It also includes several new extras including a "Memories of Space" featurette, a Sylvia Anderson interview (in which she frankly discusses the series and her thoughts about Landau and Bain), an expanded version of the "These Episodes" documentary from the DVD set, several PDF files containing scripts and annuals, an extensive set of photo galleries with hundreds of stills, and the first episode of Year Two, "The Metamorph", in digitally restored hi-definition. 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. 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. A compilation film was also produced in Italy, titled "Spazio 1999" (the series's Italian-language title) to launch the series. Fred Freiberger felt that these characters were one-dimensional and had no fan support; he told Nick Tate that the audience would not remember them and that, as far as he was concerned, they were just "somewhere else" on Alpha, lost in the crowd of three hundred other people. This was to be shorter than the previous two, with 13 episodes, for budget reasons. As long as the various elements did not overlap, this produced convincing results. Immediately after Space: 1999 he would go on to produce what would be the final season of The Six Million Dollar Man. [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. Its only goal was to make its audience laugh, and it did just that for an astounding 9 seasons. Landau and some of the supporting cast would be given expanded roles and would film an episode on location or on sets constructed for that story in Pinewood's Soundstage "M", while Bain and the remaining supporting cast (also in expanded roles) would film their episode in the standing Alpha sets on Soundstage "L". And so, we have traveled the Universe searching for a place to live. For the lead characters of John Koenig and Helena Russell, Gerry Anderson approached the husband-and-wife acting team of Martin Landau and Barbara Bain. In early episodes, Maya has brown ears; later she has pink ears and less dramatic sideburns. After 1999, many of these original comic book stories were revised and reprinted along with new stories. 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. Security Chief Tony Verdeschi also joined as a new character, played by Tony Anholt. During filming of the first episode, it became apparent that the troubled Elstree was under the threat of imminent closure. By what name was Space: 1999 (1975) officially released in India in English? 2018: Maxwell Jenkins. Fanderson: Official Gerry & Sylvia Anderson Appreciation Society, Fanderson: Official Gerry & Sylvia Anderson appreciation society, Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. It is the most flashy, gorgeous sci-fi trip ever to appear on TV" and "Space: 1999 is a visually stunning, space-age morality play");[14][15] others panned it for poor plotting and wooden acting, especially on the part of Barbara Bain ("the plots and characterisation on Space: 1999 have been primitive" and "A disappointing collage of wooden characters, boring dialogue and incomprehensible plots").[16][17]. Their whole lives end up turned upside down. 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". In addition, colourful jackets (generally red, blue or green) became part of most characters' ensembles. [20] Alan Carter (Nick Tate) was to have been written out of the series, but he had become so popular with fans that he remained. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, often abbreviated as DS9, was the fourth installment of the Star Trek series, commissioned by Paramount Pictures for production following the incredible success of Star Trek: The Next Generation. [30] London Weekend Television (LWT) and Anglia screened the first episode two days later on Saturday, 6 September at 5.50pm. In early episodes, Maya's eyebrows are much longer. The first film would have picked up the story several years after the series ended, and would have featured a heavily redesigned Moonbase Alpha. 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. The first series in 197576 was shown regionally on some CBC owned-and-operated stations, the airtime varying. 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. The complete show wasn't seen in Finland until 19961997 when a small local channel, TV-Tampere, aired it. [29] It was released on 14 January 1975, a year before the series was broadcast in the country, and compiled scenes from the episodes "Breakaway", "Ring Around the Moon" and "Another Time, Another Place", accompanied by scores from noted soundtrack composer Ennio Morricone. It was initially released in 8 sets with 6 episodes each in 2001 and 2002. It's not my idea of what the show should be. 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. [citation needed]. In 2001, it was released on DVD in the UK by Carlton Media, both in single disc volumes (each volume contained four episodes) and also as two complete series boxed sets (titled as "Year One" and "Year Two") comprising six discs each. Due to the limited studio space, other sets depicting Alpha interiors, such as Medical Centre, were assembled as needed. See production, box office & company info, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980). Bellak also set up a writers' guide defining the three leads, the facilities of the Moonbase and potential storylines. The French-language CBC Television, Radio-Canada, showed Cosmos: 1999 several times (both series) between 1975 and 1980, first on Mondays (19751976), then on Saturdays (19761977), then on Mondays (1979), and finally on Wednesdays (19791980). Apparently, the robot has some sex appeal now. Anderson re-wrote several key scenes and, after three days of re-shoots, re-edited the pilot into a one-hour episode that appeased the fears of ITC. Filming & Production 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. [6] Undaunted, Mandell created what he called his own Space: 1999 Network[7] and sold the completed program into first-run syndication directly to local stations. However, progress was slow due to higher production costs in comparison to remastering Year One. In addition to the alien Maya character, to be played by Catherine Schell, numerous other changes were made for what was branded Year Two. His character was designed to serve primarily as a secondary male action hero, and became a romantic interest for Maya. | Moonbase Alpha is staffed with crew members. Response to the series varied; some critics praised it as a classic, citing the production values and multi-layered storytelling ("Space: 1999 is like Star Trek shot full of methedrine. It was the mid 70s and we didn't even have a space shuttle yet. 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. In 2005, Network re-issued Year One in the UK as a Special Edition seven-DVD box set. The series has been translated into other media. "[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. Space: 1999 Cast List "Space: 1999" Actors and Characters! After the show, the cast of the original series remained sci-fi icons. 