The Eagle Obsession
September 29, 2024 9:28 AM Subscribe
This 12-minute short is a taste of the full 80-minute documentary that will premiere in the summer of 2025, just in time for the 50th anniversary of Space: 1999.
Jeffrey Morris’ YouTube channel has more videos on this project. The most comprehensive is the panel with Morris and Space: 1999 actor Nick Tate from WonderFest 2024 in Kentucky (which starts with the same short as above; click here to skip past it.)
Note that earlier videos refer to The Eagle has Landed, which was the title before it was split into The Eagle Obsession and Return to Tomorrow (slated for 2026.)
Jeffrey Morris’ YouTube channel has more videos on this project. The most comprehensive is the panel with Morris and Space: 1999 actor Nick Tate from WonderFest 2024 in Kentucky (which starts with the same short as above; click here to skip past it.)
Note that earlier videos refer to The Eagle has Landed, which was the title before it was split into The Eagle Obsession and Return to Tomorrow (slated for 2026.)
A fun show with, yes, terrific design but a truly stupid premise and frequently terrible stories.
I always preferred the Anderson's earlier, and completely unhinged, UFO (which was the basis for the XCOM video games).
posted by thatwhichfalls at 10:12 AM on September 29 [5 favorites]
I always preferred the Anderson's earlier, and completely unhinged, UFO (which was the basis for the XCOM video games).
posted by thatwhichfalls at 10:12 AM on September 29 [5 favorites]
We didn't have TV in the 70s but I did get an Mattel Eagle toy to play with. I was aging out of playing with toys at that point so it was my capstone xmas toy LOL.
Still want my own personal real-life Eagle sigh. Coolest craft ever...
posted by torokunai at 10:34 AM on September 29 [2 favorites]
Still want my own personal real-life Eagle sigh. Coolest craft ever...
posted by torokunai at 10:34 AM on September 29 [2 favorites]
Momentary spasm of “oh no wait what” fear that 1999 was fifty years ago.
posted by mhoye at 10:35 AM on September 29 [1 favorite]
posted by mhoye at 10:35 AM on September 29 [1 favorite]
I had the book and record. Watching the TV version as an adult didn’t quite hit the same.
posted by funkaspuck at 11:25 AM on September 29 [1 favorite]
posted by funkaspuck at 11:25 AM on September 29 [1 favorite]
Raise your hand if Maya woke something in you.
posted by seanmpuckett at 11:30 AM on September 29 [4 favorites]
posted by seanmpuckett at 11:30 AM on September 29 [4 favorites]
Shout!Studio has been running non-stop eps on YouTube for a while. Also: FutureDude seems awesome.
posted by davidmsc at 11:36 AM on September 29 [1 favorite]
posted by davidmsc at 11:36 AM on September 29 [1 favorite]
I always preferred the Anderson's earlier, and completely unhinged, UFO yt (which was the basis for the XCOM video games).
Agreed. And this is the perfect place to again mention the single best secret santa present ever: a UFO lunchbox from MsVader.
posted by googly at 11:38 AM on September 29 [3 favorites]
Agreed. And this is the perfect place to again mention the single best secret santa present ever: a UFO lunchbox from MsVader.
posted by googly at 11:38 AM on September 29 [3 favorites]
Back in 2016 I did a partial watch-through discussion on Fanfare and the general conclusion was that although Space: 1999 has a ridiculous premise and often poor writing the first season in particular is not nearly as bad as we tend to imagine.
I'm definitely looking forward to this. Hopefully, if it gets a release, one of the local arts theatres will pick it up.
posted by Major Clanger at 11:40 AM on September 29 [1 favorite]
I'm definitely looking forward to this. Hopefully, if it gets a release, one of the local arts theatres will pick it up.
posted by Major Clanger at 11:40 AM on September 29 [1 favorite]
Hmm, I think I still have a slightly damaged Eagle toy somewhere.
posted by GenjiandProust at 12:09 PM on September 29
posted by GenjiandProust at 12:09 PM on September 29
Raise your hand if Maya woke something in you.
