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The Future Is Fantastic! - Space: 1999 - Specials
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Title: Space: 1999

Overview: The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.

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Average Vote: 7.1 (129 votes)

Cast

  • John Koenig: Martin Landau
  • Helena Russell: Barbara Bain
  • Maya: Catherine Schell
  • Tony Verdeschi: Tony Anholt
  • Space: 1999 - Message from Moonbase Alpha (Specials - Episode 1)

    The seven minute clip features only Zienia Merton reprising her role as Sandra Benes delivering a final message to Earth as the only crew member left while a massive exodus to a habitable planet takes place with the rest of the crew. This basically gave the series the finality it never had in its initial run.

    Space: 1999 - The Return of Victor Bergman (Specials - Episode 2)

    Victor Bergman records a Moonbase Alpha status report from the Medical Center, seen in Command Center on his commlock. Helena had put him into stasis when his mechanical heart failed; he has now awoken and is cured. "To everything that might have been... to everything that might yet be." Filmed in 2002 before the death of actor Barry Morse, this short film was completed and first shown at the Journey To Where convention in Texas, USA, on Friday, 16 July 2010.

    Space: 1999 - Clapperboard - Space: 1999 (Specials - Episode 3)

    Presented by Chris Kelly, this documentary interviews Gerry Anderson and Brian Johnson on the set of Space: 1999. A large number of the models from the series are highlighted in the interview with Johnson

    Space: 1999 - Horizon - Space: 1999 SFX (Specials - Episode 4)

    BBC's science programme Horizon broadcast an edition called "How On Earth Do They Do That?", looking at film special effects from the series Space: 1999. The narration is read by BBC newsreader Richard Baker, with comments by SFX director Brian Johnson.

    Space: 1999 - Special Effects Documentary - Year Two (Specials - Episode 5)

    This interview with Brian Johnson was shot during the filming of the episode The A B Chrysalis, around June 1976. In 1999, Brian Johnson recorded a commentary for the DVD releases.

    Space: 1999 - Brian Johnson Interview - Year Two (Specials - Episode 6)

    This interview with Brian Johnson was shot during the filming of Seed Of Destruction, around July 1976.

    Space: 1999 - Face of Eden (Specials - Episode 7)

    Final Unaired Episode

    Space: 1999 - Return to Moonbase Alpha (Specials - Episode 8)

    Appears to be a fan-created video, featuring 48 minutes of video clips from the series and newly generated parts.

    Space: 1999 - Destination Moonbase-Alpha (Specials - Episode 9)

    After an atomic explosion blasts the Moon out of Earth orbit, Moonbase Alpha drifts in space, with 300 people on board. When a rescue team from Earth arrives in a faster-than-light space ship, everyone is overjoyed that they can now return to Earth. But Moonbase Commander John Koenig, having undergone an experimental brain soothing process after receiving a concussion in a crash on the Lunar surface, sees not friends from Earth but gruesome monsters which have telepathically caused all others on Alpha to see an illusion of an Earth party. The aliens are desperate for radiation and plan to manipulate the Alphans into detonating nuclear waste on the Lunar surface, reducing the Moon and everyone on it to dust. Koenig must expose this conspiracy to save his people.

    Space: 1999 - Space 1999 Year 1 Alternate Ending (Specials - Episode 10)

    Space: 1999 - Interviews (Catherine Schell) (Specials - Episode 11)

    Space: 1999 - Interviews (Vintage Gerry Anderson) (Specials - Episode 12)

    Space: 1999 - Interviews (Vintage Barbara Bain) (Specials - Episode 13)

    Space: 1999 - Interviews (Crew) (Specials - Episode 14)

    Space: 1999 - AlphaCon (Specials - Episode 15)

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