Space 1999 Intro 

RIP Gerry Anderson. This 46 y/o upstate New Yorker & mechanical engineer grew up with both "UFO" and "Space: 1999". Loved the Anglo-American 70's Sci-Fi! :) Also had the UFO lunch box during my Catholic School / Apollo-obsessed days. Thanks for all the great Sci-Fi!!

great show,have always been a martin landau fan.when i was a kid i used to have the figures and space ship to the show.

Back in the days when intros were catchy and exiting!

1999 passed and we still are here. Loved this show!

Rest in peace Gerry, you definitely made my teenage years more tolerable with these great shows. So long buddy, and thanks for all the memories.

I remember, good times.

this show had one of the best laser gun props ever , almost as cool as the logans run sandman blaster

i will always remember watching this on saturdays when i was a child! the most awesome sci-fi series ever! maybe dated but the classics will always be the best!

The 60's and 70's seemed to have a lot more optimism where we would be by the year 2000. Something seems to have led us off the path.

I can still watch this; this series stands the test of time. I used to watch this on late night t.v. instead of going to school in the morning along with 'movies until dawn'. Thanks for the into.

I remeber this series from Polish television in late 70ties when I was a child...I was glued to the tv set and then we build lasers and spaceships from building blocks in the playgroup...It was a real hit for us children those days... : )

This show was great to watch growing up in the late 70's early 80's. Some of the equipment was borrowed from 2001 A Space Odyssey but still the adventures were a lot of fun! I remember a reunion show they did around 85 where the moon was traveling through a black hole. Great memories!

yes R.I.P. Gerry, you made my childhood what it was superb... from thunderbirds, to space 1999..a very creative man whom a lot of people will miss...

The show was ahead of its time! Takes me back!

I have to admit that I loved watching that show, back in the day. Man, I kind of missed this show.

I love this show!!! It's set when one of my favourite Disney movies came out!!! This has to be one of my favourite sci-fi shows!!!

Great show, brings back alot of memories from my childhood, thanx for posting!

Série mythique ! sont quasiment tous mort dan la série, reste des souvenirs d'un époque révolus, du temps qui passe ..

My brothers and I had an Eagle Transporter as kids & the action figures. This was here in Los Angeles, California...Show was popular in L.A. aswell...That Eagle Transporter ended up being destroyed by various firecrackers and smoke bombs over a couple of summers...yes it died a sad fiery death. Great times.

it was one of my favorite sci-fi shows (along with star trek, and dr. who), here in México was known as "Odisea: 1999 base lunar alfa" (translation "Odissey : 1999 moonbase alpha")

top drawer this - Gerry Andersons silent hit. I loved this as a kid..... Along with UFO were the first two shows that took Thunderbirds special effects into live action tv. BRILLIANT and waaaay ahead of its time!!!

I'm 43 and still can remember as it had been yesterday being absolutly absorted by that intro in front of the TV.

I remember watching the first ads for this show, this intro & the theme song watching TV at my grandmother's house like it was yesterday.

haven't seen this in YEARS!! oh this was 1 of my favorites...thanks! love that 70s groovin theme, too. :)

I was 8yrs old and loved this show! Now it's 2013..and we still have not colonise the moon!

I used to love watching Space 1999. Nice show.

i remember watching this in syndication in its first, and possibly only year, 1975...Saturday nights at 7PM on WNEP-TV channel 16 in Scranton PA...no network would pick it up.. I'm digging that crazy disco theme song.

I still have my old nuclear fission powered Svetron 4000 Mini Shuttle sitting on blocks in the garage. It would get me to the moon and back in only eight hours, and that included landing, not just a free-return trajectory. That's how light the interplanetary traffic was back then. 1999...what a year!

Rest in peace Martin Landau

Rest in peace, Gerry Anderson.

This show was the highlight of my Saturday Afternoon. It used to air at 1pm on "11Alive" out of Atlanta. I watched it on a 13" black and white Sylvania Solid State tv w/the UHF tuner. Great Triva as well Agentx35!

some of the best sci fi ever... must watch if you've not done so before.

I remember that hand and would wait excitely to see it! It was the highpoint of tv for me!

I'm '64 the second season Space 1999 and the original Star Trek were my biggies, I don't really remember much of the stories from Space 1999 but the imagery from that show really blew my mind.

