Space: 1999: Season 1 Episode 1 - Breakaway (Full Episode) 

Me 😊

@@user-hp5to6kq1t Nice 😉

@@user-hp5to6kq1t Nice 😉

Yep

Sorry. I am a month late

I got one toy model of Eagle One medic design - it always remnded me of a gecko lizard😊

I made a 2" model of it with UHU glue and match sticks when I was 6.

And we have to think that 50 years later (25 after 1999) we still have nothing similar 🙀😼

Reminds me of soap opera non-ambient audio. Youre right, though. The sound effects are engramed into the masses conscience.

Probably saved money as well

​@@kaidron507 its SO irritating to have music that tells you how to feel/what mood to be in, when seeing a movie...😬

Usually sound effect background noise is used to cover up different sounding backgrounds and keep original dialog recording . Without sound effects of humming buzzing rumbling and traffic or weather and music it would be obvious each camera shot was pieced together in editing . This show may have had a studio soundstage with no coughing or talking or airplanes .

No music in 1999. Only two tunes allowed on earth, one creepy and one other tune. Music was a crime

Remember, they also did the final Gilligan's Island TV movie. 😄

Indeed they did, now in my country we have a full re-run of Mission Impossible, didnt know Landau & Bain acted together back in the days. Love many of the old tv series..

......and their daughter co-starred in BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER as Drusilla.

You are so right.

This is from the 70s more Like 40 years

@@vonsauerkraut The time of the show 1999, not when it was made is what I meant

​@@alansmithee183 vonsauerkraut didn't get your comment!😅

Alternative timeline perhaps?

Yeah...um 53 now..remember this show.makes me feel ancient 😢

A very well expressed sentiment. I'm 56 and grew up on classic Star Trek, one of the major formative influences on my life. And l loved Space:1999. AND l was convinced that by now we would have fully populated bases on the Moon, on Mars, and would be well into at least interplanetary exploration in our solar system. But instead in 2019 the pinnacle of human technology and endeavor amounts to um Facebook and uh taking selfies. SMH

well said

@@frankberst9849 We are just getting to the point of understanding the true realities of space travel. The technology we used in the 60s and 70s was not sufficient to really do what we wanted to do. The dreams of the generations prior are still being worked on. SpaceX and various other companies along with NASA are developing amazing technologies that will get us safely into space in a way that would make SciFi writers proud. Don't get too down!

You know what you're absolutely right!!! And now l can't wait to hear about the uh um first selfies in space

Everything good always seems to take longer than we hope to come about, but give it a few more years and there will be bases on the Moon. It's always been too expensive in the past, but companies like Space X and Blue Origin are developing the infrastructure. I look forward to seeing something like the Eagle transporter flying for real in 10 or 20 years.

This tv series and Galactica from 1982 my favorite..yes as a kid love to watch..but Galactica is much better..

If its 1999 why do they have 70s style desk lamps?

@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 tv show Space 1999 was make in early 70s..that why have desk lamp from that years..obviosly not know future style..

@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 you clown

@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 they were back en vouge in "99...my question is, how come the technology back in 1999 was so much more advanced than it is now? They could even travel all around space back then, no problem.. 👽👽

Classic television off two serial on completely fully epsiode on dvds dont forget your game consoles off todays plays both blue ray as well dvds some television to watched its on need start socket and some tv as bulit in dvds player and remember laptops as over 1tb bites and games consoles allso have 1 tb bites thats makes 2tb bites more than your tablets and smartphones put together even 32gb 64gb or 128gb or even 256gb of os sofrware windows 7.0 from xp version or vista version and dont for get cd rom off wins98/2000/me not forget norton 360 and early ones thats you have to put its in your pc att the time what a bout a film called fame before televisions programme was showed by the bbc network and sometimes itv network before Netflix and orthers 2018/2019

Yes you are wierd

You weird man! :-)

Haha I grew up watching this too, dig those bell bottom uniform pants .

You and me both, man.

