| They then use a beam to reduce the Moon's gravitational influence to zero, sending it careening out of orbit into deep space.[8]. 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;. The CAST() function returns a DATE value if it successfully converts the string to date. Schell had previously guest-starred as the Servant of the Guardian in the Year One episode "Guardian of Piri". The first story "Breakaway", was adapted by Nicholas Briggs who previously reimagined The Prisoner and also acts as director. 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 the early 1980s, and due to the booming home video rental market, the four compilation films were released on the VHS format. To appeal to the American television market and sell the series to one of the major U.S. networks, Landau and Bain were cast at the insistence of Lew Grade over the objections of Sylvia Anderson, who wanted British actors. 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 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. 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. Stars Martin Landau Barbara Bain Nick Tate This was to be shorter than the previous two, with 13 episodes, for budget reasons. The force of the blast propels the Moon like an enormous booster rocket, hurling it out of Earth orbit and into deep space at colossal speed, thus stranding the 311 personnel stationed on Alpha. In addition to the cosmetic changes, the characters were "warmed up." Space 1999: Breakaway - Space 1999 - Big Finish", "Space: 1999 returns with Mark Bonnar at the helm - News - Big Finish", "2. Verdeschi, who assumed the base's second-in-command role, neither appeared, nor was ever mentioned, in Year One. 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. Fanderson: Official Gerry & Sylvia Anderson Appreciation Society, Fanderson: Official Gerry & Sylvia Anderson appreciation society, Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. Feb 13 Member-only UFOs,. The first season was the most extravagant TV production in UK history, with lavish sets, weeks of production time, and cutting edge special effects. 2 Seasons. 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]. 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. 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. 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". "[22] With Morse gone, the role of the boffin on Alpha was filled completely by Maya, whose people's science was far in advance of mankind's. 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. The first series was co-produced by ITC Entertainment and Italian broadcaster RAI, while the second series was produced solely by ITC. 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". 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. He wrote on the cover of one script: "I'm not going out on a limb for this show because I'm not in accord with what you're [Freiberger] doing as a result etc. [45] The remastered Year Two was eventually released on Blu-ray and DVD in September 2015, to coincide with the series' 40th Anniversary. Much of the publicity mentioned the then-staggering three million pound budget: as a part of the American promotion effort, a glossy magazine-sized brochure was produced, touting Space: 1999 as the Six-and-a-Half Million Dollar Series (an allusion to the then-popular American programme The Six Million Dollar Man) featuring American stars, American writers and American directors.[33]. [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. 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. HTV did not pick the series up until 1984 and then only showed nineteen out of the twenty-four episodes from Year Two (the last episodes were not screened in Wales until the series was repeated in the 1990s). Eaglemoss SPACE 1999 Die Cast Plastic EAGLE TRANSPORTER 10" Long Stand Magazine. 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. [6] Freiberger failed to appreciate the value of the supporting characters to the show and its fans. Katzin was not asked back to the programme after the filming of his second episode "Black Sun", which also ran over schedule. Despite the cult following, box office sales brought in a dismal $12 million with a budget of $10 million. Dissatisfaction on Landau's part about scripts was not new to Year Two, though. YTV Canada broadcast both series with reportedly good ratings from 1990 to 1992, in a late Saturday afternoon airtime closely matching that of the CBC English network in the 1970s. [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. The premise of Space: 1999 centres on the plight of the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha, a scientific research centre on the Moon. In early episodes, Maya's eyebrows are much longer. 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. 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. 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. With the start of the second series in September 1976, CBC Television upgraded Space: 1999 to full-network status, airing it Saturdays on all CBC owned-and-operated stations, with affiliated, privately owned stations also offering the show on Saturdays. Short excerpts from 12 other episodes appeared in a montage as Sandra Benes recalls her life on Alpha. The female characters tended to wear skirts and knee-high boots throughout the second series, rather than the flared trousers used in Year One. Other Anderson shows influenced the Space: 1999 spacecraft and elements. Company Credits After the 197677 broadcast year (in which second-series episodes were run and rerun), the show's ratings were sufficiently high for CBC Television to give the first series a full-network airing and with further repeats from 1977 to 1978. [7] Byrne then commenced writing scripts in an improved first-series format: "The Biological Soul", "The Face of Eden", and "Children of the Gods". 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). Story consultant Christopher Penfold acted as head writer, bringing in American writer Edward di Lorenzo and Irish poet Johnny Byrne as script editors. [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. For all I know now it's out of date. 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. The original version appears as a bonus feature on the Space: 1999/UFO The Documentaries DVD produced by Fanderson. During the first season, excerpts for each week's episode were incorporated Since then it aired on TVTV! The bell bottom uniforms, the sketchy science, the sideburns. I might as well work less hard in all of them. [49], This article is about the TV series. 