DeeKnow’s Grotto

I've just finished watching the first episode of the television series Space-1999. This made-for-TV show was filmed in the mid-70's and I remember being glued to the screen watching it as a kid, fascinated, excited, terrified, mostly all at once. It was real as far as I was concerned, science-fact.

The opening episode on disk-one is of course the one that sets the scene for the rest of the series. The story of which is that the moon and those staffing the base on its surface, are blasted out of Earth's orbt to float forever out into deep space, out of reach of, and out of touch with planet Earth.

Executive producer of the show was Gerry Anderson (of Thunderbirds fame) and the music score (which is loaded with suspense-setting strings, with oboes and horns piping up for emphasis) sounds just like something out of a thunderbirds episode if you close your eyes. Visually, the modelling of ships (who could forget the Eagle) and base and suface structures do look a wee bit dated, but they're much improved on the earlier Thunderbirds era stuff.

I just checked, and it was almost exactly a year ago that I blogged about Space1999 and how I was hoping there'd be re-runs on TV. So when I saw the whole series on a punishing 6-DVD-set in RealGroovy in Auckland on Sunday how could I resist buying it. Jeeze it's great stuff. Can't wait to watch the other 23 espisodes :-)

10:29:50 PM