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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 18:10:23 +0000
From: "Robert Ashley Ruiz" <espresso@dnai.com>
Subject: Space1999: Thomas McGee?
Does anyone know who this is? I have replied twice over a six
day period to a 1999 message from him and both times the
message has bounced back
Thomas McGee <thomcg@bconnex.net>
Thanks,
Robert
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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 18:57:37 PST
From: David Acheson <dkach@hotmail.com>
Subject: Space1999: Zenno and Piri
Has anyone ever thought of the obvious. If the Guardian had the power to
stop the moon dead in its track and Piri was in the same system as Zenno
then wouldn't the Guardian try to dominate the Zennites? I just don't
buy the idea they are in the same solar system. Besides what would Raan
gain from not warning Koenig that the moon was heading directly for
Piri?
It works better for me if they were in two separate solar systems.
David
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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 18:58:30 PST
From: David Acheson <dkach@hotmail.com>
Subject: Space1999: Zenno and Piri
Has anyone ever thought of the obvious. If the Guardian had the power to
stop the moon dead in its track and Piri was in the same system as Zenno
then wouldn't the Guardian try to dominate the Zennites? I just don't
buy the idea they are in the same solar system. Besides what would Raan
gain from not warning Koenig that the moon was heading directly for
Piri?
It works better for me if they were in two separate solar systems.
David
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:38:53 +0000
From: Celia Fraticelli <celia@alphapilot.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Space1999: Zienia Merton Sighting!!
Good morning Alphans,
I was watching Eastenders last night, a long running soap here in
England, and to my great suprise saw Zienia Merton!! She played the part
of Dr. Stokely. I don't think it will be an ongoing part but it was
nice to see her again. She is still beautiful and watching her brought
back many memories of Space 1999.
Celia
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 01:22:54 -0800
From: South Central <Tamazunchale@webtv.net>
Subject: Space1999: Guardian of Piri
As to Zenno's location, I stand corrected.
Thanks!
Mateo
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 11:02:05 +0000
From: Petter Ogland <petter.ogland@dnmi.no>
Subject: Re: Space1999: Guardian of Piri
Hi all,
David Acheson wrote:
> A new week and time to rush in my review of GUARDIAN OF PIRI before I
> lose the chance at all. It took a Black Sun, a time warp and a few deep
> space adventures before the moon arrived at the first alien solar system
> (Zenno). But have you noticed how fast the moon got from Zenno to Piri?
Have you noticed how they speak about the Universe of Piri in that episode?
The only time else I can remember the episodes being concerned with other
Universes was in RING AROUND THE MOON. Perhaps Edward di Lorenzo had
a greater influence on this episode than what can be read from the credits?
> Putting that aside,GUARDIAN OF PIRI remains a personal favourite of mine
> - definitely a top ten episode. I have not really rated them before so I
> can't say what number but its one of the tops for me. This is the first
> episode with my favourite combination of first year writer and director:
> Christopher Penfold and Charles Crichton. They seem to click more times
> than not.
I've read that Crichton was more engaged in the development of the scripts
than any of the other directors. GUARDIAN OF PIRI was his first
collaboration with Penfold as a scriptwriter, I understand. They later
continued to collaborate on THE LAST SUNSET, WAR GAMES, SPACE BRAIN
and DRAGON'S DOMAIN. Of this lot I find perhaps GUARDIAN OF PIRI and WAR GAMES
the most interesting, but value all five efforts on the better half of
first year of SPACE: 1999.
> The moral is an old tale so we are not venturing into new territory.
> Namely we are in the man versus machine debate. On Piri machine took
> over man quite easily by making man lazy. (Then again this was man's own
> doing!) But man has a last chance and that is with Koenig. Now I know
> what some may say. The Guardian has managed to take over the minds of
> 300 Alphans and yet Koenig has not been affected. Sure, this may make
> Koenig a superhero type but this is television. If he was taken over,
> end of episode and end of series.
While man versus machine is not new territory in terms of science fiction,
it seems to be a theme that does not seem less interesting overthe years.
Working daily with computers I feel quite the contrary.
SPACE: 1999 manages to comment further on Kubrick's 2001 in this episode, I
feel. In the sequence "18 months later" in 2001, HAL9000 seems friendly
enough in the beginning, speaking of how he fulfills his needs by controling
the airship. The astraunauts, on the other hand, are almost reduced to
apathetic creatures, playing chess with a superior intelligence, having a
sun bath like the Alphan's on Piri, eating or making pointless conversation.
By the way, reading John Kenneth Muir's "Exploring SPACE: 1999" I'm struck
with how much time and space he uses to compare the series to STAR TREK.
As I see it, STAR TREK seems only to have been a minor influence in year
one, while 2001: A SPACE ODDYSEY seems to have been a rather major influence.
The metamorph into year two, of course, is heavily influenced by STAR STREK.