Agree Wish I still had my toys also lol

There was a plastic kit of the eagle by Airfix in the UK it was also packaged by another company in america. They also made a very nice model of the Hawk a dedicated fighter ship that appeared in only one show.

Except for the lack of radiators to vent waste heat; Something that every scifi movie or show forgets, even 2001 (though that was a deliberate suggestion by Clarke to avoid audience confusion). Ironically, I think Avatar is one of the only films I've seen to actually have radiators on its spaceship and that ship was in the movie for, like, five minutes.

I agree with the fact that they could be mass produced, module form of space craft. They are a brilliant design for its time.

I still have my lunch box!

Happy Birthday from sunny San Diego,Ca😊

Sorry, but it was, still is and always will be, corny crap.

@@Steve20127 According to you

It was an amazing show at it's inception and still is

Not cheesy, at least season 1.

Beige.....

Those zippers up the left arm sleeve never caught on though... hard to figure why.

@@mccommas2 LOL...was thinking the same!

We used to "play" Space: 1999. I was Tony and my friend was Maya.

@@mccommas2 People like myself with hairy arms would keep getting them caught! 😬

It was completely behind the times, which is why it went the "fantasy" route. I guess you're not "old" enough to remember.

I'm sorry but there must be something wrong with your eyes...

@@sandokan1578 Nope. I can see just fine. Maybe it's just your lack of appreciation and visionary insight into the amount of work it took to produce a hi-budget TV series in the mid-1970s. I'm sure another 100 million pounds should have been added to the budget to reach the Star Wars level of FX, sets and non-existent CGI required to meet your standards of what's good. Now why don't you run along and troll the Doctor Who channels.

@@bastidface This looks better than CGI crap made today.

Agree, even though I have a problem with the physics! A massive explosion on the dark-side of the moon, which faces away from Earth, would propel the moon towards Earth, not away from us!

@@stevie-ray2020 Not necessarily... they never say exactly WHERE on the far side Area 2 was placed. It wasn't stated that area 2 was in the equatorial region, or even midway on the far side, longitude-wise. Explosion like that is the equivalent of hitting a pool ball with a glancing blow toward the edge of it. But yeah... many things happen on the show that are supposedly scientifically impossible... Koening and Sandra BOTH actually utter the phrase "That's impossible" in Breakaway (when the heat begins to rise without increase in atomic radiation). Many of the stories involed in the show are about the scinetifically impossible happening, and them grappling as to WHY it's occuring. Has our assumed scinetific knowledge always been wrong? Is some cosmic intelligence causing these things to occur? Is it GOD at work? The entire thrust of the series is to ponder those questions, and what is mankind's purpose in the universe, if indeed we have one. In War Games, we are told that mankind is a contaminating virus, a plague of fear to higher forms of life. fascinating stuff... even if it is a pessimistic outlook.

They really cheaped out in the 2nd season though, getting rid of the beautiful "Main Mission" set and replacing it with "Command Center" where all you could see were like 4 consoles in a cramped close-up shot

@@joestrike8537 Yeah they blew it with that one!

In season 1 the Command Center and the Power generating section were mind boggling big. Who can forget the door to the reactor core?

@@joestrike8537 Fred Freiberger felt that a smaller control room would be more intimate and increase the drama between the characters.

@@dalethelander3781 not to mention saving a s***load of money over lighting and preparing the original Main Mission set for filming. I hung out with some hardcore sci-fi fans back when the series was new and I can't tell you how furious they were that Freiberger came in to do the second season; they considered him the man who killed ST:TOS.

Yep. They made a real life size one. Just can't fly

I had a toy one.

@@WilfChadwick I still got mine :)

@@cattflap1447 Bastard!!!!!!!!!!!:(

the best !

Yes - season 1 and even a few of those were so-so. I just noticed that part of Koenigs' dialogue from 31:56 - 32:05 was "sampled" by the band/artist Biosphere.

Your comment saved my life.

Cinematic masterpiece lol! It was decent enough some of the special,effects were cheap af.

I say reboot it. But do it right and not politically correct.

