Space 1999 - 1x01 - Breakaway

Original Air Date—17 October 1975
The pilot episode that introduces the main cast and sets the stage for the series. Located on the moon is Moonbase Alpha, a multinational scientific research facility. One of its duties is to also monitor and coordinate the activities surrounding two large lunar dumping sites where nuclear waste from Earth is disposed of. The Alphans are trying to launch a fast-tracked manned probe to an 'approaching' planet named Meta. The Meta Probe is in jeopardy since two of the mission crew have come down with a mysterious illness. The Alphans tie the illness to the nuclear waste about the time the smaller site unexpectedly explodes. While the Alphans try to avert a similar explosion in the larger waste site, it explodes also, and pushes the Moon out of the Earth's orbit, leaving the Alphans stranded on a moon destined to wander the universe.

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Film & Animation

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• Space 1999

[modeleagle]

I like the way Landau checks out the chick's tits after getting his brew. 2:00

[shakercoola]

We had so many great programmes as kids in the 70s and 80s. Now it's all celebrity shows and rubbish.

[mottledbrain]

As a teenager I really tried to watch this, but I usually ended up making fun of the show.

I guess it began with the ridiculous premise. The moon travelling through interstellar space?

I wonder if they could have made it somewhat lighthearted. IE, not take the show too seriously. Maybe they did and I didn't notice?

[sunshineshine77]

SPACE:1999 is the GREATEST sci-fi show EVER.If you want to join an online fanclub DO NOT join "GRUPO DOS PUTOS QUE VIAM ESPACO 1999" That fanclub is CRAP. There are many other much BETTER Space:1999 fanclubs than that one.

[lnribeiro1]

@shakercoola you bet. People are getting more and more stupidified every day

[pantyhse]

OH NO SCI FI is WRESTLING 2012 with NBC being taken over it's all about money to the share holders not to spend it ,from now on it will go down hill you wait and see!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nightwingstud]

sci fi channel should do a remake of this seires, but instead of space 1999, it should be space2199.

[s123rew]

@padawangussin1 have you heard of science fiction??

[walter0bz]

regarding the wandering moon plothole, perhaps they should have had an asteroid base or maybe mars's moon phobos (i've read that its actually less energy to go from earth to phobos & back because it isn't a gravity well).

[Fussinated]

Ah! John, you again.

[Fussinated]

@padawangussin1 I agree at least they should have combined the episode "Black Sun" with the pilot so that we would have assumed they ended up in region in space where one bump into that many planets and alien civilizations that often.

[dondi2261]

I take it back Space 1999 sucked too. The Thunder Birds was much better than 1999.