On: Space: 1999 – Special Effects Techniques

[briyishscigi]

It took me 50 years, but I’ve finally started watching and rewatching classic and great old sci-fi, fantasy, thrillers, and just good TV like: Space 1999, Blake’s 7, Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Doctor Who (even Disney+ specials), Jabberwocky, Darkstar (the beach ball- a classic!), Wild Wild West (especially first season), Amazing Stories, The Ray Bradbury Theater (Drew Barrymore was in it!), IT Crowd (the Internet sits atop Big Ben), Black Books (secure door), It Came From Outer Soace, The Magnetic Monster (which actually is about radiation and theoretical “unipolar magnetism” physics which I didn’t know was a real concern then), and others.

[arethuza → briyishscigi]

UFO is also one I could recommend - I watched it when it first came out but didn't really understand any of it (I was about 6):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_(British_TV_series)

[euroderf → arethuza]

Part of the appeal of UFO was the music by Barry Gray. Great stuff. The opening montage always grabbed me.

And the Moonbase uniforms were very eyecatching to say the least. And some of the plots were almost as mindwarping as The Prisoner.

OTOH why did the alien craft always approach the Earth from the side where the Moon is ?

[arethuza → euroderf]

"why did the alien craft always approach the Earth from the side where the Moon is"

Presumably because they'd read the script? :-)

[funnybeam → briyishscigi]

The Omega Factor is another good one you’d like judging by the rest of your list.

Was terrified by the theme music as a child and never allowed to watch it. Managed to find it a little while ago and loved it. Only one season unfortunately.