Catacombs Credits GuideTV Clips
Compiled by Martin Willey
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Roy Dotrice surprised on set of 1999 (during filming of Earthbound). A specially written "fake" scene with Sandra, Paul and Simmonds was written in which Dotrice was surprised by host Eamonn Andrews. The film has since been destroyed, but still photographs exist of Eamonn Andrews on the Main Mission set.
US (Philadelphia-based) weekday chat show featured Landau and Bain talking about the show. Among the clips shown was one of Kano, repeated several times with different language dubs.
Two programmes, introduced by Chris Kelly, introducing series. First programme concentrated on Anderson's puppet series, the second on Space:1999.
Gerry Anderson interviewed in front of Main Mission computers & in Eagle chairs (in front of Main Mission desks), and Brian Johnson interviewed with models of Moon and Eagles.
In the London area only, these were repeated on Saturday 14th May 1977 at 10am, and on Saturday 21st May 1977 at 10.05am.
Science programme about the Viking mission to Mars and the possibility of life in space. It featured clips of Hawks strafing the base.
Chris Moore has remembers the following, but is not certain: the programme's name was along the lines of "Is there anybody there?", or "Is there anybody out there?". It may have been broadcast as little as a week or two before the landing, which would give it a date of 1976. It was presented, or narrated, by James Burke. He also adds:
Fourthly - and this is very suspect - I seem to recall the Eagles in the clip shown had missiles attached to the passenger module, or possible on a pallette in the payload area. (Although if this is the case, they would have to be very carefully positioned in order to avoid shooting bits of the Eagle itself off!) I also recall watching subsequent broadcasts of "War Games" - during the '70s and '80s - very carefully but never saw those missiles again. So either I was mistaken or they were shots that never made it into the finished episode. Might be interesting to see if anybody can uncover those shots.
For Sunday tabloid on 'is TV good for you?'. Clip of Eagle launch
This low-budget US film (directed by Larry Cohen) included stills of an Eagle and the Travel Tube model for SFX shots (the exterior of the alien spaceship is an Eagle, the interior is the Travel Tube, with the travel unit beyond).
Bringers Of Wonder filming blooper: Maya shoots guard- Shaw trips over guard
Episode "War of The Empires": Kano's desk is spaceship controls
Collision Course shuttle eating Koenig's Eagle, (during space battle)
Episode 'Time Bomb': shows Satazius over Alpha, then Texas City
Episode 'Nightmare of Eden'. Two images are seen on screens: the ravaged Terra Nova in Matter of Life and Death and Piri from Guardian of Piri. (thanks to Chris Cuthbert)
Episode 'The Leisure Hive', episode 2. A planet is represented by a shot of the Moon in the space warp. (thanks to Chris Dale)
Presenter Susan Stranks visits Pinewood Studios. In the credits of Pinewood productions, there is a shot of Eagles taking off from Piri
A skit of Star Wars featured the comedians as robots, in front of a back cloth showing the Moon in space & entering the Black Sun
A reversed clip of Terra Nova from Matter Of Life and Death appears at the opening and end of the video while the band played on a stage thoughout. From Steven Reder: I have found no information as to when it was made. The album the song is from was release in 1977 but Don Kirshner, the director of the video, had a series on late night in the States where he produced new music videos for popular bands in 1981. I'm sure this is where I first saw the video but still, the date is up in the air as to when it was produced.
Titles & credits uses photographs, with animated rocket jets, of:
Hawk, Metamorph Eagle, War Games Doomsday machine, Last Enemy Deltan ship
Bringers Of Wonder blooper, introduced as from "Buck Rodgers".
This Spanish film includes SFX shots stolen from Space:1999. A asteroid moves near the Moon (End of Eternity?), a blue light moves over a rim of stars (Force Of Life). and the Moon in the AB Chrysalis warp. Description by Chris Dale:
The sequence is meant to show an meteorite crashing on Earth. It starts with the asteroid approaching the Moon, but then gets goofy. The meteorite's approach is intercut with some scenes back on Earth of various people doing stuff. The Force of Life ball of light hurtles along, and then its approach to Earth is represented by the UFO end titles played upside down and backwards. A little boy is looking at it through his telescope, as it becomes the Moon in the AB Chrysalis warp thingy, before it crashlands on Earth.
The film was shown as part of Mystery Science Theatre on US public television. Spotted by Jon Stadter, more information from Chris Dale.
Ultra Probe (in skit based on 'Alien')
BBC1
Catacombs Of The Moon clip of her in burning bed.
Gerry Anderson's Terrahawks- retrospective includes Lambda Factor clip of Alan trying to turn off engine; Financial Times comment as rival to 2001
On Nick Allder (doing FX on The Keep). B/w Eagle photo & comments on cheap FX
Ultra Probe. First programme of Saturday morning magazine.
