Space 1999 Catacombs: On Location

This is the gate from the public main road to Pinewood Studios. It is seen in the UFO episode Timelash. Heatherden Hall has been used in many films, including at the end of Gerry Anderson's Doppelganger. The conservatory was built for The Great Gatsby (1974).	Space: 1999 was filmed at Pinewood Studios, in Buckinghamshire, UK. Pinewood was established in 1935 in the grounds of the Victorian mansion Heatherden Hall, and is most famous as the studios where most of the James Bond films were shot (the 007 stage was built in 1976 for The Spy Who Loved Me, filmed at the same time as Year 2 of Space: 1999). The production was based on L &M stages, two adjacent stages with a shared administration building. Gerry Anderson would later use the same stages for the 1980s series Space Precinct. Several episodes were filmed in the Pinewood Studios backlot, the gardens of Heatherden Hall or neighbouring Black Park. Another location used in The Rules Of Luton was H.F.Warner Ltd landfill site in Knowl Hill (on the A4 between Reading and Maidenhead). Google maps and satellite images Streetmap.co.uk Fanderson location guide
M stage - L stage is to the left of the photo.	The map shows the layout of Pinewood Studios, with the public road and entrances at the bottom, Heatherden Hall bottom left, Black Park at top, and L and M stages top right. L was used for standing Moonbase sets (including Main Mission and Command Center), while M was used for the lunar surface, alien planets, spaceships interiors and other sets required for specific episodes. Each stage is 30 metres long by 27 metres wide and 30 metres tall.
	L&M stage offices and main entrance; all the production offices for Space 1999 were located here. Dressing rooms on the top floor. These offices face towards Black Park behind the two stages.
	Wider shot of L&M stages. Gerry's office is located on the lower left corner, ground floor.
	Gerry Anderson's office during production of Space 1999

A number of other stages were used at Pinewood. A long thin stage called the North Tunnel (53m by 8m, now renamed the Long Process Stage) was often used (it appears as the Eagle interiors in Guardian Of Piri, Space Brain, Testament Of Arkadia, temple interior in Matter Of Balance, and the waste dome corridor in Bringers Of Wonder part 2).

At one end of the North Tunnel stage is another set called H (27 x 11m) which was occasionally used, often at the same time as the North Tunnel (it was the travel tubes and corridors in Guardian Of Piri, End Of Eternity and Testament Of Arkadia, Eagle interiors in Full Circle and Death's Other Dominion, and Sandra's quarters in Last Enemy).

Very occasionally, the unit would use another stage such as B or C, near Heatherden Hall and the Pinewood offices. These are the oldest stages at Pinewood, each 33 x 25m. They were used for the glade in New Adam New Eve, and the planet and interiors in Devil's Planet. Another stage, F (located between the L and M stages and the North Tunnel stage), was used for the alien dome interior in Immunity Syndrome.

Martin Landau and Barbara Bain gave the cast and crew presents around Christmas during filming. In 1974 they gave an address book. In 1976, Martin Landau and Barbara Bain gave each of the cast and crew a clock. This is Zienia Merton's. It is inscribed "From Barbara & Martin, Space 1999".

Space 1999 On Location