Tag Archives: Space: 1999

20 years after the series ended, it still had fans. If I’m being honest, I wonder how. I would understand and support a Maya Fanclub but the show was often slow and plodding offering a crotchety commander and a wooden … Continue reading →

For the finale of Space: 1999 we have a special treat: legendary actor Patrick Troughton stars as the Archon. His people, the Dorcons, hunt and kill Psychons for their brain stems because of their unusual properties in giving eternal life. … Continue reading →

The Immunity Syndrome… you’d almost expect the Alphans to find themselves in a giant amoeba, but that’s a different show. However, the title isn’t the only thing this story shares with Classic Star Trek. It took me 47 episodes to … Continue reading →

Last week I made the observation that a Koenig-free episode was excellent and Koenig himself may play a part in why some episodes are especially weak.  This episode comes along and features only Koenig from the main cast (with no explanation of … Continue reading →

Here’s an observation: Koenig is utterly absent from this episode and it’s excellent.  Call me a cynic, but that stands out to me.  He’s apparently exploring asteroids that might be habitable.  I say: stay there. This episode has an alien … Continue reading →

It’s a title one expects to find in a ghost story, but there are no ghosts.  This isn’t a horror story or anything of the kind.  We only lose a single crewman, so it doesn’t even come close to falling … Continue reading →

It’s the only two-parter in the whole run of Space: 1999 and the question I had been wondering is whether this would be too much tedium or would two parts actually be worth it. Part one, now 1912 days into their travels, … Continue reading →

A few episodes ago, I was surprised to see the writers Pip and Jane Baker behind an episode of Space: 1999.  Today, we have other news!  Terrance Dicks, one of the most prolific of the Doctor Who writers, makes his … Continue reading →

Sometimes less is truly more.  Take The Beta Cloud for example.  A mysterious cloud appears and half the base is weak and dealing with Covid… I mean a fever and lack of energy.  They are dropping like flies.  The cloud … Continue reading →

I started on high alert with this one.  The pre-credit sequence sets the stage: random crewmember Shermeen has a crush on Tony who is depressed when his latest attempt at making beer doesn’t work. Tony seems to blame her for … Continue reading →

I’m really not sure I understand how the production crew operated at the time of this series.  The first half felt like another excuse to get Commander Belligerent off the station but about half-way through the episode, the focus shifted.  … Continue reading →

The best thing about Catacombs of the Moon is the title.  Conceptually, I think there’s a good idea under the surface, maybe buried deep in a catacomb, but it ends up being 50 minutes that felt like swimming through treacle.  … Continue reading →

Now this was an unusual episode.  It seems the last two were a bit more of what I’d hoped to find in season two and, while I don’t have much hope of that continuing, it was nice to experience another … Continue reading →

Readers of the Junkyard might recall that a few weeks ago, I mentioned that the Sci-fi channel (now Syfy) once aired 2 episodes of this show back to back.  One was that abysmal Brian the Brain. The other was Seed of Destruction.  … Continue reading →

I’m not really sure how to feel about The Taybor.  It’s not a bad episode per se, but it doesn’t do anything exciting either.  A space traveler arrives with merchandise to sell, ogles Maya for a bit, and immediately gave … Continue reading →

Glisters??  Is that a word?  Isn’t the term, “all that glitters”?  Glisters is a word and means much the same thing as the work glitters, but it’s a bit out of fashion now.  Much like Space: 1999.  But that doesn’t mean it … Continue reading →

I enjoyed it when it was done in The Outer Limits with Fun and Games.  I loved it when Star Trek did it with Arena.  But when Space: 1999 did it with The Rulers of Luton, boy oh boy did they go off the … Continue reading →

Well if you were wondering if The Mark of Archanon would be like Trek’s Mark of Gideon, rest easy: it’s not.  It’s far more tedious.  Actually, growing up, I never liked the Trek episode but as an adult, I’ve come … Continue reading →

When God seemed to appear to the Alphans, I rolled my eyes.  Here we go, I thought.  But to my surprise, this episode offered me a lot to think about.  As I say often enough, that’s what good science fiction … Continue reading →

I’d been dreading this one.  Some years back, maybe for a holiday weekend, one of the cable channels showed two back to back episodes of Space: 1999.  The first one was quite good, though I haven’t come across it yet … Continue reading →