She has always intrigued me. From Mission Impossible to Space 1999 where her make up gave her the anemic look.
I recently watched Space 1999 on BritBox. It was a struggle, quality very inconsistent but I liked it enough to keep going. Barbara gave a very…understated performance. The writers didn’t give her or the rest of the cast much of substance to do. But I liked her. She looked very like my high school art teacher.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 7, 2023 5:49 PM |
I remember trying to watch this as a kid along with some other show, very British, very cheesy. Both bored me as there wasn't enough monsters/aliens. Worth another go as an adult?
by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 7, 2023 5:50 PM |
R1 did you like Maya? Her eyebrows were what I remember about her
by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 7, 2023 6:44 PM |
Someone wrote this on her Wikipedia page under the talk section.
“I was outraged to read ctress Barbara Bain referred to in your article about her as a "Jewish-American" actress. What moron wrote this? I have yet to see anyone called a "Christian-American." How incredibly bigoted and insulting to Jews. I can't even begin to list the ways in which this is offensive. I'd like to see the expression taken out of the article -- it's flat bigoted -- no Jews in American call themselves "Jewish-Americans."
Shame on you and the Creep-American who wrote it. Belle Schwartz San Francisco”
by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 7, 2023 6:50 PM |
Martin looks like he is wearing a hairpiece in the above episode.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 7, 2023 6:54 PM |
So does Bain r5
by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 7, 2023 7:04 PM |
She was no Barbara Baxley.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 7, 2023 7:06 PM |
This show has the kind of theme you can play as nose guitar.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 7, 2023 8:03 PM |
Jesus, how old was she when this show was on? That filter would make Barbara Walter blush
by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 7, 2023 8:43 PM |
It's always amazing to me she won three Emmys for her work on "Mission: Impossible." It happened so often they even spoofed it on "The Carol Burnett Show."
The last time I saw her was thirty years ago on "My So-Called Life,' when she played Claire Danes's difficult maternal grandmother. She was having a grand old time.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 7, 2023 8:45 PM |
[quote]It happened so often they even spoofed it on "The Carol Burnett Show."
Carol was...Oregano
by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 7, 2023 8:52 PM |
She looked older on 1999 but was actually quite beautiful
by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 7, 2023 9:09 PM |
See 30:19 for the Mission Impossible skit and Emmy gag(s).
by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 7, 2023 9:16 PM |
It has to be agreed: Pamela Sue Martin and Barrie Youngfellow and Susan Sullivan had great 180 degree turns on their own television show credits, but none of them holds a candle to Barbara's intensely dramatic 90 degree turn for "Space 1999."
by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 7, 2023 9:27 PM |
She reminds me of Lizabeth Scott.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 7, 2023 11:09 PM |
Juliet Landau, who played the mentally ill vampire Drusilla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is the daughter of Barbara Bain and Martin Landau.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 7, 2023 11:31 PM |
I was going to say Barbara playing the ship's doctor had to be the voice of scientific reason but then Dr. McCoy on Star Tek could be full of emotion.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 8, 2023 1:59 PM |
[quote]R9: Jesus, how old was she when this show was on? That filter would make Barbara Walter blush
Let's see - that's a Season Two pic, 1976... She was 45 then.
She's 91 now.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 9, 2023 1:14 AM |
When I was a young gayboy, Nick Tate’s luscious chest hair was a turn on…
by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 9, 2023 8:45 PM |
Yes Nick Tate was the hot guy. This was a time when Australian actors went to England to make it big, though there were exceptions like Michael Pate who went to America and played Indians.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 9, 2023 9:29 PM |
Tony Anholt was the hottie on the series.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | June 9, 2023 10:37 PM |
I loved her character’s name in MI - Cinnamon - so glamorous to a young gay boy before I turned my focus to Nick Tate.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 15, 2023 3:26 AM |
I remember being attracted to Alan Carter on Space 1999. With a good show. I think Star Trek the next generation borrowed some of the ideas from space 1999. Deanna Troi character reminds me of Maya and the doctor on space 1999 reminds me of the doctor on Star Trek the next generation.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 15, 2023 3:59 AM |
I remember how stylish I found the show, the costumes but even more the set designs. I can't remember the stories - I was around ten back then - but the Eagles I still remember. Back then I didn't notice how phallic they looked. The Eagles still look good, imo, even today.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | June 15, 2023 4:18 AM |
It beggars belief that Diana Rigg as Emma Peel, lost to Barbara Bain in the Emmys race.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | June 15, 2023 5:30 PM |
Oh please, r29, Mrs. Peel did zero emoting.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | June 15, 2023 5:33 PM |
The House That Jack Built!?
by Anonymous | reply 31 | June 15, 2023 11:22 PM |
The bitch killed Batman.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | June 15, 2023 11:26 PM |
Juliet Landau spilling the beans about both of her parent’s narcissistic abuse.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | October 10, 2023 2:19 AM |
You can blame the makeup for her anemic look, OP, but the absolute lack of any personality or vocal inflection is something she has to own. She did better work elsewhere, but in Space 1999 she is the Least Interesting Actress of All Time.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | October 10, 2023 2:24 AM |
Don't think that series ever made any mention of how the Moon being ripped away affected the Earth. What would happen?
Merely reduced or no tides at all. Or who knows what catastrophe would occur when a close orbiting body is torn away.
Think the producers also made cheapie puppet shows. That is what this resembles. A higher-budgeted cheapie puppet show.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | October 10, 2023 2:56 AM |
I always liked Bain. She should have had a bigger acting career. She certainly had the acting skills and screen presence for it.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | October 10, 2023 3:31 AM |
I’m glad she’s still alive.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | April 26, 2024 12:27 PM |
OP is intrigued.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | April 26, 2024 12:32 PM |
I always found her underwhelming.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | April 26, 2024 2:11 PM |
I found it sad when she and Martin Landau divorced after 36 years of marriage. Neither one remarried.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | April 26, 2024 4:44 PM |