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New York Intelligencer column, New York magazine, 28 July 1975, p50.
New York magazine is an American biweekly (originally the Sunday magazine supplement of the New York Herald Tribune, since 1968 an independent magazine), not to be confused with The New Yorker or The New York Times Magazine. Tom Wolfe was a notable writer, while articles formed the basis of the film Saturday Night Fever (1977) and the TV series Taxi (1978-1983).
Caption: Landau: Newest Trekkie.
Meantime, the millennium is heading our way via television, and if the success of the Star Trek reruns is any indication, Space 1999 is good shot. An English made-for-TV series premiering this fall, 1999 has Martin Landau and Barbara Bain on another Mission: Impossible- a nuclear accident has cast them adrift in space along with 309 other earthlings, and they are searching for a hospitable planet on which to put down roots. The 24-part series cost $275,000 per hour-long episode, and along with the two stars, features some slick sci-fi effects. The three US networks passed up 1999, supposedly because it was offered "too late" for the 1975-76 season, but the show will end up with the equivalent of a network of its own- to date, it has been taken by some 126 individual stations, including WPIX in New York.
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