1975 -2020. One of the first previews of the series was in Australia on the Seven Network in July 1975, but the station later split the first series into two series. Space: 1999 - Volume 1 is now available to pre-order at the special price of 19.99 as a collector's edition three-disc CD box set or 16.99 as a download, exclusively HERE! [citation needed], Rather than relying on the expensive and time-consuming blue screen process, as for Star Trek, Johnson's team often employed a technique that went back to the earliest days of visual effects: spacecraft and planets would be filmed against black backgrounds, with the camera being rewound for each successive element. Landau and Bain would then be given minor roles in the opposing episodes. 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. By Eliza Thompson. 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. ITV. 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). New series composer Derek Wadsworth's new theme dropped Barry Gray's alternation between stately, orchestral passages and funky rhythmic ones in favour of a more consistently contemporary piece. Network DVD began a similar restoration process for Year Two in 2007. Other changes included the main titles and theme music. Dozens of models for the various alien spaceships and the Mark IX Hawk from the "War Games" episode were built by model maker Martin Bower, often at several different sizes to account for the intended use. "[26] Johnny Byrne said that Freiberger was a good man and good producer, but not good for Space: 1999. February 24, 2023; Space:1999 To Everything That Was - now available to pre-order! The complete show wasn't seen in Finland until 19961997 when a small local channel, TV-Tampere, aired it. February 21, 2023 And so, we have traveled the Universe searching for a place to live. During their interstellar journey, the Alphans encounter an array of alien civilisations, dystopian societies, and mind-bending phenomena previously unseen by humanity. Space: 1999 TV Series 1975-1977 TV-14 50 m IMDb RATING 7.3 /10 8.7K YOUR RATING Rate POPULARITY 1,773 40 Play trailer 0:31 22 Videos 99+ Photos Adventure Drama Sci-Fi The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space. Fred Freiberger helped in some respects, but, overall, I don't think he helped the show, I think he brought a much more ordinary, mundane approach to the series. The first series (or season, often referred to as Year One) of 24 episodes began transmission in 1975, though production of the first episode began in 1973. Anholt revealed that, "the more the cast complained about a script's flaws, the more intractable and unyielding Freiberger became." In early episodes, Maya has brown ears; later she has pink ears and less dramatic sideburns. 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. Maya was considered to be a successful character, and the producers began grooming her for a spinoff show. in 2000 and 2001, and later on MTV3 Scifi in 2008. This release also contains a restored version of the feature length Destination: Moonbase Alpha film. Maya shared Spock's logical approach to problem-solving and advanced intelligence, but differed in that she was a charming, fully emotional person. 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. You, whoever you are, who find this empty vessel of Alpha, come and seek us out, if we still exist. Footage of a spacecraft flying over Moonbase Alpha from the series 1 episode "The Last Enemy" was later reused to depict a future civilisation in the Wonder Woman episode "Time Bomb," first broadcast on 10 November 1978. The transmission dates given below are those for the UK. I hope they never try to do a remake. On 31 July 2007, A&E released Space: 1999 Complete Series, 30th Anniversary Edition. Grade had already been disappointed by the lack of an American network broadcast sale. [36], In February 2012, a new series, to be called Space: 2099, was announced as a reboot of the original series and was planned to be made by ITV Studios America in conjunction with HD Films. "Martin Landau, Barbara Bain and all your other favorites are getting back together for more thrilling . Two series of the programme were produced, each comprising 24 episodes. Come and teach us all you know. A synopsis for Space: 1999 - Volume 1 reads: The Moon has been sucked through a wormhole in space and has arrived countless miles away from its proper place. Stage M was the "swing stage" used for planet exteriors, spaceship interiors, and whatever else was needed for a given episode. Taking place twenty five years after the events of "Breakaway", Commander Koenig and Maya are mentioned during Sandra's message. Group Three's commitment to its financial partner, RAI, to include Italian actors in the cast also had to be addressed. [30] London Weekend Television (LWT) and Anglia screened the first episode two days later on Saturday, 6 September at 5.50pm. The series premise was set up in the first episode, entitled "Breakaway." In the distant year of 1999,. This basically gave the series the conclusion that it never had in its initial run. Published June 16, 1999. One thing was for sure; fans fell in love with Jerome from day