Wonderfest Panel 2024 "Space 1999" and "The Eagle Obsession"

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@rolandgrant8669 2 ай бұрын

I hung around the stage door of a theatre in London as a kid back in 1977 to catch a glimpse of Nick Tate who was appearing in a Show there. Sure enough out he comes. My friend and I asked for his autograph and he invited us back to his dressing room (chaperoned by our Mums). He told us all about his experiences on 1999, and the great sets, and actors. He then signed A4 publicity photos for us. We were starstruck! Just the friendliest guy..

@marklr5716 5 ай бұрын

I loved this show as a kid..

@oldgoat142 Ай бұрын

I was too young to witness the coming of Star Trek, but by the time Space 1999 came along, I was ready. I was obsessed with it and in particular, the eagle. I wanted to be like Captain Alan Carter and fly one. I still love the show. Nick Tate is still one of my childhood heroes. This was marvelous to watch and I look forward to watching the movie. Beautiful. Just beautiful.

@randallcooper3559 4 ай бұрын

Great video!. Space 1999 Shaped my future. It inspired me to do scratch build miniatures. I would become a prop/miniature builder in Hollywood.

@dondickerson9978 4 ай бұрын

I still have my model of the Eagle I bought when the show first came out. It is good to remember a fun time.

@ralf.f.razborsek 3 ай бұрын

Wonderful ❤ looking forward to see the whole movie. Thx Mark, I love it 👍👍🙏😇

@MarkHevingham Ай бұрын

Thank YOU and there is more to come SOON!

@deaddropholiday 2 ай бұрын

With seemingly everyone in the sci-fi community at each's others throats over the last few years it makes a change seeing people involved in a project purely for the love of it. I salute everyone single one of you. The Eagle, along with the Millennium Falcon, Liberator, Enterprise etc. were just iconic ships conceived by dreamers, built by craftsmen and loved by generations of fans.

@delmarrosa8596 5 ай бұрын

This was wonderful! Your enthusiasm and love for the show is out of this world! As a fan of the show, I cannot wait for the full movie/documentary next year!

@davisgreen2099 5 ай бұрын

This space craft should exist!!😊❤

@derekflegg2510 4 ай бұрын

When they figure out the fuel problem (like in The Expanse) it probably will.. Till then, like the jetpack the Eagle's range would still be limited by fuel it can carry and if you look at the Eagle there isn't room for a whole lot'a fuel..

@MrMaxeemum 4 ай бұрын

This is going to be excellent. I thought I was the only one obssessed with the Eagle, sure there's Space 1999 merch but it's the Eagle in particular that is stuck in my head. Can't wait for it to come out.

@rikkafe6050 5 ай бұрын

Excellent video thoroughly enjoyed it. ...and yeah i'm another one of the many who feels deceived by the promise of a future that never happened. Although i'm 63 the child in me still holds onto to hope. Looking forward to the release of the movie.

@MarkHevingham 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for your feedback! I am 58 and watched the first episode (and all episodes) on transmission in the UK. Now I live in the USA its a dream come true to film these guys in action at Wonderfest.

@shaunmccauley5129 5 ай бұрын

Remember when I was a kid watching space 1999 loved it still do nick tate brilliant chap

@nathanwildthorn6919 4 ай бұрын

Thank you. This was *really* cool!!! 😊

@B.B.Digital_Forest 5 ай бұрын

Keep on inspiring everyone! The future is built with our hands and imagination!

@robbumusic 5 ай бұрын

Grew up with re-runs of this in the 80's in New Zealand. Launched my lifelong interest in space, science and design. Such a fantastic show!

@chasmenear7130 3 ай бұрын

Regarding the Eagle spacecraft - one of the great designs of all time, and pretty accurate ' design to purpose'. As a kid, I happily received a small die cast version of it from my dad, and it was an amazing thing in my life!

@paulaburrows8660 4 ай бұрын

So excited for this project. My little green Dinkey Eagle was my favourite toy growing up in 70s UK.

@gaz11h 5 ай бұрын

Hope Eagle Obsession does well there's certainly a lot of fans of the show still out here always loved Space 1999 and agreed series one was the best series of the two Nick's character of Alan Carter was my favorite of the show but I think he was for many of us and he's someone I hope to get the chance to meet one day any who good luck with your project 🍀

@nicholasklangos9704 5 ай бұрын

Agreed! He was always my favorite character and each week there were times I was afraid they would kill him off like so many others!

