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Images Without Context: Space The Final Frontier

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Our Most Popular Retro TV Articles Of 2020

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10. Project U.F.O. (Project Blue Book) - From The Land of Forgotten Television Project U.F.O. is a late 1970s NBC television series which lasted two seasons, from 1978 to 1979. Based loosely on the real-life Project Blue Book, the show was created by Dragnet veteran Jack Webb, who pored through Air Force files looking for episode ideas. READ MORE 9. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - From The Land Of Forgotten Television The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a BBC television adaptation of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy broadcast in January and February 1981 on UK television station BBC Two. The adaptation follows the original radio series in 1978 and 1980, the first novel and double LP, in 1979, and the stage shows, in 1979 and 1980, making it the fifth iteration of the guide. READ MORE 8. UFO - Fighting Aliens In A Super Sexy Future!  In the year 1980, a secret military organization named SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organisation) b...

Retro Sci-Fi: Space: 1999 (1975-1977)(Gerry Anderson)(ITV)

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(From the original ITC Press Release.) Suspected radiation from nuclear waste containers provides (sic) a deep space probe from Earth's space research centre on the Moon. It is a prologue to disaster and mankind's most fantastic adventure. Preparations are well advanced for the most important space journey in the history of man: a probe into deep space to explore the rogue planet Meta which has broken away from a distant galaxy and is now closer to Earth's solar system. Already, identifiable signals have come from the planet, indicating a high form of life. Related: SFX Magazine Collection The 20 Shows That Shaped Sci-Fi Star Trek The X-Files Doctor Who Buffy Future Publications (UK) John Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) is commander of the mission to be launched from Earth's Space Research Centre at Moonbase Alpha. He has just returned to the Moon to oversee the momentous adventure, but the probe is already in jeopardy. Two of the deep space astronauts have been stric...