one. In his review he noted, "[T]here was practically no dialogue for quite a while, which, in view of what was to come, was a terrific idea. Abe Mandell of ITC had secured a handshake agreement with a network executive in 1974, but after the man's termination, all his projects were abandoned. $164.99. [35], Around the same time Message from Moonbase Alpha was being filmed, Johnny Byrne and Christopher Penfold attempted to revive the franchise as a movie series, similar to the way Star Trek had been revived cinematically in the late 1970s. Maya had an impish sense of humour. Granada, Westward and Ulster started to screen the series in early 1977, Grampian, and Tyne Tees did not screen the series until later in the year. [46] Again containing a wealth of extra features, the sets include galleries, vintage interviews, a blooper, behind the scenes footage, original source audio recordings, scripts and annuals PDF files, a stock footage archive, a textless opening title sequence, trailers and promos, "music only" options for all episodes, a stop-motion fan film from 1979, and a specially re-edited/rescored version of the episode "Seed of Destruction" as if it were made for Year One. Around the base, the Alphans await the Moon's entrance into the black sun in various ways, some playing cards, chess, etc. Of the original Lost in Space cast, Bill Mumy has arguably had the most successful post-show career. Office Space (1999): Where Are They Now? There were times that we were playing with props that didn't read anything I just had a bunch of dialogue to say after. It's been almost 30 years since Night Court aired its final episode in 1992. The female characters tended to wear skirts and knee-high boots throughout the second series, rather than the flared trousers used in Year One. Although they were well-established, Leon Lopez only started playing the role of Jerome in 1999. Then ITC Entertainment President Sir Lew Grade abruptly cancelled the series' production in late 1975 when ratings in the United States had dropped during the later autumn months of the year. The original Space:1999 show was first aired on ITV in 1975, running for two series before it was cancelled. This was to be shorter than the previous two, with 13 episodes, for budget reasons. 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. In early episodes, Maya's eyebrows are much longer. 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. It was shown in Italy as Spazio 1999; Argentina, Uruguay, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, francophone Canada, and France as Cosmos: 1999; Denmark as Mnebase Alpha; Brazil and Portugal as Espao: 1999; Germany as Mondbasis Alpha 1; Sweden as Mnbas Alpha; Poland as Kosmos 1999 (19771979); Finland as Avaruusasema Alfa; Greece as 1999; Hungary as Alfa Holdbzis; Spain, Chile, Venezuela, and Colombia as Espacio: 1999; Mexico as Odisea 1999; Iran as 1999:; Turkey as Uzay 1999, and South Africa as Alpha 1999 (1976, dubbed into Afrikaans). 1965: Bill Mumy. Most U.S. stations broadcast episodes in the weekday evening hour just before prime time or on weekends. Comparisons with Star Trek were used by both camps to show how the series had been either saved or destroyed by the format change. The actor Zienia Merton, who has died aged 72, appeared regularly on British television during a 50-year career during which she found fame as one of the regular cast of the Gerry Anderson. Space: 1999 was the last in a long line of science-fiction series that Gerry and Sylvia Anderson produced as a working partnership, beginning with Supercar in the early 1960s and including the marionette fantasy programmes Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Joe 90 and The Secret Service, as well as the live-action drama UFO. ABC affiliate WCVB in Boston, as well as NBC affiliate KPRC in Houston both aired the first series in prime time, bumping the network shows to other time slots. However, Moonbase Alpha personnel treated Verdeschi as if he had been in their midst since "Breakaway". It aired in syndication from 1993 to 1999. "[21], She added that some of the technology on Space: 1999 has come to pass: "We made up a scanning device for Dr Russell. The Commander would also have access to a personal computer called "Com-Com" (Commander's Computer), which would act as a personal advisor, having been programmed with the Commander's personality and moral sense. BrianJohnsonSFX twitter feed. Space: 1999 (1975-1977) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Series Directed by Series Writing Credits Series Cast Series Produced by Series Music by Series Cinematography by Series Film Editing by Series Casting By Series Production Design by Keith Wilson . Year One's opening montage of events from "Breakaway" and the episode about to unfold was dropped in favour of a special-effects sequence depicting the Moon being blown out of orbit into space. In a show like this, that's one line they should have avoided at any price." Gadgets and equipment with a futuristic appearance typical of contemporary science fiction were also more evident. Example: Apex Class: public class TimeController {. His character was replaced by several recurring physicians. A number of syndicated and video-released TV movies were created by editing together assorted episodes. Mandell countered that this concept might be off-putting to viewers, to which Anderson replied he would "blow up the Moon".