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			SPACE:1999
		       Episode Guide
		   Compiled by Chad Fogg
	Edited by Saul Jaffe (Moderator, Sf-Lovers)
			   Cast
                 Commander John Koenig......Martin Landau
                 Doctor Elenor Russel........Barbara Bain
                 Professor Victor Bergman.....Barry Morse (season 1)
                 Maya.....................Catherine Shell (season 2)
                 Commissioner Simmonds........Roy Dotrice (season 1)
                 Paul Marrow............. Prentis Hancock
                 Alan Carter................... Nick Tate
                 Sandra.................... Zienia Merton
                 Tony Verdeschi.............. Tony Anholt (season 2)
       [Note: summaries based on TV Guide listings]
		      Season 1 (1975)

1. BREAKAWAY Pilot/Debut: The "Mission Impossible" team of husband Martin Landau and wife Barbara Bain is reunited in a series whose credibility is heightened by authentic looking sets, Rudi Gernreich's costumes and, for television, spectacular special effects. On Moonbase Alpha, which monitors lunar storage sites for atomic wastes shuttled from earth, Commander Koenig and Dr. Russel oversee an eleventh-hour attempt to avert spectacular explosions on the moon that eventually hurtle it out of earth's orbit and cast 311 men and women stationed on the moon on the ultimate journey into space across the universe.

Later re-edited into the first half of the movie "Alien Attack"].

2. DRAGON'S DOMAIN Guest cast: Gianni Galko (Cellini), Douglas Wilmer (Commissioner Dixon)

Dr. Russel retells the farfetched explanation offered by the sole survivors of a disastrous 1996 space probe. This episode features the classical music of Tomaso Albinoni's (1671-1751) "Adagio" as the space probe approaches an alien planet.

3. A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH Guest Cast: Richard Jonhson (Lee), Stuart Damon (Parks), Anton Phillips (Dr. Mathias)

Helena Russel's husband, who has been missing in space for years, mysteriously appears on Moonbase Alpha to warn her away from the planet where he and everything on it exist as antimatter.

4. END OF ETERNITY Guest Cast: Peter Boweles, Jim Smilie (Baxter)

Commander Koenig rescues an immortal alien (Boweles) doomed to spend an eternity inside a barren asteroid. The liberated one repays his kindness by wreaking destruction among the Alphans.

5. VOYAGER'S RETURN Guest Cast: Jeremy Kemp (Dr. Ernst Linden), Barry Strokes (Jim Haines), Alex Scott (Aarchon), Lawrence Trimble (Abrams)

Moonbase Alpha is endangered by a malfunctioning, unmanned spacecraft that had been spewing lethal particles since its launch from Earth in 1985, and by aliens whose people have already been destroyed by the errant probe.

6. MISSION OF THE DARIANS Guest Cast: Joan Collins (Kava), Aubrey Morris (Petros High Priest), Dennis Burgess (Newman), Paul Antrim (Lowry), Robert Russel (Hadin)

A call for help is made on the Alphans by the incumbents of a gigantic, crippled ship who are the sole survivors of a dying planet.

7. DEATH'S OTHER DOMINIION Guest Cast: John Shrapnel, Brian Blessed (Rowland), Mary Miller (Freda)

A half-crazed Soothsayer (Shrapnel) warns the Alphans to flee from a frozen plant where Koenig and colleagues discover immortal members of an earlier space probe from Earth.

8. COLLISION COURSE

Koenig meets with the queen of an enormous planet to avoid collision with her world and his. And she insists on a preposterous solution.

[Later re-edited into the 1st half of the movie "Journey Through The Black Sun"].

9. FORCE OF LIFE Guest Cast: Ian McShane, Gay Hamilton (Eva), John Hamil (Donnix)

Burned-out equipment and frozen corpses lie in the wake of a technician (McShane) who has become an instrument of destruction that feeds on energy and endangers anything that he touches.

10. ALPHA CHILD Guest Cast: Julian Grover (Jarak), Cyd Hayman (Cynthia Crawford), Wayne Brooks (Jackie)

When 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.

11. GUARDIAN OF PIRI Guest Cast: Catherine Shell (Servant of the Guardian), Michael Culver (Pete Irving)

The Guardian of a tranquil and beautiful planet where machines do the bidding of all, lures moonbase personnel to the land of eternal peace, which Koenig realizes is living death.