I was probably too young for that, and I found her eyebrows deeply upsetting.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 12:16 PM on September 29 [1 favorite]
I was probably too young for that, and I found her eyebrows deeply upsetting.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 12:16 PM on September 29 [1 favorite]
Raise your hand if Maya woke something in you.
We all see what you did there, and it really doesn’t matter whether we approve, does it?
posted by jamjam at 12:38 PM on September 29 [1 favorite]
We all see what you did there, and it really doesn’t matter whether we approve, does it?
posted by jamjam at 12:38 PM on September 29 [1 favorite]
Watching Dragon's Domain at the age of 8 has made me the person I am today.
posted by donio at 1:32 PM on September 29 [1 favorite]
posted by donio at 1:32 PM on September 29 [1 favorite]
I adored this show as a kid. Like donio, I found "Dragon's Domain" astonishing and think it holds up very well.
Adored it too much, actually. I tried making a comlink out of balsa wood. My father tried to help and accidentally cut open his hand on a saw...
posted by doctornemo at 1:49 PM on September 29 [1 favorite]
Adored it too much, actually. I tried making a comlink out of balsa wood. My father tried to help and accidentally cut open his hand on a saw...
posted by doctornemo at 1:49 PM on September 29 [1 favorite]
The Eagle is a great design and we should all have access to one.
(Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism in style)
posted by doctornemo at 1:49 PM on September 29
(Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism in style)
posted by doctornemo at 1:49 PM on September 29
fun fact, Barbara Bain and Martin landau were married to another and appeared in two television shows together..
posted by clavdivs at 1:56 PM on September 29 [1 favorite]
posted by clavdivs at 1:56 PM on September 29 [1 favorite]
I always preferred the Anderson's earlier, and completely unhinged, UFO
As originally conceived, UFO was to be the precursor to S:1999. Uniform fashion appears to have taken a more practical turn in the meantime.
Raise your hand if Maya woke something in you.
You misspelled Sandra.
Adored it too much, actually. I tried making a comlink out of balsa wood.
The props get overlooked. The comlink was an amazing practical design.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 2:04 PM on September 29
As originally conceived, UFO was to be the precursor to S:1999. Uniform fashion appears to have taken a more practical turn in the meantime.
Raise your hand if Maya woke something in you.
You misspelled Sandra.
Adored it too much, actually. I tried making a comlink out of balsa wood.
The props get overlooked. The comlink was an amazing practical design.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 2:04 PM on September 29
Never watched this show (so can't be sure), but don't y'all mean commlock?
posted by Rash at 3:18 PM on September 29
posted by Rash at 3:18 PM on September 29
I also dug UFO much more than Space 1999. UFO had some truly classic episodes (Timelash, Mindbender). Space 1999 was just so dull, and IMO the ship designs were dull. In UFO the ship designs were insane: check out their space shuttle. Space 1999 had, IMO, a couple of classic episodes: Another Place, Another Time, and Guardian of Piri, which both had a tremendously dreamlike, dolorous atmosphere. But the rest were a great sleep aid.
AFAIK they never showed UFO, Space 1999, or even fucking Star Trek in my town in the Ozarks when they originally aired. My dad had to buy a special antenna to pick up Star Trek from Joplin MO, as the local affiliate instead played reruns of the Beverly Hillbillies. Same for PBS Doctor Who and NBC SCTV—wouldn't show them.
posted by jabah at 3:34 PM on September 29
AFAIK they never showed UFO, Space 1999, or even fucking Star Trek in my town in the Ozarks when they originally aired. My dad had to buy a special antenna to pick up Star Trek from Joplin MO, as the local affiliate instead played reruns of the Beverly Hillbillies. Same for PBS Doctor Who and NBC SCTV—wouldn't show them.
posted by jabah at 3:34 PM on September 29
I always preferred the Anderson's earlier, and completely unhinged, UFO
I always [SHADO] preferred the Anderson's [1980] earlier, and completely [UFO] unhinged, UFO [1980]
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 3:50 PM on September 29
I always [SHADO] preferred the Anderson's [1980] earlier, and completely [UFO] unhinged, UFO [1980]
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 3:50 PM on September 29
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posted by davidmsc at 9:47 AM on September 29