Destination Moonbase-Alpha

Instead to make it using the former casting of Space: 1999, the producers rather use an old footage of double episode intitled THE BRINGERS OF WONDERS PART 1-2 aired on august 1977, just rearranging the story when the moon after a nuclear blasting at Moonbase-Alpha has been throw into far space at incredible lightning speed (oh my God, the writers gonna mad?) worst an Earth spaceship appears reaching there faster than lightning speed (Einstein would died at once after this blasphemy).

The Earthlings rescuers crew are nothing short the Moonbase's crew closest friends, behind these guys hidden a bunch of Aliens monsters whom mesmerizing all them as humans, just Kroenig can see their real shape, actually they don't want return to Earth whatsoever, in fact such Aliens needs radiation to keep their bodies alive, the movie is in same patten of the series, amusing entertainment if you forget the mismatches on the plot.

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First watch: 1987 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-DVD-Youtube / Rating: 6.

I've never watched the Space: 1999 series that other reviewers are saying this movie was compiled from and I can only base my review on what I see in the movie (as they should have). But, it's a fair space movie that came out a year after Star Wars. Everyone was rushing to get out space movies and the quality was simply lacking. I can't go beyond 'fair' because the movie is all over the place and not the easiest to follow. I believe the higher ratings are simply reviewers love for the series that this was pieced together from and not the actual movie. Anyways, it's a decent movie for the 1970's. Give it a watch!

This was the first movie of a Gerry Anderson production, to be produced by editing together old episodes from certain series, in this case Space: 1999. Produced in 1978 by ITC London's offices, this movie combines the two parts of the Space: 1999 season 2 epic 'The Bringers of Wonder', which was edited to form a feature length film. The new opening titles and music by Mike Vikkers are very good, and they are incredibly faithful to the original material, edited only certain parts that needed to be removed to create that 'movie' feel. The only downsides to the movie is the general silliness in it, but this isn't the movie makers fault, Season 2 of Space: 1999 was incredibly zany, and not half as good as Season 1. The other annoyance is the end of the movie, when the end credits are scrolled over an awful tune sung by someone called Oliver Onions. Other than this the film is superb, and the episodes that it is edited from are undoubtedly some of the classics from Season 2. Martin Landau, Barbara Bain give excellent performances, as do Tony Anholt, Catherine Schell and Stuart Damon. The aliens look excellent, and the last few minutes are sensational. The film ends with a speech from Commander Koenig, speaking to the hostile aliens, "It is better to live as your own man, than a fool in someone else's dream". Because this film is so faithful to the original material, I would recommend it to Gerry Anderson purists. A throughly excellent movie!

Never having seen any of the original TV episodes of Destination Moonbase-Alpha, I found this mish-mash of a "movie", assembled from two of the TV episodes, difficult to follow as I seldom knew which characters were on the side of the goodies and which were the baddies, and in my opinion the whole thing was an incoherent mess and total nonsense.

I found the abrupt join between the two episodes extremely disconcerting; the one didn't seem to have anything to do with the other. I would have preferred to have watched the episodes separately, as they were of course originally intended to be watched.

I can suspend my disbelief enough to accept that a spaceship can travel very much faster than the speed of light – this is science fiction, after all – and the monsters didn't look too unconvincing, but I can't give it more than one star.

I was watching this series in 1979 I think and in that time this was by far the best you could get, Flash Gordon is nothing compere to this. I was 13 years old then and I remember that it could be a bit scary. I know I have seen it again for some years ago but I don't know where I found it and of course I didn't save it. I think it's pretty advanced for that time. I strongly recommend this if you can get it.