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One thing I couldn't figure out about that show was this: Was the moon hurtling through space at warp speed? I know that an explosion caused it to break out of Earth's orbit, but still, that would have to be one hell of an explosion to make it go to warp. Did it get sucked into a wormhole?
@aculturemind The difference between "sci-fi" and "SF" is in my eyes nothing but snobbery of geeks. If the terminology is really so significant to demonstrate the poor average people "look - I am a real connaisseur!", then the laziness to say it unabbreviated "science fiction" is ridiculous.
Your statement is personal, hence, opinion. My statement was neutral (grammatically tinged with some vernacular, hence, artful). It has nothing to do with 'terminology'. It has to do with hard science and good story-telling.
And just as 'gay' was originally derisive, created to attack a literary genre, so was 'science fiction'. Unfortunately, in both cases, the attacked parties took on the terms as monikers. Dolts.
@aculturemind My statement is my opinion - of course. But I cannot see what your statement has to do with "hard science" or science at all (I guess you mean "hard SF"). And the label "science fiction" was originally coined by Astounding publisher Hugo Gernsback and not by deriders.
Wiki doesn't say *where* the term 'science fiction' came from.
Also, I'll clarify some of my last. "My statement was neutral". -page break- "It has nothing to do with terminology." That is, SF isn't about terminology. Make more sense?
The term "science fiction" was used first in 1851 (in Chapter 10 of William Wilson's A Little Earnest Book upon a Great Old Subject): "Science-Fiction, in which the revealed truths of Science may be given interwoven with a pleasing story which may itself be poetical and true."
@aculturemind Interesting find. But William Wilson's usage of the term was then isolated and wasn't the starting point for the professional and popular usage of "science fiction" as label for the genre. That was clearly Hugo Gernsback's "Astounding" in the late 1920ths (for this compare the French Wikipedia about "Science-fiction" which already remarks William Wilson).
@aculturemind At least I think that I'll clarify my own statement. I didn't say that SF "is about terminology", but that there is a ridiculous attitude among aficionados towards the terminology and the abbreviation "SF" versus "Sci-fi". It's the same earnestness which the so-called "Trekkers" rebel against the alleged diminutive "Trekkies".
No no. Even writers of SF have been distingushing between sci-fi and science fiction for decades. SF is just the mature form of the latter.
As for the term 'science fiction', I strongly remember reading something by Asimov, who was relating the story of how it came about, and that it was pejoratively by a literary critic.
Which, given the conclusion of the paragraph above, isn't seriously relevant.
The cosmos is heirarchy incarnate. This doesn't bother me.
@aculturemind Even writers of SF are all too often snobs and make this ridiculous difference between "sci-fi" and "SF". I do not deny that there are many mature works of science fiction which earn their high reputation - and on the other side a lot of poor pulp stuff. But in the end all of this is called "science fiction", and for good reasons.
Many critics who don't like the genre might have used the term pejoratively. But these deriders didn't create the term. Nor does their scorn matter.
@aculturemind Maybe for you "Space 1999" is no science fiction. But I'm not sure if you would find many followers in this opinion. Someone might call it scrap - but nonetheless it's science fiction. That's what I say the whole time: "science fiction" is only a label for the genre - not a statement about the quality of itself or its individual parts or works which belong to it.
I use language in a descriptive sense - where it, at least, implicates the *quality* (original, neutral connotation of the word) of a thing. This makes for a neutral, non-preference-based frame of reference, and communication. Kind of like science.
:Science fiction is badly named — it should have been called speculative history…Whether you are in a parallel reality or exploring the future, it is all about the implications of change on human lives. The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers — it’s that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents."
- David Brin, PhD, Planetary Physics, now SciFi Novelist
@RingSight91 Beware that you are not bashed for using the abbreviation "sci-fi" ...
Okay, what you detail is a definition for the genre - there are many of them out there. For the label "science fiction" it's safe to say that it is widely accepted, and any attempts to replace it failed in the past. I have no problem with it. The genre deals of course not only with spaceships and lasers. These topics are only part of it. And I'm not sure if the sf trappings doesn't matter for the genre anyway.
@enterprise160 - What makes you think it was moving at faster than light? And yes, they did plunge into a "black sun" in one episode and came up who knows where and when. In another they encountered an alternate Earth with its own moon, and returned to our universe when the two moons collided and merged. Anything else could be accounted for by relativity.
Although I am an adult now.... the little kid in me still points that middle finger at his parents for making him turn off the tv when this show come on. Son go to bed! Son go mow the lawn. It always happened when this show came on and almost do not care anymore as now I'm too old to enjoy anything properly.
You don't think all governments don't keep things from their people?
Again you dismiss those photos, and there are plenty of other space agencies that also deny access to ordinary citzens, as far as private citizens using earth bound telescopes to capture detailed images on the surfaces of the moon and even mars there is no way these devices can give the detail and clarity to show such possible elements, and of course NO ordinary citizen can see the side of the moon facing AWAY from the earth.
Of course you must know that NASA/JPL is under the charter of the US military and as a result they can keep anything secret they want without giving any reason.
Think "Black Op" projects .....can be kept completely secret with no congressional oversight and also NO record of spending at all.
As far as no anomalies on the moon just search YT for OFFICIAL JPL pics that are clearly censored with smudging and pixilalation as well to keep the people from seeing things.
@watershed44 Sorry. I mistook you for someone who wasn't a conspiracy theorist. My mistake.
Your false assumption that data comes only out of NASA/JPL is short-sighted. You're making a straw man argument by ignoring the thousands of amateur astronomers, observatories, the French, Japanese, Russian, Canadians, ESA, etc. probes & satellites. Astronomers all over can book time on any number of orbital and earth-bound instruments.
