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Actor Angus MacInnes, who had a role in the very first Star Wars film that spawned a massive franchise, has passed away. He was 77 years old.

On MacInnes' Facebook page, a statement was shared by his family announcing his death. The post was shared on Dec. 30, though it revealed that the actor died on Dec. 23, noting that he "left us peacefully, surrounded by his family and love." Some of his roles are touched on in the announcement, though it's noted how there had always been a "special place in his heart" for Star Wars fans. This was something that many had gotten to see firsthand when MacInnes had been meeting with fans at conventions.

"Angus’ career spanned decades, with unforgettable roles in films such as Star Wars: A New Hope, Witness, Judge Dredd, Captain Phillips, and many others. His work touched countless lives, and he took great pride in being...

Before Tom Cruise was driving motorcycles off cliffs, clinging to planes, and fighting bad guys atop moving trains in the name of "Mission: Impossible," the franchise had its humble beginnings in the form of a very '60s CBS series. The original "Mission: Impossible" was a spy series with a rotating cast of characters created by Bruce Gellar, who died in a plane crash just five years after the show ended. Several key cast members have passed away in the years since then, including Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Martin Landau, Steven Hill, and, of course, Leonard Nimoy.

"Mission: Impossible" was a huge success when it aired, winning 10 Emmys throughout its seven-season run and producing 171 episodes. The show inspired an '80s revival series, but "Mission: Impossible" really took off when Cruise (and Brian De Palma) got a hold of the franchise in 1996. The near-superhuman character Ethan Hunt was created for the movies,...

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Following the success of '60s series like Doctor Who and Star Trek, the 1970s introduced a variety of inspired, fun science fiction adventures. Though the technology wasn't as advanced during the '70s and didn't allow for elaborate special effects appreciated in today's sci-fi TV shows, the low-budget quality of the series' special effects adds a unique charm. While some shows leaned into the action-packed campiness of the decade, others preferred a grounded approach to the genre.

Shows such as Timeslip and Doomwatch have strong themes surrounding the dangers of reckless science experiments, tying these messages into their adventurous plots. However, the '70s still had plenty of exciting stories to tell as well. The Six Million Dollar Man and Battlestar Galactica are just two sci-fi TV shows that had strong heroic leads and absorbing conflicts set in space.

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Stanley Kubrick's 1971 dystopian sci-fi film "A Clockwork Orange" points out that a modern British society -- so devoted to stuffy manners, politeness, and keeping evil out of sight -- won't know how to deal with legitimate sociopaths. Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) is a violent little punk who regularly leads his teen gang -- the Droogs -- into fights, into bars that serve drug-laced milk, and into the locked homes of their victims. Alex beats and assaults people without a scrap of conscience, and sees the world as something to consume, use up, and have sex with. Kubrick toys with the audience a little, presenting Alex as charismatic and funny, even though he's a monster.

When Alex is finally apprehended for his many crimes, the juvenile delinquent is thrown into prison and subjected to a new kind of rehabilitation technique ... involving movies. Alex has his eyes clamped open and he...

For Starwoids, the scene is immutable gospel: Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) is taken by the old sage Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness) into a rundown, sleazy cantina in the city of Mos Eisley on the planet Tatooine. They know they can find an off-the-books pilot-for-hire there, hoping to deliver an important message to a distant world, a message that could conceivably take down the entire evil Empire that rules the galaxy. Scanning the room, Luke and Obi-Wan find Han Solo (Harrison Ford), a ne'er-do-well smuggler who is in debt to the mob, but claims to have the fastest starship in the galaxy.

Luke is out of his element in the cantina. He's young and inexperienced in the realm of vice and crime. Obi-wan famously described the cantina as a hive of scum and villainy. Because Han was in his element in this bar, he was most assuredly a scummy villain. It...

A history of the most underrated British science fiction of the 1970s is, largely, just a history of British science fiction of the 1970s. It gets a bad rap. Think “1970s British Sci-Fi” and your mind will be flooded with associations of dodgy special effects, less-than-perfect gender politics, and so much knitwear. That, and a certain time traveller with a predilection for scarves and jelly babies.

But the truth is the 70s was a golden age for British science fiction stories with ideas and ambition, completely unrestrained by any concept of production values. While even the most pedestrian attempt at modern science fiction telly feels it has to go toe to toe with the MCU’s latest CGI eyeball-blaster, a year after Star Wars was on our screens the Doctor was still routinely facing off against dressed like this, and it was better for it.

