Space: 1999

Space: 1999 (1975)

29 mistakes in season 1

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Suggested correction: This happens a lot. The number on the door is not the number of the Eagle, it's the number of the command module. The super structure and drive systems are Eagle One. Even then, there has been several Eagle Ones destroyed or lost. Eagle One is assigned its designation by the head of Recon, Alan Carter.

The Troubled Spirit - S1-E22

Continuity mistake: As the experiment recreation progresses, and Helena identifies the spirit, the spirit appears with damage on the left side of its face, and a yellow sleeve on its right arm. When the camera is close up to the spirit, the damage and yellow sleeve change sides.

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Space Brain - S1-E21

Continuity mistake: The number on Kelly's suit was 4. As Paul went to go out after Kelly, you see the number 4 on the control panel, then when he nears Kelly, it's changed to 3, suggesting the shot of the exiting person was re-used.

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Missing Link - S1-E20

Other mistake: As the camera pans around to look in the cockpit, the wound on Koenig's head is easily seen as a bad blending job. The edges of the prosthetic are visible.

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Missing Link - S1-E20

Other mistake: In the beginning, the Eagle was moving away from the alien planet, and as such, should have crash landed facing away from the planet. However, it was facing the direction it came from. If it traveled a fairly straight line, (and the trajectory suggests it did) then it should have crashed with the rear end facing the planet.

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Dragon's Domain - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: The panel Tony hits with a tomahawk in his quarters first appears to be molded plastic, then in a close up, appears to be painted wood, as the wood grain where the panel above is smooth.

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Alpha Child - S1-E7

Revealing mistake: As the alien ship approaches Alpha on screen, there is a round, blank area where the model moves, and as the vessel nears the camera, the edge of the cell used for the picture of the vessel is visible.

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Alpha Child - S1-E7

Revealing mistake: As Jackie is drawing, Koenig's face comes up on the communicator. As the screen goes from the idle/test pattern screen to the identity screen, you can see the picture jump, suggesting there was a pause in filming to allow the unit with the idle screen and the picture screen to be swapped out.

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Force of Life - S1-E2

Other mistake: As Zoref pulls the reactor door open, the wig wrinkles up on the back of his neck. Also, when the door is half way open, he's still holding it, then he's suddenly several feet away from it when it's still swinging open.

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Helena Russell: With a history like that, who wants to go back to Earth anyway?

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Season 1 generally

Trivia: All through the run of the first season, the multiple banks of red, white, and black input keys have no numbers, letters, or symbols of any kind, but information can be accurately input.

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Show generally

Question: Assuming that Moonbase Alpha is on the side facing the Earth (which is seen on the horizon over the base in the pilot episode "Breakaway"), making travel to it and back easier, and the nuclear waste on the far side, away from Earth, wouldn't the explosion propel the moon towards the Earth, thereby dooming Alpha to certain destruction?

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Answer: Not necessarily - The gravitational fields of Earth and the Sun could have deflected the moon away from the solar system.

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