But I'm sure your answer will be that they're all in on it.
@watershed44 Truth is often stranger than fiction, the saying actually goes. But the idea that there are 'strange things NASA can't escape' about the moon is just strange, not truth. We've photographed the moon. We've been there. We've sent probes there. There are no bases on the Moon, much less a way for one to operate without our knowledge considering A) there's no air or water B) we're constantly looking at it. Who's to say? Every space agency on Earth, that's who.
I know you must realize that JPL/NASA are under the charter of the US military and they are allowed to keep endless secrets from the citizens.
As far as absolutely no anomalies on the moon ,all you have to do is search YT for official JPL pics that are smudged and pixelated and that includes Mars as well as the Moon there are plenty of clearly unnatural things on those bodies that seem to indicate intelligent life.
@gareth27 Funny thing about the Eagles being blown up - there's a documentary (posted here on youtube) where Brian Johnson, the effects master of the show, describes how they did various things. Fun fact: They never actually blew up any of the Eagle models during filming! That would've been too expensive! Instead, they'd have the Eagle being shown flying through a particular spot, then "jump-cut" to an explosion! Watch the whole thing - old school special effects work at it's finest!
I do not know why I never got into this series, it was Sylvia and Gerry Anderson! Notice that some of the look is similar to the ship and suits in "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun"!
Been years since I saw this. I have to wonder, how is it that the moon is supposed to travel fast enough to get to all these places? They made similar mistake in the original Galactica, about sub-light speed.
top drawer this - Gerry Andersons silent hit. I loved this as a kid..... Along with UFO were the first two shows that took Thunderbirds special effects into live action tv. BRILLIANT and waaaay ahead of its time!!!
Recuerdo en 1975 que me venia rapido de misa de 6pm para ver a las 7pm los sabados en Canal 7 de Costa Rica esta serie. Hasta llevaba anotados los nombres de los capitulos. Recuerdo que intentaba sacar en guitarra en tema y me sonaba por do menor.
@altha2008 Blame Congress, not the shuttles. We were supposed to have had two additional space vehicles by now, but instead they gutted the shuttle program's real mission and said 'make it into a space truck'.
Those Eagle 1 toys should've come with m-80's so you could blow them up as much as they were blown up in the show. Then the toy company just replaces the blown up ones with a new one every week.....just like on the show....they seem to have had an endless supply of Eagles
Barbara Bain was a right tasty bit of tottie. She had seductive eyes and a sexy voice so no wonder Martin Landau was mesmerised. The show wasn't bad, either...nor was Maya!
Never saw this as a kid, but I WISH we had ships which could take that kind of punishment. ;-). Also, if the Eagle could handle all that, why did such a weak problem obliterate the base?
only reason why we are not spacing around is cause of stupid money and going bankrupted and broke all the time if we played our cards right we be up there by now !!!!!!
This show was great to watch growing up in the late 70's early 80's. Some of the equipment was borrowed from 2001 A Space Odyssey but still the adventures were a lot of fun! I remember a reunion show they did around 85 where the moon was traveling through a black hole. Great memories!
@bjggjb Well the future isn't what it used to be! Pity we couldn't find a solution that would give us the best of both worlds! That is, if we could colonize space... the only people riding mule to & from there cave residences would be the ones who wanted to live in the Neo-neolithic age! Of course, things can never be that easy!
@bjggjb Yeah, no shit. Thing is, back then we went from the Wright Brothers to the Moon in 66 years, from ICBM's to Apollo Moon rockets in 10. Given the incredible rate of advancement, by 1999 the whole planet could have been running on nuclear power and the moon could have easily been permanently settled. Once the Russians were beaten to the Moon, we lost our drive to continue. It appears we need that driving force. With the Chinese doing what they are, we should wake up to whats happening
@peterpeterxxo and in less than 2 generations china will have the infrastructure to handle that population, but will only have the population one tenth what it has now because of the 9 men to 1 woman ratio of the country. imagine how powerful it will become then?! scary huh.
@bjggjb funny how the president that promised the most amount of change defunded the agency that provides the most amount of change. NASA every dollar spent there provides $17 in real world money, and advances in technology that would otherwise not occur. this is done through real needs for real missions, not just research on it's own. necessity is the mother of invention. returning to the moon for resources would have done that and brought back helium 3.
Loved this show as a kid. This and Star Trek. Really liked the original Battlestar Galactica also. I used to make the ships in this series ( Eagles) out of styrafoam egg cartons and cardboard lol.
I liked pretty much all the Anderson series from Fireball XL5 on, with the exception of Joe 90 and The Protectors, the latter of which I didn't see much of. Like Star Trek, Space:1999 had its ups and downs. I thought Season 1 dwelt too much on space mysticism and took itself way too seriously, while Season 2 deprived us of several prominent and likeable supporting characters (not to mention Barry Grey's score). But I have the box sets of both seasons, so I guess I'm a fan.
Yeah, like a nuclear explosion could knock the moon out of orbit with a velocity fast enough to get it to a new star system every week...Worst SF premise ever.
@shiching Well, they did pass through a black hole and emerged from a white hole some hundred million light years across the Universe. There was also mention of time/space warps causing them to move vast distances in seconds. The Moon's position shifts this way in three episodes on screen. And there was talk of their destiny being in the hands of some enigmatic cosmic intelligence and of the Alphans being destined to colonise the Universe. Not perfect, but it blurred the issues.
this looks much awesomer than any of the other sci-fi tv shows of this era. even the music is awesomer, AND it stars martin landau. i'd still watch this show, space: 1999: 2011!