I used to watch this in Spanish in the Dominican Republic. My sister and I got into Sci-Fi because of this show. Wow, what memories...

I used to build the models of these ships!

OH MY GOSH! I used to LOVE this show!

I can't remember where, but I just saw, in the last month or so, a recent show/movie/whatever it was, with Martin Landau. I recognized him IMMEDIATELY. I'm glad he's still with us.

When I was a kid in the 70's the TRUE test of how tough a toy was the bathtub test! If you could take in the bathtub and it survived then it was a VERY cool toy! This survived the bathtub, not the full ship mind you but the break away front shuttle with back boosters.

I always thought the intro and music was actually better then the show itself LOL. As a kid I loved this show, but I recently saw the first couple episodes and the science drives me nuts now! Ah well stick with the memories!

I had the toy ships from this show as a kid. I do remember watching it and liking it, but I don't remember much about it...LOST IN SPACE made a more lasting impression on my young mind in the 70s. (that and Star Wars, of course)

This show had a very distinctive look to it that I don't think any Sci Fi show has matched, not sure if it was the lighting or colour schemes, but it's very distinctive.

I loved this show...always thought their 'phasers' looked like staple guns with extra bits and bobs glued to them...:)

Oh my God- SPACE: 1999?! I havne't seen this since... Lord, I know it's been more than 35 years- I'm 41! GREAT POST!

I sort of miss this show, even though it's almost 11 years out of date, it is rather appealing in a kitchy 70's style retro futuristic way, just like Battalestar Galactica, at least Space 1999. I've been disappointed since 2001, we were supposed to have a base not only on the moon but on Mars as well as being able to travel to Jupiter, what they have in Space 1999 would have been nice too. So where is my flying car, I was promised one as a kid and we still don't have them..

Wow - what a hero you are - my Father took me to the set of Space 1999 at Pinewood studios when I was ignorant and stupid. FYI - the buttons on all the pads do not work - but otherwise - Alan - the Aussie was my hero - and yes, this is the future of mankind - La luna

I looked forward to this show each week. Great intro music. The only British import I loved more was UFO. They had one of the sexiest cast on either side of the pond.

que buen recuerdo, alucinaba con esta serie cuando tenía 10 o 12 años, allá a fines de los años 70. La canción, el estilo moderno para aquella época, siempre pasaban cosas raras o aparecían extraños personajes. Tomó mucho del estilo de 2001 Odisea del Espacio

Loved this show as a kid, and The Tomorrow People (original). Pity they're no on tv anymore.

Martin Landau starring in Space: 1999, and future Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor in "Ed Wood."

They were the best we had - in 1975. John Dykstra hadn't invented all the cool Star Wars special effects yet, but they were only a couple of years away. CGI? Computers were so stupid we had to convert to Metric so that they didn't spend all day juggling Imperial units, but just shifted the decimal point.

Gerry Anderson, Rip We are already missing you!

hmmm, watching this in 1979..thinking 1999 is never gonna arrive.. 20yrs is forever.

I had an eagle as a kid and am still a huge fan. I loved this show and was at times terrified of it. I was scared as hell at the space junk yard episode where this space squid ate people up and spit them out. Iwas really young. I really wish they'd make a movie out of it. Minus the scientific discrepecies.

Amazing series Music of Season 1 is the best by far Garry Bary Rocks so much in these themes together with some Classic Music they Bond perfectly with this space Sci Fi adventure ! For Anyone that is a Sci-fi fan i can only Say Get The Full DVD boxed set it is Fantastic and got some nice Extras also.This show Established Sci-fi On The Television Along with originall Star trek.

Q.E.P.D Martin Landau :'(

I still remember the theme music. Good show.

@enterprise160 - What makes you think it was moving at faster than light? And yes, they did plunge into a "black sun" in one episode and came up who knows where and when. In another they encountered an alternate Earth with its own moon, and returned to our universe when the two moons collided and merged. Anything else could be accounted for by relativity.

Great movie series... I never missed an episode...

watched this when i was child on irish tv i think it was on fridays happy days

hey, I remember that! I used to watch it in my childhood, basic special effects but I was a kid and didn't hurt me. Interesting script although a bit pessimistic and obscure for my liking. Good stuff, I could still watch.