This is also what the producers wanted, I suppose, engaging Freiberger to have
such a important part in the development of the season for the better or worse.
Well, more on this later, perhaps.
> We see, for the first time, the Alphans committing mutiny. And Koenig is
> not happy about it. His first reaction is anger. He slugs Alan in the
> Eagle on the way back to the moon and tears into the computer in Main
> Mission when the evacuation is under way. After they depart he sulks.
> Then the servant arrives and he gets mad again and will fight hell and
> high water to save his people. To me this switching of emotions make
> Koenig more believable because he is fallible. Not a cartoon-like figure
> such as Captain Kirk.
I agree. Sylvia Anderson wanted him even more fallible, I remember reading
somewhere, but I think it works out fine the way it does.
To me it seems that Koenig is more in a state of shock than anger. I feel
that he, like in MISSING LINK, seems to react as if he understands nothing of
what is going on, and most of the things he does is out of desperation,
perhaps not unlike the conflict with the aliens in WAR GAMES where he acts
out of frustration, more or less irrationally, perhaps feeling it
is better to do something than just to be an observer.
Come to think of it, it is most often Victor that is the sensible one, making
plans and ideas, while John is the one who has to make the decisions, and
often making them based on intuition rather than on fact. A MATTER OF LIFE
AND DEATH is a fine example, I think.
> Barbara Bain shines in this episode as we see her do something more than
> be the cool robotic doctor. She shows a playful girlish side that we
> won't see again until year two. Even Barry Morse is allowed to goof off
> this time around which is nice to see when it is a rare event.
Not being particulary enthusiastic about how the characters were redefined
for the second year, I find Barabara Bain's performance in GUARDIAN
OF PIRI, however, very charming. The way she talks and behaves she sometimes
resembles a fourteen year old, I think. Incredibly silly! Barry Morse is
really goofing off. Some of the lines he produces are delicious, like the one
where he sits back to back with Helena on Piri mumbling on about "the
true potensial of our brains" or something similar. I really enjoy the
satirical parts of THE GUARDIAN OF PIRI.
Victor's unexplainable enthusiasm for Piri, at the early stages of the episode,
and John's friendly reaction to this is also a highlight, I feel. Just like in
many Monty Python sketches, it is sometimes more interesting to watch how
people respond to strange behaviour than the strange behaviour in itself.
> I wish more could have been done about Kano though. He was the star of
> the first 15 minutes. Being the computer nerd he is left to defend
> computer when things begin to go wrong on Alpha. Remember that immortal
> line: "When will they ever learn"? As soon as he is beamed down to Piri
> his importance to the storyline disappears. It would have been nice to
> have him fight Koenig or his own emotional attachment when the final
> confrontation took place on the planet. A minor point overall.
Kano lineing up with the servant of the guardian would be an interesting
idea, as Jhon pointed out.
> This episode is about the sexiest year one ever got. Hairy-chested
> Alphan males with their shirts off and our Sandra wearing nothing but a
> towel. And of course, the scantily-clad Catherine Schell. How
> deliciously sinful!
I have been wondering what this is all about. Perhaps the lightly dressed
Alphans are being used as a metaphor for the ecstacy of being under the
influence of the Guardian. The way people behave, it also seems like a
parallell to the drug culture of the late sixties, epitomized perhaps
with the chaos at Woodstock with similiarily lightly dressed and druged
people.
When they revolt against Koenig, however, the episode seems to draw more
on religious fanaticism as Victor acts as a priest before the alter of
the Guardian. The episode certainly says something about being careful
about going into a non-thinking state and following authorities blindly,
no matter how sensible this may seem.
> Funny but it took several years before I realized that Catherine Schell
> was the guest star in this episode. I never knew it the whole time year
> two originally ran. I mananged to catch a rerun of GUARDIAN OF PIRI one
> day a few years after the series was cancelled and I saw her name in the
> episode credits. What a shocker!
Catherine Schell really looks smashing in this one. I can understand why
she was chosen to take part in ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE (1970), but
even more interesting, she is a remarkably capable actress. In an interview
Muir did with her some years ago, reprinted in his book, she explains some
of her ideas concerning how to play the servant, trying to add some kind
of cold and robotic like character to it, and being terribly nervous about
what director Charles Crichton would think of this, Crichton being a
director of the military school from what I've understood.
Nevertheless, I think it turned out brilliantly. THE GUARDIAN OF PIRI
seems to me to one of the more relaxed Crichton efforts, not having
the actors jumping around so nervously that they almost have difficulty
with acting naturally. Schell is absolutely wonderful, I think.
She has some of the same kind of presence as Helena, I think, delivering her
lines very much in the same friendly, concerned, but still very controlled
manner. Excellent. Really makes one think, doesn't it?
> I believe this episode is the start of Keith Wilson's (the set designer)
> love of white plastic bubbles. See them appear in several later episodes
> including THE AB CHRYSALIS. The universe seems to be filled with these
> things. Overall, the bizarre, unique look of Piri (and most other 1999
> worlds) is what makes it stand out from your standard TV sci-fi planet.
