Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

George Taylor I've been a fan of Gerry Anderson for many years. And while I didn't appreciate the subtleties of UFO until I was an adult, Space:1999 was just a bad show from beginning to end. I blame the American end for this. Had the Anderson's retained full control as they did previously, it might have been watchable. The first season has bland, overthought stories (although the one with Christopher Lee is the best of the series), while the second put all logic aside for action and making Maya the main character, her shape-shifting abilities nearly always saving the day. While Landau and Bain are decent actors, they both seemed to phone in their performances. This show is just all SFX, and very rarely story.

jc-osms Nice to track down the pilot episode of this series I first (and last) watched as a young teenager back in the 70's. I loved the then married couple Martin Landau and Barbara Bain in the 60's in "Mission Impossible" and here they're teamed up again not unnaturally looking a little older, although neither they or the rest of their Moonbase Alpha crew look exactly young and with it in their beige uniforms and flared slacks.Produced by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, makers of previous "supermarionation" series such as "Stingray" and "Thunderbirds", this was their first live action show I believe. It's not altogether successful, however with a too obvious requirement of model work which doesn't seem too much improved from the puppet shows mentioned above. Maybe I'm being too harsh on the production values given the era in which it was made and no doubt budget constraints but you could argue it adds a little to its charm too.In their parts, Landau and Bain are a little static, in fact other than falling down a fair bit don't expect them to be Kirk-like action heroes. Both are however authoritative in their roles but I personally think younger, more animated leads would have enlivened matters somewhat, maybe if they'd been offered the parts ten years before...Of the rest of the cast, Barry Morse stands out as their sobering Bones-type senior officer and of course there are no aliens on the crew a-la Spock, well, it is only 1999 after all. With a flashy theme tune and using edited "In this episode" snippets at the start to encourage viewers to keep watching (borrowed from "Mission Impossible") it tries hard to be dynamic without really reaching the heights of, yes I'll say it one more time "Star Trek". But kudos to the Andersons for the attempt and with memories of the TV21 comic flooding my brain as I watch, I still get a kick out of it and will continue watching any other episodes I can find.

Vincent Black On September 13th, 1999, the Earth has stored nuclear waste on the Moon. Moonbase Alpha with a colony of over 300 is placed in grave danger. Magnetic radiation builds up on the base causing the Moon to blast out of the Earth's orbit, flying out into deep space. The moon colony is forced to face the unknown adventures in space on their moon, coming across strange new life forms and strange civilizations.Silly science inaccuracies aside, the acting is better than average for any series in that era. The effects are also quite better than most offered on television in that whole decade. Even "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century", that came out a years after this one, didn't have much better effects or plots. If you are not all discriminating about pseudo science, watch some Space:1999. I consider some of the episodes such as "Earthbound" to be a lot better than most of the original "Star Trek" series. The other space operas I equate this show with would be "Battlestar Galactica", "Lost in Space", "UFO" (same creator), and "Farscape". All held their fair share of viewers back in the day.

Peter Plasticon with it's plastic garden furniture chairs and it's wooden actors, space 1999 falls on it's arse cos of the characters, what characters?, and it looks 70s and it's supposed to be one of the most expensive shows ever made on British television at the point it was made! It's saving grace is the unlikely guest actors, you know like Peter Bowles all in black and big shoulders throwing people around who need a darn good shake! I didn't watch the second series cos of Maya's shape changing and no Barry Morse whose hair i liked, not as much fun as UFO in my opinion. I've got to do ten lines on this, it's like a punishment or something, I've nothing more to add OK, twitter doesn't give you enough and this too much