The Merchandise Guide
Cards
Compiled by Martin Willey

Italy/Germany/France/Portugal/Greece (possibly Canada). Albums each 100 lira (in Italy).

Two sets of 400 stickers (each 7 x 5 cm, colour photos). Purchased in small batches, for collecting. Sticker backs had logo, sticker number, and text in 6 languages.

Each has a 50 page album, 24 x 27 cm, with colour covers. Inside are poor quality bw photos & short descriptive text of each photo. French, Italian, German and Greek editions are titled "Space 1999", (the German edition of first album was sub titled "Mondbasis Alpha 1", and the Greek had a subtitle in Greek. Only the Portuguese edition had the title in Portuguese. An English language album was released, possibly in Canada (but not in the UK or US).

Many of the photos used in the first series stickers were reprinted in AMZ's "Diario Scolastico".

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Album cover: logo & blue planet over Alpha; inset photos.

Stickers had blue and black print on backs. "Ask your retailer the album for this collection of picture cards" (sic).

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Album cover featured series logo/ blue planet on red background over a montage of Koenig & Maya in spacesuits, Rescue Eagle in front of large Moon.

Stickers had black print on backs. "Collect these picture cards in the album available from your shop."

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UK 1975, 5p each

11 x 15 cm cards, with bw photo & logo on front. Inside an indistinct bw photo of launching Eagle & text "Greetings From"

4 publicity cards, with logo on reverse, & Yr 2 colour photos of star with their autograph. These were sent in reply to fan mail.

• Martin Landau, Barbara Bain
• Catherine Schell
• Nick Tate
• Tony Anholt

Rear of card

U K 1995

BT phonecard (for 5 units- £5), with two available. Each came in a presentation leaflet (8 x 6 inches, opening up to 8 x 12), featuring exactly the same picture on the cover, and on the interior.

1. Year 2 publicity photo of Helena, Maya and Koenig in front of Command Centre doors.
2. two docked Eagles landing on a pad (from Collision Course)

One of a series of Gerry Anderson related cards; only 500 of each were produced.

UK 2002

Preview set of 6 cards released March 2002 (£9.99), all bearing the legend "Limited Edition of 300 Preview Sets" on the front, and a short series premise on the reverse with the text "Space 1999 Premium Trading Cards From Cards Inc. Will Be Entering Your Solar System Soon". Five of the six pictures are Eagle/SFX shots, one is of astronauts. Cards are 89mm x 64mm.

In August 2003, a further preview set was issued, the Memorabilia 2003 Exclusive 9 card Puzzle Preview set (at the NEC Memorabilia fair in the UK, £9.99). The cards have a honeycomb of small orange-tinted photos, which build up to form the number 99. The rear of the cards are all identical. The numbers on the front are not the same as the numbers on the back.

2.25 x 1.5 inch (5 x 3.5cm) cards distributed in preforated sheets containing other 1970s TV shows including Kojak, Marine Boy, Six Million Dollar Man and others. The Space 1999 ones were mostly coloured artwork crudely based on Mike Noble's Look-In art (the first story), and photos: a strange mixture of publicity photos (and art) taken from the third (1977) annual, the Star edition of "The Time Fighters" (logo including the book title!), and the Airfix Eagle box art. The backs of the cards are black and white and feature playing card suits (hearts, spades, etc., although as the backs are non-identical they are fairly useless for games!). There are over 40 cards in the Space: 1999 set- perhaps up to 52 (four suits of thirteen ranks)

1 3/8" x 1 7/8" cards, in a set of possibly 50 with crude coloured art based on photographs (including Alpha Child, Earthbound). The set tells a story, with English speech bubbles. The grammar is sometimes incorrect: Bodie's alive but in suspended animations, so a civilization exist!. The cards are perforated, and the backs are blank gray/brown cardboard. The exact origins are uncertain, but they may be from the Philippines. Thanks to Patrick Zimmerman.