REGION 2 DVD (U.K Release)

Space - 1999: Volume 2 - Episodes 5-8 [DVD] [1975]

Very Good Condition

Product details

• Actors: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Nick Tate, Zienia Merton, Quentin Pierre
• Format: PAL
• Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
• Region: Region 2
  
• Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Classification: U
• Studio: Itc
• DVD Release Date: 30 April 2001
• Run Time: 200 minutes

Product Description

Four more episodes of Gerry Anderson's live action sci-fi series. In 'Earthbound', alien visitor Zantor (Christopher Lee) arrives on the moonbase and offers to take one person back to Earth on his ship. 'Another Time, Another Place' sees Regina haunted by visions of duplicate Alphans after the base passes through a chasm in space-time. In 'Missing Link', Koenig travels through time and space to the planet Zenno, where he finds romance with the alien Zana. 'Guardian of Piri' sees the Alphans swayed by the offer of a paradisical existence on the planet Piri, but Koenig remains suspicious...

For the time, there had never been a more lavishly produced science fiction TV series than Space: 1999, which was British-made on a first-season budget of 3.25 million pounds--an astounding amount--and ran for two seasons from 1975 to 77. What keeps fans enthralled after all these years has only partly to do with the first-rate production values, the plausibly constructed spaceship models and expert special effects. The tone of the show is one of scientific dispassion, setting it apart from its TV SF predecessors such as Star Trek in which the mood is more generally convivial. Our heroes here are in dire circumstances that require cool heads as a survival trait. Those circumstances are: the moon and the 311 crew members of Moonbase Alpha experience a cataclysm that causes the moon to break away from its orbit and travel endlessly through space, making our heroes into unintentional explorers. No TV series has created a more palpable feel of hard science fiction than this. Of course the show is not without its detractors, having been soundly lambasted for its many scientific errors. No less august a figure than Isaac Asimov criticised the show for its premise in the opening episode "Breakaway", which had nuclear explosions on the "dark side of the moon" somehow propel it out of orbit and sent it flying through space without regard for any physical laws. In "Earthbound", aliens travelling to Earth state it will take them 75 years to reach their destination, making one wonder why it didn't take the moon that long to encounter the aliens. While these are serious complaints, fans tend to remember the scientific seriousness of the series and the sense of awe created by the many strange creatures and phenomena they encounter on their journey through the galaxy.

 Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players.