a variations, like the absence of landing bays, they ALMOST resemble smaller versions of the Galactica & Pegasus from both the original & re - imagined Battlestar Galactica series, at least to me.

I wonder if Glen Larson cribbed some from their blueprints ?

[Chiggs58th]

It seems the novels made more sense than the show. I may have to check them out.

[Chiggs58th]

Really? That was always one of my theories. However, I always wondered where they would get their fuel and raw materials from and how would they process them without huge smelting and fabrication plants. Neither of which were evident in the show.

[ehhjeep]

Thank You so much

[Chiggs58th]

Every week at least two, sometimes more of these ships were destroyed. I always wondered why they never ran out of them.

[MikeE381]

LOL

[Azanti]

in the shots in the hangar you can actually see they have dozens of them, it seems like far more actually got destroyed overall than actually were in reality when you count them all up (You seem some blew up as future predictions and all sorts) but they certainly did get through a few and crash several more, I imagine spare parts must have become in rather short supply by the end of it.

[Revco91]

THE BEST ship ever!!! I will have an Eagel one day!!!  They should turn them into a reality!!

[ALAJOHNSTONE]

NASA likes the design so much that they will build full size operational Eagles for future missions involving a future moon base to be called Moon Base Alpha.

[varanid8]

Great job!

[MikeE381]

Thanks.

[Poledancefan]

Does anyone remember the "Hawk"? It was a fighter version of the Eagle that appeared in a few episodes...

[varanid8]

Yeah, the Hawk was a fighter craft with a "head" similiar to an Eagle's (except it was wider and flatter and only had the top pair of windows). It appeared in the episode "War Games".

[DaveJOHAZ]

Love the Eagles and the show. Just started watching the DVDs after not seeing the show for many years. One question though; How come when they looked out the front windows you could never see the Eagle's "nose cone", especially when flying close to a planet? How could they even look down?? Wait, I know, the "window" was actually just a video screen and the camera was mounted on the tip of the nose cone. It's possible, right?? ;-)

[supermanfan62]

this is what should replace the shuttle

[CLS2086]

nice job !

[01998]

exelente!!! sublime!!!5*

[MikeE381]

THX!

[jdel58]

Beautiful.

[chrispravda]

possible !!!

[trombone7]

There's something believable about that utilitarian design. Like it could be used for earth and moon orbital procedures and landing on the moon. Or like nasa could have a dozen of them, each slightly modified to different purposes.

[emanitudism]

"Or like nasa could have a dozen of them"

Indeed, except these spaceships are British so it's more like to be ESA that would have a fleet of them.

Actually, no, ESA prefer French things.....

Dites donc....

[kabogga]

marcantallita: Thats one thing I never worked out, why were some of the Eagle toys green?

You never saw a green one in the show. But somehow they still sold enough of them to fans like me. And I wonder why they never made a poseable Sandra doll, I'd love one of them.. ;-)

[redler69]

Dinky liked to remain faithful when it came to Anderson, as with SPV and 101 TB2.....but they also tended to use up overstocks of paint...Hence later FAB 1s were a ghastly shocking pink instead of Penelope pink.

[migareigns]

i thought the eagles were the coolest spaceships growing up. after watching this clip i still think they are.

[MikeE381]

I agree!

Designed in the early 70` and still looks contemporary....

The designer should have a medal!!

[commander1133]

Nice job done, I used to have a little eagle model when I was kid and used to fly it around with the music that I've recourded from the TV....good old days.

They remake pretty much everything these days, I wonder they will make a new space 1999 and perhaps call it 2999?. lol

[k7dar5]

I had the giant 3' long model of the Eagle as a kid - I wish I still had it but it went the same way as the Eagles on the show - CRASH!

[marcantallita]

man i use to say that the eagle look like a lizar lol!! i was like 9 at the time. by the way the re-entry glider looks like the new transporter that nasa is planning to build in a near future

[SamTheMan91]

BEAUTIFUL

[waverly24]

I liked the Eagle Transporter with the piggyback Re-Entry Glider at :35, think it was from season 2.  Seem to remember they were exploring a distress signal from a planet, and Tony Cellini going mad from looking at an alien deity.

[CartoonsKick]

I saw a real life used in filming Eagle in Blackpool in the early eighties. Without a doubt one of the best space ships in SF! The model was a close up one as well (over a meter long) and just so fantastically detailed. CGI will never match the skill and sheer detail of the hand made models. This should be remade! NOT with CGI nonsense though.. The Eagles should soar again!

