Regarding the Eagle spacecraft - one of the great designs of all time, and pretty accurate ' design to purpose'. As a kid, I happily received a small die cast version of it from my dad, and it was an amazing thing in my life!
thank you for a very enjoyable production! I loved space 1999 as a kid :) I've recently bought some collectables. I've bought the dinky toy model 359 (£235) & I have the model 360 on order from Italy (£300) .. the genuine toys! they are 50 years old! it's shocking how expensive they are! I had to order the model 360 from Italy.. it broke my bank, but I can't wait for it to arrive. if you want a contribution to you show, I can bung you £50 on pay day-- us fans need you! x
The “Alien” of my time! I watch it with a bunch of kids in my neighbor’s black & white TV when it was originally aired in Singapore in the 70’s! It’s scare the hell out of all of us!😱 My favorite Space 1999 episode!🤩 Thank for sharing.👍
I was a Fan back then, but even as a kid it was not long after the Apollo era, but as far as the Eagle was concerned it was obviously BS that this craft could function in atmosphere deep space and fly interplanetary as a single unit vehicle - now i know its Science Fiction, but the best science fiction had the veneer of possibility, the Eagle is a vehicle that given these herculean feats is a vehicle that is an Improbability. No space . or at least minimal , for an early Atomic/Nuclear plumbing with the aft section - very minimal, where is the room for coolant tanks even if Nuclear , which is an ask. The space for Oxygen recycling- carbon scrubbers- the problem of earth re-entry No heat shield , no tile system ,and its impossible for an alloy/metal to do the job on its own- How is the Artificial gravity done? What about irradiation through the Hull, the one thing I will grant aside from all these problems. Is that It looks Good- so Yes I was A Fan (shhh no one mention season 2 ).It is just that, there was too much that did not make sense back then, and if I think about it today , then I do admit to myself it was just good old escapist Television back in the Mid Seventies.
The eagle looks exactly how you would expect a next generation NASA transport to look, for use on the moon. It didn't look like science fiction at all.
This is going to be excellent. I thought I was the only one obssessed with the Eagle, sure there's Space 1999 merch but it's the Eagle in particular that is stuck in my head. Can't wait for it to come out.
Reboot the show, please! In a world troubled by greed, war, and selfishness, sci-fi isn't just a luxury-it's a necessity. It reminds us that the future is in our hands and can be shaped into something much better. Sci-fi inspires us to be more altruistic and aspirational, offering a vision of a brighter tomorrow.
Space 1999 (and UFO) easily the best SF shows ever and they don't date with age. The only query I ever had on the Eagles was... where were the fuel tanks on it!
Excellent video thoroughly enjoyed it. ...and yeah i'm another one of the many who feels deceived by the promise of a future that never happened. Although i'm 63 the child in me still holds onto to hope. Looking forward to the release of the movie.
Thank you for your feedback! I am 58 and watched the first episode (and all episodes) on transmission in the UK. Now I live in the USA its a dream come true to film these guys in action at Wonderfest.
When they figure out the fuel problem (like in The Expanse) it probably will.. Till then, like the jetpack the Eagle's range would still be limited by fuel it can carry and if you look at the Eagle there isn't room for a whole lot'a fuel..
Space 1999 was HUGE in Europe (until Freiburg came and destroyed it). Literally EVERYBODY who was a kid in the 1970s have seen it. I was floored when I came to the US and nobody even heard of it.
I guess in some areas of the US in the 70s location mattered immensely. I was lucky enough to live in Western Massachusetts where we got the early cable tv about 20 channels from Boston and NYC including the original movie channel and HBO, which back then only ran the same dozen movies for a month over and over. I talked my dad into getting for like $12 a month just in time for the premier of Space 1999! I remember watching on our crappy 19” color set and Dad says after, Well son you were right that was pretty good, and it didn’t have any weird guys with pointed ears. He never liked Star Trek because of Mr Spook, as dad called him. I said yeah too bad this old TV set sucks I bet it would look a lot better on a 25” tv, imagine what Monday Night Football would look like! I saw his wheels spinning seed planted, and a few sales ads left out and a week later he had convinced mom it was a good idea and we were at the local tv shop buying a brand new 25” RCA color set and something called a VCR and blank tapes to record shows which 15 year old me was more than happy to figure out how to hookup and use! Which started my lifelong obsession and career with audio video etcetera! All because of a SciFi show about the moon!
If you'd asked me, I'd have known. All my friends did too in the 70s and 80s. Especially the 70s when every toy store and hobby shop had the MPC models and Dinky Die Cast toys. There was also a cardboard Moonbase Alpha playset, and Mattel had a huge toy model playset of the Eagle itself, complete with figures.
I actually chatted to him over lunch about his roles. He was very complimentary of Evangeline Lilly - he said she ran through her scenes with his and was word perfect and had an excellent professional manner on set.
Looking forward to this, the Eagle is such an iconic design! What has amused me recently is just how much NASA's new Dream Chaser reminds me of the Lunar Module from Gerry Anderson's UFO.
I am really looking forward to this documentary. I was 8 when Space 1999 first aired and I remember my own obsession with the show and the Eagle in particular. I recently re-watched the series and I think it is time for ITV to re-boot it; I have ideas.
This was wonderful! Your enthusiasm and love for the show is out of this world! As a fan of the show, I cannot wait for the full movie/documentary next year!
This was totally mind blowing! I am a life long fan of Space 1999 but before this video I guessed the hardcore fans were all very nerdy types (nothing wrong with nerds!). But this opened my eyes. Thank you so much. It makes me want to re-watch the 1999 series again! StuOz.
Hey boys, if you need any additional help or advice on your adventurous depiction of the space 1999 documentary. I know I'm here in Ipswich, Queensland Australia 4305 🇦🇺 But hey, I'm offering your team, as although a life novice still at 55yo. My services. Let's do everything we can, all together. As a group of dedicated friends. To keep all of space 1999. Managery or reality alive. ✝️ 💜👽👾👽👾👽💜 ✝️
I'd like to see a whole housing estate like, moonbase alpha. with Eagles, flying their fellow residents, around the town. Or maybe even a real life, moonbase alpha, established on the luner surface, to help with issues like toxic waste or possiblely for methods of possible recycling some of that waste. Out here in the real world. Where about each section, of a real. "Alpha" is commissioned for its area of human expertise, by the characters and the professional actors, who tirelessly dedicated a huge part, of their younger acting lives. Creating theatrical poised and passionate sci fi, for many future generations of enthusiasts and fans, to enjoy for years. Decons' to come. ✝️
Now that is pure dedication that I'm hearing here from these three gentlemen and I am a big huge fan of space 1999 ever since it first came on in September of 1974. At the time I was 11 years old and I watched it religiously every Saturday evening on KRON NBC TV channel 4 affiliate San Francisco bay area. The Eagle Transport has been without fail the most incredible fictional spacecraft I had ever seen before during that show and ever since. Even 50 years later it is still incredibly futuristic it is extremely versatile the fact that it's powered by a fusion reactor and it can take off vertically as well as horizontally and has the incredible versatility of an interstellar pickup truck what makes such a spacecraft incredibly believable and incredibly probable. Ben Johnson in the original creators of space 1999 created a masterpiece of fictional engineering. It was a dream Craft that during my childhood as an 11-year-old felt that in the year 1999 we would have spacecraft like that and I dreamed of actually going to a moon base like that. There's a lot of influence from 2001 Space Odyssey with that show and listening to the beginning musical credits give me a boldness sense of adventure and wander of the future in humankind.