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. His main storyline revolved around his on and off relationship with Suzanne Collins's character Nikki Shadwick. Maddox is kidnapped for an interview with the aliens. 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. 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. Mumy was an in-demand child actor before signing up to . "[6], The producers and studio intended to continue the show with a third series. Production of the first series was from November 1973 to February 1975; production of the second series was from January 1976 to December 1976. 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]. In "Matter of Life and Death", Koenig remarks "many things have happened since we broke away from our own solar system, unexplainable things." This was first done in the 1960s, with movies from The Man From U.N.C.L.E. 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". In "Black Sun", Victor Bergman asserts the chances of their surviving the explosion which knocked them from orbit are "just about infinite." During their interstellar journey, the Alphans encounter an array of alien civilisations, dystopian societies, and mind-bending phenomena previously unseen by humanity. To fulfil the scheduling requirement and cut production costs, Freiberger used the "double-up script" solution. 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. [12], One week before live action filming commenced, Visual Effects Supervisor Brian Johnson and his team began work on the visual effects sequences for the first episode at Bray Studios near Maidenhead, Berkshire on 5 November 1973. 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. Retrieved on 2019-01-01 from, Last edited on 26 February 2023, at 05:17, Learn how and when to remove this template message, List of Space: 1999 books and other media, "British Film & Television Institute (BFI ScreenOnline)", "Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style", "Barbara Bain Looks Back But Stays Forward Focused", "Babylon 5, Space 1999, & Chips Are Coming to Comet/Charge TV Cord Cutters News", https://www.facebook.com/BrianJohnsonSFX/posts/2201047740212470, "Mark Bonnar - Contributions - Big Finish", "1. In August 2018, Comet announced it would be airing both series beginning in September.[34]. 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. With most of the crew indisposed through illness, it is down to Maya to employ her shape-shifting skills to beat the creature. Modified versions of Message from Moonbase Alpha are available on DVD bonus discs in the U.S., Canada, France and Italy. Each DVD also contained various extra features, including a variety of archive production material, memorabilia, and interviews with the cast and crew from the time the series was being made. 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! "; "Story is told poorly. 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). By Eliza Thompson. (Before, the title of the new series had greatly varied: Space Journey: 1999, Journey in Space, Menace in Space and Space Invadersthe invaders of the last title being the Earthmen trapped on the runaway Moon.). On 24 September 2002, a 16-disc "Mega Set" box set featuring all 48 complete, uncut, original broadcast episodes of the series was released. The scenes re-mounted for "The Last Enemy" concluded principal photography on 28 February 1975. He played Dr. Doug Ross from 1994 to 1999, but has since become a household name. 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]. 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. He went on to star in the ensemble rom-com Valentine's Day alongside an A-list cast, including Julia Roberts, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Alba and Anne Hathaway. Following the completion of the first series, the production team prepared for a second series to commence production in the autumn of 1975. It's been almost 30 years since Night Court aired its final episode in 1992. See the list above. At this point, the staff seemed to make creative changes that brought the series closer in concept and appearance to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Previously unused footage shot for the Year Two title sequence and "The Last Enemy" was used to create a sequence showing the Moon being affected by a gravitational disturbance and thrown into an unknown solar system. Tweet dated 15 August 2018. Sylvia Anderson remembered that he often voiced criticisms of scripts during production of the first series. Even the title Space: 1999 evoked comparison with Kubrick's film. As a child, this show made me excited for the future like nothing else. Space 2099 Science Fiction UFO Ufo And Aliens Get an email whenever John Ege publishes. The ships, clothes and hardware of this show looked like something I could possibly experience in my lifetime. The largest stumbling block for the staff had been having all material vetted by ITC's New York office. More from John Ege Discovering the Unseen through Art, Word, Thought, and Mystery. [20] In a show like this, that's one line they should have avoided at any price." Space: 1999 owes much of its visual design to pre-production work for the never-made second series of UFO, which would have been set primarily on the Moon and featured a more extensive Moonbase. Other changes included the main titles and theme music. 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. 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. It's not my idea of what the show should be. 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. 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. Another benefit was that the camera's exposed negative contained completed effects thereby avoiding the costs of the blue screen "optical" technique. Price: . Released in 1976, the Eagle 1 is over 2.5-feet long and a foot wide. The series has been translated into other media. Back in the 1970s, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson created the syndicated sci-fi series Space:1999. 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. 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. 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. 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. in 2000 and 2001, and later on MTV3 Scifi in 2008. The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space. 1975 -2020. 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