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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 15:14:30 -0400
From: "Clif" <brclif@digital.net>
Subject: Re: Space1999: Anholt/typing/etc.
Yeah, you ladies go on about him, but meeting him, you're nervous little
school-girls. : ) Your words could have changed the course of the
convention... but nooooo... : )
- --Clif
"Greater justice you shall pursue."
> I never discusse S99 with him, but
> then again most of our conversations were in elevators at hotels and
> consisted of "Good show" and other such titalating conversation.
> Ina
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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 15:17:47 -0400
From: "Clif" <brclif@digital.net>
Subject: Re: Space1999: Re: Space Shuttle
> The
> shuttle program wont be around much longer. Soon they'll have that
> spacecraft that takes off from a runway and goes into space. They've
> been working on that for years over at Wright-Patterson Air Force
> base,not too far from here.
That's the threat, but something else has been taking place, too. The Air
Force rockets so many launchpads down (up?) the beach have been aborted left
and right, so they're talking about putting these large payloads back on the
shuttle.
- --Clif
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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 12:14:09 -0700
From: Dennis Gonzales <elusive@best.com>
Subject: Re: Space1999: Making of 1999 video
>From: kapo@dnmi.no (Petter Oegland)
> The book is very clear about how she had a big role in his life in success
> and Love. The sixties was a great time to be in the lime light and married
> but things just didn't work out when they went with live actors and real
> stories to write. Egos erupt and "Space:1999" died before the first
> episode even went on the air.
>
> Since then, there hasn't been anything beyond the show that can match
> something as sophisticated as "Space:1999". It was their last gasp for
> original shows and calibration. It was their time.
>This is one of the most beautiful thing I've read in ages!
>By the way, you talk about an interview with Gerry Anderson that you're
>reading, putting him in a different light. Would care to comment som
>more on this?
Yes. I have to dig up the article because I just placed some magazines in
one bunch for a safe place. Since the article is copyright, I will send
something to you privately. Give me some time.
>From: martin willey <martinwilley@hotmail.com>
>Similarly Gerry Anderson wouldn't come to the Breakaway convention if Sylvia
>was going and vice versa.
Too sad. Divorce and bitterness....
>Sylvia's main contributions to Space 1999 were in developing the initial
>concept, casting and design. She was not much concerned with story
>development (the only script Johnny Byrne remembers her being involved with
>was Troubled Spirit).
Yes, she mentioned that in her book. Working together independently under
a new banner name called "group 3", The actors worked with her for 18
months on pre-production and actual filming. But she was very adamant
about the casting even to this day. She also added she produced the first
series of 24 hour episodes and at the end of filming, in 1975, they
(Andersons) gave the usual party for the crew who had been involved. Mr.
Anderson chose that evening to announce that he had decided they go should
go their separate ways.
She was.... well, what can you say? Read the book. It's wonderful and
lots of history. The sad note of their sad marriage is just a side note,
everything else is just about her autobiography in the business with Gerry
Anderson.
Have a good day.
Dennis Gonzales
The Space:1999 Collectible Nostalgic Exhibit
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P. O. Box 27
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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 15:32:41 -0400
From: "Clif" <brclif@digital.net>
Subject: Re: Space1999: Sale agreed- DVDs coming soon
Remember, Brian. This is 1999. This is the year.
- --Clif
"Greater justice you shall pursue."
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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 14:38:57 -0500
From: William Norman Grigg <WNG@jbs.org>
Subject: Re: Space1999: Re: (OT): Space Shuttle
Nick Abadzis wrote:
> For anyone interested, there's a fictional account of a shuttle abort early
> on in Stephen Baxter's novel "Titan". I don't know how closely it's based on
> actual present NASA procedure, but given the quality of Baxter's work, I'd
> guess he's researched it very thoroughly. He also extrapolates a near
> future, and NASA's place in it (with reference to the Challenger tragedy)
> which makes for very frightening, compulsive reading.
I've read that novel, and I was fascinated by it, particularly the technical
details of how a manned gravity-assist mission to Saturn could be mounted using
technology cannibalized from U.S. space programs from Mercury to the Shuttle.
His politics and sociology struck me as more than a little facile (Christian
conservatives are Iranian Mullahs-in-waiting who want to tyrannize decent folks
and abolish post-Newtonian science, don'cha know, and they will eventually
destroy the earth with a little help from throwback Maoist Chinese), and the
novel's ending seemed a bit like junior-league Arthur C. Clarke. Still, I admit
that it was a fun read. The action scenes, particularly the Shuttle abort, were
well-staged and very intense.
