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From: ccrdave@ucdavis.UUCP (Lord Kahless)
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Subject: Re: Space 1999, UFO, et al
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Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 14:02:01 EDT
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> In article <278@ucdavis.UUCP> ccrdave@ucdavis.UUCP (Lord Kahless) writes:
> >
> >I was twelve when 1999 first premiered.  I thought it was bug eyed
> >monsters then. The premiere had radiation turning people's eyes into
> >fried eggs.  (Remember that?)  The show was bug eyed monsters and
> >more bug eyed monsters.
> 
> ummm, I think that was an Outer Limits episode....  Not that I think
> 1999 wouldn't have done it if they'd have thought of it.
> -- 
> 
> 			Charlie Martin
> 			(...mcnc!duke!crm)

No, it was 1999.  I remember the Outer Limits episode W/ Frank Gorshin and
the fried egg eyes caused by some sort of strange stellar radiation on
an off world colony. In 1999, radiation from all the radioactive waste
stored on the moon began to do something cosmic.  It turned people's eyes
into poached eggs and then blasted the moon out of Earth's orbit, straight
into some sort of time warp which happened to be sitting nearby.

Personally, I think the basic premise for 1999 came from an episode of
Outer Limits involving a lunar base.  (I think Martin Landau was even the
base commander, and as I remember the episode it was better than most
episodes of 1999.)  I am sure 1999 wasn't beyond stealing some fried eggs.


			Lord Kahless