12. THE TROUBLED SPIRI Guest Cast: Giancarlo Prette, Hilary Dwyer (Laura Adams), Anthony Nichols (Dr. James Warren)

A botanist (Prette) conducting experiments on communications with planets is haunted by a disfigured apparition.

13. THE BLACK SUN

"The Black Sun." A space phenomenon that even devours light draws Alpha to its center.

Later re-edited into the 2nd half of the movie "Journey Through The Black Sun"].

14. TESTAMENT OF ARKADIA Guest Cast: Orso Maria Guerrini (Luke Ferro), Lisa Harrow (Anna Davis)

The Alphans encounter what may be the origins of life on Earth. The runaway moon's uncontrolled flight comes to a sudden halt at the outer limits of space, and Alpha's power plummets when it approaches an unidentified planet.

15. THE LAST ENEMY Guest Cast: Caroline Mortimer (Dione), Maxine Audley (Theia), Kevin Stoney (Talos)

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.

16. EARTHBOUND Guest Cast: Christopher Lee (Captian Zantor)

An alien ship bound for Earth lands on the runaway moon, its crew frozen-down for the long journey. Commissioner Simmonds, who was visiting the moon when it broke away from Earth, insists on a chance to go home aboard the vessel.

17. ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE Guest Cast: Judy Geeson

Past and future overlap as Moonbase Alpha personnel land on a duplicate moon and discover themselves, and the eerie phenomenon convinces a main mission staffer (Geeson) that she is living in her own future.

18. THE INFERNAL MACHINE Guest Cast: Leo McKern

An ancient man (McKern) and the talking machine he serves come to Alpha to request urgently needed supplies. Alpha then encounters one of the strangest mysteries of the universe in a living machine.

19. MISSING LINK Guest Cast: Peter Crushing, Joanna Dunham (Vara)

An anthropologist (Crushing) from the planet Zenno abducts Koenig to become the subject of study as a spaceman of an earlier life form.

20. THE LAST SUNSET Paul (Hancock) and Sandra (Merton) look forward to raising a family as the Alphans prepare for an exodus to the planet Ariel, which apparently approximates Earth environment.

21. SPACE BRAIN Guest Cast: Shane Rimmer (Kelly), Carka Romanelli (Melita)

Alpha encounters a deadly force as it heads through space… and towards disaster when an outburst of strange hieroglyphics on all of the moon's screens portends its encounter with a "Space Brain."

22. WAR GAMES Guest Cast: Isla Bliar (female alien), Anthony Valentine (male alien), Clifton Jones (David)

After an alien attack devastates Alpha, John and Helena go to the hostile planet to plead for mercy on the survivors.

[Later re-edited into the 2nd half of the movie "Alien Attack"]

23. THE FULL CIRCLE

On a strange planet, Sandra (Merton) is kidnapped by cave men whose chief bears a striking resemblance to Koenig.

24. RING AROUND THE MOON

An alien spaceship locks Alpha into an orbit and proceeds to steal classified data from its computer banks.

		      Season 2 (1976)

25. THE METAMORPH Guest Cast: Tony Anholt (Tony Verdeschi)

Return: This episode introduces Moonbase Alpha's resident alien Maya (Catherine Schell), who has the ability to will herself into any creature at will.

[Later re-edited into the first half of the movie "Cosmic Princess"].

26. THE EXILES Guest Cast: Peter Duncan (Carter), Stacy Dorning (Zova), Margot Inglis (Mirella)

The Alphans come upon a fleet of missle-like objects that imprison the frozen bodies of exiles from another planet.

27. JOURNEY TO WHERE Guest Cast: Freddie Jones (Dr. Logan), Isla Blair (Carla)

A technological breakthrough gone awry lands John, Helena, and Alan in plague-ravaged 14 century Scotland.

28. THE TAYBOR Guest Cast: Willoughby Goddard (Taybor), John Hug (Bill Fraser)

A traveling trader of the universe covets Maya in return for a device that could transport the Alphans back to Earth.

29. NEW ADAM, NEW EVE Guest Cast: Guy Rolfe

Magus (Rolfe), an alien bearing gifts and claiming to be the creator" offers the Alphans a present they can't refuse: a new Garden of Eden-earth.

30. THE MARK OF ARKONON Guest Cast: John Standig (Pasic)

Two aliens discovered sealed in a chamber beneath the moon's surface suffer from a communicable disease that causes outbursts of violence.

