I loved this episode as a kid. It makes even more sense now as a man. Slide your lower end into a dark screaming hole and come out all burned up and dead. wow, they must have foreseen my first marriage.
I remember watching this as a kid,,although I remembered it different, it scared the hell out of me. Good to rewatch it and put it to rest....lol still creepy though
I don't know what was scarier about this series for a little boy, the Space Dragon and other monsters, or a chick with pork chop sideburns who always looked pissed off, as in Maya.
I'm glad to see I was not the only one to loose sleep, for years, over this one. I think this is where I developed my fear of spiders. I was only five years old when this episode aired (if it aired in 1976). I thought it was a giant spider, because it looked like the wolf spiders that used to crawl across my basement floor where our t.v. was. This episode scared me for years, and judging by the other posts, I was in good company.
I don't know what is more frightening in this episode. The ruthless, carnivorous nature of the alien. Or the fact that it waits in the cold silence of space, for years, for its next victim. This was true sci-fi horror, and episodes like this could teach a thing or two to todays stuff, even with all the modern CGI and better equipment.
Probably the one episode that resonates the most, with anyone who's ever watched the show. I was really young when this aired, so I had a helluva time sleeping after it was on TV. For YEARS... ;p I mean, I still remember it today, so that tells ya how memorable it was! When I think of Space:1999, this is the first scene that comes to mind.
The fact that so many of us are draw here to this one episode is a testament to how demonic and twisted the writers and special effects makers were when they developed this episode.
Here in Quebec, it aired once. Only once. Parents called the network and said "We don't EVER want to see this episode again!!!". We never did, until now when the screams of doom echo through YouTube. Thank you for the post.
what was the name of the episode where this guy in all black leather gets shot repeatedly with a laser and burns to a crisp? he still walked around killing crew members and looked a little like venom from spiderman.burnt with big white eyes. that episode scared the hell out of me as a kid.
@jamiirali1 yes I just bought season 1 on dvd from network dvd UK , ohh just great ! , so good a series just not the same as todays sci fi , you will be feeling great after watching them !! enjoy !
I've been trying to find this episode for years! I always called this thing "The Space Squid" and I kept buying all the seasons on VHS to find it back when they first came out. This is is season 1, though?
Saw this when I was a kid the monsters control over you to fight back... and the Screams!! as well as the Extra Crispy remains !!! '~' Had bad dreams for
weeks !!! never told my Mom she would have stopped me watching the show!
Scariest episode on television I'd ever seen. I was 11 when I saw this and didn't want to eat for a while. The screaming of the monster is the scariest part.
The most disturbing things I remember about SPACE 1999 was the one where there is a planet that gasses dwarves and another one where a baddie gets trapped in a glass coffin in space.
Far more scary than this monster.
Anyone know which episodes they were from?
Love the way the corpse comes back out on wheels lol!
@smithdream the glass coffin was commisioner simmonds from year ones earth bound, the second one is tough the only one i remember with dwarfs was mission of the darians that guest starred joan collins both season one episodes of space 1999 i'm a big fan of this show so i better be right.
@azzorroww I think he does mean Mission of the Darians, except that the dwarves weren't gassed... they were turned INTO gas. (i.e. Vaporized. Incinerated. Sent on.)
This episode, and part of the one about Balor (the scene where there is screaming and they show the portraits of people being tortured), scared me SO bad... though normally I liked Space: 1999.
and keith wilson did those scary paintings for balor peter bowles chrachter too i always thought he was letting out some creative tension when he painted them.
This is THE episode that freaked-out every kid in my neighborhood (including me and my sister) and got the show panned by every PTA and "do-gooder" group in the tri-state area!
I was so freaked-out by this episode that I forgot it's title was "Dragons Domain" and was there after convinced the title was "Enter the Bizarre!!" or "Traumatize you for life!!"
I think that's kewl you have collectged some nastalgic memorbila:} I had an eagle model long ago as well, but at 13 it was used for pellet gun target, wish I'd not done that now...and I had lots of Starship Enterprise models and Klingon battle cruiser, Romulan warbirds as well...
The creepiest episode of any Gerry Anderson series. And yes, that was indeed Adm. Ozziel who was the first to die. Michael Sheard dies horribly in this Space: 1999 episode, was famously executed by Lord Vader in The Empire Strikes Back for incompetence, died about three or four times in Doctor Who. He's sort of like the Max VonSydow of British SF —he dies in just about every movie/TV episode he's ever featured in.
Yeah Shawnster65 ! I grew up in Northern Va outside of Washington DC and it was very much the same broadcast pattern as was in NY. We also had Creature Feature or at least our local TV's version of that on Channel 20. You're so right , a great time to be a kid.
@syrik5 I'm with you and the rest of the kids who watched this one.
Here in America, we got Space:1999 on WPIX 11 (New York) on Saturdays way back in the mid 70's. Right after that was our favorite horror showcases: 11 had Chiller Theatre, and WNEW 5 (also New York) ran Creature Features.
It was such a great time to be a kid. And for it's day, Space:1999 was somewhat advanced in it's FX, but that's the magic of Sylvia and Gerry Andersen for you, they were great!
@syrik5 I'm 43 now, and I must be around the same age as you then. I remembered this series, This was my favourite episode! I never knew the name of this episode until now though...But strange after all these years the images I never forgot..Did you also watch Star trek? Fantastic Voyage? Emergency? 1 Adam 12? Too name a few. Man whatever happend to the good old days of tv shows...also Gilligan's Island, Hogans Hero's, Love American Style ..
@RFKFANTS67 Lost In Space, UFO, how about Captain Scarlett w/ the puppet animation ? Love American Style...Ha ! I forgot about that one....good times!
@RFKFANTS67 Y'know I'm gonna go out on a limb here to show my true geekdom...I still have my model of the Space 1999 ship...it's been whethered a bit but it's still there. I also had a lunchbox of the series. Pretty stupid for a kid who was terrified of the show almost every week !
