# Sci-fi stock footage identification **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 5, 2014, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-stock-footage-identification/682893 "2014-03-05T02:27:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-stock-footage-identification/682893/1 "2014-03-05T02:27:51Z")
Recently I’ve been watching the Wonder Woman TV show DVDs my wife got me for my birthday. (Lynda Carter is a beautiful, beautiful woman–and her acting improved about a hundred percent between seasons one and two.) Anyway, in the 3rd season episode,“Time Bomb” the show uses some stock footage I didn’t recognize. Anybody able to identify where these pics came from? [A yellow spacecraft hovers over a moon (?) base](http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z256/hilbyf/file_zps54d787dc.jpg) [More yellow spaceship](http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z256/hilbyf/file_zps1b59c5e2.jpg) [A bubble city](http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z256/hilbyf/file_zps4cd1d0a0.jpg) [More bubble city](http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z256/hilbyf/file_zps660c6e5d.jpg) Also, I somehow must’ve slept through the nuclear holocaust the time traveller mentions as having happened in the long-ago year of 2007. You’d think I woulda noticed. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-stock-footage-identification/682893/2 "2014-03-05T02:41:56Z")
_ **Space: 1999** _? With Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, and Barry Morse? ITC TV, 1975–77? > **[Space: 1999](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space:_1999)** > > Space: 1999 is a British science-fiction television programme that ran for two series from 1975 to 1977. In the opening episode, set in the year 1999, nuclear waste stored on the Moon's far side explodes, knocking the Moon out of orbit and sending it, as well as the 311 inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha, hurtling uncontrollably into space. Space: 1999 was the last production by the partnership of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and was the most expensive series produced for British television up to that... ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-stock-footage-identification/682893/3 "2014-03-05T03:42:57Z")
It is not Space: 1999. I’ve seen dang near every crap sci-fi movie/tv show. I do not recognize those photos. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-stock-footage-identification/682893/4 "2014-03-05T03:50:54Z")
It may not be Space:1999, but that is definitely the Moon Base Alpha studio model. ETA: the models and production looks very similar to Space:1999. The same secial effects people may have been used on other productions. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-stock-footage-identification/682893/5 "2014-03-05T04:10:03Z")
The guys over at Starship Modeler identified the footage; apparently it’s from two Space:1999 episodes. Space: 1999 - Journey to Where. [![](https://catacombs.space1999.net/main/images/space/jtw/spjtw035.jpg) ](https://catacombs.space1999.net/main/images/space/jtw/spjtw035.jpg) The Last Enemy [http://catacombs.space1999.net/main/images/space/tle/sptle048.jpg](http://catacombs.space1999.net/main/images/space/tle/sptle048.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-stock-footage-identification/682893/6 "2014-03-05T04:10:25Z")
Right click on an image and then left click on the “Search Google for this image” option: [http://catacombs.space1999.net/main/models/jtw/w2mjtwbuild.html](http://catacombs.space1999.net/main/models/jtw/w2mjtwbuild.html) ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-stock-footage-identification/682893/7 "2014-03-05T04:12:44Z")
The yellow ship is called the Satazius and it is from Space 1999. > [@](#): > > ``` > In 1979 the US TV series Wonder Woman used footage of the Satazius over Alpha in the episode Time Bomb > In 1985 the pop video for "Clouds Across The Moon" by The Rah Band had footage of the Satazius landing on the Moon. > In November 1986, a clip from the episode was used in a set of questions for the TV quiz Telly Addicts > > ``` [http://catacombs.space1999.net/main/epguide/t18tle.html](http://catacombs.space1999.net/main/epguide/t18tle.html) [http://catacombs.space1999.net/main/images/space/tle/sptle048.jpg](http://catacombs.space1999.net/main/images/space/tle/sptle048.jpg) ETA: Ninja’d. Should have previewed. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-stock-footage-identification/682893/8 "2014-03-05T04:26:13Z")
Now, then, on to more important things… :o [![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XIt7eljcQJs/T54U8THJ7GI/AAAAAAAAIW4/zEgQuZA2lI8/s1600/WONDER+WOMAN+LYNDA+CARTER.jpg) ](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XIt7eljcQJs/T54U8THJ7GI/AAAAAAAAIW4/zEgQuZA2lI8/s1600/WONDER+WOMAN+LYNDA+CARTER.jpg) [![](https://thiswastv.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/wonderwoman0104_drusilla.png) ](https://thiswastv.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/wonderwoman0104_drusilla.png) ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-stock-footage-identification/682893/9 "2014-03-05T14:01:37Z")
I’d like my crow now please. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-stock-footage-identification/682893/10 "2014-03-06T03:28:55Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > I’d like my crow now please. I’m certainly not going to make you eat it–look how profound my own ignorance is! 😉 😃