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Thursday, 2 November 2017

TITBITS: 1999

Some scans showing the Space:1999 article from the UK Titbits magazine published July, 1975, a couple of months before the show premiered on UK  TV.


The Mk. IX Hawk features quite heavily, rather than the Eagle, and there's mention of the high budget and guest stars.


I remember picking this up at the time, as in pre-internet days I was keen to get any info on Gerry Andrson's new series.


Obviously, the write up is just a press release, so no interviews , apart from a 'spokesman' from ATV.


I thought we'd see alien cities like this every week


When I finally got to see it, I thought the episode, Earthbound' was great, and Kaldorian spaceship certainly looked like alien technology. I wasn't sure what to make of it when I first saw a photo of it in the article. 
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12 comments:

  1. Yorkie11/02/2017 9:55 am

    I had this too. Space 1999 and Valerie Leon, what's not to like !

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    1. SCOOP11/02/2017 9:59 am

      And Ms Leon was the perfect choice of front cover star for a mag with that title..oh,er! Missus ; D

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  2. SCOOP11/02/2017 10:03 am

    Strangely enough this was a popular magazine, with a smorgasbord of articles from TV stuff to crime.The glamour was very seventies cheesy low key.

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  3. Konsumterra11/02/2017 2:53 pm

    that space city was featured in one of two space rub on 1999 transfer sets

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    1. SCOOP11/02/2017 3:15 pm

      Really, those Letrasets were really popular in their day. Are Letraset still going? I suppose they're a bit old hat for kids today. Kev D mentioned you can't get the lettering for models. :(

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    2. Anonymous11/03/2017 7:22 am

      Konsumterra is right - there were two transfer sets , one featuring the futuristic city shown and Alphans battling rogue robots, the other was a planet of carnivorous plants ("The Rules of Luton"?) attacking Koenig and co. I loved transfers and there were few 70's tv shows that didn't have their own tie-in set, wish they were still around now

      Fenton

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    3. SCOOP11/03/2017 7:56 am

      Yes indeed Fenton, Letraset were cool in their day. Artist Frank Bellamy did the art for the comic advert for them. I remember having the two spacey ones. One set had a background showing a space station, and the other showed the Moon's surface with a LEM. I seem to recall a Tom Baker Dr Who one which featured Daleks and Dalek Saucers invading London.

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    4. SCOOP11/03/2017 8:03 am

      I think I've still got a couple my old Dr Who Weekly's with the Letraset transfers clipped to the front cover :)

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  4. WOODSY11/02/2017 3:46 pm

    Ha ha, yep Tidbits was essential literature in the Seventies house along with Womens Own and Readers Digest eh Scoop! I assume Val is on the cover because of Blood from the Mummy's Tomb or am I once more regretting my lack of exposure to Space 1999!

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    1. SCOOP11/02/2017 4:10 pm

      The photo on the cover is from Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, Woodsy, however Val does appear in the Space: 1999 episode, Death's Other Dominion. There's a smaller photo of her on the feature page.

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  5. Anonymous11/03/2017 1:31 pm

    Yeah I had the Dr Who set too with Tom Baker and UNIT slugging it out with Daleks outside Buckingham Palace ! Great stuff :-)

    Fenton

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  6. WOODSY11/07/2017 7:12 pm

    I think that Peter Archer, the cover artist of the John Theydon Thunderbirds novels was one of the Letraset Action Transfers artists. Not sure f he did the Dr. Who sets though. I'll have a look at the brilliant SPLAT site to see what it says there http://www.action-transfers.com/

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