Episode Guide
Space: 1999 50 Years Out of Orbit Documentary (2025)

Space: 1999 50 Years Out of Orbit

1h 15m (75m), released 1st September 2025

This documentary was first aired on the UK streaming service ITVX on 1st September 2025, and is the main extra on the Space: 1999 Breakaway 4K Collectors Edition Steelbook (2025). It was produced by Anderson Entertainment and "Take the Shot Films" and directed by Samuel Clemens. The same crew also released Thunderbirds FAB at 60 to ITVX on the same date, featuring most of the same interviewees. Clemens is the son of Avengers writer Brian Clemens, and has worked as an actor on director on Big Finish audio stories.

This is a "talking heads" documentary, with no narrator, featuring a mixture of archive interviews (usually seen on computer screens), cast interviews (some conducted at the London 2024 convention), and celebrity interviewees (some remotely). There are short clips, some behind the scenes footage from the Warwick Student Television documentary, and some CGI space scenes of varying quality.

Interviews

• Anton Phillips
• Catherine Schell
• Dee Anderson - daughter of Sylvia Anderson
• J. Michael Straczynski - American TV and comic book writer, best known for Babylon 5 TV series
• Jamie Anderson - son of Gerry Anderson
• Joe Kraemer - American film music composer, best known for Mission Impossible Rogue Nation
• John Logan - American screenwriter, best known for Skyfall and Gladiator
• Jon Culshaw - British actor and impressionist
• Jonathan Ross - British broadcaster, chat show host and film critic
• Nicola Bryant - British actor, best known as a companion on Doctor Who
• Nick Tate
• Peter Duncan
• Richard Holliss - film journalist
• Richard Taylor - head of Weta Workshop (SFX for Lord of the Rings)
• Sanjeev Bhaskar - British actor and presenter
• Yasuko Nagazumi

Archive interviews

• Barbara Bain
• Derek Wadsworth
• Fred Freiberger
• Gerry Anderson
• Martin Landau
• Sylvia Anderson

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