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The Space 1999 DVD Collection
Conquring a Childhood Fear
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| Eagle One 30 Dec 2002 04:21:43 |
I recently purchased the A & E Space 1999 Collection. I have several comments not really sure where to start: As a kid I saw most of the first season. I saw Death's Other Dominion and had nightmares as the images at the end were to scary for me. My parents annoyed, forbid me to watch the show again. So I slipped off to my grandmothers and watched it. However, after seeing Dragon's Domain and having even worse nightmares, my mom and dad discovered what I'd done and forbid me to watch Space 1999 again. As I recall I'd get a whipping if I watched again and got caught. So the last time I saw the show was ~ 27 years ago. When I saw the boxed set I had to have it! There was a second season, I was totally unfamilar with. I'm delighted with the DVD set. The quailty is so much better than TV was where I lived. I've veiwed all 48 episodes and am all fired up again as a fan! I still think Dragons Domain & Deaths Other Dominion are pretty intense for network TV in the mid 70's. No nightmares this time around! I'm amazed at how well I like the show as an adult. |
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| dadtimes2 03 Jan 2003 05:26:05 |
Hi Eagle One. Thanks for sharing your Space: 1999 memories. I also watched the show as a pre-teen - and loved it then. My parents didn't let me watch much television - so I had to be good ALL DAY EVERY SATURDAY to be able to catch the show. That was quite an endeavor! I haven't seen the show since the 70's - but I did recently borrow the first six episodes of Season One from my local library. I thoroughly enjoyed them! On one level they now seem cheesy and flawed. But they're also highly sophisticated science fiction. I was able to appreciate Martin Landau's terrific performance as the Commander as well as the mature topics the show tackled. I also had more appreciation for the show's outstanding directing and technical merits. I cherished being able to rewatch those six episodes! It was as though the years since my childhood didn't exist. I do have one question. What happened between Seasons One and Two? Why the redesigned sets? Why the change in cast? What happened to Bergman? Kano? Paul? Sandra? Did anyone question the severe discontinuity that resulted? I remember being very upset about that when I first saw Season Two as a youngling. I'd like to hear the Space: 1999 memories of other forum visitors. |
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| gba_cmdr 05 Jan 2003 02:47:32 |
Hi all, Dadtimes2 -- Well, you shouldn't stop at the first 6 episodes -- do your best to see all 24 epsiodes of Year 1. Year 2 is give or take, but catch it if you can. Many of your questions can be answered if you peruse the Catacombs Web site here on Space1999.net. EagleOne -- glad to read that you bought the entire set! It's a great series that doesn't lose much. I don't know why people are so surprised that the series "holds up" well -- it was very well done! Hope you all enjoy the Web sites here on Space1999.net too! |
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| Validus 06 Jan 2003 11:52:00 |
It is hard for me not to feel nostalgic for Space 1999 since it was a part of my childhood. What is interesting to me is that of all the things I watched on TV in the 70's Space 1999 is the only show that is watchable. As a kid I also like Ultraman, Lost in Space, and The Six Million Dollar Man. Looking at the other shows now is embaressing to me. Even Battlestar Galactica has aged horribly with it's bad writing and blatant rip-off of Star Wars. Space 1999 however stands alone......unique, imaginative, and always interesting. Besides, who amongst us wouldn't love to go to work in an Eagle? | ||
| Eagle One 07 Jan 2003 02:09:25 |
I agree fully! I've felt physically ill on seeing some of the 70's shows I liked as a child as an adult. In a few cases I understand why my parents hated some of the shows I wanted to watch. For the time elapsed 1999 does hold up very well. |
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| JYM 07 Jan 2003 15:31:12 |
Nostalgia! There is the key. Space 1999 is so unique and as an adult now I have more pleasure than ever! | ||
| cdmann 08 Jan 2003 11:16:27 |
I could not agree more. As compared to most of the other TV I watched as a child in the 70's, Space:1999 (and Star Trek) are about the only shows that I still can enjoy as an adult. The Space: 1999 DVD's are truly great to have!  |
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| Eagle One 09 Jan 2003 02:39:29 |
I was a little unsure of paying $129 + tax for something hadn't seen in about twenty-seven years. I started veiwing seaxon two with dread that I'd wasted $$$ but it was a pleasant surprise. For anyone (like me) that hasn't seen season two before, don't let that hold you back get the DVD set! | ||
