Year One
1975

Space: 1999 premiered on American television in September 1975. Created by the husband and wife team of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, the series starred another husband and wife team, Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, who had previously worked together on Mission: Impossible, and Barry Morse, who had previously earned a reputation as “The Most Hated Main In America” for his portrayal of Lt. Gerard, the police detective who relentlessly bird-dogged Dr. David Kimball in the original TV series The Fugitive.

The highlights of the production were its authentic set design and spectacular special effects, as well as a stellar cast of guest artists including Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Leo McKern and Joan Collins.

One way in which the series was revolutionary was that all 24 episodes were completed and in the can before the first episode ever aired. This allowed the quality to stay consistent throughout the first season, without the meddling of network executives changing things around in mid-season. The second season — or Year Two, as it came to be known — was a very different story....

CAST

Commander John Koenig

Martin Landau

Doctor Helena Russell

Barbara Bain

Professor Victor Bergman

Barry Morse

Paul Morrow

Prentis Hancock

Sandra Benes

Zienia Merton

David Kano

Clifton Jones

Alan Carter

Nick Tate

Bob Mathias

Anton Phillips

Tanya Alexander

Suzanne Roquette

Breakaway

Matter of Life and Death

Black Sun

Ring around the Moon

Breakaway

Matter of Life
and Death

Black Sun

Ring around
the Moon

Earthbound

Another Time, Another Place

Missing Link

Guardian of Piri

Earthbound

Another Time,
Another Place

Missing Link

Guardian of
Piri

Force of Life

Alpha Child

The Last Sunset

Voyager’s Return

Force of Life

Alpha Child

The Last
Sunset

Voyager’s
Return

Collision Course

Death’s Other Dominion

The Full Circle

End of Eternity

Collision
Course

Death’s Other
Dominion

The Full Circle

End of Eternity

War Games

The Last Enemy

The Troubled Spirit

Space Brain

War Games

The Last
Enemy

The Troubled
Spirit

Space Brain

The Infernal Machine

Mission of the Darians

Dragon’s Domain

The Testament of Arkadia

The Infernal
Machine

Mission of the
Darians

Dragon’s
Domain

The Testament
of Arkadia

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