SPACE: 1999 EPISODE GUIDE
First Season: 1975-1976

Cast

Commander John Koenig ............... Martin Landau
Doctor Helena Russell ........................ Barbara Bain
Professor Victor Bergman ................. Barry Morse
Paul Morrow................................... Prentis Hancock
Alan Carter................................................... Nick Tate
David Kano ............................................ Clifton Jones
Sandra Benes ...................................... Zienia Merton
Doctor Bob Mathias .......................... Anton Phillips
Tanya Alexander......................... Suzanne Roquette

Technical Credits

Producer.......................................... Sylvia Anderson
Executive Producer........................ Gerry Anderson
Moon City Costumes Created By .... Rudi Gernreich
Series Created By ....... Gerry and Sylvia Anderson
Story Consultant .................... Christopher Penfold
Music By .................................................. Barry Gray
Music Associate ........................................... Vic Elms
Special Effects .................................. Brian Johnson
Production Designer .......................... Keith Wilson
Production Manager ................................... Ron Fry
Director of Photography ............. Frank Watts BSC
Casting Director ............................. Michael Barnes
Supervising Editor .................................. Dave Lane
Camera Operator ................................... Neil Rinney
Assistant Director ................................... Ken Baker
Sound Recordist ................................... David Bowen
Editor ..................................... Derek Hyde Chambers
Sound Editor .......................................... Roy Lafbery
Music Editor ............................................. Alan Willis
Continuity ..................................... Gladys Goldsmith
Make-Up .................................................. Ann Cotton
Hair Designer ..................................... Helene Bevan
Wardrobe .......................................... Eileen Sullivan
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Director ................................................... Nick Allder
Lighting Cameraman .......................... Harry Oakes
Camera Operator .................................. Frank Drake
Electronics ............................ Michael S.E. Downing



BREAKAWAY
Writer: George Bellak.
Director: Lee H. Katzin.
Guest Cast: Roy Dotrice (Commissioner Simmonds), Philip Madoc, Lou Satton, Eric Carte.

In this initial adventure, on Moonbase Alpha -- which monitors lunar storage sites for atomic wastes shuttled from Earth -- Commander Koenig and Dr. Russell oversee an eleventh-hour attempt to avert a chain reaction of thermonuclear explosions that eventually blasts the moon out of Earth's orbit and sends it hurling into space, as the mysterious planet Meta approaches Earth. On the barren sphere, the three hundred and eleven men and women of Moonbase Alpha, a self-sustaining scientific installation, survive. [NOTE: later re-edited into the first half of the movie Alien Attack.]

EARTHBOUND
Writer: Anthony Terpiloff.
Director: Charles Crichton.
Guest Cast: Christopher Lee (Captain Zantor), Roy Dotrice (Commissioner Simmonds).

An alien spaceship en route to Earth encounters the Alphans and crashlands near their base, its crew frozen-down for the long journey. Commissioner Simmonds, who was visiting Moonbase Alpha when the moon was blasted out of orbit, sees an unexpected chance to return home.

DRAGON'S DOMAIN
Writer: Christopher Penfold.
Director: Charles Crichton.
Guest Cast: Gianni Garko (Tony Cellini), Douglas Wilmer (Commissioner Dixon), Barbara Kellerman, Michael Sheard, Susan Jameson.

Dr. Russell retells the farfetched explanation offered by the sole survivor of a disastrous 1996 space probe. Astronaut Tony Cellini baffles everyone with a story experts refuse to believe -- of a group of stationary spaceships, a space graveyard, with a terrifying monster guarding the entrance. This episode features the classical music of Tomaso Albinoni's (1671-1751) Adagio as the space probe approaches an alien planet.

DEATH'S OTHER DOMINION
Writer: Anthony Terpiloff.
Director: Charles Crichton.
Guest Cast: Brian Blessed (Cabot Rowland), John Shrapnel (Jack Talbot), Mary Miller (Freda).

The Alphans are invited to share a lost paradise and immortality on the frozen planet Ultima Thule with members of a space expedition from Earth launched in 1986. A half-crazed Soothsayer warns Koenig and his colleagues to flee the planet.