Blake’s 7 (1978 – 1981)

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In George Lucas' 1977 sci-fi/fantasy film "Star Wars," the roguish smuggler Han Solo (Harrison Ford) claimed to have the fastest starship in the galaxy. Named the Millennium Falcon, the ship was said to have "made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs." Clearly, Lucas hadn't yet grasped that a parsec is a measure of distance (about 19 trillion miles) and not time. 

When it comes to its design, the Millennium Falcon is more or less a flying saucer. It carries a radar dish on its dorsal region, two fork-like protrusions on its bow (called loading arms), and its cockpit rests protruding from its starboard side. Otherwise, it's flat and plate-shaped. Like many of the vehicles in "Star Wars," it is encrusted with textured plating and scads of ineffable machinery that only the most devoted Starwoids could accurately explain. It's a small ship, too, only able to house about a half dozen people comfortably.

There’s nothing quite as illuminating as visiting a sci-fi conference and realizing that more than 5,000 model makers are in attendance. It was an eye-opener for actor/producer Nick Tate, who played the stalwart Alan Carter in TV’s Space: 1999 back in 1975. “I thought they wouldn't take any notice of me because they're so interested in the models, but I was overwhelmed with the reaction from these guys because they love the Eagle Transporter in the show, and they know that my character Alan Carter was the pilot. I was signing model Eagles, which was extraordinary to find yourself doing.”

Tate may be doing more of that in the near future, thanks to Jeffrey Morris. The filmmaker is diligently raising funds via Kickstarter to produce his much-anticipated documentary The Eagle Has Landed. The doc will feature interviews with Tate and co-star Barbara Bain, who played Dr. Helena Russell on the show,...

Brace yourself sci-fi fans. Space: 1999 is ready for another takeoff. Thanks to the valiant attempts of one filmmaker, a captivating documentary on the British-produced cult hit, which ran from 1975-1977, will find its way to the screen by 2025, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the show. But filmmaker Jeffrey Morris is putting a fabulous spin on the doc, honing the focus more on one of the stars of the series. Hint: It isn’t an actor. It’s a spaceship. In this case, the intrepid Eagle Transporter, which, like the U.S.S. Enterprise before it in Star Trek, captured viewers’ attention.

Morris’ Kickstarter campaign to fund a documentary, called The Eagle Has Landed, is gaining traction. The filmmaker was fascinated by the show when he first saw tuned in as a child back in 1975. Now, as an adult, he realized that he’s one of millions of fans who...

The Space: 1999 TV series was released nearly 50 years ago, and a new documentary, titled The Eagle Has Landed, will celebrate the show’s anniversary.

Space: 1999 aired in first-run syndication for 48 episodes, between 1975 and 1977. The sci-fi series stars Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt, Prentis Hancock, Nick Tate, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Suzanne Roquette, Clifton Jones, John Hug, Jeffery Kissoon, Yasuko Nagazumi, Sam Dastor, and Alibe Parsons. The story follows the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha, a research center in a crater on the Earth's moon. Following a nuclear waste accident, the moon is ripped from Earth's orbit and sent hurling through space. While trying to find a new home planet, the center's crew encounters various alien civilizations, dystopian societies, and mind-bending phenomena.

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Updated with participation of Space: 1999 cast member Nick Tate in the documentary The Eagle Has Landed: Exclusive: Actress Barbara Bain, star of the British sci-fi series Space: 1999, is preparing to board an upcoming documentary about the Eagle, the famed spacecraft at the heart of the show that ran from 1975-1977.

Bain will appear in The Eagle Has Landed as will Nick Tate, her cast mate from Space: 1999. The documentary includes the participation of several other notable figures: Apollo XVI astronaut Charles Duke Jr., Academy Award-winning visual effects artist Bill George, and Brian Johnson, the VFX artist on Space: 1999 whose work is said to have influenced Star Wars. The film is being directed and produced by Jeffrey Morris, who also hosts the documentary.

The Eagle spacecraft in ‘The Eagle Has Landed’

The Eagle Has Landed “explores the cross-generational impact of the iconic vessel...

