# When I was a kid I used to like a show called Space 1999... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2004, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-was-a-kid-i-used-to-like-a-show-called-space-1999/240509 "2004-04-17T09:59:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-was-a-kid-i-used-to-like-a-show-called-space-1999/240509/21 "2004-04-18T16:50:57Z")
> [@LilyoftheValley](#): > > Maya! She is so weird. Maybe I’ll finally get the answer here to a question I’ve been wondering for a while – Did anyone ever find her sexy? Come on! Side-burns, bushy eyebrows, and a Bela Lugosi widow’s peak? Who _wouldn’t?_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-was-a-kid-i-used-to-like-a-show-called-space-1999/240509/22 "2004-04-18T16:53:04Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > I used to have the 10’ action figures, until I buried them in a park as “treasure.” Whoops. You had **ten foot** action figures?! :eek: You must’ve had to dig a really big hole in the park to be able to bury them! > [@](#): > > Had “Eagle One,” too – no idea what became of that, though. I still have a plastic model kit of Eagle One that I put together. The four landing feet have all broken off, and there’s dried modeling glue showing in many places. Oh, and the formerly white plastic has turned yellow with age. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-was-a-kid-i-used-to-like-a-show-called-space-1999/240509/23 "2004-04-18T17:32:45Z")
OH YEAH! Maya was sexy! 🙂 No question about that! ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-was-a-kid-i-used-to-like-a-show-called-space-1999/240509/24 "2004-04-18T17:50:26Z")
> [@LilyoftheValley](#): > > Maya! – Did anyone ever find her sexy? I did! Mind you, I was about 9 at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-was-a-kid-i-used-to-like-a-show-called-space-1999/240509/25 "2004-04-18T18:00:15Z")
> [@tracer](#): > > You had **ten foot** action figures?! Yeah, ice-cream sandwiches used to be a lot bigger, too. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-was-a-kid-i-used-to-like-a-show-called-space-1999/240509/26 "2004-04-18T20:49:29Z")
I used to like **Space 1999** as well … I remember nearly peeing myself at the episode with the “dragon” thing that roasted people alive \ And aren’t Martin Landau and Barbra Bain the parents of her off **Buffy** and **Angel** , you know the loopy vampire woman who Angelus sired, and she sired Spike … I’ll remember her name the instant I hit submit Oh thank goodness for messing about with the font … _Drusilla_ ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-was-a-kid-i-used-to-like-a-show-called-space-1999/240509/27 "2004-04-18T21:25:55Z")
> [@Lobelia Overhill](#): > > And aren’t Martin Landau and Barbra Bain the parents of her off **Buffy** and **Angel** , you know… _Drusilla_ You’re surpised that an actor who played [Bela Lugosi](http://imdb.com/title/tt0109707/) fathered a [vampire](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0484460/)? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gamaliel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b487fb/32.png) [@Gamaliel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gamaliel)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-was-a-kid-i-used-to-like-a-show-called-space-1999/240509/28 "2004-04-18T22:06:37Z")
Yet me add my voice to the chorus of rent before you buy. I almost bought it, but I viewed some episodes from the library, and it has not aged well. Incidentally, I read the other day that Gene Roddenberry initially asked Martin landau to play Spock. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-was-a-kid-i-used-to-like-a-show-called-space-1999/240509/29 "2004-04-18T22:15:14Z")
One thing to remember about _Space: 1999_ - it had two 24-episode seasons, and they were, essentially, two different shows. Season One was an ambitious, if flawed, attempt at science fantasy - Ok, the initial premise was fundamentally daft, but the show set out to be challenging, tackling cosmic concepts and high weirdness. At its best, it’s a wonderful trip - oddly enough, it works best when it’s introducing horror elements: **Lobelia Underhill** already mentioned the episode “Dragon’s Domain”, and there are a couple of others, including “The Restless Spirit”, which I think is one of the best original ghost stories ever to appear on the small screen. However, Season One wasn’t to everyone’s taste … Season Two (which is the one with Catherine Schell as Maya) took out all the cosmic concepts, the weird stuff, and the spooky stuff. What was left, after they did that, was a nice, tame, mindless little space opera show, on about the same level as _Lost in Space_. Personally, I think this was a damn shame. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2004, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-was-a-kid-i-used-to-like-a-show-called-space-1999/240509/30 "2004-04-19T13:52:14Z")
I _was_ gonna say the only good thing about Space 1999 was Gabrielle Drake with a purple hairdo. Then I remembered that was UFO. So nothing good. Even as a kid I though Space 1999 sucked. Saw the “Star Trek” Futurama yesterday and the Eagle makes a three frame (well very short) appearance towards the end. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-was-a-kid-i-used-to-like-a-show-called-space-1999/240509/31 "2004-04-19T14:19:34Z")
> [@Small Clanger](#): > > Gabrielle Drake with a purple hairdo. From [here](http://www.ludd.luth.se/~kavli/Thunderbirds/gand.html) > [@](#): > > Although numerous attempts to explain a scientific purpose for the purple wigs on the female staffers at SHADO Moonbase have been proposed through the years (the most common being that they are anti-static wigs to prevent migraines), the fact remains that they were merely part of Sylvia Anderson’s design for the SHADO Moonbase women’s costumes and serve no functional purpose. And here’s [the pic](http://www.sixtiescity.com/Ufo/Gayandjo.jpg) NB not worksafe if you work in a hair salon 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-was-a-kid-i-used-to-like-a-show-called-space-1999/240509.md?page=1)