Thanks for reading! Some of the notable guest stars of season one included Hammer horror veterans Peter Cushing (“Missing Link”), Christopher Lee (“Earthbound”) and a pre-“Dynasty” Joan Collins (“Mission of the Darians”). Dave Prowse (bodybuilder, former Green Cross guy, Hammer Frankenstein monster and future Darth Vader) plays a rampaging robot disguised as a lifeform that trashes Alpha in order to steal its life-support core. Still can’t believe “Bringers of Wonder 1 & 2” are NOT on the box set. The day in question? The base is largely evacuated as Alpha plunges into…something. Escape further than ever before into worlds beyond belief with the seminal sci-fi series from producer Gerry Anderson. Found inside – Page iIn this volume of 15 articles, contributors from a wide range of disciplines present their analyses of Disney movies and Disney music, which are mainstays of popular culture. The second season’s music (by Derek Wadsworth) was more traditional space action-adventure fare; memorable in its own way, but lacking the ‘bigger’ feeling of season one’s score. A hot-blooded Italian, brought in to replace Paul Morrow, Tony was the character originally envisioned for the Alan Carter role, before Nick turned up. Space: 1999 DVD Bonus Disc. The shape shifter is the part of you that has lived through every experience from conception through to where you are at the moment. Space 1999 is a great Sci-Fi series, and often overlooked I think. ‘Dragon’s Domain’ was above and beyond the scariest episode of the series and certainly one of the scariest hours on television! Victor comes up with a useless but morale-building idea to erect a protective forcefield to give the crew a way to pass time waiting for the inevitable. They realize their cosmic odyssey may be guided by some unseen force. Space: 1999 was Gerry Anderson's third live action series, following on from UFO (to which it largely owes its existence) and The Protectors. Space 1999 was a great show. In the opening episode, set in the year 1999, nuclear waste stored on the Moon's far side explodes, knocking the Moon out of orbit and sending it, as well as the 311 inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha, hurtling uncontrollably into space. When it comes to famous body parts, Tina Turner's legs, Elizabeth Taylor's eyes, and Pamela Anderson's chest all deserve special notice. Considering there is widespread use of rotoscoping during the series (for the beams) it's surprising that a variation of that effect was not used. For the uninitiated, Space: 1999 starts off in the year 1999 (astute viewers will immediately take notice that 1999 has come and gone, so the series now takes place in the past). Actress | Iron Man Three. The possibilities for the programme in fact were as limitless as space itself.". ", Script consultant Christopher Penfold offers a more serious insight into the making of the show: "As fresh ideas were tossed around when we were writing the scripts we realised that there are mysteries in outer space which are beyond man's understanding, and that we could dramatise these. Season Two of Space: 1999 can be seen on Bravo from November 28, beginning with the episode Metamorph, which introduces the show's regular alien, Maya, a shapeshifter. Kyle Anderson is the Editor at Large for Nerdist. . All had probably been caught in one of the numerous explosions on the moon, but we'll never know for sure - their sudden absence was never explained. If the Lost In Space reboot works and is successful, why not one of Space:1999? There’s nothing about that remake that couldn’t be made into a new TV show. In the future, a heroic captain and his crew explore the Galaxy in a really fast spacecraft. A member of the Founders, the shapeshifters who formed the Dominion, and the primary leader of the Dominion's military foray into the Alpha Quadrant. “The Bringers of Wonder” Part One is the first part of a two-parter that was released in some international markets as a feature film. Thanks for reading and yes, I agree that sooner or later it’ll be rebooted somehow. Much appreciated! Edit them in the Widget section of the. When it neared a star system, the gravity well caused it to drop below light speed. She has been married to Marcus Kayne since November 23, 2016. It’s a slow episode, but one that speaks to the dangers of space and how humanity deals with certain doom. Great to see someone else that saw these shows first back in the day, for me they came on at 7 pm on Saturday evening. The 311 men and women that staff the base conduct . 