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Whatever happens we know that unlike the Year One set this release will be locked to Region B
I'm sure a US distributor will sign on to do a Region A port-over of the set, as A&E did for year one. Regardless, I shall probably be purchasing the Region B set anyway as my player (and TV) are 'worldwide-compatible.'youworkmen said:Whatever happens we know that unlike the Year One set this release will be locked to Region B
IIRC Network and A&E shared the cost of the restoration for Year One and the cost involved in Y2 has been the stumbling block all this time. Last time round A&E announced their US set a while before Network did but there's still time . There may be a US partner involved that we don't know about . Shout for example who are reissuing the earlier Anderson shows on dvdAndyMcKinney said:I'm sure a US distributor will sign on to do a Region A port-over of the set, as A&E did for year one. Regardless, I shall probably be purchasing the Region B set anyway as my player (and TV) are 'worldwide-compatible.'
You can see the production order here.youworkmen said:The production order seems the best and I would expect that to be the order as it was with Year One although I don't know the complete production order for Y2 myself.
You can't compare The Prisoner episodes here at all.Kevin L McCorry said:The Prisoner episodes are not in strict production order ("Once Upon a Time" was produced sixth but is chronologically episode sixteen) in their Blu-Ray release. So, there is a precedent for diverging from strict production order. It would be nice if the Space: 1999 second season episodes followed the chronological order given (the discrepant dating in "The Bringers of Wonder" notwithstanding).
There is no UK broadcast order for Year 2 as with the exception of the first 2 or 3 each region then went off on its own course airing the series in a different order .Kevin L McCorry said:One could argue as well that the log-dates given in Season 2 is an intended order. As to "The Bringers of Wonder", before the base falls under the influence of the aliens, the date is 1912 days after breakaway. Part two should of course follow part one and should follow with that first date given.But if chronological order is out of the question, production order is the next best option. I would even put syndication order (and for the most part Canadian broadcast order) next in the list of options. It can be found here.http://www.amazon.com/The-Metamorph/dp/B00DYPXLVI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1416312371&sr=8-2&keywords=space+1999+season+2U.K. broadcast order is off-putting. "Brian the Brain" as episode five, before "All That Glisters", "The Taybor", "The Mark of Archanon", "The Rules of Luton", and "New Adam, New Eve"? No. Two Helena "double-up" episodes, "Catacombs of the Moon" and "Space Warp", back-to-back? No. "Seed of Destruction" before "Catacombs of the Moon"? No. Maybe I'm conditioned to all of the Canadian broadcast orders, but I find these placements very off-putting. As regards Space: 1999, I've never seen why U.K. broadcast order should be regarded as in any way definitive. The show was networked in other countries (such as my native Canada) with more success and consistency than in Britain, and I'm not convinced the success was solely due to broadcast timeslot. Putting two Alpha-bound Helena episodes back-to-back is something that just wasn't done. I'm not crazy about the U.K. broadcast order for first season either.I would much prefer production order over U.K. broadcast order, even with "Space Warp" at 15 and "A Matter of Balance" at 16 if Network so decrees. Mind, I think "The Beta Cloud" and "Space Warp" shouldn't go back-to-back, but that's an aesthetic taste on my part. I wouldn't expect Network to hew to that. But the interview footage putting "A Matter of Balance" at 15. Now, that should be considered.UFO wasn't on DVD in U.K. broadcast order either, and thank goodness for that!
AndyMcKinney said:I'm sure we needn't worry about Network using UK broadcast order, since Year Two wasn't even fully networked across the ITV regions, some regions never showed all the episodes, and the ones that did took almost two years to do so. Some ITV regions didn't even screen the show until the 1980s!
US broadcast order is also likely out, since as with year one, episodes would air in different orders depending on which city you were in, since this was still the days of "bicycled" syndication arrangements.
Like you, I highly suspect the production order (whichever one is the 'official' one as far as Carlton--or whoever the current rights-holders--are concerned) will be the one used.
In the UK Bringers of Wonder is Region 2 locked limited to 1,999 copies and comes with the Moonbase movie toohttp://www.thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-two-cents/111414_1000Buy onhttp://networkonair.com/shop/2090-space-1999-the-bringers-of-wonder-pre-buy--5027626801847.htmlAndyMcKinney said:Looks like there's finally light at the end of the tunnel!Network video (UK) announcementThis link says that it will be released in Autumn 2015, so we've still got several months to wait, but at least they've now set a date. At the same link above, they're releasing a stand-alone blu-ray of Bringers of Wonder for those who can't wait until then!
These Guys are awfully happy to be literally hurling out into space with death on every planet they or alien they encounterMBrousseau said:If anyone's interested, I've made some screen captures of the DVD from last year's season 2 set by A&E and the proposed Network's forecoming Blu-ray, just to see the upgraded framing. Here's how it looks:
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Starlog explained that one away (in their Moonbase Alpha Technical Manual) as Helen's estimation of the amount of time that has passed on Earth, rather than lunar time.Kevin EK said:I would guess that Network will be presenting the episodes in production order, as that's the one that would agree with everyone. I don't think the Status Report days will be used as a barometer, but they might keep track of that if they offer little blurbs for each episode in the packaging. People could always choose to watch the episodes in Status Report order if they like. If my memory serves, I think that one of the Series One episodes theoretically happens after Maya joins the base...
I'm expecting that Network will now make use of the remaining interview footage they had from Series One for a continued "These Episodes" interview featurette, as well as the rest of the Fanderson documentary. I'm also thinking that they'll have the same music-only tracks. I'm doubting that they'll have any commentaries, unless they had recorded something with Gerry Anderson back in 2005. I do think they'll have the student BTS movie they showed at Andercon. The A&E or Lionsgate release here in the US will of course mirror the Network extras and that will be the package.
In Earthbound they are still in 1999 (2074 is 75 years away), but by Voyager's Return they are in 2000 (1985 is 15 years ago) and in Dragon's Domain they are in 2002 (5 years since 1997, 887 days since 1999). In some episodes it is stated the Alphans have been in space for "months" (The Last Sunset, Journey To Where, Brian The Brain and The Bringers Of Wonder part 2) although the dates suggest years. There are two major errors: Dragon's Domain appears somewhere in the middle of Year Two, and The Bringers Of Wonder part 2 is 18 months after The Bringers Of Wonder part 1. Note that two Year Two episodes did not give dates: Journey To Where and The Taybor.
Message From Moonbase Alpha is set approximately 20 years after the breakaway (ie 2019 or 2020); the Moon will return to Terra Alpha after 25 years (ie 2044 or 2045).