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SERIES ONE Breakaway
1 Preparations are well advanced for the most important space journey in the history of man: a probe into deep space to explore the rogue planet Meta which has broken away from a distant galaxy and is now closer to Earth's solar system. Already, identifiable signals have come from the planet,indicating a high form of life. John Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) is commander of the mission to be launched from Earth's Space Research Centre at Moonbase Alpha. He has just returned to the moon to oversee the momentous adventure, but the probe is already in jeopardy. Two of the deep space astronauts have been stricken with a mystery illness which has already claimed nine lives. All but the astronauts have been working at the Nuclear Disposal Area Two on the dark side of the moon to which nuclear waste from Earth has been consigned. Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) is convinced that radiation has caused the terrible brain damage to the victims. But evidence discounts her theories. There is no trace of a leakage either from the deeply buried old containers at Disposal.Area One or at the new area. Koenig is sure Helena is misdiagnosing. So are others. And scientist, Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE) confirms that there is no radiation. Koenig checks for himself. Everything is normal - except for intense heat in Koenig's inspection craft. The two astronauts die. But of what? New facts emerge when their flight recorder tapes are examined and show that everything went black for two minutes while flying over the Disposal Areas, which leads to the discovery that the disused Disposal Area waste had been subject to a magnetic subsurface firestorm. It seems that the same thing may be happening to Disposal Area Two. It is the increased magnetic output that has caused the deaths, and there is immediate disaster when efforts are made to check on Area Two. A blinding nuclear explosion rocks the moon.Gravity control is affected. The moon - with Moonbase Alpha - is pulled out of orbit, moving inexorably away from Earth. Koenig has to decide whether or not to abandon and makes his grim decision. Their only hope is to remain where they are. To abort would be certain suicide. By now, the moon is speeding even more rapidly away from Earth. And on Earth, the gravity disruption is causing devastation.At Moonbase Alpha, the unmistakable sound of Meta signals comes in, now quite loud and clear… Screenplay by GEORGE BELLAK Directed by LEE KATZIN Guest Artist ROY DOTRICE with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR. MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER PHILIP MADOC as COMMANDER GORSKI LON SATTON as OUMA ERIC CARTE as COLLINS Matter of Life and Death 2 Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) has believed herself to be a widow since the disappearance of her husband, Lee, on a space mission that went wrong. Locked in orbit around Jupiter, the ship burned up. All the crew must have died. Now, sensationally, she comes face to face with Lee (RICHARD JOHNSON) when he arrives on the moon in a spacecraft [one of Alpha's Eagles] that has been probing a planet, Terra Nova, which is apparently capable of sustaining human life. But how did Lee get into the spacecraft? His condition is anything but normal and Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE) theorises that Lee must somehow have found himself on Terra Nova and that some aspect of the planet's environment caused him to change in some way. Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) is puzzled but preoccupied with the possibilities of evacuating Moonbase Alpha personnel to the planet that has all the promise of a normal future akin to that on earth. Alarmingly, when Helena touches her husband she is gripped by an enormous vibration which hurls her across the room, and further examination of Lee produces even more puzzling factors. He records no life, no body heat, yet his heart is beating and he is breathing. When he at last regains sufficient consciousness to talk, his plea is: "You are in danger. You must not go near the planet. You face power beyond your understanding. It will destroy you." and he dies. This time, there is no doubt. He is dead, but after death his skin shows changing atomic structure signs of reversed polarity and apparent confirmation of a theory that this is the first stage in the process towards anti-matter. As soon as the process is complete, it means annihilation. A little later, his body disappears. Nevertheless, Koenig decides to go ahead with the landing, taking an advance party which includes himself and Helena, and Terra Nova proves to be so like earth that he is sure it can be colonized. But from Moonbase comes an ominous warning. Bergman reports trouble. There is trouble too, aboard the spaceship. And then things begin to happen to the landing party. Koenig and Helena watch as a violent explosion rocks the moon, which disintegrates, the debris hurtling towards Terra Nova. Shock waves hit the planet. Koenig and Helena dive into a cave [actually, they try to take shelter at the base of a mountain], but Koenig is hit by falling debris...and dies. Helena then hears the voice of her dead husband, turns, and finds Lee standing beside her to tell her how he and his companions had been affected by a form of radiation, atomized scattered into deep space. What Lee became, what he is now, ended on Terra Nova. Just as there are many forms of life in space, so there are many forms of death. Lee is now anti-matter. He could never survive on earth. Now Helena must leave. He can give her the strength she needs. Lee vanishes and Koenig, alive again, comes towards her. Everything is as it was before and from Bergman on the moon comes the announcement that everything is ready for Operation Exodus...if Koenig gives the go-ahead. Screenplay by ART WALLACE, JOHNNY BYRNE Directed by CHARLES CRICHTON Guest Artist RICHARD JOHNSON with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR. MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER STUART DAMON as PARKS Black Sun 3 A new menace threatens Moonbase personnel as they find themselves on a collision course with an asteroid which suddenly, ominously burns itself out and dissolves into a thick mass of gaseous substance. It's huge and it's black. Instruments are affected as astronaut Ryan (PAUL JONES) tries desperately to control his Eagle spacecraft but is caught in a tremendous gravitational pull and disintegrates. The significance of the phenomenon is not lost on Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) and Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE). Here is evidence of the dreaded black sun, with its fantastic gravitation that pulls everything into it, even light. Koenig estimates that they will have only three days before the moon itself, and all on it, will become victims. A scheme, born of theory based on desperation, is suggested by Bergman. Seven anti-gravity towers stabilize Moonbase Alpha's gravity. Bergman believes that by linking and cross-linking the anti-gravity screens on each tower, an entirely new forcefield could be affected which might save them by bending the pressure on three sides with such force that, as they enter the black sun, they will be forced through its weakest point. It is not long before the black sun is drawing their power. The atmosphere gets colder and colder. Chances of survival are remote but Koenig decides that there will be a better chance for some to survive, at any rate, if they could leave the moon in an eagle, like a lifeboat in space, perhaps finding their way to a planet where they could find a new existence. He chooses six people with the best potential for survival. Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) is one of them. But time is getting even shorter. The gravitational force of the black sun is increasing every minute. The Eagle takes off, with three men and three women. Carter (NICK TATE) is piloting. The others are left to face the unknown as they are drawn closer and closer towards the black mass...and into it. Koenig and Bergman suddenly realise that they have become transparent. All sounds stop. Koenig believes time has stopped. Their appearance changes. With startling rapidity, they age into old, old men. Eons old, perhaps. A thought strikes Keonig that the whole universe is nothing but living thought. A child's voice is heard as the two men find themselves walking among the stars. Every star, perhaps, is just a cell in the brain of the universe, and the child's voice is heard to say "You think at what you call the speed of light. In eternity, I have no hurry. I think a thought, perhaps, in every thousand of your years...I am the known and the unknown. The seen and the unseen. All things come me (sic). I am not part of them." [See correction.] Then the child has gone. Koenig and Bergman find they are normal again. are (sic) through. Unbelievably Bergman's forcefield has held, but what has happened? Where is the Eagle and its occupants? Screenplay by DAVID WEIR Directed by LEE KATZIN Guest Artist PAUL JONES with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR. MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER JOHN LAURIMORE as SMITTY Ring Around the Moon 4 The first indication that Moonbase Alpha is menaced by new and sinister forces comes with the remarkable behavior of a maintenance engineer who, struck by a bright violet [orange] light from out of the sky, suddenly becomes a human computer and meets his death. At the same time, Alpha is hit by a tremendous shockwave. A little later, a huge sphere of red-orange light appears on the large screen in Mission Control [Main Mission], a ring of light encircles the moon, and Commander John Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) realizes that they have become locked in the strange sphere's orbit. A mysterious voice confirms: "You are captives of the planet Triton." The computer gives a reading that the sphere is composed of light, is hollow and has a zero temperature. An ominous watch is being kept on Alpha, and the next victim of the mysterious force is Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN). She appears to glide into nothingness and then finds herself in the hovering sphere's void. A streak of light hits her forehead and settles against the base of her skull and when she finds herself back again on the moon it is clear to Dr. Bergman (BARRY MORSE) that her captors have learned the secret of decomposing atoms and reducing any object to its atomic components which can be transported through space and then reassembled. Bergman also does planetary calculations which indicate that Triton has not been heard of for thousands of years, and further calculations make it certain that it no longer exists. It blew up and disintegrated two million light years away. The sphere is a probe mission which is unaware of what has happened. What is it seeking? One thing is certain: it is trying to obtain information about Earth. Dr. Russell has been programmed - a human conductor connected to Alpha's computer which turns her into an informer transmitting classified information. Death can be her only reward when the Tritonians have gained everything they want. Somehow, they have to be convinced that their efforts are being wasted because their planet no longer exists, and in undertaking this hazardous task, Koenig discovers that the Tritonians have been watching Earthmen for many Earth centuries to find means of preventing what they fear may one day be an invasion from Earth. But can they be convinced, and, if so, in time to save Helena? Screenplay by EDWARD DI LORENZO Directed by RAY AUSTIN with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR. MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER MAX FAULKNER as TED CLIFFORD Earthbound 5 A spaceship makes a crash landing on the moon. It appears to be unmanned until Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU), Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN), and Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE) investigate and find six figures laid out like dummies in Perspex caskets. There is every indication that life no longer exists, but to their horror, when forcing open one of the caskets, the body of the very beautiful woman inside is immediately reduced to ashes. Almost at once, lights flash, walls of the other caskets slide open, and the five [remaining] figures slowly awaken. All are extremely tall and striking, their leader, a dignified figure who gives his name as Captain Zantor (CHRISTOPHER LEE). The aliens have been in a state of suspended animation for three-and-a-half centuries in Earth time, and Zantor explains that his planet, Kaldor, was dying. Spaceships have been sent to every planet which might sustain Kaldor's kind of life. His ship was planned to orbit the moon so that its personnel could be re-animated for the final stage of the journey to Earth. The news excites Commissioner Simmonds (ROY DOTRICE), who has always refused to believe Koenig's explanation that it is scientifically impossible for Moonbase Alpha to locate and return to Earth. He is determined to accompany the Kaldorians in the remainder of their journey in the now fully repaired spaceship. He even suggests that the ship should be commandeered so that six members of Moonbase Alpha could go. Koenig angrily rejects any such idea and declares that the computer will select the best possible choice for the space left vacant by the dead Kaldorian girl. The name will not be revealed until the last moment, but Simmonds is determined that he shall be the choice, although Captain Zantor would like it to be Helena [See correction.], who undergoes tests to ensure that the human system would be suited to the state of suspended animation. Simmonds eventually takes matters into his own hands by breaking into the Power Station and threatening to destroy the whole of Moonbase Alpha unless Koenig agrees to let him go. Koenig has a heart-searching decision to take… Screenplay by ANTHONY TERPILOFF Directed by CHARLES CRICHTON Guest Artist ROY DOTRICE Special Guest Star CHRISTOPHER LEE with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR. MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER Another Time, Another Place 6 The mysteries of outer space take on a new and macabre development for Moonbase Alpha personnel as the moon is lashed by a terrifying disturbance that churns them into a vortex of horror. The moon, travelling at colossal speed, dissolves into a duplicate of itself, the second one then vanishing, as its inhabitants also form into double images, writhing in agony as they do so. All seem to find themselves in a totally different part of space. The worst affected is Regina Kesslann (JUDY GEESON), of Main Mission. She is unconscious and whimpering as things appear to return to normal. Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU), Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) and Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE), still badly shaken, have an even greater shock when they discover they are now in a solar system and must have traveled millions of miles in a matter of seconds. Regina's mind appears to be wandering when she returns to consciousness, murmuring about seeing two moons and the sun, and that wherever she was, the others were there too, but they will never come back. They are dead. Somehow, she is living in the future when the present is the past, and she is trying to warn them of something. Whatever has happened, there is soon joy on the moon. Miraculously, they have found themselves in Earth's orbit again, with hopes of returning to Earth at last. But attempts to contact Earth are in vain. At the same time, Regina seems to have become more normal again except that she imagines she is married to Alan Carter (NICK TATE), to his complete astonishment. He hardly knows her. A little later, she dies and X-rays show that she had two separate brains. Then the second moon is seen and is radiating Alpha's own signals. Somehow, they have caught up with themselves. Koenig and Carter set out in an Eagle to investigate, land on the duplicate moon and discover it has been evacuated except for their other selves, who are dead. Back again at Moonbase, plans are put in hand for landing on Earth - to head back for future time. And those who go find themselves face to face with their other selves...their future selves… Screenplay by JOHNNY BYRNE Directed by DAVID TOMBLIN Guest Artist JUDY GEESON with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR. MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER Missing Link 7 Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) is dying, severely injured when the Eagle craft in which he has been carrying out explorations goes out of control and crashes on the moon's surface. But he seems to be alive and well, without any sign of his injuries, as he makes off on his own, but finds Main Mission completely deserted except for the sudden, unexpected appearance of an incredibly lovely girl. She smiles and then vanishes. Puzzled, he goes to the Main Console and presses the big screen button and finds himself looking at an unbelievably beautiful, futuristic world, the strange and elegant buildings in the shapes of different bright colours. The room spins round. He finds himself in the midst of a purple void. He is on the planet Zenno—a planet consisting entirely of light. Koenig has been brought there by the man now addressing him. His name is Raan (PETER CUSHING), a strikingly dressed but gentle figure who tells him that he has brought him there. He is an image of his own self, as is the Main Mission to which he had made his way after the crash. Koenig is now five million light years away from Earth. Zenno's existence will not be discovered by Earthmen for many years, perhaps never. But the breakaway moon has come close. Back on the moon, Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) is fighting to save Koenig's life. Two of his travelling companions, Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE) and Sandra (ZIENIA MERTON), who have also been injured in the Eagle crash, are in a serious condition. The beautiful girl Koenig had seen so fleetingly reappears. She is Raan's daughter Vana (JOANNA DUNHAM). She looks incredibly young but tells him she is 218 years old; her father is 508. The life span on Zenno is ten times that on Earth. It is Vana who explains that her father is a foremost anthropologist and that his reason for bringing Koenig to Zenno is to learn about the past, and Earth, from him first hand. Vana is clearly attracted to him. It is a new emotion for her. Her father is the first to realize that she is experiencing the emotion of love. Koenig sees that his only chance of ever getting back to his own people is to trade on that love. Only she can influence her father. It becomes a battle between him and Raan. On the moon, there seems to be little hope of saving Koenig. Helena is relying on the life support system, but she cannot save Sandra. Raan is using her to try to influence Koenig, who by now is struggling against his own feelings of love for Vana. It would be easy to spend his future with her. But his real life, he knows, is back on the moon. His only hope now is to exert the forces of another type of love—the love of a father for his daughter. But time is running short. Raan has warned him. Only one can survive, the Earth Koenig or his image... Screenplay by EDWARD DI LORENZO Directed by RAY AUSTIN Guest Artist JOANNA DUNHAM Special Guest Star PETER CUSHING with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR. MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER Guardian of Piri 8 False information from the Computer lures two astronauts, Peter Irving (MICHAEL CULVER) and Ed Davis (JOHN LEE-BARBER), into danger when sent on a reconnaissance flight to study a planet, which they discover has the name Piri. Contact is lost and it is assumed they have crashed. It is the first of a series of worrying events for Commander John Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU), Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) and Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE). The Computer is certainly behaving oddly. While testing it, David Kano (CLIFTON JONES) disappears into thin air. And when astronauts Alan Carter (NICK TATE) and Ken Johnson (JAMES FAGAN) are sent on a further recce, with instructions to stick to manual control and ignore information from the Computer, they find Pete Irving's command module [his entire Eagle] poised motionless above Piri's surface. But there is no one in it. Bergman works out that the planet can sustain life, and Koenig, with Carter piloting him, risks a landing on the multi-colored Piri, breathtakingly beautiful with its almost uniform pinnacles topped with clusters of white spheres, but what appears to be vegetation is completely lifeless. Then, to his amazement, he finds Irving, Barker [Ed Davis] and Kano in statuesque states of trance, smiles on their faces but their unflinching gazes showing no signs of awareness of his presence. A brilliant light radiates from a hill [a building], and from it steps an incredibly lovely woman who explains that she is the servant of the Guardian: "We found your moon floating helplessly through our universe and we have brought you here—to relieve you of your human pain." She tells Koenig how the planet had been peopled by Pirians of great technical skill. They built a world of machines so they could enjoy their pleasure. Then they created the Guardian to control their machines. Their life was perfect and the Guardian was directed to maintain it. Time was suspended. Now this blissful paradise is extended to Koenig and his companions, and back on the moon everyone is dancing and celebrating, drinking toasts to the evacuation that will give them a new existence on the planet. The Computer is issuing instructions. It has usurped Koenig, who fights in vain to prevent the evacuation. The final battle is when all are on Piri, accepting the eternal peace that would be living death. But apart from the Alphans and the Pirian girl, there are no people. Nothing moves. But there is still the Guardian. The Pirian girl is acting for him, telling the Alphans that there is one who threatens their happiness. Commander Koenig must be destroyed. Koenig's only chance is to destroy the Pirian girl. In doing so, he will destroy the Guardian. Time will be restored. The grim task has a terrifying outcome... Screenplay by CHRISTOPHER PENFOLD Directed by CHARLES CRICHTON Guest Artist CATHERINE SCHELL with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR. MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER MICHAEL CULVER as PETE IRVING Force of Life 9 A strange ball of blue light appears in the space sky, coming towards Moonbase Alpha. Technician Anton Zoref (IAN McSHANE) shivers with cold, although his pretty young wife Eva (GAY HAMILTON) complains of feeling hot. When Zoref approaches Main Mission, Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU), Dr. Helena Russell (Barbara Bain) and other personnel are suddenly frozen still like statues. Zoref enters the generating area. A blue light zooms towards him. He clutches his head, screams and collapses. [See corrections.] The others come to life again. Zoref is still unconscious. When Helena examines him in Medical Center, a medical monitor fails due to what Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE) later explains was a massive discharge of energy. Whatever has happened, Zoref appears to have recovered, but from now on he is a man possessed with a terrifying need for heat [energy]. Whatever alien force it is that has gripped him, it is consuming heat he is a man possessed with a terrifying need for heat [energy], and he will withdraw heat he is a man possessed with a terrifying need for heat [energy] from any source, human or otherwise. Everything he touches freezes instantly. A lamp turns to solid ice. [See correction.] Two [three] of his colleagues are frozen to death. He is like a rampaging animal and no one dare get near him. Koenig orders power supplies to be cut from the reactors, even though this will endanger patients in the medical section who are dependent of machines. Only by taking away any source of light and warmth [all forms of energy] can the man who has become a human instrument of destruction be himself destroyed. His wife's love for him is so great that she rushes towards him, and it is only because of the appearance and quick action on the part of astronaut Alan Carter (NICK TATE) that she is saved. He forces her back, and Zoref staggers after them in his urgent need for heat. [See correction.] He is weakening through the lack of power. Despairingly, he tries to reach the generating room but finds he has got to force his way past Koenig. Summoning his last reserves of energy, he hurls himself at the Commander, who is also saved by Carter when he fires his laser gun and sees Zoref topple forward, charred to the bone. [See correction.] Then Zoref's blackened, burned-out body begins to pulsate with light. [See correction.] The laser has regenerated him. With colossal strength, [Zoref’s dead but reanimated body] forces open the doors to the generating area, and as Koenig orders power to be restored, the wreck of a man moves into the white light [after opening the door to the nuclear reactor]. As he does so, the light intensifies. A massive fission explosion occurs...and from the top of the explosion emerges a swirling comet of blue light which heads out into the space sky. Screenplay by JOHNNY BYRNE Directed by DAVID TOMBLIN Guest Star IAN McSHANE Guest Artist GAY HAMILTON with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR. MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER JOHN HAMILL as MARK DOMINIX EVA RUEBER-STAIER as JANE Alpha Child 10 Cynthia [Sue] Crawford (CYD HAYMAN) is the first woman on the moon to become a mother, but terror is soon to follow the birth of her baby, Jackie. Within hours, he grows into a five-year-old boy, alert and intelligent but a deaf mute. Cynthia [Sue] is reduced to a state of shock and Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) and Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) wonder if the fantastic growth is a form of mutation caused by the artificial environment of Alpha. They are puzzled and intrigued by the skill with which the boy draws an amazingly detailed picture of an advanced spaceship [See Correction.] and then, alarmingly, a green light in the space sky materializes into a craft identical to the one Jackie has drawn, a little later to be joined by three others. The alien ships hover menacingly just above the moon's surface. Computer records some form of life inside, but it is not human. Attempts to bombard one of the craft with laser fire are in vain: the rays are defected. Koenig takes quick action, putting into operation a four-pronged attack, but as he does so another startling transformation takes place in Jackie. In minutes, he grows into a man (JULIAN GLOVER). His name, he says, is Jarak, and he forced Helena to contact Koenig with the warning that, unless he calls off the new attack, Alpha will be destroyed. He then demands to be taken to Cynthia [Sue] Cawford. She dies as she sees him but is immediately revitalized into a ravishingly beautiful creature who greets Jarak passionately. He addresses