Just discovered that Forces TV are running the early episodes of Space 1999 :). This used to be essential viewing (on a Sunday?) when we were kids and I loved all the models, especially the Eagle transporters and the external shots of the moonbase. Funnily enough my wife used to watch this at some point in Nigeria, again on a Sunday. Small World eh?
I've been watching UFO and Space 1999 on Youtube while painting figures.
HMV have the newly released re-mastered UFO on their shelves,which I have picked up and put down several, does it still stand the test of time?
Well, Space 1999 still looks great, but my wife was laughing at the flared trousers and high heeled shoes (well we think they were but hard to see under the flares :D). As for UFO, I did see part of an episode a few years ago, which was a bit cringe making to watch. Very much of its time but not sure if it's aged well. However the UFO vehicle still looked good and the Dinky toy was great, with its flip up lid that held that great missile that fired really well :).
Anyone notice the commander is in North by North-West?
Sometimes there seems to be a very small pool of actors (both male and female) that appear in TV and films.
I've been watching old episodes of the X files recently, and playing 'spot who's appeared in episodes on the different NCIS series'
Quite a lot.....And agent Dogget was the naughty terminator in Terminator 2. (Though not as young as he appeared in that....There's a surprise.)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: FierceKitty on 10 March 2019, 08:46:23 AM
Anyone notice the commander is in North by North-West?
Oh, yes. Noticed that the first time round (although, to be fair, I believe I am older than you) plus the fact that the professor was Lt. Gerard, the pursuing policeman, in that early media incarnation of the
Les Miserables chase plot, the 1960's(?) TV series,
The Fugitive. :-B
There is an older Japanese/Chinese American actor who crops up regularly in Netflix and Amazon series.
Thank Heavens, we've almost finished season two of Space 1999. Barbara Bain really couldn't out-act Lady Penelope, the commander's smile looks like a shark's at the dentist's, and there's a deplorable lack of nude scenes by Zenia Merton. This before we get on to the "science" and scripting!
Quote from: FierceKitty on 29 April 2019, 04:16:08 AM
there's a deplorable lack of nude scenes by Zenia Merton.
Unlike the 1971 production of Casanova with Frank Finlay in the lead. :)
I remember enjoying this when it was first shown and I was 9 or 10.
But even then I thought the premise stupid. Even then I knew that you'd never get the Moon moving fast enough to travel between solar systems.
Generally thought the tech looked good, and the model making is excellent.
Loved the Eagle - brilliant design. But then they went and spoiled it by using in planetary atmospheres. Again, my junior self knew this was stupid. The Eagle is obviously designed for extra-atmospheric work.
Never saw the seconds series. HTV never screened it. Apparently a lot changed. Tellingly, the FWC rulebook includes a section at the end for "films you may find inspirational", and includes "Space 1999 1st TV series".
Quote from: FierceKitty on 29 April 2019, 04:16:08 AM
Barbara Bain really couldn't out-act Lady Penelope
Genuine LOL ;D! Nice one.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 29 April 2019, 01:43:11 PM
Unlike the 1971 production of Casanova with Frank Finlay in the lead. :)
Yes, that must get a bit of attention soon.
I still have the UFO interceptor, but minus the rocket and the SHADO Tracked Assault wagon. Always wondered why the Aliens didn't attack with 4 UFOs when Moonbase only ever seemed to have 3 interceptors!
Of that era...you can get 'The Flashing Blade' on DVD...I did, but couldn't get past Ep.1! ;D
Forces TV (channel 96 on Freeview) has started showing Blake's Seven .
It has not aged well . . .
The BBC special effects dept. of 1978 are doing their best, but obviously have next to no money to spend.
The scripting and plotting are . . . not great.
I'd forgotten how awesome the Liberator looks, mind.
Does Servalan still look good though ;) :D?
Quote from: Raider4 on 16 September 2021, 08:42:53 PM
Forces TV (channel 96 on Freeview) has started showing Blake's Seven .
The BBC special effects dept. of 1978 are doing their best, but obviously have next to no money to spend.
