The show's vehicles, including the Eagle space shuttle and the Moon Buggy, were represented with a mixture of full-sized props, photographic blow-ups, and detailed scale models. Space: 1999 was the last production by the partnership of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and was the most expensive series produced for British television up to that time. ITV. The series was. During the first season, excerpts for each week's episode were incorporated [6] Lee H. Katzin, a highly respected American television director with a speciality for pilot episodes, was selected to direct the opening segment and brought into the fold as a primary director for the remainder of the series. For the first six weeks, no usable footage resulted until the team discovered a dragging brake[clarification needed] had affected film speed. The full-network English CBC airing began with the series opener, "Breakaway", on 11 September 1976, then "The Metamorph", the Year Two opener, on 18 September. Mandell countered that this concept might be off-putting to viewers, to which Anderson replied he would "blow up the Moon".[7]. Following the series' cancellation, four feature-length films were compiled from various episodes for syndication and foreign theatrical release: Destination Moonbase Alpha (1978), Alien Attack (1979), Journey Through the Black Sun (1982), and Cosmic Princess (1982). A new Lost In Space, -- the show's fourth iteration -- debuted last year on Netflix, with an outstanding cast and special effects that gave young Millennials a taste of what the Baby Boomers hold dear. [6], Anderson would not let the project die; he approached Grade's number two in New York, Abe Mandell, with the proposal for taking the research and development done for UFO: 1999 and creating a new science fiction series. This was to be shorter than the previous two, with 13 episodes, for budget reasons. )[4][5] The English actor Nicholas Young (who portrayed John in the original version of The Tomorrow People) appeared in a Year Two episode, "The Bringers of Wonder". Most ITV regions (including Yorkshire, Grampian, Ulster, Scottish, Border, ATV, and Tyne Tees) premiered the series on Thursday, 4 September 1975 in a 7.00pm slot. The Moonbase interiors were also upgraded for the second year, with the existing stock of wall panels, doors, and computer panels (along with some bits from other Anderson productions) being assembled for the first timeon Stage Linto a standing complex of interconnected sets (the first series' sets had been assembled as needed and the size of the Main Mission/Command Office complex was prohibitive for the construction of a lasting series of rooms. In "Matter of Life and Death", Koenig remarks "many things have happened since we broke away from our own solar system, unexplainable things." "[26] Johnny Byrne said that Freiberger was a good man and good producer, but not good for Space: 1999. I used to love to watch Space: 1999 when I was a kid in the 70's. I really loved the characters, the costumes, and the monsters. The Moon enters the black sun. As part of this announcement, Network released a limited edition (of 1999 copies) of a special preview disc of the two-part story "The Bringers of Wonder" on 8 December 2014. [3] Also appearing as regular cast members were the Canadian-based British actor Barry Morse (as Professor Victor Bergman in the first series) and Hungarian-born, US-raised Catherine Schell (as the alien Maya in the second series). "[7] Years later, Byrne and Penfold would agree that the process they worked under made "good scripts less than they had been" and forced them to waste time re-writing "bad scripts to make them acceptable". In a later interview, Johnny Byrne stated that "one episode they (New York) would ask us to speed things up, forcing us to cut out character development; then the next episode, they asked for more character moments, which would slow down the action; then they would complain there weren't enough pretty girls in another. A number of syndicated and video-released TV movies were created by editing together assorted episodes. After 1999, many of these original comic book stories were revised and reprinted along with new stories. Scheduled for a twelve-month shoot, the twenty-four episodes took fifteen months to complete, with the production experiencing a number of difficulties. Then came lines like 'We're sitting on the biggest bomb ever made.' Prof. Victor Bergman: [last message before evacuating Alpha] We are Mankind. As a child, this show made me excited for the future like nothing else. Paramount Television "Star Trek" debuted 56 years ago on September 8, 1966. This box set also included two booklets and a new set of extra features that were not on the Carlton DVD releases, including featurettes on "Concept & Creation" and "Special Effects & Design" (edited from an earlier "Fanderson" documentary made in 1996), textless and alternative opening and closing title sequences, a two-part Clapperboard special on Gerry Anderson from 1975, and also a brand new 70-minute documentary entitled "These Episodes" in which Anderson, Christopher Penfold, Johnny Byrne, Zienia Merton and David Lane reflect on the making of key episodes from the first series. Isaac Asimov criticised the scientific accuracy of the series by pointing out that any explosion capable of knocking the Moon out of its orbit would actually blow it apart, and even if it did leave orbit it would take hundreds of thousands of years to reach the nearest star. Although there's been plenty of talk of rebooting the cult classic on TV - including. 