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The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 52: To everything that might have been (Space: 1999)To everything that might have been... to everything that might yet be.The last podcast. Part 2 of our wrap up begins with paying tribute to the passing of Clifton Jones, so soon after Prentis Hancock leaving us. Computer Kano was always a fun character, jousting with Victor on intellectual matters, protecting computer like a proud father. We both hope you enjoy your life in the next world.We also then discuss how two of the stars being in X Files has passed Katie by. Better late than never.2025-06-2049 min
The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 51: Year 2 Movies and Bonus Material (Space: 1999)To everything that might have been... to everything that might yet be.The last podcast. With a ting of sadness we wrap out what remains of the Space: 1999 universe, starting with the two Year 2 movies, Destination Moonbase Alpha and Cosmic Princess. What's not the like about seeing the pink gimp mask dude one last time, this time with a silly voice over? And Katie finally gets to meet Oliver Onions. Was it worth the wait?We then sweep up the semi-unofficial content, with:Message...2025-06-201h 08The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 50: God's Will (Space: 1999)The second of our two bonus pods see us pay tribute to the best moustache in showbizness, Prentis Hancock, who sadly left us earlier this month. Playing the pivotal role of 2nd in command, Paul Morrow, we remember him for all his magnificence (just don't mention the magic mushrooms).Moving on to the main event, we watch the fan edit God's Will - a great vision by Eric Bernard who spent years re-tooling the episode of War Games to explain away the differences between year 1 and year 2. To be honest, it's great seeing all...2025-06-151h 04The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 49: Into Infinity/Day After Tomorrow (Space: 1999)Our first of our three bonus pods sees us visit Into Infinity/Day After Tomorrow - so good they named it twice. Filmed between Year 1 and 2, this is an almost-Space 1999 episode, sharing a lot of the cast and crew. We have a lot of fun spotting the 99-isms amongst what was the highest of brow children's TV programme. Fred hadn't even got the gig, so may be he wasn't responsible for all of the jazzing-up/dumming down of Year 2, judging by this.We have Brian Blessed being very non-shouty, Nick Tate being the main...2025-06-061h 00The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 48: The Dorcons (Space: 1999)Oh no! It's the final episode of the show (but not of the podcast - rest assured). The Dorcons is one of the better year 2's although you have to forgive the missing ceilings and sparse set decorations. The budget really had been blown.We've the wonderfully evil Malik, Dr. Who being old and a bit slow, the old woman from the end of the last Star Wars movie being - well - official and a lot of recycled props. But this is a Maya episode, her range of emotions is splendid as she...2025-05-301h 00The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 47: The Immunity Syndrome (Space: 1999)As the most famous Mackem on the internet, Katie starts the pod celebrating some amazing Sunderland-related news. Then we quickly move on to the penultimate episode of Year 2, The Immunity Syndrome. There's John wearing a strange ski mask thing, Tony getting space rabies, the girls flying a glider and an amazing red shirt body count. There's also a famous dad, which Katie gets before the opening credits have even rolled. So much for teasing that one.Post-pod we take an article from 1977 about the Landau-Bain's bedroom habits, which is actually two sentences on them...2025-05-261h 07The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 46: Devil's Planet (Space: 1999)So after there being no Spectre in the Seance Spectre, there's no Devil in the Devil's Planet. What you do get though is whip-wielding red lycra clad BDSM statuesque women running a dodgy prison. There's a plot about another planet which kills them (but not us) but we are just too distracted by John becoming a boy toy.For some reason (probably money) there's only John in it. We also get Bill and a new character who's name Colin gets wrong yet again. At least he remembered she was in Aliens. We discuss future James...2025-05-171h 00The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 45: Dorazk (Space: 1999)As a special birthday podcast treat to Katie, Colin asked Kathryn Leigh Scott - one of the