Gerry and Sylvia Anderson are known as legends in the field of science fiction television series, and rightfully so. While they are probably most famous for their live action series Space: 1999 and the puppet series Thunderbirds, they have been responsible for a lot more titles. The British distributor Network is now releasing these older titles as lavish Blu-ray boxsets, and these are a sight to behold. Soon, the series Stingray will get its release and I'm looking forward to that. But already you can buy the set for the even older Fireball XL5, the first series the Andersons managed to sell to American networks, and for many people the first exposure to their work. It's a magnificent set. And a looker too, so here...

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Earth is being visited by aliens from a dying planet, who are abducting humans and harvesting their organs for their own bodies. Earth's defence organisation - a secret, high-tech international military agency called Shado – suspect that a full-blown invasion is being planned. Called into covert action, Shado wages a spectacular battle to prevent the alien takeover, which must remain hidden from the public. This one is for the fans of UK sci-fi shows of old. Horror Channel is bringing UFO, a British sci-fi thriller series from 1970 to the channel on October 20th. UFO is the show that would lead to the beloved series Space 1999, starring Martin Landau and Barbara Bain. I will admit that my knowledge of sci-fi from my native...

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It’s 1964, a couple of years since President John F. Kennedy announced that the USA was going to land on the moon. It was also the year that saw ground-breaking science fiction anthology series The Twilight Zone come to an end. The series had become a household name by telling self-contained, high concept stories written by leaders in the genre. Not just the endlessly talented Rod Serling, but names like Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson, and Ray Bradbury. It also starred up-and-coming acting talent such as William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and George Takei.

As well as bringing talent to the field, The Twilight Zone was also notable for using science fiction allegory as a way to talk about political and social issues that advertisers and censors would otherwise not touch with a ten-foot pole.

In steps Gene Roddenberry, with a concept he describes as “a wagon train to the stars.” His...

Costume designer Gersha Phillips has been designing the look of “Star Trek: Discovery” for three seasons. Laser cutting, bonding and 3D printing are the “futuristic” tools she has been using to craft the costumes of the series, hoping the costumes look “modern” for the 32nd Century using 2020 technology,” she explains.

The third season has seen Michelle Yeoh’s Emperor Georgiou affected by the time-jump: something is off about her demeanor and her condition is worsening. In a two-part episode, Georgiou enters a mirror universe hoping to understand what is happening to her.

Below, Phillips breaks down creating the looks for the mirror universe and how technology has helped her process over the seasons.

On Knowing About Storylines in Advance

“We had an overview meeting last Summer and we have those every year now where they give us a pitch for the season. We knew about the mirror universe because last year.

We have some very sad news to report this weekend as Star Wars star David Prowse has passed away. According to his agent Thomas Bowington, Prowse died early on Saturday morning after battling a short illness. He was 85 years old.

"May the force be with him, always!" said Bowington in a statement. "Though famous for playing many monsters - for myself, and all who knew Dave and worked with him, he was a hero in our lives."

Mark Hamill, who co-starred with Prowse in the Star Wars series, also addressed the passing of the actor on Twitter. He writes, "So sad to hear David Prowse has passed. He was a kind man & much more than Darth Vader. Actor-Husband-Father-Member of the Order of the British Empire-3 time British Weightlifting Champion & Safety Icon the Green Cross Code Man. He loved his fans as much as they loved him."

So sad to hear David Prowse has passed.

David Prowse, a one-time weightlifter and bodybuilder who became a film icon by playing Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, has died at age 85 after a short illness.

According to multiple reports, the British actor’s death was confirmed via Twitter by his management, which stated, “It’s with great regret and heart-wrenching sadness for us and millions of fans around the world, to announce that our client Dave Prowse M.B.E. has passed away at the age of 85.”

It's with great regret and heart-wrenching sadness for us and million of fans around the world, to announce that our client Dave Prowse M.B.E. has passed away at the age of 85. #DaveProwse @starwars #DarthVader #GreenCrossCodeMan #iconic #actor #bodybuilder #MBE pic.twitter.com/dL2RmdIqg8

— Bowington Management (@BowingtonM) November 29, 2020

Although Vader was famously voiced by American actor James Earl Jones, it was Prowse’s massive six-foot, six-inch...