I miss this show - I would rent them from -Netflix. I love the set designs. Though, cold and ubber mod but still "spacey". The costumes were funny as heck and over the top...but you still got the idea of campy... Todays sci-fi is a bit too violent for me - and back then it was the 70's = sex-y.
I loved this series, but I couldn't understand anything, I was a child. But I'm sure it's ten million more interesting than those 80's trash series like Galactica or Buck Rogers.
I always thought the intro and music was actually better then the show itself LOL. As a kid I loved this show, but I recently saw the first couple episodes and the science drives me nuts now! Ah well stick with the memories!
@telocity with the technology and access to information we have today i see your point, however back in the seventies this was a visually stunning show the scientific inaccuracies never bothered me i never understood the story arcs i was young 14 at the time, i looked forward to space 1999 every week i liked it for what it was and is, today we have to much reality tv cheaper to produce obviously what burns me now is were paying for down graded entertainment i'm watching more on internet .
star trek has earned the right of a successful franchise my only regret is that people seem to think its the only option out there viewable for the sf public i know this get gets down to dollars respecting syndication sales but when space reran the sixties outer limits which i never saw my feeling was thank god something new and i agree the cgi additions to star trek are most impressive, space 1999 has done some of this on space 2099 only to run into legal copy right issues
i will always remember watching this on saturdays when i was a child! the most awesome sci-fi series ever! maybe dated but the classics will always be the best!
i will always remember watching this on saturdays when i was a child! the most awesome sci-fi series ever! maybe dated but the classics will always be the best!
I loved this show, funny how some things can only be seen through the eyes of a child...I never wondered then what the heck happened in earth when it didn´t had a moon anymore...no tides? LOL. Great series.
@BigTex541 the music you mean i perfer barry gray year 1 but if i had one i would need derek wadsworths year 2 of space 1999 though i think checking fanderson that its out of print
@BigTex541 someone has up loaded a audio scene by scene to break away its on youtube and quite interesting quite fascinating how it was found fortunately the man was a fan knew what he had and that other space 1999 fans would enjoy it, its rough but gives a good idea of the process in the studio of a tv production.
@azzorroww Although on perpetual delay, the Season 2 soundtrack is (HOORAY) finally on Amazon. They haven't cancelled my backorder yet though so I am hanging in there because I refuse to pay to join fanderson for the privelege of making a purchase.
@Poptall2007: The reason we're still stuck on Earth is largely because we decided to squander our money, resources, and imagination elsewhere. a multi-trillion dollar, decade-long war in the middle-East, for example. :{
@wolfstarpdx Too true. It saddens me that even after the collapse of the Soviet Union we're still spending billions on fighter jets, cruise missiles, etc.
@wolfstarpdx Vietnam bankrupted the country and Nixon killed the moon program. I am convinced we would a moon base and even one on Mars back in 1999 if the NASA budget was not gutted back in the early 70's because of war.
DAMN IT! I can never stump youtube they have everything! =D. When I was in kindergarten, I had the space 1999 thermos & lunchbox I wonder how much that would be worth today?
I sort of miss this show, even though it's almost 11 years out of date, it is rather appealing in a kitchy 70's style retro futuristic way, just like Battalestar Galactica, at least Space 1999. I've been disappointed since 2001, we were supposed to have a base not only on the moon but on Mars as well as being able to travel to Jupiter, what they have in Space 1999 would have been nice too. So where is my flying car, I was promised one as a kid and we still don't have them..
i had a metal eagle space ship with removable centre piece and shock absorbing landing feet-one of my favourite toys of all time!! who threw it away?..it wasnt me thats for sure... ; (
Sooooooo seventies science fiction. Soooooooo bad. They sure must have had alot of Eagles. They blew up at least two an episode. And as they traveled through space the moon sure moved fast. They went from solar system to solar system in a week, amazing.
@49bobbyk That's probably why it was canceled after two seasons. It's cost a lot of money to produce. Blowing up eagles every week. Do you know the communicators they used actually had tiny CRTs on them? Not the fake stuff on Star Trek.
The first season of Space 1999 stunk until season 2 with Catherine Schell taking over the show with her Character Maya! Maybe They will make a movie about this show in the Future!!!!!!!!
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Guinhoete 1 day ago
Well...disco did make a sort-of comeback in the late 90s, so this looks accurate. X-D
MyceliaProductions42 3 days ago
1999 passed and we still are here.
Loved this show!
mindfield7 3 days ago
2001 A space ODYESSY WAS BETTER THAN THIS ONE , a space odyessy was 1968
kojakbangbang7 5 days ago
its 2012 and cant do half that shit.....i liked this show had all the toys
barbaric1 2 weeks ago
One thing I couldn't figure out about that show was this: Was the moon hurtling through space at warp speed? I know that an explosion caused it to break out of Earth's orbit, but still, that would have to be one hell of an explosion to make it go to warp. Did it get sucked into a wormhole?
enterprise160 2 weeks ago
@enterprise160
The answer to your question is: Gerry Anderson did it.
Hahahah. Well, more seriously, that's the different between sci-fi and SF. A reason I don't do the former, yo.
aculturemind 2 weeks ago
@aculturemind The difference between "sci-fi" and "SF" is in my eyes nothing but snobbery of geeks. If the terminology is really so significant to demonstrate the poor average people "look - I am a real connaisseur!", then the laziness to say it unabbreviated "science fiction" is ridiculous.
Isurtum 1 week ago
@Isurtum
Your statement is personal, hence, opinion. My statement was neutral (grammatically tinged with some vernacular, hence, artful). It has nothing to do with 'terminology'. It has to do with hard science and good story-telling.
