I hate buying the same movie/program over and over again. It’s something I try to avoid. Every now and then though a release comes along that forces me to cast that rule aside. The recent release of Space: 1999 on Blu-Ray falls into that category. I’d initially acquired the series on VHS by recording the [...]
I’ve Geeked Out on a previous Gerry Anderson TV show a few months ago with Space: 1999. This show, from 1967, was shot in Anderson’s trademark Super-Marionation, which many U.S. fans remember most from Thunderbirds. Captain Scarlet focuses on Spectrum, Earth’s security agency. During a mission to Mars, to Spectrum agents accidentally destroy an ancient [...]
20Apr07
Friday Geek Out: Space: 1999
I have such fond memories of TV while growing up. After school there was Star Trek and Ultraman and Lost in Space. I’m sure you see the sci-fi theme here. In 1975, a new weekly show cropped up called Space: 1999 (created by Gerry Anderson, who is also responsible for Thunderbirds among other things). It [...]