The premise of the show is flawed. If you going to fly nuclear waste into space, why bury it on the moon? Why not get to space and send it to the Sun for instant evaporation!!! Lol. The most consistent Sci-Fi show and most long-running has to be Star Trek. One has to marvel at how many Start Trek things have actually come to pass. I suppose the only thing that has not happened as predicted is the Eugenics War (WW III).

Funny this, but as a child I found it watchable and some parts of it pretty good, and I feel the same way about it now.

Wow. For real? You haven't seen many sci fi movies and shows, have you?

@@delavan9141 In actual fact, I have watched many science-fiction shows and movies, as I enjoy them very much! One of my favourites is Space 1999, and I stand firm on my previous statement, as I’m entitled to my opinion!

The first season was good but the second season seemed like the writers were doing acid.

48 years old

Considering this show started out as a way to use the pre-production work of the second UFO series, they did amazingly well. Don't get me wrong, I wish there had been more Gabrielle Drake as Gay Ellis in UFO but S:1999 was a favorite of mine when I was a little kid.

It’s a masterpiece

Season 1 was an amazing masterpiece... dark, a certain underlying feeling of desperation throughout. Season 2 not so much; a bit too campy and more tailored for a younger audience. Lost a lot of its magic. At the time Space 1999 was the most expensive series on the air. Each episode was over 1 million dollars to produce. The sets, costumes, effects.... brilliant!

@@mdsf01 not entirely sure of the exact finance behind the show? But if memory serves, season 1 reigned at about 3 million, not quite sure on season 2, definitely just as costly!

We were promised that the moon would be blown out of earth's orbit, and the only armageddon we got was Y2K, big let down

@@1monki Y2K was no where near an Armageddon or even a bang, it was a true dud and an excuse for merchants to sell software and hardware to old institutions, Governments, still using antiquated systems, being I have always used computers, 8 months before 2000, I took 3 computers and reset the calenders to simulate the year 2000, and lo & behold, the 3 computers worked just fine. I told everyone I knew that the Y2K thing was simply a Chicken little Fairy story.

True

...and that 1999 is much more interesting than this 2021.

I don't know, man. I wouldn't change my Pokémon. But then, if you would explain the concept of it to someone from the 70s, or even in the 90s before it became famous, and then add, the perfect game for 11 year olds... But then at that age we were smart enough to know that we were chasing wild, free beings, beat them, captured them, enprisoned them, to be used as a tool FOR OUR GLORY AND GREATNESS, to be shaped and thrown away whenever, only to teach us that they are intelligent beings who love US and are thankful for US helping them, a sick case of Hostage syndrome towards US the 11 year old slavemasters who go on to lord over godlike beings. YEAH!

Made on film, so yeah :)

When we watched in off the air, there was often a lot of snow! If you were lucky enough to have a color TV!

35mm film even!!!

A lot of that is due to laziness on humanity's part. We could have permanent bases on the moon decades ago, but the will has been lacking. We got some catchup to do.

And that intro music! One thing I love about 70s production, aside from the nostalgia, is the liberal use of "free-jazz" funky bongo drum rhythms.

'Space 1999' years ahead of its time,most actors there are gone now.

@@LarryWhite-kw5mj Agreed. I saw Barry Morse in a made - for - TV movie, Barbara Bain did some childrens' books reading, and Martin Landau had a bit part in the movie 'X Files: Fight The Future'.

Same here. I was absolutely stunned watching every part of the series. Sad to see it ended, although the Star Ears was a natural extension of my fantasies of the universe which made my interest in the development and man's position in that development crucial for my studies in astrology in my younger years. Now I am 76 and still extremely interested in the place we humans have in this development

Sorry, mean astronomy, of course, if you noy are talking to S Freud; slip of the tongue meaning your unconscious is talking

They sent me to my sleepy place since most episodes were so damned boring

I found it as scary as a child as Dr Who. Needed to hide behind the couch on occasion.

@@aegisgfx I see the good side in it, when you sleep you not talk, beautiful deal we got there

Im with you on that Josh,,good days,,,,and it still don't look that bad now.

