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Actually, it's from the 'precursor' series, set in 1980, first aired in 1970...
This base (which they just call Moonbase in the series) is a lot smaller than Moonbase Alpha, with just a handful of people manning it. Free episodes here:
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I'm still looking for a full exterior model of the above base for Daz Studio, I just have a couple of interior sets via ShareCG.
They refer to mining operations on the moon, something that we still haven't started on in 2021, so the series was a bit optimistic. Of course, with an alien threat to deal with, they had incentive to establish bases on the moon earlier...
Space is expensive though (Elon Musk's relentless efforts to drop launch costs aside), so 1980 may have been a bit optimistic... several efforts to reboot the series have come and gone, but I'm still hopeful, as I thought it was really cool and better written, even though Space:1999 had a wider scope.
Space:1999 didn't have this cool submarine though... or the sexier uniforms.
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