[7]. Even the title Space: 1999 evoked comparison with Kubrick's film. His character was designed to serve primarily as a secondary male action hero, and became a romantic interest for Maya. Much of this music was reused in other episodes. In late 2014, Network finally announced that Year Two would be released in 2015. To celebrate actress Kristin Kreuk's 40th birthday on Dec. 30, 2022, Wonderwall.com is taking a look back at the stars of the superhero series which centered around Clark Kent's life in the. 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". [13] His two-hour director's cut was assembled and sent to ITC New York for a viewing. 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. Bellak wrote a ninety-minute opening episode titled "The Void Ahead", which was a close forerunner of "Breakaway". In technical terms, the advantage was that all of the elements were recorded on the original negative, as opposed to blue screen, which would have involved several generations of duplication. Originally, all the episodes had been adapted in novelisations, except for "Earthbound" and "The Taybor" (from Year Two). Martin Landau .. Cmdr. 'The Goonies' Cast: Where Are They Now? The first releases on American home video were in the VHS in the mid-1980s and consisted of the theatrical compilation films (see above). [6] Freiberger failed to appreciate the value of the supporting characters to the show and its fans. The second series eliminated this montage. During the first season, excerpts for each week's episode were incorporated As long as the various elements did not overlap, this produced convincing results. Alien Attack, though the second of these films to be released, was an expansion of the show's pilot episode. For 1999 in space, see, Final episode "Message from Moonbase Alpha" (unofficial), Images of the model as it is today can be seen, "Breakaway" episode guide at FandersonThe Official Gerry Anderson Website, Johnson, Brian (2018-08-15). 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. Morse's departure was due to a salary dispute, but he later claimed that he was glad to leave, and he had told Anderson: "I would rather play with grown-ups for a while. 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. So the datetime data type is used only for dates after January 1, 1753. In the late 1970s television was expanding rapidly all over the world, with cable and satellite . Martin Landau: "They changed it because a bunch of American minds got into the act and they decided to do many things they felt were commercial. 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. During filming of the first episode, it became apparent that the troubled Elstree was under the threat of imminent closure. Well none of that really panned out but all these years later, this show is still great fun to watch. Since then it aired on TVTV! [49], This article is about the TV series. With Morse gone, Schell was featured in his place as a regular alongside Landau and Bain, and all three were depicted in action-oriented images as opposed to the mannequin-like stances Landau and Bain had assumed in the Year One main titles. In the first show I did, I stressed action as well as character development, along with strong story content, to prove that 1999 could stand up to the American concept of what an action-adventure show should be. Based on Stephen King's novel by the same name, Carrie stars Sissy Spacek as the young leading lady who gets her ultimate revenge by killing all of her high school enemies and even her. The second series was scored by jazz musician and composer Derek Wadsworth; American producer Fred Freiberger wanted a more "driving, searing" score for his new action-adventure format. | See production, box office & company info, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980). Space: 1999 Cast List "Space: 1999" Actors and Characters! Fan and critic responses to the new series varied. Landau and Bain were high-profile stars in America after three years in the popular CBS espionage series Mission: Impossible. The first film would have picked up the story several years after the series ended, and would have featured a heavily redesigned Moonbase Alpha. The necessity to telex story outlines and scripts to New York for approval caused further production delays. [18] Asimov's responses were based on the pilot episode only. Scheduled for ten days' filming, "Breakaway" overran an additional fifteen days. Original episode air dates below reflect the order of Space: 1999 as broadcast first, in Australia and the UK. At the time of the series' original run, several comic book series were published and, in the US, a series of audio adaptations were recorded on record albums with the younger audience in mind. "[24] Since Year One was quite serious in tone, one of Freiberger's ways to accomplish this objective was to inject humour into Year Two stories whenever possible, but much of it seemed to the