One of the three best episodes of Space: 1999. Talk about a shitty way to die! You get mesmerized first (attracted to?) the dragon. Then get tangled in its gross tentacles to be sucked underneath and burnt to a crisp and then puked out. Seriously nasty stuff.
I had nightmares for a long time after this episode as well. Looking back with a more cynical adult eye now, I see how brilliant this 'cheesy' concept was: Having the monster 'hypnotize' its victims into running right into its clutches saved the production a bundle on having to design and build a monster that could walk!
Instead of using those lasers, they should have been packing .12 gauge shotguns with double OO buckshot shells, mr. monster would have had second thoughts about terrorizng the crew after a few rounds of those blew chunks out of his ass. LOL, Thanks for putting the space 1999 videos on, I really enjoyed the show, and this closure video makes it all seem right.
Although this wa sjust your basic monster from space plot it was still probably the best episode. Predates Alien. S1999 was very corny in concept and most of the stories were too. But the production values were high and it looked great.
An astonishingly creepy episode which ended on an astonishingly creepy note as Helen notes that since none of their instruments ever registered the "Dragon" as being alive, how do they know it's actually dead....
The premise of this story is very similar to the first two "Alien" movies in that only one member of the crew survives and no one believes that they were attacked by and alien and he was the only survivor.
Me too! I'm 44, and recall vividly the terror I felt as the opening credits were rolling. I never quit watching, though. Come to think of it, that may be even more frightening than the show itself!
This is the episode that everyone remembers. The monster takes away your motor resistance, eats you and then defecates your charred remains in front of the next victim who knows exactly what is going to happen to them. The production might be cheesy by today's standards but that concept is still scary as hell. I couldn't sleep after watching this as a kid.
Me neither,and this was the monster I used to reffer to as "The Easy Bake Oven Monster"creepy is a good word to describe it...I just wonder if any filmmaker today could ever recreate this scene,and make it really scary....without using too many CGI affects...
Totaling can relate. I remember seeing this episode as a kid during the early 1980's. It scared the crap out of me sold badly I was afraid of going to sleep for several nights. I think in the Worst Way To Die in a Sci-Fi genre catagory, this has to ranks up their with the chest bursting scene from "Alien" and being absorbed alive by a shape-shifting alien from "The Thing".
Yes, very creepy indeed. The best eps of the whole series. I remember the burned corpse getting out from the monster was the most impressive thing for my imagination then. Thanks for the posting.
intelligence and integrity year one had it hands down when it was broadcast in 1975, i did not know what was going on i was 14 to young but i liked it visually and i had a crush on barbara, she has a air of sophistication intelligence that got translated by critics as wooden when bain acted as helena russell i appreciated it then respect it today with the A&E space 1999 recordings
That guy getting crisped is probably the most disturbing thing I've ever seen on tv. Today's shows with their fake blood and cgi effects can't touch this!
This was on ITV just this week . Although it was rather scary after watching it the second time round they seemed to kill it off a lot easier than I remember with a knife and a little axe....... hmmmmm
I used to sneak into the living room and hide behind the couch (long after bedtime) when my dad would be watching this show back in the 70's. I cant believe I found this clip. This particular episode (I was 5 or 6 when it originally aired) gave me nightmares for years (mostly from that demonic screaming sound)... totally freaked me out, but was also the beginning of a lifelong love of sci-fi... completely awesome!
Features an honest to goddness tentacled monster which suck up its victims with the force of a tv-advertised vacuum cleaner, and then spits out the crunchy bits. Very nightmarish episode enjoyed by all i hope.. I'm a big fan of Space 1999
man that thing scared me so bad when I was like 8 ,I lived in a condo that had a pool with a big light in it just like that creature had for an eye and I couldn't swim in it at night it's funny now that I think about it he he..
This episode terrified me. I was 9 yrs. old when this came out. Come to think of it, I'm still terrified! Greatist series, ever! So cool, this and U.F.O.
It was back in 1986 when I saw this episode on TV. I was 10 years old. They broadcasted it right after the evening tales and the news (20 o'cock) so most of the children could watch it. The next day, my class mates were still shocked, especially the girls...
If you ask people about Space: 1999, most of them will remember this one episode. It was a real horror, very, very scary.
This used to aire on Sunday afternoons. Church in the mornings late breakfast after that and finished in time for Space 1999 at one o'clock then out in my Eagle (bike) with my mates for the rest of the afternoon. God I was 5 when this aired and never thought anything of it. Good clean fun.
Scary as hell. Burnt bodies coming out from under the alien demon of death. OMG!!! And this was on TV and kids saw this like me. The network had BALLS to put this on television which
I wish the networks still had. It was frightening but great.
Autumn of 1975, this was "'da shit". and it still is. Get the DVD boset megaset with both seasons. Love all the Geryy Anderson shows for 46-years. Captain Scarlet, UFO, Joe 90 THINDERBIRDS, Stingray, Fireball XL-5, 1999, all had a profound impact on me, along with Irwin Allen's TV shows and movies and Japanes Live Action and Anime from the early 1960s onward. This came out fall of 1975, freshman year high-school! Dig it.
He he, though I really do think that a show that is desinged with what they could use make it will endure despite any number of tech advances in video.
Poor dragon stuck in the halway, :P the crew had to distrub the poor creature.
I personally have the entire collection of the dungeons and dragons 1980's cartoon, and the Voiced script in place for the last episode. While I'd be hard pressed to find any money for it, I find it worth it.
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if u think about it, its impossible for a octopus creature to have hypnotic abilities. it also impossible for gravatioinal forces to affect people inside a contain space like a big vacuum affect. i guess scientific logic only applies to star trek.
omg I can't believe this is what made me unable to sleep due to nightmares for years..... it didnt help that my mom read all those trash magazines like WORLD NEWS so I believed in alien monsters and bigfoot too. lol I am glad to see that everone here was also tramautized. The sets on 1999 were awsome ...they kinda hold up to todays standards... the monsters...not so much
This particular episode scared the crap outta me as a kid. Now I watch it and it's laughable. Still this series holds a good nostalgia for me. I have most of this show on dvd now. It's cheesy, but in a good way, like nachos.
