Space: 1999

[Boris_Badenov]

Space: 1999 first season collage. They really need to do a remake of this series on SciFi. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#993300"><span class="body"><font size="2" color="#3366ff"><div align="center">. </div><div align="center">Never roll in the mud with a pig. You'll both get dirty & the pig likes it.</div></font></span></font> </div>

 

[bdewoody]

But they would have to call it "Space 2099" or 2199 and they would have to come up with a new crisis as I doubt anyone could ever get permission to launch radioactive waste to the moon. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em><font size="2">Bob DeWoody</font></em> </div>

 

[yevaud]

Taking off from that:<br /><br />It's 2199, and the Moon is an independent government in it's own right. When some sort of accident occurs (A la Space 1999), it's not a tiny station that goes on a long trip; it's several hundred thousand people. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[vogon13]

Now with botox, the Barbera Bain character can be even more inert and expressionless.<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[SpeedFreek]

What always niggled me about it was how the moon could move at interstellar speeds, but still hang around in a star system long enough for an Eagle Transporter to go down to the planet, the heroes do their stuff, and get back before their (relativistic?) moon was long gone.<br /><br />And to think.. They cancelled UFO to make Space:1999 <img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" /> For some reason the idea that a space interceptor only carried 1 missile wasn't such a problem! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000">_______________________________________________<br /></font><font size="2"><em>SpeedFreek</em></font> </p> </div>

 

[kelvinzero]

What they should have done is cross stargate with 2001. The moon turns out to be a machine. It has a big red button. Some silly ****** pushes it. It starts a preprogrammed tour of colonised worlds using that staple of scifi: the wormhole. It doesnt significantly disrupt anything because some conservation law requres the end of the wormhole to have exactly the same gravitation effect. For all the civilisations they visit, the big swirly thing in the sky is suddenly replaced with a big round thing.<br /><br />Perhaps the machine could be the same object that was speculated to have hit the earth to create the moon, and is still buried in its core.<br /><br />Having a purely hard SF story would be great.. but it wouldnt be space 1999 <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br />

 

[hracctsold]

But as I remember those long years of old, Space 1999 was about the only SF show available at that time, and that was why I did enjoy it as I did. I think that ST was just canceled or something like it. That and it had Martin Landau from Mission Impossible on it. (That was the original one, and not the new TC one). I also liked the character, Maya, with her special contact lenses that made her look as she did. Was it star shape, or cat-like eyes that shaped her character?<br /><br />But again, my memory maybe fading as most things seem to be nowadays. Thinking of all the things I have lost, its my mind I miss the most.

 

[yevaud]

I do remember <i>Dark Shadows</i>, <i>Space 1999</i>, and <i>UFO</i> all being on around the same time. Perhaps some were repeats; I can't swear to it. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[hracctsold]

Yevaud,<br /><br />I well remember Dark Shadows. It was the only vampire soap opera I would ever admit to watching, but I have never thot of it in the same way as real SF. But now that you mention it, I do remember the series the Invaders, where one guy finds out about Invaders when he pulled off the road to get some much needed rest and saw the ship land. It was from the same people, Quin/Martin, that did the Fugitive series. But don't get that mixed up with the "V" series some years later. That was different.<br /><br />But I don't remember the show "UFO" though at all. What was that about? Was it a documentary kind of show or a "real" show?

 

[docm]

Live action sci-fi by the folks that did Thunderbirds, Stingray, the live film Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (AKA Doppelganger) and the kiddie show SuperCar.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_%28TV_series%29 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[vogon13]

Fireball XL-5 !!!!<br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[Boris_Badenov]

Some of the SHADO Aircraft;<br /><br /> SHADO Heavy Lifter in comparison to a C-17<br /><br /> SHADO Skydiver <br /><br /> SHADO Fighter <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#993300"><span class="body"><font size="2" color="#3366ff"><div align="center">. </div><div align="center">Never roll in the mud with a pig. You'll both get dirty & the pig likes it.</div></font></span></font> </div>

 

[qso1]

The heavy lifter compared to the C-17 is not all that surprising to me. Back around 1975, there was two aircraft built under a program called Advanced Medium STOL Transport (AMST). Boeing YC-14 and McDonnell Douglas YC-15 were the medium lifters developed at a time when the flyoff competitions were big. I'm not sure what eventually lead to the C-17 as I lost track but evidently the C-17 evolved in part from the YC-15.<br /><br />The point being the basic C-17 design has been around longer than most folks might realize. The SHADO however, dates back to probably the early to mid 1960s IIRC. In that sense, the SHADO is a bit ahead of its time. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>

 

[SpeedFreek]

Oh, I enjoyed Space:1999 at the time, when I was younger, but I recently bought the entire UFO series on DVD and I had forgotten how good that series was in comparison to the one that followed it. I was a little young when UFO was aired, I just remember it scaring me at the time! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000">_______________________________________________<br /></font><font size="2"><em>SpeedFreek</em></font> </p> </div>

 

[tomnackid]

I have been contemplating a remake of Space 1999 where the moonbase is the site of an experimental FTL drive the accidentally "jumps" the entire moon istead of the experimental capsule. maybe its an inertialess drive (a la The Lensmen) and sends the moon shooting off into space at hundreds of times the speed of light. The Alphans eventually learn to control it somewhat which can explain how they can pass through solar systems and do various interesting TV things but it reamains unstable and shoots them off across the galaxy unpredictably.

 

[bdewoody]

Yeah like competition between the various nations looking for H3 and other resources. Maybe finding the Oblisk from 2001. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em><font size="2">Bob DeWoody</font></em> </div>

 

[Boris_Badenov]

<font color="yellow"> I have been contemplating a remake of Space 1999 where the moonbase is the site of an experimental FTL drive the accidentally "jumps" the entire moon </font><br /><br />Actually I like that idea. I think that would work. I'd up the number of people on the Moon & give them some industrial capability, i.e. Fabrication of materials from mining asteroids. The ability to build replacements for destroyed or damaged Eagles, or make upgrades to them would be useful as well. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#993300"><span class="body"><font size="2" color="#3366ff"><div align="center">. </div><div align="center">Never roll in the mud with a pig. You'll both get dirty & the pig likes it.</div></font></span></font> </div>

 

[SpaceKiwi]

I loved this show. It was ruined in the second season when the shapeshifting alien rocked up. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em><font size="2" color="#ff0000">Who is this superhero?  Henry, the mild-mannered janitor ... could be!</font></em></p><p><em><font size="2">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></em></p><p><font size="5">Bring Back The Black!</font></p> </div>

 

[Leovinus]

No, they'd have to rename it "Space: Turn your brain off. Completely." <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[JonClarke]

But in her human form she was gorgeous!<br /><br />Jon <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Whether we become a multi-planet species with unlimited horizons, or are forever confined to Earth will be decided in the twenty-first century amid the vast plains, rugged canyons and lofty mountains of Mars</em>  Arthur Clarke</p> </div>

 

[tomnackid]

Oh come on. Look what they did to Battlestar Galactica!

 

[Leovinus]

They gave Starbuck a sex-change operation and made Commander Adama a lot uglier. Then they turned Cylons into humans. Total worthless feldercarb. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[vagueship]

Agree. Basically the writers stole the title and made their own show.

 

[hracctsold]

Your assessment also reminds me of Andre Norton books about the Beastmaster. I really enjoyed the books, even though it was not aimed at adult level, and is not much of a "hard sci/fi" kind of a book. It was interesting, I could lose myself in the storyline, and enjoy the escape for a while.<br /><br />But then the movie came along, took the name, the animals, and not much else, and trashed the rest. <br /><br />