SFX Footage

The World Backgrounds library sells footage to TV production companies. Space 1999 shots are mixed up from many different episodes, and other series (including UFO), and even footage of world war 2 airplanes or 1970s trains. Catalogue descriptions are of varying quality (one UFO clip is labelled "cheesy cheesy flying saucer"). I have selected the most interesting shots that I have found in their catalogue, but there may be many others still to be found.

Many shots are reversed left for right, or even played upside down or backwards (I have corrected some of them here). Quality of the catalogue samples is poor, sometimes terrible.

These shots are interesting because, even if the shot appeared in the episode, the library version is often longer (typically 10-20 seconds, while edited into the episode it would be 5-10 seconds). A number of alternative takes are in the library, some close to the final version, some very different. Many shots that are identical to that seen in the episode are not included here.

Selected Episodes

• 1 Breakaway
• 2 Matter Of Life And Death
• 4 Ring Around The Moon
• 5 Earthbound
• 8 Guardian of Piri
• 10 Alpha Child
• 11 The Last Sunset
• 12 Voyager's Return
• 13 Collision Course
• 14 Death's Other Dominion
• 15 The Full Circle
• 17 War Games
• 18 The Last Enemy
• 20 Space Brain
• 23 Dragon's Domain
• 1 The Metamorph
• 2 The Exiles
• 5 Journey To Where
• 6 The Taybor
• 10 New Adam, New Eve
• 23 The Immunity Syndrome