62,205 views Jun 29, 2013 96 Dislike Share Save wherearetheynowguy 72.9K subscribers find out what ever happen to the 1999 film, Office Space. According to statements by Martin Landau on the Space: 1999/UFO The Documentaries produced by Fanderson, the reason for cancellation was due to financier Lew Grade's decision to redirect funding to new movie projects, such as Raise the Titanic. [31] The Granada region began showing the series on Friday, 26 September 1975, initially at 7.35pm before moving to 6.35pm a few weeks later. [26], Principal photography came to an end on 23 December 1976 with "The Dorcons". I don't think I even want to do the promosI don't want to push the show any more as I have in the past. Now, we can no longer live here, and we go to face an uncertain future on the planet that has nearly destroyed us. This is essentially the same as the 2002 "mega set" release (and does not use the 2005 hi-def remasters), but does includes a special bonus disc full of extra features. Four of the later episodes produced ("The Troubled Spirit", "Space Brain", "Dragon's Domain" and "The Testament of Arkadia") featured Italian guest artists. He had gotten them a second year after the cancellation, but the changes he made did not benefit the show. Producer Sylvia Anderson let it be known that she would have preferred British lead actors; since Grade insisted on Americans, she would have chosen Robert Culp (star of the 1960s espionage series I Spy) and Katharine Ross (co-star of 1960s blockbuster movies The Graduate and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). He praised the programme for the accuracy of the representation of movement in the low gravity environment of the Moon, and for its realistic production design. Original episode air dates below reflect the order of Space: 1999 as broadcast first, in Australia and the UK. Space: 1999 was the last production by the partnership of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and was the most expensive series produced for British television up to that time. Space: 1999: New. When we made it, 1999 seemed so far away."[21]. Miss Bain's part is the zombiest, which is some distinction, as the cast is huge."[19]. When interviewed, many of the actors state they were asked to accept less money, including Landau and Bain (who were the only ones with enough clout to be able to refuse). Koenig and Russell went from a barely noticeable courtship to a physically passionate, full-fledged romance, in which the devotion ran so deep that they offered to die for each other ("Brian the Brain"). A compilation film was also produced in Italy, titled "Spazio 1999" (the series's Italian-language title) to launch the series. On the strength of Anderson and Freiberger's proposal of adding an alien character from the planet Psychon named Maya, Mandell approved a renewal of the series for a second year. Whenever anyone uses a commlock, a communications column in a hallway, or a comm terminal in a room they never set a channel for the call they make; they simply activate the device and it automatically connects to whomever the caller is looking to speak to. The Moonbase Alpha Technical Manual produced by Starlog magazine picks up this explanation, stating Bergman died due to a faulty spacesuit per the scripted scene. Come and teach us all you know. [6][7][23] If there had been a budget increase, the 'stagflation' economy of the 1970s would have cancelled it out. Filmed on 29 August 1999, Message from Moonbase Alpha is a fan-produced mini-episode made with the co-operation and involvement of Space: 1999 script editor Johnny Byrne, who penned the script. "Martin Landau, Barbara Bain and all your other favorites are getting back together for more thrilling . The largest stumbling block for the staff had been having all material vetted by ITC's New York office. Medical Centre, Generator Section, Life Support and the Alphans' living quarters became smaller, while the interior of the Eagle command module was updated with additional buttons, flashing lights and television monitors, while the Eagle also lost a section of corridor (the galley/storage area) between the passenger module and the cockpit. A ninth episode, "The Beta Cloud", was intentionally scripted with only one day's worth of work for Landau and Bain to allow their planned holiday to the French Riviera not to delay the series' production; the four supporting cast members (Schell, Anholt, Tate and Merton) were the recipients of much greater than usual exposure. However, progress was slow due to higher production costs in comparison to remastering Year One. It's not my idea of what the show should be. For instance, a spaceship could be seen approaching a planet from the side, but could not move in front of it without the elements overlapping.