SPACE 1999: Audio-Only Revival?
Aug. 12th, 2019 08:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineNow here's a blast from my childhood. In this case, the detonation of the atomic reactor and weapons-grade fissiles that were dumped in a couple of what were supposed to be graves on the Moon in an alternative future that could've been....provided certain smart choices and mistakes and maybe even a few crimes alike had been made instead of what did happen in the real worlds. And if physics, biology and chemistry were slightly other than we knew - and still know - them to be, too.
Some of you reading this will remember the TV series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's team for ITC back in the mid-1970's. Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Catherine Schell and a bunch of other actors in front of the cameras. The first season was more a gauntlet of horrors for the surviving crew of Moonbase Alpha to either endure or die of. The second, closer to classic action-adventure tropes of past series.
Others of you watched it years or decades after the original broadcast fact via syndicated re-runs or the side roads of the Internet. There was going to be either a remake from scratch set further into the possible futures for TV, or a sprucing-up of the VFX and whatnot by a fan-run crew under the brand Space: 2099. But both of those came to grief in different ways.
So now we're going to have this audio-only revival and recasting from the same people who do the audio adventure stories licensed from the Doctor Who and Blake's 7 studios.
I am somewhat surprised, of course. Not sure how high my interest level is at this point. But we'll see.
Some of you reading this will remember the TV series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's team for ITC back in the mid-1970's. Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Catherine Schell and a bunch of other actors in front of the cameras. The first season was more a gauntlet of horrors for the surviving crew of Moonbase Alpha to either endure or die of. The second, closer to classic action-adventure tropes of past series.
Others of you watched it years or decades after the original broadcast fact via syndicated re-runs or the side roads of the Internet. There was going to be either a remake from scratch set further into the possible futures for TV, or a sprucing-up of the VFX and whatnot by a fan-run crew under the brand Space: 2099. But both of those came to grief in different ways.
So now we're going to have this audio-only revival and recasting from the same people who do the audio adventure stories licensed from the Doctor Who and Blake's 7 studios.
I am somewhat surprised, of course. Not sure how high my interest level is at this point. But we'll see.
