The Edge of the Infinite

Space: 1999 Year 2 #6

by Michael Butterworth

Vintage TV tie-in paperback

Genres: Science Fiction

174 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

Space 1999 was a not-really-very-good television series fifty or so years ago and the second season wasn't as good as the first. We watched it because there was no other sf on television, and it often looked cool. A variety of authors of the time did novelizations of the first season in ten volumes, and Michael Butterworth wrote adaptations of the 24 second season episodes in a six-volume series. There's nothing especially noteworthy about most of them; they vary in quality as did the scripts upon which they were based. The Moon takes off on a tour of the cosmos like a pinball with a short attention span. The main thing that sticks out about this final one was the episode Journey to Where, in which they get to go home...but not really. Maya. The episodes in this one were the aforementioned one written by Donald James, All that Glisters by Keith Miles, The Immunity Syndrome by Johnny Bryne (No, not -that- Byrne, the English one!), and The Dorcons, also by Byrne, which was the last episode in the series, though there's nothing in the story to wrap things up in any way. Anyway, Space 1999... a brief nostalgic visit to nearly forgotten television.