Voice of the Daleks co-creates ‘First Action Bureau’, a free full-cast audio drama podcast series as part of a new ‘Anderverse’ for Anderson Entertainment Starring Genevieve Gaunt, Sacha Dhawan, Paterson Joseph and Nicola Walker Anderson Entertainment, the company founded by Gerry Anderson – creator of over a dozen hit TV series including Thunderbirds, Space: 1999, …

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Here’s a bumper crop of the weird and the British – streaming service Britbox, which is home to a wide selection of BBC, ITV and Channel 4 series including classic Doctor Who, is fortifying its sci-fi ranks. From Thursday the 20th of August, a host of new additions will be joining the classic and modern British fare, including cult series The Prisoner and the complete collection of Sapphire & Steel.

Here’s the full list of new arrivals, known collectively on BritBox as the ‘Out of this World Collection’…

The Prisoner (1967)

All 17 episodes of the television drama created by and starring Patrick McGoohan. A former British secret agent is abducted and held captive in a strange coastal village while those who captured him try to discover the truth of why he suddenly resigned from his position.

Sapphire & Steel (1979)

The complete collection featuring all six seasons and 34 episodes from the...

By Darren Allison

“Light into Ink: A Critical Survey of 50 Film Novelizations” [DeLuxe Edition]: [Colour Interior] by S.M. Guariento. Publisher: Independently published. Softback: 480 pages, Isbn-10: 1687489084 Isbn-13: 978-1687489081, Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 2.8 x 25.4 cm, price £39.99

As most film fans would concur, the humble film ‘tie-in’ paperback, or if you would prefer, novelisation – was pretty much an essential element for movie lovers. Perhaps ‘tie-in’ is a somewhat dated term these days, but it still relates to the same thing - a book whose jacket, packaging, contents, or promotion relates to a feature film or a television show. Back in the day, the paperback novelisation had a magnetic effect, usually because it contained the wonderful film artwork or an iconic photo of its star in a scene from the movie. They proved quite irresistible and the newsagent’s rotary stands were often the place to find many treasurers. However, it was also...

More than two decades after the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha were sent across the galaxy after a nuclear explosion, the Eagle Transporter is finally returning to Earth as Hero Collector unveils plans to re-create the iconic spaceship from 1970s TV show Space: 1999 as the latest in its line of die-cast spaceship releases at New York Toy Fair.

The Eagle Transporter was an integral part of Space: 1999, a live-action series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson between 1975 and 1977 that starred Martin Landau, Barbara Bain and Barry Morse, being the off-world spacecraft that allowed the characters to venture beyond the ...

Terrance Dicks, one of the most prolific contributors to sci-fi series Doctor Who, has died at the age of 84.

Dicks had a long association with the BBC drama and wrote for the series between 1968, when he was hired as a script editor, through to 1983, when he wrote 20th anniversary special The Five Doctors.

He had a close working relationship with Doctor Who producer Barry Letts and also worked on Doctor Who stage plays as well as Doctor Who audio drama Comeback, which was one of the first spin-offs to involve companion Sarah Jane Smith in a significant capacity.

In addition to Doctor Who, he worked on soap opera Crossroads, created BBC sci-fi drama Moonbase 3 and wrote for Space: 1999 before overseeing the BBC strand that produced period adaptations of Oliver Twist and Vanity Fair between 1985 and 1988.

A slew of writers, including those in the Doctor Who universe, paid tribute to Dicks.

We’ve got another exciting batch of home entertainment releases coming our way, and if you’re something of a Fulci-phile, it’s going to be an exceptionally good week for you, as Scorpion Releasing is giving both Murder-Rock and The Psychic the Special Edition treatment this Tuesday. Arrow Video has dug up the cult classic The Chill Factor for their Special Edition release, and Scream Factory is showing Strays some love this Tuesday as well.

Duncan Jones’ Moon is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a brand new 4K release that you can pick up this week, and for those of you DC fans out there, Shazam! hits multiple formats as well.

Other Blu-ray and DVD releases for July 16th include Head Count, Space: 1999 – The Complete Series, Last Rites of the Dead, Blood Paradise, Frankenthug, Satanis: The Devil’s Mass, and Bong of the Living Dead.

The Chill Factor:...

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Archer producer, Marcus Rosentrater, breaks down the premiere for what’s easily the show’s craziest season yet.

The following contains spoilers for Archer Season 10 Episode 1.

