i just got both seasons of Space 1999 (12 discs 48 episodes) each episode goes for like an hour, so thet'd be one hell of a marathone if attempt it.
i loooooved this show so much as a kid. it was my third (often equal second/first) in my favorite shows of the time (1.being monkey, 2.being Dr.Who, 4.Quark, hitchikers guide to the galaxy was in the mix by 1980 or so...)
This show is great. obviously dated due to the fact it was made in 1975... but i loved it so much more than Star Trek because of their lack of technology (and they had an australian guy - who was in a whole bunch of other US shows and was so the basis for 'the critic's' jeremy hawke).
but getting back, there were marooned on a moonbase built for nuclear waste disposal, when an acident launches the mmon out of the earths orbit, so they have no scientists as such and a giant computer that seems to be completely useless... which is cool because their low level of technology means they can't just teleport out or replicate what they need.
i've been thouroghly enjoying it to death as Martin Landau is the star, and on what i've watched so far guest apperances have included Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Brian Blessed, so i'm in hog heaven...
best of all its a british/US combined production so it makes things quite interesting...
anyone else watch this show... i think there's only like 3 people here old enough to remember it, and even then it didn't reapeat long after here, so i don't know if it did there...
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(i just found out the other day that these two (barbara bain, martin landau) are the parents of the actress who plays drucilla on buffy)