stars of the Space: 1999 episode "Dorzak" - to record a little message for her. It just so happens that we'd just done the episode on the pod, so it fit right in. And for the fans out there I'm sure there's a few bits in there that will be of interest to the Space: 1999 community. Link to the full video: https://youtu.be/oBdc_Z1ZiNkTimeline: https://catacombs.space1999.net/cybermuseum...2025-05-091h 10The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 44: The Seance Spectre (Space: 1999)Ok let's get it out of the way. There isn't a spectre or ghost and there's barely a seance. There, done. Katie was very disappointed to hear that. There is the lovely Carolyn Seymour though, who is proper sci-fi royalty.What you do get is a batshit crazy guy with too much hair ragging through Moonbase Alpha asserting that planet of the week is habitable, when in reality it nearly kills John and Maya. Until she turns into a plant. And a child version of herself. The security guards are particularly inept in this episode; it's one...2025-05-031h 07The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 43: The Bringers of Wonder (Space: 1999)Oh yes it's the two parter as a two hour podcast. Will our stamina hold out? Colin's bladder? Katie's wine supply? Who knows - actually we do as we've just published the episode. We only had one domestic. I think.The Bringers of Wonder is a cracking rollocking two-parter which sees the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha (apart from John) brain-roofied into thinking their wives/boyfriends/former-dodgy-professor have to come to rescue them. Guess what? They are actually blood filled eyeball shower curtain monsters from another planet. Happens all the time.2025-04-251h 53The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 42: The Lambda Factor (Space: 1999)So we've The Troubled Spirit's slightly lesser cousin as a young blonde with a tight perm can do magic tricks, turn Maya into a caterpillar and force John into telling us that he loves us all. Even you Colin (manc) who completely gets the opening scene wrong.It's actually quite a good episode this, with the emphasis on the metaphysical and even haunted house type spooky stuff, as John relives the time when he left people to die of Venusian space herpes. I'm sure you can get a cream for that now. Maya turns into a bonking chi...2025-04-181h 03The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 41: Space Warp (Space: 1999)We think this is the funniest episode we've done yet, but then again not every episode has pink gimp masks and Maya turning into every creature you could imagine (and some you haven't). So they are rich seams to mine.We've John and Tony going off to a derelict spaceship and not finding a xenomorph, Maya with a lot of hair in medical, Alan being the primary action hero we all know and love and Helena not knowing how many penises the at-deaths-door alien possesses. There's something about a space warp too but we've...2025-04-121h 00The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 40: The Beta Cloud (Space: 1999)The 2nd of the Freddie episodes sees Darth Vader invade Moonbase Alpha, John and Helena go off on holiday to Monaco and Dave Prowse takes a fire extinguisher in the nether region. Yes boys and girls, it's a Freddie Special.It was brave of us to take on Beta Cloud and Space Warp back to back, but for you dear listeners we are up for the challenge. The first of the two crazies sees Darth Fish invade Moonbase Alpha and completely tear up the place. You see Alan's chest hair and naval more than...2025-04-041h 04The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 39: A Matter of Balance (Space: 1999)Everyone say in a low chanting voice. Imhotep! Imhotep! It's the tiny spangly shorts episode of Space: 1999 and a rubbish anti-matter science one to boot. But first we go through the husbands of our notable guest star. And Through the Keyhole. And Pink Panther.Aww it's Lynne being all wide-eyed and bouncy haired as she swoons her way from being Tony's homebrew partner in crime, to Imhotep's anti-matter pair off buddy. Maya becomes a monkey, the crap costume makes its first of three appearances as Thaed, we have roofy flowers, gay nightclub murials and...2025-03-281h 01The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 38: Seed of Destruction (Space: 1999)It's the bad parting episode! 