When l first watched space 1999 in 1977,l was 11 years old

Crazy, dude. You are HAPPY to be in this timeline ? We are all witnessing the end of our planet...you and I may be lucky enough to avoid a front row seat, those may well be reserved for our grandkids....I'd hardly be thrilled about that.

I was 5 in 1975,I still remember this opening sequence from the 1st episode,it literally blew my socks off.....and that was on an old black and white 20inch tv as well lol!

@@cikgurazak2734 you're an old fart like me! I was the same age. XD

Remotely piloted vehicles have been a thing since just after the First World War.

I was born in 1960 at the beginning of the US space program. I was a space baby! I was just the right age to enjoy the 1970s in my teens. Would not trade it for any other time period.

It never occurred to me watching this as reruns in the mid 80s that it would ever have been filmed on film and been made to look crisp on the big screen.

@@tactileslut Sadly the clearer it gets, the more obvious it is they used tiny little models for almost everything

@@aegisgfx That does make things easier to store: maybe some lucky collector has the aerial view set in a 2x2x0.3 ft acrylic display case.

The first mainstream sci fi show that was filmed so clearly. 2001 A Space Odyssey quality.

You should see my wife remastered.

Yes it's much better made than the moon landing by NASA.

1970!

ROFLMAO. Really. Disco-boogie intro track didn't clue you in?

Before that. I watched it while in jr high, and I graduated from J.H. in 1974.

MCMLXXIV = 1974. Read the credits

Because that's what the script said to do.

I had a relative who did that on a dangerous mission in WW2. He made sure to include himself among several participants even though he didn't have to.

The only problem with that scenario is/was an eagle was lost and they sent another out that was remotely controlled. On Star Trek the captain would have sent the remotely controlled eagle first. Then if insufficient information was relayed back he would have goon himself.

That's not how the real world works.

@@fuzzywzhe It's how the real world worked in 1974.

Star Trek was also very inspirational....I was 8 years when I knew what I wanted to do: Become an engineer and work in NASA programs. My first job out of university was as a member of the XRS-2200 Aerospike development team, followed by the Space Shuttle Main Engine, etc., Those we very fun years.

The way they went through Eagles, I think they must have had about 10,000 of them stored away in a huge hanger under the moon's surface. Seems like every week "There goes another Eagle".

You mean Maya the Metamorph. Grrrrowlll!

Oh yeah, I loved it too, when I was 6. Now, so many years later, after learning a thing or two about science, it is hilariously terrible. Scientifically, nothing in the show makes any sense. "physics? nahhhhh....we don't need no stinkin physics!" ONLY a child would be able to 'suspend disbelief' and enjoy this show.

@@ArizonaWillful There was one episode where there was a massive explosion in that hanger that wiped out God knows how many Eagles; maybe there was a manufacturing installation also underground somewhere where they could keep manufacturing new ones

I threw a house party. We watched this episode and had astronaut/moon themed food and drink. Most of my friends are actors, it was a hoot.

I DID ALSO BOTH DATES! CAMPY SHOW BUT FUN TO WATCH AS A KID!

google , is the moon moving away from earth ....lol

I was locked up.

August 29, 1997. Was waiting for Skynet to come online . I was sweatin a bit that day.

Plus Landau and Barbra made it difficult to continue.. it's all in the wiki about the sad end of the show.

@@hawkdsl I didn't know that, I'll check that out thanks

The second season is very different in plots, effects, and continuity than the first. Fred Freiberger who helped produce Star Trek season 3 (1968-69) produced Space: 1999 in season 2)(1976-77).

@Edwin Arnold I think it was just one hour... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Y6BXaGEuqxo.html

The first season was good. The second season was terrible, in my opinion. Wasn't surprised or even disappointed when it was cancelled. I was kind of ridiculous how the moon passed through a different star system every week. Must have been travelling several times the speed of light, then slowed down as it got near a planet then again jumped to warp speed. LOL But I did like the Eagles and special effects in the series. Even have a diecast Eagle that looks awesome.