'Main Mission' was now labelled 'Command Center', and had mysteriously lost its windows. Professor Victor Bergman (Barry Morse) supplied the scientific knowledge so necessary to survival on such a hostile journey, often coming up with the device which would save the day - and the traditional epilogue explaining what just happened! For my money, though, season one is really where the show stood head and shoulders above other sci-fi, of the time or since. Chronicles the seven-year history of the television series with in-depth synopses, interviews with cast and crew, and photographs and illustrations that span all 176 episodes. ), a cockroach or even a samurai warrior! I think Year One was the best, ‘Breakaway’ was my favorite episode of both years. I prefer to keep it safe as a nice reboot-proof cheesy relic I loved in childhood. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Treachery, Faith, and the Great River Female Shapeshifter: 11/02/1998: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Penumbra Female Shapeshifter: 04/07/1999: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 'Til Death Do Us Part Female Shapeshifter: 04/14/1999: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Strange Bedfellows Female Shapeshifter: 04/21/1999: Star Trek: Deep . The day tons of nuclear waste dumped on the moon gets too hot to handle and explodes, blasting away one side of the moon and propelling the rest, Landau, Barbara Bain 'n' all, out of orbit and out of control. While the fictional Moonbase Alpha was fully operational in the series’ year 1999, it was clear that the actual year 1999 wouldn’t see anything near that level of ambition in NASA’s space program, not even with the help of Russia, China and the ESA combined. The safe space past Animorphs but before furries. – the station would shoot back into faster than light speeds. His first fully live-action series was 1971’s UFO, which for all the world could have been another Supermarionation show, just with human actors instead of puppets. I used to watch this programme avidly as a 70s kid. Freiberger is infamous in sci-fi TV circles; he’s the producer brought in to “save” Star Trek for its third, final, and silliest season. Gerry says he was assured that if he could acquire the services of husband and wife actors Martin Landau and Barbara Bain he would be virtually guaranteed a US network screening for the new programme. In the interim, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s marriage and producing partnership dissolved; Gerry alone would produce Year Two, along with a new showrunner, American producer Fred Freiberger. The series ran for seven seasons and 176 episodes from 1993 to 1999, becoming one of the most beloved sequels in the entire Star Trek canon. Cmdr. “Earthbound” was one of the rare times Alpha encountered benevolent aliens, including a tall, contrarily sinister-looking one played by Christopher Lee, whose ship has room for one Alphan to return to Earth with he and his crew. ( Log Out / This was an altogether grimmer, darker and more sinister concept than previous projects like Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and UFO. The series only ran 2 years (1975-1977) and I used to first catch it in late night syndication and later on in the afternoons. Gerry Anderson's spectacular '70s classic Space: 1999 explodes into action. The Moon blasted out of its orbit by a massive nuclear explosion, shape-shifters, galactic intrigue, Eagle Transporters, and the like are all part of the two-season series Space:1999 that still has its adherents in the 21st century. For a bit, anyway. Never travel on the 13th, my mum always says. To make it look like a futuristic cutting tool it's just had a label stuck on it! Has a tendency to be a bit introspective and moody, and the break-up of his marriage has made him extremely cautious with women. An ITC RAI Co-Production, Gerry was helped in the making of Space: 1999 by his wife Sylvia, who occupied the producer's chair while Gerry served as executive producer. As part of his mission to boldly take the Moon where it hadn't managed to go during its opening season, Freiberger first brought an alien aboard to liven things up - a Psychonian named Maya, played by actress Catherine Schell. Their shows were staples of British (and later American) TV in the ’60s. the result expresses a flow of space that supports . While Jamaican-born Clifton Jones (“Kano”) was one of the few non-white series regulars seen in Alpha’s main command center, there were other characters (including Dr. Helena Russell’s deputy Dr. Bob Mathias, played by actor Anton Phillips) of different races and nationalities (the Burmese Merton as well) to bolster the feeling of a thriving, multinational lunar base. You know things are getting really hairy on Moon Base Alpha when the computer gives out the message: HUMAN DECISION REQUIRED. Only a temporarily destabilized Koenig sees these visitors as they really are…hideous, walking alien piles of vomit and noodles who need radiation from Alpha to survive. It’s a remarkable if dated vision of the future (our old future, anyway), but it’s a series very much of two halves. The erratic movement of the Moon - how it manages to traverse such unlikely distances so swiftly (it would never escape the Solar System if it obeyed the laws of physics!) Both Anton Philips (Mathias) and Clifton Jones (Kano) hail from Jamaica. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is an American science fiction television series that debuted in broadcast syndication on January 3, 1993. Once untied from the medical bed, Landau ran for the phone. Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor - of crystal pillars and fossil seas - where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. Hydrart. an alien shape-shifter who joins the crew in the season two premiere . "We could easily build and operate a working space station on the moon now if we wanted to," explains Science Museum space expert Doug Millard. It pinches its main storyline from the Star Trek episode 'Arena' (the one where Kirk has to fight that giant lizard with only a load of rubber rocks as weapons), with a cruel intelligence kidnapping alien life forms to . Well, the actual 1999 has come and gone…twenty years ago, in fact. Change ), This is a text widget. The series didn't fare well either side of the pond in the scheduling battle, however. From a fan who was one of the movers and shakers of the International Space:1999 Alliance, this look back was heartfelt and encapsulates the spirit of OG fandom. Ali Agha, a principal investigator at JPL, could see Shapeshifter exploring Titan, Saturn's moon with bodies of liquid methane on the surface. (1975) and Bel Ami (1971). Space: 1999. Do you want to be the first who gets the news directly to your mailbox? The central computer can estimate times and distance, contact other planets and give advice. For instance, the moon did not break away from Earth orbit on September 13th, nor did it see an International Lunar Finance Commission crew stranded on Moonbase Alpha to fend for themselves as they galavanted across the cosmos. Apr 5, 2009. Again, here’s the explanation (from the previous link) for why the station is traveling through space at FTL speeds: In essence, the show was much the same…without the moon. That series is the short-lived but wholly fascinating Space: 1999. Maya, the shape-shifter . On the technological, decadent world of Proton, someone was trying to destroy Stile, serf and master Gamesman. On 13 September 1999 (20 odd years into the future at the time of production), the colonised moon was blown out of orbit by an explosion in a . Fun fact for you, the very model of the Laboratory Eagle with the boosters ontop was the first episode where Maya was introduced as a new character from Sycon.The boosters were added to break away from her fathers tractor beam. Nor is the message from Alpha. LOVED the fan tribute film, ‘Message from Moonbase Alpha’. When thing get bad, I think of Moonbase Alpha. Thanks so much for that informative bit of trivia, Bill. Based on the classic science fiction television series Space: 1999, and set in the continuity of the original series, Aftershock and Awe steals a glimpse at an alternate history of mankind, and jump-starts humanity's eventual destiny far ... Discover (and save!) In Space: 1999 everyone's uniforms are colour coded so you always know where you are in the space station. Space: 1999 cost around $300,000 per episode and it showed.The show - a semi-sequel to a previous Gerry Anderson production, UFO - was visually stunning and yet one of the biggest flops in TV history. Peter Cushing guest starred in“Missing Link.” Yes, the science was widely inaccurate but it was one of the few sci-fi TV shows available in the 70’s. Wish they would do a remake before I die. Found inside – Page 84After brief negotiations, Fred Freiberger arrived on the set of Space: ¡999 with exactly the same mission he had faced when he produced Star Trek seven years earlier: to save a science-fiction series that was in danger of ... Konieg was a more measured, thoughtful commander than Kirk (the only direct-ish comparison at the time). 1999 Directed by Philippe Browning. Prodigious production values aside, the stories ran the gamut from from surreally haunting to (literally) laugh-out-loud ridiculous, with all manner of alien creature suits and guest stars thrown into the mix. He was an actor, known for Carry on Up the Jungle (1970), Carry on Laughing! But after a few more puppet series, Gerry Anderson wanted to branch out into live-action. by Joe Eaton. Jul 3, 2017 - All things Space 1999. Thanks for the catch. "That's probably to do with my marriage coming to an end!" Found insideIf you think this book is just about "doing drag," you are sorely mistaken because for RuPaul, drag is merely a device to deactivate the identity-based ego and allow space for the unlimited. We All Need a Guru to Guide Our Way . . . Follow him on Twitter! During The Bringers Of Wonder (part two) keep an eye open for the mysterious figure lurking beside Koenig's medical bed as the camera pans to show Maya stunning the guard - on close examination it appears