50 minutes of plot unravelled by John having his parting on the wrong side. How they strung this one out for nearly an hour who knows? Still at least you have us to entertain you. We bookend today's episode with a what-what-what description of an AI revival of Space: 1999 and how Maya could have been Whitney Houston's mother. Sort of.There's a crystal planet, hall of mirrors, slinky polyester pink jump suits, demonic laughing John, Alan being loyal, Helena being creeped out by John and a...2025-03-211h 05The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 37: AB Chrysalis (Space: 1999)We have a few false starts but I've left them in because we are all about keeping it real and stuff. If not skip to about 3:30 minutes in.AB Chrysalis is chock full of memorable moments. We get John going full Captain Kirk, we see Sarah Douglas' belly button, Helena doesn't throw a comlock at John and JS Bach's great great great great great great great grandson plays 'C'. Alan nearly dies of chlorine poisoning, there's lots of cool bouncing balls, Tony has a day off and Kate's one and only line is a sho...2025-03-141h 11The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 36: Catacombs of the Moon (Space: 1999)It's hysterical woman time, throwing her lot in with an overbearing husband who keeps having premonitions that she'll burn to death. The moonbase has a fire storm. Who'd have thought it?Doctor Vincent is rubbish at making artificial hearts, John buggers off in an Eagle so he's out of most of it, Colin mixes up the character Patrick Osgood with the footballer Peter Osgood, Katie tells a story about Barbara Bain as a nun and there's another macguffin element they go searching for down below the moon. Oh and Maya becomes a cat which...2025-03-081h 01The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 35: New Adam, New EveMoonbase gets all biblical, and all wife swap, as the four main characters go down to the surface of a new Earth to be New Adam's and New Eve's. Lucky them, but not quite car keys in the bowl at a 70's party. There's God who was also Merlin too - handy that, who despite claiming to be the most wonderful sorcerer ever, can't even make animals out of balloons. Charlatan.Yasko has loads of lines, again, Alan doesn't even launch an Eagle never mind crash one, John keeps refusing wine (much to Katie's...2025-02-171h 13The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpsiode 34: Brian the Brain (Space: 1999)Oh no! What have we done! We promised Katie's parents a nice cuddly episode with Bernard Cribbins and all they get is a murderous robot with a stupid sense of humour and a God complex. That's the last time we get invited for Sunday Dinner.In another "meet the parents" special, we visit Brian the Brain, a psychotic robot hell bent on living forever, or at least to the end of Act 2. There's a tender moment with John and Helena that Colin doesn't talk over, no home brew and Maya turning into zombie Bernard...2025-02-0859 minThe Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 33: The Mark of Archanon (Space: 1999)Our noteable guest star this week is something who is most famous for having one scene as a dead person with pebbles over his eyes. And he's a Sir. Although we haven't a clue why. He's also dressed as an egyptian/roman/pagan person with a boy son thing with a dreadful haircut. Basil and Connie have their work cut out with the dot-to-dot eye makeup, and Veronica turns up as both his dead wife and his future. Alan plays rugby, there's a strange extra in "Bluey" and the episode zips along lovely as we don't have John shouting...2025-02-021h 06The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 32: The Rules of Luton (Space: 1999)Quite possibly the worst episode of Year 2 (although there's plenty to choose from), we re-enact the Gorn episode of Star Trek for the delight of the viewers. It's actually a hoot, with a lovely tender scene for Maya and John. Do you know any Psychon jokes?
We have the Lion, Scarecrow and Tin Man from Wizard of Oz, John obsessed with a stick, mutinuous trees, shaved Winnie the Pooh, a hedgehog declaring war on Sybil Danning, Tony's homebrew three sodding times and Colin talking right over John pouring his heart out.
2025-01-241h 03The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 31: Journey to Where (Space: 1999)
We are back to normal after Christmas Yorkshire TV and Meet the Parents Specials with a fun episode, full of strange accents and bad science. Earth from the future finds Moonbase Alpha and promises to neutrino teleport them home. Will it happen? What could possibly go wrong? And why does Freddie Jones have a rubbish American accent? Post-pod we do a fun little quiz working through all the badges worn on the uniforms of Year 2. Whilst LSRO was easy, we had no chance with VJC.
