Unwilling to waste the money and man-hours that had already gone into it, the Andersons put forward a fresh proposal, unconnected to UFO. #Space 1999 moonbase alpha blueprints series#Ībe Mantel, ITC’s tough-talking man in New York, was keen, but told the husband-and-wife producers that he didn’t want a series featuring people “having tea in the Midlands”, and forbade any Earth-bound settings. Gerry responded that he would “blow up the Earth” in the opening episode. Mantel warned him that might scare viewers away. “Okay, I’ll blow up the Moon then,” came the pragmatic response. Stateside success was always the ambition, but this was the Andersons’ first time working for the New York office of ITC, the London-centric production company that had been his creative home since the early Sixties.
With that partnership came more directives and more meddling than he’d ever been used to. The Andersons had enjoyed almost complete creative freedom on their previous shows, but Space: 1999 would be an experience apart. It was to be a co-production between Group Three (the company set up by Gerry and Sylvia and long-time associate Reg Hill), ITC and Rome-based company RAI (whose involvement would mean some conspicuously placed Italian actors as guest stars). ITC insisted on parachuting in an American writer, the experienced George Bellak, to work alongside the Anderson-picked staffers. It was also ITC, not the Andersons, who picked out the show’s two main stars – Martin Landau and Barbara Bain. #Space 1999 moonbase alpha blueprints tv#.
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