to be the Doctor who left the room just prior to this sequence! With the budget it had–for special effects, costumes, and sets–Space: 1999 also had a roster of impressive guest actors. One of the best of the series in my opinion… creepy, surreal and loaded with lots of nice character moments. Of the first season’s ensemble of characters, several were let go in the second year… Clifton Jones’ Kano, Prentice Hancock’s Paul and (sadly) the warm, paternal Barry Morse’s Victor Bergman. I personally am all about the building aspect of Minecraft. And it makes a shitload more sense than the TV show’s having the moon go through space. That is the answer to a 40-odd year old riddle. - and promptly tripped head-long over the 'body' lying on the floor! Jones made his TV debut on Emergency Ward 10, Besides The Fugitive and Space: 1999, Barry Morse has appeared in The Adventurers and The Zoo Gang. Space: 1999 (TV Series 1975-1977) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Season one is a trippy, thoughtful, character-driven sci-fi series, while season two is much more full of action and monster-of-the-week zaniness. September 13th, 1999. These changes are most evident when you compare the season one opening titles (above) with the season two opening titles (below): It’s reductive to say “all of season one is good and all of season two is bad,” which is certainly not the case. While I actually like Maya and Tony very much as characters, I still lament the loss of Victor. Found inside – Page 73Perhaps the most significant alteration in Space : 1999 Year Two has to do with its major shift in philosophy . Paul Cornell , Martin Day , and Keith Topping indicate that the second season episodes involved “ more standard , action ... The Text Widget allows you to add text or HTML to your sidebar. Maya, the resident shape-shifting alien, changes into another. I also liked Dorr's short story "Dark Side of the Moon." for that kind of feel. Helena, John and Alan agree to go…and due to an ill-timed earthquake during transport, they wind up in Scotland during the time of Robert the Bruce. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is the fourth series in the long-running sci-fi franchise. You don't see that space mead/ Out of the Silent Planet take on space any more, except for repeats of cartoons where space is considered wacky. Despite the absolutely ridiculously subpar keiju-eiga looking monster costume, Prowse’s Terminator-style rampage is silly, nail-biting fun. The former commander is replaced with Commander John Koenig (Landau), a decorated officer who nevertheless needs a win. Separate little consoles had replaced the open plan design, giving it an altogether more claustrophobic feel, and the computer had jumped to the other side of the room, replacing the nice veranda. As the creature stirred, one of the deputies pulled out his disrupter, ready to shoot the Shapeshifter again, but Odo halted him with a wave of the hand. “Voyager’s Return” guest starred Jeremy Kemp (Picard’s brother Robert in Star Trek: The Next Generation’s “Family”) as an Oppenheimer-like scientist whose “Quellor”-drive spacecraft Voyager (no, not the NASA version) has wrought havoc across its path, contaminating the cosmos with deadly radioactive residue. Year One set up the predicament. Thank you! Many things—beating with a rubber truncheon, water torture, electric shock, incessant noise, reruns of Space: 1999 —may cause agony as they occur, yet leave no enduring injury. Concur. The Female Shapeshifter often wooed Odo to come back and join the Great Link, often testing his loyalty to his solid colleagues. There were changes behind the scenes, too, as the disappointment of the show's premi�re season led to a number of alterations, including the loss of its first backers. Freiberger’s changes for season two of Space: 1999 were drastic. Space: 1999 is a British science-fiction television programme that ran for two series from 1975 to 1977. - is explained by its travelling through 'mysterious areas of deep space where... time-warp and hyper-acceleration of matter are commonplace'. PS — many thanks for that clip, for closure about the tv series that we recall with fondness today. ( Log Out / Great article but I am surprised no one noticed the caption for “Missing Link” is incorrect (although the correct info is listed in the following paragraph). . Space: 1999 season two The people on the moonbase, the “Alphans,” then have to try to stay alive and somehow get back home. The eagles sound like aeroplanes really . It’s a weird conceit, surely, but one that works for the strange, out-there storytelling at hand. Initially, the second season hinted at some sort of relationship developing between Alan Carter (Nick Tate) and Maya - but that soon faded as his character was pushed more and more into the background. Many things happened that year; I got married, a friend of ours had a baby, and my wife