[9]. Over its two series, the programme featured guest appearances from Christopher Lee, Margaret Leighton, Joan Collins, Jeremy Kemp, Peter Cushing, Judy Geeson, Julian Glover, Ian McShane, Leo McKern, Billie Whitelaw, Richard Johnson, Patrick Troughton, Peter Bowles, Sarah Douglas, David Prowse, Isla Blair, Stuart Damon, Peter Duncan and Brian Blessed. [3] Landau is said to have personally contacted editors of TV Guide magazine in some markets to secure coverage of Space: 1999 in its pages upon learning of ITC's somewhat poor promotional efforts. Despite the cult following, box office sales brought in a dismal $12 million with a budget of $10 million. The second series eliminated this montage. Dissatisfaction on Landau's part about scripts was not new to Year Two, though. Around the base, the Alphans await the Moon's entrance into the black sun in various ways, some playing cards, chess, etc. Roy Dotrice appeared in the first episode as Commissioner Simmonds and at the end of the episode it appeared that he would be a regular character; by the second (transmitted) episode the character vanished, reappearing partway through the first series in the episode "Earthbound", his only other appearance on the show, in which it is implied that he dies from asphyxia inside an alien spacecraft. Most U.S. stations broadcast episodes in the weekday evening hour just before prime time or on weekends. The costumes for Year Two were designed by Emma Porteous, who later designed the wardrobes for several James Bond films.[10]. I don't really know. Director Ray Austin was again contracted as one of the main directors of the show and stayed with the show until leaving to direct in America. The series fared admirably on CBC Television in Canada, airing in English in a family viewing period, late Saturday afternoons before hockey broadcasts, with a mostly un-disrupted run and rerun of all 24 episodes from September 1976 through September 1977. This was first done in the 1960s, with movies from The Man From U.N.C.L.E. In addition to Bergman, Year One supporting characters Paul Morrow (Prentis Hancock), David Kano (Clifton Jones) and Tanya Alexander (Suzanne Roquette) were also removed from the cast (Paul and Tanya's disappearance is explained in the Powys Media book The Forsaken by John Kenneth Muir. The series, in its original form, was released on home video in the 1990s, with each cassette (or "volume") featuring two episodes. Landau and Bain would then be given minor roles in the opposing episodes. Grade had already been disappointed by the lack of an American network broadcast sale. "[21], She added that some of the technology on Space: 1999 has come to pass: "We made up a scanning device for Dr Russell. Maddox would view all aspects of Earth defence from Central Control, a facility at the hub of the base and accessible only by Moon Hopper craft, which would require the correct pass-code to traverse Control's defensive laser barrier. In 1972, Sir Lew Grade, head of ITC Entertainment, proposed financing a second series of the Century 21 production UFO to show-runners Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. The series has been translated into other media. [9], For the second series, the Moonbase uniforms were updated and coloured decorative stitching and turtleneck collars were added, as were various badges and patches. "Space Warp" would not be shown until 21 May, after many weeks of repeats. Loving / The City Autographs; Days of Our Lives >> DOOL Main Page; DOOL Daily Updates (summaries) . Most importantly, however, her Psychon abilities as a metamorph with the power of "molecular transformation" allowed her to convert herself into any living thing for an hour at a time, were designed to add a certain "wow" factor to the newly revamped series. Space:1999 was an epiphany for sci-fi fans in the mid-70s, appearing sporadically on TV worldwide 6 years after Star Trek but before Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica took over in 1977-1978. Determining soil load capacity is an inexact science limited by an inexact environment, from all of the unknowns both below and above the surface of any anchoring application--the soil medium, installation method, local climate, connections to the anchored structure--no one can guarantee an exact holding strength. (The audio for Year One had already been digitised prior to Network's restoration, but Year Two's had not). Anderson responded that in the series opener, he would "blow up the Earth". 