Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Nonureva Really Surprised!

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Tweetienator Fantastic show. If you like sci-fi - watch. The incredible adventures of Commander John Koenig and his crew on a moon station after the moon is thrown out of its orbit around Earth. After my disappointment with the "new" Lost in Space I thought about some good old sci-fi shows I liked and sometimes like to rewatch. Space: 1999 is one of the good old oldies (was aired from 1975 to 1977). Great actors, great stories, great adventures with all the unforgettable characters like Alan Carter, Prof. Victor Bergman and Dr. Helena Russell.And boy, for those times the special effects were excellent, well nowadays they are of course completely outdated "schrott" but somehow for nostalgic reasons reborn excellent again ;)

markwestbrook0612 I recently found out Space 1999 is on hulu, and I was ecstatic. I loved this show, the very little of it I could watch because my "religious" parents did not approve of it. I was 5 years old but I remember it very well. Then, in the early 90's came the Sci-Fi channel and they were playing it. I was lovin'it. In 1975, mind you I was 5, this show made Star Trek look like a joke. The lavish sets and costumes were so incredible for that time. When you watch this, as with viewing any art, you must put yourself in the mindset of the period of time in which it was made. If you can do that, this show will blow you away. To judge it by today's standards would be shallow and just plain ignorant. If I had to say, "Dragon's Domain" is the best episode. The way Barbara Bain's narration and the use of Tomaso Albinoni's "Adagio in G minor" throughout, is nothing short of masterful. The character of Tony Cellini is wonderfully played by Gianni Garko. And his fate is devastating, as shown on the faces of Commander Koenig and Dr. Russell in the ending. This is not just Sci-Fi, it is ART at it's best. Thank you Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse and of course, Gianna Garko, for a wonderful and moving experience over and over!

robrosenberger The conventional wisdom on this mid-70s sci fi offering from the prolific imagination of Gerry Anderson (THUNDERBIRDS, UFO) is, in a word...wrong. "Cerebral sci fi that 'jumped the shark' in season 2, rendering itself mindless and action-oriented". Well, no. Not precisely, no. Yes, season 2 did go after a larger audience and lower common denominator. But the truth of 1999 is completely opposite conventional wisdom. The only time they ever brushed greatness was in the maligned season 2...as children's sci fi. As adult sci fi, both seasons were failures, but the visuals, acting, and simplistic ideas of season 2 are ideal for a child in the 5-10 range, ready to take her or his (or ers) first steps into the mind-blowing universe of science fiction. To modern eyes, season 1 can't be called anything but plodding. It feels like it belongs in a museum, even though it was made almost a decade after the still-gripping STAR TREK. Is it cerebral? No. Being cerebral requires more than the appearance of cerebrality, dear Brits. There has to be genuine intellect at work. There are a handful of semi-gems. Real-life spouses of thirty-six years, Martin Landau and Barbara Bain star as leaders of Moonbase Alpha. In a nuclear waste accident, the moon is sent spinning off into space, where adventures await. The look of the show is pretty wonderful. The horseshoe-style lasers are absolutely classic. The eagles, their spaceships, are brilliant. Somehow both smooth and clunky, and boyohboy did the creators have a blast wrecking these things regularly. I don't know whether anyone's ever tabulated how many they lost, but it HAD to be more than they had in stock at the beginning. You could occasionally see the wires, but it's all so charmingly rendered that you buy into the reality fully. I had a toy eagle as a child, almost three feet long. The cockpit and engine sections disengaged to form a scout ship, something that never happened on the show. It would stand tall on a list of the five most brilliant toys of my youth. And don't let the strings fool you...time and again, you will be struck by how well-budgeted this show was. Rounding out the leads was Barry Morse as Professor Bergman, a gentle, thoughtful presence. The second season brought a great overhaul in the cast, music, and look. It's brighter and brisker, sexier and more playful, which feels great for about one episode. But the music is a travesty...the season 1 theme is a towering tribute to classic symphonic sci fi synth/guitar music that could ONLY have come out of the 70s, but the new theme song rolls off some cheesy assembly line. Sadly, the gentle wisdom of Barry Morse is also gone. The show falls prey to the insidious force of "youngicutifying" (a fate which also befell UFO), with dewy replacement characters Maya and Tony. For the first chunk of the season, it feels awful. But then, there comes a moment when you (and they?) finally stop taking the show seriously, and that moment is epiphanous. The possibility that this shift wasn't intentional is unsettling (the season 2 producer was Fred Freiberger, who also oversaw the much-derided last season of STAR TREK)...but through luck or a well-laid plan, it all slides into perfect children's sci fi, which can also make an adult in the right frame of mind chortle in delight. There are surprisingly few moments of regressive sexism or other such which a parent will have to pause and clarify for an eager child.

Thorsten-Krings Back in the 70s I really loved this show but that mainly had to do with there not being a lot of sci/fi shows on TV at the time plus I was only 6 years old and didn't know any better. However, re-watching it, I was quite disappointed. The sets and costumes and even the special effects were actually rather good but not more impressive than UFO four or five years earlier. Main main problems with Space 1999 is the weak story lines and the casting. The stories to me are positively weird, a lot of them being fairly esoteric and ending in a rather anti-climactic way. Maybe I should try watching under the influence of stimulants but some of the stories resemble more a bad acid trip than a TV show. I think you could have discussion about the meaning of some episodes as though you were discussing a Bunuel film. The casting is not very convincing either. Barry Morse looks like an OAP walking around in his payamas and Barbara Bain as love interest is beyond words. So give me UFO any time but Space 1999 really is strange.