'Space: 1999' Complete Season One Blu-Ray Coming December 14

On December 14, A&E Home Entertainment will release Space:1999, the Complete Season One Blu-ray Edition.
Created by British TV producer Gerry Anderson, who gave us the "supermarionation" of  Fireball XL5, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet, this innovative 1970s science fiction program starred Oscar Winner Martin Landau and Emmy Award Winner Barbara Bain (from TV's Mission Impossible) Commander John Koening (Martin Landau) and Dr. Helena Russell, leading a team lost in space. When an explosion at a lunar nuclear waste dump sends the moon out of Earth’s orbit, Moonbase Alpha is sent into the unknown regions of deep space. The show was smart - brainy, in fact - yet also had plenty of action and adventure as well. Plus, the pre-Star Wars special effects from Oscar winner Brian Johnson (Alien, The Empire Strikes Back), were pretty dazzling in its day for TV.
The Blu-ray set features all 24 Season One episodes, newly recorded 5.1 Surround Sound mixes and numerous extras, including bonus material seeing U.S. release for the first time.

Special features include:

• Original 'as broadcast' mono track
• Music-only tracks on all episodes except ‘Breakaway’ and ‘Dragon’s Domain’
• Anderson commentary on ‘Breakaway’ and ‘Dragon’s Domain’
• Extensive HD image galleries of rare and previously unseen stills
• HD image galleries of gum and cigarette cards
• HD restored, textless titles
• "These Episodes" featurettes
• "Memories of Space” featurette
• Sylvia Anderson interview
• Series One textless generic titles
• "Concept and Creation" featurette
• Special effects and design featurette
• Text episode commentaries on The Last Sunset and Space Brain’
• "Clapperboard" two-part special on the work of Gerry Anderson from 1975
• "Guardian of Piri Remembered"
• Barry Gray's theme demo
• Alternative opening and closing titles
• Martin Landau and Barbara Bain US Premier intro and outro
• SFX plates and deleted SFX scenes - with music track 

A celebrated cult series, Space: 1999, also still available as complete series megaset from A&E, ran from 1975 to 1977.