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From: j.hunter@netmatters.co.uk (John Hunter)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 21:17:59 +0000
Subject: Space1999: terry nation rip
off list subject, but please excuse me.
just heard the sad news that terry nation (creator of the daleks in
doctor who, blakes seven etc.etc.) has died at his american home after a
long illness.
he will be missed
also
i have just looked through the last 24 hours postings of the groups
news, and i am dissapointed, but not too surprised, about the number of
personal attacks/not sf subjects being posted.
never mind, such is life - and i'm sure the same thing happens on alpha
all the time.
later
j
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From: "Peters, Pete" <BPeters@gwinnett.tec.ga.us>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 16:27:59 -0500
Subject: RE: Space1999: Where did Alpha end up?
Brian Dowling writes:
(snip)
>BD:Hmm... that's got me thinking about a "Who's better" list...
>
>Koenig v Janeway
PP:Koenig any day, any where,any how, any when!!!!!
>BD:Dr Russell v Emergency Medical Holographic Program
PP:Real hard decision I'd have to team them up, let them work together,
and then decide. Who knows EMHP might fall in love!
>BD:Alan Carter v Tom Paris
PP:Need both, great tension and competition.
>BD:Paul v Chakotay
PP:Chakotay definitely, Paul's to hot headed, you need someone w/self
control and intelligent cunning.
>BD:Tony v Tuvok
PP:Apples vs. oranges, to different, can't decide. Tony for humor and
pizaaz.
Tuvok for continuity and foundation.
>BD:Does that mean it's Maya v Neelix?!?
PP:Maya.....Neelix can go jump into an empty turbo shaft.
>CADMiester Pete
>Chief of VRMDD (Virtual Reality Mech. Design and Dev.)
>Alpha Moonbase
>Snellville Georgia USA
>bpeters@gwinnett.tec.ga.us
>
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From: "Avril Hardy" <avril.hardy@controls.eurotherm.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 15:50:58 0
Subject: Space1999: Subscribe
Hi Marcy,
I think I may have been unsubscribed, I have not received any mail
for today and yesterday, so could you please resub me.
Thanks,
Avril.
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From: Scott Machado <scottym@ma.ultranet.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 17:56:21 -0500
Subject: Space1999: **Has anyone ordered anything from Greg Stone**
I recently ordered (1/28/97), a stungun and a comlock from him. I keep
getting email from him stating the its going out ASAP or you should be
receiving it soon.
I am feeling a bit concerned.
If you have ordered from him and you know he is legitimate, please let me
know.
Scotty
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From: Marcy K <mk@wizard.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 20:00:53 -0500
Subject: Re: Space1999: Subscribe
At 3:50 PM +0000 3/12/97, Avril Hardy wrote:
>Hi Marcy,
>
>I think I may have been unsubscribed, I have not received any mail
>for today and yesterday, so could you please resub me.
Hi Avril, Alphans-
You were unsubscribed, by me. This is what happened...
There must've been a glitch at your mail server because all list messages
were returned to the administrators as 'undeliverable'. I used to have a
policy of 3 bounces, and then the person was unsubscribed, to resubscribe
again when their ISP fixed whatever the problem is.
I'm currently testing out a bit of list maintainance software called
SmartBounce, which will process all my bounces for me and tell me who has
exceeded a chosen threshhold and should be unsubscribed. I have it set that
anyone with bounces for >24 hours will be unsubscribed...since I no longer
have to read each bounce email it lets me tolerate them much longer than I
otherwise would.
What this means for individual Alphans out there is that if your server or
you email account goes down for an extended period you'll probably have to
resubscribe yourself to the list after you're back up. Remember it's just
an email to majordomo@buffnet.net with the body being SUBSCRIBE SPACE1999.
Directions on subscribing are also up in the Cyber Museum.
Marcy
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From: "Peters, Pete" <BPeters@gwinnett.tec.ga.us>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 20:13:59 -0500
Subject: Space1999: Year 2 Soundtrack availability!
