For low-budget, it was a great concept. I rather enjoyed it. A friend of mine gave me the DVD collection of the series. I could see this done really slick with today’s production values.
Like many early Sci Fi tv shows, the ideas were there but budgets, scientific knowledge, and production capabilities weren’t.
Buck Rogers was talked about being restarted a few years back. Erin Gray at the last DragonCon I went to then, said it was being pitched around but that’s the last I heard.
Space 1999 got a demo called Space 2099 with a ton of digital rework made it a lot more futuristic and sensible.