ITV. 1965: Bill Mumy. Martin Landau .. Cmdr. 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. Network released Year One on Blu-ray in the UK on 1 November 2010, in full high definition (1080p), and simultaneously re-released their Special Edition DVD box set of Year One with new cover artwork at the same time. Space: 1999 '99. 1975 -2020. He left the show in season 2 for personal reasons, returning in 1999 for its sixth season . [7] Byrne then commenced writing scripts in an improved first-series format: "The Biological Soul", "The Face of Eden", and "Children of the Gods". The French version was also broadcast, in early evening on Saturdays. Bellak wrote a ninety-minute opening episode titled "The Void Ahead", which was a close forerunner of "Breakaway". In the half-hour opening episode "Zero-G" penned by the Andersons, Earth's deep space probes have discovered an advanced extraterrestrial civilisation. For the first six weeks, no usable footage resulted until the team discovered a dragging brake[clarification needed] had affected film speed. It concludes with the termination of the message as Sandra closes down Alpha's operational systems and transmits the message- which turns out to be the mysterious signal received shortly before the events of "Breakaway". John Koenig (48 episodes) (1975-1978) Barbara Bain .. Dr. Helena Russell (48 episodes) (1975-1978) Barry Morse .. Prof. Victor Bergman (24 episodes) (1975-1976) Nick Tate .. Alan Carter / . The expansive "Main Mission" set, with its balcony and windows revealing the lunar surface, was replaced by a more compact "Command Center" (they used the American spelling on the set), supposedly deep underground (again, this change was explained in the Year Two Writers' Bible and Technical Manual as necessary for security, but never explained onscreen). They can pretty much do that [with a medical device] nowadays. Space: 1999 is a British science-fiction television programme that ran for two series from 1975 to 1977. 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. 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. TV Series Announced. The programme also brought Australian actor Nick Tate to public attention. A lunar colony is sent hurtling through space following a nuclear explosion in what was at the . A monster, the 'cloud creature' appears out of the cloud and runs amok on the base. To fulfil the scheduling requirement and cut production costs, Freiberger used the "double-up script" solution. The base must give up its life support in order to prevent the cloud from dying. "[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. Even the title Space: 1999 evoked comparison with Kubrick's film. 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. Sonja Sohn, Clarke Peters and Dominic West in 'The Wire.'. Grade had already been disappointed by the lack of an American network broadcast sale. 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). We came from planet Earth, and we built this base, called Alpha, to learn more about space. The necessity to telex story outlines and scripts to New York for approval caused further production delays. At this point, the staff seemed to make creative changes that brought the series closer in concept and appearance to 2001: A Space Odyssey. 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. 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". Big Finish revealed that an additional box set would follow, with the full cast to be announced. Freiberger was very budget-conscious and, despite press releases to the contrary, the production team was working with less money this series. For example, Helena no longer used a stethoscope, but a little beeping, all-purpose medical scanner similar to Dr McCoy's whistling medical "tricorder" on Star Trek. crossing the Atlantic one way as films from The Saint travelled the other. The sombre mood created in Year One by the effective use of light and shadow in the filming of Moonbase Alpha interiors was abandoned in favour of a generally brighter cinematography, and even the lettering used in signage and costumingmost noticeable on spacesuits and Eagle Transporter doorschanged to a simpler, less futuristic style. Given Landau's intensity and the brooding nature of the Koenig character, the approach did not fit the series. He engaged British writer Donald James to develop his first-series format story "The Exiles". It's been almost 30 years since Night Court aired its final episode in 1992. Angered by humanity's innate hostility and WANDER's defensive posture, they travel to Earth with the intent of isolating mankind within the boundary of Earth's atmosphere. 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. [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. You, whoever you are, who find this empty vessel of Alpha, come and seek us out, if we still exist. When the Robinson family becomes lost in space, every episode becomes some wild misadventure. Ever since its release, the Paul Verhoeven -directed. 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. Before moving into the role of Maya during the second series, Catherine Schell had guest-starred as a different character in the Year One episode "Guardian of Piri". We had the Commlock. Anderson responded that in the series opener, he would "blow up the Earth". 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. Gerry and Sylvia Anderson were surprised and disappointed that the public (and critics) never granted them the suspension of disbelief given to other science-fiction programmes. The series was also broadcast in the Netherlands, Belgium, New Zealand and Australia. It's embarrassing to me if I am not the star of it and in the way I feel it should be. 