"Ring Around the Moon" was the fourth episode of the first season of Space: 1999.
Script dated December 14, 1973; green page amendments January 17, 1974. Final draft dated February 8, 1974. Filmed March 4–March 13, 1974.
It appears the original idea for the episode was designed as one of the 10 episodes outlines that were made prior to production of "Breakaway". Whether this original concept was conceived by di Lorenzo or whether his main contrib...
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"Ring Around the Moon" was the fourth episode of the first season of Space: 1999.
Script dated December 14, 1973; green page amendments January 17, 1974. Final draft dated February 8, 1974. Filmed March 4–March 13, 1974.
It appears the original idea for the episode was designed as one of the 10 episodes outlines that were made prior to production of "Breakaway". Whether this original concept was conceived by di Lorenzo or whether his main contribution was adapting the idea into script and production is unclear.
However, the ideas presented in the production bear striking resemblances to di Lorenzo's script writing for Mel Welles' Lady Frankenstein, an 1972 attempt to update the Frankenstein myth by adding issues related to gender, ecology and power/knowledge.
Many themes from this movie were reworked into "Ring Around The Moon" and the sequels "Missing Link" and "Alpha Child".
In the original script, the planet name was Uralt (German for "ancient"), not Triton. As the theme of the...
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