space: 1999
Space: 1999 is a 70s British science fiction TV series that ran for two seasons and originally aired from 1975 to 1977.
Space: 1999 is the last in a long line of Sci-Fi series that Gerry and Sylvia Anderson produced as a working partnership, beginning with Supercar in the early Sixties and including the famed marionette fantasy series Stingray, Fireball XL5, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Joe 90 and The Secret Service, as well as the live-action alien invasion drama UFO.
Space: 1999 owes much of the visual design to pre-production work for the never made second series of UFO, which would have been set primarily on the Moon and featured a more extensive Moonbase. Space: 1999 also drew a great deal of visual inspiration (and technical expertise) from the Stanley Kubrick film 2001 A Space Odyssey. The programme's special effects director Brian Johnson had previously worked on both Thunderbirds (as Brian Johncock) and 2001. Many members of the special effects staff also worked in the movie Alien and the Star Wars films some years later.
The series was very famous in Japan, where it influenced the designs and look of several Sci-Fi anime shows released during the following years.