| Validus 10 Jan 2003 01:04:01 |
I'm with Eagle One......at $129.00 you can't really beat what you're getting. Basically that's like paying $3.00 per episode. To buy Star Trek on DVD (original series) is more then four times that amount. Even if you buy them used you're still paying at least double. If the price is still steep I suggest trying Half.com, they have almost everything under the sun used in good condition at great prices and I will certainly vouche for their quality. | ||
| Eagle One 10 Jan 2003 05:07:45 |
The orginal Trek is way too expensive! I think there is only two episdoes per DVD and this was deliberate. I would like to have a copy of DVD but 39 DVD's @ $20 = ~$800 too much for me. | ||
| Validus 10 Jan 2003 06:54:43 |
No kidding, especially when for the exact same money ($800.00) you could buy all seven seasons of Star Trek-The Next Generation. That's more then 150 episodes on DVD for the same money. and if you buy them used it ends up being more like $600.00 (with tax+shipping). Compared to that $129.00 seems pretty cheap to me considering what you get. I only wish LEXX was as cheap.  |
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| Dave99 10 Jan 2003 19:44:32 |
Like most of you here, I was very young when the series first came out (10 yrs. old during the first season, 11 during the seond). The show completely captured my imagination, even though I recognized that a lot of the scientific criticisms against it were quite valid. I just loved the whole way the show looked and felt. (I read somewhere that the show's premise is like something out of Jules Verne.) I still remember waiting in the fall of '77 for a third season to appear, but by October I knew that the show had been cancelled! It ran in my area for about two more years in repeats and then quietly disappeared. Since there were two failed attempts to release the series on video I really never thought A&E would release the whole series on DVD, but they did. Seeing them again is like being transported back to the magic of childhood--especially Season Two, which is basically a children's show. The only drawback to the DVDs is that the increased picture clarity reveals too much of the trickery used in the series. Wires are now more visible on the models, and some settings can often now be seen to be just painted backgrounds. So basically I am glad that the series never got fully released on video because now they have been released in a far superior medium. (Of course, the American releases were lacking in extras, but that's another story...) |
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| Eagle One 12 Jan 2003 16:10:29 |
What all are the American releases missing? |
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| Dave99 13 Jan 2003 01:09:55 |
Up until Box Set 7 the only extras included were stills from the episodes. Occassionally there were some behind-the-scenes photos mixed in. (Sets 5 and 6 had a promotional commercial, but it was duplicated over and over with the excuse that it had been used in various markets.) After this they finally started to include artwork, behind-the-scenes footage and some interview clips that had been featured on the British releases. My understanding is that the British sets had much more, including animated menus, merchandising information, deleted scenes, and additional background info. |
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| RBAdams 13 Jan 2003 01:29:08 |
Hi all -- it's my first post!!! Space: 1999 captured my youthful imagination in 1977 at age 11 and its iconic images have never left my mind. I've avidly purchased all the US DVD's as they've been released and whenever I have an hour to kill I *still* pull out an episode to watch. The US DVD's really were lacking in bonuses for the majority of their run. The worst part is that if you bought the sets as they were released, you were screwed when the megaset was released. It features a bonus DVD with even better remasters of some of the best episodes of the series, as well as the "Message from Moonbase Alpha" short film that wraps up the whole storyline. A&E claims they may release this bonus disc as a standalone; I'm keeping my fingers crossed. RB Adams |
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| Dave99 14 Jan 2003 18:33:57 |
RB Adams--You sure are right about A&E screwing us with the Megaset. I think the bonus disc should be offered free of charge to those of us who bought the DVD collection as individual boxed sets! | ||
| Eagle One 15 Jan 2003 05:36:35 |
Are the British DVD's available? | ||
| RBAdams 15 Jan 2003 23:20:21 |
Actually what you really want is the US Megaset or the French Cosmos: 1999 box. | ||
| pp303 14 Feb 2003 01:10:12 |
I bought all 8 sets and am happy to have the whole collection. Columbia House offered the VHS version collectors editions but stopped half way through. |
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