I was in the 6th grade when this show came out. I was so jazzed from the TV commercials i couldn't wait for the first episode. But when I saw this one it scared me so bad i never watched it again. Had bad dreams for days afterwards. This episode of Space 1999 and the TV trauiler for Beyond The Door scared me for life.
The creature creates some kind of vortex that sucks you in and also uses a form of mind control. And if that wasn't bad enough the damn thing can either teleport or it's extra-dimensional (can exist in 2 or more planes of existence at once) Hope that answered your question. :^)
What really made this episode also stand out was that it featured some music by Thomaso Albinoni- Adagio-which is what you hear midway through the ep and, at the end. It was also the 2nd to last episode of the first season, intending to be one of two closer episodes, but in the US it was shown as the 2nd episode after Breakaway!!
I agree--the combination of the corpses being belched out (which scared the crap out of me when I saw it as a kid) ...and the music made it so memorable.
This episode was, in my humble opinion, the best they ever made - I watch it often. Considering it was made in the mid-1970s, it was very well done on a very low-budget.
The plot of this episode was both "Alien" and "Aliens" rolled together. Spaceship encounters monster in deep space. All the crew is killed except for a single survivor. The survivor isn't able to convince the people back home that it really happened. Some years later a bunch of people (with the survivor tagging along) encounter the same monster, and, after choosing to finally investigate, more dire things ensue...
Not bad for something that came out almost five years before "Alien"
Woke last night in a cold sweat after a terrifying and very vivid nightmare...and it featured the evolution of the "dragon" and how it came to be in a field of derelict spacecraft. Now, I am a 42 year old man, a professional, and have had to face death and dying on a regular basis in my field of profession; it really strikes me that a singular terrifying episode viewed as an 8 yr old a third of a century ago should still be lurking in my subconscious...that is powerful storytelling!!!
That's so awesome. It did, in fact, scare me silly as a five-or-six-year-old. And I remember this monster being a popular item on lunchboxes in the early years. They featured Barbara Bain being dragged away by tentacles, and Martin Landau firing his... what the hell was that supposed to be? We live in the era of real death rays... laser?
I have both seasons on DVD. This is easily the best episode ever.
Space 1999 could be very good when it was good, but when it was bad it was horrid. Some of the not-so-good episodes are real cringers, bad acting, bad plots. Excellent model and set work however.
I bought both seasons as boxed DVD sets. In New Zealand I got them from a chain of stores called The Warehouse. I've seen ads for the boxed sets on the Internet. You should be able to find them somewhere.
Wow - so THAT'S what this episode was called. I remember seeing this around 6 years old. First Jaws over that summer then this - it amazes me that I am not freaked out by any horror movies these days - I used it all up in that one year!
This may be a bit hokey by today's standards of SFX but this was damn creepy back then! I love how the creature's eye is a light from a swimming pool! I think I remember being freaked out by pools then too... damn - good TV back then
the frist time i see this one i was 7 years old, i was scared to the death!!!! however i love it the show and still do 30 years later, space 1999 rocks!!!!!!!
My God, yes, I was 9 years old and this scared the daylights out of me...I had nightmares about it for years. Sometime after, a few years after Forbidden Planet was on the TV for the first time, and the scene where the "Monster from the id" starts burning through the impenetrable doors gave me the creeps for another few years. But great find! I'll probably have a nightmare soon because of this clip- and I'm pushing 42 now!
I was totally freaked out at 5 years old by this episode as well. Seeing it now, it still holds up even if the creature is a ridiculous charicature of a Martian, the acting, music,sound and visual fx make a lasting impression. Brilliant.
I sometimes wondered if I had imagined this as a child, one of my favorite shows. This one was scary as hell~sucked in and then shot back out on a mini traintrack! really was crazy as hell to see on TV at seven years old
1976 since I first this. I thought it was lost for ever. Very scary at the time.Impressive even now. Proves that you do NOT need blood and gore and loads of swear words to make a dramatic impression. I would love to see this whole episode get a re run on ITV again.
It took me what, 33 years?... to finally bring myself to look at this monster again! It scared the beJeesus out of me when I was in the 3rd grade. Me and my friend were thought to be insane because on the bus one day we were pretending our hand was the dragon and we had a white plastic toy horse and a black one- we slid the white one in and the black one would come out being the burned corpse!! AAAAHHHHHHHHH.
I remember this one as well. Scared me too. All those tentacles.
Why are we so obsessed with death and what looks to me in this clip like human sacrifice and why do we let these people make such horrible things to scare our children with?
I recall feeling horrible and afraid after watching this, like the universe is evil and people get killed. These films are all sick and should be recycled. They destroy the innocence of our little ones.
Wow, that was just like my first wife. Slide into a screaming hole and come out all burned up and lifeless.....
southernsecurity 3 weeks ago
I loved this episode as a kid. It makes even more sense now as a man. Slide your lower end into a dark screaming hole and come out all burned up and dead. wow, they must have foreseen my first marriage.
southernsecurity 3 weeks ago
I remember watching this as a kid,,although I remembered it different, it scared the hell out of me. Good to rewatch it and put it to rest....lol still creepy though
edithdar 1 month ago
I don't know what was scarier about this series for a little boy, the Space Dragon and other monsters, or a chick with pork chop sideburns who always looked pissed off, as in Maya.
Panegyric123 3 months ago
@Panegyric123 I think Martin Landau was scariest of all - just his face, brrr
AshleyMarkPomeroy 2 months ago
@AshleyMarkPomeroy I think it's safe to say that looks were not a feature the producers of this show were looking for in the cast.
Panegyric123 2 months ago
I'm glad to see I was not the only one to loose sleep, for years, over this one. I think this is where I developed my fear of spiders. I was only five years old when this episode aired (if it aired in 1976). I thought it was a giant spider, because it looked like the wolf spiders that used to crawl across my basement floor where our t.v. was. This episode scared me for years, and judging by the other posts, I was in good company.