I forgot how cool the intro theme sounded, it's been such a long time since I saw this series. The eagle spaceships were a departure from the usual sleek look in most science fiction series. They were very utilitarian in design and seemed to be fit for use only as shuttles or freighters. Still, I always thought they looked nice.

This show desperately needs to be on netflix stream!

Awesome intro...on the same level as Hawaii 5.0 theme...brings back good childhood memories!!!

71erichar tienes toda la razon, es "Cosmos 1999" asi lo recordaba pero no estaba muy seguro de mi memoria y me fui por la informacion oficial de el nombre que se le dio aqui, muchas gracias por la aclaracion, que pases una Feliz Navidad, God bless you!!!

Time is a trip!!! It keeps on sliping into the future!

may Martin Landau R.I.P.

Remember when 1999 sounded very futuristic? Like, a million years away?

Presented in authentic mono sound!

I just adore the show. I know I'm gonna half to get the ENTIRE series, which is over $100!

i LOVED this as a KID

you have to remember, this came out in 74, 3 years before SW's, the special effects were top of the line at that time, problem is, the shows didn't come out till the time SW's, BSG and others did and it was outdated by then.

wow thank you for this

Whoa. hahahah. I used to live for this theme song. Now looking back you realize how cheesy the toy spaceships look. I kept waiting for Gozilla to come out. lol. But, BUT it's still better than some of the recycled feces they splatter on the tube nowadays.

The 70s and 80s had the best tv show theme music.....

Sept 13, is not only when the moon goes out of earth's orbit, on Space 1999 its Barbara bain's, birthday.

Definately the best sci-fi tv show ever. I always much preferred it to Star Trek and the rest.

RIP MR ANDERSON

I heard somewhere that this was the most expensive tv show to produce at the time but I'm sure Battlestar Galactica was more expensive to produce when it came out a few years later.

I do not know why I never got into this series, it was Sylvia and Gerry Anderson! Notice that some of the look is similar to the ship and suits in "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun"!

The intro song to this sci-fi series does have that..."it came from the seventies guitar riff".

Hell, I used to own a toy Eagle ship as a kid. Those things were actually quite large.

I miss the 70's and 80's

I loved this movie !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yes ..it was a great series....no more now a days like this..

Those Eagle 1 toys should've come with m-80's so you could blow them up as much as they were blown up in the show. Then the toy company just replaces the blown up ones with a new one every week.....just like on the show....they seem to have had an endless supply of Eagles

In 2001, I expected to hear about a giant Monolith being discovered on the moon. But then again I fully expected the moon to break away 10 years ago. I fell so lied to......

I thought this was the most exciting show on television!!!

@gareth27 Funny thing about the Eagles being blown up - there's a documentary (posted here on youtube) where Brian Johnson, the effects master of the show, describes how they did various things. Fun fact: They never actually blew up any of the Eagle models during filming! That would've been too expensive! Instead, they'd have the Eagle being shown flying through a particular spot, then "jump-cut" to an explosion! Watch the whole thing - old school special effects work at it's finest!

Una de las mejores series de ciencia ficcion. Aqui en Perú lo conocimos como "BASE LUNAR ALFA" alla por 1,985 y lo presentaron en formato de pelicula.

Speak for yourself! This is EXACTLY what I remember 1999 being like. Spaceships, cheesy explosions, and funky music. Did I mention space? Although I'm still waiting for my flying car. Where is my flying car dammit?

0:16 That music is like the dubstep of the 60s and 70s.

excellent wah-wah guitar!

Loved this show, but forget trying to get me into one of those Eagles! Geez those things crashed all the damn time lol.

Some of your points are moot. Brian Johnson who designed the Eaglea and FX for 1999 ended up supervising FX for Empire Strikes Back. During the making of Star Wars they had to change the design of the Millenium Falcon cause it looked too much like the Eagle. Most of the VFX for Star Wars came out of cutting edge work that John Dykstra was doing with motion control in college.

Groovy soundtrack...

Flying Cars? Sure, By the year 2000 we will all be living in Space! And eating space food out of tubes!

I always liked the teaser showing you little snippets of what was going to happen in that episode. Overall, I thought the first serious marvelously gloomy in overall tne with many episodes having quite creepy story-lines. Pretty good sets too (allowing for the flares!). Wasn't so keen on the 2nd series though...

Holy crap...I feel old.

Nice, it even sounds like it did back then! xD