Space Mountain (1975)

Here's Mickey Mouse and Goofy at Space Mountain in the Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World Florida.  The ride opened in January1975.

         

Cheers for the pointer Tim


Steve

Escape From The Planet of The Apes - Comic book and record (1975)

One page of art from this...

To see more go here: http://www.laboca.co.uk/blog/2009/09/escape-from-the-planet-of-the-apes-1975/

Very nice

 

Steve

Bolshoe kosmicheskoe puteshestvie (1975)

Bolshoe kosmicheskoe puteshestvie or The Big Space Travel, if you prefer is Soviet film from 1975. in which three children are selected for a space flight on the spacecraft Astra and some stuff happens thereafter

 

Steve

Space 1999 (1973) Gallery of Art

 

 

 

and now in its original form....

Art by Mr John Bryne

 

And again...

 With more Bryne artworks viewable here.....

 

 http://savedfromthepaperdrive.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/space1999-comic-book-covers.html

 

 

And for the Italian market the more traditional but inaccurate white coloured space suit...

Which actually looks quite good.


Steve

Planet of the Apes Weekly #51 (1975)

UK reprint of the American Marvel comic strips from 1975.  This was an exciting morning's visit to the news agents before school, I can tell you.  Heady stuff for a seven year old.

 

 

Steve

Le Orme (1975)

 

Le Orme AKA Footprints on the Moon is an Italian film from 1975 which defies genre and divides tastes.  I would like to think I have already stumbled across this film in the past but neither the images or plot have trigger a memory.  I'm intrigued by what I've read so I'll just have to add it to the list of  To-get-round-to-one-day.

Thanks to Traveller28 for the nudge towards doing this particular post.  I always appreciate recommendations and suggestions.

 

 

Steve

Doctor Who - The Android Invasion (1975) part 2

It was back in January 2011 that I first posted about The Android Invasion and then it was about these chaps.

I think I said that the DVD release was long overdue and I was looking forward to watching it again at some point.  Well, this week I did just that and what a treat it was.  It's not perfect but its a perfect representation of what good 1970's  Doctor Who was all about.  Killer robots with gun fingers, gravel voiced monstrous aliens, spooky English villages with spooky English villagers, soldiers with guns, cold emotionless duplicates of the heroes and a top-secret Space Defence base within easy walking distance.

And what would you expect to find in such a place?  That's right, a spaceman.

This is Guy Crayford as played by Milton Johns and beneath that eye-patch lurks a plot hole the size of black hole but if  you were 7 years old - or Terry Nation - you probably wouldn't think about it too much. 

Anyway lets talk space suits.

The keen eyed may recognise that as a Thal space suit last seen in The Planet of the Daleks (1973)

And yes, if you look closely that is the same style of safety helmet that is customised still further to become the androids helmet in this story.

And because I've been doing this for a while now, and because I know there is a Barry Letts connection, I can tell you that the space helmet beneath Crayford's arm is one of the helmets from  the BBC tv series;  Moonbase 3 (1973)

And that's a show I'll be blogging on quite soon.



Steve

Prime Number - Harry Harrison (1975) Peter Elson

Here's another picture that's done the rounds over the years but which appears to have started life as the  cover for a Harry Harrison short story collection entitled; Prime Number.  The art is by Peter Elson and we will be back in the future to look at more examples of his painted spacemen.

I'll dedicate this to Mr Primate, a blog follower who helped out with a previous post but also for reminding me of this image and how good it is.

Enjoy

Steve

Restricted View (1975/?)

Two alien robots, a quiet country lane and cars that vanish into blinding white balls of light appearing  suddenly in the  middle of the road.  A Classic bit of 70's Doctor Who?  An episode of UFO?  Not Quite

Restricted View is the title of a Public Information Film as featured on the "Charley Says" Vol 2 DVD.  I'm not sure if that's the official title or just the one made up for the DVD - What I also don't know is the year.  I tried to be clever and date the car registration plates but the image is a bit rough after all these years and the nearest I'm going to guess at is 1975 - maybe.

I love these PIF's. As a kid back then they totally coloured my view of the world as much as any TV shows.  And they presented the outside world as a slightly odd, spooky and dangerous place to play which despite popular belief made it an even more exciting a playground, as long as you didn't do anything stupid like fly kites under pylons or swim in muddy junk filled rivers, hide inside fridges, talk to strangers, cross the road, run on the beach, play cowboys and indians on farms etc etc

I could actually remember this one from back in the day even though it's  one which rarely ever gets a mention when people get all nostalgic about them.  Although given the age I first saw it, I remember the menace and not the message.  If asked I probably would have told you it was about the dangers of silver aliens  hiding in the countryside and not blind spots when driving.

So what we have here is another appearance of the Moon Zero Two suits, with two Moon Zero Two helmets.  Were these the ones from Space 1999 or  was it the other way around.  One of the helmets has been customised to make it roboty which might offer a reason why there weren't two helmets available for the Darians to use.  In this case time  probably won't tell.

Steve

Space: 1999 - Mission of the Darians (1975)

Mission of the Darians is an episode from the end of the first series of Space: 1999.

Survivors of a dying world have been adrift in their enormous spaceship for over 900 years; so long that some of them have de-evolved back to savagery and no longer even understand where they are. But not all of them.  Take these chaps.

It's been a long time since I watched this so I don't quite recall how it all pans out but I'm sure there are some really good Space:1999 fan sites out there that will tell you all about it.  Here, we're just interested in the spacesuits.

What we have before us are a couple of Moon Zero Two spacesuits sprayed silver with some nice black  detailing.  The eagle-eyed might even spot that one of the helmets is actually from Gerry Anderson's own UFO series.  The story has it that when they came to hire them they couldn't find two of the MZT ones which isn't all that surprising given that the helmets had careers far more varied than the suits and they were separated quite early on.  Interestingly its the UFO helmet with the extra box shaped bit on the top of which I'm fairly certain there was only ever one.  This may be its latest and last appearance documented so far.

Broadcast in October 1975 but filmed in January of that same year, these dates may or may not help us with a mysterious little appearance of possibly the same two suits from one of those charming and ever so slightly spooky Public Information Films... off which more will be blogged soon.

Enjoy the rest of the pictures

Steve