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. Sure, a few things have changed. 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. The CAST() function returns a DATE value if it successfully converts the string to date. | 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. It was the mid 70s and we didn't even have a space shuttle yet. 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. 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. Sandra Benes (Zienia Merton) remained with the series in an on-again off-again association, but the character only appeared in a fraction of the episodes, albeit more prominently in some than in many of those of the first series. Release Dates He played Dr. Doug Ross from 1994 to 1999, but has since become a household name. 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;. During their interstellar journey, the Alphans encounter an array of alien civilisations, dystopian societies, and mind-bending phenomena previously unseen by humanity. 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. STV started to screen the series on 9 April 1978 on Sunday afternoons. There were times that we were playing with props that didn't read anything I just had a bunch of dialogue to say after. The scenes re-mounted for "The Last Enemy" concluded principal photography on 28 February 1975. George Clooney George Clooney is no doubt the most famous actor to have come from ER. The "Maya" series was also intended to run for 13 episodes a year.[6]. [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. I hope they never try to do a remake. [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. into the opening credits, more specifically the "This Episode" section, which was something of a Gerry Anderson trademark. Taking place twenty five years after the events of "Breakaway", Commander Koenig and Maya are mentioned during Sandra's message. In 1994, Patankin was cast in the hit show "Chicago Hope," winning an Emmy Award for his performance. When we made it, 1999 seemed so far away."[21]. Moviestore/Shutterstock. The original Space:1999 show was first aired on ITV in 1975, running for two series before it was cancelled. Moonbase Alpha is staffed with crew members. "[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". The series premise was set up in the first episode, entitled "Breakaway." In the distant year of 1999,. "[26] Johnny Byrne said that Freiberger was a good man and good producer, but not good for Space: 1999. (This was to accommodate its placement on Pinewood Soundstage "L", with the other standing Alpha sets; the Eagle was permanently affixed to the boarding tube/travel tube set and jammed between the travel-tube reception area and the Medical Centre.)[9]. As the father-daughter duo settle into their new lives, the pair realize they're sharing their space with four ghosts Casper (voiced by Malachi Pearson and played in his human form by Devon. Ultimately, the project failed. The Andersons reworked UFO: 1999 into a new premise: Commander Steven Maddox controlled the forces of WANDER, Earth's premier defence organisation, from Moon City, a twenty-mile wide installation on the Moon. Most U.S. stations broadcast episodes in the weekday evening hour just before prime time or on weekends. In "Matter of Life and Death", Koenig remarks "many things have happened since we broke away from our own solar system, unexplainable things." 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. Landau and Bain were high-profile stars in America after three years in the popular CBS espionage series Mission: Impossible. An article regarding a third series was printed in the trade papers: "Now entrenched in its successful second season boom, ITC is looking forward to a third season with more fantastic events and additions, although mum's the word at the studio. 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. 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 releases on American home video were in the VHS in the mid-1980s and consisted of the theatrical compilation films (see above). Red, navy, or dark-green jackets also appeared, originally on just the senior staff, then on many of the male extras. Example: Apex Class: public class TimeController {. Alien Attack, though the second of these films to be released, was an expansion of the show's pilot episode. 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. 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. But then we wouldn't have a series, so we couldn't do that. In the early 1980s, and due to the booming home video rental market, the four compilation films were released on the VHS format. The Eagle 1 is made mostly of moulded plastic and has a number of parts and accessories. 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. BrianJohnsonSFX twitter feed. Fragrance oils are now used in diffusers and oil burners in order to create a healing atmosphere. "The Exiles", "Journey to Where", "The Taybor", and "New Adam, New Eve" followed respectively in the subsequent weeks. No on-screen explanations were offered for the cast changes. [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. [citation needed]. [41] On 17 July 2020, Big Finish announced a boxset consisting of three stories. | 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. Their work was then shelved for the foreseeable future. A compilation film was also produced in Italy, titled "Spazio 1999" (the series's Italian-language title) to launch the series. His character was designed to serve primarily as a secondary male action hero, and became a romantic interest for Maya. Although there's been plenty of talk of rebooting the cult classic on TV - including. 