And just as 'gay' was originally derisive, created to attack a literary genre, so was 'science fiction'. Unfortunately, in both cases, the attacked parties took on the terms as monikers. Dolts.
aculturemind 1 week ago
@aculturemind My statement is my opinion - of course. But I cannot see what your statement has to do with "hard science" or science at all (I guess you mean "hard SF"). And the label "science fiction" was originally coined by Astounding publisher Hugo Gernsback and not by deriders.
Isurtum 4 days ago
@Isurtum
Wiki doesn't say *where* the term 'science fiction' came from.
Also, I'll clarify some of my last. "My statement was neutral". -page break- "It has nothing to do with terminology." That is, SF isn't about terminology. Make more sense?
aculturemind 3 days ago
@Isurtum
However, this is interesting:
The term "science fiction" was used first in 1851 (in Chapter 10 of William Wilson's A Little Earnest Book upon a Great Old Subject): "Science-Fiction, in which the revealed truths of Science may be given interwoven with a pleasing story which may itself be poetical and true."
andromeda.rutgers.edu/~hbf/sfhist.html
aculturemind 3 days ago
@aculturemind Awesome find!
MyceliaProductions42 3 days ago
@aculturemind Interesting find. But William Wilson's usage of the term was then isolated and wasn't the starting point for the professional and popular usage of "science fiction" as label for the genre. That was clearly Hugo Gernsback's "Astounding" in the late 1920ths (for this compare the French Wikipedia about "Science-fiction" which already remarks William Wilson).
Isurtum 3 days ago
@aculturemind At least I think that I'll clarify my own statement. I didn't say that SF "is about terminology", but that there is a ridiculous attitude among aficionados towards the terminology and the abbreviation "SF" versus "Sci-fi". It's the same earnestness which the so-called "Trekkers" rebel against the alleged diminutive "Trekkies".
Isurtum 3 days ago
@Isurtum
No no. Even writers of SF have been distingushing between sci-fi and science fiction for decades. SF is just the mature form of the latter.
As for the term 'science fiction', I strongly remember reading something by Asimov, who was relating the story of how it came about, and that it was pejoratively by a literary critic.
Which, given the conclusion of the paragraph above, isn't seriously relevant.
The cosmos is heirarchy incarnate. This doesn't bother me.
aculturemind 2 days ago
@aculturemind Even writers of SF are all too often snobs and make this ridiculous difference between "sci-fi" and "SF". I do not deny that there are many mature works of science fiction which earn their high reputation - and on the other side a lot of poor pulp stuff. But in the end all of this is called "science fiction", and for good reasons.
Many critics who don't like the genre might have used the term pejoratively. But these deriders didn't create the term. Nor does their scorn matter.
Isurtum 2 days ago
@Isurtum
"But in the end all of this is called "science fiction" "
Sez you. An I say differnt.
While I enjoy Culture, I could emotionally do without it. Could you?
aculturemind 2 days ago
@aculturemind Maybe for you "Space 1999" is no science fiction. But I'm not sure if you would find many followers in this opinion. Someone might call it scrap - but nonetheless it's science fiction. That's what I say the whole time: "science fiction" is only a label for the genre - not a statement about the quality of itself or its individual parts or works which belong to it.
Isurtum 1 day ago
@Isurtum
I use language in a descriptive sense - where it, at least, implicates the *quality* (original, neutral connotation of the word) of a thing. This makes for a neutral, non-preference-based frame of reference, and communication. Kind of like science.
aculturemind 23 hours ago
@Isurtum and @aculturemind To settle the matter:
:Science fiction is badly named — it should have been called speculative history…Whether you are in a parallel reality or exploring the future, it is all about the implications of change on human lives. The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers — it’s that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents."
- David Brin, PhD, Planetary Physics, now SciFi Novelist
RingSight91 7 hours ago
@RingSight91 Beware that you are not bashed for using the abbreviation "sci-fi" ...
Okay, what you detail is a definition for the genre - there are many of them out there. For the label "science fiction" it's safe to say that it is widely accepted, and any attempts to replace it failed in the past. I have no problem with it. The genre deals of course not only with spaceships and lasers. These topics are only part of it. And I'm not sure if the sf trappings doesn't matter for the genre anyway.
Isurtum 1 hour ago
@enterprise160 - What makes you think it was moving at faster than light? And yes, they did plunge into a "black sun" in one episode and came up who knows where and when. In another they encountered an alternate Earth with its own moon, and returned to our universe when the two moons collided and merged. Anything else could be accounted for by relativity.
JBofBrisbane 2 weeks ago
The real 1999 wasn't like this at all! Hardly anyone was in space. Disappointing!
gunterdak 3 weeks ago 6
@gunterdak They'd also ditched disco by that time, too.
ArmyJames 1 week ago
Remember when 1999 sounded very futuristic? Like, a million years away?
libertatus 3 weeks ago 3
Although I am an adult now.... the little kid in me still points that middle finger at his parents for making him turn off the tv when this show come on. Son go to bed! Son go mow the lawn. It always happened when this show came on and almost do not care anymore as now I'm too old to enjoy anything properly.
inachu 3 weeks ago
The 70s and 80s had the best tv show theme music.....
71bbattle 1 month ago
44 People were on the ship that crashed at the beginning of the intro
garylsorrell 1 month ago
You don't think all governments don't keep things from their people?
Again you dismiss those photos, and there are plenty of other space agencies that also deny access to ordinary citzens, as far as private citizens using earth bound telescopes to capture detailed images on the surfaces of the moon and even mars there is no way these devices can give the detail and clarity to show such possible elements, and of course NO ordinary citizen can see the side of the moon facing AWAY from the earth.
watershed44 1 month ago
aggmedia:
Of course you must know that NASA/JPL is under the charter of the US military and as a result they can keep anything secret they want without giving any reason.