So in this episode we had Isla Blair wearing Mozart's...2025-01-171h 11The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 30: All That Glisters (Space: 1999) Meet the Parents special!It's very exciting for us in Mackem and the Manc land as we have a Meet the Parents special! Not only did we record this episode with Katie's parents (who also don't really have much of a clue about the world of Space: 1999 and they were there at the time) we also recorded it actually in Sunderland, home of the Mackems. If anything, it's notable for Terry (dad of Katie) coming up with the alternate title for the episode: Tony of the Dead.
So if you've enjoyed the show because it's someone experiencing this...2025-01-111h 10The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 29: One Moment of Humanity (Space: 1999)It's a mad time this week as a fusion of light jazz, Lionel Blair, bare chested men and cockroaches confuse the life out of both of us. Colin, even though he's watched it a million times, still doesn't quite get what this episode is about. Indeed, this would have fit in well within the body of Year One. We would have loved to see Victor dancing.
Katie can't remember seeing Quills (2000) and Colin has a hard time with the androids being human and the humans being android. Glenda Allen is in it as someone different, as is...2025-01-031h 12
The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 28: The Taybor (Space: 1999) Christmas Special!Welcome to the Christmas Special* Space: 1999 Mackem and the Manc Podcast.
Now, we at TMATM love a spurious link and this is a doozy. For some reason Yorkshire TV in the UK, in 1977, the announced the Year 2 episode The Taybor as a Christmas special - despite the fact that apart from them being a big lad with a beard giving gifts, on the surface this has nothing to do with the big day.
Not one to shirk a challenge, we try to see if we can feel the St...2024-12-251h 27The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 27: The Exiles (Space: 1999)A really fun, tight episode sees a couple of young whipper snappers with red spots and lycra circus outfits terrorise Moonbase Alpha with plans of revenge on their wise elders. Peter Duncan is in it, although with a terrible voice over. His ageing 100 years in a minute is well worth it though. Kids programme remember...
The rule book goes straight out of the window with the Health and Safety boys as they open nerf gun-looking craft without a care in the world. But the scariest thing is just how calm John is when faced...2024-12-211h 00
The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 26: The Metamorph (Space: 1999)So it's Season 2! How will Katie react to the massive changes to the Year 2 crew, cast, sets and storylines? Badly I'd imagine seeing as Victor was her favourite character. Colin sits back and tries to answer 18 questions a minute. The actual episode is quite a good one, there's Brian Blessed back for a second time, the introduction of Maya the wow-factor, BDSM nappy-wearing aliens, roofie brain sucking machines, green blobs, fainting wives and mento volcanos. See, Season 2 isn't that bad after all.
What happens when someone who's never seen classic 70s sci-fi watches it with their other...2024-12-151h 04The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 25: Bonus Pod (Space: 1999)Strap yourselves in Big Boys for the ride of your life. Yes, it's Bonus Pod time and Sybil Danning shows you a whole new meaning to The Big Bang Theory.
Having done all 24 episodes of Year 1 of Space: 1999, we discover there is enough in the can to do a bonus pod. Split into three, we first of all enjoy Sybil Danning and her wonderful introductions to the Space: 1999 movies as part of the Adventure Video series.
Moving on to the movies themselves, we chop up Alien Attack and Journey...2024-11-301h 36The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 24: The Testament of Arkadia (Space: 1999)It's the last episode of Season One, and it ends and a gentle meander through well trodden Sci-Fi territory. All the good and not so good shows have a "life on Earth began out there" panspermia episode and Space: 1999 is no exception. But the Mackem and the Manc not being your average podcast, we go one stage further and discuss the MUF - the thing that does (or doesn't) tie all the Season One episodes together. Is there an over-arching entity looking after the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha, or was it just coincidence? Listen to the pod to find out...2024-11-221h 10The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 23: Dragon's Domain (Space: 1999)Nothing shouts the most popular episode of Space: 1999 of either seasons as much as Mr. Bronson from Grange Hill being eaten by a glowing tentacle bumhole monster. This one has the lot - Earth-based flashbacks, foxy brunettes bringing cups of tea, backstory of why Bergman was grounded and a wonder take on the old myth of George and the Dragon. It's top of the pile for many very good reasons.