Effects shots of Moon in A B Chrysalis shockwave, the blue light in space from Force Of Life, and the closing credit image of a comet in space.
Effects shots of Moon in Space Warp. Thanks to Gordon Moriguchi.
Clouds across moon ('Another Time Another Place'??); space brain approaching; moon & planet from Yr 1 credits; Satazius landing on moon
Backgrounds of alien ship interior: some are blueprints of Eagle
TV Quiz: add up numbers in TV show titles.
TV Quiz: clip (??)
Several showed moon in space shots for back cloth
TV Quiz: Last Enemy clip (("Think, Commander!" to Koenig's "We want no part of this war".)) Questions: Name the series (give or take a year); where are they? ((They made the Moon into a spaceship)); What kind of mission had Martin Landau & Barbara Bain been in before? ((Impossible))
Bringers Of Wonder blooper (clapperboard not shown)
Various space shots from credits (small Eagles in flight, planets, etc), plus moon clips from Space Warp.
Song refers to Gerry Anderson's 'Thunderbirds'. Reached no 11 in end of March
The Kreno animal's head featured in an illustration (it appears as the head of a long snake like creature, with the "Forbidden Planet" saucer overhead). "Mrs Thatcher will then begin a whistle stop tour of other historical disasters, expressing her deep condolences to the survivors of the Crimea, Agincourt, Roarke's Drift... and the attack of the giant man eating centipedes on the planet Kalufrax. Dismissing criticism of her visits as 'electioneering', she told reporters 'The Daleks do a very difficult job for which we should all be grateful.'" said the commentary.
A clip of the War Games bomber in the Eagle sights and the explosion over the horizon of the Moon was shown as the climax of the title and end credits sequence of this series, which featured clips from ITC films of the 1970s and 1980s. The 2nd programme, "Against All Odds" featured action-adventure films including "Alien Attack". Anthony Quayle narrates "In Space 1999's Alien Attack the human colony on Moonbase Alpha rely on a single spacecraft to save them." The heavily cut sequence from War Games shows Alpha being strafed by a Hawk, Koenig telling Alan they are relying on him, then jumping to the bomber passing Alan's crippled Eagle: they head up the target display and destroy the bomber. The sequence lasts 1 minute 15 seconds. The Best Of British series was produced by David Withers, who also supervised the editing of the first two Space 1999 compilation movies.
The 6th episode, "Just An Illusion", featured special effects. The second clip was the sequence from "Cosmic Princess" with the Maya creature in Eagle 4. The sequence lasted 1 minute 45 seconds, from where Maya retracts the boarding tube, with abbreviated scenes as the Eagle is brought down from the launch pad, before the Eagle launches and crashes in the hangar, and Alan and Helena send in the rescue unit. Anthony Quayle narrated "Husband and wife acting team turned producers Martin Landau and Barbara Bain made full use of British technology. The make up, by Basil Newall and Connie Reeve, was an especially strong feature in Space 1999, The Cosmic Princess, a Gerry Anderson production." At the end of the episode, after scenes from "Thunderbirds In Outer Space" and "The Amazing Adventures Of Joe 90", a clip from "Journey Through The Black Sun" was shown, lasting 1 minute 40 seconds. This showed the Moon entering the Black Sun, Koenig looking at his aged hand, and selected dialogue in the Black Sun until the Moon emerges (with Arra's words heard over). Quayle narrated "Brian Johnson was one of the Academy Award special effects winners for Alien, The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi. He created his own special wizardry on Gerry Anderson's Journey Through The Black Sun." Dialogue includes "Everything is everything else" to "That is a lovely way to understand it", and "Are you...God" to "Gone". Quayle concludes the episode over the scene of the Eagle travelling into space and disappearing: "The movie magicians, the screen sorcerers, they are the technicians, the people who create just an illusion."
Clip of and questions on "Space: 1999": "All That Glisters". Features rock attempting to merge with Maya/rock, aboard Eagle; the rock turns red and Koenig fires laser at it. Questions: what is the series? (Space 1999), who were the husband & wife team who starred? (Martin Landau & Barbara Bain), and what was the base called? (Moonbase Alpha).
From Stephen Herbert: Renegade Soundwave were a electronic dance outfit from Sheffield and in this energetic, cut-and-paste montage music video, there was approx 2-3 sec shots of the introduction scene of Space 1999 (Series 2) with the wall to wall computer banks/Space 1999 logo/multiple explosions. You need to freeze-frame or slow the video footage to see it as there's much going on in this video. They were on Mute Records in late 80s/early 90s, and this video seemed to pay homage to mid-70s TV in a roundabout way. I think their might also be a very short grab of Landau and Schell, but this video also takes the crashing car intro to "The Protectors" TV show also. (Thanks Stephen!)
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