[sparkestiff]

The best show ever made! I think its about time it was made into a film..I think it wasn't given enough credit for what it was.

If you see what was and is re-made, some of it crap I'm sure some of you out there would agree!Common film makers you've exploited everythin else..I'm sure you are running out of idears to copy!

[yourworsthell]

the eagles got the crap kicked out of them more then the people

[FLORENT2222]

probably one of the most beautiful starships ever made in a sf serie or movie

[wolfgar2]

The Eagles were cool. Interesting how their landing gear never retracted. I remember my cousin had the die-cast model of an Eagle with the working rope winch in the body. I wonder why they never had the tractor beam action in the show?

[MikeE381]

Thanks for your comments! Do you remember the incident with the "bubble atack"?

[truckinallday08]

Yeah, I'm 9 years old, again, too! I remember building models of the Eagles and hanging them from my bedroom ceiling! I agree, Hollywood should do a remake of this series, as a movie! But, then again, if something isn't broken, don't fix it!

[MikeE381]

Hi TAD08 Lol, Thanks!

[Nexus974]

Hollywood has run out of original ideas. Remakes are all they know how to do. Don't be too suprised if someone desides to remake this one. It may not be too bad though. The remake of Battlestar Galactic is far better than the original.

[truckinallday08]

I agree, Nexus974! But now I see that Voltron will hit the big screen next year! Live action? OMG! Who are they going to cast for that? Uma Thurman as Hagar the Witch? Jim Belushi as Hunk? Anne Hathaway as the Princess? Oh, wait, she's done that already! Abigail Breslin, then! Be afraid for this remake folks!

[Lgilsig]

While the Eagle is one of the great Sci-Fi ship designs, as a vehicle you had to wonder about them. Their mission return rate was right up there with Kamikaze pilots. I always wondered how many of them moon base Alpha had in storage...

[JADZIAISAAC]

the eagles should be the space shuttles natural succesor, they were one of the best sci fi support ships

[SPCLPONY]

Mike, Thanks for the memories of being 9 yrs old again! I loved the show, but the Eagles were by far my favorite part! I used to make my own toys that were not available in stores from stuff I'd find at home. I used to slightly flatten an empty TP roll and add the landing gear pods and nose section made from tin foil. I covered the whole thing with white cloth hospital tape. I'd use a marker pen to draw the narkings on to finish a pretty neat little model. Thanks again for posting this tribute!

[MikeE381]

Your welcome!!

[Fun0rama]

Who did this cover of the theme song? Love the eagles, well done!

[MikeE381]

Hi, thanks!

Dont know who did the song, ive got it from:

user1198 maybe he can help.

Mike.

[upchuck69]

Hi MikeE381. Here is my comment again you accidently deleted (at least what I remember)

The Eagle ship is still the most orginal design, even by today's standard. I hope they keep the same ship if they ever decide to to a "Moonbase Alpha" movie.

BTW where did you get that orchestra version of the Season 1 theme? It's very good.

[MikeE381]

Hi upchuck69

Thanks for Your comment!

Have to agree on the Eagles design! They stil looks so good! The orchestra version, Ive downloaded from YT dude: User1198...

Mike

[leitospain]

espectacular, thank you-

[MikeE381]

Your welcome!!

[jim825]

Thanks for a very well done tribute to a classic space ship design. They sure did go through a lot of them didn't they? The was hardly an episode one didn't get blasted.

[aahhlleexxxx]

Hy MikeE381 thanx i realy enjoyed the vid,Eagels rule !!!

im allways wonder how many of these they have on Alpha,they lost them a lot =o) ???

[MikeE381]

Thanks! Ha ha yes, they lost about all of them...

[copcardude]

Didn't the gear retract? I remember the show but was under the impression the gear retracted after take-off.

[junior09252007]

From the model it appears the gear retract, but this was never shown in the show.

[user1198]

Thanks for your work. I wish somebody would make new series for TV. I don't know if i would like it because the real people from the series couldn't play anymore but who knows it could be good... Thanks a lot again...

[MikeE381]

Hi U1198 and thanks!

Love the eagles...!!!!

[blakhaus]

Fly Like an Eagle by Steve Miller Band would have been more appropriate.

[MikeE381]

Is that so...

[starcruiser0]

awesome.Very well done too.Thanks

[MikeE381]

Thank you!

[starcruiser0]

Are all the photos from the show?

[MikeE381]

Hi Starcruiser0

Yes, all the picts are screen shots

[powergirl07]

Cool tribute!

[MikeE381]

Thanks!