What happens when someone who's never seen classic 70s sci-fi watches it with their other half who's a total geek for it? Will they...2024-11-151h 00The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 22: Mission of the Darians (Space: 1999)Mutants! We have our last colossal guest star episode, and without it being an out-and-out horror episode, it certainly has the overtones of one.
We have cannibalism, Aubrey Morris being mad, Joan Collins and her legs, Barbara and her jealousy and Colin trying to be politically correct about little people. The main male guest star is a cross between Zeus and Oliver Reed, Big Ron is a sort of BDSM caveman, and the ship is either 5 or 50 miles wide. Who knows?
What happens when someone who's never seen classic 70s s...2024-11-081h 02The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 21: The Infernal Machine (Space: 1999)It's Gwent, the wig, amazing sets and immortality for about the 100th time in a quiet colossal guest star episode. Leo McKern I hope got paid twice for playing 2 different characters. Or did he?
Koenig never got his rest, put at least in real life Paul/Prentis was alright.
What happens when someone who's never seen classic 70s sci-fi watches it with their other half who's a total geek for it? Will they love it, hate it, or ask for a divorce on the spot? The Mackem (Katie) and the Manc (Colin) from England are...2024-11-021h 06The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 20: Space Brain (Space: 1999)So we are now into Episode 20 and it's a foam party! Before it became all the rage, the population of Moonbase Alpha are gearing up for a night of disco lights and foam party goodness. Somewhere along the lines there is a serious plot about macro space beings and the moon being a virus, but it all goes to shit in the last 10 minutes when Her Majesty's Fire and Rescue dump 16 million kilos of soap into Stage L at Pinewood.
This is also an Italian episode, where Katie decides "Rent-a-Yank" Shane is punching above...2024-10-251h 02The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 19: The Troubled Spirit (Space: 1999)Katie has the joy of the first Horror Space:1999 episode - her favourite genre - and also her first Italian one, Mamma Mia! Colin makes references to sitars far too many times that are strictly required.
We enjoy the leading man having three nipples, yet another posh foxy brunette, pyschic plants and Bergman's hair getting longer by each episode. On a serious note, this is one of the best and is pure gothic joy and pleasure. And Basil did the stunning make-up - hurrah!
Post-pod, Katie must have been...2024-10-211h 10The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 18: The Last Enemy (Space: 1999)Oh dear, it's a bad science episode. Will a bunch of Suzi Quatro's beat the planet of the single middle-aged man who can't open his eyes? And will they work out the basics of newtonian gravity? Katie likes one of the girls hair and Colin thinks he is Brian Cox (the science dude, not the actor).
We work out why you can people from Alpha, Beta and Delta (but not Gamma) and Katie really wants Dionne's dress.
What happens when someone who's never seen classic 70s sci-fi watches it with their other half who's a...2024-10-121h 03The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 17: War Games (Space: 1999)It's a pod from a pod! The Manc and Mackem are on holiday, but that doesn't stop them recording a special episode of the pod(cast) from a pod(glamping) in sunny Scotland.
The most expensive episode of British TV ever made - even though it wasn't even the most expensive episode of Space: 1999. Colin's going with this one regardless of things like facts. Back to the episode it's a real two-parter. The first half sees Moonbase Alpha and half the cast blown up, the second half sees alien coneheads in boxes, shreiking Helena, John being the...2024-10-061h 03The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 16: End of Eternity (Space: 1999)We have a complete cast-against-type episode and a colossal guest star in this fab story about an immortal alien who loves nothing more to torture us mere humans by throwing us around Big Daddy style and strangling foxy nurses. What a catch. Today's epsiode is trope-central, from undead vampires to a bit of Alien airlock action. There's an update on Sherlock Dog and a kinky story involving today's guest star: Peter Bowles.