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. This release also contains a restored version of the feature length Destination: Moonbase Alpha film. He also. Now, we can no longer live here, and we go to face an uncertain future on the planet that has nearly destroyed us. Katzin was not asked back to the programme after the filming of his second episode "Black Sun", which also ran over schedule. But the nuts and bolts are mostly the same. Mark Bonnar, Maria Teresa Creasey, Tim Bentinck, Clive Hayward, Glen McCready, Susan Hingley and Amaka Okafor reprise their roles with Anthony Howell, Chris Jarman and Nicholas Asbury joining.[42]. Fans might have also spotted Grace in. Watchlist. 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. If the far side was meant rather than the dark side, Asimov points out, then the explosion would drive the Moon towards Earth, not away from it. See the list above. The project continued forward. 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. 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 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). In addition to the alien Maya character, to be played by Catherine Schell, numerous other changes were made for what was branded Year Two. High Definition digital transfers were then made from the interpositives using a state-of-the-art Philips Spirit DataCine. Two series of the programme were produced, each comprising 24 episodes. February 24, 2023; INTERVIEW: Andrew E.C. Fan and critic responses to the new series varied. Verdeschi, who assumed the base's second-in-command role, neither appeared, nor was ever mentioned, in Year One. Other changes included the main titles and theme music. [13] His two-hour director's cut was assembled and sent to ITC New York for a viewing. 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). Studio rehearsals commenced at Elstree Studios near Borehamwood, Hertfordshire on 12 November 1973. 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 . 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. Alexandra Paul (Lt. Stephanie Holden) From 1992 to 1997 Alexandra Paul played the love interest to the show's protagonist Mitch Buchannon (Hasselhoff) until her character, Lt. Stephanie Holden . 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. Filming & Production Paul plays his guitar in his quarters. Dissatisfaction on Landau's part about scripts was not new to Year Two, though. The evacuation was also necessitated by the degradation and decay of Alpha's life support systems. 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. 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. | Production began on 26 January 1976 and was scheduled to last a mere ten months for all episodes. This was first done in the 1960s, with movies from The Man From U.N.C.L.E. 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. All of those things were on the verge of happening anyway. Loving / The City-- Where Are They Now? 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). )[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 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. In early episodes, Maya's eyebrows are much longer. Official Sites 2099. Space:1999 - Dragon's Domain from Big Finish Productions! 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. Published June 16, 1999. [48] In July 2019 Shout Factory released both series of Space:1999 on Blu-ray using restored and remastered HD transfers and remastered 5.1 DTS-HD MA surround sound re-mix. 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. [49], This article is about the TV series. Others said they enjoyed the new characters, down-to-earth characterisations and action. The most visible change was the absence of Professor Bergman (Barry Morse). 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". When love-interest Tony Verdeschi offered her some of his home-brewed beer, Maya tried it, then turned herself into Mister Hyde. Next were "The Mark of Archanon", "Brian the Brain", "The Rules of Luton", "The AB Chrysalis", "Catacombs of the Moon", and "Seed of Destruction". It has a style and mood that is so unique. Thruster and engine sounds were similar to those previously used in Fireball XL5, Thunderbirds, and Captain Scarlet. The series has been translated into other media. 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. As one of Arrow's original cast members, Katie Cassidy brought to life the character of Laurel Lance across all eight of Arrow's seasons, although this was reduced from a regular role to a. Use Date format method. The first series was co-produced by ITC Entertainment and Italian broadcaster RAI, while the second series was produced solely by ITC. 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. 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). Episodes of both Year One and Year Two were repeated regionally in Canada in English and French through the early-to-mid-1980s. 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. Stars Martin Landau Barbara Bain Nick Tate On 12 August 2019, Anderson Entertainment announced that they would collaborate with Big Finish to create an audio drama reboot of Space: 1999 starring Mark Bonnar[39] as John Koenig, Maria Teresa Creasey as Doctor Helena Russell, Timothy Bentinck as Commissioner Simmons and Clive Hayward as Victor Bergman. During filming of the first episode, it became apparent that the troubled Elstree was under the threat of imminent closure. The series, in its original form, was released on home video in the 1990s, with each cassette (or "volume") featuring two episodes. [6] Lee H. 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