Latest news:
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>on Wednesday, March 12, 1997 7:00 PM
>supercollector@supercollector.com[SMTP:supercollector@supercollector.com
>] writes:
>
>Yes, we still have the Space:1999 Year 2 soundtrack available. Give us
>a
>call at 1-800-99SCIFI (1-800-997-2434) and anyone answering can take
>your order. The cost is $29.99, plus $3.50 shipping.
>
>Thank you,
>SC
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Just got this e-mail, and just ordered it, get them while their hot.
>CADMiester Pete
>Chief of VRMDD (Virtual Reality Mech. Design and Dev.)
>Alpha Moonbase
>Snellville Georgia USA
>bpeters@gwinnett.tec.ga.us
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From: John J Fleming <John@coldnorth.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 20:13:44 -0500
Subject: Re: Space1999: **Has anyone ordered anything from Greg Stone**
>I recently ordered (1/28/97), a stungun and a comlock from him. I keep
>getting email from him stating the its going out ASAP or you should be
>receiving it soon.
>
>I am feeling a bit concerned.
>
>If you have ordered from him and you know he is legitimate, please let me
>know.
Hi Scotty,
Don't worry yet. The time lag is not all the great yet, so... Being in
this mail order thing, you would not believe some of the things that happen.
Just ask Jim Gillam about his T-Shirt, hell, I don't even want to talk about
it. But Sh..stuff happens when you least expect it. Got my hands on some
data that will change my life, can't read the fu.. stupid disk. AARRGGHH!!!
Such is life. Give it a little time. I don't know Mr Stone, and have
had no dealing with him. But, doing what he does, I can speak from
(horrible) experience. Thats just the ways things go sometimes.
Hope everything works out ok. Lets us know what happens.
Later...
______________________________________________________________
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From: "Mark Meskin" <plastic.gravity@newrock.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 19:54:10 -0600
Subject: Re: Space1999: Where did Neelix end up?
- ----------
> >BD:Does that mean it's Maya v Neelix?!?
>
> PP:Maya.....Neelix can go jump into an empty turbo
shaft.
>
> >CADMiester Pete
I was thinking shove him into a torpedo tube. Whoa!
Hit the "fire" button there.......oops, sorry..
Neelix is the Wesley Crusher of Voyager............but
not as good as saving the ship.
- -Later Crater,
Mark
Creator of "EAGLE ONE"
Look for the 'beta' release soon! I'm almost there...
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From: Mark Meskin <plastic.gravity@newrock.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 20:17:17 -0600
Subject: Space1999: Kinda OT- Six Million Dollar Man on da moon
Hi all,
Totally wiped after work today, so I did my "couch
potato" imitation. Oh yeah, channel surfin. Came
accross an Episode of the SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN-Steve
Austin goes to the Moon to Save the World. Any who,
the scenes on the moon were sooooo tacky. First he
gets to the moon in a lunar lander which looks like a
redress of an original Star Trek set. Climbing down
the ladder he jumps off from high off the ground, and
after falling way too slow mo he hits the gound and
makes a POOF of AIRborne dust, and his rebound barley
gets him a few inches off the ground. Nice aluminum
foil on everything. Steve, Steve, Watch out, I can
see in the edge of your helmet faceplate, some one
must have forgot the SEAL! Love the square car
headlamps mounted on the space suit for use on the
"Dark Side of the Moon"
Two really great scenes back on Earth:
Rudy cannot open a stuck airlock door, no problem
Steve uses bionic to turn stuck handle. Gee Rudy, no
wonder you couldn't get it open, Steve turned it the
opposite direction you did. Then Steve goes in same
airlock. Door sticks again. Several men try to open
door- They all turn handle in wrong
direction.!!!!!!!!!
Moon luanch conrolled by small equipment that looks
like it came from Radio Shack Outlet in Oscar Goldmans
Office. Scene oddly reminiscent of the LUNAR SPACE
COMMISSION in Alien Attack. Same AM/FM/Deep Space
transmitter.............
