The Merchandise Guide
Blu-ray: Australia
Compiled by Martin Willey

Blu-ray (Impact)

Australia, IMP2399, 1 September 2021

See also Australia DVD (Magna Pacific, Beyond Home Entertainment, 2003-2016)

Impact is a "premium" Blu-ray brand of Via Vision Entertainment (VVE). Australia is Blu-ray zone B (with Europe, not playable in US). This is a reissue of the UK Network Blu-ray (2010, 2015), incorporating extras from Network, A&E (DVD, USA, 2002) and Shout Factory (USA, 2019). Video and audio quality seems identical to Network.

Publicity claimed a limited edition of 2000 copies.

Titled Space: 1999 The Complete Series Ultimate Edition the set consists of an orange hard cover slip box (14cm x 17.5cm x 6cm) with two plastic Blu-ray cases (13.5cm x 17cm x 2.5cm). The total set is 14 discs, 5 for each series (5 episodes per disc, same as Network), 2 extras discs (one per season, Blu-ray but with some standard definition content), plus 2 "alternate missions" discs (one for Destination Moonbase Alpha in HD, the other for the 3 other films in SD with trailers).

The back of the slipcase has a detachable card panel listing the extras. When removed it reveals a picture of Moonbase Alpha.

The Blu-ray cases have removable sleeves, the interior of which show the disc contents.

The discs are orange with white series logo and numbers, apart from the two "Alternative Missions" discs which are black with yellow logo and lettering.

The disc menus are static, a very stylized communications post or screen with a corridor (year 1) or Koenig's year 1 office (year 2) beyond, with another oddly angled wall to the left.

• Case "S01" (Year 1)
  • Disc "S1 01"
    • Breakaway
      • Audio: Gerry Anderson commentary
    • Matter Of Life And Death
    • Black Sun
    • Ring Around The Moon
      • Audio: Scott Bosco
    • Earthbound
    • Visual Data
      • These Episodes (from Network, but split across discs)
        
      • Photographs
  • Disc "S1 02"
    • Another Time, Another Place
    • Missing Link
    • Guardian Of Piri
    • Force Of Life
    • Alpha Child
    • Visual Data
      • Guardian of Piri Remembered (from Network)
        
      • These Episodes
      • Photographs
  • Disc "S1 03"
    • The Last Sunset
    • Voyager's Return
    • Collision Course
    • Death's Other Dominion
      • Audio: Scott Bosco
    • The Full Circle
    • Visual Data
      • Text commentary for The Last Sunset
      • Alternative scene for Collision Course
      • These Episodes
      • Photographs
  • Disc "S1 04"
    • End Of Eternity
    • War Games
    • The Last Enemy
    • The Troubled Spirit
    • Space Brain
    • Visual Data
      • Text commentary for Space Brain
      • These Episodes
      • Photographs
  • Disc "S1 05"
    • The Infernal Machine
    • Mission Of The Darians
    • Dragon's Domain
      • Audio: Gerry Anderson commentary
      • Audio: Johnny Byrne/Christopher Penfold commentary
      • Audio: Anthony Taylor commentary
    • The Testament Of Arkadia
      • Audio: Sylvia Anderson commentary
    • Visual Data
      • These Episodes
      • Photographs
  • Disc "S1 06"
    
    • Memories of Space Featurette (from Network)
      
    • Sylvia Anderson on Live Action (from Network)
      
    • Clapperboard (from Carlton)
      Oddly, only part 1 (Gerry Anderson) is included. Part 2 with Brian Johnson is missing.
      
    • Lyons Maid ice lolly commercial (from Network)
      
    • Production Archives
      • Textless Generic opening titles (from Network)
        
      • Textless End titles
      • Unfinished opening titles for Breakaway and Missing Link
      • SFX plates and deleted SFX scenes (11m SD from Network 2005)
        
      • Textless episode material
      • Ad break bumpers (from Network, reconstructed)
        
      • Martin Landau and Barbara Bain premiere (from Network)
        
      • Vintage Year 1 episode promos
      • Barry Gray's Theme Demo (from Network)
        
    • BD-ROM Material: 13 scripts and Annual
• Case "S02" (Year 2)
  • Disc "S2 01"
    • The Metamorph
      • Audio commentary by Anthony Taylor
    • The Exiles
    • One Moment Of Humanity
    • All That Glisters
    • Journey To Where
    • Visual Data
      • Photographs
  • Disc "S2 02"
    • The Taybor
    • The Rules Of Luton
    • The Mark Of Archanon
    • Brian The Brain
    • New Adam, New Eve
    • Visual Data
      • Photographs
  • Disc "S2 03"
    • Catacombs Of The Moon
    • The A B Chrysalis
    • Seed Of Destruction
    • The Beta Cloud
    • Space Warp
    • Visual Data
      • Behind the Scenes - Model Shop (from Carlton DVDs)
        
