Space 1999 was a REALLY great show.. and yeah, I think it'd be great to resurrect it.
According to the canon last updated from the Last Transmission (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UJu0_NSt8Y), the moon was on a trajectory that MIGHT allow it to swing past Earth again in the future and since they DID pass by a seemingly habitable planet, they had to make a decision to either colonize the planet or wait to return to Earth. They decided to stay on the planet and hope that the transmission made it to Earth.
I would LOVE to see someone take that storyline and run with it as a premise for a movie continuing the story from our perspective decades later as the moon swings past Earth. As it returns, about 20 years later (2019), humanity would arrive on the moon to find all its inhabitants missing and all the ships (Eagles) missing and a decision is made to reoccupy Moon Base Alpha and see if they can find out and report back what ever came of the previous inhabitants and their offspring on the new world if they can arrive there again.
If done well, even an outrageous premise like the one in Space 1999 can still be a lot of fun. It's fiction, after all.
...not like the Apollo moon landings which were definitely non-fiction.
Right? I wish they had taken it more seriously.. maybe bring back some actual EVIDENCE that they'd been there.. maybe some moon dust.. moon rocks.. SOMETHING.
We never went back to the moon because of money. It costs too much, for not enough return. We already have plenty of moon rocks, and there isn't much else up there. Ta-t3 is right. The technology to permit a credible fake simply didn't exist in the 60s. I was in college at the time, and the university had one computer, total. It had its own building, and took up much of it. My N800 has far more computing power than it was capable of. My personal computer was a slide rule. There was no such thing as digital video, just huge tape machines. The computers used punch cards, and the only output was via printer, no monitors. Computer graphics was far in the future. It simply wasn't possible to do any fakes that weren't obvious. People born in the past 20 years or so have no idea how far we've come in the past 40 years. We couldn't have even conceived of the computing power available today, and even with the power of today, it's still not possible to do a convincing fake.
I did read somewhere that the forbidden "area 51" was the actual place where the fake landing was filmed, so we would be able to see the exact sand dunes..
We never went back to the moon because of money. It costs too much, for not enough return. We already have plenty of moon rocks, and there isn't much else up there.
It's fiction, after all.