I'd love to see a MST3K sendup of this 2 part episode.
(ATTN. David Welle.......)
Space 1999 did so much better in giving you the
illusion of being on the lunar surface.
Later Crater,
- -Mark
Creator of "EAGLE ONE"
Look for the 'beta' release soon! I'm almost there...
plastic.gravity@newrock.com
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From: "MIKE GRYGO" <GROG@erie.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 21:44:33 -0500
Subject: Re: Space1999: Off-Topic: The Starlost
I found some more information for you regarding Starlost:
If you go to: http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/star.html
a comprehensive episode, character and concept guide.
I also have "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction" from
1978 or so and it did not have a heading, but was
mentioned in the section on GENERATION STARSHIPS:
"Harlan Ellison wrote the script for a generation-starship
TV series, The Starlost, made, disastrously, in Canada,
1973. Ellison repudiated the series as it stood, and used
his derisive pseudonym Cordwainer Bird on the titles;
his original script for the pilot episode appears in
FASTER THAT LIGHT (anth. 1976) ed. Jack Dann and
George Zebrowski."
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From: djlerda@juno.com (David J Lerda)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 23:20:57 EST
Subject: Space1999: Space Flight Disasters in Space: 1999
I was pondering the other day when a thought struck a neuron: there were
a lot of manned space flight disasters occurring before "Breakaway".
Offhand, I can think of the following:
Voyager II - "Voyager's Return"
Uranus Expedition of 1986 - "Death's Other Dominion"
Astro 7 Mission - "A Matter of Life and Death"
Ultra Probe - "Dragon's Domain"
Swift Star Mission - "Brian the Brain"
Now, in real life I am aware of only three manned space flight missions
resulting in fatalaties - Apollo 1, Challenger, and the Russian mission
in 1967 when a cosmonaut was killed when his parachute failed to deploy
properly.
Look at how much our (US) space program was slowed down by the Apollo and
Challenger tragedies. Yet in the 1999 universe we see a very vigorous
international space program. My guess is this reflects the desire of man
to unite to explore space in the wake of the 1987 World War discussed in
"Rules of Luton( I love that episode - something about pine trees
dispensing justice that's just so campy to endear it to me :-) )
David
Pilot, Recon Eagle 13, # 171
aka
David J Lerda
Salisbury, Maryland, USA
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From: djlerda@juno.com (David J Lerda)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 23:51:11 EST
Subject: Space1999: Significance in Space: 1999
On Tue, 11 Mar 1997 21:17:35 EST aritz1622@juno.com (Anthony J Ritz)
writes:
>Marshall Poindexter <mpoindexter@classtrain.com> writes:
Marshall, Tony, et al:
I've always thought there was a "deeper meaning" to the scripts. This
was criticized at the time of the show's airing as "The Mysterious
Unknown Force Syndrome." - the shows didn't make sense. As a kid, I
sometimes had problems following the stories. As I got older and saw
them again (and kept them alive w / cassette tape in those pre-VCR days)
I noticed the "spiritual" nature of the shows.
This "spiritual" discussion came at an interesting time. I was going to
make a post relating to the cloning brouhaha and the dangers of using
cloning for immortality. In 1999 there were 4 episodes dealing with the
search for immortality:
Death's Other Dominion
End of Eternity
Infernal Machine
Mission of the Darians.
In each of these episodes the underlying message seems to me to be that
the quest for eternal life is a selfish, dangerous thing that brings
suffering to those aspiring to it.
Kind of reminding the Alphans that only God is eternal. I'm not trying
to turn this into the 1999 on-line revival meeting but this discussion
has really had me thinking for a few days.
In an earlier post I had asked if anyone had some good "techno-babble"
explanation for the moon's breakaway and odyessy at interstellar
velocities. I hadn't really pondered the idea that maybe a "guiding"
force was behind ALL of it. I had always hooked in to that cosmic,
etheral quality of year 1 but I wasn't willing to take a real leap and
look at it in the context presented here. Thanks for the neural
stimulation.