Will
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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 13:06:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Anthony DiPietro <atd1999@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Space1999: Sale agreed- DVDs coming soon
- --- Brian Dowling <techlab5@space1999.com> wrote:
> Good evening,
> The only tv series
> I have seen on
> DVD over here is South Park - I'm not aware of any
> "home made"
> series available on DVD yet, so this would be a
> major first for Gerry
> Anderson and for Carlton and it would be nice to see
> products which
> stand out on the shelves and say "BUY ME!!!".
>
Here in the US, the Avengers is out on DVD and just
recently Battlestar Galactica! (I think just the
introductory movie)...anyway, there are a few TV shows
that have been released on DVD here.
Along with all your hopes (ie, no mixed up photos,
wrong captions, etc.), I'd include the "hope" that
they release the stuff in NTSC format.
Anthony
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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 22:31:01 +0200
From: Ekmar Brand <Ekmar.Brand@t-online.de>
Subject: Space1999: OT: STAR MAIDENS ON VIDEO!
Next month all 13 episodes of STAR MAIDENS will be released in Germany on video.
Late Lounge (HR) also reruns the series on televsion.
More informations at
http://www.latelounge.de/latelounge/data/maedchen.htm
Ekmar
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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 16:41:54 EDT
From: LKJ1999@aol.com
Subject: Re: Space1999: Sale agreed- DVDs coming soon
Well if S-1999 comes out on DVD , that will be great!!!
Now i have a reason to buy a DVD player later this year...
Chas P. LKJ1999
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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 14:03:59 -0700
From: Don Hilliard <don.hilliard@gte.net>
Subject: Re: Space1999: Sale agreed- DVDs coming soon
Clif wrote:
>Woohoo! That's great news, long overdue. Does Carlton broadcast TV shows
>in America?
Only on PBS and occasionally A&E. I believe they do have some distribution
in Canada (syndication-style).
And Brian wrote:
>I do hope that the artwork for the DVDs is of a better quality than
>was seen on the ITC videotapes...No inverse images, error-ridden blurb or
>anything which looks like something someone put together during the break
>in Sunset Beach using a shareware version of Paint Shop Pro and a few
>screengrabs nicked off a website. The Blake's 7 videos have set a fine
>example there; the display of B7 videos in the local MVC store was a sight
to
>behold.
Can't be too much more lackluster than the jackets on Columbia's tapes; all
are identical except for the episode titles and descriptions. All photos
are from Y2 (half from 'The Metamorph).
> The only tv series I have seen on DVD over here is South Park - I'm not
>aware of any "home made" series available on DVD yet, so this would be a
>major first for Gerry Anderson and for Carlton and it would be nice to see
>products which stand out on the shelves and say "BUY ME!!!".
A&E Home video have started releasing 'The Avengers' on DVD here in the US,
but I don't know how well they're selling (the tapes seem to be doing well -
they've released all of 1967's shows and are starting to sell
1965's...actually a bit risky, as common wisdom says US audiences won't buy
anything in black-and-white). The DVDs are fairly recent, so I don't know
if they'll be released in the UK (would hope so; MacNee and Rigg are
actually getting royalties on the videos, and it's pretty much the first
money they've seen from the show since the '60s).
>OK, optimism over - time for a reality check. Carlton are a big media
>group with their corporate fingers in lots of pies. I would expect
>their bottom line to be making money, primarily from the new digital
>television market here in the UK. Don't be surprised to find that if
>the first of the DVD releases doesn't fare as well as expected, the
>rest might not follow - at the moment there is no track record for
>sales of a TV series on DVD in the UK.
Well, someone has to be first...although you're right, Carlton's first
priority will be making money. My bet for their first try at an Anderson
show will be 'Thunderbirds'...it's probably still the most popular series in
the UK and Japan (another big DVD market).
Ad astra per luna,
Don Hilliard
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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 14:18:07 -0700
From: Edward Seifert <echo1@uswest.net>
Subject: Re: Space1999: Sale agreed "Bringers of Wonder??
Does any one know if this will include the "Bringers of
Wonder"? As it was and may still be common knowledge that
Fox owned the righs to these 2 eps?
This will be cool!!
- -Edward
martin willey wrote:
>
> Apologies if this has already reached the list- I just get the digests!