1965: Bill Mumy. He engaged British writer Donald James to develop his first-series format story "The Exiles". To really appreciate what scifi tv fans went through back then, you have to realize that between Star Trek in the late 60's and Star Wars in the late 70's, there wasn't much scifi in TV or movies. So the datetime data type is used only for dates after January 1, 1753. [2] The runaway Moon, in effect, becomes the "spacecraft" on which the protagonists travel, searching for a new home. Members of the Space: 1999 cast were disenchanted with the scripts. The programme would then offer four ten-to-twelve minute long acts (allowing for commercial breaks in North America) and finished with a short (and, in the second series, often light-hearted) "epilogue" scene. Production Designer Keith Wilson stated in an interview in Destination: Moonbase Alpha that he was always being ordered by Producer Fred Freiberger to make sets smaller, taking away the expansive (and expensive) look of the first series' interiors. "[25] One particular episode ('All That Glisters', which dealt with the threat of an intelligent rock) was of such allegedly deficient quality that it sparked a confrontation between Freiberger and the cast. LOS ANGELESTwenty-five years after its 1974 debut, the science-fiction program Space: 1999 is returning to the airwaves this fall with the two-hour NBC movie Space: 1999 '99: Back To The Moonbase. When love-interest Tony Verdeschi offered her some of his home-brewed beer, Maya tried it, then turned herself into Mister Hyde. Originally, all the episodes had been adapted in novelisations, except for "Earthbound" and "The Taybor" (from Year Two). Lee Katzin was a perfectionist and demanded take after take of scenes; even coverage of reaction shots of the background extras required running a whole scene from beginning to end. Others said they enjoyed the new characters, down-to-earth characterisations and action. Speaking about the show in 2010, Bain reflected: "We had some very good science fiction people as advisors who knew what they were talking about. This issue is left somewhat enigmatic in the first series as episodes involving other planets invariably begin with the Moon having already reached a planet and in the first few episodes of this kind, such as "Matter of Life and Death" and "Missing Link", the episodes actually begin with the Alphans on their way back from a planet, an initial Eagle flight having taken place before the episode even begins. The incessant re-writing this brought about eventually caused Christopher Penfold to resign during the shooting of "Space Brain", after completing his writing commitment with the script "Dragon's Domain". For the first series, Stage L housed the "standing sets"; such as Main Mission, the Eagle interior, the travel tube, and a small section of corridor. Johnny Byrne's script "The Biological Soul", involving the Alphans' encounter with the unstable Mentor of the planet Psychon and his biological computer Psyche, was rewritten to include the new character Maya and the rest of the format changes; the episode produced from this script was retitled "The Metamorph". As stated by series writers Christopher Penfold and Johnny Byrne, it was Bellak who created and polished the series' defining concepts. The premise of Space: 1999 centres on the plight of the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha, a scientific research centre on the Moon. After four years of military service as a paramedic, St. John is back in the States and getting back into both acting and the enduring Power Rangers fandom. One weekend, the company secretly relocated sets, props, costumes, etc., to Pinewood Studios at Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, resulting in a union blacklisting of the production.[7]. Grade had one stipulation: the new series would be set primarily on the Moon within the environs of an expanded SHADO Moonbase; the ratings indicated the Moon-centric episodes had proved the most popular with audiences. Although they were well-established, Leon Lopez only started playing the role of Jerome in 1999. The disadvantage was that the number of possible angles was more limited. It aired in syndication from 1993 to 1999. Next were "The Mark of Archanon", "Brian the Brain", "The Rules of Luton", "The AB Chrysalis", "Catacombs of the Moon", and "Seed of Destruction". STV started to screen the series on 9 April 1978 on Sunday afternoons. See the list above. The headline stars of Space: 1999 were American actors Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, who were married to each other at the time and had previously appeared together in Mission: Impossible. However, the restoration process has actually made some of the space scenes (that involve special effects and model work) less realistic due to increased brightness and contrast. Someone would simply be lying on the floor half dead, and I would [scan them] with this funny little thing that was a prop. Space: 1999, a British science-fiction television series, ran for 48 episodes broadcast between 1975 and 1977. Abe Mandell was horrified by the finished product. After the show, the cast of the original series remained sci-fi icons. Several episodes of the first series hinted that the Moon's journey was influenced (and perhaps