her as Rena and explains that they are involuntary travelers through space, seeking a physical form which to conceal their own identities. On their planet, they faced extermination because they were different, and now 120 of them are running away from the ruthlessly imposed genetic conformity. Their plan is to take over the bodies of those on Moonbase. The moments of birth and death are ideally suited to this purpose [they explain], and the birth of Jackie Crawford gave Jarak his chance. Now there will be more deaths as Jarak's companions in the hovering spaceships transfer themselves to dying Moonbase Alpha bodies that have been selected. But a blinding flash [a spaceship is destroyed] is a warning to Jarak that his people's enemies have caught up with them. Six [one] more space ships have arrived and the war of the spaceships is raging. The outcome will decide the fate of Moonbase Alpha and its people, and of Jarak and Rena. Screenplay by CHRISTOPHER PENFOLD Directed by RAY AUSTIN Guest Artists JULIAN GLOVER CYD HAYMAN with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR. MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER WAYNE BROOKS as JACKIE The Last Sunset 11 Since the day the moon broke out of its orbit, life for the Moonbase Alpha personnel has been a strangely artificial existence, breathing made possible by the use of oxygen, life outside the base restricted to movements in pressurized spacesuits. Now there is the prospect of normal life, with the warmth of a real sun, the invigoration of fresh air. They have found a new solar system with a planet Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE) identifies as Ariel. Fears that an alien attack is being made prove to be groundless when a satellite-shaped object lands, pouring out a gas which creates fresh air. On the horizon, the long-forgotten sight of blue sky and a warm sun. Gravity has returned. If the Moon can go into orbit, the gravity will be almost exactly equivalent to Earth's. Dubious at first, Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) and Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) have to agree that the future is bright. The Moon could become a new Earth. They could settle and build outside the moon base, fertilize the lunar dust and raise crops, and create rainfall with cloud-forming crystals. Already, they can play games and sun-bathe in the open, and for Paul Morrow (PRENTIS HANCOCK) and Sandra Benes (ZIENIA MERTON) there is now hope of their relationship blossoming into a normal Earth-like love affair, creating a future with a home of their own and children. But a violent storm shakes the moon. Out on a survey mission in an Eagle, Helena, Paul and Sandra, piloted by Alan Carter (NICK TATE) are caught in the turbulence. The Eagle crashes and they are trapped. Sandra is injured, and their water supply is contaminated. Paul, in search of water, finds a white [fungus-like] substance, tastes it and finds that is quenches his thirst. They can survive. He carries Sandra to the hut he builds, declaiming exultantly that the future is theirs, but Helena and Alan realize that the situation is becoming even more desperate. Paul's mind has been affected by whatever it was that he tasted; and hopes of their being found by searchers from Moonbase Alpha are receding. From the planet Ariel there is at last verbal communication. The dream of the future is fading.... Screenplay by CHRISTOPHER PENFOLD Directed by CHARLES CRICHTON with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR. MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER Voyager's Return 12 The clock rolls back for Commander John Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) and the personnel of Moonbase Alpha when a spaceship is seen approaching, a voice from its computer signaling that this is Voyager 1, with greetings from the people of Planet Earth. Voyager 1 was launched back in 1985, long before the explosion which sent the moon out of Earth’s orbit. It has been polluting space ever since because of a tragic miscalculation in its Queller Drive engine, causing a lethal pollution producing fast neutrons which annihilate matter. Realization of this came when Voyager 2 was launched and the Queller Drive activated too soon, causing the deaths of an entire scientific colony on the moon. The danger Moonbase Alpha now finds itself in is made clear when two Eagles on reconnaissance are caught in violent vibrations. Voyager 1 must either be destroyed or its Queller Drive deactivated. Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE) protests that to destroy it would mean loss of all the valuable information it had gathered during its years in space. If possible, it must be saved and the one man who might be able to do so is scientist Dr. Ernst Linden (JEREMY KEMP), of the experimental Laboratory, who is asked if there are any means of overriding the Voyager 1 computer's security codes and get access to the command circuit, enabling instructions to be given to shut down the drive. [See Correction.] Although it is not realized at the time, Dr. Linden is most certainly the only man capable of doing this. He is, in fact, Ernst Queller. He changed his name after the disaster caused by Voyager 2. But can even he achieve this new assignment? He is facing a desperate race against time, and the situation takes a grim turn when his assistant, Jim Haines (BARRY STOKES), whose parents were lost in the early disaster, discovers his real identity and, losing his temper, strikes Dr. Linden with such force that he is incapacitated. Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) struggles to revive the injured man, struggling against the clock. Only minutes remain before Commander Koenig must decide to give the destruct order. Voyager 1 is saved at the last moment and is brought to a safe landing on the moon, but there is even greater drama ahead with the materialization of a humanoid alien, and the appearance of three alien spaceships [approaching Alpha]. The strange newcomer introduces himself as Aarchon (ALEX SCOTT), "Chief Justifier of the Federated Worlds of Sidon", seeking vengeance for the millions whose lives were extinguished when the Queller Drive decimated two of those worlds.… Screenplay by JOHNNY BYRNE Directed by BOB KELLETT Guest Star JEREMY KEMP Guest Artist BARRY STOKES with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR. MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER LAWRENCE TRIMBLE as PILOT [JIM] ABRAMS Collision Course 13 Alan Carter (NICK TATE) is the first to see her. She appears when he is flying an Eagle during a mission on which action has to be taken to blast an asteroid which would otherwise hit the Moon. When his mechanism jams, he is aware, though in an unconscious state, that he has been saved by the strange, aged figure of the woman, known later to be Arra (MARGARET LEIGHTON), queen of the planet Atheria. But, one danger averted, an even more menacing threat appears. The Moon is on another collision course, this time with a massive planet many times the size of the Moon. Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE) suggests a chain of nuclear charges, like mines moored in space, which would create a shockwave and change the planet's trajectory; a plan which is postponed when Sandra Benes (ZIENIA MERTON) comes up with the startling readings that some kind of life could exist there. Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) dare not waste time. A reconnaissance Eagle is prepared and he sets out to investigate, despite objections from Dr Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN). Speeding towards the menacing planet, he finds himself drawn into the vast spaceship which is preceding it and comes face to face with Arra. She tells him: "I have been waiting a long time to meet you, John Koenig. We have expected you for many millions of years...your destiny has always been our destiny...our separate planets have met in the body of time for the great purpose of mutation...the change shall reverberate through the galaxies and universes of eternity." But back on the moon, the collision now seems inevitable unless Operation Shockwave is put into operation. If it is, then Koenig must return to Moonbase and persuade them to change the plan. Can he exert his authority to do so? Or is Helena right in diagnosing radiation sickness, with hallucination and disorientation. Meanwhile, the planet Atheria is getting closer and closer... Screenplay by ANTHONY TERPILOFF Directed by RAY AUSTIN Special Guest Star MARGARET LEIGHTON with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR. MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER Death's Other Dominion 14 The code name given to the planet which has come into view is "The Ice Planet" because of the computer readings that it has atmosphere, but temperatures Moonbase Alpha personnel would find intolerable, dropping at night right down to 200 degrees below. Its gravitational pull is so strong that it is affecting the moon's trajectory. Then, surprisingly and dramatically, a signal is received. It is a human voice, and it is reporting "We have life here, a long life that you could share…Ultima Thule is a lost paradise! Come!" For Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU), the prospect is so interesting that he decides to investigate. Accompanying him in the reconnaissance Eagle are Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN), Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE) and Alan Carter (NICK TATE) at the controls. They land. The planet's surface is deep in snow and ice, hidden in an impenetrably thick mist, the wind howling. They are able to identify where the signals are coming from. For a time, they get separated. Carter manages to get back to the Eagle; the others succeed in getting together, fighting what seems to be a losing battle. The cast of "Death's Other Dominion" includes John Shrapnel, David Eillison and all the regulars of the series, with a great deal of the action centered on Nick Tate. The episode is very much of a husband-and-wife effort. Producers are Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. Stars Martin Landau and Barbara Bain are married. And the screenplay is by husband-and-wife Anthony Terpiloff and Elizabeth Barrows. Screenplay by ANTHONY TERPILOFF & ELIZABETH BARROWS Directed by CHARLES CRICHTON Guest Star BRIAN BLESSED Guest Artist JOHN SHRAPNELL with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR. MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER MARY MILLER as FREDA The Full Circle 15 The discovery of a planet, given the name of Retha, has a bewildering outcome when a seven-man landing party fails to return. The Eagle in which they were traveling, brought back to the moon by remote control, is found to be empty except for the body of a Stone Age man. Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) immediately orders a full-scale rescue, led by himself with Dr Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN), Sandra (ZIENIA MERTON), Alan Carter (NICK TATE). A successful landing is made on the strangely beautiful planet, and Koenig and Helena set off through a misty atmosphere. Worried because contact is lost with them, Carter follows, leaving Sandra behind in the Eagle, but he falls into a cleverly camouflaged pit, where he is trapped by cavemen until managing to escape through their being distracted by hearing Sandra's voice and seeing her face on his commlock. But there is even greater danger for Sandra as she is carried off by a caveman, taking her to a vast cave where the Cave Chief has his lair, with his Cave Wife and other cave people sitting around fires. To the obvious jealousy of the Cave Wife, the Chief takes an immediate interest in Sandra who looks at him first in fear then astonishment. Under the thick hair covering head and face, he looks just like John Koenig, but there is no sign of recognition from him as she pleads for help—but help does come from him when her captor, offering her a beautiful jaguar skin, tears at her tunic. In the fight that follows, Sandra's captor is defeated and Sandra, grabbing a stone, crashes it on to the Cave Chief's face and escapes, only to be recaptured and taken back to the cave. The Cave Wife is tending her husband's blood-stained face but it is clear he is going to die. Meanwhile, Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE) and Kano (CLIFTON JONES) have followed in another Eagle and have found Carter. Searching for the others, they come across Koenig lying unconscious in a clearing, his face covered in dried blood. He is taken back to the moon, where the results of the test on the dead caveman in the early Eagle are coming through. He undoubtedly belongs to the Cro Magnon period of 40,000 years back—yet his teeth are capped, and as the significance of this sinks in, finger prints and blood group tests prove him to be the pilot [Sandos] of the first group of Alphans to land on Retha. It is the now conscious Koenig who realizes that he has been through a time warp back to the Stone Age, becoming the Cave Chief of the era. The Cave Wife must be Helena: the cave people the other members of Moonbase Alpha who have landed on Retha. All are facing death. Carter has set out to find Sandra, ready to kill with is deadly stun gun—and if he succeeds, the people he will kill will be Helena and his own comrades. Screenplay by JESSE LASKY, JR. & PAT SILVER Directed by BOB KELLETT with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR. MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER OLIVER COTTON as SPEARMAN End of Eternity 16 The appearance of an asteroid is baffling. It is three light years from the nearest star and must have been travelling a thousand years in space. Computer reports that there is an atmosphere source somewhere inside it. Its proximity to the runaway moon gives Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) the opportunity to land on it, piloted by Mike Baxter (JIM SMILIE) and accompanied by Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE). They blast their way into it. Baxter is dazed by the explosion which later leads to the threat of blindness; and, in the living chamber inside, is an unconscious, terribly injured humanoid alien (PETER BOWLES). Yet when the alien is taken to Moonbase, there is not a scratch on him. [See correction.] A terrifying power has been unleashed. The man they have rescued gives his name as Balor, citizen of the planet Progron, a scientist who has achieved man's dream of immortality for his people, defeating death with the promise of eternal happiness. But with nothing to strive for, civilization has lost its purpose, and with it the realization that only death can give meaning to life. Balor has been blamed and banished, imprisoned in a living rock from the planet and cast into space. But he is now, as Koenig soon comes to realize, a complete psychopath. He is hungry for pain and destruction. His immense strength, and powers of regeneration and eternal life drive him on to destroy everything and everyone within his reach. No one is safe from him, but there is no way of catching him and holding him. How can you kill a man who cannot be killed? The decision Koenig takes is a grim one. Somehow, he has to be lured into an airlock from which he can be released into space forever; but to trap him, Koenig has to be with him.