In my opinion Wilson was overdoing it in THE AB CHRYSALIS, with those
long sequences of bouncing balls that didn't seem to add too much to the drama
except for puzzeling visuals, although THE AB CHRYSALIS was a fair enough
episode as compared to other Year II epiodes, I think.
Did he use the plastic bubbles in other episodes?
More on GUARDIAN OF PIRI later,
Petter
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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 22:27:23 EST
From: djlerda@juno.com
Subject: Re: Space1999: Zenno and Piri
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998 18:57:37 PST David Acheson <dkach@hotmail.com>
writes:
>Has anyone ever thought of the obvious. If the Guardian had the power
>to
>stop the moon dead in its track and Piri was in the same system as
>Zenno
>then wouldn't the Guardian try to dominate the Zennites?
Couldn't there be a range limitation on the Guardian's power? Or the
Zennite civilization could have arisen first and was sufficiently
advanced to protect itself from the Guardian's designs. (I hear Martin
Landau's voice in the distance shouting at me: "Knock it off! It was
just a TV show! Move out of your parents' basement and get a life!" :-)
)
David J Lerda, djlerda@juno.com
"Just because we haven't experienced something
doesn't mean it doesn't exist" - John Koenig
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 05:36:39 -0700
From: Riccardo Iommi <r.iommi@mailcity.com>
Subject: Space1999: Guardian of Piri
- ---
"THERE IS ONLY ONE MOTION
AND THAT IS PERPETUAL MOTION"
(Francis Picabia)
Hi Alphans,
here are some observations about The Guardian Of Piri:
1) This definitely is one of my top 5 of Y-1 (By the way, here they are: Black Sun,
Breakaway, Guardian of Piri, Space Brain, Dragon's Domain)
2) Kano fighting for saving his own face is really great: everyone on Alpha is against
him, but he insists protecting his computer (which he considers a sort of brother);
at last, when he realizes that the machine is killing the humans, he chooses the
extreme sacrifice. Look at the changing in his moods when he faces Koenig alone:
good job, mr. Jones!
3) It's difficult to see Bergman happy like a child, and Koenig knows that well.
But how about treating the Piri matter throwing off any scientific approach? Bergman,
a Nobel Prize? In Koenig's clothes, I would've been a bit confused too!
4) Catherine Schell is really nice, although I recognized her as Maya only years
after Piri aired for the first time!
5) Good work also by mr. Phillips with is nerve-broken reply to Helena: seeing Mathias
angry is somewhat extraordinary!
6) Poor doctor Mathias gets stunned for the Nth time!
7) Mr. Landau would be awardable just for the solitude scenes: great!
8) How do you see Victor as the leader of the "enchanted"?
9) Good work from Mrs. Bain: in this episode she appears really charming, letting
me envy mr. Landau!
10) The Alphans staring at the Guardian's light, in my opinion, has something in
common with drug addiction or even some drug-based religion, just as the script would
mean "only a man fighting and suffering for earning a life can be called a man":
remember Koenig breaking the monitor with his hand. He refuses the easy way of leaning
the wounds and prefers the pain, because "he is a man". Doesn't it look like the
fight against the dark side of the Force in Star Wars?
Now come on with The Guardian of Piri!
Keep an eye on your orbit and thanks,
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 14:10:13 EST
From: aritz1622@juno.com (Anthony J Ritz)
Subject: Space1999: Paging: Mike Beaulieu
Sorry Everyone!
This is a message for Mike Beaulieu, who has changed
his address from: plapoint@portage.net. If you are still on
the list, please contact me with your new email address.
Thanks
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Wilmington IL USA................. ARitz1622@SprintMail.Com
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 21:53:02 +0100
From: Ekmar Brand <Ekmar.Brand@t-online.de>
Subject: Space1999: SCREENPLAYS / SCRIPTS
Hi all!
I found many screenplays of sci-fi movies and TV series at the URL
http://www.script-o-rama.com
But I didn't found screenplays of SPACE: 1999? Where can I find screenplays of
SPACE: 1999 in the internet?
Ekmar
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Ferdinand-Toennies-Str. 8
D-23701 Eutin
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email: Ekmar.Brand@t-online.de
Homepage: http://home.t-online.de/home/Ekmar.Brand@t-online.de/1.htm
(Last update: 19th January 1998)
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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 14:48:53 -0800
From: "EDWARD SEIFERT" <echo1@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Space1999: Space1999 Items for sale
Hey Gang, I have decided to sell a few Space1999 Items that I have for
sale.
The Making of Space:1999 By Tim Heald---Make offer.
2 Large action figures:
John Koenig..Mint Cond on Card---make offer.
Victor Bergman...Mint Cond on Card---make offer.
Please e-mail me at echo1@worldnet.att.net
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