Comments and discussion welcome.
David
Pilot, Recon Eagle 13
aka
David J Lerda
Salisbury, Maryland, USA
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From: The Littl Shynin Man <labromm@unixg.ubc.ca>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 21:02:07 -0800
Subject: Space1999: Off Topic: Six Mill, etc.
I agree with the cheapness of the Six Million Dollar Man sets and
stuff. However, like other shows that tried to popularize Sci-Fi on a
budget, it did have its Littl Shyning Moments. Littl Shyning Moments
are moments that, despite not having seen any of these episodes for
years, I remember fondly.
Here are some Littl Shyning Moments from shows I remember. Anyone else
remember more?
- -Six Mil: "Burning Bright"(I think that's what it was called).
Astronaut William Shatner goes into space, gets hit by some wierd space
phenomenon (a la S1999 - "bring in the blue lights!"), comes back to
earth, finds that dolphins talk to him in mathematical equations, goes
insane, climbs high tension wires and dies.
- -Star Trek TNG: I can't remember the episode, it's unimportant. Data
sitting in his quarters, boiling water. Riker (or someone) comes in,
asks what Data's doing. "I am attempting to test the aphorism 'a
watched pot never boils. But I have boiled exactly the same amount of
water thirty times in the same pot, and no matter whether I watch it or
not, it still boils in exactly thiry-two seconds, by my internal
chronometer." Riker suggests that the saying is meant to convey the
feeling that humans have of experiencing time at different rates
depending on the type of activity they're doing, not having internal
chronometers. He suggests that data turn his internal chronometer off.
Data agrees that this is a good idea, does so. Riker leaves, Data
watches as he goes. On console in front of him, tea pot begins to
whistle. Data looks down, surprised, gives it a puzzled look.
- -Star Trek (the REAL Star Trek, not TNG). "Metamorphosis" - The crew
lands on a wierd planet and finds Zefrem Cochrane, the inventor of warp
drive, still young, although he's over a hundred years old. He's been
kept in this state by The Companion, a (female-sounding) being of pure
energy who, it appears, has come to love him. Concerned that he will
die of lonliness on the planet, but unwilling to be without him, The
Companion takes the body of a terminally-ill woman the crew happens to
be transporting on the Enterprise, forsaking immortality for the chance
to stay with Cochrane. Say what you want of the hokey special effects
and sets, this is one of the most touching SF episodes ever filmed. The
Little Shyning Moment: "The man...must...continue!"
- -Starlost: - any episode you'd care to mention - there are consoles all
over the ARK, and when you sit down at one this wierd looking guy
appears on the screen: "Can I be of...ASSISTANCE?" Sort of the
ultimate user friendly interface - more charming than HAL, not as
threatening as Gwent. He sure does blink his eyes a lot, though. And
he gets stumped when people try to ask about the ARK's plight - he got
bumped on the head in the collision, I guess.
X-Files: Not exactly low-budget, but has Littl Shyning Moment anyway.
Episode "Squeeze": Mulder and Scully check out nest of human liver
eatint murderer mutant creature Tooms. Mulder gets mucky substance on
hands, wonders what it is. Scully:"I think it's...bile." Mulder, voice
rising and cracking slightly: "Is there any way to get it off my hands
quickly without betraying my cool exterior?"
Cheers,
Gentle Mike
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From: Brian Dowling <brian.dowling@drugnet.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 19:55:00 GMT
Subject: Space1999: Alphans
Hi y'all,
Kelly wrote...
>I've been reading all the messages on the list and I notice that they
>are usually by the same people. I was wondering how big the list
>actually is and if it extends to other countries aside from England.
Marcy, Marshall and David can tell you just how many people actually
subscribe. What I would say is that there are many people out there who
are in "lurk mode", and post occasionally. It does indeed spread to
countries other than England. There are Online Alphans in Italy,
Mexico, Canada, and Australia to name a few.
