“A middle aged geek” puts it well: “Utter nonsense, yes, but very well-made nonsense.”
The incredibly detailed miniature effects and feature film production design of Moonbase Alpha make the original Star Trek’s balsa wood & cardboard sets look like a fifth grade play. While the story of ‘unknown magnetic radiation’ causing crewmen at the base to go mad is never really resolved (some genuinely sloppy writing), it doesn’t really matter; the stage is set for some dazzling eye candy, even if it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. The tension building up to, and including, the actual breakaway of the moon from Earth orbit is on a par with some of the best 1970s Irwin Allen disaster movies. —“Space: 1999” is a blast from a past that never was…
And another great quote:
“The Bringers of Wonder” Part Two sees the vomit-noodle aliens further using their will to pacify and manipulate the Alphans, but due to an experimental brain treatment from Helena, Koenig is unable to be fooled by their illusions.
LOL at some of the photo captions…
The ‘bringers of wonder’ look like something the cat dragged in… or puked onto the carpet.
Helena (Barbara Bain) and Maya (Catherine Schell) sport a pair of deadly matching staple guns in “New Adam, New Eve.”