El 13 de septiembre de 1999: La Base Lunar Alfa, situado en el cráter lunar Platón, es una colonia de la investigación científica y de vigilancia sobre los silos de residuos atómicos de la Tierra almacenados en el lado lejano de la Luna. La energía magnética se basta para provocar una reacción en cadena explosiva de los residuos, volando la Luna fuera de la órbita de la Tierra. El satélite se transforma en una especie de nave espacial gigante y sin rumbo a través de la galaxia, y a lo largo de la serie se viven diferentes peripecias, encuentros con otras culturas y formas de vida en el Universo, peligros, aventuras y problemas que deben resolver, hasta que debe ser abandonada en pos de perpetuar la raza humana en otro planeta.
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This was my first contact with a SciFi show and my favorite as a kid. I had an Eagle model and build myself a Comlock and a Stun Gun out of Lego. I must have been 8 or 9 years old. The production value, thanks to the Andersons, was really good. It looked absolutly believable. Yeah, the science isn´t waterproof but this was the 70s. You got away with a lot. The second season was not as good as the first (I remember some really ridiculous space monsters). They tried to americanise it by implementing tons of changes that just didn´t work out with the established facts of the first season. And those changes were also not explained during the shows second year. It became a different show. All things considered this show is called a classic for a reason. As a fan of sci-fi you should have watched this at least once.
I watched the original run on TV back in the 70s. I loved it. Although I didn't know it at the time I was already a sci-fi fan, and a fan of the Anderson's other work. I will return to this at some point - I recently revisited Blake's 7, but for today I'm just marking this as watched on the release date.
I was about 6 years old when I first saw Space 1999, and for a kid who dreamed of aliens and starships and had seen Star Wars, this TV series was like daydreaming. I will always and forever be tied to the events of Commander Koenig and the personnel of Moon Base Alpha.
Season one is very enjoyable. I cringed all the way through the second (which it's an absolute chore to watch). Nowhere near as good as UFO. It also gets marked down for regularly dubbing English speaking actors by other English speaking actors.
Episode order listed here is very different from actual order on my boxset. This may be similar to what happens regularly with Star Trek TOS, where the original broadcast order is different than the actual intended order for one reason or another. Fortunately, it has no bearing on viewing experience as each episode is completely self-contained.