Space 1999 also featured actor Barry Morse, who was famous for playing the cop, Phillip Gerard, who pursued the fugitive, David Jansen in the iconic TV show.
I met Barry in Victoria  when I was working in radio news, and he came to the city to live for a while.
He was trying to drum up support for the city of Victoria to help support the building of a Shakespearian Globe theatre.
I thought it was a great idea and did a bunch of news stories on him and his efforts.
In the process we became friends and used to meet periodically for a few beers at a local pub.
He was a great guy and told me many stories about his days on The Fugitive, and of course Space 1999, which he was embarrassed about.

 

I watched a few shows on that list. I remember V being something of an event (as well as other non-Sci-Fi miniseries). I'd like to see a network do a mini-series like that again; 2-3hrs a night for however many consecutive nights. Those mini-series were everywhere in the late '70s/early '80s.

I will always have a soft spot in my heart (and in my head!) for the original 1978 Battlestar Galactica. My late best friend, who chose MAiD after a long and difficult illness, and I always used to watch it together when we were younger and for some reason fell in love with the thing.

He didn't live to see the SyFy remake, but he probably would have liked that, too. (Or he may have been horrified at the changes they made. Sadly, I'll never get to ask him.)

I once did an interview with Commander Adama (aka Lorne Greene) and he simply refused to talk about the show, so I'm guessing it was not a pleasant experience for him. 

The original Outer Limits (the B&W version) was also terrific but so was the Showtime remake decades later. The newer one did an episode where a Holocaust survivor goes back to rescue his child who died in a Nazi concentration camp. It was as incredible and moving a piece of science fiction as I think I've ever seen.