Panegyric123 3 months ago
I don't know what is more frightening in this episode. The ruthless, carnivorous nature of the alien. Or the fact that it waits in the cold silence of space, for years, for its next victim. This was true sci-fi horror, and episodes like this could teach a thing or two to todays stuff, even with all the modern CGI and better equipment.
LoneRookRS1 3 months ago
Probably the one episode that resonates the most, with anyone who's ever watched the show. I was really young when this aired, so I had a helluva time sleeping after it was on TV. For YEARS... ;p I mean, I still remember it today, so that tells ya how memorable it was! When I think of Space:1999, this is the first scene that comes to mind.
nchwa 4 months ago
Despite the dated special effects, this episode remains more frightening than just about any horror movie ever made. Simply brillant!
kextrz 5 months ago
The fact that so many of us are draw here to this one episode is a testament to how demonic and twisted the writers and special effects makers were when they developed this episode.
Here in Quebec, it aired once. Only once. Parents called the network and said "We don't EVER want to see this episode again!!!". We never did, until now when the screams of doom echo through YouTube. Thank you for the post.
DDSG: Dragon's Domain Support Group.
bjdurand 5 months ago 2
i remember my mother calling me to switch off the tv. very very scary .
DBNIGHT 7 months ago
Never forgot this episode thats why I came here! I was a teenager but it still stuck in my mind.
poppa8169 8 months ago
DAM Nature! You scary!
DrCruel 8 months ago
when this episode first came out on t.v. it scared the crap out of me!
tobygrey22 9 months ago
These are the scenes I remember most. Mainly what happens to the people the monster eats up.
Xindilini 10 months ago
what was the name of the episode where this guy in all black leather gets shot repeatedly with a laser and burns to a crisp? he still walked around killing crew members and looked a little like venom from spiderman.burnt with big white eyes. that episode scared the hell out of me as a kid.
jamiirali1 11 months ago
@jamiirali1 that guy was Ion mcshane of UK's bbc tv series Lovejoy , the episode was force of life , an early big hit of the episodes.
nogile 11 months ago
@nogile thanks a million!! now im going to bring out the inner kid in me and prepared to be scared again.
jamiirali1 11 months ago
@jamiirali1 yes I just bought season 1 on dvd from network dvd UK , ohh just great ! , so good a series just not the same as todays sci fi , you will be feeling great after watching them !! enjoy !
nogile 11 months ago
@jamiirali1 that guy was Ion mcshane of UK's bbc tv series Lovejoy , the episode was force of life , an early big hit of the episodes.
nogile 11 months ago
You want to bung an RPG in its head,that will shut it up.
admillnx6 11 months ago
I've been trying to find this episode for years! I always called this thing "The Space Squid" and I kept buying all the seasons on VHS to find it back when they first came out. This is is season 1, though?
ZankuroMinazuki 11 months ago
@ZankuroMinazuki yes its dragons domain & is in season one , it is the 2nd last one they made in that first season 1973/4
nogile 11 months ago
awesome .have not seen this since 1976
britishpolitics1 11 months ago
Saw this when I was a kid the monsters control over you to fight back... and the Screams!! as well as the Extra Crispy remains !!! '~' Had bad dreams for
weeks !!! never told my Mom she would have stopped me watching the show!
djscotty1111 11 months ago
Ship em in , ship em out
Silverfishization 11 months ago
Me acuerdo muy bien de ese capítulo, estuvo de TERROR!!!, muy buen capítulo!!!
edgaralejandro007 1 year ago
strange
DionneCorcoran 1 year ago
I have to agree with the scary!! As much as I loved this series, I was terrified by this episode!
mxrdvr 1 year ago
Holy shit! now i'm gonna have nightmares!
Tony32 1 year ago
I ran screaming for the door when that damn thing popped up...
Love this show!
Sunmocker 1 year ago
I remember this episode
morgan8757 1 year ago
Scariest episode on television I'd ever seen. I was 11 when I saw this and didn't want to eat for a while. The screaming of the monster is the scariest part.
superwakoo 1 year ago
The most disturbing things I remember about SPACE 1999 was the one where there is a planet that gasses dwarves and another one where a baddie gets trapped in a glass coffin in space.
Far more scary than this monster.
Anyone know which episodes they were from?
Love the way the corpse comes back out on wheels lol!
smithdream 1 year ago
@smithdream the glass coffin was commisioner simmonds from year ones earth bound, the second one is tough the only one i remember with dwarfs was mission of the darians that guest starred joan collins both season one episodes of space 1999 i'm a big fan of this show so i better be right.
azzorroww 1 year ago
@azzorroww I think he does mean Mission of the Darians, except that the dwarves weren't gassed... they were turned INTO gas. (i.e. Vaporized. Incinerated. Sent on.)
Web1234512345 1 year ago
as a kid, that scared the shit outta me!
Telefonillo 1 year ago
Dragon's Domain is an excellent restaurant ...
First it winds you, then it dines you!
El135o 1 year ago
This episode, and part of the one about Balor (the scene where there is screaming and they show the portraits of people being tortured), scared me SO bad... though normally I liked Space: 1999.
shmuli9 1 year ago
@shmuli9
and keith wilson did those scary paintings for balor peter bowles chrachter too i always thought he was letting out some creative tension when he painted them.
azzorroww 1 year ago
WPIX Ch. 11, Long Island & NYC, 1975.
This is THE episode that freaked-out every kid in my neighborhood (including me and my sister) and got the show panned by every PTA and "do-gooder" group in the tri-state area!
I was so freaked-out by this episode that I forgot it's title was "Dragons Domain" and was there after convinced the title was "Enter the Bizarre!!" or "Traumatize you for life!!"
TheRebel2007 1 year ago
I saw this as a kid when I was about 8 and I remember it terrified me for weeks.
burnstagger 1 year ago
I think that's kewl you have collectged some nastalgic memorbila:} I had an eagle model long ago as well, but at 13 it was used for pellet gun target, wish I'd not done that now...and I had lots of Starship Enterprise models and Klingon battle cruiser, Romulan warbirds as well...