Ah yes, that reminds me, Are you still out there Matt Baker?
>I like to think that they got tired of searching planet after planet
>and decided to stay on Alpha and adapt it to fit their needs. They
>could have made an amazing city in the catacombs that would have kept
>them safe. That way they would have hope of starting to live a
>normal life.
Now that is a cool idea, and keeps the journey going as well!
Later,
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Alphan #144
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From: Brian Dowling <brian.dowling@drugnet.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 19:59:00 GMT
Subject: Space1999: Sybil Danning
G'day all!
Aaron wrote about Alien Attack
>This particular version was part of "Sybil Danning's Adventure Series"
>Before the actual "movie" came on, there was this extreme tasteless
>(not to mention suggestive) opening where actress Sybil Danning dressed
>in a short short mini-skirt gave an overview of the series. After th
>movie was over she returns to deliver more lame dialogue.
Heck! I nearly choked on my coffee when I read that! Anyone know
anything about this? I'm intrigued!!!
Later,
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From: Ina Litera <ilitera@idt.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 02:26:52 +0000
Subject: Space1999: Voyager comparisson
Someone recently was making comparissons between S19 and Voyager (I
accidently deleted it). This got me thinking as to why I haven't been
overwhelmed by Voyager. I think it is because the personnal seem so
relaxed(or at least not to bothered ) about thier predicament. On
S19, many of the characters seemed on the edge (David Wells recently
refered to Koenning as being on the edge of a nervous breakdown). Even
when externally they acted like everything was OK one got the feeling
that they were pretty stressed out (Just my opinion) Anyway On
Voyager,I constitently get the feeling that everyone is dealing with
theire situation just fine even though they know it's really hopeless.
Just a thought.
I'm off to Paris for a few days. See you all next week.
Later
Ina
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From: StarParty@aol.com
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 02:41:43 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Space1999: Sybil Danning
In a message dated 97-03-13 00:31:53 EST, you write:
<< >This particular version was part of "Sybil Danning's Adventure Series"
>Before the actual "movie" came on, there was this extreme tasteless
>(not to mention suggestive) opening where actress Sybil Danning dressed
>in a short short mini-skirt gave an overview of the series. After th
>movie was over she returns to deliver more lame dialogue.
>>
Perhaps these movies were only released in North America, i.e. "Cosmic
Princess", "Alien Attack", etc., etc.
The added footage was very poorly done and, as I understand it, both Martin
Landau and Barbara Bain took legal action to halt distribution and sale of
that product. For a time, all the episodes used to compile the movies were
not available for syndication.
Tony Wynn
StarParty@aol.com
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From: Marcy K <mk@wizard.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 03:22:34 -0500
Subject: Space1999: Re: OT: Terry Nation
>just heard the sad news that terry nation (creator of the daleks in
>doctor who, blakes seven etc.etc.) has died at his american home after a
>long illness.
>
>he will be missed
This is very sad indeed. As a teenager I used to work many of the cons in
NY and met him several times. He was always a wonderful guest. I dug out
all my Who memborabilia and found my autographed copy of DW: A Celebration,
and a picture of Terry Nation and me from some miscellaneous convention.
Leafing through Celebration was certainly bittersweet; so many of those
marvellous people have died. That was a long time ago...Jon Pertwee dated
his autograph Dec 3, 1985. Did any of you guys attend sci-fi cons in the
NY/NJ area in the early to mid 80s? I wonder if we've passed each other in
the past.
Marcy
"True power is knowing that you can, but you don't." --J.A. Jarvis
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From: Pertti.Ruismaki@datex-engstrom.com
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 12:17:06 +0200
Subject: Space1999: Re: OT: Terry Nation
As I haven't seen any Dr. Who (think about everything I've
missed...) I remember Terry Nation from The Persuaders, which was
by far the coolest non-scifi show on tv in the 70's.
