{"id":26,"date":"2015-02-27T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skooldays.com\/blog\/space-1999\/"},"modified":"2015-03-09T15:55:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T15:55:13","slug":"space-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/space-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Space 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- skool-response -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">How cool was this toy. Based on Space 1999, it was the first attempt since the demise of Star Trek in 1969 at producing a large-scale weekly science fiction series, and the show drew a great deal of visual inspiration (and technical expertise) from the Stanley Kubrick classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. The show&#8217;s special effects director Brian Johnson had in fact previously worked on both Thunderbirds (as Brian Johncock) and 2001.He\u00a0\u00a0was clearly influenced by the 1968 film\u00a0<em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em>. It suspected that the Eagle spacecraft design influenced the spaceship designs of\u00a0<em>Star Wars<\/em>\u00a0and other science fiction films and television series<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\n<div id=\"attachment_1872\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Space-1999.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1872\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1872\" title=\"Space-1999\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Space-1999.jpg\" alt=\"Space 1999 Eagle Transporter\" width=\"500\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Space-1999.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Space-1999-160x127.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Space-1999-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Space-1999-377x300.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Space 1999 Eagle Transporter<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It was the last in a long line of successful science-fiction series that the Andersons produced as a working partnership, beginning with Supercar in the early Sixties and including the famed marionette fantasy series Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, and Joe 90, as well as the gritty live-action alien-invasion drama UFO.<\/p><div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:5px 0 5px 0; text-align:center;\">\nskool\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Space 1999 Eagle Purpose<\/h2>\n<p>The Space 1999\u00a0Eagle Transporter\u00a0is a fictional\u00a0spacecraft\u00a0and the iconic image of the 1970s television series. The Eagles serve as the primary spacecraft of\u00a0Moonbase Alpha, which has a fleet of them. The Eagles are primarily used to explore alien planets, defend Moonbase Alpha from attack, and to transport supplies and other items to and from the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>Space: 1999 owes much of the visual design to pre-production work for a never-made second series of UFO which would have featured a more extensive Moonbase. It has since become a cult classic, and is available on DVD.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/space-1999\/\"><img width=\"125\" height=\"99\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Space-1999-160x127.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Space 1999 Eagle Transporter\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Space-1999-160x127.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Space-1999-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Space-1999-377x300.jpg 377w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Space-1999.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><\/a><p>How cool was this toy. Based on Space 1999, it was the first attempt since the demise of Star Trek in 1969 at producing a large-scale weekly science fiction series, and the show drew a great deal of visual inspiration &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/space-1999\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[54,53],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-primetime","tag-54","tag-53"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Space 1999 Eagle<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Space 1999 Eagle Transporter is a fictional spacecraft model from the 1960s\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/space-1999\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Skooldays\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/space-1999\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/space-1999\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Skooldays\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/7737d0880c9ea762e2b2c2475c12a0ca\"},\"headline\":\"Space 1999\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-02-27T12:09:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-03-09T15:55:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/space-1999\/\"},\"wordCount\":262,\"commentCount\":1,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/space-1999\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Space-1999.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"1960\",\"1970\"],\"articleSection\":[\"PrimeTime\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/space-1999\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/space-1999\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/space-1999\/\",\"name\":\"Space 1999 Eagle\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/space-1999\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/space-1999\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Space-1999.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-02-27T12:09:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-03-09T15:55:13+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/7737d0880c9ea762e2b2c2475c12a0ca\"},\"description\":\"The Space 1999 Eagle Transporter is a fictional spacecraft model from the 1960s\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/space-1999\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/space-1999\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/space-1999\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Space-1999.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Space-1999.jpg\",\"width\":\"500\",\"height\":\"397\",\"caption\":\"Space 1999 Eagle Transporter\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/space-1999\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Space 1999\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Skooldays\",\"description\":\"Nostalgic &amp; 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