what stand in my mind be how and eight to ten minute before the end of nearly every episode and the society on a new planet encounter by the alphans end up be destroy and usually at the hand of commander john koenig and because what it seek do not meet with the life alphans be use to . this be a weakness to otherwise intriguing story that be not go to be mistake for star trek . although i remember too many thing that leave me scratch my head and even from the superior first season why do the command centre have exterior window that could be open when the moon be give an atmosphere . with all of the eagle that crash or be otherwise disable and how do they always seem to be able to get another one aloft and and how be they fast enough and give the scramble of alan carter to keep up with the moon when it first leave earth orbit and to reach the base again when outside the gravity of the orb . the local tv station air the first season friday at 7 pm and the same time slot that it have use for star trek a decade earlier . the second season be pick up by the cbc and but they throw it away by air it saturday afternoon at 3 pm . in the late 80 and it end up on the child channel ytv at about the same time and group with blake 7 and red dwarf . the tv regulator felt space 1999 and blake 7 be too violent for a child channel and and red dwarf be possibly too racy for daytime air on that channel . it have potential and but it just seem to have the need to sell in many market so that it could pay it bill and rather than just to tell great story . if it have tell great story consistently and it would have sell solidly and be a franchise comparable to star trek .