initiated) by a "mysterious unknown force", which was guiding the Alphans toward an ultimate destiny. Group Three's commitment to its financial partner, RAI, to include Italian actors in the cast also had to be addressed. His character was replaced by several recurring physicians. TV Series Announced. Filmed inside a private house on a working replica of Moonbase Alpha's Technical Section and utilising the original prop of Koenig's Command Center desk and Sandra Benes's original Year Two Alpha uniform, the short film was first shown at the Space: 1999 Breakaway Convention[27] in Los Angeles, California on 13 September 1999the day the events in episode 1 of the series were supposed to take place. High Definition digital transfers were then made from the interpositives using a state-of-the-art Philips Spirit DataCine. Gerry Anderson had staff writer Johnny Byrne prepare a critical analysis of the first twenty-four episodes, assessing their strengths and weaknesses in order to mount a new and improved second year. into the opening credits, more specifically the "This Episode" section, which was something of a Gerry Anderson trademark. | Price: . Mandell was amenable, but stated he did not want a series set featuring people "having tea in the Midlands" and forbade any Earth-bound settings. The background of the series was retconned, with the events now stated as having taken place in the year 2100 A.D. rather than 1999.[28]. 2099. The first film would have picked up the story several years after the series ended, and would have featured a heavily redesigned Moonbase Alpha. Sonja Sohn, Clarke Peters and Dominic West in 'The Wire.'. No on-screen explanations were offered for the cast changes. The base must give up its life support in order to prevent the cloud from dying. Subsequent episodes (such as "The Black Sun", third in production order, and "Another Time, Another Place", sixth in production order) suggest the Moon reaches the stars by passing through wormholes and hyperspatial tunnels, a plot point made more overt in the second series' episodes, notably "The Taybor" and "Space Warp". WHERE ARE THEY NOW: The cast of 'Star Trek: The Original Series' Gabbi Shaw Updated Nichelle Nichols, who played Nyota Uhura, died in July 2022. Originally, two supporting roles were intended for Italian actors; with the casting of Nick Tate and Zienia Merton in those roles, a solution had to be worked out. Freiberger had appropriated this approach from Star Trek; the endings of many of that show's episodes featured an upbeat discussion among the cast of the lessons learned during the episode and closing on a joke; this approach was copied for Space: 1999 with Koenig, Verdeschi, Russell, Carter and Maya enjoying a laugh in the Command Center. [41] On 17 July 2020, Big Finish announced a boxset consisting of three stories. And after a pre-emption for New Year's Day sports, new episodes resumed airing on 8 January 1977 with "A Matter of Balance", followed by "The Beta Cloud", "One Moment of Humanity", "The Lambda Factor", "All That Glisters", and "The Seance Spectre". ITC's compromise was to hire a high-profile American staff writer-producer. Following the completion of the first series, the production team prepared for a second series to commence production in the autumn of 1975. With the permission of (then) copyright owners Carlton Media International, the film includes brief clips from seven episodes to illustrate the deserted Moonbase Alpha and the Alphans' exodus to planet Terra Alpha. [18] Asimov's responses were based on the pilot episode only. In early episodes, Maya has brown ears; later she has pink ears and less dramatic sideburns. Britain's mandatory three-day work week in the early months of 1974 and the unplugging of the National Grid during the coal shortages due to industrial unrest of the early 1970s did not delay filming, for Pinewood had its own generators, but it affected film processing because the lab was an off-site contractor.[6]. (45 episodes) (1975-1978) Catherine Schell .. Not long after leaving Earth's Solar System, the wandering Moon passes through a black hole and later through a couple of "space warps" which push it even further out into the universe. Production began on 26 January 1976 and was scheduled to last a mere ten months for all episodes. Fanderson: Official Gerry & Sylvia Anderson Appreciation Society, Fanderson: Official Gerry & Sylvia Anderson appreciation society, Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. [7] Byrne then commenced writing scripts in an improved first-series format: "The Biological Soul", "The Face of Eden", and "Children of the Gods". In the months leading to the beginning of the autumn 1975 series, Landau and Bain participated in special preview screenings in select cities. Part of it's charm is how 70s it is. They will only say that Maya and Miss Schell will be kept in and that the budget may be raised again, but that's all until final preparations and an official announcement are made. 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