more vocal fans to be forced, especially at the conclusion of an episode, where the Alphans were seen as jovial and light-hearted despite whatever violent or tragic events might have previously befallen them. Loving / The City-- Where Are They Now? He's had major roles in 2018's Monsters . See what the cast of this classic have been up to since the film premiered 38 years ago By Stephanie Sengwe Published on January 20, 2023 02:44 PM 01. Short excerpts from 12 other episodes appeared in a montage as Sandra Benes recalls her life on Alpha. Space:1999 - Dragon's Domain from Big Finish Productions! February 24, 2023; INTERVIEW: Andrew E.C. All of those things were on the verge of happening anyway. Tanya appears at his open door and asks if she can share the music with him. Moonbase Alpha is staffed with crew members. Scheduled for a twelve-month shoot, the twenty-four episodes took fifteen months to complete, with the production experiencing a number of difficulties. The second series was shown in 1979. In the 2022 Space: 1999 Moonbase Alpha Technical Operations Manual he is revealed to be in a year-long coma following an accident. Produced by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, the creative duo behind the marionette cult classic Thunderbirds, the ambitious set-up sends the Earth's moon, along with the entire population of Moonbase Alpha . Dr. Bob Mathias (Anton Phillips) was present in the first two Year Two episodes, was mentioned in the third episode, and then also disappeared without a trace. 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. Abe Mandell was horrified by the finished product. I might as well work less hard in all of them. The series premiered in September 1975, on the ITV network but was not broadcast nationally at the same time (this remained the case until a repeat airing on BBC Two in 1998). In the February 28, 1976 edition of TV Guide, critic Cleveland Amory panned the series. Rudi Gernreich's minimalist costume was considerably modified from the original unisex design to include an optional skirt and leather boots for women and much more detail work on the tunic portion, including turtleneck collars, coloured stitching, patches and photo-ID badges. In Canada, CBC Television was the broadcaster of Space: 1999 from 1975 into the 1980s. Katzin was not asked back to the programme after the filming of his second episode "Black Sun", which also ran over schedule. Moonbase Alpha safeguards the nuclear waste shipped from Earth and carries out research. Penfold reworked Bellak's opening episode into a one-hour draft first re-titled "Turning Point", then finalised as "Breakaway". [1] In the opening episode, set in the year 1999, nuclear waste stored on the Moon's far side explodes, knocking the Moon out of orbit and sending it, as well as the 311 inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha, hurtling uncontrollably into space. Set some 25 years into the future, humans had established . Landau complained about stories he felt were lightweight or absurd when compared to the previous year's efforts. Year One (1975-1976) The credited regular cast for Year One are: Commander John Koenig Martin Landau Doctor Helena Russell Barbara Bain Professor Victor Bergman Barry Morse "[6], The producers and studio intended to continue the show with a third series. Production began on 26 January 1976 and was scheduled to last a mere ten months for all episodes. It was the mid 70s and we didn't even have a space shuttle yet. Here's what the cast has been up to since their days at Bayside: Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Zack Morris) Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zack Morris; Gosselaar in 2015; Photos: Alice S. Hall/NBCU Photo Bank;. As filming on Year Two came to its conclusion, it became apparent that there would be no third series, and the second series ended with the episode "The Dorcons". STV started to screen the series on 9 April 1978 on Sunday afternoons. The first series of Space: 1999 used a "teaser" introduction, sometimes called a "hook" or "cold open". The final original cast member on this list, Craig Anton stayed through the third season of "MADtv" while playing characters like Clorox in the "Star Trek: Deep Stain Nine" sketches. After almost 30 years, the original Moonbase Alpha model reappeared in the public eye online when a site gained exclusive access to photomap the model and solicit its sale. However, progress was slow due to higher production costs in comparison to remastering Year One. Mumy was an in-demand child actor before signing up to . Gray scored five episodes"Breakaway", "Matter of Life and Death", "Black Sun", "Another Time, Another Place", and "The Full Circle" Vic Elmes provided a completely electronic score for "Ring Around the Moon", and Big Jim Sullivan performed a one-off sitar composition for "The Troubled Spirit". They then use a beam to reduce the Moon's gravitational influence to zero, sending it careening out of orbit into deep space.[8]. The cast of Stargate SG-1 hold a particularly special place in the franchise's canon, since they launched the exploration of multiple galaxies that was continued in Stargate Atlantis and.