… Screenplay by JOHNNY BYRNE Directed by RAY AUSTIN Guest Artist PETER BOWLES with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR. MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER JIM SMILIE as MIKE BAXTER War Games 17 Moonbase Alpha is at war! The attack comes from an unnamed planet, launched by a fleet of fighters that strafe the moon with laser fire, causing enormous explosions. As windows are smashed, men are sucked into space in clouds of loose articles and debris. Defending Eagles are destroyed in space. Main Mission is wrecked, and the base is left shattered and burning before the attacking craft turn away. Grimly, Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) warns that they will now send in bombers. [See correction.] He is right, but the one remaining laser-equipped Eagle [Alan Carter’s] averts this further disaster. A gigantic nuclear explosion fills the space sky. Moonbase is no longer habitable, with 129 dead and Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) tending the many others who have been injured. Only one hope remains, to come to terms with the enemy planet and seek a new life there. Koenig and Helena Russell make the journey in an unarmed Eagle and come face to face with eerie figures silhouetted in strange columns. The appeals to allow Alpha personnel to come to the planet are rejected by the Male Alien (ANTHONY VALENTINE), telling them they have no place in space at all. They are a contaminating organism - a plague of fear. The Female Alien (ISLA BLAIR) tells them: "Your presence on this planet would destroy a civilization that has survived for billions of years". When Koenig moves in to attack them, both fire laser beams at him. [See correction.] He drops dead but Helena, taken into one of the columns, finds herself with the power to bring him back to life. Allowed to go [but prevented from taking Helena by a force field]m he reaches the Eagle and calls Moonbase, issuing orders for the last of the laser Eagles to be launched and for Alpha to be evacuated to the planet. But the plan fails, and at the same time Helena is being told about the harmonious world of the planet on which there is no fear. Earth man's own enemy is his own fear Back again on Alpha, everything is normal again - except that an attack appears imminent. The Alphans are back to where they were before the attack that destroyed the moon. This time, Koenig tells the defending Eagles to hold their fire. His instructions are greeted with blank astonishment and horror, and the the fighters blink out of existence. Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE) asks if this means they can go to the planet, but before Koenig can reply, he hears the voices of the aliens saying they hope he will stay away: "You are so primitive and unstable, so governed by emotions like fear, that you would destroy our perfect world...our only defense was to make your fears appear real...in a moment of time we have shown you the possible consequences of a decision we trust you will not take...." Screenplay by CHRISTOPHER PENFOLD Directed by CHARLES CRICHTON Guest Star ANTHONY VALENTINE Guest Artist ISLA BLAIR with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER The Last Enemy 18 Two planets come into view, and then an approaching spaceship. On Moonbase Alpha, Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) orders a Red Alert. Defensive Eagles are instructed to be ready for takeoff, but not one is able to move. One by one, their engines fade and die, and at the same time Alpha's power fails. Emergency power is switched on as the spaceship lands. A deafening, blinding bombardment begins—but the firing is not at Alpha itself. The objective becomes apparent: the fire is directed at one of the two planets. Realization dawns on Koenig: "We are involved in a war between two planets." It is Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE) who provides the explanation. The two planets are on opposite sides of the sun. They can't see each other and they can't fire at each other directly because any kind of missile would be drawn in by the sun's gravity. So the arrival of the runaway moon has provided a ready-made gun platform in space, and the moon base is in the middle of a shooting match. The spaceship is caught in an enormous explosion, and at the same time Alpha's power returns and the Eagles are mobile again. An aerial inspection indicates no sign of life from the spaceship, and then an escape capsule appears and makes its way towards Alpha. A young and beautiful woman emerges. Her name is Dione (CAROLINE MORTIMER). She is a commander from the planet Betha, and she warns that enemies on planet Delta, with which Betha has always been at war, will launch a retaliatory attack. She offers asylum on her planet for the moon base personnel if Alpha is attacked, but is already too late for action. Delta, copying Betha, has landed a spaceship on the moon. The counter-attack on Betha has begun, but the Deltan gunship is destroyed [by Bethan missiles], and Koenig offers to negotiate a cease-fire between the two planets. Talos (KEVIN STONEY), Supreme Commander of Deltan Armed Forces and Theia (MAXINE AUDLEY), Chief Commissioner of Bethan Defenses, are contacted. The cease-fire is agreed. But Koenig has reckoned without the feminine wiles of Dione.... Screenplay by BOB KELLETT Directed by BOB KELLETT Guest Artiste CAROLINE MORTIMER with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER MAXINE AUDLEY as THEIA KEVIN STONEY as TALOS CAROLYN COURAGE as FIRST GIRL The Troubled Spirit 19 An eerie wind, increasing in intensity, sweeps through Moonbase Alpha, when Dan Mateo (GIANCARLO PRETE) is conducting experiments in the Hydroponic Unit in which he works as a botanist. With him at the time is his assistant Laura Adams (HILARY DWYER). Lights dim. A sudden drop in temperature is recorded. Plants, grown in the unit for the studies carried out there, droop and die. And Mateo collapses. Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) diagnoses severe shock, but what has caused it? Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) and Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE) are aware of the background of Mateo's experiments. He believes mankind has some affinity with plants. Both have nervous systems. Certain wave patterns in the human brain correspond precisely to the wave patterns plants send out. Mateo has been attempting to tap those wave patterns at source, hoping to achieve communications between plants and humans. Mateo is still in the Medical Unit under Helena's care when he becomes conscious of the shadowy shape of a man. It then disappears, but a little later Helena sees the same strange shape which seems to her to bear a resemblance to Mateo. It is uttering sighing noises, and as it turns its head, one side of his face is seen to be horribly scarred. Dr. James Warren (ANTHONY NICHOLLS), the head of the Hydroponic unit, has already forbidden Mateo to continue with his experiments. Koenig confirms the ban. Mateo resists and has a row with Warren, then once again sees the misty figure. So does Warren—and a few moments later, he is dead. Koenig and Bergman are worried, now convinced that Alpha is being terrorized by some psychic being. Their fears are confirmed when Mateo secretly continues his experiments, quarrelling with Laura Adams because he does so. Again the mysterious figure appears—and Laura dies. It is Bergman who suggests that the only way to fight this thing is to allow Mateo to carry out his experiments under supervision so that they can see what happens. The outcome is terrifying. Mateo's body is gripped in agonizing pain, the wind noise is heard and increases, plants vibrate madly then wither and die—and the ghostly, mutilated figure again emerges. This time, there is no doubt. It is a spirit Mateo (VAL MUSETTI). Whatever thing it is that Mateo has summoned up, it has come back to avenge some terrible death...its own death, which has not yet happened! There is only one hope now: some form of exorcism through a scientific approach, to remove the spectre of a man haunted by his own ghost while still alive... Screenplay by JOHNNY BYRNE Directed by RAY AUSTIN Guest Artistes GIANCARLO PRETE HILARY DWYER ANTHONY NICHOLLS with ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER Space Brain 20 The indication of a new and unseen danger of the Moon as it heads though space is the sudden outburst of strange, rapid hieroglyphics on all of Alpha's screens. Two astronauts are sent out to investigate, and report a spectacular display of light, with a gigantic cluster of gossamer threads suspended in the heavens. It is like a huge space anemone. The Eagle is gripped in what seems to be like enormous coloured snowflakes...and disappears. Moments later, a glowing ball of white hot substance screams towards Alpha. Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) takes it to be a meteorite, but when it lands its impact is devastating. Analysis of its constituents provides a terrifying shock, as Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE) reports that they are the tightly compressed elements of the Eagle and its human occupants. Meanwhile Carter (NICK TATE) and his colleague Kelly (SHANE RIMMER) have set out in another Eagle to search for the missing Alphans. Kelly space walks to investigate, and is caught up in the glutinous foaming substance they have encountered. [See correction.] It seems at first that he is dead, his body floating in space, but life returns and Carter is able to get him back into the Eagle before obeying instructions to return immediately to Alpha. Kelly is behaving like a man possessed, saying they must go forward, and displaying superhuman strength as Carter tries to control him, and then has no option but to turn his stun gun on him. Back again on Alpha, it soon becomes evident that Kelly's brain has been taken over by the mysterious, intangible alien force. Through him, the computer is taken over, receiving and transmitting messages at a fantastic speed; but he is unable to replay what it is that the strange force is trying to say. [See correction.] The Moon is heading towards the energy field and it is impossible to change course. By now, Koenig has come to realise that, whatever it is, it is organism and intelligent. Only disaster can lie ahead if they hit it. Desperate measures are required. An Eagle is loaded with an enormous nuclear charge, timed to explode when it encounters the space "brain" replay what it is that the strange force is trying to say. [See correction.], but the uncanny forces are stronger than has been feared. Kelly is at last able to make it known that the "brain" is not aggressive. It is trying to defend itself. All it wants is for the moon somehow to be diverted from its collision course. Koenig immediately orders the nuclear-filled Eagle to be brought back but it is too late. It has changed course and is now heading for Alpha! Can it be stopped and, if so, what happens next. The threat of oblivion is very close. Screenplay by CHRISTOPHER PENFOLD Directed by CHARLES CRICHTON Guest Artists SHANE RIMMER as Kelly CARLA ROMANELLI as Melita with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR. MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER DEREK ANDERS as WAYLAND The Infernal Machine 21 The strangest object ever seen by man appears in the space sky. A huge spacecraft of some sort, but breaking every known law of aerospace propulsion. From it comes a voice. It is friendly, but appealing for help and for permission to land; and, when given this permission, requesting a delegation and naming Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU), Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) and Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE). Admitted to the craft, they find themselves in a room which is half a globe in shape with a floor kept level by gyroscopic action. As they stare at the complex mechanism all around them, they are probed by an intense ray of light. Lying on a couch is an extraordinarily ancient man (LEO McKERN) looking almost dead except for his bright and searching eyes. He introduces himself as "Companion" and addresses the mysterious voice as "Gwent." Everything, it seems, is Gwent. The whole machine is Gwent. Gwent is the machine, and the reason for his approach to Alpha is to be found in a long list of urgent requirements. His relationship with Companion is one of affection and bantering, and cynical criticism. Companion tells his visitors "I have always been his Companion, I've grown old in his service. Companions die, but Gwent goes on. Forever." Gwent dismisses Helena's appeal for Companion to be taken to Alpha for treatment - he is obviously desperately ill, but still loyal to his master, and he dies. Gwent is immediately beside himself with rage and sorrow, and back on Alpha they see the machine rise and twist in what seems to be agonized contortions. Koenig and Helena are then told that they will have to take the place of Companion. They are helplessly in Gwent's grip until Koenig realizes that Gwent possesses the equivalent of all the senses except for sight, and that, because his energy is running out, he is weakening. Attempts to attack the machine from Alpha are repelled, and there is no alternative but for the essential supplies to be delivered. But by deliberately smashing a vital component, Koenig weakens Gwent even more, and at last learns from the man-machine that he comes from a planet on which he was a scientist and has built this machine as an extension of himself, programming his entire personality into it, combining it with the superior ability of a computer's brain, and all the might and power of such a machine. It has eventually taken him over completely. The final battle of wits and determination between the Alphans and Gwent is launched. Screenplay by ANTHONY TERPILOFF ELIZABETH BARROWS Directed by DAVID TOMBLIN Guest Star LEO McKERN with CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER GARY WALDHORN as WINTERS Mission of the Darians 22 The spaceship is colossal. From Moonbase Alpha, it appears to be at least fifty miles long and two miles wide. From it come signals which, when decoded appeal repeatedly for help: "Emergency! Emergency! This is the Commander of the Spaceship Daria. A major catastrophe has occurred. Large areas of our ship are devastated. We who survive will perish without urgent medical and material aid…" Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) immediately orders a mercy flight, taking with him Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE), Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN), Alan Carter (NICK TATE), Paul Morrow (PRENTIS HANCOCK) and Security Man Bill Lowry (PAUL ANTRIM) They enter a bewilderingly strange world of startling contrasts. One part is in the charge of the agelessly beautiful Kara (JOAN COLLINS) and the ship commanded by a man named Neman (DENNIS BURGESS). The vast spaceship set out 900 years ago from its own dying world in search of a virgin planet where the Darian civilizations would begin again, But a nuclear disaster struck early on the voyage and the emergency signal was automatically triggered off and has been broadcasting ever since. There are now only 14 true Darians left; but in another part of the spaceship, in what has become a wilderness, are descendants of the original survivors who had been left to die and, when found, already degenerate creatures, mutant and savage. worshipping at a shrine dominated by a picture of their god, and led by one they called Hadin (ROBERT RUSSELL). To their horror, Koenig and Bergman discover from Kara the secret of the Darians who have survived in their original form. Their existence relies on a form of cannibalism, their lives preserved by transplant surgery, their food supplies from re-cycling plants using human fodder. They have tricked the barbarians into supplying that fodder. And Koenig realises that an offer to provide new hope for the Alphans by leaving the moon and joining the Darians on their flight to a new planet can mean only one thing - more human fodder is needed. He realises, too, that Helena and the other Alphans with her are in acute danger... Screenplay by JOHNNY BYRNE Directed by RAY AUSTIN Guest Star JOAN COLLINS Guest Artistes DENNIS BURGESS as NEMAN AUBREY MORRIS as HADIN with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER PAUL ANTRIM as LOWRY ROBERT RUSSELL as MUTANT LEADER GERALD STADDEN as MALE MUTE JACKIE HORTON as FEMALE MUTE Dragon's Domain 23 Tony Cellini (GIANNI GARKO) is a man of contrasts. He is tall, strong, rugged and an all-round sportsman. But he is also a sensitive, imaginative poet. The two aspects of this Alpha astronaut are, perhaps, responsible for the plight he has found himself in, and Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) and Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) disagree emphatically about him. Cellini and John Koenig are old friends and Koenig is staunchly loyal in trusting Cellini's integrity; but Helena has always had doubts about his mental stability believing him to be a suppressed hysteric. The mystery surrounding Tony Cellini is revived when he appears to go berserk and tries to take off, entirely alone, in an Eagle command module. He is restrained and kept under examination in the Medical Center as Koenig and Helena again argue about the drama which developed from a space probe of which Cellini had been in command before the moon broke away from its orbit. The longest journey ever undertaken by man was launched to confirm the discovery made by Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE) of a new planet given the name of Ultra. Accompanied by medical expert Dr. Monique Fauchere [Bouchere] (BARBARA KELLERMANN) astro-physicist Dr. Darwin King (MICHAEL SHEARD) and radiation expert Dr. Juliet Mackie (SUSAN JAMESON), Cellini set out on the hazardous probe. Only Cellini survived, after a fantastic escape, with a story the experts refused to believe – the story of an eerie area of stationary spaceships, a graveyard in space, with a terrifying outcome with the opening of airlocks, admitting a gruesome, rampaging mass of writhing tentacles. Cellini's desperate lashings with an axe saved his life but the others fell victim to the monster. Cellini has lived with the nightmare ever since. Now by a chance in a million, the moon has drifted into that area again [see correction], but only he realizes this. Can he now vindicate himself? Trying to do so involved his Moon base colleagues in a crescendo of horror... Screenplay by CHRISTOPHER PENFOLD Directed by CHARLES CRICHTON Guest Stars GIANNI GARKO DOUGLAS WILMER with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR. MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER BARBARA KELLERMANN as DR. MONIQUE BOUCHERE MICHEAL SHEARD as DR. DARWIN KING SUSAN JAMESON as PROFESSOR JULIET MACKIE PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER Testament of Arkadia 24 Since the time the moon broke out of its orbit, life for its Earth inhabitants has taken on a semblance of normality, but with one ever-present imponderable question mark. Where is it heading for? Its direction cannot be controlled. Now suddenly and alarmingly, it comes to a complete halt. At the same time the power drops and continues to drop at such a rate that it soon becomes terrifyingly clear that life cannot be sustained for more than a matter of days. The only possible explanation is influence emanating from an unidentified planet within flying distance, and Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) has no option. A visit must be paid to the planet. He chooses the team with care - Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE), pilot Alan Carter (NICK TATE) and specialists Luke Ferro (ORSO MARIA GUERRINI) and Anna Davis (LISA HARROW). The planet is dead, with no signs of habitation. There are rock formations and petrified, leafless trees, all indicating that this was once a living world. But whatever it was that struck it was a long, long time ago. The atmosphere has now stabilized. Then, in a cave, they find human skeletons and inscriptions on the wall which Bergman identifies as being Sanskrit. Anna Davis a trained philologist, recognizes it as a very early form of the basic mother of English and, with Luke Ferro's help is able to translate what was the last message from the dead world of Arkadia, but with a declaration that Arkadia lives on in the bodies, hearts and minds of those who left in time, taking the seeds of a new beginning. Realization dawns, confirmed by identification of the trees as those native to Earth.... Earth originated on this planet, the seeds of life carried to a new planet by those who escaped the holocaust! Koenig has a grim decision to make. The moon's power loss has now dropped to the point when everyone will freeze to death within a day. Evacuation to Arkadia is the only hope. The chances of survival are slim, but they will at least be buying time. Then, quite suddenly, the power loss ceases. Plans to evacuate are cancelled. But Luke and Anna have been strangely affected. It is as though they have received some sort of message. They are in love and determined to live on the planet, tricking Koenig into providing supplies and spacecraft to take them there. It is their destiny. The Arkadians brought life to Earth. Now life must be brought back to the dead world of Arkadia. As they reach their Eden, full power returns to the moon and, once again, it is on the move. The search for a new home continues... Screenplay by JOHNNY BYRNE Directed by DAVID TOMBLIN Guest Stars ORSO MARIA GUERRINI LISA HARROW with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER |
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SERIES TWO The Metamorph
1/25 Annette Fraser (ANOUSKA HEMPEL) watches in horror as pictures on Moonbase Alpha's Command Center screen show her husband's Eagle enveloped in a ball of light which drags it towards a planet, later to be known as Psychon. The two pilots, Bill Fraser (JOHN HUG) and Ray Torens (NICK BRIMBLE), have been on a flight to reconnoiter the planet, which may provide the rare metal titanium that is urgently needed for the repair of one of the moon's damaged life support systems. Then the face of an alien, introducing himself as Mentor (BRIAN BLESSED), appears on the screen. Persuaded by Commander John Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) that the Eagle's mission was peaceful, he offers to return the pilots if another Eagle is sent to collect them. Koenig takes Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) with him, together with pilot Alan Carter (NICK TATE) and Lew Picard (GERARD PAQUIS) to the monitoring equipment [rendezvous point]. But a space rendezvous is not kept. They are trapped into landing on the planet...and encounter the sickening sight of strange creatures, part humanoid, part animal, working as miners, all obviously suffering from brain damage which has turned them into virtual zombies. One of them is the pilot, Torens! Caught agonizingly in a force field, the Alphans are helpless, but Koenig is able to reach Mentor—and to come face to face with a wild animal [a lioness] that is immediately transformed into a startlingly beautiful girl. This is his introduction to Mentor's daughter, Maya (CATHERINE SCHELL), and realization that here on Psychon they have mastered the secrets of molecular transformation, and that this fascinating girl can become anything she wishes, changing into any form of living organism. The powers, and tragedy, of Psychon are soon revealed to Commander Koenig as Mentor shows him a biological computer, created and fed from the minds and bodies of those of his people who survived the disaster that overwhelmed them when nature ran wild and turned the planet into a volcanic furnace. Mentor believes he can change the planet back into the beautiful world it once was, and that its civilization can begin again. But the computer needs energy to complete the task—energy that is only found in the minds of intelligent life forms. He needs the Alphans! Koenig resists, better for the moon to be destroyed, as Mentor threatens, than to doom his people to a terrifying form of living death with the other pitiful objects he has seen. Forced to play for time, he feigns defeat and transmits an order to Moonbase Alpha that it should be evacuated. This time, it is Koenig who has tricked Mentor. A code word [Directive Four] in his instructions is understood. [Directive Four is a signal to destroy the place from which the Directive Four message originated; in this case, the planet Psychon.] But when Mentor realizes this, Koenig has one remaining card to play. He is certain that Maya is ignorant of her father's psychopathic ruthlessness towards his own people [and the passing aliens he has lured to the planet]. She must be convinced, and only her molecular transformation skill can enable her to do this and to help in the final destruction of the doomed planet; with only just sufficient time for the Alphans to get away and force Maya into accompanying them. [See correction.] Two Alphans, Torens and Picard, have died. But for Maya, there is a new life. There is room on the moon for a girl with her remarkable scientific knowledge. Written by JOHNNY BYRNE Directed by CHARLES CRICHTON Cast JOHN KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU HELENA RUSSELL - BARBARA BAIN TONY VERDESCHI [formerly SIMON HAYES] - TONY ANHOLT ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE ANNETTE FRASER - ANOUSKA HEMPEL BILL FRASER - JOHN HUG SANDRA "SAHN" BENES - ZIENIA MERTON LEW PICARD - GERARD PAQUIS RAY TORENS - NICK BRIMBLE PETROV [formerly JAMESON] - PETER PORTEOUS 1ST OPERATIVE - SARAH BULLEN SMALL CHIPPING ALIEN - JOHN DIXON ZOMBIE CHIPPING ALIEN - NEIL McCAUL OVERSEER - GEORGE LANE COOPER COLORED CHIPPING ALIEN - ROY STEWART DR. MATHIAS - ANTON PHILLIPS MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL OVERSEER - ALF JOINT MENTOR - BRIAN BLESSED The Exiles 2/26 Red alert! Trailing across the space sky are fifty cylinder-shaped objects. But instead of the expected attack, they go into orbit around the moon. When Commander John Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) brings one down to Alpha, the insertion of nitrogen gas [to freeze any possible triggering mechanisms] causes a violent explosion. The now open cylinder reveals the unconscious, frozen body of a young man whose name, they later discover is Cantar (PETER DUNCAN). Examined by Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN), Cantar is found to be in a state of deep freeze. A thin, almost invisible, plastic membrane covers his entire body. When returning to consciousness, Cantar appeals to Commander Koenig to recover the other cylinders and save his people. They are, he says, floating in pairs and family groups, and have been cast out by invaders from the planet Golos. Cautiously, Koenig gives instructions for Cantar's twin cylinder to be brought down. In it, they find Cantar's beautiful young wife Zova (STACY DORNING). But Koenig hesitates to save the others. Instinct warns him against doing so. He is also worried that the moon's life support facilities could not cope with any more, but agrees to let Cantar go ahead when he claims that he and Zova can use their skills to increase the moon's recycling capacity. They have only 36 hours to succeed at their task before the moon's gravity shatters the containers now in orbit. Commander Koenig's distrust is justified when, with only three hours to go, Cantar makes for the Power Section. Helena and a guard try to stop them, but both collapse when Cantar touches them on the spine. [See correction.] Picking up the guard's stun gun, he then fires at Security Chief Tony Verdeschi (TONY ANHOLT) as he touches the alarm switch. Maya (CATHERINE SCHELL) hears the alarm, transforms herself into a snarling black panther, and corners Cantar and Zova. But she is stunned when Cantar fires at her, and both he and Zova get into the Power Room and begin working at the controls. [See correction.] The room is filled with spectacular pulsations of light and sound until Koenig manages to force his way in—only to find the room empty. Helena and Tony return to consciousness to find themselves on the planet Golos, where Cantar and Zova are demanding that the planet's ruler, Ragnar, be brought to them. The truth is revealed. Cantar and Zova were leaders of a rebel group, cast out for crimes against their own people. But they have overlooked one thing. Three hundred years have gone by. The ruler is now a striking woman called Mirella (MARGARET INGLIS), a descendant of the long-dead Ragnar. With Helena and Tony held hostage by Cantar and Zova, Koenig finds himself facing the demand that he saves the others who are still in the cylinders in exchange for Helena and Tony, with the added warning that the moon's life support systems are now tuned to Zova's mental processes and can be destroyed by simple concentration. On Golos, Cantar is proclaiming himself the new ruler. But Helena sees one chance. If she can rip the protective membrane which has preserved his life for over 300 years, Cantar will wither rapidly into wizened, enfeebled old age.… Written by DONALD JAMES Directed by RAY AUSTIN Cast JOHN KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU HELENA RUSSELL - BARBARA BAIN MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL TONY VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE SANDRA "SAHN" BENES - ZIENIA MERTON DR. MATHIAS - ANTON PHILLIPS PETROV - PETER PORTEOUS 1ST OPERATIVE - SARAH BULLEN CANTAR - PETER DUNCAN ZOVA - STACY DORNING MIRELLA - MARGARET INGLIS STAL - ANTHONY BLACKETT OLD LADY - PEGGY LEDGER One Moment of Humanity 3/27 The rulers of the planet Vega are uniformly handsome. Those working for them might almost be robots, their skin a white rubbery mixture, their identities submerged simply by their being numbered. The Alphans' first contact with them is when the moon is stricken by a mysterious loss of power and the striking figure of an alien woman materializes. She is Zamara (BILLIE WHITELAW), who tells them they are held in an electric force field and demands that two of them shall return to Vega with her. In the mistaken belief that they are lovers, she selects Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) and Tony Verdeschi (TONY ANHOLT). Travel to the planet is by positronic transfer—the power of their own concentration. The first person they meet there is Zarl (LEIGH LAWSON). Warned by one of the robot-like figures, No. 8 (GEOFFREY BAYLDON), "Whatever happens, do not react as they expect of you—if you show aggression, they will kill you," they find themselves having to control their tempers when Zamara and Zarl goad them with every type of insult, the situation all the more acute in the knowledge that the Vegans have it in their power to bring the moon's life support system to an end unless they achieve their objective. The reason for their abduction becomes clear when they once again succeed in talking to No. 8. He peels off his rubbery white mask, revealing the face of a middle-aged man, and tells them: "We are the humans—they are the androids." Long ago, his people built the first robots, linked to a powerful computer that designed more advanced robots, who in turn built more sophisticated computers, the cycle continuing until the robots had evolved to perfect humanoid form, obtaining their mechanical perfection from themselves, learning their emotions from their creators who covered their faces for self-protection because, No. 8 explains, "They want to kill us, but they can't...because they have never seen violence, they don't possess the emotions of anger or aggression. That is what they want from you...to learn how to show anger...how to kill." The Vegans continue, without success, to stir these emotions in Helena and Tony, trying one ruse after another until, in desperation, Zamara again materializes on Alpha. In the library, a chance glimpse of William Shakespeare’s Othello provides her with the realization that it is jealousy that makes humans violent, and lovers feel so strongly. But before she can return to Vega, John Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) warns that her efforts to stir these feelings in Helena and Tony won't work. They are not in love. He is the one who loves Helena; Tony is in love with Maya (CATHERINE SCHELL). Zamara seizes her opportunity. Both Koenig and Maya are taken to Vega. Helena is quick to realize that the Vegans are planning to use the new weapon of jealousy. An attempt is made by Maya, turning herself into a dove [a Vegan parrot], to reach the master computer which could destroy the robots, but she is unsuccessful, and Koenig finds himself having to try desperately to control himself as he is forced to watch Zarl making violent love to Helena. [See correction.] An involuntary cry from Helena proves too much for him. He lunges at Zarl. To Zamara's delight, they have been taught their first lesson in aggression... Appalled, Tony, Maya and Helena watch. Now, there is only one chance. The Vegans are links in a chain. If one link could be broken... Helena seizes that one chance. Zarl must be forced to experience one new emotion: love. If she can make him do this, and experience just one second of humanity, he will have attained his dream of complete humanity for a fleeting moment before the link is broken and the machines are no longer the masters... Written by TONY BARWICK Directed by CHARLES CRICHTON Cast JOHN KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU HELENA RUSSELL - BARBARA BAIN MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL TONY VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE SANDRA "SAHN" BENES - ZIENIA MERTON 1ST OPERATIVE - SARAH BULLEN ZAMARA - BILLIE WHITELAW ZARL - LEIGH LAWSON NUMBER EIGHT - GEOFFREY BAYLDON VEGAN - MAGGIE HENDERSON VEGAN - LARAINE HUMPHRYS VEGAN - ZENA CLIFTON VEGAN - JASON MITCHELL VEGAN - PAUL HASTINGS VEGAN - BARRY RHODE VEGAN - JURGEN ANDERSON VEGAN [and Assistant Choreographer] - HILARY DING Choreography by LIONEL BLAIR All that Glisters 4/28 The fantastic sight of rock formations glowing vividly with weird colors soon brings terror in its wake when visited after scanners have indicated the presence of a rare mineral, milgonite, which is vital to Alpha's life support system. The journey to the planet is made in an Eagle with a specially adapted laboratory by a team consisting of John Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU), Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN), Maya (CATHERINE SCHELL), Tony Verdeschi (TONY ANHOLT), Alan Carter (NICK TATE), and geologist Dave Reilly (PATRICK MOWER). [See note.] They estimate that they have only three hours [to find the needed milgonite and return to the base] before Alpha is out of range. Although the planet has a thick layer of cloud, the surface is bone dry. The significance of this is not to become clear until later...until after a piece of rock has been taken back to the Eagle's Laboratory. Tony has apparently been killed by a vivid flash of color, and tests have revealed that the rock is a living—and lethal—organism. Without warning, Tony suddenly comes to life again, leaving the Eagle before he can be stopped, and moving as though under hypnotic control. He returns with another piece of rock which he places next to the original. The two pieces immediately fuse together, their glow becomes even brighter, and Tony again collapses. A few minutes later, all communication with Alpha ceases and the Eagle is immobilized. Other incidents gradually bring about the realization that the rock has power, energy, intelligence and purpose. It needs further pieces of rock to give it strength [See correction.], but is in desperate need of something. Its strange activities provide the answer. To survive, the rock must have water. Over the centuries, the planet has been drained dry. This is why the Alphans have been lured there, under false indications of milgonite. To the horror of this companions, Dave Reilly reminds them that the human body is mostly water.... [See correction.] The rock is facing a deadline. So are the Alphans. There is little time left before the moon is out of range. The situation is desperate, but the way out comes when Dave, like Tony, is overpowered by the rock's light ray and finds himself seeking further rock to increase the power of the piece taken to the Eagle. [See correction.] Maya's ability to transform herself into any living organism comes into play. She changes into [a creature just like] the rock Dave has gone to fetch, but when she is taken back to the laboratory, it seems as though she will be unable to resist the sample rock, which is trying to absorb her. Koenig is driven into desperate, chance-in-a-million action... Written by KEITH MILES Directed by RAY AUSTIN Cast JOHN KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU HELENA RUSSELL - BARBARA BAIN MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL TONY VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE DAVE REILLY - PATRICK MOWER Journey to Where 5/29 A voice comes through from Earth. With it, the hope of return to their own planet at last for the occupants of the runaway moon, and the end to their long journey through space. A handful of Earth survivors have built up a new civilization. [See correction.] The message comes by neutrino transmission from Dr. Charles Logan (FREDDIE JONES) of Space Station One, Texas City, planet Earth, with the promise to Commander John Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) that the Alphans can be brought home if instructions can be followed to build a transference dome. But is it a voice from the future? Although the moon has been in outer space for only a matter of months, in Earth terms this represents decades. It is still 1999 on the moon—but 2120 A.D. on Earth. For space scientist Dr. Logan and his assistant Carla (ISLA BLAIR), it is an exciting prospect. There are hazards, however. Because of an impending galactic eclipse, time is short before the communication channel is cut. Worse still, after the transference dome is completed, calculations are thrown off by an earthquake in the Gulf of Mexico. Only three are on the first transfer: Commander Koenig, Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) and Alan Carter (NICK TATE). Instead of arriving in Texas City, however, they find themselves in a forest, materializing amongst foliage. The atmosphere is cloudy and cold. After living for so long in the germ-free environment of Moonbase Alpha, the three are at risk of infection. Helena immediately comes down with a high temperature that develops into pneumonia. Realization that they have landed in Scotland comes with the appearance of kilted Scottish warriors who promptly take them prisoner. Then, fantastically, they discover that they have plunged through a time warp, traveling into Earth's past. The year is 1339. And they are in the midst of the bitter conflict between Scotland and England. Although Helena begins to cure her pneumonia with a fungus found growing on a dungeon wall, the Scots' chief, MacDonald (ROGER BIZLEY), assumes the Alphans are English and jumps to the conclusion that they are bringing the plague to Scotland. His prisoners must be burned to death. Meanwhile, desperate efforts to trace them are being made from Moonbase Alpha and Texas City’s Space Station 1. To save them, the mists of time must be pierced.... Written by DONALD JAMES Directed by TOM CLEGG Cast COMMANDER JOHN KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU DR. HELENA RUSSELL - BARBARA BAIN MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL TONY VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE YASKO - YASUKO NAGAZUMI DR. BEN VINCENT - JEFFERY KISSOON 1ST OPERATIVE - SARAH BULLEN DR. LOGAN - FREDDIE JONES CARLA - ISLA BLAIR MACDONALD - ROGER BIZLEY JACKSON - LAURENCE HARRINGTON 1ST OPERATIVE TEXAS - NORWICH DUFF OLD CRONE - PEGGY PAIGE Gaelic Advisor A. K. CRAIGHEAD The Taybor 6/30 Taybor (WILLOUGHBY GODDARD) is an extraordinary figure, garbed in outlandish clothes which might have come straight from the Arabian Nights, his manner is flamboyant, and with the salty tang of a seafarer whose conversation is tinged with nautical expressions. He materializes on the moon, with his weird and wonderful spaceship the S.S. Emporium safely "anchored", and announces that he is a trader from hyper-space. Through scanning the moon for some time, he seems to know everyone by sight and by name—Commander John Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU), Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN), Alan Carter (NICK TATE), Tony Verdeschi (TONY ANHOLT), Maya (CATHERINE SCHELL), and everyone else he encounters. Taybor has come to trade, but from the outset it seems that his greatest interest is in Maya. When Koenig asks him about his remarkable craft and how he reached the moon, he explains that it has a switch-on set destination coordinator which enables him to reach anywhere in the universe. The jump-drive process immediately interests Koenig, who realizes that if Taybor will trade its secret and the moon's Eagle crafts can be equipped with it, all the Alpha personnel can be transported to a habitable planet, even back to Earth itself. He even offers the moon and all its equipment in exchange, but Taybor is at first suspicious and evasive; he insists on taking Koenig to the Emporium, and dazzles him with his wonderful collection of beautiful things. Koenig's colleagues have reached a state of alarm at his mystifying disappearance into the strange dimension—or maybe non-dimension—of hyper-space, when he and Taybor return just as suddenly and inexplicably as they departed. By now, Taybor has decided to reach a deal. He bargains the secrets of his jump-drive in exchange for Maya! Koenig is not even willing to discuss this possibility, but Helena comes up with a solution. Will Taybor accept a duplicate Maya—a model of herself, brought to life by Helena, which will never grow old, will always be beautiful? [See correction.] Taybor, in between trading with members of Alpha, claims to accept the offer, but double-crosses the Alphans and takes the real Maya instead of her duplicate. On board his flying cargo ship, she has no way of escape and no hope of rescue. But Taybor, the lover of beauty, has reckoned without her miraculous powers of transformation. He finds himself facing a hideous, outsized old hag, and a future with this repulsive-looking creature, unless he lets her go! Written by THOM KEYES Directed by BOB BROOKS Cast JOHN KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU HELENA RUSSELL - BARBARA BAIN MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL TONY VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE [See note below.] TAYBOR - WILLOUGHBY GODDARD FRASER - JOHN HUG YASKO - YASUKO NAGAZUMI DR. BEN VINCENT - JEFFERY KISSOON 1ST OPERATIVE/BARBARA - SARAH BULLEN [See note below.] KAREN - LARRAINE HUMPHRYS THIRD GIRL - VICKI MICHELLE ANDREWS - MEL TAYLOR SLATTERNLY WOMAN - RITA WEBB MODEL GIRL 1 - JENNY CLARE MODEL GIRL 2 - CHAI LEE MODEL GIRL 3 - PENNY PRIESTLY The Rules of Luton 7/31 One thing is certain about the planet which the Moon is approaching. It is rich in vegetation—but terror looms ahead when Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) and Maya (CATHERINE SCHELL) investigate in an Eagle piloted by Tony Verdeschi (TONY ANHOLT). Instruments in the Eagle report a malfunction. Tony therefore returns to Moonbase Alpha to pick up a replacement, leaving Koenig and Maya on the planet. As they wander among trees, flowers and bushes, Koenig cannot resist the temptation to taste some berries while Maya picks a flower. Both [plants] scream out in agony, and a voice thunders out, accusing them of being cannibals and murderers, and warning them that they will be punished. A spectacular storm rages as the thunder[ing] voice tells them that they have destroyed life forms. The voice represents the Judges of Luton. They are trees. Koenig's plea of acting in ignorance meets with the challenge that this can only be proved in combat with other criminals from space who have also violated Luton's laws, with the promise that the survivors will be given their freedom. Their adversaries are aliens whose abilities gradually emerge: one (DAVID JACKSON), a strange, green-faced being of enormous strength, another (GODFREY JAMES) is able to transport himself by dematerializing and reappearing immediately where he wishes, and the third (ROY MARSDEN) is possessed with the magic of invisibility. The winners of the eerie combat will be the survivors. Koenig and Maya, realizing that the odds are heavily against them, play for time by placing a ravine and then a river between themselves and the aliens, but Koenig is seriously injured by a rock lance hurled at him. His strength is slowly ebbing as Maya uses her powers of transformation to help them, only to be caught, and faced with the risk of being crushed to death [in a makeshift cage], when she changes into a bird. The weakened Koenig succeeds in making a weapon [a bolo] which enables him to knock out the alien holding Maya, and he is able to rescue her, but hopes of their own rescue are fading as Tony searches for them in his Eagle. The planet itself has become invisible, although his instruments record that he is close to it. It is only when he almost crash lands that he realizes he has reached it.... Screenplay by CHARLES WOODGROVE [FRED FRIEBERGER] Directed by VAL GUEST Cast JOHN KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU HELENA RUSSELL - BARBARA BAIN MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL TONY VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE YASKO - YASUKO NAGAZUMI 1ST OPERATIVE - ANNIE LAMBERT ALIEN STRONG - DAVID JACKSON ALIEN TRANSPORTER - GODFREY JAMES ALIEN INVISIBLE - ROY MARSDEN The Mark of Archanon 8/32 A geological survey below the moon's surface reveals the existence of a metallic cabinet. Inside are two figures, a man and a boy. They must have been there for centuries, yet they are still alive. The prisoners prove to have come from Archanon, the planet of peace. The man introduces himself as Pasc (JOHN STANDING) and the boy as his son Etrec (MICHAEL GALLAGHER), claiming that when good replaced evil amongst his people, emissaries were sent throughout the universe. He says he was commander of such a mission to Earth, but such hatred and violence were found [there] that he and Etrec were the only ones to escape contagion. On returning to their base on the moon, he and his son were overpowered by those who had caught the Earth's sickness. Because the Archanons could never kill, they were placed in a stasis cabinet—and it was Pasc's wife, Lyra, who led the mutineers. But there are soon hints that Pasc is lying. The first of these is when Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) examines them and finds the presence of a strange, living virus in Pasc's blood cells, though the same virus is dead, or dormant, in those of his son. When a power unit is taken from the stasis chamber, Pasc realizes to his alarm that the monitor is set to the Archanon frequency and that it will now be known that the captives are free. Already, in fact, the Archanons are sending a lovely representative, Maurna (VERONICA LANG), to the moon. Pasc makes a bid to escape and reaches an Eagle spacecraft, forcing Helena to accompany him as a hostage. He has had to leave Etrec behind, and he offers Helena's freedom in exchange for his son and permission [computer release] for the Eagle to go. A grim decision has to be made. When Maurna arrives, she proves to be a descendant of Pasc's wife Lyra, and when Lyra (VERONICA LANG) herself materializes from a memory bank in another part of the power unit, it is revealed that Pasc and Etrec were the ones who caught "the killing sickness" and had to be placed in captivity in the hope that one day a cure would be found. Pasc is beyond cure; the only hope for Etrec is for a blood transfusion from another Archanon, which is against their laws. [See correction.] It is Pasc himself who makes the ultimate sacrifice.... Written by LEW SCHWARTZ Directed by CHARLES CRICHTON Cast JOHN KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU HELENA RUSSELL - BARBARA BAIN MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL TONY VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE YASKO - YASUKO NAGAZUMI DR. RAUL NUNEZ - RAUL NEWEY 1ST OPERATIVE - ANNIE LAMBERT (see note below) ANDY JOHNSON - JOHN ALKIN PASC - JOHN STANDING ETREC - MICHAEL GALLAGHER CARSON - ANTHONY FORREST LYRA/MAURNA - VERONICA LANG FRASER - JOHN HUG Brian the Brain 9/33 The voice is racily American. It comes from a spaceship that is approaching the moon just as Commander John Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) has ordered evacuation procedure because of a mysterious gravity pull and the sighting of a small planet. [See correction.] The voice from the spaceship identifies the ship as one of four Swifts that took off from Earth in 1996, along with a mothership, on a mission which disappeared without trace. On this score, his facts are accurate. But when he meets up with it, Koenig discovers to his astonishment that the voice belongs to a machine—living, intelligent, human in everything except for its construction: a self-programming, self-monitoring computer. Koenig is so intrigued that he accepts an invitation for Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) and himself to go aboard the Swift. The machine's name is Brian because the first word he ever said was "brain", but got it wrong and said "Brian" instead. So Brian's as good a name as anything for him. In the Command Center, there is sudden alarm. The monitor screen is blank. No contact can be made with Commander Koenig or Dr. Helena...and the swift has taken off. On the swift, the abducted Koenig and Helena are allowed to make contact with Eagles that have gone in search of them, but Koenig is forced to order them back. It is now clear that the Swift is making for the small planet [Planet D, which Brian has by now told them about], and one of the Eagles, containing Tony Verdeschi (TONY ANHOLT) and Maya (CATHERINE SCHELL), ignores instructions and lands on the planet first. When the Swift lands, Brian orders Koenig to don a spacesuit and go to the old mothership, unload the fuel store, return with it, and install it in Brian’s Swift’s fuel receptacle. There's enough nuclear fuel to last Brian a billion years—and he wants to live forever. Sickened by the sight of the corpses of the dead crew, Koenig steps into the mothership and comes face to face with Tony and Maya. The dead body of Captain Michael is sitting at the command console, and Koenig guesses what Brian is actually telling Helena, that it was Captain Michael who made him, taught him to speak, to live. Why then, did he deliberately plan the deaths of his creator and the other members of the crew? The presence of Maya is sufficient for Koenig to work out a plan to beat Brian by confusing him to the extent that he won't know what he is doing. Captain Michael will live again, thanks to Maya's miraculous powers of transformation. Back on the ship Koenig, with sudden intuition [see correction], tells Brian that he knows why he killed the man who created him. Captain Michael was working on an advanced version of him, and he would have been scrapped. Brian the Brain panics when suddenly confronted by Maya in the shape of Captain Michael. He is defeated. But what is to become of him? Written by JACK RONDER Directed by KEVIN CONNOR Cast KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU HELENA - BARBARA BAIN MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL TONY VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT EAGLE 1 PILOT - JOHN HUG YASKO - YASUKO NAGAZUMI 1ST OPERATIVE - ANNIE LAMBERT SECURITY LIEUTENANT - MARK ZUBER CAPTAIN MICHAEL - BERNARD CRIBBINS BRIAN (VOICE) - BERNARD CRIBBINS BRIAN (ROBOT OPERATOR) - MICHAEL SHARVELL-MARTIN New Adam New Eve 10/34 It all begins with weird readings on the monitors, magnetic turbulence, an enchanting display of psychedelic patterns and colors, strange music, and then the appearance of a tall, commanding, saintly figure who introduces himself as Magus (GUY ROLFE)..."Your Creator." The claim that he is God is emphasized by his disappointment with the way mankind has squandered and polluted all the wonderful resources at its disposal, and Magus' offer to provide a second chance—a new Earth, a new Eden, where everything could begin again. His suggestion that a team from the moon should visit the new planet to see for themselves is accepted by Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU), but Magus insists on choosing his own team, consisting of Koenig, Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN), Maya (CATHERINE SCHELL), and Tony Verdeschi (TONY ANHOLT). As soon as they arrive, all contact with the Moon is broken. To their dismay, they discover that Magus is planning to use them as his new Adams and Eves. A new human species will spring from them. But his pairing is not as they would have wished. For biological reasons, Helena is to be Tony's mate, Maya the Commander's. They resist at first, but Magus weaves a spell of romance which brings the couples he has selected together, caught up in magnetic mutual attraction. The