RFKFANTS67 1 year ago
get in!!!!!
BadEggCymru 1 year ago
The creepiest episode of any Gerry Anderson series. And yes, that was indeed Adm. Ozziel who was the first to die. Michael Sheard dies horribly in this Space: 1999 episode, was famously executed by Lord Vader in The Empire Strikes Back for incompetence, died about three or four times in Doctor Who. He's sort of like the Max VonSydow of British SF —he dies in just about every movie/TV episode he's ever featured in.
LordZontar 1 year ago
Yeah Shawnster65 ! I grew up in Northern Va outside of Washington DC and it was very much the same broadcast pattern as was in NY. We also had Creature Feature or at least our local TV's version of that on Channel 20. You're so right , a great time to be a kid.
syrik5 1 year ago
The scariest tv episode i have ever seen.
19630541 1 year ago
This was the 1st episode of Space 1999 I ever saw , I was 8 years old.
It scared the piss out of me ! I swore I would never watch it again and there I was the following week glued to the TV like a space zombie !
syrik5 1 year ago
@syrik5 I'm with you and the rest of the kids who watched this one.
Here in America, we got Space:1999 on WPIX 11 (New York) on Saturdays way back in the mid 70's. Right after that was our favorite horror showcases: 11 had Chiller Theatre, and WNEW 5 (also New York) ran Creature Features.
It was such a great time to be a kid. And for it's day, Space:1999 was somewhat advanced in it's FX, but that's the magic of Sylvia and Gerry Andersen for you, they were great!
Shawnster65 1 year ago
@syrik5 I'm 43 now, and I must be around the same age as you then. I remembered this series, This was my favourite episode! I never knew the name of this episode until now though...But strange after all these years the images I never forgot..Did you also watch Star trek? Fantastic Voyage? Emergency? 1 Adam 12? Too name a few. Man whatever happend to the good old days of tv shows...also Gilligan's Island, Hogans Hero's, Love American Style ..
RFKFANTS67 1 year ago
@RFKFANTS67 Lost In Space, UFO, how about Captain Scarlett w/ the puppet animation ? Love American Style...Ha ! I forgot about that one....good times!
syrik5 1 year ago
@RFKFANTS67 Y'know I'm gonna go out on a limb here to show my true geekdom...I still have my model of the Space 1999 ship...it's been whethered a bit but it's still there. I also had a lunchbox of the series. Pretty stupid for a kid who was terrified of the show almost every week !
syrik5 1 year ago
scared me back then and still scares me now
a1700zz 1 year ago
One of the three best episodes of Space: 1999. Talk about a shitty way to die! You get mesmerized first (attracted to?) the dragon. Then get tangled in its gross tentacles to be sucked underneath and burnt to a crisp and then puked out. Seriously nasty stuff.
Audioquest56 1 year ago
I had nightmares for a long time after this episode as well. Looking back with a more cynical adult eye now, I see how brilliant this 'cheesy' concept was: Having the monster 'hypnotize' its victims into running right into its clutches saved the production a bundle on having to design and build a monster that could walk!
Edotter 1 year ago
Was'nt that Michael (Admiral Ozzel) Sheard being consumed there?
TRUMPER007 1 year ago
only one series was more scaring: sapphire & steel...
seleucos65 1 year ago
I watched this as a kid, and it has scared the beejesus out of me everytime i've seen it since!
missparkerpretender 1 year ago
The next support group meeting will be this Sunday at 7:00 PM....
borboletta1969 1 year ago
Instead of using those lasers, they should have been packing .12 gauge shotguns with double OO buckshot shells, mr. monster would have had second thoughts about terrorizng the crew after a few rounds of those blew chunks out of his ass. LOL, Thanks for putting the space 1999 videos on, I really enjoyed the show, and this closure video makes it all seem right.
Grey9man 1 year ago
Space 1999 meets HP Lovecraft...
silverhawks 1 year ago 2
Although this wa sjust your basic monster from space plot it was still probably the best episode. Predates Alien. S1999 was very corny in concept and most of the stories were too. But the production values were high and it looked great.
riverdale999 1 year ago
That's the dumbest shit I've ever seen. Too bad I don't smoke weed. It probably would been hilarious.
salaciousBastard 1 year ago
Memories from Space 1999 episodes:
That alien that turned off the lights as he walked by... and this nightmare thing!
Awesome episode, this one really scared me as a kid.
anarchore 1 year ago
An astonishingly creepy episode which ended on an astonishingly creepy note as Helen notes that since none of their instruments ever registered the "Dragon" as being alive, how do they know it's actually dead....
roteba1 1 year ago
The premise of this story is very similar to the first two "Alien" movies in that only one member of the crew survives and no one believes that they were attacked by and alien and he was the only survivor.
collegeman1988 1 year ago
Yep, same here. I vividly remember this scene even though I havent seen it in 25 (?) years. Freaked me out!
joet1971 1 year ago
I clicked on this link thinking "it's Space 1999, it can't be THAT bad"
Damn, it was intense. I never watched the show more than a couple of times, so I had no idea what to expect here.
flibber123 1 year ago
holy crap!!! this episode created a trauma in my mind for years!!!! im 41 and I remember that it scared the shit out of me for a very long time!!!!
husse 1 year ago
Me too! I'm 44, and recall vividly the terror I felt as the opening credits were rolling. I never quit watching, though. Come to think of it, that may be even more frightening than the show itself!
amkaen 1 year ago
Man I loved this show! This particular episode though scared the ever living shit out of me! I was afraid to go to my room after watching this one.
ptfd121 1 year ago
Good Heavens - it quite brutally ate Susan Jameson!...
The absolute Cad.
DaveBTHunt 1 year ago
Never forgot this episode! My thoughts exactly, Jaybird.
orangeviolins 1 year ago
I agree with you JBird.
lilleo1968 2 years ago
This is the episode that everyone remembers. The monster takes away your motor resistance, eats you and then defecates your charred remains in front of the next victim who knows exactly what is going to happen to them. The production might be cheesy by today's standards but that concept is still scary as hell. I couldn't sleep after watching this as a kid.
jaybird321 2 years ago 29
Man you are not kidding! This actually gave me nightmares as a kid and is one of the reasons I love 'dark sci-fi'/horror stories so much today.