Think "Black Op" projects .....can be kept completely secret with no congressional oversight and also NO record of spending at all.
As far as no anomalies on the moon just search YT for OFFICIAL JPL pics that are clearly censored with smudging and pixilalation as well to keep the people from seeing things.
watershed44 1 month ago
@watershed44 Sorry. I mistook you for someone who wasn't a conspiracy theorist. My mistake.
Your false assumption that data comes only out of NASA/JPL is short-sighted. You're making a straw man argument by ignoring the thousands of amateur astronomers, observatories, the French, Japanese, Russian, Canadians, ESA, etc. probes & satellites. Astronomers all over can book time on any number of orbital and earth-bound instruments.
But I'm sure your answer will be that they're all in on it.
aggmedia 1 month ago
Who says there aren't moon bases up there? I believe there MAY be.
There are a LOT of strange things about the moon even NASA can't escape that fact. Could it be that truth is stranger than fiction?
watershed44 1 month ago
@watershed44 Truth is often stranger than fiction, the saying actually goes. But the idea that there are 'strange things NASA can't escape' about the moon is just strange, not truth. We've photographed the moon. We've been there. We've sent probes there. There are no bases on the Moon, much less a way for one to operate without our knowledge considering A) there's no air or water B) we're constantly looking at it. Who's to say? Every space agency on Earth, that's who.
aggmedia 1 month ago
@aggmedia :
I know you must realize that JPL/NASA are under the charter of the US military and they are allowed to keep endless secrets from the citizens.
As far as absolutely no anomalies on the moon ,all you have to do is search YT for official JPL pics that are smudged and pixelated and that includes Mars as well as the Moon there are plenty of clearly unnatural things on those bodies that seem to indicate intelligent life.
watershed44 1 month ago
@gareth27 Funny thing about the Eagles being blown up - there's a documentary (posted here on youtube) where Brian Johnson, the effects master of the show, describes how they did various things. Fun fact: They never actually blew up any of the Eagle models during filming! That would've been too expensive! Instead, they'd have the Eagle being shown flying through a particular spot, then "jump-cut" to an explosion! Watch the whole thing - old school special effects work at it's finest!
logandarklighter 1 month ago
great show, great memories
KISSARMYHQHD 1 month ago
I miss the 70's and 80's
73Shakes 1 month ago
To get anyplace in space we should first learn to travel at least the speed of light,and that is a snails pace in space.
69ssrszl1 2 months ago
I do not know why I never got into this series, it was Sylvia and Gerry Anderson! Notice that some of the look is similar to the ship and suits in "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun"!
ToyKingWonder 2 months ago
@ToyKingWonder Trying to thank of that show. I just remember the big ship taking off
altha2008 1 month ago
I think i know this, 2000: A Space Odyssey was the offical sequel to this TV Series i think.
calebc789 2 months ago
Been years since I saw this. I have to wonder, how is it that the moon is supposed to travel fast enough to get to all these places? They made similar mistake in the original Galactica, about sub-light speed.
VictorLepanto 2 months ago
top drawer this - Gerry Andersons silent hit. I loved this as a kid..... Along with UFO were the first two shows that took Thunderbirds special effects into live action tv. BRILLIANT and waaaay ahead of its time!!!
D1CKYM1NT 2 months ago
@D1CKYM1NT Thet ought ot do a mordern verison. Have SHADOW underneath the mall of america. Everybody works at the mall and the base is under it
altha2008 1 month ago
Recuerdo en 1975 que me venia rapido de misa de 6pm para ver a las 7pm los sabados en Canal 7 de Costa Rica esta serie. Hasta llevaba anotados los nombres de los capitulos. Recuerdo que intentaba sacar en guitarra en tema y me sonaba por do menor.
HumbertoMarinMora 2 months ago
Any idea of continuing the series? Something like 1999 TM, or PRO?
1906965181507 2 months ago
@1906965181507 They will mess it up, if they did do a remake
altha2008 1 month ago
september 13th 1999 was not a friday.
MrPhoenis 2 months ago
If it was not for the sorry space shuttle program we will be there by now
altha2008 4 months ago 8
@altha2008 Blame Congress, not the shuttles. We were supposed to have had two additional space vehicles by now, but instead they gutted the shuttle program's real mission and said 'make it into a space truck'.
aggmedia 1 month ago
@altha2008 Hey have you heard about that elevator in El Segundo....its far out man....
alasdennis 1 month ago
I have to admit that I loved watching that show, back in the day. Man, I kind of missed this show.
faceman68 4 months ago
Those Eagle 1 toys should've come with m-80's so you could blow them up as much as they were blown up in the show. Then the toy company just replaces the blown up ones with a new one every week.....just like on the show....they seem to have had an endless supply of Eagles
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Nice, it even sounds like it did back then! xD
Textrybal 4 months ago
I used to love watching Space 1999. Nice show.
faceman68 4 months ago
Barbara Bain was a right tasty bit of tottie. She had seductive eyes and a sexy voice so no wonder Martin Landau was mesmerised. The show wasn't bad, either...nor was Maya!
Turrican60 4 months ago
Gerry Anderson for ruler of the GALAXY!!
razorback0z 4 months ago
Maya was definitely hot. A beautiful woman to satisfy any shapeshifter fantasy... heheh.
BigDiamondCutter 5 months ago
Gerry Anderson...creator of The Thunderbirds, now that was a great series.
sithjedi71 6 months ago
Dum da da dummm... dummm da da dummm
FantasticBob7000 6 months ago
FONKY
thegroove2000 6 months ago
loved the show,i loved Scifi thanks to these series
dekaneas71 6 months ago
To me, Eagle's looked like they worked for a living and haven't dated in design ! Thunderbird 2's for the real world...if you see what I mean
slider2732 6 months ago
Never saw this as a kid, but I WISH we had ships which could take that kind of punishment. ;-). Also, if the Eagle could handle all that, why did such a weak problem obliterate the base?
