I bet a lot of you have no idea what we’re talking about, but Space: 1999 was a very cool sci-fi show. Yes, it aired in the 1970s (so it was futuristic), and yes that means that the uniforms were fairly unattractive. It was still very cool. The idea was that there were people stationed on a moonbase (“Moonbase Alpha”) when a terrible accident happened and the moon was knocked out of orbit and sent hurtling through space, kinda like a space ship. See? Very cool.

The series was created by then-husband-and-wife team Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, who also created the even better UFO, and starred then-husband-and-wife team Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, who previously worked together on the Mission Impossible TV series. It was originally created for ITV, a British TV network.

The proposed reboot, not surprisingly updated to Space: 2099, is, according to THR, being jointly developed by ITV Studios America and HDFilms, the company behind the V reboot for ABC. For some of you, that is happy news; for others, you probably just got a knot in your stomach.

About this project, HDFilms President Jace Hall says, “”While we are indeed re-imagining the franchise and bringing something new and relevant to today’s audiences, I feel strongly that some of the overall tones set by the original Space: 1999 television show represent an exciting platform to explore possibilities.”

Okie dokes; we’ll reserve judgment. By the way, the name may or may not be an issue; a Canadian company, Retcon Studios, has been working on a project with the same name. According to Airlock Alpha, that other project is a reworking of the original Space: 1999 episodes and a segue into a sequel that they have been proposing to ITV. The “Space 2099” website is for that project, not for the official ITV Studios/HDFilms project, so if you’re strolling about the internet and see that, don’t be confused.

The official Space: 2099 reboot project is still in development, and has therefore not been shopped to the networks. We’ll keep you posted.