I'm pretty certain I remember Gareth Thomas, who played Blake, complaining that Star Trek spent more on a coffee break than the Beeb spent on an entire series of Blake's Seven. ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil. :)
Even then the special effects in Star Trek were pretty bad. And why did they never fit seat belts to the bridge chairs ?
Perhaps the script writers noticed that with the forces involved in FTL travel, time jumps, novas, shockwaves able to travel in a vacuum, and weapons on a matching scale, seatbelts would be like wrapping a polystyrene cup in tin foil before chucking it into a volcano. The margin between instant annihilation and being completely in control would realistically be so slight that the directors' favourite shower of sparks, lights go red, everyone falls over, Mr Spock says "interesting", Lootenant Uhura kneels in concern beside the prone figures of Ensigns Kenny and Bluebottle, and the captain orders the auxiliary power to be turned on scene just wouldn't happen. Of course, the script made better science but dull TV, and was ignored.
Quote from: Steve J on 16 September 2021, 08:45:25 PM
Does Servalan still look good though ;) :D?
Tricky to respond too; she died in 2018.
Space 1999 scared the crap out of me as a kid whilst the Flashing Blade started a long love affair with pike and shot wargaming.
Ah 'The Flashing Blade', what a great intro and theme music and IIRC, was on during the school summer holidays, along with Robinson Crusoe. Both essential viewing as a kid :).
Quote from: Steve J on 26 September 2021, 06:49:20 AM
Ah 'The Flashing Blade', what a great intro and theme music and IIRC, was on during the school summer holidays, along with Robinson Crusoe. Both essential viewing as a kid :).
Bought it on DVD but I only lasted one episode. 'Might' revisit... ;) Did keep replaying the intro, though! ;D
I'm sure the acting and storylines leave at lot to be desired compared to modern offerings, but that intro you've just got to love! I think this led to my enduring love for the morion style helmet :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Sb9AoirSU&ab_channel=NiallWilliams (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Sb9AoirSU&ab_channel=NiallWilliams)
Quote from: Steve J on 26 September 2021, 06:49:20 AM
Ah 'The Flashing Blade', what a great intro and theme music and IIRC, was on during the school summer holidays, along with Robinson Crusoe. Both essential viewing as a kid :).
I remember
starting to watch it multiple times, and yes it looked exciting and different. I seem to recall I never finished. Somewhere in the middle it bogged right down, when the hero (heroes?) hide in a travelling circus and then nothing seemed to happen?
(These are very vague memories from over 40 years ago, so I may have it completely wrong)
According to the internet/wikipedia, there was some sort of audio/dubbing problem with the last episode anyway?
Quote from: Steve J on 27 September 2021, 05:57:41 AM
I'm sure the acting and storylines leave at lot to be desired compared to modern offerings, but that intro you've just got to love! I think this led to my enduring love for the morion style helmet :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Sb9AoirSU&ab_channel=NiallWilliams (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Sb9AoirSU&ab_channel=NiallWilliams)
Damn it. You Just Had to, didn't you! LOL!
Strangely, the servant 'Guillot?' looks 'more 'at home' on galloping horse than the Chevallier.. whose legs flap all over the place... might just be me! ;D
Agree about Morion... just 'fits'.
Canon and 'Bangs', lol!
Raider... from FIFTY yrs ago+, it did seem to Bog... and pos memory of Harlequin costume... which I Hate.. . suppose I WILL have to watch again, sometime! ;D
Oh well... LOL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Vh8JJR1OQ
Incidentally, think 'Robinson Crusoe' theme became a popular Med 'Clubbing' remix! They wouldn't have been Born! ;D
Quote from: Leman on 10 March 2019, 01:27:06 PM
There is an older Japanese/Chinese American actor who crops up regularly in Netflix and Amazon series.
Actually he's that young cop from R.I.P.D - you just have to keep an eye out for his blonde bombshell of a partner ;D
Flippin 'eck, I thought Raider meant he was watching Casanova when he was 9 or 10. Very progressive parents!
It was a topic of disscussion in the Sixth Form Centre, wonder why !
Quote from: Raider4 on 30 April 2019, 01:04:14 PM
I remember enjoying this when it was first shown and I was 9 or 10.