and I hate-watched “The Phantom Menace” theatrically more times than I care to admit. Nice to see Moonbase Alpha with a blue sky and open windows (why would one even have openable windows on a lunar base?). With the unexplained removal of three leading characters, and the numerous changes to Moonbase (which during Season Two acquires a massive sub-Lunar cavern complex), Space: 1999's second year was understandably confusing for viewers, and they began to switch off in droves. Even Commander Koenig's (Martin Landau) massive office had somehow gone missing. When producer Fred Freiberger came on board he set up a system where from time to time two episodes would be filmed simultaneously for scheduling purposes, specially scripted so that key regulars would have a minimal presence in one episode while taking centre stage in another. Sandra Benes (Zienia Merton) looked after Moonbase Alpha's service section, working in close collaboration with Kano and 'computer'. In 2005, scientists saw the first close-up pictures of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. I see the differences between the two years as more of an apples and oranges situation. It was a year that promised much in a shiny new millennium. By Broadcasting Brain. For the early months of 1974, Britain's mandatory three-day working week and the unplugging of the National Grid during the coal shortages led to Pinewood Studios employing generators to keep the electrics going. 1999 was just so remote it seemed like anything could happen by then." This book contains readings of American, British and European postmodern dances informed by feminist, postcolonialist, queer and poststructuralist theories. It explores the roles dance and space play in constructing subjectivity. Space: 1999 was the work of the Andersons, the pair behind the wire-controller puppetry of Thunderbirds, Stingray, Fireball XL5, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Joe 90 and live actioner UFO. Space: 1999 occupies a special place in many of our memories — so when we heard that a reboot called Space: 2099 was in development, many people had mixed feelings. SPACE: 1999 Bridged the Gap from TREK to WARS. She is an actress and writer, known for Iron Man Three (2013), The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and Lost (2004). Stranded Earth commissioner Simmonds (Roy Dotrice, whom we saw in “Breakaway”) elects himself. The Space 1999 DVD Bonus Disc contains never before released episodes, vintage interviews, alternate sequences, photo galleries, and more! Maya is a privileged daughter of Mentor (first year . OK, so we might not be dumping nuclear waste in space (though there are plenty of governments who'd do it if they could get away with it) and the chances of a planet being blown out of orbit and travelling through space are a little slim, but some of the ideas that emerge from Space: 1999 have proved an inspiration to scientists. The episodes “Collision Course” and “Black Sun,” for example, each deal with the moon heading for certain doom, unable to control their course in the least. Shapeshifter. How can this be?? Bad trip, dude…. At the time the show aired, though, it felt like "event" television, mostly by virtue of its expensive 2001-style special-effects, masterminded by Gerry Anderson. While the science is consistently inane, (the sheer mass of the moon can’t just shoot through spacetime like a kayak in the rapids), many of the stories are still quite enjoyable in spite of their inherent silliness. Factory. Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know. Granted, technically it’s a fan film, but to me it’s as legitimate as any other offering of the series. Books and comics. All of Space: 1999 save the final five episodes aired in a pre-Star Wars world. The Chocheño Ohlone, original inhabitants of much of the land now within the East Bay Regional Park District, had coyote stories, of which only a few tantalizing fragments were ever recorded. Thanks to all of them for a crazy cosmic ride. Released June 22nd, 1999, 'Shapeshifter' stars Paul Alexander Nolan, Bill MacDonald, Catherine Blythe, Emmanuelle Vaugier The PG movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 30 min, and received a user score . Debuting in 1975, 'Space: 1999' was the successor to Star Trek. And yes, in retrospect, I should’ve included that one (creepy as hell, that one was), and perhaps a few more from season one… ah, the clarity of hindsight, eh? Found inside – Page 249That ties in beautifully with COSMOS episode “The Lives of the Stars.” It is also interesting to notice how both Byrne and Penfold comment on how people did not know all that much about the lives of the stars in terms of supernovas, ... Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Three hundred years had passed since the Tyr conquered the people of Earth as they had previously overcome numerous races throughout the galaxy. But on the 1999. Though to be honest I thought message was something just for youtube. Originally the role of Chief Eagle Pilot was written as an Italian - but when the Andersons saw this young Aussie they liked him so much that they had their script editors rethink the character: Tate got the job, and the series got its only humourous individual! I enjoyed this series! ", What Satellite TV was a competing magazine, again based around listings, but with more features on satellite hardware. This involves an elaborate sequence of 'zooms' to a close-up of Maya's eye, where an image of the animal she's intending to become is 'super-imposed' onto her pupil, before the camera cuts back to reveal that 'wow' she's turned into: a panther, a dog, an alien monster (most looked rather similar! The listing for September 5th on p71 was less complimentary: Twenty years on and this classic sci-fi series hasn't aged a bit. They’re two different takes on the same core concept. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Cheers! Shapeshifter, Trickster, Survivor: Coyote in the Modern World. This work provides an excellent case study of the sociocultural phenomenon of scripturalizing practices. To be fair, some of the worst episodes come from the season where they had hired a veteran Star Trek producer as producer and script editor. Zip up your spacesuits, strap yourself in and check yourself all over for radiation contamination, Space: 1999 is back. As a consolation prize? Schell’s performance is easily the best thing about season two, even if her character’s ability to turn into things is fairly silly, ranging from animals like tigers and hawks to humanoid aliens to even a guy in a bushido outfit with a kendo stick. Gerry Anderson was even less happy with the second year of Space: 1999 than he had been with the first, though, particularly with regard to Maya. Gerry Anderson. Two aliens have wandered Earth for centuries. The incredibly detailed miniature effects and feature film production design of Moonbase Alpha make the original Star Trek’s balsa wood & cardboard sets look like a fifth grade play. British Gerry and Sylvia Anderson pioneered the “Supermarionation” technique, a gimmick of marionette performance that mixed in elaborate and quite large miniature sets and model work. She owned a small bed and breakfast for a number of years in the . During a trip to Carlsbad Caverns, Liz comes face-to-face with the creepy man who shot her, and Max, Isabel, Michael, Maria, and Liz pursue him, only to discover that their unknown enemy may not know who they really are. Deputy commander on Alpha was Paul Morrow (Prentis Hancock), a man never shy to express his feelings. David Kano (Clifton Jones) who had taken care of 'computer' became one of the casualties of the hiatus - along with Paul Morrow (Prentis Hancock) and Professor Victor Bergman (Barry Morse). Shades of Chronicles of Riddick--Conan in space. Long story short, they manage to transport back to Alpha before the galactic eclipse, but have to forgo any future notion of returning to Earth. folks! “The AB Chrysalis” has some of that weird sense of wonder we saw to a greater degree in year one, especially a scene with a chamber full of slowly bouncing intelligent globes that reminded me of miniature versions of “The Prisoner”’s ‘rovers.’ The Alphans learn they have disrupted the metamorphosing life cycle of another race and are forced to make things right. With Maya’s help, he realizes their plan to destroy the base’s nuclear reactor but now has to stop several crewmen (who think they’ve arrived on Earth) from destroying the base’s nuclear fuel. The rest can be identified as follows: 1999 is only four years away and, even though there's no sign of a space station on the moon, space expert Doug Millard reckons Gerry Anderson's ideas weren't that far off the mark. A significant turning point in the series. Commander Koenig is the man you'd want leading you in a crisis, and who you also don't mind having around when it's time for a few space beers. We never got Star Trek in our rural backwater, with only 2 channels coming in on the 'ole rabbit-ears. I have the box set and they left shows out like bringers of wonder pt1 and 2. These events were forever consigned to the alternate-future of Gerry Anderson’s mid-1970s space epic TV show, “Space: 1999.”. 2/15/1999. The ‘comm-locks’ were a sort of portable video phone and door remote control (like a cathode ray-iPhone) with actual working black & white monitors on the ‘hero’ versions of the props. Perhaps in this way, with season two’s greater emphasis on fantastical and monstrous alien threats, Freiberger had his finger on the pulse of space opera to come. One, Bravo, specialized in ITC Entertainment series, and in 1995 it started to show Space: 1999. Found insideNew York: Garland, 1999. ———. King Arthurin America. Cambridge, UK: D.S. 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