@StuartRaweakaStuOz 5 ай бұрын

This was totally mind blowing! I am a life long fan of Space 1999 but before this video I guessed the hardcore fans were all very nerdy types (nothing wrong with nerds!). But this opened my eyes. Thank you so much. It makes me want to re-watch the 1999 series again! StuOz.

@ady-uk7150 3 ай бұрын

Fantastic to see all the Eagle models. Who else had the Airfix Eagle kit back in the 70's? I did, but it wasn't good at all.

@philipc2025 Ай бұрын

@@ady-uk7150 I built the Eagle and Hawk kits. Just wish we could have seen more of the Hawks, loved them as well. I also built an Angel interceptor, beautiful aircraft. That was the end of my kit building days. No longer have the patience or space for that pastime. Gerry certainly had people who could design gorgeous hero vehicles.

@goblin2bis707 5 ай бұрын

One of the best spaceship ever created for SF movies and TV series !!! a work of wonder. So believable

@derekflegg2510 4 ай бұрын

Next on the list - Babylon 5's Star Furies...

@DaveS-v2b 3 ай бұрын

thank you for a very enjoyable production! I loved space 1999 as a kid :) I've recently bought some collectables. I've bought the dinky toy model 359 (£235) & I have the model 360 on order from Italy (£300) .. the genuine toys! they are 50 years old! it's shocking how expensive they are! I had to order the model 360 from Italy.. it broke my bank, but I can't wait for it to arrive. if you want a contribution to you show, I can bung you £50 on pay day-- us fans need you! x

@MarkHevingham Ай бұрын

I got the green transporter and the white freighter for Christmas 75 and I think they were £2.99 each from the local toy shop! It would be great for a Dinky reissue for 2025!

@johnbrandwood6568 5 ай бұрын

Looking forward to this, the Eagle is such an iconic design! What has amused me recently is just how much NASA's new Dream Chaser reminds me of the Lunar Module from Gerry Anderson's UFO.

@jean-claudezaugg8230 Ай бұрын

As a 8 years old child I was so excited by Space 1999, its characters, sceneries, stories and its iconic Eagle ! I was also in love with Dr Russell ❤ and jealous of John Koenig (didn’t know at that time they were husband and wife in the real life).I made Eagles using Lego parts to live virtual adventure singing the music of the show. I would have loved to be Alan piloting such amazing spaceship. But watching ’the Eagle obsession’ I understand some are bigger fan than me 😅!

@blackterminal 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for this. I love the Eagle too.

@philipc2025 2 ай бұрын

Fascinating. To coin an expression from a character in another show that FF killed. There was a magic element that ran through season 1 that I really enjoyed. FF killed that. For me there is only one season of Space 1999. Then an amateur came along and made a below par sci fi show.

@TheCebulon 4 ай бұрын

I love the eagle. Had a plastic model of it. Regret throwing it away often.

@thrasher613 5 ай бұрын

I am really looking forward to this documentary. I was 8 when Space 1999 first aired and I remember my own obsession with the show and the Eagle in particular. I recently re-watched the series and I think it is time for ITV to re-boot it; I have ideas.

@WarIII941 Ай бұрын

In Italy this show and all cast was the dream ❤ of all my generation, at 3:30pm we dropped everything and go home watching tv bc at 4pm start, SPACE 1999.

@theusefulchannel 5 ай бұрын

Nick is looking good for his age.

@derekflegg2510 4 ай бұрын

Always my favorite character on the show :)

@FirstLast-jl6fr 5 ай бұрын

Space 1999 (and UFO) easily the best SF shows ever and they don't date with age. The only query I ever had on the Eagles was... where were the fuel tanks on it!

@martinkasper197 5 ай бұрын

Didn't they have nuclear engines? 🤔

@WC3POchannel10A 5 ай бұрын

@@martinkasper197 Yes. The main engines were reactor powered. The RCS thruster pods would have had fuel for them.

@ogaitavlissepol 5 ай бұрын

Reboot the show, please! In a world troubled by greed, war, and selfishness, sci-fi isn't just a luxury-it's a necessity. It reminds us that the future is in our hands and can be shaped into something much better. Sci-fi inspires us to be more altruistic and aspirational, offering a vision of a brighter tomorrow.

