Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!Alan%DCT.AC.UK%DUNDEE.AC.UK@ucl-cs.ARPA From: Alan%DCT.AC.UK%DUNDEE.AC.UK@ucl-cs.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Space 1999 Message-ID: <2299@topaz.ARPA> Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 15:54:56 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2299 Posted: Mon Jun 17 15:54:56 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Jun-85 04:25:33 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 28 From: Alan Greig Although the TV series never really did give a credible explanation for the speed with which they seemed to wander all over the universe, there was an associated book which told a complete story from the moons blasting out of orbit right through to an eventual return to earth many tens of years later. I can't recall the author but the atmosphere created by the book and the far better scientific accuracy was way above anything the TV series ever managed. I won't spoil the ending though for those who may want to read it. In one episode of the tv series, they did re-establish contact with the earth and Konig (plus a couple of others) are teleported back to earth only to be catapulted somewhere into the middle ages by an earth quake upsetting the teleporting machinery on earth. Needless to say, they wind up back on Alpha just before some celestial body gets between the moon and the earth ending communication for x thousand (?) years. The local ITV region here (Grampian) thought the last series so bad that they opted out of transmitting it and only finally ran it years later in a Saturday morning childrens slot. I was annoyed at their original decision not to show it, but after watching it they were undoubtedly right ! Alan Greig The Computer Centre Dundee College of Technology Dundee Scotland -------