THE TESTAMENT OF ARKADIA
Writer: Johnny Byrne.
Director: David Tomblin.
Guest Cast: Orso Maria Guerrini (Luke Ferro), Lisa Harrow (Anna Davis).

Commander Koenig must free Moonbase Alpha from the power-draining influence of the desolate planet of Arkadia, where the Alphans encounter what may be the origins of life on Earth. Complicating matters, though, are two specialists who are determined to renew civilisation on the dead world.

THE TROUBLED SPIRIT
Writer: Johnny Byrne.
Director: Ray Austin.
Guest Cast: Giancarlo Prette (Dan Mateo), Hillary Dwyer (Laura Adams), Anthony Nichols (Dr. James Warren).

When a botanist is forbidden to continue a series of experiments on plants, the Alphans are terrorised by his murderous, vengeful spirit -- a spectre that seeks retribution for the man's death before it occurs.

MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
Writer: Art Wallace.
Director: Charles Crichton.
Guest Cast: Richard Johnson (Lee Russell), Stuart Damon (Parks).

The discovery of Dr. Russell's husband, lost in space years earlier, nearly leads to disaster when the Alphans realise he is composed of anti-matter, and that living on his planet would mean violent death for humans.

FORCE OF LIFE
Writer: Johnny Byrne.
Director: David Tomblin.
Guest Cast: Ian McShane (Anton Zoref), Gay Hamilton (Eva), John Hamill (Donnix), Eva Rueberstaier.

Commander Koenig and his crew must stop one of the Moonbase technicians, whose sudden, consuming need for heat threatens Alpha with doom. Burned-out equipment and frozen corpses lie in the wake of a technician who has become an instrument of destruction that feeds on energy and endangers anything that he touches.

ALPHA CHILD
Writer: Christopher Penfold.
Director: Ray Austin.
Guest Cast: Julian Glover (Jarak), Cyd Hayman (Cynthia Crawford), Wayne Brooks (Jackie Crawford).

When an Alphan woman gives birth, she unwittingly becomes part of an attempt by aliens to avoid their civilisation's extinction by taking over the bodies of Moonbase personnel. As the first baby born on Alpha suddenly grows to the size of a 5-year-old, Koenig senses a more sinister explanation than outer space conditions for a child that heralds an alien war in which, no matter who wins, Alpha loses.

ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE
Writer: Johnny Byrne.
Director: David Tomblin.
Guest Cast: Judy Geeson.

Past and future overlap, when a weird space phenomenon which creates duplicates of the Alpha and its inhabitants leads to the death of a young woman -- who had already envisioned the disaster. Moonbase personnel land on a doppelganger Earth where they discover themselves in their own future.

THE BLACK SUN
Writer: David Weir.
Director: Lee H. Katzin.
Guest Cast: Paul Jones, Jon Laurimore.

Commander Koenig must bank all hope for survival on Professor Bergman's plan to create a new force field when the Moonbase is drawn into a deadly "black sun", a space phenomenon that even devours light. [NOTE: later re-edited into the second half of the movie Journey Through The Black Sun.]

GUARDIAN OF PIRI
Writer: Christopher Penfold.
Director: Charles Crichton.
Guest Cast: Catherine Schell (Servant of the Guardian), Michael Culver (Pete Irving).

Only Commander Koenig sees through a seductive woman's entreaties to join her on the planet Piri for a blissful, machine-controlled existence. The Guardian of a tranquil and beautiful planet lures Moonbase personnel to the land of eternal peace, which Koenig realises is living death.

THE LAST SUNSET
Writers: Christopher Penfold, Charles Crichton.
Director: Charles Crichton.
Guest Cast: None.

The Alphans must determine whether the Planet Ariel, which closely resembles Earth, is really the hope for their future that it appears to be. Paul and Sandra look forward to raising a family as the Alphans prepare for an exodus to the planet.

THE LAST ENEMY
Writer: Bob Kellett.
Director: Bob Kellett.
Guest Cast: Caroline Mortimer (Dionne), Maxine Audley (Theia), Kevin Stoney (Talos), Carolyn Courage.

Two warring planets, positioned so that they cannot shoot at each other directly, seize Alpha as a gun platform when it wanders into their range. Commander Koenig must negotiate a ceasefire between the opponents when the battling threatens to destroy the Moonbase.

