Space: 1999 | Eagles Crashed & Lost: Year 1

Chris Dale brings us the definitive guide to Eagle Transporters that get crashed and/or lost in series one of Space:1999!

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[GerryAndersonTV]

Anything we missed? Anything you disagree with? Be sure to let us know!

[itstheterranaut]

I once sketched out an idea for a Space 1999 one-shot that I called 'Maintenance Duty'. It was a day in the life of an Eagle repair crew, based loosely on the B-5 episode 'A View from the Gallery' (if you know that one). In it, a pair of maintenance techs are reconstructing Eagle 1 after its been through yet another cosmic warp/atmospheric re-entry/encounter with Brian Blessed. We learn how unsung they are, and how they resent the punishment these machines are put through. There would be cameos from Victor, Alan, and John.

This was purely for my own amusement and nothing else.

[richardmattocks]

This video shows the quality model work / cinematography of the show to the max 👍

[Thenogomogo-zoun]

Remember watching this with my brother as a kid in the '70's
Loved all the pyrotechnics (explosions) everywhere, couldn't get enough of them!
Each episode was like a short feature film, movie, special effects were superb!
Gerry Anderson was a genius!

[SamStuart]

Thanks for doing this fun count. I figured Alpha had a production plant to keep repairing and making Eagles otherwise they would have very few by second season.

[blaklyte]

I get so down at times that the younger generation of cgi junk has no clue of what it's like to build these models or models in general, with ones own hands. Let alone the love of art and craft these pioneering men&woman of puppetry & animation &set designs and scale modeling..oh dear the list is so long... these people LOVED &LIVED this amazing realm of 'real ' animation&miniatures going back to the GREAT Ray Haryhaussen.... it was the love of bringing these things to life... with your hands...t these shows & early trek is why i will always build models of things that they themselves, were actually models! There's something so special in that. You get my point...i hope.

[Mikanojo]

i confess, i thought the spinning Eagle that crashes at the opening WAS the same Eagle
that we see spinning away from the orbital station. It does make sense.

[sockthepuppet]

I always thought it would be interesting if they did a series about the havoc created on Earth after the moon broke away.

[Departures]

This is brilliant, looking forward to S2 when Maya wrecks the entire landing bay.
As well how many times the base came under attack yet was miraculously rebuilt with limitless supplies the next week.

[bukster]

The model and set work on this show was great. It looked fantastic for its time.

[SharpblueCreative]

Nice one. Space 1999 season 1 is by far the best. My most watched sci-fi is this & Blakes 7.

[herbbluntman]

I've been watching 1999 since 1975 and I never thought about this much. Great job compiling this list and analyzing the on screen info to support your conclusions. Well done, sir.

[MeBallerman]

Isn't this great? A HQ youtube vid dedicated to count Moon Base Alpha's Eagle accidents. 45 years after the show were airing. Amazing. Grreat. I was a huge fan of Moon Base Alpha when I was a boy. Still am, of course.

[robertray]

I like the updated 1999 graphics, it makes 1999 more enjoyable and keep up the good work.

[cornjobb]

even at a young age, i always appreciated the episodes where alan was in sickbay, wearing that wonderful hospital gown that showed so much of his hairy chest.

[locust]

Aside from TOS USS Enterprise, Moonbase Alpha Eagles were my favorite spaceships. I loved the exposed open framework to which various modular components could be attached as needed or replaced if damaged. I could imagine all sorts of mission adaptations if the series had survived.

[justinplayfair]

I do feel that an Honorable Mention should've been given to the one lunar tank in Infernal Machine...not an actual Eagle, but definitely an Eagle-On-Wheels. Can't wait for the Year 2 list to see how the hangar scene in Space Warp is handled!

[explorer]

The equivalent of red shirts in Star Trek

[richmcgee]

You know, the sad thing is I think I still destroyed more Eagles than Anderson & company did. Must have gone through three dozen of the old plastic model kits (Aurora, were they?) when I was kid. Some got blown to bits, some got carved up for parts, or smashed up as spacewreck dioramas, and a whole lot got used to build my own kitbashed moonbase on a spare door we had laying around the garage.

[crimsondynamo]

Turns out the entirety of the moon was hollowed out during the construction of Moonbase Alpha and is actually full of Eagles