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. The disadvantage was that the number of possible angles was more limited. Maya was considered to be a successful character, and the producers began grooming her for a spinoff show. The most visible change was the absence of Professor Bergman (Barry Morse). Group Three Productions, a partnership of the Andersons and production executive Reg Hill, was to produce the series; ITC Entertainment and Italian broadcaster RAI were to provide the funding. His writing credits included Slattery's People, The Iron Horse, All in the Family, Petrocelli, and Starsky and Hutch. The unisex "Moon City" uniforms for the first series were created by Austrian fashion designer Rudi Gernreich, a personal friend of series star Barbara Bain. This was first done in the 1960s, with movies from The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (Blair, Damon and Blessed each appeared in two episodes portraying different characters. 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. In 1994, Patankin was cast in the hit show "Chicago Hope," winning an Emmy Award for his performance. But human error blasted this Moon out of the Earth's orbit. 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]. The second series used simpler action-oriented plots. 21. 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. 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. How they survived and are able to travel the Universe seems to be a central mystery to which the Alphans, and the audience, have no concrete answers. With most of the crew indisposed through illness, it is down to Maya to employ her shape-shifting skills to beat the creature. Then came lines like 'We're sitting on the biggest bomb ever made.' 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 first series was co-produced by ITC Entertainment and Italian broadcaster RAI, while the second series was produced solely by ITC. Company Credits 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. Penfold reworked Bellak's opening episode into a one-hour draft first re-titled "Turning Point", then finalised as "Breakaway". He left the show in season 2 for personal reasons, returning in 1999 for its sixth season . The movie is set in a fascist future where fearless teens enlist in basic training to fight off giant bugs that are trying to destroy Earth. Studio rehearsals commenced at Elstree Studios near Borehamwood, Hertfordshire on 12 November 1973. Relations between new producer Freiberger and the Year One veterans were strained. The costumes for Year Two were designed by Emma Porteous, who later designed the wardrobes for several James Bond films.[10]. Next were "The Mark of Archanon", "Brian the Brain", "The Rules of Luton", "The AB Chrysalis", "Catacombs of the Moon", and "Seed of Destruction". In the early 1980s, and due to the booming home video rental market, the four compilation films were released on the VHS format. Group Three's commitment to its financial partner, RAI, to include Italian actors in the cast also had to be addressed. The first story "Breakaway", was adapted by Nicholas Briggs who previously reimagined The Prisoner and also acts as director. Humanity had been storing its nuclear waste in vast disposal sites on the far side of the Moon, but when an unknown form of "magnetic radiation" is detected, the accumulated waste reaches critical mass and causes a massive thermonuclear explosion on 13 September 1999. Much of this music was reused in other episodes. Katzin was not asked back to the programme after the filming of his second episode "Black Sun", which also ran over schedule. Back in the 1970s, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson created the syndicated sci-fi series Space:1999. Most of the country saw Space: 1999 at 5 p.m. on Saturdays, a notable exception being the Atlantic Provinces in which it was broadcast at 6 or 6:30p.m. or as was the case in the summers sometime earlier in the afternoon to accommodate live sports coverage, the airing of which crossed into or totally over the usual Space: 1999 airtime. Thruster and engine sounds were similar to those previously used in Fireball XL5, Thunderbirds, and Captain Scarlet. Verdeschi, who assumed the base's second-in-command role, neither appeared, nor was ever mentioned, in Year One. 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]. Although they were well-established, Leon Lopez only started playing the role of Jerome in 1999. And then "Dorzak", "The Immunity Syndrome", "Devil's Planet", and "The Dorcons" followed in March. In late 2014, Network finally announced that Year Two would be released in 2015. 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;. Sylvia Anderson remembered that he often voiced criticisms of scripts during production of the first series. 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. [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. Short excerpts from 12 other episodes appeared in a montage as Sandra Benes recalls her life on Alpha. February 24, 2023; Space:1999 To Everything That Was - now available to pre-order! [18] Asimov's responses were based on the pilot episode only. The data type of expr can be DATE, TIMESTAMP, TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE, or TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE. Maya had an impish sense of humour. The premise of Space: 1999 centres on the plight of the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha, a scientific research centre on the Moon. The second series premiered on LWT in a non-prime-time slot on Saturday 4 September 1976 at 11.30am, with ATV following on just a few hours later at 5.40pm. As a child, this show made me excited for the future like nothing else. Fortunately, they had a solid rock of support, compassion, and reason in the form of Dr. Maureen Robinson. HBO has released plenty of hit series . 2 Seasons. It aired in syndication from 1993 to 1999. Moonbase Alpha safeguards the nuclear waste shipped from Earth and carries out research. The necessity to telex story outlines and scripts to New York for approval caused further production delays. For the first six weeks, no usable footage resulted until the team discovered a dragging brake[clarification needed] had affected film speed. Anholt revealed that, "the more the cast complained about a script's flaws, the more intractable and unyielding Freiberger became." Even the title Space: 1999 evoked comparison with Kubrick's film. Of Year One, he commented, "They were doing the show as an English show, where there was no story, with the people standing around and talking. In the February 28, 1976 edition of TV Guide, critic Cleveland Amory panned the series. At this time, Sylvia Anderson left her role as producer when she and Gerry Anderson formally separated (and subsequently divorced). [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. In the late 1970s television was expanding rapidly all over the world, with cable and satellite . 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. 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 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. 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