Its on the Horror Channel at 8pm after Star Trek Voyager and is usually repeated on Forces TV regularly.

Yes, I never get tired of watching the episodes from both season 1 and season 2. The one with the energy monster still freaks me out, but when I was 8, it REALLY upset me.

How'd you foget the Bionic Woman

Charlie's Angel's. Fantasy island...

Logan's Run,gemini Man,misadventures of Sherif Lobo

Don’t forget soylent green

Yes. Watching this is equivalent to listening to vinyl.

@@Cola.Cube. it’s velvety

Ha the exact same, 59 years old and just found out today how it all happened. Loved this show!

made in 1973...

Lol

Or more accurately: about some shit that didn't happen in 1999.

Patrick W True lol

We were watching this series in the 1970s

Same here ,

Me too

so true

Especially that tentacles monster episode that sucked you into it’s orifice! Horrid..truly.

Ditto. And its where my infatuation for sci-fi started.

Update: now that I watched them after 40+ years, I like the majority of the episodes too. Very well made show.

The show was coproduced by the Italian TV network RAI. There was a very slick "Italian" style of graphics & design at the time the show was made & I think a lot of that style made it into the show

It's clinical

The show began on 9-9-99, it left Earth orbit on 9-13-99. It premiered on 9-9-75 - my 13th birthday... Still have all my 1999 toys I was given or bought in the late 70s.

I was about 10, too. But I thought it was biggest bomb ever created.

Same with me and my best friend Paul - probably 11 or so. We were Scifi obsessed! He used to play the theme on his Stylophone...

How's Andy?

Same here. Being a child then, this series made a great impression on me. From the perspective of an experienced adult, it may seem dated, but you simply have to admire the dedication with which all the effort was conducted in the mid-seventies with the tools of that time.

I still prefer the Ufo series with Edward Bishop,and Wanda Ventham!This show holds up well for being made in the late 1960”s,and 1970”s.They are still selling Ufo merchandise on E-bay,as well as Gerry Anderson merchandise and Star Trek merchandise.Too,last year,Fanderson produced a Space 1999 radio show for all the Space 1999 fan’s out there!

@@bettyleeist ufo was 6 years earlier and didn't have the Moon (for God's sake) travelling FTL

@@TheShootist good goobalee god! Focus man. 🤣🤣🤣

I remember her as Ping-Cho in an early Doctor Who - Marco Polo.

Sandra Benes is one of my favorite characters. Rest in peace.

I definitely liked her better than Yasko! Yasko was a terrible actress. They should have kept her and Dr. Mathias on all the 2nd season episodes! Way to go Frieberg moron!

Wow never heard any news anywhere about it. RIP Zienia

That's sad.....RIP Ziena.

BSG: R

@@tmmartinesq.6216 Soap opera disguised as sci fi.

B5

Best episode was "Earthbound" With Christopher Lee

@@greekpapi Oh God yes...I don't remember what the set-up was, somebody trying to blame someone else for something, but Lee responded with "there is no need for judicial vengeance" - I still love that line!

I too would race home on Sundays and my Mum would let me eat lunch in the lounge so I could watch it. I made an Eagle out of Balsa wood at school, but it basically looked awful and I cut my hand with the knife. Good times. Good times.

It brings a lot of memories. I watched this when I used to live in Ethiopia. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Don't forget Logan's Run which was made I think just after or in the same decade as Buck Rogers and original Battle Star Galactica with Lorne Green .

All great shows that were all utterly ruined with revamped, abysmal 2nd seasons.

Space 1999 was made in the early to almost mid 1970s but I do not consider it to be "the same period" as Buck Rogers and BSG. It was before Star Wars. The other 2 shows were after Star Wars. Imho Space 1999 definitely had an early 1970s look, the trousers and those broad belts, the main computer where a strip of paper is coming out.... But yeah the overall look of the rest was okay. To be honest I think some of the costumes of Buck Rogers looked a bit over the top. But I also loved and still love it and BSG.

