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Reviews 100% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings A moonbase crew fights for survival in the aftermath of a massive explosion that shifts the moon from its orbit into space.
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66% Avg. Tomatometer 18 Reviews. Fresh audience score. 90% Avg. Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings. A moonbase crew fights for survival in the aftermath of a massive explosion that shifts the...
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- Martin Landau
- Hasn’T Aged Well: The Basic Premise
- Aged Well: Moonbase Science
- Hasn’T Aged Well: Acting
- Aged Well - Production Values
- Hasn’T Aged Well: Mysterious Forces
- Aged Well: Costumes
- Hasn’T Aged Well: Esoteric Stories
- Aged Well: Starting and Ending
- Hasn’T Aged Well: Aliens
- Aged Well: Eagles
Space:1999was based on the premise that a large nuclear explosion on the surface of the moon would set it hurling through outer-space, carrying the inhabitants of the moonbase on otherworldly adventures week-after-week. That the Moonbase Alpha crew had no ability to steer their course was part of the show’s appeal, with basic survival a higher prio...
While some of the underlying science in Space:1999was drafted for practical storytelling purposes, such as artificial gravity, hydroponics, and energy shields, much of the forecast technology holds up to present-day scrutiny. Key features that Alphans used each week such as the multifunctional communication devices, the moon buggies, and some of th...
The acting in Space:1999 is criticized in the same vein as some of the cast of Star Trek- effective for the time, but questionable in retrospect. Male lead (and Oscar winner) Martin Landau could be too dramatic and overbearing, and female lead Barbara Bain was so soft-spoken as to be inaudible. RELATED: Martin Landau, Academy Award-Winning Ed Wood ...
Television audiences had never seen such a lavish sci-fi production, ever. Shoot on film even when video was the new broadcast standard, Space:1999was produced like 48 mini-movies, with large, movable sets, elaborate costumes (below), and cutting edge special effects. FX supervisor Bryan Johnson, who worked on 2001: A Space Odyssey, crafted effects...
Radioactivity, gravity, and energy fields seemed to be a recurring threat on Space:1999, especially in the first season. Moonbase staff regularly battled against “forces beyond their control”, with bizarre occurrences and alien capabilities approaching the level of magic in their impact on the stories (e.g. resurrected people, time displacement, ev...
The costumes on Space:1999 were important enough to the production that designer Rudi Gernreich was featured on each episode’s opening credits. Taking a page from Star Trek'scolor-coded uniforms, Moonbase Alpha staff wore unisex uniforms with a single colored sleeve to denote their division. RELATED: Star Trek TOS: Top 10 Episodes for Costuming Tru...
Over the early history of television and cinematic science fiction, there’s a prevalence of adventure stories (Buck Rogers, Lost in Space, Fantastical Voyage) or ruminations on the human condition (2001, THX-1138) - Space:1999tried to have it both ways. Episodes focusing on metaphysics, religiosity, and other dimensions were less appealing to a wid...
Viewers could count on each episode of Space: 1999 starting and ending well, because of the broadcast format. Each episode of the first season segued from a “cold-open” into quick cuts of the coming action, Mission: Impossiblestyle, which made even the most esoteric story compelling. The timpani drums and ripping guitar of the theme song (or horns ...
Perhaps it's not really the aliens that have aged poorly, but the creature designs themselves - and when you’re creating new, fantastic creatures on a weekly basis, they can’t all be winners. Some Space: 1999 extraterrestrials looked alien merely via hair and makeup, and there was no shortage of bug-eyed monsters, stuntmen in reptilian suits, and a...
When defining the appeal of Space:1999, fans talk about the costumes, the production design, and the special effects - but everyone lauds the Eagles, the distinctive mid-sized spacecraft that ferried our heroes to and from the moon. Designed to look space-worthy as well as utilitarian, these vehicles came to symbolize the intelligent aspirations of...
- Michael Hoff
Compared to just about any other sci-fi show, even from its own era, Space: 1999 has probably the most terrible and obnoxiously inaccurate scientific content I've ever seen, and that includes the basic story (the moon sent hurtling through space at what must be sub-lightspeed, yet encountering new worlds and aliens in every episode).
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- 1975-09-05
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Space: 1999 is a British science-fiction television programme that ran for two series from 1975 to 1977. In the premiere 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.
These and other stimulating questions are answered in the latest episode of THAT '70S REVIEW! Video of the moon exploding (featured in the video): • Video Video of the Earth exploding (featured...
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