31. BRIAN THE BRAIN Guest Cast: Bernard Cribbins (Captain Michael)

Kidnap victims Commander John Koenig and Dr. Helena Russel find themselves at the mercy of a robot on a planet with a poisonous atmosphere.

32. THE RULES OF LUTON Guest Cast: David Jackson, Godfrey James, Roy Mardsen (aliens)

Because of Maya's accidental "murder" of some flowers on a strange planet ruled by highly intelligent plant life, she and John must stand trial and engage in mortal combat with three aliens who committed a similar "crime."

33. A-B CHRYSALIS Guest Cast: Ina Skriver (A), Sarah Douglas (B)

Maya, Alan and John head for a planet from which shock waves wreaking devastation upon Alpha have been emanating for a week, a planet towards which the runaway moon is headed for.

34. CATACOMBS OF THE MOON Guest Cast: James Laurenson, Pamela Stevonson (Michelle Osgood), Jeffrey Kissoon (Dr. Ben Vincent)

Blasted from a tunnel by an underground explosion, miner Patrick Osgood (Laurenson) has a surrealistic vision of the destruction of Alpha.

35. THE SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION

On an asteroid, Cdr. John Koenig collapses inside a cave whose crystal-like walls reflect myriad images of himself, one of which returns in his stead to Alpha.

36. SPACE WARP

Her powers disturbed by a mysterious disease, Maya loses control over her metamorphic powers, changing from one creature to another. Meanwhile Koenig is separated light years from Alpha when the moon travels through a space warp.

[Later incorporated into the 2nd half of "Cosmic Princess"]

37. A MATTER OF BALANCE Guest Cast: Lynne Frederick (Shermeen), Stuart Wilson (Virdus)

An alien whose people are moving back in time threatens to exchange them with Alpha's crew through a "time portal."

38. THE BETA CLOUD

Many Alphans are already mysteriously incapacitated when they are further menaced by a huge creature sent by another planet to steal their life-support system.

39. THE LAMBA FACTOR Guest Cast: Debrah Fallander (Carolyn Powell), Jess Conrad (Mark Sanders)

The appearance of a cosmic cloud coincides with the mysterious death of a young woman and nightmares experienced by Koenig.

40. ONE MOMENT OF HUMANITY Guest Cast: Billie Whitelaw (Zamara), Leigh Lawson (Zarl), Geoffry Bayldon (Number Eight)

Helena and Tony are pressed into service as teachers on a planet of robots eager to learn about emotions and willing to become humanoid themselves.

41. ALL THAT GLISTERS Guest Cast: Patrick Mower (Dave Reilly)

John, Helena and Maya must battle time and an army of living rocks that emit deadly rays of colored light.

42. THE SEANCE SPECTRE Guest Cast: Ken Hutchinson (Sanderson), Carolyn Seymour (Eva)

Dissident Alphans challenge Commander Koenig's authority when the moonbase appears to be on a collision course with a huge planet, and no one can agree on how to handle the crisis.

43. BRINGERS OF WONDER (PART 1) Guest Cast: Stuart Damon (Guido Verdischi)

A "Superswift" spaceship from Earth arrives to rescue the Alphans, but an experimental machine enable Koenig to perceive the apparent rescuers for what they really are - aliens intending to destroy the moon. First of two parts.

[Both parts later re-edited into the movie "Destination: Moonbase Alpha"].

44. BRINGERS OF WONDER (PART 2)

The Alphans send Maya to infiltrate the ranks of alien warriors who are posing as rescuers from earth. Conclusion of a two-part story.

45. DORZAK Guest Cast: Lee Montague (Dorzak), Jill Townsend (Sahala)

A survivor from Maya's destroyed planet Psychon arrives on Alpha as the exiled prisoner of an alien woman.

46. IMMUNITY SYNDROME

The disintegration of their Eagle spacecraft traps John, Alan and a critically injured Tony on a planet they were exploding. As they are stranded on the nearby planet, they discover that they are being stalked by an alien and that they are now the prey of unknown creatures.

47. DEVIL'S PLANET

Koenig is sent to the moon of an alien's penal colony planet and is trapped by whip-wielding cat-women.

48. THE DORCONS Guest Cast: Ann Firbank (Varda)

The warrior Darcons threaten to invade Alpha unless Maya is handed over to them for use in their medical experiments.

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