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Space: 1999 Stars Barbara Bain & Nick Tate Goes Board Documentary About Sci-Fi Show’s Legendary Spacecraft

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 (Blade Runner, Star Trek), 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 Has Landed “explores the cross-generational impact of the iconic vessel” in the series that also starred Martin Landau. According to a press release, the film “showcases never-before-seen archival footage” and will be released in time for the 50th anniversary of Space: 1999’s debut, in 2025.

“Space: 1999 appeared on TV a few short years after the world watched Neil Armstrong take the first steps on the moon,” Morris noted in a statement. “The show’s unforgettable Eagle inspired a generation to envision a future in space and is still doing so decades later. The question we explore is ‘why?’ What is it about this imaginary craft that has captured and held imaginations for nearly 50 years?

Morris’s FutureDude Entertainment is producing the documentary in partnership with Zero Point Zero Production Inc. Anne Marie Gillen is a producer on the project, along with Morris. The film is written by Morris and Fredrick Haugen. Morris is represented by Espada Entertainment.

Space: 1999 ran for a total of 48 episodes, with Bain and Landau in all of them as, respectively, Dr. Helena Russell and Commander John Koenig (the actors were married to each other at the time; they had previously co-starred together in Mission: Impossible).

The show revolved around the denizens of Moonbase Alpha, scientific researchers living on the moon whose existence was threatened by a nuclear explosion, which rocketed the moon out of Earth’s orbit. Tate, an Australian-born actor, played pilot Alan Carter on 42 of the show’s 48 episodes. Originally, his character was to be killed off in the premiere episode, a casualty of the nuclear explosion, but producers Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson liked his work and expanded his role.

“Hovering above the Moon in one of Alpha’s Eagle spacecraft, Alan Carter is an observer to this holocaust, watching helplessly as the Moon spins out into space,” according to a synopsis published by the Catacombs.Space1999.net website. “Sacrificing his only chance to return home, Carter decides to give chase to the runaway Moon, joining his friends on the endless intergalactic journey.”

Tate told the website, “I didn’t have to dig too deeply with this character. Alan Carter was all the things I was as a young man: friendly, happy-go-lucky, someone who loved adventure and accepted a challenge.”

Ian McShane, Joan Collins, and Leo McKern were among actors who appeared in single episodes of Space: 1999.

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'Saturday Night' Seeks to Capture the Prelude to One of the Biggest Seventh Days of the Week of All Time

'Saturday Night' Seeks to Capture the Prelude to One of the Biggest Seventh Days of the Week of All Time

I’m not Chevy Chase, and they’re not (CREDIT: Hopper Stone/Columbia Pictures) Starring: Gabriel LaBelle, Rachel Sennott, Cory Michael Smith, Ella Hunt, Dylan O’Brien, Emily Fairn, Matt Wood, Lamorne Morris, Kim Matula, Finn Wolfhard, Nicholas Braun, Cooper Hoffman, Kaia Gerber, Andrew Barth Feldman, Tommy Dewey, Willem Dafoe, Matthew Rhys, J.K. Simmons, Jon Batiste, Naomi McPherson, Taylor Gray,…

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Given the economic importance of birds for farms and gardens, Margaretta wrote that girls who protected birds would "be of more real service to your country than many a general whose name is written in history." This holistic view of how different creatures and plants were interconnected was essentially an early understand of ecology before the word was coined decades later.

~Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science by Catherine McNeur

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In Review: Doctor Who - Wild Blue Yonder

Tim Robins found himself on the edge of his seat as The TARDIS took the Doctor and Donna to the furthest edge of adventure...

Review by Tim Robins WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD! The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Donna to the furthest edge of adventure. To escape, they must face the most desperate fight of their lives, with the fate of the universe at stake.  Doctor Who (2023). Image: BBC Studios/ Bad Wolf | Created by Fahran Younas After 60-years of existence, Doctor Who can still spring viewers with more than a few…

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Bad movie I have Raising Helen 2004

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March Bucketlists 2023!

Dodge -  Host a Saint Patricks day dinner.

Chase - Wear less shirts now that the weather is warmer. 

Catherine -  Have a picnic by a lake to enjoy the beginning of spring. :)

Ryker - Go on vacation with my family. 

Harlow -  I want to take a road trip with Zeke somewhere. Just get out of town for a week and go somewhere new.

Adah -  Go to Elvis's home Graceland.

Peyton - To bring my papa back home to visit his ranch💜

Hunter -  To be happier.