Bigfatdaddy9919 2 years ago
Me neither,and this was the monster I used to reffer to as "The Easy Bake Oven Monster"creepy is a good word to describe it...I just wonder if any filmmaker today could ever recreate this scene,and make it really scary....without using too many CGI affects...
Ravisante5000 1 year ago
@jaybird321 Agreed. Back in the day - it was very scary.
ORCA4312 1 year ago
@jaybird321 Same here... I feel like I need to watch it again as an adult so I can finally face the monster.... I hope I can find it somewhere.
Web1234512345 1 year ago
@jaybird321 I don't think that it is cheesy in fact I think it is really creepy.
michaelhviper 9 months ago
@jaybird321
Totaling can relate. I remember seeing this episode as a kid during the early 1980's. It scared the crap out of me sold badly I was afraid of going to sleep for several nights. I think in the Worst Way To Die in a Sci-Fi genre catagory, this has to ranks up their with the chest bursting scene from "Alien" and being absorbed alive by a shape-shifting alien from "The Thing".
357223308 9 months ago
@jaybird321 Hell ya! That was a scene that I have remembered for 35 years! I had some scary dreams for quite a time after seeing that scene!
BigDiamondCutter 4 months ago
Yes, very creepy indeed. The best eps of the whole series. I remember the burned corpse getting out from the monster was the most impressive thing for my imagination then. Thanks for the posting.
gustavogomezdiaz 2 years ago
intelligence and integrity year one had it hands down when it was broadcast in 1975, i did not know what was going on i was 14 to young but i liked it visually and i had a crush on barbara, she has a air of sophistication intelligence that got translated by critics as wooden when bain acted as helena russell i appreciated it then respect it today with the A&E space 1999 recordings
azzorroww 2 years ago
creeps me out too. One of the best eps they did
jbentz1966 2 years ago
oh Hell yeah.. This creeps me out to this day...
jeromeg137 2 years ago
Possibly the best Space 1999 ep they ever did. Memorable even after all these years
DefconWarningSystem 2 years ago
That guy getting crisped is probably the most disturbing thing I've ever seen on tv. Today's shows with their fake blood and cgi effects can't touch this!
InsanityRoaming 2 years ago 2
This episode scared the shit out of me when I was a little kid.
sevenofgeorge 2 years ago 4
@sevenofgeorge
Me too.
OtherView2 2 years ago
One of the best episodes !!
123456alcatraz 2 years ago 20
i agree...
PiperMMMMMMMMMM 2 years ago
@123456alcatraz
If not the best!!
sagan1976 2 years ago
This was on ITV just this week . Although it was rather scary after watching it the second time round they seemed to kill it off a lot easier than I remember with a knife and a little axe....... hmmmmm
allseeingi 2 years ago
I used to sneak into the living room and hide behind the couch (long after bedtime) when my dad would be watching this show back in the 70's. I cant believe I found this clip. This particular episode (I was 5 or 6 when it originally aired) gave me nightmares for years (mostly from that demonic screaming sound)... totally freaked me out, but was also the beginning of a lifelong love of sci-fi... completely awesome!
bdvet 2 years ago 2
Features an honest to goddness tentacled monster which suck up its victims with the force of a tv-advertised vacuum cleaner, and then spits out the crunchy bits. Very nightmarish episode enjoyed by all i hope.. I'm a big fan of Space 1999
niceone1100 2 years ago
man that thing scared me so bad when I was like 8 ,I lived in a condo that had a pool with a big light in it just like that creature had for an eye and I couldn't swim in it at night it's funny now that I think about it he he..
alanjvan 2 years ago
I too was terrified when I saw this as a young kid in the early 70s and had nightmares for months later.
Sigdriffa 2 years ago
this episode gave me nightmares.
bigpopparamma 2 years ago
In September of 1975, New York's WPIX broadcast this episode right after "Breakaway." I was 8 years old and it scared the pants off me.
MirrorMatterMatt 2 years ago 2
you werent the only one....this one particular episode scared the shit out of me as well.....too much for an 8 yr old to take in then
mikethegent 2 years ago
This episode terrified me. I was 9 yrs. old when this came out. Come to think of it, I'm still terrified! Greatist series, ever! So cool, this and U.F.O.
jonesy97 2 years ago
I have to agree with you :-D
SPOON007a 2 years ago
Should have held a mirror up so it could hypnotize and eat itself. It sounds like me after a long holiday weekend and its Monday again.
fortknoxguy 2 years ago
It was back in 1986 when I saw this episode on TV. I was 10 years old. They broadcasted it right after the evening tales and the news (20 o'cock) so most of the children could watch it. The next day, my class mates were still shocked, especially the girls...
If you ask people about Space: 1999, most of them will remember this one episode. It was a real horror, very, very scary.
vargazol2001 2 years ago
this scared the living b'jesus out of me when I was about 8.
So much so I still remember this episode clearly.
Don't get his now in Doctor Who...uh kids?
pawnsacrifice1 2 years ago
This used to aire on Sunday afternoons. Church in the mornings late breakfast after that and finished in time for Space 1999 at one o'clock then out in my Eagle (bike) with my mates for the rest of the afternoon. God I was 5 when this aired and never thought anything of it. Good clean fun.
nimbus039 2 years ago
Scary as hell. Burnt bodies coming out from under the alien demon of death. OMG!!! And this was on TV and kids saw this like me. The network had BALLS to put this on television which
I wish the networks still had. It was frightening but great.
brisco42 2 years ago 2
I also remember clearly this episode. I was scare too when I was a kid by watching this. But I waited for the next episode. :-)
hrbear 2 years ago
I saw this back in the 70s and I remembered this till now- saw it on ITV4 this year great episode!!!
kenera70 2 years ago
Autumn of 1975, this was "'da shit". and it still is. Get the DVD boset megaset with both seasons. Love all the Geryy Anderson shows for 46-years. Captain Scarlet, UFO, Joe 90 THINDERBIRDS, Stingray, Fireball XL-5, 1999, all had a profound impact on me, along with Irwin Allen's TV shows and movies and Japanes Live Action and Anime from the early 1960s onward. This came out fall of 1975, freshman year high-school! Dig it.