Archer is kind of the perfect example of how you can’t tell a television show what it’s not allowed to do. This is all too appropriate since the same can essentially be said for Archer, the character, as well. If an animated comedy about spies doesn’t want to be about spies anymore, then it ends. It doesn’t turn the team into drug runners, or become a stylish noir mystery, or a throwback to adventure serials from the ‘50s. Archer has inexplicably turned into all of these things and more and it hasn’t shown a dip in its confidence.

Somewhere the series’ main character is lingering in a coma that he may or may not pull out of,...

If you’re a fan of Archer and you’re excited about the upcoming tenth season, which is being called Archer: 1999, we have something for you to enjoy today! Fxx has released a “First Look” promo video giving us a tease of what we can expect to see.

The video features some new footage from the upcoming season and also includes interviews with the cast and crew hyping up the series to get fans excited. Executive producer Casey Willis explains:

“This is more like a merchant marine ship of a ragtag crew. You’ll see a lot of influence from Aliens and 2001, shows like Space: 1999… Sci-fi is a huge genre. We kind of narrowed it down to like a late ‘70s, early ‘80s sci-fi vibe.”

As you’ll see, they completely nailed that vibe and there’s no doubt that it’s going to be a blast! In Season 9, “Danger Island,...

Shane Rimmer, whose 60-year career as a character and voice actor included three James Bond films, a lead turn in the 1960s puppet series Thunderbirds and uncredited bit role in the original Star Wars, died early today at his home in England. He was 89. No cause of death was announced.

IMDb list more than 160 credits for Rimmer spanning six decades — from early TV through current series The Amazing World of Gumball. Along the way he appeared in such high-profile films as Batman Begins, the first three Superman films with Christopher Reeve and Best Picture Oscar winners Gandhi and Out of Africa. Four of his other films — Reds, Star Wars, Julia and Dr. Strangelove — were nominated for the Academy’s Big Prize. He also turned up in the 007 films The Spy Who Loved Me, Diamonds Are Forever and You Only Live Twice.

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Canadian actor Shane Rimmer, who voiced pilot Scott Tracy on the series “Thunderbirds” and appeared in multiple James Bond movies, died early Friday at his home in England. He was 89.

His death was reported on the official website of Gerry Anderson, who created “Thunderbirds” and said Rimmer’s widow, Sheila, confirmed the news. A cause of death was not reported.

Rimmer was born on May 28, 1929, in Toronto. In addition to “Thunderbirds,” he worked with Anderson on “Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons,” “Joe 90,” “The Secret Service,” “UFO,” “Space: 1999,” and the pilot “Space Police.”

His first major movie role came in 1964’s “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” as Capt. Ace Owens, co-pilot of the B-52 Stratofortress opposite Slim Pickens and James Earl Jones. Rimmer had uncredited roles in the early James Bond movies “Live and Let Die” and “Diamonds are Forever” and...

A new2K restoration of Dario Argento's Opera will invade the UK's shores on Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD this November. See all the blood and terror in high definition and a brand new interview with Dario as part of the Blu-ray/DVD special features. Also: Comet TV's October contest details, 4Dx Horror Film Fest announcement, and The Forest of the Lost Souls Blu-ray and Amazon Prime release details.

New Opera 2K Restored Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD UK Release Details: "Restored in 2K with reference to Argento's own personal print Dario Argento (Suspiria) returns to CultFilms with this breath-taking new restoration of his visionary horror masterpiece Opera. Splattered with stylistic bloodshed and soaring cinematography, Opera shows Italy's master of horror at the very height of his game.

When young understudy Betty takes the lead role in a new operatic production of Verdi's Macbeth, she soon attracts the attention of...

Starting off today's Horror Highlights are details on Comet TV's September Prize Pack contest in association with the Charge! network. Also: Shriekfest 2018's final three films revealed, Darkness Reigns DVD giveaway details, Molly Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD release details, and the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival lineup.

Comet TV's September Contest Details: "Comet TV September Contest: "Are you ready for a Spacey-week?

I hope so because Comet TV has so many cool things in September! Comet TV is the new home of the cult classic Space: 1999! The out of this world series starring Martin Landau is a fun retro adventure, you’ll love!

Plus, there are Godzilla Double Features, Dr. Who, and more!

Plus, we can’t forget the action network Charge! There is a Rocky marathon featuring the classic film series all month long!

Charge! is an action network showing the most “kickin’” and “punchin’” films ever created.