>
> >From Fanderson's news page, http://www.kikgraphics.demon.co.uk/news.html
>
> After months of protracted negotiations, Carlton Communications Plc has
> purchased the prestigious ITC television and film library from Seagram for
> $150 million (£90 million) and will take control of the property from July
> 1st.
>
> With a relaunch of the ITC catalogue planned for the Autumn, many of the
> classic ITC series are expected to start appearing on Carlton's various
> terrestrial digital televison channels broadcast by ONDigital before the end
> of the year. As Carlton are also one of the UK's foremost DVD manufacturers,
> many of the ITC series, including the top Gerry Anderson series, are all set
> to receive their premiere release on DVD within the next twelve months, with
> entirely remastered prints from the original 35mm negatives. This will come
> as good news to fans who have been campaigning to PolyGram over the last
> year for the DVD release of episodes of Space:1999 and UFO without success.
>
> Fanderson has been invited to assist Carlton in the preparation of these
> releases, advising on episode orders and compiling supplementary material
> for each disc. Gerry Anderson has accepted an invitation to act as a
> consultant on all matters relating to his ten ITC television series,
> including video and DVD releases, promotions for television sales, and
> development of the properties as new television series and films.
>
> See http://www.kikgraphics.demon.co.uk/news.html for the full story.
>
> Martin
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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 21:39:00 +0100
From: Gareth Randall <gwr@easynet.co.uk>
Subject: Space1999: Sylvia Anderson
>The first is that except for one or two mentions in passing,
>Sylvia Anderson does not exist at all. No one talks about her contribution
>to the series.
Unfortunately, the animosity that Gerry feels towards Sylvia is very real
and extremely powerful. His participation in all
conventions/interviews/whatever is conditional upon an assurance that
Sylvia not be mentioned or otherwise involved in any way, shape or form.
Simon Archer, who wrote Gerry's official biography (and who was tragically
killed in a road accident several years before it was published) once told
me that while he and Gerry were visiting Pinewood Studios on business, they
ran slap into Sylvia in a corridor. Neither of them (Gerry and Sylvia)
acknowledged the other's presence, and once they were out of range, Gerry
revealed to Simon that that had been the first time they had met since
their divorce.
It's all very messy and very sad. Simon's biography sketches out the
details (which, incidentally, go much deeper than a simple ego clash, as
many people seem to believe).
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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 17:16:37 -0400
From: Clif <brclif@digital.net>
Subject: Re: Space1999: OT: STAR MAIDENS ON VIDEO!
Not enough maidens, for me.
- --Clif
> Next month all 13 episodes of STAR MAIDENS will be released in Germany on
video.
> Late Lounge (HR) also reruns the series on televsion.
> More informations at
> http://www.latelounge.de/latelounge/data/maedchen.htm
>
> Ekmar
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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 16:49:30 -0500
From: "Mark Meskin" <plastic.gravity@newrock.net>
Subject: Re: Space1999: Re: Space Shuttle
Actually, there was quite a bit of nervousness at the last shuttle launch
due to the HIGH number of WORLDWIDE rocket failures. I was in England at
the time, and here in the states we are used to hearing criticism of NASA,
it was odd to hear the press slamming the Arian(sp?) Rocket system so hard.
- -Mark
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> From: Clif <brclif@digital.net>
> To: space1999@buffnet4.buffnet.net
> Subject: Re: Space1999: Re: Space Shuttle
> Date: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 2:17 PM
>
> > The
> > shuttle program wont be around much longer. Soon they'll have that
> > spacecraft that takes off from a runway and goes into space. They've
> > been working on that for years over at Wright-Patterson Air Force
> > base,not too far from here.
>
> That's the threat, but something else has been taking place, too. The
Air
> Force rockets so many launchpads down (up?) the beach have been aborted
left
> and right, so they're talking about putting these large payloads back on
the
> shuttle.
>
> --Clif
>
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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 00:02:24 +0200
From: Ekmar Brand <Ekmar.Brand@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: Space1999: OT: STAR MAIDENS ON VIDEO!
Sci Fi High schrieb:
>
> Hi Ekmar,
>
> I'm Russell from the US. Is German video compatible with US video
> by any chance? I've seen a four hour movie of Star Maidens clipped together
> from episodes and I really enjoyed it. Would love to see all the episodes.
>
> Thanks for any info you can give.
>
> Russell
The series is great!
German TV standard is PAL (not NTSC!). You need a multi standard videorecorder
for playback or additional hardware for converting PAL to NTSC.
Ekmar
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