Beamshipcaptain 2 years ago
I was mortified after seeing this - I never had an idea what a burned-up person looked like. 31 years later and it still pops up in dreams.
legendary240 2 years ago
Cybermen, and that fucking giant rat in the new avengers, never mind the bleeding triffids.
nilbud 2 years ago
This show terrified me as a child when I watched it and I had nightmares about it.
I watched it in the last three years again and found it's still f*gging terrifying ...and this was shown to kids????
emilymcplugger 2 years ago
I watched this show at 15 when it premiered- nothing objectionable...
posterfix 2 years ago
why are u still terrified by it? just poke his eye with a pencil and it dies...big deal. now alien is much scarier than this.
AiLD2 2 years ago
Things that scared you qhwn young always scare you, its the power they have.
emilymcplugger 2 years ago 3
Great episode although sad to see Mauren from 'Please Sir' meet something more terrifying than Duffy.
ewaf88 2 years ago
Cool, this was an actually show.. Nice.
He he, though I really do think that a show that is desinged with what they could use make it will endure despite any number of tech advances in video.
Poor dragon stuck in the halway, :P the crew had to distrub the poor creature.
I personally have the entire collection of the dungeons and dragons 1980's cartoon, and the Voiced script in place for the last episode. While I'd be hard pressed to find any money for it, I find it worth it.
KernsNoel 2 years ago
i enjoyed this episode, but could,nt watch the rest now as they looks pretty naff
2pikeman 2 years ago
I remember that epi! scared the living shit out of me!
daytonagirl91 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
if u think about it, its impossible for a octopus creature to have hypnotic abilities. it also impossible for gravatioinal forces to affect people inside a contain space like a big vacuum affect. i guess scientific logic only applies to star trek.
AiLD2 2 years ago
omg I can't believe this is what made me unable to sleep due to nightmares for years..... it didnt help that my mom read all those trash magazines like WORLD NEWS so I believed in alien monsters and bigfoot too. lol I am glad to see that everone here was also tramautized. The sets on 1999 were awsome ...they kinda hold up to todays standards... the monsters...not so much
oxjr 2 years ago
same here - could not sleep for months! always afraid I was going to get sucked up by this "scary" monster. now, it is sooooo cheesy.
multiz007 2 years ago
This particular episode scared the crap outta me as a kid. Now I watch it and it's laughable. Still this series holds a good nostalgia for me. I have most of this show on dvd now. It's cheesy, but in a good way, like nachos.
deanwinchester69 2 years ago 2
I collect Space: 1999 episodes, and this was the first one I bought.
Too bad everything has to be so slick and saleable down to the last tenth of a cent these days, even though this show's permise was so silly!
El135o 2 years ago
I was in the 6th grade when this show came out. I was so jazzed from the TV commercials i couldn't wait for the first episode. But when I saw this one it scared me so bad i never watched it again. Had bad dreams for days afterwards. This episode of Space 1999 and the TV trauiler for Beyond The Door scared me for life.
coffinshaker 2 years ago
It seems to be stuck in the door sir, what are your instructions?
"Run around just close enough so it has a chance to catch you".
I loved this show when I was young, but the logic always failed.
kadathdreamques 2 years ago
I was 10 and I never never never forget this episode...what the hell... the monster comes from Hammer Films
glaekenFP 2 years ago
how the fuck did that girl got near that thing
silvandmartis 2 years ago
The creature creates some kind of vortex that sucks you in and also uses a form of mind control. And if that wasn't bad enough the damn thing can either teleport or it's extra-dimensional (can exist in 2 or more planes of existence at once) Hope that answered your question. :^)
deanwinchester69 2 years ago
lol
silvandmartis 2 years ago
What really made this episode also stand out was that it featured some music by Thomaso Albinoni- Adagio-which is what you hear midway through the ep and, at the end. It was also the 2nd to last episode of the first season, intending to be one of two closer episodes, but in the US it was shown as the 2nd episode after Breakaway!!
zillabob 2 years ago
I agree--the combination of the corpses being belched out (which scared the crap out of me when I saw it as a kid) ...and the music made it so memorable.
photog1150gs 2 years ago
I saw this when I was eleven. It was a bit disturbing, but definitely the most memorable episode of the series!
azdalin2000 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
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Ecnomic 2 years ago
This episode was, in my humble opinion, the best they ever made - I watch it often. Considering it was made in the mid-1970s, it was very well done on a very low-budget.
cosworth6nut 2 years ago 2
if u were dere, u be turn into a skeleton too, das y u like it lol
AiLD2 2 years ago
To me,one of the best Space 1999 episodes.
dramaticguy 2 years ago 3
scary and gruesome man
ellav139 2 years ago
I remember this really freaked me out when I was a kid ... looks a bit ropey now, tho, many years later!
delbhoye 2 years ago 2
The plot of this episode was both "Alien" and "Aliens" rolled together. Spaceship encounters monster in deep space. All the crew is killed except for a single survivor. The survivor isn't able to convince the people back home that it really happened. Some years later a bunch of people (with the survivor tagging along) encounter the same monster, and, after choosing to finally investigate, more dire things ensue...
Not bad for something that came out almost five years before "Alien"
Reckall 2 years ago 4
Woke last night in a cold sweat after a terrifying and very vivid nightmare...and it featured the evolution of the "dragon" and how it came to be in a field of derelict spacecraft. Now, I am a 42 year old man, a professional, and have had to face death and dying on a regular basis in my field of profession; it really strikes me that a singular terrifying episode viewed as an 8 yr old a third of a century ago should still be lurking in my subconscious...that is powerful storytelling!!!
georgebernardmd 2 years ago 2
Scariest episode EVER!
bigkitten 2 years ago 2
"Dear Miss teacher, sorry I couldn't do my homework and give it to Mr Brunson - the big nasty space monster ate him."