Never saw the seconds series. HTV never screened it. Apparently a lot changed. Tellingly, the FWC rulebook includes a section at the end for "films you may find inspirational", and includes "Space 1999 1st TV series".
You need to see the 2nd Season "The Rules of Luton"
I also think that serious actor Roy Marsden might be playing one of the creatures
Luton? Never watched tv series.
Luton, to me, means... being stuck in Luton Airport on a school ski trip for about 12 hrs. Aged 15/16...too young for bar... (Made up for that in Italy!). Nothing to do except smoke, (yeah!)... but tab machine out of everything except 'Pall Mall'...utterly horrible! >:(
Other activity was experimentally BITING each other.. for sharpest teeth! I did treasure a set of toothmarks , (Arm!), from a certain young lady! LOL!!! ;)
Oh.. to be a teen again... ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 28 September 2021, 04:32:18 AM
Other activity was experimentally BITING each other.. for sharpest teeth! I did treasure a set of toothmarks , (Arm!), from a certain young lady! LOL!!! ;)
That's brought back a memory.... of standing behind another engineer in the queue for the canteen in the exchange in Guildford.....and seeing the MOST impressive love-bite on his neck.
Me..."Cor...Smithy....She must have been very a passionate young lady."
Smithy...."No !......It was ****ing Neil Mcwomble (the name has been changed for legal reasons. ;)).......three other sods pinned my arms to my sides while he did that."
Well...whatever turns you on. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil. :)
Strange customs in S. Wales
Except that Guildford is in the Sarf East of England, Ian. ;)
Cheers - Phil. :)
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 28 September 2021, 04:32:18 AM
Luton? Never watched tv series.
Luton, to me, means... being stuck in Luton Airport on a school ski trip for about 12 hrs. Aged 15/16...too young for bar... (Made up for that in Italy!). Nothing to do except smoke, (yeah!)... but tab machine out of everything except 'Pall Mall'...utterly horrible! >:(
Other activity was experimentally BITING each other.. for sharpest teeth! I did treasure a set of toothmarks , (Arm!), from a certain young lady! LOL!!! ;)
Oh.. to be a teen again... ;D ;D ;D
I grew up in luvvely Lootun! Worked, on a summer holiday job, as an assistant chef at the airport, aged 16, preparing food for package holiday flights (Monarch I think) - it was a 'coming of age' experience as I had to 'manage' the night shift of 30+ older women :D Lots of perks and lots of 'learning' went on. The only tip the head chef gave me, was "if they start fighting - lock yourself in a cupboard!" and on the only occasion it happened (when one of the older women had caught her hubby with a younger colleague) the carnage was almost indescribable!
It was that really hot summer and Donna Summer was on the radio all the time - with "I feel love" ... the factory was baking hot and really humid - and the girls/women were down to almost working in their underwear most of the time ... it did terrible things to a young lad's blood pressure I can tell you ;D ;D ;D
Next summer I got a job at the Vauxhall car plant instead - the money was better - but the experience was horrific - smelly, greasy blokes, drinking sweet tea & condensed milk out of an urn, smoking all the time, working on an endless production line in grey ill-fitting overalls - on strike or stoppages almost every other day for some reason or other, and the industrial injuries were unbelievable* (a guy on our night shift got badly cut up whilst sleeping in a skip, when a colleague - who didn't know he was in there - dumped half a ton of metal swarf onto him - the Union called us out the following day, when management fired him for sleeping on the job - as the Union said that it was a health & safety breach by management).
*Another guy lost both his legs, at the knees, when the line jammed and he was so tired that he stepped in to unjam it, without turning it off first! Thankfully I was too far away to see it, just heard the scream ... terrible.
There's a film in there somewhere I'm sure!
Quote from: Big Insect on 28 September 2021, 08:44:07 AM
There's a film in there somewhere I'm sure!
I used to LOVE horror films..Got loads..But haven't watched one for yonks....
I don't think I'd like to watch that though, Mark !
Cheers - Phil. (Shudder !!)
I was think more of a 'Made in Dagenham' type film rather that 'SAW 42' Phil ;D