Space 1999

On 13 September 1999, nuclear waste stored on the far side of the Moon detonates. The blast knocks the Moon out of Earth orbit and carries 311 people on Moonbase Alpha away with it. Nobody is coming to get them. That is the premise of Space 1999, and it is a far bleaker one than television usually allowed.

Gerry and Sylvia Anderson made it in 1975, after Thunderbirds and UFO, and it was the most expensive British series of its day. Martin Landau and Barbara Bain led it, married at the time and both fresh from Mission: Impossible, with Barry Morse as Professor Bergman in the first series and Catherine Schell arriving as the shape-shifting Maya in the second.

What the show is still raided for is its design. Brian Johnson's Eagle Transporter is one of the great spacecraft ever built for television, a modular spine that accepts interchangeable pods and looks assembled rather than styled. Johnson went on to Alien and The Empire Strikes Back, winning an Academy Award for the latter. The rest of Alpha is built to the same standard: department colours running through the uniforms, insignia on everything, an entire institution rendered in letterhead and badges.

These are those markings. Moonbase Alpha and its command centre, the Eagle 1 mission badge and the transporter blueprints, LSRO, Swift, security, and the equipment-division drawing for the stun gun. Worn plainly, with no explanation offered.

Officially printed on heavyweight cotton. Available up to 5XL in the adult tee, plus youth and toddler sizes, a juniors v-neck and a hoodie.