Who payed the critics

Load of rubbish!!

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

The TV series was about "forecasting your devices"against the mind. Therefore I give it a 10 for excellent brainwashing. The Conditioning never stops. They've already got your mind next they will take over your body. Just stay asleep, that's how it all works. One Seer saw it coming a long time ago. By now, (2017) ALL of the mental prepping for the coming revelation has been done. The UFO Invasion is just around the corner. Check out the motion comic I recently did on this subject & put on Youtube a couple days ago. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_kA1ku22ME&feature=youtu.be

I was hooked on this show from episode one, although I seem to be one of the few of my friends who remembers it. I was maybe twelve years old, but I loved the adult themes and personal stories. Plus I had a huge crush on Paul Foster....bet I'm not the only one. He was front and center for the whole last half of the series, by Straker's side every moment. Poor bugger, in almost every episode he gets the crap beat out of him. Or gets to kiss the girl. Or both. So glad I bought the series on DVD.Straker is a super cool character. The platinum hair gives him just the right icy touch, and he is believable as the commander of this life-and-death organization. He is constantly fighting for funding against beurocrats who can only see the bottom line, and his devotion to his work has cost him his marriage and his family. His isolation and loneliness are a constant theme, although they're never spelled out....only illustrated by Ed Bishop's wonderful performance.

I got the set for Christmas and really enjoyed going through it.I have memories of this from my pre-school to early grade school years.It may be the first instance I saw of the "Do you hear that?" "Hear what?" "Nothing, that's what's wrong." cliché.It is probably also my first memories of ESP and a Ouija Board. Yeah, I probably had a few bad dreams thanks to this!My memories only included space ships with one missle shooting at a UFO and that unique UFO noise, tanks firing mortars into a lake where a UFO was, the car phone, hot chicks, an alien Siamese cat, a pyramid of light or something on a guy's head while an alien takes them over, the oddest mish mash of a time loop and driving funny little cars, groovy hair, and a human getting an alien helmet stuck on them as it filled up with black fluid- which freaked me out!That was it. My only memories of it but I liked it and always wanted to see it again.It was everything I hoped for and then some. Groovy music, future cars, stripper-iffic outfits, etc. I do not remember if it aired on some UHF channel we got, or on the WGBH as the fourth of our four VHF channels we got. It was a Saturday after cartoons sort of thing.Man, it brought back memories of how damn fun I thought it was going to be to grow up and be an adult! When I was a kid it was FUN to be an adult! Smoking indoors, drinking at work, no seat belts, etc. Well, it did not turn out that way, LOL.It also had themes I totally get that obviously I did not pick up on as a kid, but resonate now. High stress jobs, time away from family, some jobs that can't be shared at home, etc.This was a quality show. Far too cerebral to be a mainstream hit, but so wonderfully dated it's a blast.If you saw this as a child, or were a little kid during the golden age of Saturday morning cartoons/Saturday afternoon shows/movies, say from 68 to 80 or so, give this a try. Stryker really pulls off the acting, hard to believe he was the meek professor in Diamonds are Forever (great child hood memories on the Sunday night movie of that red Mach1 car chase as well!).

This is the second greatest TV show in the history of the Cathode Ray Tube, next to The Professionals. Only to be ruined by the non want, or desire of the U.S. market. The second series became a rehashed show, which was morphed into the dire Space 1999: Ed Bishop/George Sewell/Peter Gordeno/Gabrielle Drake, Made this monster hit into a timeless unrepeatable classic. The score by Barry Gray was a continued superlative musical masterpiece. Gerry Anderson's first real attempt, at Sci-Fi without the puppets, was a marvel in its own right. Often repeated or copied in flattery, the technology and realism of the ships have no equal. Its a jealousy thing once again and some countries, just did not like the idea that us Brits, could conjure up such a brilliant piece of work. The best advice I can give to any wannabe' Sci-Fi Buff, is by the box set and indulge, in what should have been....Da Da Da Der!!!