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Space: 1999 (1975 - 1977)
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You could well be correct about that, David.

My info comes from the Moonbase Alpha Technical Notebook published in October 1977 by Starlog Magazine.

The materials were provided ATV, ITC, and Gerry Anderson Productions.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 9:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote






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PostPosted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 12:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you for the confirmation GG.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 4:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I always like the first season LASER selector switch over the later one. It was neat, simple and sleek, unlike the later silver block that you could see sliding back and forth as the actor moved their hand. Laughing

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 20, 2021 9:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The kiddie squiggle that appears briefly over anyone hit by an Alphan laser has always been of momentous interest to me. Would it actually be like that if real? I doubt it and it does look very odd despite my loving this show!
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They have tried to remake the show a few times over the past few years, but all have failed.

I don't know if this is from one of the attempts, but someone redesigned the LASER pistol.





It was later turned into an actual prop kit by prop master Ken Palkow.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I love the design of the weapon . . . but how did they make a holster it would fit into? Confused

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 10:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bud Brewster wrote:
I love the design of the weapon . . . but how did they make a holster it would fit into? Confused

They had problems in the show keeping the pistol in it's rather skimpy holster during physically active scenes. They resorted to either taping (sometimes using black tape! Laughing) or tying it into the holster. Funny thing is that both the pistol and holster had lanyard rings, but they never used a lanyard.

I have never seen a holster design for the Legacy LASER, so I don't know if one was designed for it. I really have no idea how far the whole Legacy thing went, as the LASER pistol design is the only thing I have seen for it.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 27, 2021 8:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Space 1999 the only sci-fi ITC show to get a second series! It must have been popular in one sense then...
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 27, 2021 12:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It was popular, but they cut the budget for the second series, and moved to much smaller soundstages. This resulted in smaller, less impressive sets. Bringing in Fred Freiberger to make it more "Americanized" didn't help.

The Starlog Moonbase Alpha manual was put together in three months! An extremely short time, which resulted in some mistakes. But impressive nevertheless.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2021 8:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Martin Landau himself was not a fan of the second series. He said it was more like a kiddie show and had lost a lot of it's realism and science fiction and replaced it with too much adventure for younger viewers. Never the less there were a few good episodes in this run it has to be said!
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just watched an old interview with Sylvia Anderson and boy, Martin Landau & Barbara Bain come off poorly.

Sylvia opposed the Landaus being hired for their show but was forced to do so by uber-producer Lord Lew Grade.

The Landaus immediately demanded a substantial increase to their previously agreed upon salary...and other demands followed including being driven in a Rolls Royce 24/7.

Italian actor Giancarlo Prete was hired in what would become the Nick Tate role. Landau sulked over Prete feeling the actor would upstage him.

When Nick Tate was hired, Landau pushed him as far into the background as possible. He and Barbara did that with all the supporting cast with the exception of Barry Morse.

Landau demanded that Command Koenig must dominate all the scripts. Any interesting dialogue written for any of the supporting cast had to be given to Landau due to his insistence.

Disappointing to read this about the Landaus.

I enjoyed them greatly when they were cast members on "Mission: Impossible." The M:I cast and crew liked both Martin & Barbara during the three seasons the Landaus were with the series.

So this ugly turnaround when they were on Space: 1999 seems surprising.

However, I have read interviews with the cast of Space: 1999 that support Sylvia's observations regarding the Landaus.

As I have written before, British actors have the reputation of being all in a production together and supporting each other. True teamwork.

American actors do not have this reputation at all. Me, myself, and I would be their motto.

The British actors ask how do their characters serve the script? American actors ask how does the script serve me?

And as much as I have enjoyed Landau's acting, I never saw him as a leading man in film or television. Terrific supporting member as he was on M:I but naw, not a lead.

But even with the "right" actors in the lead roles on Space: 1999, the series just never had the strong scripting it needed to become a classic.

A shame as their production values with their sets, wardrobe, model-work, and visual effects were all first rate.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is true as I have read too, and Martin Landau also removed Nick Tate from the leading role in the classic episode Dragon's Domain!

Landau insisted that the role of the spaceship Captain should go to a guest of the week actor, this time being Gianni Garko. The script was adapted from Christopher Penfold's original story by Landau, Gerry Anderson etc, and there was some moaning about it at the time, and Landau ultimately kills the Dragon in Captain Kirk fashion.

I think he was probably right in this moment anyhow, as Nick Tate's Alan Carter would have been killed off in this show, upsetting the screening order of the entire first series! Plus Martin and Nick went on to remain friends for the next forty odd years anyway!
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 30, 2021 10:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks. It's in the 6-min mark here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohyE-BljdJs
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 8:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

"Space: 1999: Gerry Anderson’s greatest series or his biggest folly?"

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There would be no resolution for the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha; no final episode where they either returned or Earth or found a new home. Freiberger’s gamble had failed. Although he had brought pace and energy to the series, he’d forfeited much of what made that first season unique and beguiling.

“I tried to be Mr Nice Guy,” Gerry recalled years later, “who tried to please too many people. I think if I had been much more ruthless and said, ‘Look, get the hell out of here, otherwise we stop shooting tomorrow,’ and had totally done it my way, I honestly believe it would have stood a much better chance.
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