Melanie -  Spending time in the sunshine & getting a jump start on Melrose's spring line!

Maverick -  Trying to rekindle things with my wife.

Briar - I’d like to get to know this sweet guy more I just met. 

Scott - I plan on smothering my wife with kisses so she’ll want to have my baby.

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💚👁️🕸️ In honour of The Magnus Protocol releasing today, here are some book recommendations based on The Magnus Archives Fears!! 🕸️👁️💚

Detailed list of books below the cut!

For more book recommendations, especially queer horror, check out my Bookstagram @hauntedstacks

The Buried ⚰️ - Into the Sublime by Kate A. Boorman - Stuck by Ben Young - The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling - The Deep by Nick Cutter

The Corruption 🦠 - What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher - Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris - The Honeys by Ryan La Sala - She Is A Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

The Dark 🌑 - Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes - Nightfall by Jake Halpern & Peter Kujawinski - No Power by Todd Kirby - The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

The Desolation 🔥 - Firestarter by Stephen King - Burner by Robert Ford - Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta - Burn the House Down by Kenna Jenkins

The End 💀 - Funeral Girl by Emma K. Ohland - Pet Sematary by Stephen King - Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune - This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno

The Extinction 🦴 - Lost Signals by Max Booth III - Bride of the Tornado by James Kennedy - No Safety in Numbers by Dayna Lorentz - The Rules of the Road by C.B. Jones

The Eye 👁️ - Video Palace by Maynard Wills - Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie - A History of Fear by Luke Dumas - The Watchers by A.M. Shine

The Flesh 🦷 - You’ve Lost A Lot of Blood by Eric LaRocca - Carnivore by Justin Boote - A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers - Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

The Hunt 🏹 - Hunt by Alexandra Nisneru - The Woods Are Always Watching by Stephanie Perkins - Survive the Night by Danielle Vega - The Hunger by Alma Katsu

The Lonely ☁️ - Red River Seven by A.J. Ryan - Solitude by Michael Penning - Dark Matter by Michelle Paver - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Slaughter 🥩 - Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin - Your Shadow Half Remains by Sunny Moraine - American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis - The Summer I Died by Ryan C. Thomas

The Spiral 🌀 - That Darkened Doorstep by Catherine Jordan - Mind the Mirrors by Amanda Leanne - Grey Noise by Marcus Hawke - Last to Leave the Room by Caitlin Starling

The Stranger🕴️ - It Looks Like Us by Alison Ames - My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix - The Deep by Alma Katsu - The Outside by Stephen King

The Vast 🪂 - From Below by Darcy Coates - Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant - Floating Staircase by Ronald Mafi - Nightmare Sky by Red Lagoe

The Web 🕸️ - The Taking of Jake Livingston - The Fervor by Alma Katsu - The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig - Come Closer by Sarah Gran

If You Like The Magnus Archives 💚 - Thirteen Stories by Jonathan Sims - Family Business by Jonathan Sims - Gas Station by Jack Townsend - Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

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❥ MAY 2024 | The Prince of Wales sent a letter to Tracey Morris, on behalf of the Princess of Wales & himself to offer their condolences on the tragic passing of her husband Peter Morris after a long battle with cancer.

William and Catherine met Peter during their visit to Wales in 2023 and collaborated with his business, Little Dragon Pizza Van, to provide dinner for the Central Beacons Mountain Rescue & community members at the Dowlais Rugby Club.

Tracey said the letter being read out at funeral as ‘very special’ adding “It may have hit a chord with them because Kate is going through treatment.”

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SENIOR FEMALE BEST DANCER TOP 22

Victoria Reith - WESTCHESTER

Sophie Garcia - STARS

Tatiana Hagee - EVOLVE

Sierra Drayton - EDX

Ashley Choy - ART & SOUL

Brianna-Malania Dillett - STARS

Noa Levkov - EDX

Keira Doran - EDX

Angel DiMartino Palladino - VLAD'S

Sammi Chung - PROJECT 21

Demetria Guzman - STARS

Brooklyn Law - EDX

Ava Carroll - PRODANCE

Preslie Rosabmond - STUDIO 413

Gabrielle Van Graft - EDX

Lexi Blanchard - PROECT 21

Eve Schmeichel - EDX

Dyllan Blackburn - MATHER

Sienna Morris - SKYRA

Kennedy Clouse - EDX

Catherine Clayton - STARS

Gillian Gordon - WESTCHESTER

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"Do you, friend Jonathan, go to the agent of the ship and get from him letters to the agent in Galatz, with authority to make search the ship just as it was here. Morris Quincey, you see the Vice-Consul, and get his aid with his fellow in Galatz and all he can do to make our way smooth"

Quincey P. Morris, casually loading his Winchester rifle: My friend here wants some official type papers to let him search the Czarina Catherine in Galatz, and I recommend the both of you oblige him, otherwise... I won't be able to hold him back.

