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Space: 1999 series 1 was brilliant. The episodes were dark, sometimes menacing and many had a haunting / surreal soundtrack which ran throughout the show, giving each episode a unique feel. 'Dragons Domain' really freaked me out when I first saw it all those years ago, and I would definetely rate it as the most scary thing I ever saw on TV as a child. Unfortunately, it was completely revamped for the second series, bringing in new characters and getting rid of most of the existing ones. The new writer / producer was straight from the final season of STAR TREK (and it showed). An alien was introduced as a new member of Moonbase Alpha, and good sci-fi stories were replaced with episodes with monsters in rubber-suits. A great shame. -- Submitted By: (Phil.JS) on October 4, 2009, 1:54 pm - (0 votes)
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Sorry, but I thought the characters (and situations) were dullsville- even though I desperately wanted something besides "Star Trek" reruns to help quench my tv sci-fi thirst (and "The Starlost" was even more boring). What's more as far back as I can remember, I knew that blasting something on the Dark Side of the Moon strongly enough to send it out of orbit would hurl the Moon TOWARDS Earth not away from it (not to mention everything/everyone not attached to it would have flown off into space). And they were pitching it to us Boomers,etc. who'd literally cut our teeth watching Apollo missions just a few years earlier?! No wonder it bombed! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on July 24, 2009, 11:32 am - (-1 votes)
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Space 1999 is a problematic series to categorize in terms of boning the fish. The technical stuff on the series was extremely good: the sets were up to contemporary movie standards, never mind television, and the SFX and model work was nearly as good (before Star Wars changed the basis for comparison). There were some well written scripts in the first season: reading some of the scripts, you get the impression that the finished product should be incredible. In some cases it was: The standout episode to me is "Death's Other Dominion", which works really well, owing to an excellent guest cast. I also recall "Dragon's Domain", the tentacled monster episode, one of only two things that ever really scared me on television. So, what's not to like? It seems to me that the problems are with the featured performers, specifically, the two leads. Considering that they were married at the time, Landau and Bain really don't seem to have much chemistry, and sometimes, Bain's acting is positively painful to watch. I really liked Barry Morse, Prentice Hancock, and Nick Tate, but they have a hard time working against the two principal actors. Nonetheless, as described above, there are a number of standout episodes -- Also great are "War Games" and "The Infernal Machine". In these two (and "Death's Other Dominion"), good writing and ideas really stand out. Perhaps with some changes to the cast, Space 1999 might have been superb, rather than merely good. I've avoided commenting on the second season. I've seen the first season episodes recently, and my comments reflect a different viewpoint than the second season episodes, which I only saw in first run. So it wouldn't be fair to make a comparison. -- Submitted By: () on July 24, 2009, 8:40 am - (0 votes)
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