The Catacombs The Merchandise Guide
Costumes, Badges and Miscellany
Compiled by Martin Willey

COSTUMES (Collegeville)

US 1975-6. Number 2118. $3.98

Four different Halloween costumes. A plastic mask, and plastic suit with artwork. The two Koenig masks are astronaut helmets; Helena and Maya masks have the distinctive hairstyles.

  • Koenig (artwork is Helena cowering to Koenig, based on Gray Morrow's cover for Charlton magazine number 1; red and black printed on yellow background).
  • Helena (identical to Koenig, except in yellow and black with a blue background)
  • Koenig (tunic shows Koenig and Helena cowering -based on year 2 publicity photo- with Moon behind)
  • Maya (complete with pointy hairstyle, weird eyebrows and a firey dress based on her Metamorph dress).

Box (22 x 28 x 8 cm) is a standard Halloween costume box with art of owl and cat below a display window. The Space 1999 logo was a piece of paper stuck at the top of the box. The character was identified on the label attached to the bottom of the box.

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T SHIRTS (Duelt Manufactur A B)

UK 1975

Mentioned in "The Making Of Space 1999" (Tim Heald) p181; Omicorn fan club.


T SHIRT (Network Distribution)

U K 1993 £9.99 + £1.00 postage & packaging

Special offer available in ITC Space 1999 videos, vols 15 and 16, from November 1993- 31st May 1994.

The black T-shirts were available in large & extra-large sizes.

Design featured logo (in white with red trim), with a blue planet and large yellow explosion in background, and in foreground retouched photos of an Eagle (from a Last Enemy publicity shot) and Koenig in spacesuit holding a torch (from Brian The Brain).


SPACE ALPHA SPACE SHIRT (Sunicrust Bread)

Australia 1975

T-shirt. Sizes 24, 28, 32 and 36.

Promotional offer available for the titles cut from the 50 different Space 1999 picture cards. Mentioned in The Gerry Anderson Memorabilia Guide (Dennis Nicholson) p224.


BRACES

Japan

Package art shows astronaut holding laser blaster, with an Eagle beyond and Space 1999 logo at his feet.

Illustrated in The Gerry Anderson Memorabilia Guide (Dennis Nicholson) p224.


BEACH TOWELS

U S 1976

Two designs, both with the Space: 1999 logo prominent:

  • A muscle-bound Koenig in white uniform, on a forested planet (Kaldorian ship, Eagle and waste area laser fence beyond)
  • A rescue Eagle rocketing through space (the footpads are retracted; again a Kaldorian ship is in the background).
Eagle towel

Image thanks to James Hume

Koenig towel

MUG

UK 1975

Mentioned in "The Making Of Space 1999" (Tim Heald) p181.


LUNCH BOX (Thermos Division, King-Seeley Thermos Co)

U S 1975

22 x 17 x 10 cm metal box with plastic handle and 8 x 16 cm 8 oz plastic thermos flask with cup. Decorated with colourful, accurate art and photos.

Lunch box front: Photo of Koenig head & shoulders on right, on left is art of two astronauts in moonbuggy under logo and Eagle. Back: on left photo of Helena head & shoulders, on right art of Koenig firing laser at green dragon ("Dragon's Domain"), holding Helena in its tentacles

Side top: art of three Eagles; side astronaut in front of Moonbase; bottom Koenig & Victor talking by microscope in Main Mission scene; side Eagle over Kaldorian ship on lunar surface.

Thermos: sticker stuck on one face of the flask. Art in orange & yellow of Eagle, logo, over Moonbase.




MOONBASE ALPHA PATCH (MPC)

US 1976. $1.00 mail order.

Three colour embroidered "Alpha Moonbase" insignia shoulder patch, 7 x 10 cm.

Offer given on instruction sheets of MPC model kits (Eagle, Hawk, Moonbase, The Alien)


BADGES (Rainbow Designs)

Commander badge, thanks to Pete Woodhead

UK 1975; 25p each

6 designs, 5.5 cm diameter metal pin badges. Logo in red, yellow or blue, with bw photo of Rescue Eagle over Moon, (three slightly different photo designs, with larger or smaller Eagles), and job title.

A badge in the same series, again with logo, Eagle and Moon, was produced for the Selfridges department store exhibition of Space:1999 toys in December 1975. It was subtitled "at Selfridges"


ALPHA MOONBASE BADGE (Gadget Factory)

U K 1986, 50p

4 cm diameter, with Alpha insignia over logo, black background (one of a series of 8 Gerry Anderson badges)


The Gerry Anderson Memorabilia Guide (Dennis Nicholson) p297 mentions a set of 6 badges from Micky Starr, USA.


Also of note are promotional items from the Space City exhibition in Blackpool, England, 1977-1980. The "Space City" logo was in the same lettering as the Space: 1999 logo.

WOVEN BADGE (Sampson Import Ltd)

UK 28p

A felt backed woven badge (6cm x 7cm) featuring "Space City" logo in silver, "Blackpool", under a white rescue Eagle and large yellow Moon. The felt backing may be blue or red.


METALLIC CAR STICKER (Sampson Import Ltd)

UK 25p
A shield-shaped self adhesive sticker, featuring "Space City" logo, Eagle and Moon (as woven badge) and two astronauts (pose from Ring Around The Moon).


Copyright Martin Willey