END OF ETERNITY
Writer: Johnny Byrne.
Director: Ray Austin.
Guest Cast: Peter Bowles (Balor), Jim Smilie (Baxter).

Commander Koenig rescues an immortal alien doomed to spend an eternity inside a barren asteroid. The liberated one repays his kindness by wreaking destruction among the Alphans. Koenig must risk his own life in order to destroy a psychopathic alien.

SPACE BRAIN
Writer: Christopher Penfold.
Director: Charles Crichton.
Guest Cast: Shane Rimmer (Kelly), Carla Romanelli (Melita), Derek Anders.

Moonbase Alpha faces danger on a collision course with a gossamerlike organism that has annihilated an Eagle craft and crew and taken possession of the mind of another crew member, when an outburst of strange hieroglyphics on all of the moon's screens portends its encounter with a "Space Brain."

VOYAGER'S RETURN
Writer: Johnny Byrne
Director: Bob Kellett.
Guest Cast: Jeremy Kemp (Dr. Ernst Linden), Barry Stokes (Jim Haines), Alex Scott (Aarchon), Lawrence Trimble (Abrams).

A scientist hurries to retrieve valuable research information from Voyager, an Earth-launched spacecraft before the Alphans destroy it. Unknown to them, he is responsible for the malfunction that turned the ship into a deadly killer spewing lethal particles, while the aliens whose people have been destroyed by the errant probe are going to have their revenge on the people of Earth.

WAR GAMES
Writer: Christopher Penfold.
Director: Charles Crichton.
Guest Cast: Anthony Valentine (male alien), Isla Blair (female alien).

A planet attack on Moonbase Alpha leaves the Alphans no alternative but to relocate on the planet to plead for mercy on the survivors. But the aliens who inhabit it warn them that humans would be destructive to their civilisation -- and they will protect themselves at any cost. [NOTE: later re-edited into the second half of the movie Alien Attack.]

THE INFERNAL MACHINE
Writer: Anthony Terpiloff.
Director: David Tomblin.
Guest Cast: Leo McKern (Companion).

An ancient man and the talking machine he serves come to Alpha to request urgently needed supplies. Dr. Russell and Commander Koenig must free themselves from a powerful man-machine that plans to keep them as its human companions until the day they die.

THE FULL CIRCLE
Writers: Jesse Lasky, Jr., Pat Silver.
Director: Bob Kellett.
Guest Cast: Oliver Cotton.

When two Alpha reconnaissance flights pass through a time warp, the crews find themselves sharing an existence with their Cro-Magnon counterparts. Sandra is kidnapped by cave men whose chief bears a striking resemblance to Koenig.

MISSING LINK
Writer: Edward Di Lorenzo.
Director: Ray Austin.
Guest Cast: Peter Cushing (Raan), Joanna Dunham (Vara).

An anthropologist from the planet Zenno millions of years in the future abducts Commander Koenig for his studies of a "missing link", an earlier life form.

RING AROUND THE MOON
Writer: Edward Di Lorenzo.
Director: Ray Austin.
Guest Cast: Max Faulkner.

An alien spaceship locks Alpha into an orbit and proceeds to steal classified data from its computer banks. The Alphans must destroy a mission from a dead planet that is absorbing Moonbase information and destroying personnel as part of a plan to attack Earth.

COLLISION COURSE
Writer: Anthony Terpiloff.
Director: Ray Austin.
Guest Cast: Margaret Leighton (Arra).

The Alphans plan to use explosives to avoid a collision course with another planet, but an alien woman convinces Koenig that destiny would be better served if their planets did collide. [Note: later re-edited into the first half of the movie Journey Through The Black Sun.]

MISSION OF THE DARIANS
Writer: Johnny Byrne.
Director: Ray Austin.
Guest Cast: Joan Collins (Kava), Aubrey Morris (Petros High Priest), Dennis Burgess (Neman), Paul Antrim (Lowry), Robert Russell (Hadin).

When a call for help is made on the Alphans, their landing party travels to a gigantic, crippled spaceship, where the fourteen remaining survivors of a dead planet stay alive by cannibalism.


Sources: Western Washington TV Guide (1975-6), Fantastic Television by Gary Gerani.

Copyright of all Space: 1999 images © Polygram / ITC Television

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