Eddie42023 6 months ago
ich hatte diesen vorspann anders in erinnerung !!
trierbuffys 6 months ago
The show had a good premise but faded into the world of bad acting, silly plot lines and neverending action scenes.
CaptainGrimsdale 7 months ago
@StinkingHobo
Maybe because it is called Science FICTION?
retrozx 7 months ago
This show desperately needs to be on netflix stream!
jaybutler24 7 months ago
f**kin' brilliant! used to LOVE this too much!
thepofmeister 7 months ago
Could probably be taken a bit more seriously if it didn't have the cheesy porno vibe to it.
crazy88boss 8 months ago
September 13th 1999. Almost September 11th 2001.
toepedi 8 months ago
@toepedi no it isnt, nowhere near.
peterpeterxxo 2 months ago
1999 ah yes the memories, I remember when the SDF1 crashed on earth and we embarked on the enlightenment of protoculture.
Flakatak76 8 months ago
The intro song to this sci-fi series does have that..."it came from the seventies guitar riff".
TheXtro101 9 months ago
"Spacing around" funny. But ya thats exactly how I remember 1999 and something about Britney Spears.
SkillHornskillz 9 months ago
only reason why we are not spacing around is cause of stupid money and going bankrupted and broke all the time if we played our cards right we be up there by now !!!!!!
craigjgray 9 months ago
if anyone has the space ship toy its worth near £210 in mint condition and box sore it in a shop today
deejaychristhornton 9 months ago
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LoveayElliaa26 9 months ago
ugh, I can't look at this footage shot from a video cam on a tv. Looks and sounds so bad it's a discredit to the show.
schmoborama 10 months ago
DAMN. 2011 and NO MOONBASES...NO EAGLES. WHAT A RIP OFF!
seeker6789 10 months ago
This show was great to watch growing up in the late 70's early 80's. Some of the equipment was borrowed from 2001 A Space Odyssey but still the adventures were a lot of fun! I remember a reunion show they did around 85 where the moon was traveling through a black hole. Great memories!
Poncho85CA 10 months ago
I especially loved this series, Gerry Anderson is a genius !!
spacemouse1 10 months ago
I love the groovy "Shaft" music playing in the background...in 1999 space travel will be so damn FUNKY!
jdhoffman1221 10 months ago 7
@jdhoffman1221 Totally agree there, well funky afro music
patterjak 1 month ago
Why they ruined the second season? The first season was so good.
TheLeon96Ahuel 10 months ago
that brings back memories! Funny how the true 1999 was nothing like the tv show when it came to technical advances!
mountainseeker40 11 months ago
Bjgbbj... Thanks for my best lol for the day!!! You are priceless.
hicksphoto6 11 months ago
Used to have a toy of that ship.
Still miss it.
And the show.
Aquaslasher 11 months ago
barbara bain...HOT!!!
1luiszepol 11 months ago
l love space1999 ,ufo, star trek, battlestar galactica
royrivera15 11 months ago
Yes I know. I had the toy Eagle. My comment was asking who was going to be brave enough to make this into a modern movie.
Cerulean0987 11 months ago
@Cerulean0987 Because it is hard to make Space 1999 a modern movie when it is 2011! Unless the rename it Space 2099 that would work.
schock12 11 months ago
Actually, the moon is getting farther and farther away at the rate of 3 cm per year and will eventually drift off into deep space.
Plumavision 11 months ago
When are they going to make this a movie?!?
Cerulean0987 11 months ago
@Cerulean0987 This was a TV serial in the 1970's.
Averagebum2 11 months ago
I like how the English intro focuses on explosions and the French intro on sexy females from outer space :)
gredorial 11 months ago
In the 70's, everyone thought we'd be all over the galaxy by 1999.
Today, most people think we'll be riding jackasses and living in caves by 2030.
Funny how times change, huh?
bjggjb 1 year ago 115
@bjggjb Hi! You're right about that... lol
rjvjes 7 months ago
@bjggjb Well the future isn't what it used to be! Pity we couldn't find a solution that would give us the best of both worlds! That is, if we could colonize space... the only people riding mule to & from there cave residences would be the ones who wanted to live in the Neo-neolithic age! Of course, things can never be that easy!
dukes0916 6 months ago
@bjggjb Funny how times Hope and Change. Only it's not very funny.
billkasperdotcom 4 months ago
@bjggjb :
Yes, I'm busting a gut over the possibilities.
kneejerker 4 months ago
@bjggjb
I think we'll end up barbecueing the jackasses for food. By 2015.
hartley81848184 3 months ago
@bjggjb: Sad but true and it has been going downhill faster than ever since the movie Avatar. :(
bannedbyMusloons 2 months ago
@bjggjb Yeah, no shit. Thing is, back then we went from the Wright Brothers to the Moon in 66 years, from ICBM's to Apollo Moon rockets in 10. Given the incredible rate of advancement, by 1999 the whole planet could have been running on nuclear power and the moon could have easily been permanently settled. Once the Russians were beaten to the Moon, we lost our drive to continue. It appears we need that driving force. With the Chinese doing what they are, we should wake up to whats happening
johanlaurasia 2 months ago
@johanlaurasia china will dominate the world in 20-30yrs..massive country, ecomony growing 7%-10% per annum, and 1.3billion population.
