Loved it. Stryker and that cool hair. Great outfits on the women on moonbase.
Check out the moonbase scenes and you’ll see some of the sets again on “Space 1999”.
And I LOVED watching “The Thunderbirds” as a kid.
I tried to get into 1999, and even though the special effects were arguably much better, the stories just bored me to tears. I thought I might have been for the fact that I was little more than a toddler when "UFO" and the "Space 1999" came out, but in reviewing both well into adulthood, the former has a 'espionage' element and more dynamic and believable characters than the latter.
A casual bing search brought me to this: http://ufo-themovie.com/shado/
I hope it's true.