Jonathan "English Violent Demeanour" Harker, lodging his kukri knife's blade directly into the ship agent's desk: You see, I'm a lawyer.

The Ship Agent & Vice Consul, writing up those letters and making phone calls in a cold sweat: *gulping audibly* I can tell.

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two button single-breasted check suit by Principe from Bruno, golders green and white shirt by Ciao from Harrod’s

[mygreatadventurehasbegun]

Scattered thoughts on The Heiress.

I realized when I started watching the movie tonight that this is the first time I've sat down to watch the entire thing in years. I've caught parts of it on TCM from time to time, but I haven't seen the entire movie in at least five years.

So, here's so random thoughts.

Catherine's father is a massive dick. Yes, I know that's not a new discovery...but I think I hate him more than ever after watching this tonight. There's a moment when Morris is calling on Catherine and her father comes home. Morris says he is calling on "the most attractive girl...and her attractive father". And Austin's response is "I wouldn't say we were attractive." Not I. We. Even in front of a guest in his home who is paying his daughter a compliment, he can't seem to stop insulting her. And the fact that Catherine doesn't even noticed shows just how used to it she is...or maybe she's still glowing by the fact that a guy that looks like Montgomery Clift called her attractive.

I love the choices that Olivia de Havilland made for Catherine's voice. In the first half of the film, it's bright, girlish and airy. But as soon as things start to fall apart around her, her voice begins to drop. It becomes sharp and hard when she speaks to her father after he reveals his true feelings....and again when she sees Morris again at the end. And her physicality is excellent. The bits of business she does at the beginning of the film (fumbling with her dance card or twisting her handkerchief in her hand) really helps illustrate Catherine's insecurities. And the way she leans away from Morris is so interesting. In the beginning, it's because she isn't used to having people that close (especially men) and she is so nervous, she can't help but move back. At the end, she is genuinely uncomfortable around him when he tries to be intimate...leaning back and tensing up when he tries to embrace her. That is, until she finds a way to turn the tables on him.

And I wanted to talk about Morris. Montgomery Clift's performance is so subtle, that it makes the character so difficult to read. Hence why when I was a teenager, I bought every single word that came out of his mouth. Tonight, I found myself watching him, even when he was in the background to see if there was any sort of tell. And for the most part there wasn't. But there is one little gesture that said so much.

So.

Catherine and Morris' reunion scene is one of my favorite scenes in the movie. Even knowing what is going to happen, I can't help but get swept up in the romance when that music swells and they kiss in the rain. I won't break down every moment because I'll be here all night, lol. But at the end of the scene, when Catherine has told Morris what has happened with her father and that she will not forgive him, we get a couple of closeups on Clift's face. In the first one, we can see the impact the news has on him that he isn't going to get the full 30K he thought (which, in today's money is about 1.2 million/year, just FYI). But on the second closeup, Catherine has just buttoned up his cloak for him and I saw something I never had before.

He grabs her hand.

He knows it's all over and yet he still grabs her hand.

So, to me, the way I read it is that he actually does care about her. I don't believe that he was in love with her, but he genuinely cares about her as a person and realizes that he is probably going to hurt her terribly, and he feels awful about it...because while he may care about her, he cares about the money more.

It's such a little thing that I'm sure was a choice on Clift's part. So, I agree with her aunt's assessment from earlier in the film. He would have taken care of Catherine and made her happy. There may have been a point down the line where he stopped being outwardly affectionate...but it wouldn't have happened immediately.

And in that final scene, I am 100% on Catherine's side when she says that her aunt is talking like a fool. The fact that she bought Morris' sob story is hilarious. I mean, I bought it when I was 17...but I was a teenager who knew jack shit. She is a full grown adult who saw her niece's heart break in real time and was like "yeah, Morris's story sounds legit". I get that she does want Catherine to be happy, but come on...do better, Aunt Penniman.

And finally, even though this has been said a billion times, Olivia de Havilland gives her finest performance in this movie.

Genuinely brilliant.

