Space: 1999 – Special Effects Techniques

Re:Space: 1999 – Special Effects Techniques by euroderf on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @07:37AM (#46056826)

Part of the appeal of UFO was the music by Barry Gray. Great stuff. The opening montage always grabbed me.

And the Moonbase uniforms were very eyecatching to say the least. And some of the plots were almost as mindwarping as The Prisoner.

OTOH why did the alien craft always approach the Earth from the side where the Moon is ?

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Re:Space: 1999 – Special Effects Techniques by arethuza on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @07:48AM (#46056901)

"why did the alien craft always approach the Earth from the side where the Moon is"

Presumably because they'd read the script? :-)

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Re:Space: 1999 – Special Effects Techniques by euroderf on Saturday November 29, 2025 @12:11PM (#46089085)

Skydiver was usually in the right place too. Or, _a_ Skydiver.

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Re:Space: 1999 – Special Effects Techniques by wrp on Saturday November 29, 2025 @12:52AM (#46085438)

I recently watched the whole season of UFO, wanting so badly to like it because of its music and set design, but episodes were soooooo dull. The plot premises seemed promising, but the development was poor.

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Re:Space: 1999 – Special Effects Techniques by euroderf on Saturday November 29, 2025 @04:56AM (#46086363)

Not your cup of alien tea eh. Considering all the sci-fi available out there, maybe nowadays the target audience would be high schoolers..

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Re:Space: 1999 – Special Effects Techniques by davidwritesbugs on Saturday November 29, 2025 @10:42AM (#46088369)

There was a homoerotic element in the fishnet stuff I always thought. And HR would have a fit if you asked women to wear that stuff now, err, I mean in 1999.

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Re:Space: 1999 – Special Effects Techniques by euroderf on Saturday November 29, 2025 @12:10PM (#46089078)

Agreed on all points. Yes it was dynamite on the ladies.

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