[X] My Assistant

[ustrax]

The series was surely guilty for my interest in space exploration...
I remember that it was broadcast when I couldn´t even read, but when I heard the music I would leave all the toys and come running to the living room screaming completely euphoric "It's MinóMinó!!!", Space 1999 in portuguese is an hard expression for a 3 years old kid to say...Espaço Mil Novecentos e Noventa e Nove...
Never forgot it and when the internet arrived one of the first things I went looking for was the theme...How I love that groovy theme...
And those Eagles...
And Maya...
And those freakin-something-like-algae monsters...
It brings some very good memories...

Here goes...
The opening sequence

And a very looong wikipedia article...

[dvandorn]

Yes, it's now possible to present on film just about anything. Ringworld, Rendezvous with Rama, you name it -- it can be done.

I'm actually sort of amused that the people who run the Star Trek franchise have picked up on a suggestion I made several years ago. They're re-releasing the original series episodes for syndication, with "sweetened" special effects. They've replaced those fuzzy colored-ball planets with real-looking planets, made the old Enterprise look much better (and move more realistically), along with other little enhancements. They also digitized the old film stock and brightened/balanced the colors. It's a much sharper-looking show, with far better effects than were possible in the 1960s.

They didn't go as far as I would have, though (probably because it would have been way too costly) -- redesigning the interiors of the ship. It could be done, they could change the look of the panels and displays, even change the colors and all the minor detailing. But they'd have to work around the actors as they moved through the scene, and that probably would be prohibitively time-consuming and expensive for the entire run of the original series.

-the other Doug