Re: UFO to Space, 1999

Marc--

Thanks for sharing this. It's been so long since I saw any of Space
1999, I only have the vaguest memories of it. My favorite episode
was the one featuring the marvelous Margaret Leighton as a sort of
mystical space crone. I have happy memories as well as the one where
Peter Cushing played an alien anthropologist with whose daughter the
Martin Landau character became involved. I remember being amused by
a line in there something like: "But ... she's only a child ...
barely 130 years old!" I thought the editing was odd in a lot of
those episodes. I wonder, retrospectively, whether they might not
have been trimmed for the US airings.

It seems from what I can remember that there was an attempt on Space
1999 to have more character development than had been the case on
UFO. Ironically I found the characters on UFO much more memorable;
especially the onscreen chemistry between Straker and Foster, which
the two actors seemed to play so well. The odd thing is that from
reading interviews, it seems as if they didn't particularly like one
another, though I gather they got on fine professionally. Just my
impression ...

Incidentally, I have seen a lot of Space 1999 DVDs in the shops here,
but, as I don't own a DVD player, the temptation is easily resisted!

Steve
Boston, Mass.

I had to get my mind into Space:1999 mode and I remembered something.
Sylvia that they used things from UFO in Space:1999 and I remember in the
episode Mission Of The Darians the Moonbase Alpha crew going to this
spaceship made out of a hollowed out asteroid and there finding a group of
aliens. What first struck me was that the aliens wore the spacesuits of the
UFO aliens and even had the same weapon. The other thing was that these
aliens like the ones in UFO lived by harvesting the bodies of others. I had
always wondered if this was the aliens from UFO in this episode or just
recycling the props. Also a bit of trivia. This is the one episode of
Space: 1999 that feature a quick flash of nudity.

James K.

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> Steve
> Boston, Mass.

Hi Steve,
I'm also in the Boston area (Bedford actually, just on the other side
of Lexington).

Are there any other fans of The Anderson's work in the area? Perhaps
we could get together some weekend over at the Tang Center (MIT,
building E52) and watch videos on one of the big screen TV's in the
lecture halls.

Teresa

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OHMYGAWD! WHO'S NUDITY?!

<reeling from the thought of Barbara Bain or - EGADS! Martin Landau
...... nekkid>

AAARRRGGGHHH!

Errrrr, off topic ....... think, Yuchtar .....

Errrrrrrrrr, ummmmm, yeah, it sure is a shame they didn't make a second
season of *UFO* ...

No, really, I hated Space 1999 when it first came out. I've seen eps
since and find it kind of - well, campy! Much more so than UFO. It's
amusing to watch, but I sure don't think it has stood the test of time
as well as UFO ....

Anyway, thanks for the message from Sylvia, Marc!
Incidently, did she design the clothes for Space 1999? I HATE those
uniforms ...... not a nehru suit in sight <shaking head>

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I'm on the north shore of Long Island but i will be in Massachusetts the
weekend of July 13th for Readercon, also the last weekend of June for my
Niece's wedding (I may be too busy with family in June to make a connection)
I should have time during or after Readercon if anyone wants to meet for
coffee and hang out for an hour or two!

Readercon will be in Burlington and my Sister is in Northboro. That's the
general area i tend to stay in when I visit them. Sometimes I drive into
Worcester to check out the used bookstores for SF!

No-it wasn't any of the main cast. Just a un-named female extra playing a
dead body being recycled for organs or maybe it was food (Soylent Green is
people!).

No Sylvia wasn't the one who did the costumes in Space:1999. That was Rudi
Gurnreich whose only claim to fame is that he designed the topless swimsuit
in the mid-sixties.

"No second series of UFO for this?!", was my thoughts also. I think it was
becuse the marketing people in New York told them that they did want another
season of UFO but they wanted a sci-fi series like Star Trek and everyone
tried to copy it. This seems very apparent in the second season when they
brought in the character of Maya to be their Spock and they started using
ripoff's of Star Trek scripts. Compare the plots of The Ultima Computer and
Brian the Brain for example. Too many cooks do spoil the TV series
especially when among them are those no talent clowns who ran ITC NY in those
days.

James K.

My summary of Space 1999 would be along the lines of technically first
class, some interesting plot ideas, but all together too slow. The look of
the show is fantastic, and the atmosphere of the loneliness of Moonbase
Alpha is certainly captured in some episodes. Bu out of the first series,
there are only half a dozen or so episodes that really stand out.
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>
>OHMYGAWD! WHO'S NUDITY?!
>
><reeling from the thought of Barbara Bain or - EGADS! Martin Landau
>...... nekkid>
>
>AAARRRGGGHHH!
>
>Errrrr, off topic ....... think, Yuchtar .....

Yeah, it's a nightmarish thought!
>
>Errrrrrrrrr, ummmmm, yeah, it sure is a shame they didn't make a second
>season of *UFO* ...

Hear! Hear!
>
>No, really, I hated Space 1999 when it first came out. I've seen eps
>since and find it kind of - well, campy! Much more so than UFO. It's
>amusing to watch, but I sure don't think it has stood the test of time
>as well as UFO ....
>

I'm sorry but I can't get excited one iota about Space:1999. I was like
many on this list when it came on always watching out if any players
from UFO would be on but, sadly, not even a cameo role for Ed:-( I did
watch both seasons of Space:1999 but it left me feeling very empty. My
favourite eps of Space featured Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. I
think they should have become cast regulars. They certainly would have
livened up the joint!

>Anyway, thanks for the message from Sylvia, Marc!
>Incidently, did she design the clothes for Space 1999? I HATE those
>uniforms ...... not a nehru suit in sight <shaking head>

LOL!! Nehru Suits in Space:-)
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Mrs.Suzanne Sheybal