What happens when someone who's never seen classic 70s sci-fi watches it with their other half who's a total geek for it...2024-09-291h 04The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 15: The Full Circle (Space: 1999)The cast of Moonbase Alpha go full caveman in this episode. One of the more amusing editions sees Kaput and Helena turn into cavemen, Alan gets lost, Sandra goes Wilma Flintstone cosplay, and someone nearly gets spit-roasted. Now now calm down it is not that type of show. We further discuss the work of Richard Harding Gardner, and look to see if we can find a mug with Xenia on it. Even though it should have been Zenia.
What happens when someone who's never seen classic 70s sci-fi watches it with their other half...2024-09-2059 minThe Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 14: Deaths Other Dominion (Space: 1999)Fittingly we are back on Breakaway Day - specifically 25 years since we lost the Moon and the 300 brave souls travelling the cosmos on Moonbase Alpha. And today's episode is a cracker - Brian Blessed on an ice planet, Alan being useless once more, formaldehyde ice sets and Valerie Leon's wobbly bits are just some of the highlights. We also start the episode enjoying the alternative theme tune that was used in Japan, and finish talking about the career of the well-mostachioed actor Richard Harding Gardner, who's career highlight after '99 was the kids film Sherlock: Undercover Dog. Will the 2.7...2024-09-131h 01The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 13: Collison Course (Space: 1999)Colin hates this one, like really hates it. And he never shuts up moaning about it. Katie does her best to cheer people up. So to lighten the mood he goes through the funny titles given to episodes over the world to the episodes such as "Bizarre! A Birth of Space Child" and "Space Destroyer, Nuclear Bomb Ship". God bless Japan. We also finally find a film that Katie remembers watching.2024-07-211h 05The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 12: Voyager's Return (Space: 1999)We're back from our little break to Piri to resume the podcast! Episode 12 sees us enjoy the story of Voyager's Return. This fab episode sees us move from the high Sci-Fi of neutron drives and interstellar travel, to the silliness of an unmanned ship with seatbelts and buttock-shaped spacecraft.
The highlight is Jeremey Kemp who puts in a star turn as the guilt-ridden scientist who's actions go wrong. There's big slice of environmental sensitivity, survivour guilt, and the head thing from Zoltar Speaks.
2024-07-141h 02The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 11: The Last Sunset (Space: 1999)Well Colin described this as a fun episode! What's not the like about Paul the Moustache getting a Jesus complex and being off his tits on magic mushrooms, whilst an eagle's worth of people face starvation and dying of thirst? To his defence, there is at least badminton and Alan in a vest. A planet finds it really easy to put off the men and women of Moonbase Alpha by teasing them with gas-spewing giant blue shuttlecocks. Gotcha!
What happens when someone who's never seen classic 70s sci-fi watches it with their other half who's a total...2024-06-141h 05The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 10: Alpha Child (Space: 1999)Well what does this episode not have? It has incest, a story line ripped off by Star Trek, a quasi-Omen young boy, a bad guy who nearly got the better of James Bond and Indiana Jones (to name but a few) and the most amazing silver shorts for our leading man. There's not only a collasal guest star™ in this episode, but our now regular foxy posh brunettes. We get a few spaceships, a twist ending, and Uncle Victor being utterly utterly lovely. Aww.
What happens when someone who's never seen classic 70s sci-fi wa...2024-06-071h 04The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 9: Force of LifeBefore we get to the colossal™ guest star and the famous Solarium scene, Colin spends 10 minutes telling the audience all about the crazyness of ITV television scheduling during the 1970's. So fast forward to 10:25 if you want to just hear about this mad episode.
Ian McShane wanders through MoonBase Alpha, killing people with either amazing beards or being a foxy posh brunette. There's no technobabble as we are straight into the action - and that's just the bikinis in the solarium. There's a posh alarm clock, the season's first married couple, Katie never having se...2024-05-311h 11The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 8: Guardian of Piri (Space: 1999)It's Katie's first sexy episode, as Catherine Schell walks around in amazing shoes and next to nothing teasing Koenig. John, on the other hand, takes joy in walking around an abandoned Moonbase Alpha for the second episode. There's fembots, too-much male chest hair and Computer Kano getting plugged into the mainframe. Hope someone remembers the USB-C cable. And there's the joy that is the wacko chessboard and polystyrene balls combo that makes up the planet Piri.