You can't buy the original Battlestar where I am :(

@@rickseifert5139 YES!!!!!!!!

this isnt the 80's. first aired around 75 ended around 77 i think

I'm sure they meant in reruns, I watch it, It was always on in the early morning on Saturdays in the early eighties

It was indeed around early 1982 as I saw the Season 1 reruns in the LWT area.

Me too...

Got it on blue ray

Recycling nuclear waste makes more sense. 95% can be reused with current technology, fear and mining lobbies keep us from exploiting this energy dense resource. And we wouldn't have to be concerned about an errant rocket dropping nuclear waste through an unforeseen error like happened to Space Shuttle Columbia.

Mike B. I Agree. Love the older movies and tv shows

Joel Smith Re boots like Ghostbusters or ocean 8? All reboots are unwatchable and a rape of the good old originals

+Mike less left wing propaganda in them.

l337pwnage What exactly do you mean? To many men in leading roles?

Old Norse brewery It has less to do with the who, and more to do with the why. And it's a lot more than just that. I watched that latest "Predator", and that is a _terrible_ movie. I almost walked out, and I only walked out of one movie in my life. In a nutshell, the aliens are grabbing more and more people because they know we are going extinct due to global warming. Also, autism is just the next step in human evolution. I bet you didn't know that? lol. And, of course, the cast choices are all there to push multiculturalism and degeneracy. Lots of gratuitous foul language, sexual innuendo, and the like, just like most movies push. And, of course, all the "heros" are military prisoners, because people only go to prison because they are unfairly targeted. The propaganda goes on and on. If you watch MacGyver, you should already know most of the tricks. That show was *very* left wing. I'm glad I didn't notice that stuff when I was younger or it would've ruined the show for me. The whole show was anti-gun, but they didn't really tackle it until I think Season 4, and they wanted to show one of the left wing gun violence stats at the end of the show, but the NRA pretty much told them they will be sued into oblivion, so they couldn't. Richard Dean Anderson was pissed and even whined about it on talk shows. That was the episode where he was a dumbass and tried to grab a loaded gun out of his friend's hand and he shot his other friend. Compare that to "The Rifleman" where a similar incident happened. The main kid in the show and another kid were playing around with dad's gun and the one kid got shot and killed. The main kid didn't want anything to do with guns anymore and the whole episode was about the main kid overcoming his fear of guns and that you can't run away from bad things that happen and you have to deal with them. The rabbit hole goes deep when it comes to the media.

The 'few stars" were because the series didn't have a lot of $$$ for optical effects, so they had to do a lot of in-camera compositing & they didn't want the ships to seem transparent with stars shining right through them

Yes, Star Trek, they're talking to you.

Yes. I perfer personal communication device

But we don't have any Eagles or a base on the moon.

Or tablet

a telephone that gives us access to all the knowledge in the known world... yet we watch shows of a future that is now our past where they had less techie stuff than we did...

Ya, and just like Buck Rogers.

I never forgave her for beating Diana Rigg as Emma Peel for the Emmy a few years earlier.

Ah!!! C'est une anecdote que j'ignorais! Merci !

My Grandson's birthday is also September 13th.

BBC Barbara Brain was hot!🥵

She and Martin were married

Since it was a syndicated TV show, different cities had different premiere dates. In my city it was in late October.

It might have been cheesy,but TV since then has become Velveeta.

I was once chatting with Ben Bova, a noted science fiction author (don't you *dare* say "sci-fi" to him!) and editor of "Analog" sci-fi magazine.(Whoops, sorry Ben!) He had the best line on the subject: "Space: 1999, marked down from 2001"

There is a starship(seen in "Wargames" and "Alpha Child") that resembles '2001''s starship Discovery.

The details went down for the regular episodes. For example, in the pilot when someone would be seen speaking on a video monitor, the backgrounds would be of the room they were supposed to be in, but in the regular episodes there would just be a grey background.

Please don't, we don't need another woke version of a good show. They would just ruin it for good, like everything else.

There have been a few attempts, but they all had the same result....nothing.