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One thing that did not disappear [of Elizabeth's work] were her beloved flowers, the forget-me-nots "with love in [their] beautiful blue eyes" that she cared for in her garden. The once rare Myosotis palustris (now known as Myosotis scorpiodes) that Elizabeth gifted in the 1840s to Asa and William, and that she would continue to gift to other botanists she met, spread throughout the United States and beyond. The botanists she sent the forget-me-nots to, Asa especially, then gifted them to dozens of donors, friends, and peers, who in turn distributed them further still. These networks established insiders and outsiders, connected members of the community, and fostered friendship, trust, and credibility among scientists. [...] [Forget-me-nots] refuse to be forgotten, they refuse to be erased, even if one of their earliest American cultivators has been.

~Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science by Catherine McNeur

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MinaxJonathan, knife, waiting for the Czarina Catherine while Mina is gradually changing more and more

His and Hers Knives

(Summary: PG-13 for mentions of suicide and a swear

Jonathan has knives for Dracula, or for anyone else who might try to separate him from Mina, and Mina has a knife of her own.)

The gentle scrape of blade upon whetstone did not awaken Mina. It was a quiet, soothing sound, though Jonathan doubted even the passing by of a circus could rouse her from her slumber before she was ready. Regardless, he tried to keep quiet while she slept, and he doubted this sound would have even bothered her before she’d been bitten.

Not that he was the sort to sharpen knives in the wee hours, before. Much had changed in the past few months. He wasn’t the same man who had set out on a train to Buda-Pesth and beyond for an ailing Mr. Hawkins.

A few more strokes had his kukri knife razor sharp. He set it aside and drew another knife, a Bowie, from a sheath within his waistcoat. He wet the stone, then began sharpening its blade. 

He kept four knives on his person, these days. The kukri was the most obvious. It was the statement, and the other concealed blades whatever punctuation it required. Let it not be said that Jonathan Harker wasn’t communicative.

He sharpened the Bowie, then his boot knife, and finally the curved karambit. This had become his nightly ritual, almost a knightly ritual, as he watched over Mina’s unnatural slumber. Dracula had come upon her in their bedchamber. Never again. Though Dracula was far away, concealed in the bowels of the Czarina Catherine, Jonathan still kept his vigil.

It wasn’t only for Dracula that he sharpened his blades. Van Helsing and Seward’s eyes were ever on Mina, assessing her sluggish pulse and her sharpening teeth and that terrible burned mark upon his pale forehead. If they could not hunt down and destroy Dracula to free Mina’s soul, they would come for her.

And if they did, they would find Jonathan. 

There would have to be a strategy to the order in which he addressed them, he knew. If they brought Godalming and Morris along, they would have to be dealt with first, though he’d have to be wary of Seward’s right hook if his phonograph entries were to be believed. Van Helsing would be last. Though his brain was the biggest threat to Mina’s continued existence, his body was slow and frail with age, and with the others gone, he would be easy to dispatch.

“Jonathan.”

If the two doctors came alone, that would be better. They might, if they underestimated Jonathan’s devotion to Mina. Then he could silence them, and catch Morris and Godalming unawares. 

“Jonathan.”

It wouldn’t be easy to take a life, but he could steel himself for Mina’s sake. A man had to protect his wife. ‘Til death do us part,’ what weak resolve was that? He would be hers beyond death, beyond ‘un-death’.

“Jonathan!” Chill hands and an insistent voice drew him from his dark thoughts, and he finally blinked and saw that Mina had awoken and taken his hands in her own around the hilt of his kukri, which he must have picked back up at some point of his musings. Mina’s hands looked ethereally pale against his.

“My love, where were you?” she asked. Here she was, so sickly pale, yet worried about him. He shook his head.

“Lost in thought.” He put the knife down so he could take her hands properly. “I’m sorry.”

She kissed him, just a chaste press of lip to lip. They had not known each other as husband and wife since she’d been bitten. Mina felt herself unclean, and though Jonathan thought her still as pure and holy as an angel, he would not press her into couplings she did not enthusiastically welcome. These light touches would suffice him. 

“I fear I’ll be asleep again soon. Come lie by me, while we still have time.”

Jonathan sat his kukri on the bedside table and joined Mina in bed. She pulled something from beneath her pillow and pressed it into his hands.

It was another knife, in a leather sheath, its handle wrapped in a black ribbon tied securely in a knot.

“I asked Mr. Morris to get me a blade. It’s a fine one, isn’t it?” Mina motioned for Jonathan to unsheath it.

He drew it out. It was a simple boning blade, thin and straight, almost delicate, especially when compared to his kukri. Jonathan ran his finger along the flat of the blade, then against the silk ribbon-wrapped hilt.

