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Space: 1999 Stars Barbara Bain & Nick Take Goes Board Documentary About Sci-Fi Show’s Legendary Spacecraft
Actress Barbara Bain, star of the British sci-fi series Space: 1999, is preparing to board an upcoming documentary about the Eagle, the famed spacecraft at the heart of the show that ran from 1975-1977.
Bain will appear in The Eagle Has Landed as will Nick Tate, her cast mate from Space: 1999. The documentary includes the participation of several other notable figures: Apollo XVI astronaut Charles Duke Jr., Academy Award-winning visual effects artist Bill George (Blade Runner, Star Trek), and Brian Johnson, the VFX artist on Space: 1999 whose work is said to have influenced Star Wars. The film is being directed and produced by Jeffrey Morris, who also hosts the documentary.
The Eagle Has Landed “explores the cross-generational impact of the iconic vessel” in the series that also starred Martin Landau. According to a press release, the film “showcases never-before-seen archival footage” and will be released in time for the 50th anniversary of Space: 1999’s debut, in 2025.
“Space: 1999 appeared on TV a few short years after the world watched Neil Armstrong take the first steps on the moon,” Morris noted in a statement. “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?
Morris’s FutureDude Entertainment is producing the documentary in partnership with Zero Point Zero Production Inc. Anne Marie Gillen is a producer on the project, along with Morris. The film is written by Morris and Fredrick Haugen. Morris is represented by Espada Entertainment.
Space: 1999 ran for a total of 48 episodes, with Bain and Landau in all of them as, respectively, Dr. Helena Russell and Commander John Koenig (the actors were married to each other at the time; they had previously co-starred together in Mission: Impossible).
The show revolved around the denizens of Moonbase Alpha, scientific researchers living on the moon whose existence was threatened by a nuclear explosion, which rocketed the moon out of Earth’s orbit. Tate, an Australian-born actor, played pilot Alan Carter on 42 of the show’s 48 episodes. Originally, his character was to be killed off in the premiere episode, a casualty of the nuclear explosion, but producers Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson liked his work and expanded his role.
“Hovering above the Moon in one of Alpha’s Eagle spacecraft, Alan Carter is an observer to this holocaust, watching helplessly as the Moon spins out into space,” according to a synopsis published by the Catacombs.Space1999.net website. “Sacrificing his only chance to return home, Carter decides to give chase to the runaway Moon, joining his friends on the endless intergalactic journey.”
Tate told the website, “I didn’t have to dig too deeply with this character. Alan Carter was all the things I was as a young man: friendly, happy-go-lucky, someone who loved adventure and accepted a challenge.”
Ian McShane, Joan Collins, and Leo McKern were among actors who appeared in single episodes of Space: 1999.
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#Space: 1999#The Eagle Has Landed#Jeffrey Morris#Brian Johnson#Eagle Transporter#Gerry Anderson#Sylvia Anderson#ITC Entertainment#Star Wars#Barbara Bain#Martin Landau#Nick Tate#Catherine Schell#documentary#Breakaway Day#Youtube
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My top 10 Donald Sutherland performances:
Vernon Pinkley in The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H (1970)
Oddball in Kelly’s Heroes (1970)
John Baxter in Don’t Look Now (1973)
Homer Simpson in The Day of the Locust (1975)
Liam Devlin in The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
Matthew Bennell in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Calvin Jarrett in Ordinary People (1980)
Jerry O’Neill in Space Cowboys (2000)
President Snow in The Hunger Games (2012)
#donald sutherland#happy belated birthday#film#mash#kelly's heroes#the eagle has landed#the day of the locust#invasion of the body snatchers#ordinary people#don't look now#the dirty dozen#space cowboys#the hunger games#60s#70s#80s#00s#the eagle has landed is a supremely underrated film#time for a rewatch? i think so
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Saxon
The Eagle Has Landed [Expanded Edition]
2014 Parlophone
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Tracks:
01. Motorcycle Man
02. 747 (Strangers in the Night)
03. Princess of the Night
04. Strong Arm of the Law
05. Heavy Metal Thunder
06. 20,000 Ft
07. Wheels of Steel
08. Never Surrender
09. Fire in the Sky
10. Machine Gun
11. And the Band Played On
12. See the Light Shining
13. Frozen Rainbow
14. Midnight Rider
15. Dallas 1 PM
16. Hungry Years
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Biff Byford
Steve Dawson
Nigel Glockler
Graham Oliver
Paul Quinn
* Long Live Rock Archive
#Saxon#Saxon Band#Biff Byford#Steve Dawson#Nigel Glockler#Graham Oliver#Paul Quinn#The Eagle Has Landed#Live#Reissue#Expanded Edition#NWOBHM#2014
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what if there were two astronauts on the moon and one killed the other with like, a moon rock would that be fucked up or what?
It would be quite a stain on NASA's reputation
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R.I.P. Treat Williams (1st December 1951 - 12th June 2023) seen here as Captain Harry Clark in the film The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
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Some appropriate reading for today. Although technically it is an anachronism as the newspaper wouldn't have been printed until tomorrow since the event occurred today, but I think we can let that slide, right?
Happy 54th Anniversary to the Apollo Moon Landing, the culmination of the Moonshot project promised by JFK in his famous Rice University speech. I don't think I can quite overstate how important I think the space program is, several advances in technologies we use every day came about because of their development for use by NASA, and I for one am ecstatic that we will be returning to the moon (and possibly doing the other things) in the near future with the Artemis missions.
#moonshot#nasa#space#the eagle has landed#space program#michael collins#neil armstrong#buzz aldrin#july 20 1969#moon landing#apollo 11
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Happy Moon Day
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A very happy birthday to Donald Sutherland!
#donald sutherland#kelly’s heroes#animal house#the puppet masters#jfk#the hunger games#the dirty dozen#the eagle has landed#the eye of the needle#locked up#mash#Klute#ordinary people#catching fire#invasion of the body snatchers#the best offer#the eagle#the burnt Orange heresy
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Jack Higgins (27 July 1929 – 9 April 2022)
"May you find what you are searching for, my friend.
– I already have and lost it in the finding."
The Eagle Has Landed
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On 'The Event Horizon': Jeffrey Morris | The Eagle Has Landed - Space:1999 Documentary
This coming Saturday, join hosts Susan Fox and Gene Turnbow as they welcome Jeffrey Morris. This time the conversation is about The Eagle Has Landed, a new documentary exploring the origins and cultural impact of the Eagle spacecraft from the classic TV series Space: 1999.
The Eagle Has Landed explores a passionate and ongoing nostalgia for a future that never happened. This intriguing…
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Daily Listening, Day #1,063 - November 28th, 2022
Album: The Eagle Has Landed (Carrere, 1982)
Artist: Saxon
Genre: New Wave Of British Heavy Metal
Track Listing:
"Motorcycle Man"
"747 (Strangers In The Night)"
"Princess Of The Night"
"Strong Arm Of The Law"
"Heavy Metal Thunder"
"20,000 Ft."
"Wheels Of Steel"
"Never Surrender"
"Fire In The Sky"
"Machine Gun"
Favorite Song: "747 (Strangers In The Night)"
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