Space: 1999 (TV Series) Space Brain (1976) User Reviews

Typical inconsistent 1999 physics, but good drama at the end

[bgaiv · 7/10 · 2 August 2020]

Very annoying bad 1999 physics, and how could they suck this deadly foam up with vacuum cleaners at the end? And where does all this Deadly Foam on the surface go? Did they vacuum it too? If not, it should be there forever.

And... You Must Not Touch My Brain!

The soap suds are very notorious here, but the final sequence does play well. Good tension, good acting.

Though, Commander Koenig just does too much-- he's the one who connects his brain to the computer/space brain even though it should be Kano.

Even worse, Koenig alone takes an Eagle to stop the other Eagle and disarm its nukes. Why doesn't he take Alan at least to pilot the Eagle, considering how little time they have?

Gerry Anderson cross-pollination

[Flubber69 · 6/10 · 4 August 2021]

Watching S1999 in the 1970s as a kid I was mesmerized with the Eagles and the beautiful and futuristic Moonbase Alpha sets. Re-watching the series in the 2020s as an old geezer, I'm struck by how poor a lot of the writing was but simultaneously impressed with the talent they brought in as guest stars.

This episode has a special place in my heart because of guest star Shane Rimmer who was the voice of "Scott Tracy" on Gerry Anderson's other masterpiece, "Thunderbirds". I'm traumatized by what happened to "Eagle 1" at the beginning of this episode but my heart was subsequently warmed when S1999 and "Thunderbirds" were symbolically joined in matrimony by Martin Landau and Shane Rimmer getting into a wrestling match over the main computer.

Meh...

[planktonrules · 4/10 · 8 May 2010]

This is a slight below average episode of "Space: 1999". Part of the reason this one drags is that there really are no cool aliens or strange new worlds in this one--just a giant floating space intelligence. Considering that too often the series was criticized for having dull characters and plots, this one did little to help the show gain acceptance.

The show begins with most of the people on the station off-duty and each seems to be working on jigsaw puzzles alone in their rooms. Why? I dunno. Suddenly, the computers go crazy and weird symbols begin flying across the screens all over Moonbase. Because of is, the computers freeze up and they have no idea who or what is doing this. Koenig orders an Eagle to explore in space for a source and immediately the viewer KNOWS the folks flying it will die--after all, they are unknown actors and Carter is back on Moonbase. Plus, this small Moon colony seems to have a bazillion ships--as they loose them every other episode (and here, they end up losing two). And, surprise, surprise, the ship is lost and is sent whooshing back in the form of a compressed block of metal and human tissue!! Yecch! Eventually, the entity in space tries to reach out to Moonbase by taking over one of the humans and interfacing him with the computers. Through this AND a voyage by Carter into space (where you KNOW he'll survive), they learn about the giant floating intelligent thingie. But unless something extraordinary happens, they'll all die!

This episode reminds me a lot of one from the original "Star Trek" series where there's a huge space amoeba that sucks the life out of everything near it. That one, too, wasn't a great show for the same reason--no cool aliens and almost every moment is spent on the base or ship. Not bad--just not all that good--plus the end and how they miraculously survived seems pretty limp.

Foam and foam

[trashgang · 8/10 · 1 September 2014]

Another strange entry into the space 1999 franchise. The effects were almost the whole episode based on the use of foam coming from a brain wandering around in outer space.

Although this is the most cheesy episode somehow i did like it a lot because you can see that it must have been big fun to act into a lot of foam. Don't be bothered about the story itself because it' s rather crazy and unbelievable. The whole moonbase is being attacked by the "brain" and the effects were again rather simple but her it did work, guess they had a lot of cleaning afterwards removing all that foam.

But not only that, there's suspense too by the use of an eagle full of explosives hitting back to the moonbase itself. I liked this a lot.

Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

Space Brain

[oopboys · 8/10 · 12 October 2011]

Stop the foam !!lol..long ago interview perhaps separately they weren't in the same room they were much older Mr Morse Had gray hair so did Martylooked like he was in his 70's in this interview ..wrinkle under the eyes Barbara looked tired , but still looked very much like Dr Russell maybe the older version she portrayed in the epiode Another time ,Another Place,but Barbara Bain, Barry Morse and Martin Landau was interviewed for a documentary about Space 1999. I guess talking about their memorable moments .. and all were talking about the foam scene from Space Brain Mr Landau admitted it was what Fire fighters used to put out fires and they had to go in that stuff.Mr Morse with a twinkle in his eye could mistaken it for fairy soap commercial.what was so funny is that the machine making the foam was making so much noise you couldn't hear the director yelling stop the foam !!!stop the foam!!! but the foam kept coming ...no one heard him over the loud machine (my guess that's why the music was so load in those scenes to cover the machine engines)... Martin Landau said..the foam post to only came up to their chest, but it covered them up completely the set had very high ceilings and the foam filled the room..they were slipping and sliding and they were all cracking up laughing under the foam...I like the episode one of my favorites

... Now the goofs. I notice in the eagle The commander was entering that had two different numbers on the doors, when the doors open up as John ran in the door separated open one door panel to the left had the number 9 on it and the other door panel had a number 4 on it ..but if you freeze frame the doors as john ran in... the door to the back of the eagle had the number 3 on it ( I never heard of a eagle 94 / 3 before lol. I assume it was just the same eagle when john went in to supposely eagle 3 to defuse the charges , because it's number on the door said 3 what made me tkae a closer look was because. I was looking and saw #3 on the doors of the other eagle with the nuclear fuses and I thought mistakenly at first John's eagle had the same number and I know all the eagles are numbered with a separate number so then I went back and saw not just 2 goofs, but 3 goofs in the scene boy that was funny .. also I did find it odd that if the foam post to crush things like it did the eagle why didn't it crush the people who fell in it..just curiousand finally when the on board computer on the eagle crashed why did it effect Kelly ???he was linked to the main computer on Alpha not the eagle but when the eagle computer failed Kelly collapse WHY??? was Victor right???was the brain responsible of really distorying Alpha??? we will never know

still one of my all time favorite episodes

This episode had a lot of potential

[condorschlosser · 11 April 2024]

Everybody (esp. TV Guide) dumps on this episode because the alien goo was nothing more than fireman's foam. If you look beyond that, though, it was impressive. The alien is in the same boat as the Alphans: it's about to get a bullet to the brain. For the first time in the series the two parties have to work together. What really works here is the soundtrack. Mars, the Bringer of War by Holst - one of the greatest pieces of music ever. At the end of the episode the Alphans wonder what damaging that brain was going to do to the worlds it was providing for. That would have been a much better storyline for the second season than the drek that got produced.