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Spazio: 1999 was originally distributed by Variety Film, and debuted in Italian cinemas on January 14, 1975. This was seven months prior to the premiere broadcasts of the TV series Space: 1999 in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States.
The Movie is a compilation of three episode: “Breakaway”, “Ring Around the Moon” and “Another time, Another Place”. These three episodes were edited down, amounting to around an hour of footage ending on the cutting room floor.Read More »
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Earth’s Moon is the site of Moonbase Alpha, a scientific research colony nestled in the crater Plato. Staffed by over 300 men and women from Earth, it is the operations center for several space expeditions. It is also a watchdog for vast amounts of atomic waste from Earth stored in silos on the Moon’s far side. Magnetic radiation builds up and causes the wastes to explode with such force that the Earth’s centripetal pull on the Moon is overcome, and the Moon is broken free of Earth’s orbit to drift at incredible speed out of the Solar System off the plane of the ecliptic. The survivors on Moonbase Alpha are unable to return to Earth and must survive in unknown space on their wandering Moon. They encounter a planet whose advanced people project an illusion of a devastating attack on Moonbase.
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