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SPACE 1999: Audio-Only Revival?
Aug. 12th, 2019 08:21 pmNow 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.
Assorted Stuff in Mid-February
Feb. 10th, 2007 09:32 pmOkay, Map Week's over. So what's up at the moment?
Comics news: I've started work on page layouts for Local Hero # 2 as of yesterday. This is good. I will be focusing on pencils from this issue onwards.
Radio addictions, I have a few. One of them's Afghanada, a serial radio drama on CBC Radio One, focusing on a Canadian Forces fire team working in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. I'm informed that CD collections of the episodes aired to date are available via cbcshop.ca for anyone interested.
Visual treats: Some nice landscape photography from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cath posted at her Flickr account in the last day or so. If she ever gets tired of IT work...well, you get the idea. Well done, Cath!
Other Peoples' Comics I've Enjoyed: Among such works was the mini-series Skull and Bones by Ed Hannigan, written and drawn for DC a bit over ten years ago. Basic premise as best I understand it: what if the first super-hero had been a Russian starting in the last days of the Soviet era? I enjoyed it, but there weren't enough other people who felt the same way about the mini-series so it never got any further.
Fast forward to the launch of Comicspace.com. Mr.Hannigan's gotten himself an account, the rights to Skull and Bones - all the rights, apparently - have reverted back to him, and he's re-serializing it on his Comicspace gallery space. Go and see for yourselves. I don't know if the movie option will turn into an actual movie, but maybe new stories of Andrian Trofimovitch Linov, gospodin Skelyet, will come of it.
LJ Stuff in Progress: I've started a Community for SF and Fantasy fans on LJ in the Ottawa and Gatineau region:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
ottawa_sf. If you know someone else from hereabouts who hasn't gotten the word yet, please pass it along!
Sad Hockey News: One of the greats of modern hockey, Bobby Orr, lost his Dad today. Word from the CBC for confirmation.
Mr. Orr, I'm so sorry...
More later, people. Comments if you want to share'em...?
Comics news: I've started work on page layouts for Local Hero # 2 as of yesterday. This is good. I will be focusing on pencils from this issue onwards.
Radio addictions, I have a few. One of them's Afghanada, a serial radio drama on CBC Radio One, focusing on a Canadian Forces fire team working in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. I'm informed that CD collections of the episodes aired to date are available via cbcshop.ca for anyone interested.
Visual treats: Some nice landscape photography from
cath posted at her Flickr account in the last day or so. If she ever gets tired of IT work...well, you get the idea. Well done, Cath!Other Peoples' Comics I've Enjoyed: Among such works was the mini-series Skull and Bones by Ed Hannigan, written and drawn for DC a bit over ten years ago. Basic premise as best I understand it: what if the first super-hero had been a Russian starting in the last days of the Soviet era? I enjoyed it, but there weren't enough other people who felt the same way about the mini-series so it never got any further.
Fast forward to the launch of Comicspace.com. Mr.Hannigan's gotten himself an account, the rights to Skull and Bones - all the rights, apparently - have reverted back to him, and he's re-serializing it on his Comicspace gallery space. Go and see for yourselves. I don't know if the movie option will turn into an actual movie, but maybe new stories of Andrian Trofimovitch Linov, gospodin Skelyet, will come of it.
LJ Stuff in Progress: I've started a Community for SF and Fantasy fans on LJ in the Ottawa and Gatineau region:
ottawa_sf. If you know someone else from hereabouts who hasn't gotten the word yet, please pass it along!Sad Hockey News: One of the greats of modern hockey, Bobby Orr, lost his Dad today. Word from the CBC for confirmation.
Mr. Orr, I'm so sorry...
More later, people. Comments if you want to share'em...?
