As a taster of their forthcoming Space:1999 Super Space Theater Blu-ray collection, Network are offering a FREE weeklong stream of the classic Destination Moonbase Alpha compilation movie – but as you’ve never seen it before! Rebuilt from the High Definition restorations created for the series itself, this feature-length adaptation of The Bringers of Wonder two-parter is presented here as a …
Continued from part 2… 1998 On July 27th, the UFO episode The Cat With Ten Lives was among the programmes broadcast at very short notice in place of rained-off cricket coverage; specifically, the NatWestTrophy quarter-final match between Leicestershire and Warwickshire. UFO aired at 6.25pm, following the similarly unscheduled The Simpsons episode Bart’s Friend Gets a Girlfriend. Back in 1996, the …
After much delicate tweaking of his home-brewing apparatus, security officer Tony Verdeschi handed a beaker of murky amber liquid to Professor Bergman with a proud grin. “There we are, Victor. I know I’ve got it right this time! What do you think?” The Professor eyed the beaker with amusement, sniffed it and took a cautious sip. Tony’s heart sank when …
Although Thunderbirds had premiered on British television back in 1965 and would be repeated several times over the next two decades, the fragmented regional makeup of the British television landscape of the time meant that different regions would see different episodes airing at different times – with some regions receiving more broadcasts than others. When the BBC purchased the rights …
A stunning 10″ replica of the Space:1999 Eagle with laboratory pod is now available exclusively from the Gerry Anderson Store. This “Type E” Eagle boasted a remote laboratory pod, modified from the passenger pod. It was used to locate and refine crude minerals on planetary surfaces and offered an array of scientific equipment for contact-and-survey teams, who could use it …
Two brand new jigsaw puzzles are now available from the Gerry Anderson Store! These 1000-piece Thunderbirds and Space:1999 designs are the work of artist Lee Sullivan, and we caught up with him to learn more about how the specially commissioned artwork was devised. When the idea came up to produce an illustration for a jigsaw puzzle I was surprisingly thrilled. …
Space:1999‘s second season is infamous for its radical changes from the first season, as a big shake up amongst the cast was planned. When the second season novelisations were written, the author had little more than a few episodes to go off and ended up writing characters that were later renamed on-screen, thereby creating characters that only ever existed in …
It’s that time of year again! Halloween is upon us, and we’re in a mood to celebrate the scarier side of the Anderson universe – specifically, stories involving ghosts and hauntings! We’ve collected five of the spookiest ghost-related stories below – how many of these have haunted your dreams over the years? #5 – The Lambda Factor The haunting of …
We’re going back into orbit next February, as Space:1999 returns for three new out-of-this-world full cast audio adventures from Big Finish Productions. Based on the original 1975 Gerry Anderson series starring Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, this audio reimagining debuted on 13 September 2019, exactly 20 years to the (fictional) day the occupants of Moonbase Alpha were first blasted into …
During production of the second episode of Space:1999, in which the Alphans land on the planet Meta, scenes were interrupted by a particularly troublesome parrot…
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