Oscar-winning set decorator Michael Ford, who worked on franchises including Star Wars, Bond and Indiana Jones, has died aged 90.

During a glittering career, Ford won Oscars for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration in 1982 for Raiders Of The Lost Ark and in 1998 for his work on Titanic. He also received Academy Award nominations for his work on Star Wars films The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi.

Born in the UK, Ford’s career began in the 1960s. Early movie credits in the 1970s included comedies Up The Front and The Alf Garnett Saga while popular TV shows from the same decade included Space: 1999 and The New Avengers. In the 1980s he worked on movies such as The Living Daylights, six-time Oscar-winner Empire Of The Sun and Licence To Kill while in 1995 Ford worked on his third Bond title, GoldenEye. His final film was adventure sci-fi Wing Commander in...

With Christmas now only a week away, there’s a big day of genre-related home entertainment releases to look forward to in the meantime, just in case you were in need of some last-minute gift ideas (or if you were looking to spoil yourself, which is totally cool). Easily my most anticipated Blu-ray release for all of 2017, Synapse Films' stunning 4K restoration of Suspiria gets the royal treatment via an incredible three-disc limited edition Steelbook set this Tuesday, and Severin Films is also keeping busy with their HD upgrade of The Amicus Collection, which includes Asylum, And Now The Screaming Starts, and The Beast Must Die.

Other notable Blu-ray and DVD releases for December 19th include American Gothic, Leatherface, mother!, and the limited edition Steelbook for Donnie Darko.

American Gothic (Scream Factory, Blu-ray)

A new tale of terror from the director of The Legend of Hell House and The Incubus.

Martin Landau’s daughter Susie Landau Finch tells People growing up with the Hollywood star made for a very exciting childhood.

“No one day was the same. He was full of excitement and would tell me amazing bedtime stories and was always making funny voices – so much that he scared my little sister,” she says.

The actor, who won an Academy Award in 1994 for the Tim Burton-directed Ed Wood, came to fame playing a villain in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest and later in the original Mission: Impossible TV show on CBS. He died at UCLA Medical Center...

Martin Landau and Barbara Bain had a love meant for the screen.

Oscar winner Landau, who died Saturday at at age 89 after a brief illness, rose through the ranks in Hollywood alongside his Mission: Impossible costar Bain, as their marriage spanned 36 years and two children before they divorced in 1993.

Their romance got off to an unlikely start when Bain showed up to one of Landau’s classes at the Actors Studio in New York.

“I thought she was an empty-headed model, a magazine cover wired for sound,” he told People back in 1976 of his first impression of Bain. “I had hair down to my shoulders,...

Landau (center) with "Mission:Impossible" co-stars (clockwise) Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus and Barbara Bain.

By Lee Pfeiffer

Oscar-winning actor Martin Landau has passed away at age 89. Landau had originally intended to be a cartoonist before studying at the esteemed Actors Studio in New York City. With his intense looks and persona, he began to be noticed by Hollywood studios. In 1959 he was cast as James Mason's gay henchman in Alfred Hitchcock's classic "North by Northwest". It was Landau who suggested playing the role as a not-so-closeted homosexual, a rather daring strategy for the era. The result made Landau standout in a cast of heavyweights that included Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and Leo G. Carroll. Roles in epic films such as "Cleopatra" and "The Greatest Story Ever Told" followed. Landau also appeared regularly on popular TV programs including "The Twilight Zone", "The Untouchables", "I Spy", "The Wild,...

Martin Landau, the Oscar-winning Ed Wood actor who appeared in Crimes & Misdemeanors, North by Northwest and the Mission: Impossible TV series over a career that spanned over 50 years, died Saturday at the age of 89.

Landau died following "unexpected complications during a short hospitalization" at the UCLA Medical Center, his representative told The Hollywood Reporter.

The actor spent five years as a newspaper cartoonist in his native New York before deciding to focus on acting; As Landau often stated, he and Steve McQueen were notably the only two applicants accepted into...

Los Angeles – His acting career spanned from working with Alfred Hitchcock to Tim Burton. Along the way, he had significant TV and film roles including a Best Supporting Oscar win for portraying Bela Lugosi in Burton’s “Ed Wood”. Martin Landau died in Los Angeles on July 15, 2017. He was 89.

