Colouring Book Theatre: Space:1999

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Space: 1999 cut and colour book Saalfield 1975

I can't believe that I've never done a Space:1999 colouring book theater before now.

My nostalgia for this series in the mid eighties is the thing that lead me into toy collecting in the first place, so you can say that the foundation of the site is Moonbase Alpha, actually don't say that, it sounds weird.

What I find humorous about 1999 is that you'd never see such a merchandising blitz for a science fiction show these days (Doctor Who excepted).

This book is by Saalfield and may be the only colouring book in the history of time that has Christopher Lee on the cover. Obviously the artists at Saalfied had a great deal of promotional material to look at as the aliens on the cover come from three separate episodes.

The moon breaks out of Earth orbit after the jump...

Like a lot of 1999 merchandise, much of the focus is on the show's principle actors, because kids across the world wanted a book mark with the face of Barbara Bain on it. This book has a LOT of blank pages in it to accommodate the "Cut" portion of the title.




Yep, this what we had before VCRs, this and fotonovels.






Likeness comes and goes in this thing which is the colouring book standard.

Colouring this would be like coloring a picture of my grandfather, he missed his calling as Barry Morse's stunt double. I like how they've drawn Professor Bergman's hair here, not unlike pigpen from Charlie Brown. I won't laugh too hard as I am sort of staring at my own future here....

This looks like it was taken from about five different stills, all mashed together.









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[Godzilla]

It's not as bad as some. With Space 1999 on the cover, I would have loved it as a kid. I remember buying a Planet of the Apes activity book and immediately going to my grandparents house and doing all the activities. I think I blew through the whole thing in an hour.

[HardyGirl]

The only thing I can honestly remember about Space 1999 is that it came on after Star Trek on Sunday nights. I remember I tried to watch it when the Sci-Fi Channel aired it. I couldn't get through a whole episode. I guess it wasn't enough like Star Trek for me. (hang head). I do have one of those alien heads from CTVT that I used for my very first custom "Tamar from the planet, Zolton", that I use for my Star Trek adventures.

[Earth 2 Chris]

This book is by Saalfield and may be the only colouring book in the history of time that has Christopher Lee on the cover.

What? Are you sure Whitman didn't do a "Satanic Rites of Dracula" sticker fun book?

Chris

[Figuremod73]

I love standups I wish all coloring books had them. It looks like it was a better coloring book than most.