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I've never connected Space: 1999 with the feeling of TMP. But both are in my personal canon of timeless sci-fi scores. I think Jerry got into some higher levels of invention and complexity, take for example "Epsilon Nine." Jerry created outer space and painted a wondrous feeling from scratch. But Barry Gray had a different task and less time if I'm not mistaken. He made some damn fine TV scores.
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Odd one this. It was always obvious that Space 1999 was emulating 2001. STtMP was closer to Roddenberry's vision of Trek than the regular series was, being something closer to 2001. The same can be said of Next Generation. So those three things have a similarity to each other slightly distinct from regular OS Trek.
Not sure I see the similarities in the music however. I will agree though they have quality in common. Goldsmith is probably the best ever Trek score of all. And a Gerry Anderson series without a Barry Gray score has it's soul missing.
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Space 1999 is my all time favourite TV series. Adored it beyond belief. I had the toys, the stun gun, communicator, the book annual, Corgi green and white toy model Eagles, the albums, the CDs, photos of the stars and books. I lived Space 1999 as a child. Barry Gray is a TV music god. A genius and one of the great tunesmiths.
However there is no link whatsoever to the legendary JG’s ST TMP.
I'm a little older: your first paragraph would be my history with Star Trek. By the time Space: 1999 came along, I was more mature. I just watched every single rerun obsessively, bought all the books, and built the Eagle model kit. And in later years got all the music. So it's hardly the same thing. 
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None of Barry Gray's music seems to bring to mind TMP for me at all. I've been a fan of the series since it premiered. I have every music release and have had every home video collection. The only smarties are in the unisex uniforms, the slow pace of the stories and the pseudo-philosophical, overly serious tone.
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Actually, the score that always reminded me of Barry Gray was Elmer Bernstein's Saturn 3. Bernstein's disco title music was not far removed from the style of Gray's Space: 1999 theme. The alternation of lush, romantic music with avant garde techniques also brings Gray to mind. All it lacks is the Ondes Martenot (ironically).
In fact Saturn 3 as a film made me think of a Gerry Anderson production -- the beautiful art direction offset by a unscientific premise, and effects work that looked like something Derek Meddings would have done ten years earlier.
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I'm thinking you meant similarities,
Yup, stupid spell check. Thanks for always knowing what I'm saying, Zap!
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