peterpeterxxo 2 months ago
@peterpeterxxo and in less than 2 generations china will have the infrastructure to handle that population, but will only have the population one tenth what it has now because of the 9 men to 1 woman ratio of the country. imagine how powerful it will become then?! scary huh.
bettysteve322716 2 months ago
@bjggjb funny how the president that promised the most amount of change defunded the agency that provides the most amount of change. NASA every dollar spent there provides $17 in real world money, and advances in technology that would otherwise not occur. this is done through real needs for real missions, not just research on it's own. necessity is the mother of invention. returning to the moon for resources would have done that and brought back helium 3.
circusboy90210 1 month ago
September 13th 1999 is: Monday.
cristianruiz1972 1 year ago
@cristianruiz1972 i watched cartoons and got pizza on that day
singleandunemployed 11 months ago
@cristianruiz1972 i watched cartoons and got pizza on that day
singleandunemployed 11 months ago
@cristianruiz1972 Exactly ! it's a monday.
TheLeon96Ahuel 10 months ago
it was the Baywatch of the 70's
civicnation4two 1 year ago
Loved this show as a kid. This and Star Trek. Really liked the original Battlestar Galactica also. I used to make the ships in this series ( Eagles) out of styrafoam egg cartons and cardboard lol.
zestyguy87 1 year ago 25
@zestyguy87 My dad was rich, we had Legos for that, haha.
BrokenAeroVT 6 months ago
I liked pretty much all the Anderson series from Fireball XL5 on, with the exception of Joe 90 and The Protectors, the latter of which I didn't see much of. Like Star Trek, Space:1999 had its ups and downs. I thought Season 1 dwelt too much on space mysticism and took itself way too seriously, while Season 2 deprived us of several prominent and likeable supporting characters (not to mention Barry Grey's score). But I have the box sets of both seasons, so I guess I'm a fan.
JBofBrisbane 1 year ago
The german title music version with JMJ-Oxygene is much better!
Title: Mondbasis Alpha 1
TheZackoZack 1 year ago
The german title music version with JMJ-Oxygene is much better!
TheZackoZack 1 year ago
disco in space
Eddie62070 1 year ago
Yeah, like a nuclear explosion could knock the moon out of orbit with a velocity fast enough to get it to a new star system every week...Worst SF premise ever.
shiching 1 year ago
@shiching What I always wonderd was WHAT was hapening with Earth ( without a moon ) in the meantime?
Skulldini 1 year ago
@Skulldini I always wondered the same thing. Probably messed the earth up since the moon controls the tides.
mrmuffer69 1 year ago
@mrmuffer69 Yeah, and I think it helps maintane it's orbit too.
Skulldini 1 year ago
@shiching Well, they did pass through a black hole and emerged from a white hole some hundred million light years across the Universe. There was also mention of time/space warps causing them to move vast distances in seconds. The Moon's position shifts this way in three episodes on screen. And there was talk of their destiny being in the hands of some enigmatic cosmic intelligence and of the Alphans being destined to colonise the Universe. Not perfect, but it blurred the issues.
straker2 1 year ago
that was a more sophisticated show than most.
shallowtiger 1 year ago
this looks much awesomer than any of the other sci-fi tv shows of this era. even the music is awesomer, AND it stars martin landau. i'd still watch this show, space: 1999: 2011!
SilliVivi 1 year ago
I miss this show - I would rent them from -Netflix. I love the set designs. Though, cold and ubber mod but still "spacey". The costumes were funny as heck and over the top...but you still got the idea of campy... Todays sci-fi is a bit too violent for me - and back then it was the 70's = sex-y.
ValyTraveler 1 year ago
I bet the insurance on those Eagles was pretty high, considering they crashed every few episodes!!
zuki1899 1 year ago
Funk-ay guitars!
nietsualb 1 year ago
I loved this series, but I couldn't understand anything, I was a child. But I'm sure it's ten million more interesting than those 80's trash series like Galactica or Buck Rogers.
ortizunderdog 1 year ago
eagle = giant penis
cjbmaille 1 year ago
@cjbmaille well hope you take this as a joke, but there is some truth in it the seventies was all about sex
azzorroww 1 year ago
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TheLeon96Ahuel 10 months ago
I always thought the intro and music was actually better then the show itself LOL. As a kid I loved this show, but I recently saw the first couple episodes and the science drives me nuts now! Ah well stick with the memories!
telocity 1 year ago
@telocity with the technology and access to information we have today i see your point, however back in the seventies this was a visually stunning show the scientific inaccuracies never bothered me i never understood the story arcs i was young 14 at the time, i looked forward to space 1999 every week i liked it for what it was and is, today we have to much reality tv cheaper to produce obviously what burns me now is were paying for down graded entertainment i'm watching more on internet .
azzorroww 1 year ago
Time is a trip!!! It keeps on sliping into the future!
hill212mg 1 year ago
Why is it that actual puppets Col Steve Zodiac and Dr Venus seem more lifelike than Martin Landau and Barbara Bain?
ysbaddaden2003 1 year ago
STAR TREK is stiil the best sci-fi tv show, it's even better withe the new CGIs.
CherryONeil 1 year ago
@CherryONeil
star trek has earned the right of a successful franchise my only regret is that people seem to think its the only option out there viewable for the sf public i know this get gets down to dollars respecting syndication sales but when space reran the sixties outer limits which i never saw my feeling was thank god something new and i agree the cgi additions to star trek are most impressive, space 1999 has done some of this on space 2099 only to run into legal copy right issues
azzorroww 1 year ago
I wonder it hasn't been remade into a new version for the 21st century...
jesuscora 1 year ago
@jesuscora Type Space 2099 into google & see what you get...
nortofacto 1 year ago
i will always remember watching this on saturdays when i was a child! the most awesome sci-fi series ever! maybe dated but the classics will always be the best!
mowie71 1 year ago
i will always remember watching this on saturdays when i was a child! the most awesome sci-fi series ever! maybe dated but the classics will always be the best!
mowie71 1 year ago
How many Eagles did they have? They blew up at least two every episode. The moon sure could move fast.