@thoughtsonfitness3249 2 ай бұрын

Please, based on current DEI in Cinema Streaming and TV… do not push a reboot on Space. What they have done to Star Hers and Trek is deathly to any franchise and therefore should be spared, for respect for Gerry Anderson alone!

@dogwalker666 Ай бұрын

The Audio reboot is excellent.

@thoughtsonfitness3249 Ай бұрын

@@dogwalker666 I lasted 39 seconds….

@dogwalker666 Ай бұрын

@@thoughtsonfitness3249 you didn't like the big finish version? It was much closer to the book.

@MarkHevingham 5 ай бұрын

Just to let you guys know Jeffrey is interviewing William Shatner next for this film!

@TheCoasterLisa 2 ай бұрын

New sub!! This is awesome! I have fond memories watching this show with my late father when I was a teen in the late 70’s and early 80’s. I recall seeing it on PBS as that was the channel that offered BBC shows. About two weeks ago I started watching it again on Prime Video & Tubi and now I’m here. Do you have a rough idea of when this documentary will air? Will it be on this channel? Also, were you able to interview Catherine Schell as well?

@MarkHevingham Ай бұрын

Thanks for the sub. The first (of two) documentaries will be released in the Fall of 2025 with the second in 2026. Catherine Schell has not been interviewed at this time.

@JamesJohnson-ok1hn 5 ай бұрын

i cannot wait to see it.

@estondunn Ай бұрын

As an actor and a writer, I would love to be part of the reboot of the series with ITV. What do you need from me?

@MarkHevingham Ай бұрын

Thank you for your interest! Futuredude is working on the two documentaries at this time and into 2026. We are nowhere near negotiating or working on a reboot at this time. If/when it happens, as you will know, auditions would happen through agents in the normal way. Please follow the progress of the project shown here on the Space 1999 Props and Ships group on Facebook.

@cozmicpfunk 2 ай бұрын

Interesting thing, most people know the history on 1999 series being kind of an accident- the original series was another season of UFO but just on the moon. Also a decade before: Anderson was approached by Kubrick for doing effects on 2001 and couldn't due to BBC contracts etc. But we do know that some artists from 21st Century model and prop dept. did work on 2001. So we fast forward to a new series in development that needs a new moon base and modular transport shuttles and viola: the 1999 Eagle that is reminiscent of the Moon Bus from 2001 and the moon base as well. Ironically that 1999 is a few years before 2001 chronologically and there is a technology continuity if you will- those 2 productions visually work together almost seamlessly. I had always been a fan of both 2001 and 1999 then yeas later learning the DNA between both of them. The visual designs are amazing, another contribution from Anderson's design team. Also there is a urban myth about the original prototype design of the Millennium Falcon being in 1999- it does look very similar to one of the models the "Super Swift". The Eagle could very well be in service on the moon right now- what other ships in the sci fi universe could actually be real working technology? the answer? Probably none of them :) Thank you for making this very cool Documentary, takes me back to a world of possibility

@paulmurgatroyd6372 4 ай бұрын

The eagle looks exactly how you would expect a next generation NASA transport to look, for use on the moon. It didn't look like science fiction at all.

@bessarion1771 5 ай бұрын

Space 1999 was HUGE in Europe (until Freiburg came and destroyed it). Literally EVERYBODY who was a kid in the 1970s have seen it. I was floored when I came to the US and nobody even heard of it.

@talltanbarbie5136 5 ай бұрын

It was on re-runs for years in the USA, just had to be in the right place :)

@nicholasklangos9704 5 ай бұрын

I guess in some areas of the US in the 70s location mattered immensely. I was lucky enough to live in Western Massachusetts where we got the early cable tv about 20 channels from Boston and NYC including the original movie channel and HBO, which back then only ran the same dozen movies for a month over and over. I talked my dad into getting for like $12 a month just in time for the premier of Space 1999! I remember watching on our crappy 19” color set and Dad says after, Well son you were right that was pretty good, and it didn’t have any weird guys with pointed ears. He never liked Star Trek because of Mr Spook, as dad called him. I said yeah too bad this old TV set sucks I bet it would look a lot better on a 25” tv, imagine what Monday Night Football would look like! I saw his wheels spinning seed planted, and a few sales ads left out and a week later he had convinced mom it was a good idea and we were at the local tv shop buying a brand new 25” RCA color set and something called a VCR and blank tapes to record shows which 15 year old me was more than happy to figure out how to hookup and use! Which started my lifelong obsession and career with audio video etcetera! All because of a SciFi show about the moon!

