The hands down best Gerry Anderson TV series ever made. Better than all his puppet shows put together.
Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, great music cues, eagle miniature effects, disaster plot lines, The Beta Cloud, more great music cues...this series is a knockout!
Here are some series highlights...
EPISODE ONE: BREAKAWAY: Shades of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) with a new commander taking over things, shades of a disaster movie, shades of Lost In Space (1965), but best of all - that Barry Gray score!
EPISODE TWO: MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH: This episode has a highly touching scene where the music steals the scene. Barbara Bain glares out of a moonbase window at a distant planet, the commander walks up to her, note the music playing here...a simply outstanding work of art!
BLACK SUN: Very memorable work of art. It resembles 2001 in general presentation. I have made an estimated 100 viewings of this hour. Knockout acting from Barry Morse, Landau and Bain.
COLLISION COURSE: This plays like a disaster movie and for that reason it is well worth a look. Some great moments here.
WAR GAMES: Great battle scenes in space filmed with great music playing over it.
SPACE BRAIN: Someone let the washing machine go for too long and this also happened in Land of the Giants episode Brainwash. Great music and disaster...again!
YEAR TWO OPENER: THE METAMORPH: What a start! What a teaser! I was at the edge of my seat in the 1970s!
THE MARK OF ARCHANON: Attention Australian fans! Alan Carter lets out a few Aussie terms and ideas that make this one a Down Under treat!
SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION: Landau goes nuts, which bring back memories of 1960s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea when the leads would also go nuts.
THE BETA CLOUD: This episode is reviewed by me in detail on this site...the second best episode of the whole series!
SPACE WARP: Great space warp start, great monster, great eagle action.
THE BRINGERS OF WONDER: Two-parter. Out-of-control Landau in out-of-control eagle.
THE SEANCE SPECTRE: Dust planet eagle effects coated with action music.
DORZAK: "Is being Australian important?" asks an alien. "It is to me" responds Alan Carter.
Another outstanding 1970s science fiction TV series was Filmation's Ark II.
Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, great music cues, eagle miniature effects, disaster plot lines, The Beta Cloud, more great music cues...this series is a knockout!
Here are some series highlights...
EPISODE ONE: BREAKAWAY: Shades of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) with a new commander taking over things, shades of a disaster movie, shades of Lost In Space (1965), but best of all - that Barry Gray score!
EPISODE TWO: MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH: This episode has a highly touching scene where the music steals the scene. Barbara Bain glares out of a moonbase window at a distant planet, the commander walks up to her, note the music playing here...a simply outstanding work of art!
BLACK SUN: Very memorable work of art. It resembles 2001 in general presentation. I have made an estimated 100 viewings of this hour. Knockout acting from Barry Morse, Landau and Bain.
COLLISION COURSE: This plays like a disaster movie and for that reason it is well worth a look. Some great moments here.
WAR GAMES: Great battle scenes in space filmed with great music playing over it.
SPACE BRAIN: Someone let the washing machine go for too long and this also happened in Land of the Giants episode Brainwash. Great music and disaster...again!
YEAR TWO OPENER: THE METAMORPH: What a start! What a teaser! I was at the edge of my seat in the 1970s!
THE MARK OF ARCHANON: Attention Australian fans! Alan Carter lets out a few Aussie terms and ideas that make this one a Down Under treat!
SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION: Landau goes nuts, which bring back memories of 1960s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea when the leads would also go nuts.
THE BETA CLOUD: This episode is reviewed by me in detail on this site...the second best episode of the whole series!
SPACE WARP: Great space warp start, great monster, great eagle action.
THE BRINGERS OF WONDER: Two-parter. Out-of-control Landau in out-of-control eagle.
THE SEANCE SPECTRE: Dust planet eagle effects coated with action music.
DORZAK: "Is being Australian important?" asks an alien. "It is to me" responds Alan Carter.
Another outstanding 1970s science fiction TV series was Filmation's Ark II.