He was one of the rare actors known both for distinctive parts in both television and film, and had a revival in his career towards the end of his life. Besides working for directors Hitchcock and Burton, he also has roles in films by Woody Allen, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Francis Ford Coppola and Frank Darabont. On television, he had an early role on “Mission: Impossible in the 1960s, and another on the cult series “Space :1999”

Martin Landau in a 2013 Appearance in Chicago

Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

Martin Landau was born in Brooklyn, New York,...

July 16th will be remembered as a day when we lost two cinematic legends. Following the heartbreaking news of George A. Romero's passing, it's now been reported that actor Martin Landau has passed away at the age of 89.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Landau passed away at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center from "unexpected complications."

Nominated several times for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar (including for his work in Francis Ford Coppola's Tucker: The Man and His Dream and Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors), Landau played horror icon Bela Lugosi opposite Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's Ed Wood, a superb supporting performance that earned him the Oscar win.

In addition to Coppola, Allen, and Burton, Landau worked with the great Alfred Hitchcock in North by Northwest. He would go on to appear in The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, one of many guest-starring roles on genre television series,...

Oscar winner Martin Landau died Saturday of “unexpected complications” following a brief stay at UCLA Medical Center, per The Hollywood Reporter. He was 89.

Landau got his big break when he was cast in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 film North by Northwest. In 1966, he began his star-making role as master of disguise Rollin Hand in the small screen Mission: Impossible, for which he earned the Golden Globe award as well as several Emmy nominations. In the series, Landau starred alongside then-wife Barbara Bain. It would mark the first of two small-screen collaborations for the couple, who later co-starred in the 1970s science-fiction program Space: 1999.

By Tim Greaves

Between the early 1950s and mid 1980s the Children's Film Foundation was a non-profit making establishment behind dozens of films aimed at a young audience, most of them screening as programme constituents at Saturday morning 'Picture Shows'. I didn't catch many of these during my own childhood. But I do recall a couple of particularly enjoyable ones that I did get to see in the early 1970s: Cry Wolf (1969) and All at Sea (1970), both of which are conspicuously absent from the half dozen or so collections issued on DVD to date. Many of the Cff’s films had a run-time of around an hour, although there were also a number of serials in their catalogue. Masters of Venus was one such production. Comprising eight 15-minute instalments, it arrives on DVD in the UK in a restored release from BFI.

On the day prior to mankind's first mission to Venus,...

Terrahawks, the classic British children’s sci-fi series from the legendary creator of Thunderbirds, is to be released on Blu-ray and DVD courtesy of Network Distributing.

Gerry Anderson, the hugely influential creator of Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Space: 1999 made a spectacular return to puppet animation in the early 1980s with an exciting new series co-created with Christopher Burr. Thrilling yet another generation of children (and adults!), Terrahawks introduced a new elite force to defend 21st century Earth against a host of alien invaders.

Led by the heroic Tiger Ninestein, the Terrahawks crew consists of Captain Mary Falconer, his acting second-in-command; fighter-pilot and former pop star Kate Kestrel; the poetically inclined Lieutenant Hiro; and Lt. Hawkeye – the gunner with computer-enhanced vision. Assisted by a legion of charismatic spherical robots known as the Zeroids, they battle a cabal of evil adversaries – none more terrifying than android crone Zelda, the would-be conqueror...

Flash Gordon and Space: 1999 are in the spotlight as we delve deeper into the pages of the new Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine. Book-ending exclusive FM interview segments with Sam J. Jones and Martin Landau is lively banter with Bif Bang Pow! toys & collectibles co-founder/Flash super-fan Jason Lenzi, who joins in as our special guest. Hosted by Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine’s Executive Editor David Weiner alongside FM’s Caroline Stephenson, Jorge Marrero and Cameron Hatheway.

Flash Gordon discussion – [7:14]

Sam Jones interview – [39:43]

Flash Gordon toy talk – [46:22]

Space: 1999 discussion – [50:51]

Martin Landau interview – [1:10:30]

Space: 1999 toy talk – [1:14:47]

Buy Famous Monsters #283 here!

It's fair to say that William Shatner won't be first in line to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens later this year.

The Star Trek actor took to Twitter recently to say exactly why he's not a fan.

And SWs versus BSG pic.twitter.com/CVmRqnECg0

— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) October 20, 2015

Check out Sw vs Space 1999 pic.twitter.com/PymvpbzRJi

— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) October 20, 2015

First of all, he playfully suggested Star Wars nicked a villainous costume from the Cylons of Battlestar Galactica.