      • Photographs
  • Disc "S2 04"
    • A Matter Of Balance
    • The Bringers Of Wonder part 1
    • The Bringers Of Wonder part 2
    • The Lambda Factor
    • The Seance Spectre
    • Visual Data
      • Photographs
  • Disc "S2 05"
    • Dorzak
    • Devil's Planet
    • The Immunity Syndrome
    • The Dorcons
    • Visual Data
      • Seed Of Destruction Year 1 version (from Network)
        
      • Photographs
  • Disc "S2 06"
    
    • Mission to Moonbase Alpha: An Interview with Actress Barbara Bain (from Shout Factory)
      
    • Interview with Martin Landau (from Network)
      
    • Into the Uncertain Future: An Interview with Actor Nick Tate (from Shout Factory)
      
    • Brain Behind the Destruction: An Interview with Director Kevin Connor (from Shout Factory)
      
    • Moonbase Merch: A Tour of Space: 1999 Ephemera with Author John Muir (from Shout Factory)
      
    • Out-take: Bringers of Wonder "blooper" (from Carlton DVDs)
      
    • Cosmos: 1999 - stop motion film (from Network)
      
    • Blackpool "Space City" exhibition advert (from Carlton)
      
    • Production Archives
      • Unexposed: Behind the Scenes of Series Two - filming The Mark of Archanon
        (from Network)
      • Vintage Year 2 Interviews including Vintage Brian Johnson interview (from Carlton DVDs)
        
    • Year 2 Trailers and promos (from Network)
      
    • Year 2 textless footage
    • Production Audio from The Taybor, The Rules Of Luton, The Mark Of Archanon, Brian The Brain (from network)
      
    • BD-ROM Material: Most of series 2 scripts & annuals
  • Disc "Alternative Missions 01"
    • Destination Moonbase Alpha HD full film (100m)
    • Destination Moonbase Alpha trailer (2m)
  • Disc "Alternative Missions 02"
    • Alien Attack SD full film (109m)
    • Journey Through The Black Sun SD full film (92m)
    • Cosmic Princess SD full film (91m)
    • Trailers for above
      

There is also a 48-page booklet "The Making of Space: 1999 by Ian Fryer". The fan club Fanderson's logo and web address is on the back. Illustrated by photos, the booklet describes the development and making of the show, and includes an episode guide with background information, rather than plot summaries. It uses some broadcast dates from HSV7. Melbourne, Australia, which definitely aren't world premieres, or even Australian premieres, because the same episodes had been shown on CTC7, Canberra first.

See DigitalBits review

Episode Soundtracks

• Original mono soundtrack
• DTS HD 5.1
• Isolated music score on 46 episodes (as UK Network Blu-ray, not on Shout Factory). The missing episodes are Breakaway and Dragon's Domain
• Audio commentaries:
  • Gerry Anderson commentary on Breakaway (from Network)
  • Gerry Anderson commentary on Dragon's Domain (from Network)
  • Johnny Byrne and Chris Penfold on Dragon's Domain (from A&E, 2002)
  • Sylvia Anderson on The Testament Of Arkadia (from A&E, 2002)
  • Scott Michael Bosco commentary on Death's Other Dominion (A&E, 2002)
  • Scott Michael Bosco commentary on Ring Around The Moon (from Shout Factory, 2019)
  • Anthony Taylor commentary on Dragon's Domain and The Metamorph (from Shout Factory)

There are subtitles for all episodes (Network omitted these) plus text commentaries by Chris Bentley on The Last Sunset and Space Brain

The discs also have episode and behind the scenes image galleries (from Network, partially on Shout Factory), although two galleries are missing.

Extras discs

Most of the material is from Network (or Carlton before that), with additional material from Shout Factory (4 documentaries). Most of the Network extras that Shout Factory did not use are included here.

Also present are the PDF content from Network - scripts and annuals

New extras (not on main Network or Shout Factory sets)

• Destination Moonbase Alpha (100mins) film (full film in un-restored HD, from Network 2014 special edition)
• Alien Attack (109mins), Cosmic Princess (91mins) and Journey Through The Black Sun (92mins). All are the full films, in standard definition (probably same prints released on German DVD in 2011 and 2016)

Missing content:

• Part 2 of Clapperboard (part 1 is present, see above).
• Horizon behind the scenes footage. Was advertised, but is not present.
• Message From Moonbase Alpha
• Concept and Creation Featurette (Network)
• SFX and Design Featurette (Network)
• Two photo galleries from the Network/Shout sets are missing: "promo" and "models and props".
• SFX library footage (the longer high definition version on the Year 2 Blu-ray; only the shorter standard definition version is included here).