@nowhereman1046 5 ай бұрын

If you'd asked me, I'd have known. All my friends did too in the 70s and 80s. Especially the 70s when every toy store and hobby shop had the MPC models and Dinky Die Cast toys. There was also a cardboard Moonbase Alpha playset, and Mattel had a huge toy model playset of the Eagle itself, complete with figures.

@martinkasper197 5 ай бұрын

@@nowhereman1046I had the 1:72 Airfix model of the Eagle...🤓

@SaviorCross 5 ай бұрын

Brian Johnson? Wow!

@davidjacobs3275 5 ай бұрын

The Eagle is a cross between the LEM and a Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane.

@guscarlson7021 5 ай бұрын

Space 1999 was a promise unfulfilled. We got a reusable space plane and a space station instead.

@issiewizzie 27 күн бұрын

My dream was to build a very large model similar to the Star Trek experience in Las Vegas back in the day. Keyword there “dream.”

@SaviorCross 5 ай бұрын

Alan?!?!?!?!? No way!!!!

@newYorkStories 5 ай бұрын

Ask him about his role of Kate's dad :)

@MarkHevingham 5 ай бұрын

I actually chatted to him over lunch about his roles. He was very complimentary of Evangeline Lilly - he said she ran through her scenes with his and was word perfect and had an excellent professional manner on set.

@newYorkStories 5 ай бұрын

@@MarkHevinghamawesome!!

@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 5 ай бұрын

The eagles that go at the speed of light! Well actually faster according to the distance they can cover in certain times! LOL

@robertlee1497 5 ай бұрын

Best 4 words in this 53 minute video = "...We're making a movie..."

@lucmartin6611 5 ай бұрын

Saison 1 good job. because creation 100% and Thank's ANDERSON familly and puppets

@rodferguson3515 5 ай бұрын

Now that is pure dedication that I'm hearing here from these three gentlemen and I am a big huge fan of space 1999 ever since it first came on in September of 1974. At the time I was 11 years old and I watched it religiously every Saturday evening on KRON NBC TV channel 4 affiliate San Francisco bay area. The Eagle Transport has been without fail the most incredible fictional spacecraft I had ever seen before during that show and ever since. Even 50 years later it is still incredibly futuristic it is extremely versatile the fact that it's powered by a fusion reactor and it can take off vertically as well as horizontally and has the incredible versatility of an interstellar pickup truck what makes such a spacecraft incredibly believable and incredibly probable. Ben Johnson in the original creators of space 1999 created a masterpiece of fictional engineering. It was a dream Craft that during my childhood as an 11-year-old felt that in the year 1999 we would have spacecraft like that and I dreamed of actually going to a moon base like that. There's a lot of influence from 2001 Space Odyssey with that show and listening to the beginning musical credits give me a boldness sense of adventure and wander of the future in humankind.

@paulbrut 4 ай бұрын

I was a Fan back then, but even as a kid it was not long after the Apollo era, but as far as the Eagle was concerned it was obviously BS that this craft could function in atmosphere deep space and fly interplanetary as a single unit vehicle - now i know its Science Fiction, but the best science fiction had the veneer of possibility, the Eagle is a vehicle that given these herculean feats is a vehicle that is an Improbability. No space . or at least minimal , for an early Atomic/Nuclear plumbing with the aft section - very minimal, where is the room for coolant tanks even if Nuclear , which is an ask. The space for Oxygen recycling- carbon scrubbers- the problem of earth re-entry No heat shield , no tile system ,and its impossible for an alloy/metal to do the job on its own- How is the Artificial gravity done? What about irradiation through the Hull, the one thing I will grant aside from all these problems. Is that It looks Good- so Yes I was A Fan (shhh no one mention season 2 ).It is just that, there was too much that did not make sense back then, and if I think about it today , then I do admit to myself it was just good old escapist Television back in the Mid Seventies.

@inabsentia439 5 ай бұрын

I never knew Space 1999 was popular in the US back in the day. The production design and models where ahead of their time, just incredible but TBF most of the episodes where cheesy, camp and silly.