Back on topic: What do you people think, when Eagles are "flying"
above lunar surface, are they hovering (keeping vtol thrusters
running) or are they on a ballistic trajectory?
-Pertti
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From: Atomic Possum <atomicpossum@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 06:34:57 -0600
Subject: Re: Space1999: Kinda OT- Six Million Dollar Man on da moon
- ----------
> From: Mark Meskin <plastic.gravity@newrock.com>
> To: space1999@buffnet.net
> Subject: Space1999: Kinda OT- Six Million Dollar Man on da moon
> Date: Tuesday, January 02, 1996 8:17 PM
>=20
> Hi all,
>=20
> Totally wiped after work today, so I did my "couch
> potato" imitation. Oh yeah, channel surfin. Came
> accross an Episode of the SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN-Steve
> Austin goes to the Moon to Save the World. Any who,
> the scenes on the moon were sooooo tacky. First he
> gets to the moon in a lunar lander which looks like a
> redress of an original Star Trek set. Climbing down
> the ladder he jumps off from high off the ground, and
> after falling way too slow mo he hits the gound and
> makes a POOF of AIRborne dust, and his rebound barley
> gets him a few inches off the ground. Nice aluminum
> foil on everything. Steve, Steve, Watch out, I can
> see in the edge of your helmet faceplate, some one
> must have forgot the SEAL! Love the square car
> headlamps mounted on the space suit for use on the
> "Dark Side of the Moon"
>=20
> Two really great scenes back on Earth:
> Rudy cannot open a stuck airlock door, no problem
> Steve uses bionic to turn stuck handle. Gee Rudy, no
> wonder you couldn't get it open, Steve turned it the
> opposite direction you did. Then Steve goes in same
> airlock. Door sticks again. Several men try to open
> door- They all turn handle in wrong
> direction.!!!!!!!!!
> Moon luanch conrolled by small equipment that looks
> like it came from Radio Shack Outlet in Oscar Goldmans
> Office. Scene oddly reminiscent of the LUNAR SPACE
> COMMISSION in Alien Attack. Same AM/FM/Deep Space
> transmitter.............
>=20
> I'd love to see a MST3K sendup of this 2 part episode.
> (ATTN. David Welle.......)=20
>=20
> Space 1999 did so much better in giving you the
> illusion of being on the lunar surface.
>=20
> Later Crater,=20
> -Mark
MARK--
This is more on topic than you know! That was "Dark Side of the Moon=
,
Part 1," a fifth season episode, and look at these comments taken from th=
e
'Bionic Pages' on The Dominion:
=95Last (but maybe not least, may have missed someone) Fred Freiberger be=
came
Producer of Six Mill during its last season. Freiberger is accused of
"ruining" Star Trek, when he took over. Now I see why people said that . .
. Six Mill went down the drain starting with the fifth season, when
Freiberger showed up.=20
>snip<
We're still not done yet! How about the intriguing fact that a number of
people who worked on the bionic shows had a hand in Space: 1999?=20
=95We're back to Fred Freiberger again. He took over production of the se=
cond
(and last) season of Space: 1999 (replacing Gerry Anderson), and "drove i=
t
into the ground", by some accounts. In general, the second season of the
show was even worse than the first. (And you're listening to someone who
actually didn't mind Space: 1999, despite its goofiness!)
>end quotes<
So it was Freddie that produced the show you said was so goofy--and =
he
produced it after the 2nd season of 1999....you'd think he would have had
more experience getting the moon scenes right, wouldn't you?
Jon "Mr. Wonderful" Stadter
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From: "Avril Hardy" <avril.hardy@controls.eurotherm.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 08:44:53 0
Subject: Space1999: Lost mail - OT
Hello Everyone,
I seem to have been unsubscribed for the past two days (10th and
11th) for some reason, so I was wondering if anyone could forward
me a copy of the mail to the list for these days. IT would be
very much appreciated.
Oh, and if anyone contacted me separately, can you please resend the
message.
Thanks a lot,
Avril.
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