What happens when someone who's never seen classic 70s sci-fi watches it with their other half who's a...2024-05-2759 minThe Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 7: Missing Link (Space: 1999)It's a colossal guest star™ episode as the other famous one from Hammer Horror wears a terrible wig and turban. It's Koenig's turn to get the spotlight, and he and his manhood are the only thing that will save the day. There's the story of prosecco, soft focus land, the death button, ceefax, hitchhiking on the moon, Cushing getting a spray tan and the joys of peach melbas. Only in the world of Space: 1999 would you find everything in a 50-minute episode. Oh, and scare-kids-to-death monsters. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
...2024-05-171h 05The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 6: Another Time, Another Place (Space: 1999)Paul has a beard. Victor is a Jedi. Regina goes batshit, has rice krispies on her face, and then dies. Helena is both dead and not dead. But she at least has a loom. One of the more ethereal (i.e. crackers) episode of '99 sees the crew finds their doppelganger on a future, buggered-up earth. Still, at least Medical comes with free paint and canvases.
What happens when someone who's never seen classic 70s sci-fi watches it with their other half who's a total geek for it? Will they love it, hate it...2024-05-101h 08The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 5: Earthbound (Space: 1999)Colin gets all fanboy as he watches his episode. He promises the first "Colossal Guest Star" of the show to Katie, who gets him straight away. Christopher Lee is a lovely space hippie, instead of being a tall monster sith lord frankenstein man with a golden gun. The triple ending gets Katie right where it matters, as it does Simmonds.
#Space1999 #GeekyCouples #Podcasters #Space1999Fans #RetroSciFi #VintageTV #70sNostalgia #SciFiGeek #MoonBaseAlpha #Space1999Podcast #ClassicSciFi #PodcastDebut #PodcastNewbies #SciFiClassic #70sTV2024-05-031h 07The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 4: Ring around the Moon (Space: 1999)So it's an eyeball planet this week, as poor Ted Clifford gets his brain taken over by a sound effect. Helena does ABBA before ABBA, Alan shows off his chest hair and people don't type really fast on letterless keyboards. Colin can't remember much about this episode apart from the scary sound effect.
What happens when someone who's never seen classic 70s sci-fi watches it with their other half who's a total geek for it? Will they love it, hate it, or ask for a divorce on the spot? The Mackem (Katie) and the...2024-04-271h 07The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughSeason 1 Episode 3: A Matter of Life and Death (Space 1999)It's a tomato planet. Or is it? It's Helena's husband. Or is it? There's a parrot... you get the idea. The first "bad science" episode of the pod sees one of the main character's husbands turn up. The only problem is that he is made of anti-matter. Tut. Why he didn't own up and just he had been on a session and lost 5 years, that would have been more believable. Katie tells us about guernies, theirs a water bottle with an anntenna, the hilarious discovery of an Autopsy Room and many many more treats abound.
2024-04-191h 02The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 2: Black Sun (Space: 1999)Katie has survived one episode. Trouble is that she doesn't think it's pompous so far. Little does she know that Black Sun is probably the most pompous of the lot. And it isn't even episode 2 - Colin's memory isn't what it used to be. Still, the joy of '99 is you can watch it in any order. What will Katie think of Paul Jones, 70's working man's club/disco gods and the world's most boring game of strip poker?
What happens when someone who's never seen classic 70s sci-fi watches it with their other...2024-04-121h 00The Mackem and the Manc: Space: 1999 watch-throughEpisode 1: Breakaway (Space: 1999)Kicking things off we start with the first episode of Space:1999 - Season 1: Breakaway. What will Katie think of the madness of the moon not exploding, radiation eye syndrome and Bergman's bell-bottoms.
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