Page 1 of Space:1999 - Blu-ray - The Complete First Series £29.99

If there are any fans of Space:1999, grab yourself a bargain.

Networkdvd has the Blu-ray set of The Complete First Series available for £29.99. I ordered a set from them recently and that was the final amount I paid. It arrived after a couple of days and came by Recorded Delivery.

The quality of this limited number product is outstanding.

http://www.networkdvd.net/product_info.php?cPath=91&products_id=1213&osCsid=8061369c4aeb495ef94475bf373d08b6

Space 1888 was a really good Si-Fi show up to the end of the first series. After that it became really cheap budget with third rate actors, poor stories and paper mashe monsters.

I always got nightmares with one episode in the first series, about a graveyard of floating spaceships with a ship captain who takes on a vicious monster inside one of these derlict ships, that killed his whole crew.

Sort of `George and the dragon` type of story.

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bandicoot says...
Space 1888 was a really good Si-Fi show up to the end of the first series. After that it became really cheap budget with third rate actors, poor stories and paper mashe monsters.I think that was the prequel?

The standard definition set of this on DVD is outstanding, and under £30 for the Blu-ray is amazing.  Space:1999 (is it really 12 years ago??) had the highest production values and therefore cost of any UK-produced television series of the 1970s.  It`s just a shame the scripts didn`t reach such a high standard.

I remember the monster-in-the-doorway from Bandy`s recollection.  The episode was called Dragon`s Domain and one of the crewpeople it ate was Alun Armstrong`s missus from New Tricks, Susan Jameson (James Bolam`s real-life partner for trivia freaks).

The show went downhill for Year Two as it was known under the malign influence of ITC`s New York office.  Gerry and Sylvia Anderson were in the middle of an extremely messy and acrimonious divorce and ITC put Fred Freiberger, a time-served US tv producer in at the top.  Unfortunately he`s best remembered as the man who buried Star Trek.  Gerry Anderson knew he was in for a rough ride when the incoming producer announced he`d picked the name for an alien planet from a signpost he`d seen on the way in from the airport.  That`s why there`s a Year Two episode called The Rules of Luton - which incidentally takes its plot from the notorious Lost In Space  episode "The Great Vegetable Rebellion".  At least he didn`t stick the guest star in a carrot suit.

J Mark Oates

i was always led to believe the honour of most expensive television production, certainly BBC was Blakes 7, anyway this does eem quite a bargain, although dont know the site?

Blake certainly had a bigger budget for S2, hence the dropping of the "Robin Hood" costumes in favor of the cast (custom) leathers from a BDSM supplier.



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Mark Oates says...
It`s just a shame the scripts didn`t reach such a high standard.
This was my problem when reviewing it recently.  It looks fantastic but in reality the plots move really slowly, partly due to the scripts but also because the effects weren`t good enough to move the story forward dramatically.  Not as good as I remember it but an excellent set with loads of extras including ep 1 from S2 so you don`t have to sit through all that either...

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Marksparks999 - you can trust the NetworkDVD site - they`re the releasing label.

J Mark Oates