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The Space: 1999 TV series was released nearly 50 years ago, and a new documentary, titled The Eagle Has Landed, will celebrate the show’s anniversary.
Space: 1999 aired in first-run syndication for 48 episodes, between 1975 and 1977. The sci-fi series stars Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt, Prentis Hancock, Nick Tate, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Suzanne Roquette, Clifton Jones, John Hug, Jeffery Kissoon, Yasuko Nagazumi, Sam Dastor, and Alibe Parsons. The story follows the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha, a research center in a crater on the Earth’s moon. Following a nuclear waste accident, the moon is ripped from Earth’s orbit and sent hurling through space. While trying to find a new home planet, the center’s crew encounters various alien civilizations, dystopian societies, and mind-bending phenomena.
The documentary will feature never-before-seen archival footage and interviews with world-renowned artists, writers, actors, scientists, and collectors who all have been deeply impacted by the fictional vessel and add to its legacy today.
Bain, Apollo XVI astronaut Charles Duke Jr., Academy Award-winning visual effects artist Bill George, and series VFX artist Brian Johnson are among the participants.
Coming from FutureDude Entertainment and Zero Point Zero Production Inc., the documentary will be executive produced by Jeffrey Morris, Anne Marie Gillen, and Fredrick Haugen for FutureDude Entertainment and Christopher Collins, Susan Poretta, Lydia Tenaglia, and Craig H. Shepherd for Zero Point Zero Production.
Morris will also appear on camera and said the following about the series, per Deadline:
“Space: 1999 appeared on TV a few short years after the world watched Neil Armstrong take the first steps on the moon. The show’s unforgettable Eagle inspired a generation to envision a future in space and is still doing so decades later. The question we explore is ‘why?’ What is it about this imaginary craft that has captured and held imaginations for nearly 50 years?”
A premiere date for The Eagle Has Landed will be announced later.
What do you think? Are you excited to see this new documentary? Have you watched the Space:1999 TV series?
I was a fan of Miss Bain & Martin Landau from Mission Impossible already so I enjoyed this new show very much.
Lost in Space, Star Trek, Space: 1999, Battlestar Galactica, they all formed my youth and I wouldn’t trade that for anything. Sci Fi lover then and now, more than 50 years later.
My first Sci-Fi show ever. Marked my youth. Make me love Sci-Fi from there on.
For it’s time, as a TV show, it was fantastic, with great actors and actresses to compliment it further.
Space:1999 marked down from 2001.