49bobbyk 1 year ago
I loved this show, funny how some things can only be seen through the eyes of a child...I never wondered then what the heck happened in earth when it didn´t had a moon anymore...no tides? LOL. Great series.
lalbruiz 1 year ago
Is this available on DVD ?
lsarac1 1 year ago
One of the best themes EVER. thanks.
kohstamojahn 1 year ago
I have two Space: 1999 LPs
BigTex541 1 year ago
@BigTex541 the music you mean i perfer barry gray year 1 but if i had one i would need derek wadsworths year 2 of space 1999 though i think checking fanderson that its out of print
azzorroww 1 year ago
@azzorroww Sorry, No I mean story records. Adaptions of the original tv episodes.
BigTex541 1 year ago
@BigTex541 someone has up loaded a audio scene by scene to break away its on youtube and quite interesting quite fascinating how it was found fortunately the man was a fan knew what he had and that other space 1999 fans would enjoy it, its rough but gives a good idea of the process in the studio of a tv production.
azzorroww 1 year ago
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Robotapedia 1 year ago
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@azzorroww Although on perpetual delay, the Season 2 soundtrack is (HOORAY) finally on Amazon. They haven't cancelled my backorder yet though so I am hanging in there because I refuse to pay to join fanderson for the privelege of making a purchase.
Robotapedia 1 year ago
@Poptall2007: The reason we're still stuck on Earth is largely because we decided to squander our money, resources, and imagination elsewhere. a multi-trillion dollar, decade-long war in the middle-East, for example. :{
wolfstarpdx 1 year ago
@wolfstarpdx Too true. It saddens me that even after the collapse of the Soviet Union we're still spending billions on fighter jets, cruise missiles, etc.
jchardy316 1 year ago
@wolfstarpdx Vietnam bankrupted the country and Nixon killed the moon program. I am convinced we would a moon base and even one on Mars back in 1999 if the NASA budget was not gutted back in the early 70's because of war.
bradco6 1 year ago
Of course we are all still on earth, how can we go into space and pay for all the welfare and education costs wetbacks?
bluemax111f 1 year ago
another show which proves star trek next generation is still the best one produced
8302967 1 year ago
DAMN IT! I can never stump youtube they have everything! =D. When I was in kindergarten, I had the space 1999 thermos & lunchbox I wonder how much that would be worth today?
Fritz197139 1 year ago
Where were you on September 13, 1999? The moon's been gone exactly 11 years now, perhaps it will drift back to Earth one day.
GarthanSaal444 1 year ago
@GarthanSaal444 meanwhile... in the real world: happy birthday barbara bain.
baddmanaz 1 year ago
@baddmanaz Is it me or did Barbara Bain look like Michelle Pfeiffer back then?
jess4metoo 1 year ago
@jess4metoo She looks a lot like Drusilla from Buffy. Of course, it's the other way around since that actress is the daughter of the two leads here.
ShadowSonic2 1 year ago
I sort of miss this show, even though it's almost 11 years out of date, it is rather appealing in a kitchy 70's style retro futuristic way, just like Battalestar Galactica, at least Space 1999. I've been disappointed since 2001, we were supposed to have a base not only on the moon but on Mars as well as being able to travel to Jupiter, what they have in Space 1999 would have been nice too. So where is my flying car, I was promised one as a kid and we still don't have them..
OlegKostoglatov 1 year ago
i had a metal eagle space ship with removable centre piece and shock absorbing landing feet-one of my favourite toys of all time!! who threw it away?..it wasnt me thats for sure... ; (
jasoncottles1 1 year ago
Sooooooo seventies science fiction. Soooooooo bad. They sure must have had alot of Eagles. They blew up at least two an episode. And as they traveled through space the moon sure moved fast. They went from solar system to solar system in a week, amazing.
49bobbyk 1 year ago
@49bobbyk That's probably why it was canceled after two seasons. It's cost a lot of money to produce. Blowing up eagles every week. Do you know the communicators they used actually had tiny CRTs on them? Not the fake stuff on Star Trek.
Nomoreidsleft 1 year ago
I remember the show!!!
prkendora 1 year ago
Those Eagles were death traps. they never could stay up without crashing!!
zuki1899 1 year ago
Awesome intro...on the same level as Hawaii 5.0 theme...brings back good childhood memories!!!
TheTexasViper 1 year ago
The first season of Space 1999 stunk until season 2 with Catherine Schell taking over the show with her Character Maya! Maybe They will make a movie about this show in the Future!!!!!!!!
redmark19666 1 year ago
they had some pretty bizarre ideas about the future back then... i dont even think we'll set foot on mars thirty years from now
Cmann600 1 year ago
Triv time - John McCoy, the bass player from the Ian Gillan Band, played the bass line on the intro......
Davesax1965 1 year ago
I remember watching the first ads for this show, this intro & the theme song watching TV at my grandmother's house like it was yesterday.
selloutasaurus 1 year ago
se non sbaglio alla domenica sera era un'appuntamento imperdibile
GIANNONE12 1 year ago
Ah, I remember it well! When 1999 was Sci-fi and not retro. :D
mads27galt 1 year ago
Thunderbirds opening IRL. I guess they were both produced by the same guy.
funneydude 1 year ago
One of my all time fave shows, I must add. Brilliant series, 1999.
attractgoodness 1 year ago