Susan Jameson (the first women eaten) is gorgeous, why kill her off and keep that Sandra Benes in it?
She was born not far me too.
That support group others are talking of - count me in, a member since December 1975 in the ATV region I seem to remember.
mrgobrien 2 years ago
la daube
SKYSURVEYOR 2 years ago
That's so awesome. It did, in fact, scare me silly as a five-or-six-year-old. And I remember this monster being a popular item on lunchboxes in the early years. They featured Barbara Bain being dragged away by tentacles, and Martin Landau firing his... what the hell was that supposed to be? We live in the era of real death rays... laser?
inksac 3 years ago
I had that luchbox in the 3rd grade. Your right, the dragon was on it. Wish I still had it today.
cyborg138 3 years ago
I recall that lunchbox, and I had the Thermos in 5th and 6th grade. That ep shook me and some of my classmates up when I was 9. Creepy.
CaptGage 3 years ago
Hey, we did crap our pants too!!! :))
Best regards,
The Children Of The 80's
(It only reached the eastern european viewers in he mid eighties.)
potyesz 3 years ago
Wow. Television really is shit after all.
BerettaStormPX4 3 years ago
Now *I* want a staple gun that shoots laser beams!
Gairm 3 years ago
Dear Space 1999 Writers,
We wanted epic starship battles. Instead you gave us crap British horror in space.
Thanks for all the nightmares. We fucking crapped our pants when we saw this.
Sincerely,
The Children Of The 70's
deyoungparker 3 years ago 4
LOL, could not have put it better.
Sonicstereo 3 years ago
Hey,I was a child of the 70s and I LOVE monsters. SPACE:1999 was certainly a fantastic science fiction show to me.
And the British are cool too.
dragonknight1984 3 years ago
but still a great show thanks for the post
rickylvu42 3 years ago
I have both seasons on DVD. This is easily the best episode ever.
Space 1999 could be very good when it was good, but when it was bad it was horrid. Some of the not-so-good episodes are real cringers, bad acting, bad plots. Excellent model and set work however.
bukster1 3 years ago 2
where did you get your copy from
rickylvu42 3 years ago
I bought both seasons as boxed DVD sets. In New Zealand I got them from a chain of stores called The Warehouse. I've seen ads for the boxed sets on the Internet. You should be able to find them somewhere.
bukster1 3 years ago
thanks for the infro happy newyear
rickylvu42 3 years ago
Mr BRONSON - Noooooooooooooooooo....!!!!!!!
plummyscum 3 years ago
Space 1999 was a unique show that was about 15-20 years ahead of it's time. Greatness!
photorams65 3 years ago
The scenes with the monster were all the more scarier with the pulsating organ noise.
opnminded1 3 years ago
My ex-girlfriend used to also ingest helpless, screaming human beings and then regurgitate them as dried, blackened husks.
TheLogicJunkie 3 years ago 7
Wow - so THAT'S what this episode was called. I remember seeing this around 6 years old. First Jaws over that summer then this - it amazes me that I am not freaked out by any horror movies these days - I used it all up in that one year!
This may be a bit hokey by today's standards of SFX but this was damn creepy back then! I love how the creature's eye is a light from a swimming pool! I think I remember being freaked out by pools then too... damn - good TV back then
clubshred 3 years ago
the frist time i see this one i was 7 years old, i was scared to the death!!!! however i love it the show and still do 30 years later, space 1999 rocks!!!!!!!
Fornax2008 3 years ago
My God, yes, I was 9 years old and this scared the daylights out of me...I had nightmares about it for years. Sometime after, a few years after Forbidden Planet was on the TV for the first time, and the scene where the "Monster from the id" starts burning through the impenetrable doors gave me the creeps for another few years. But great find! I'll probably have a nightmare soon because of this clip- and I'm pushing 42 now!
kwfkarateka 3 years ago 3
I was totally freaked out at 5 years old by this episode as well. Seeing it now, it still holds up even if the creature is a ridiculous charicature of a Martian, the acting, music,sound and visual fx make a lasting impression. Brilliant.
zanydeath 3 years ago
What a cool death!! Sucked him into it's maw, saped him of all his nutrients ( ? ) and then spewd him back out again! Way too go!
Skulldini 3 years ago
Yep I saw this as a kid and it gave me nightmares. Truly good tv.
aajoeyjo 3 years ago 2
I sometimes wondered if I had imagined this as a child, one of my favorite shows. This one was scary as hell~sucked in and then shot back out on a mini traintrack! really was crazy as hell to see on TV at seven years old
deane1968 3 years ago
1976 since I first this. I thought it was lost for ever. Very scary at the time.Impressive even now. Proves that you do NOT need blood and gore and loads of swear words to make a dramatic impression. I would love to see this whole episode get a re run on ITV again.
ysgwy 3 years ago 2
It took me what, 33 years?... to finally bring myself to look at this monster again! It scared the beJeesus out of me when I was in the 3rd grade. Me and my friend were thought to be insane because on the bus one day we were pretending our hand was the dragon and we had a white plastic toy horse and a black one- we slid the white one in and the black one would come out being the burned corpse!! AAAAHHHHHHHHH.
mlclark1965 3 years ago
I remember this one as well. Scared me too. All those tentacles.
Why are we so obsessed with death and what looks to me in this clip like human sacrifice and why do we let these people make such horrible things to scare our children with?
I recall feeling horrible and afraid after watching this, like the universe is evil and people get killed. These films are all sick and should be recycled. They destroy the innocence of our little ones.
230Vince23 3 years ago
It took me years to get next to one of the lights in a swimming pool!
kennethbear 3 years ago 2
Jay-sus! I had nightmares for years after seeing this as an 8 year old! I think I'll go turn the light on now...
k7dar5 3 years ago