“I see you decorated it.” 

Mina smiled at him. “Yes, it’s silly, but I wanted to make it my own. Will you show me how to sharpen it?”

Jonathan nodded. There was nothing he could deny her, except… except that which she’d asked at her ‘funeral’. 

“In the daylight hours, when you’re more awake,” he promised. He slid it back into its sheath and handed it back to her.

“Good. I need it to be sharp.”

“God be willing, you’ll never get close enough to Dracula or any other enemy to need a sharp knife,” he said. He reached over and picked up the kukri. “That’s what this is for.”

She smiled again, lips closed. All of her smiles were like that, these days. Hiding her teeth, fearing the day they became fangs. 

“I know it is. Each thing has its purpose, Jonathan. This knife is not for him. It’s for… it’s for me.”

Her voice caught, and Jonathan looked up at her sharply.

“No,” he said. He reached over to take the knife from her, but she drew it away and cradled it to her breast. He could have wrested it away from her, but he couldn’t bear to handle her so harshly, so he drew back, letting her keep the little blade.

“Listen to me, husband,” she pleaded. “I can feel myself changing. I am clinging to the same hope we all are, but… but we must be ready, in case that hope fails.”

“That is what the kukri is for,” he said again. “If we cannot be together as man and wife, then I will serve you as your protector and thrall, and keep away any who would harm you. You can have my blood, my body, my life. As long as we’re together, I don’t care about anything else!”

“But I do!” Mina’s voice rose to match his own in volume and passion. “Perhaps you could find it in your heart to love me as a vampire, but I could not love myself. I must be human, or else I must be a corpse. If you love me, listen to me.”

Jonathan loved her, and so he listened. He forced his hand to release the white-knuckled grip on the kukri’s handle.

“Go on, then,” he whispered.

She nodded, and her eyes shone with tears as she continued.

“I borrowed a book on anatomy from Dr. Seward to be sure. This little blade should be long enough to pierce a heart. If Dracula escapes us and the transformation is upon me, I want you to…”

A sob interrupted her, and she swallowed hard. “I want you to use it on me. I’m very afraid, but I think if it’s such a thin blade, and if it’s plenty sharp and in the hands of someone I love… I think, then, that I could bear it.”

Jonathan couldn’t hold back his tears at the thought of that, and both of them took each other by the hand, crying. 

“A-and I would w-want you to go on with your life, and find happiness, but…”

“Without you? There could never be such a thing,” Jonathan interrupted. 

Mina nodded, and wiped a hand at her eyes. “I know, my love. And if that be the case, then, this knife can be for you as well.”

Jonathan drew her into his arms. “Thank you, my dearest. Thank you.” Her words delivered to him such profound relief that he hasn’t known since she’d arrived by his side at the Hospital of Saint Joseph and Saint Mary in Budapesh to marry him. He could face whatever peril, so long as at the end of it, he ended up where she was, be it heaven, hell, or their home in Exeter.

“It’ll be romantic, in a way,” Mina said, head nestled into his shoulder, her tears beginning to soak through his nightshirt. “Our hearts’ blood, mingled together on one blade. Together to the end.”

Jonathan nodded. “I c-can draw up our wills, that we will be buried together, in the same coffin, with this knife laid beside us if you’d like.”

He felt her nod against his neck. His wonderful, perfect bride and her obsession with the macabre. How he adored her.

They held each other until their tears had all been shed, and then Jonathan wiped first her eyes, then his own with his handkerchief. 

Mina’s eyelids began to sink lower, her pulse slowing. She yawned, but made barely a sound. 

“I fear… I cannot stay awake much longer….” 

Jonathan lowered her down onto the bed. “Sleep, love.”

He tucked her in, and took his seat once more. Now he had five knives to sharpen during his vigil. He held the kukri in his right hand, the little boning knife in his left, considering both. Dracula would die, or the Harkers would. 

He raised the kukri up, admiring the deadly sharp edge of the blade. It would be Dracula or the Harkers, and they knew where Dracula fucking slept.

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hi do u have any book recommendations <3

hii hello yes i do! <3

Small things like these – Claire Keegan

Kitchen – Banana Yoshimoto

We Run the Tides – Vendela Vida

Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom

The book of disquiet – Fernando Pessoa

The stream of life – Clarice Lispector

The door – Magda Szabo

We all want impossible things – Catherine Newman

Slouching towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion

Your emergency contact has experienced an emergency – Chen Chen