Then he compared the space suits to those from classic sci-fi series Space: 1999.

There doesn't seem to be a particular reason for him trolling the film, other than the age old Star Trek - Star Wars rivalry that occasionally crops up between fans.

He then rounded his rant off with this cheeky dig:

Those that can; do Star Trek. Those that can't; do SWs https://t.co...

Actor suggests Captain Phasma and Poe Dameron looks have been borrowed from 70s sci-fi shows Battlestar Galactica and Space: 1999 in latest tweets about Jj Abrams’s film

Star Trek veteran William Shatner has accused the new Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens, of borrowing its style from old TV science fiction serials.

Related: Jj Abrams: Luke Skywalker's Star Wars absence is 'no accident'

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Actor suggests Captain Phasma and Poe Dameron looks have been borrowed from 70s sci-fi shows Battlestar Galactica and Space: 1999 in latest tweets about Jj Abrams’s film

Star Trek veteran William Shatner has accused the new Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens, of borrowing its style from old TV science fiction serials.

Related: Jj Abrams: Luke Skywalker's Star Wars absence is 'no accident'

Continue reading...

The two biggest science fiction franchises in the history of the universe, Star Trek and Star Wars, have had something of a rivalry going for decades. While Trek had a series going as early as the 1960s they.ve both been on the big screen since the late '70s. For the most part, the rivalry has been more among fans, because there.s little geeks like more than indexing things, but occasionally it spills out into the people involved in one series or another. William Shatner has been using his Twitter account to troll fans excited about the new Star Wars film. When the poster was revealed last week Shatner thought a couple of the characters looked familiar. He started by comparing the rebel flight suits to classic sci-fi series Space: 1999. Check out Sw vs Space 1999 pic.twitter.com/PymvpbzRJi. William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) October 20, 2015 We.re forced to...

We're deeply sad to report that Sir Christopher Lee, the true legend of stage and screen, has passed away.

"Legend" is an overused word these days, but not when it comes to the wonderful Christopher Lee.

Famous for his roles The Man With The Golden Gun and Lord Of The Rings and Hammer's string of horror films, and beloved for his sonorous voice and commanding persona, Lee was a constant presence on the small and silver screen.

But it's our sad duty to report that Sir Christopher Lee has died at the age of 93.

His departure brings to a close one of the most extraordinary careers in screen history. He's starred in some of the films that Den Of Geek loves to write about on a daily basis - his work for Hammer (most famously the 1958 classic Dracula) could fill a lengthy and fascinating volume. His performance in Robin Hardy's folk horror classic,...

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

Candy Jar Books has released the cover for Lethbridge-Stewart: The Schizoid Earth by David A McIntee due to be released in June.McIntee has written novels for Star Trek, Final Destination and Space: 1999 and over fifteen books and audio dramas for Doctor Who since 1993, including the Brigadier-centric novel, The Face of the Enemy. So, what is The Schizoid...

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Shout! Factory TV, now in its second month, has added three more properties to their growing library of streaming content. These include Gerry Anderson’s Stingray, the Supermarionation series from the mid-1960s, the animated Goode Family, and the 1970s comedy Kentucky Fried Movie.

Shout! Factory TV is a premiere digital entertainment streaming service that brings timeless and contemporary cult favorites to pop culture fans. With a uniquely curated entertainment library, the channel offers an unrivaled blend of cult TV shows, movies, comedy, original specials and more – presenting an exciting entertainment alternative to other services.

Shout! Factory TV is available through any browser and has a Roku app.

The Goode Family (All 13 episodes)

The Goode Family, from executive producers Mike Judge (King of the Hill, Beavis and Butt-head, Office Space) and John Altschuler & Dave Krinsky (King of the Hill, Blades of Glory), comes to Shout! Factory TV this March.

A...

Space. The final frontier. Also: so hot right now! This year, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar and James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy—to say nothing of the teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens—continued feeding audiences' appetites for all things extraterrestrial, picking up where the Oscar-winning Gravity and rebooted Star Trek series left off. There are sequels coming for Star Trek, Prometheus, and Guardians, Marvel will keep expanding its cosmic universe in Captain Marvel, and, on the small screen, Syfy is planning a rebooted version of the grandaddy of all space operas, Arthur C. Clarke's...