Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 17:20:00 +0000 From: Mike Lynch (Mike-Lynch@big44foot.com) Subject: Space1999: If you could have been in any episode... I was having a mini S99 Marathon this past weekend and watched 5 episodes in a row... I really needed just relax and get away so I parked myself on the sofa and let myself get sucked into Moonbase Alpha... and after watching SPACE BRAIN (episode number 3 of the 5) I began to wonder what it would have been like on the sets with all of that foam. And if I could have been in any episode I would have to say that SPACE BRAIN would be my pick. Yes, DARGON'S DOMAIN is my favorite, but SB looked like so much fun. So - what episode would everyone else have wished they could have been in? Mike
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 16:16:34 -0500 From: Robert Gilbert (bcpgd@shaw.wave4tag.ca) Subject: Re: Space1999: If you could have been in any episode... I agree completely! Sometimes when I'm in the tub I'm reminded of this Ep (as I usually have the bubbles overflowing the sides of the tub)! I originally titled this Episode THE FOAM OF DEATH --- but since changed my impression to SOAP SUDS ARE GONNA GET 'EM!
From: keith.marshall@fox44internet.net Date: Thu, 1 Oct 98 22:24:34 GMT Subject: Re: Space1999: If you could have been in any episode... Um, Thanks Rob, I really needed to know that. :) Just kidding. Keith Marshall
From: CPerrins1@aol4tag.com Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:46:41 EDT Subject: Re: Space1999: If you could have been in any episode... I think I would have liked to be in Full Circle. It must have been fun to act like cave people. Then to walk in that mist and become yourself again. Mike you are right about it being fun to work with all that foam. Christina
From: Mark Meskin (plastic.gravity@new44rock.com) Subject: Re: Space1999: If you could have been in any episode... Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 20:49:36 -0500 Heck, You should visit just about anywhere most of us work, a lot of people behave like cave people....they just aren't acting :-) Mark
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 23:13:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Apprich (psapp@terra.cnct4tag.com) Subject: Re: Space1999: If you could have been in any episode... Inasmuch as I am more of a Y1 fan than a Y2 fan (that's not my focus here). I would have to say Brian the Brain. Therein lies the opportunity to get some more equipment onto the base and to finally have a droid on board (programmed with the Ten Commandments of course). Enough fuel on the mother ship to last a billion years? Long distance travel? Ahh! more 'fuel' for a sequel season or at least fan fiction!. Perhaps a proper memorial for the crew on that mission would be in order. As for the Space Brain suggestion, could that have been a spoof on Jay Van Andel and Richard De Vos of Amway fame? #start facetiousness Bergman: Many planets depended on that brain... Carter: Victor, that's no space brain! Koenig: then what is it? Carter: It's a gigantic spinning bottle of Indestroclean spewing out gazillions of litres of cleaning agents. Some Diamond class marketers had set it up there for a demonsration! Koenig: so they're trying to scour the moon clean... #end PA
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 22:45:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ellen C. Lindow" (sfdxb@scfn.thpl.lib4tag.fl.us) Subject: Re: Space1999: If you could have been in any episode... OH, I think it would have been Piri with the ultra modern Alice-in-wonderland type setting, or maybe AB Chrysallis with the bouncing ball things that always utterly fascinated me. And I'd have to say that 20 years ago, I wouldn't have minded joining the red-tight clad jailers on the hunt with the golden whips and all.
From: Brian Dowling (hellion@easy44net.co.uk) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 18:51:38 +0100 Subject: Re: Space1999: If you could have been in any episode... > So - what episode would everyone else have wished they could have been in? Just one? I can think of several I would like to have been in: Space Brain - for the foam - wheee!!! Dragon's Domain - for the derelict Ultra probe ship The Full Circle - Zienia in leopardskins! :-) Guardian of Piri - the cool Pirian sets *and* Catherine in that dress! Brian Dowling
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 20:24:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Anthony D." (atd64@yahoo4tag.com) Subject: Space1999: If I could bein an episode.... Hi! Interesting thought...are we talking about the adventure portrayed or being on the actual set to film the episode? Anyway, I'll take it from the story view and say that I would choose 'Black Sun'. For actual filming, then probably any episode. I'd love to be on Alpha...of course, I think it would be disappointing to find out that nothing (or very little) actually worked on the set...ugh! Speaking of working, does anyone know how the doors worked? Did they have stage people open and close them? I assume they did. Anthony
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 22:35:39 -0500 From: Robert Gilbert (bcpgd@shaw.wave4tag.ca) Subject: Re: Space1999: If I could bein an episode.... Of course not! Why do you think they had umpteen x the budget of other Sci-Fi TV shows of the period! Their doors were all Automated!
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 12:20:50 +0000 From: Mike Lynch (Mike-Lynch@big44foot.com) Subject: Re: Space1999: If you could have been in any episode... > I agree completely! Sometimes when I'm in the tub I'm reminded of this > Ep (as I usually have the bubbles overflowing the sides of the tub)! I > originally titled this Episode THE FOAM OF DEATH --- but since changed > my impression to SOAP SUDS ARE GONNA GET 'EM! No bath is complete without Mr. Bubble added to the point of filling the bathroom! Perhaps this is why my parents decided that I should use the shower option at a young age as opposed to the bath... Mike
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 14:07:12 -0500 From: Robert Gilbert (bcpgd@shaw.wave4tag.ca) Subject: Re: Space1999: If you could have been in any episode... right on! Especially when I'm in the tub and the suds are up past my neck (I've had times when I've been in the whirlpool and the suds almost suffocated me)!
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 12:29:29 +0000 From: Mike Lynch (Mike-Lynch@big44foot.com) Subject: Re: Space1999: If you could have been in any episode... > OH, I think it would have been Piri with the ultra modern > Alice-in-wonderland type setting, or maybe AB Chrysallis with the bouncing > ball things that always utterly fascinated me. And I'd have to say that > 20 years ago, I wouldn't have minded joining the red-tight clad jailers on > the hunt with the golden whips and all. Umm... Hmmm. If I were a psychoanalyst I could probably have a field day with your interest in joining the DEVIL'S PLANET jailers. :) I do agree that GUARDIAN OF PIRI would have been a fun episode as well - great Pirian sets! Mike
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 13:36:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Andrews (magneto@bc.seflin4tag.org) Subject: Re: Space1999: If you could have been in any episode... speaking of "Devil's Planet"....that brings to mind another question. you have to wonder what sort of society had existed on the home planet before that 'nerve bacteria' got loose. I mean, all the guards are females.....I can't remember if all the prisoners were male or not. does anyone else? As for the nerve bacteria, I find myself wondering how that could have happened, anyway? Judging by Elizia's comment "You prisoners are political troublemakers. It is your nature to be discontent, to cause trouble." it seems quite possible that the disaster could have been the result of some rebel/dissident activity that got out of hand... opinions anyone?
From: Sciffynic@aol4tag.com Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 23:00:22 EDT Subject: Re: Space1999: If you could have been in any episode... >I can't remember if all the prisoners were male or not. does anyone else? I remember a few women prisoners in the background. nicolette -militant diabetic