setting is idyllic: a beautiful, lush glade which they are forbidden to leave, and which has a terrifying outcome for them when they do so and become involved in a vicious fight between an ape-like creature and a mutant humanoid (BERNARD KAY), forcing Maya to transform herself into an equally vicious creature to save Dr. Russell. It is Helena who senses a flaw in Magus's claim to be God, and Maya who discovers that he has some kind of power source inside him—an implant, fantastically potent, which means that his powers are physical, not psychic. It is Maya, too, who finds a way for them to break through a force field, and to come face to face with the mutant humanoid they spotted previously, and who reveals that he is one of the mutants who have come from Magus' attempts to learn the secret of creation. Magus is not God but a super being, the last of a race of cosmic magicians who learned the ultimate secrets of physics. Magus has to admit this truth, but he tells them that he needs them to breed a new species of mankind, strong, resourceful, brilliant and dedicated. Together, they can work on the great mystery of creation. Their refusal to cooperate, he warns them, will mean the destruction of their companions on the Moon. Magus has one weakness, however. For some reason, he cannot stand the dark. Realization dawns that his power comes from light. Their one chance now is to rob him of the light form which he obtains his force of energy.... Written by TERENCE FEELY Directed by CHARLES CRICHTON JOHN KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU HELENA RUSSELL - BARBARA BAIN MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL TONY VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE YASKO - YASUKO NAGAZUMI 1ST OPERATIVE - ANNIE LAMBERT MAGUS - GUY ROLFE CREATURE/MAYA - ALBIN PAHERNIK HUMANOID - BERNARD KAY BEAUTIFUL GIRL - BARBARA WISE The AB Chrysalis 11/35 Enormous electrical waves are hitting the Moon at regular intervals. They come from an unidentified planet, and one more could spell final destruction. For commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU), there is one last, desperate chance—to take Eagle 1 to the planet and persuade its inhabitants to stop the bombardment. Maya (CATHERINE SCHELL) and Alan Carter (NICK TATE) accompany him, leaving Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) and the other Alphans on the Moon. Their way to the planet is at first barred by a circle of moons, on one of which the fantastic discovery is made that intelligent life on the planet is not at present in existence. On the planet itself, as on the moons, a space station contains random steel rods of various heights, each with a sphere on top. It is the voice of one of these spheres, when it jumps down from its perch, that explains that it is a machine, and that its humanoid masters enjoy a unique life cycle. They exist for an allotted span, but instead of dying they enter a chrysalis state and emerge rejuvenated, with new heights of physical and mental perfection. The [defensive] bombardment of the moon is [because Alpha's moon is] thought to be a threat to the planet, and is put into operation by a computer that has an overriding programmed order to protect the masters while they are asleep [in their chrysalis stage]. Only one, known as the Guardian, remains awake. Only he could countermand the order. But when the Alphans are taken to him, it is too late. He, himself, is just entering the chrysalis state. He must now go into the chlorine-filled rejuvenation chamber. Alan Carter tries to prevent this but is overcome by a cloud of chlorine gas. He staggers into the chamber and is estimated by Maya to have only two minutes to live in that atmosphere. Only Maya can save him. Remembering a creature on her own planet. [See correction.] that lived in such an atmosphere, she transforms herself into one and drags Carter to safety, but comes close to disaster herself. Meanwhile, the moon is zooming closer; with only three hours before the next shock wave. Koenig is about to take even more drastic action when he hears two softly feminine voices, telling him: "Two of us have been reborn." They have no names. They call themselves "A" (INA SKRIVER) and "B" (SARAH DOUGLAS). Koenig pleads with them to delay the next explosion for four hours. By that time, Alpha will have passed the planet and will be far enough away to withstand the shock waves. But there are shock waves for him when the girls materialize into human form—vague, mysterious, very sensuous, very beautiful. "A" will decide in his favor if he agrees to remain on the planet as her lover; but "B," stirred to jealousy, says "No." The casting vote will have to be given by the next to be reborn—the Guardian's brother. What will his decision be? And will it be too late, anyway, for Koenig and his companions to cover the fast-increasing distance between the planet and the Moon? Written by TONY BARWICK Directed by VAL GUEST Cast JOHN KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU HELENA RUSSELL - BARBARA BAIN MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE BILL FRASER - JOHN HUG YASKO - YASUKO NAGAZUMI A - INA SKRIVER B - SARAH DOUGLAS SPHERE VOICE - ROBERT RIETTY GUARDIAN'S BROTHER - DAVID SEBASTIAN BACH 1ST OPERATIVE - SARAH BULLEN CREATURE - ALBIN PAHERNIK Catacombs of the Moon 12/36 Down in the catacombs of the moon, engineer Patrick Osgood (JAMES LAURENSON) is reaching a state of frenzy as he leads a party in search of vitally needed titanium [teranium], the scarce metal required for Moonbase Alpha's life support system - and even more urgently needed to coat the valves of the artificial heart that Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) is working on in a desperate effort to save the life of Osgood's wife, Michelle (PAMELA STEPHENSON). One artificial heart after another fails to function. It is now a race against time, and Commander John Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) has a grim decision to make. The release of any of the fast-dwindling store of titanium [teranium] that Helena is asking for could threaten the whole of Alpha. He delays his decision in the hope that Osgood will be successful in his search. Osgood is already showing signs of an unbalanced mind, claiming that he is seeing visions of the moon being destroyed by fire - visions which have an ominous ring of truth as the temperature on the moon rises rapidly and there is evidence of a fire storm heading towards them. While Helena and Dr. Ben Vincent (JEFFERY KISSOON) meet increasing disappointments in their efforts, Koenig is in an Eagle to trace the course of the fire storm. [See correction.] Osgood is cynical about the medical efforts to save his wife, ranting about faith being her only hope. He is determined to take her into the catacombs [for protection from the approaching fire storm he has envisioned], wires himself into a human bomb, and forces Helena to release her. An immediate search for the missing pair is ordered, but there is even greater drama as the fire storm strikes. The moon shudders under the impact. There are casualties, but Alpha still functions. The danger recedes, and Koenig decides to risk the release of the titanium [teranium] which could save Michelle....if she and her husband can be found in the catacombs.... [See correction.] Written by ANTHONY TERPILOFF Directed by ROBERT LYNN Cast JOHN KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU HELENA RUSSELL - BARBARA BAIN MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL TONY VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT DR. BEN VINCENT - JEFFERY KISSOON SANDRA "SAHN" BENES - ZIENIA MERTON PATRICK OSGOOD - JAMES LAURENSON MICHELLE OSGOOD - PAMELA STEPHENSON FIRST ENGINEER - LLOYD McGUIRE SECOND ENGINEER - SAUL REICHLIN NURSE - KAREN FORD FIRST ALPHAN WOMAN - NOVA LLEWELLYN SECOND ALPHAN WOMAN - FELICITY YORK CO-PILOT - ALAN HUNTER SECURITY GUARD - BRENDAN PRICE ALPHAN - JAMES LEITH Seed of Destruction 13/37 The asteroid is bizarre and jewel-like. Its effect on the moon is alarming, causing a gradual power loss which is draining Alpha of energy. Disaster lies ahead unless the cause can be found, but there is a macabre turn of events when Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) carries out a reconnaissance with pilot Alan Carter (NICK TATE). As their Eagle lands on the asteroid's crystallized surface, a malfunction alarm sounds. Koenig therefore explores alone, leaving Carter to trace the fault. Seeing a cave entrance, Koenig enters and finds himself in what appears to be a vast hall of mirrors, confronted by reflected images of himself in every direction. Without warning, he is struck down by a living replica of himself which materializes from his reflection. There is nothing to arouse Carter's suspicions when the duplicate Koenig joins him on the now functioning Eagle, carrying with him a chunk of crystal which, he says, is a sample he has collected. And back on the moon, no one has any reason to suspect the identity of the man they believe to be Koenig. His behavior, though, is puzzling. He is curt and unfriendly. "Koenig" immediately announces that they are surrounded by an energy screen which must be neutralized by directing an energy beam at the heart of the asteroid. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) is alarmed, realizing that this will drain power from their life support system and threaten their survival; and Maya (CATHERINE SCHELL), as Scientific Officer, is refused permission to analyze the crystal sample. Her persistence results in "Koenig" staggering everyone by ordering her to be confined to her quarters until further notice. Helena becomes even more puzzled by his attitude. He is deliberately avoiding physical contact with her. When she does manage to touch him, she recoils. His flesh is icy cold. Maya is convinced that the secret of whatever has happened to Koenig will be found in the crystal. Determined to analyze it, she changes herself into a duplicate of an armed guard [See correction.] and succeeds in obtaining a section of it. Her analysis is startling. It is an unbelievably dense, complex type of living matter from which all energy has been drawn. But it is not dead...only dormant, like a seed. On the asteroid, Koenig himself, recovering consciousness, is learning the real meaning behind Maya's discovery. It comes from a voice calling itself "the voice of Kalthon," telling him that the moon's proximity is a fortunate accident. A black sun [black hole] had killed the planet's civilization [See correction.], absorbing its energy. All that remains is a seed created by scientists which now needs the moon's store of energy to regenerate it and restore life to Kalthon. Koenig tries to escape but is frozen in a mirror. By now, the energy being sucked from the Moon is weakening the life support system more and more, and Tony Verdeschi (TONY ANHOLT) suggests that an attempt must be made to get to the asteroid again [to investigate]. A guard bars the way as he and Maya try to board an Eagle, but Maya transforms herself into a space animal and overcomes him. "Koenig," realizing what has happened, orders the Eagle to be shot down. The desperate race to reach the asteroid begins...a battle between new life for Kalthon or the end for Alpha... Written by JOHN GOLDSMITH Directed by KEVIN CONNOR Cast JOHN KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU HELENA RUSSELL - BARBARA BAIN MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL TONY VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE SANDRA "SAHN" BENES - ZIENIA MERTON DR. BEN VINCENT - JEFFERY KISSOON GUARD (Scene 53) - JACK KLAFF GUARD (Scenes 34 & 36) - JAMES LEITH FEMALE OPERATIVE - MARTHA NAIRN CREATURE/MAYA - ALBIN PAHERNIK The Beta Cloud 14/38 Only a handful of Moonbase Alpha personnel escape the mystery illness which hits the moon when it moves through a cloud of space dust. [See note.] The victims are incapacitated through lassitude, depression and loss of will. Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) is one of them. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) is stricken later on. An Eagle, sent to track the storm, has disappeared. When it returns, a week later, its only occupant is a terrifying, huge, space creature. It is completely immune to laser gun fire. On the Command Center screen comes a peculiar cloud which seems to be obscuring some kind of celestial body, and from the cloud a voice which explains the reason for the eerie happenings. The mysterious beings are seeking the moon's life support system. Handing it over would mean death to everyone on the moon. In a desperate effort to keep the space creature at bay, Security Chief Tony Verdeschi (TONY ANHOLT) orders all doors to be locked, but the creature soon shows that it can crash through them. An effort is made to trap the creature by decoying it into a vacuum chamber. As Tony offers himself as the bait, Maya (CATHERINE SCHELL) transforms herself into a mouse so that she can make her way through the air ventilation system. At first, it looks as though the plan has been successful, but the creature succeeds in escaping and launching itself at Tony. Tony’s life is saved when Maya changes herself into a space animal. Even so, she is unable to overcome the creature. It is Tony's turn to save her by grabbing a high pressure carbon dioxide hose, but when the creature fights its way through the jet stream and rips the hose off the wall, Maya and Tony have to flee through the deadly vapor to the Medical Center. [See correction.] The creature continues its search for the life support system. Another plan is tried. It must be lured into a chlorine-filled Hydroponic Experimental Section, and to do this, Maya transforms herself into a chlorine-resistant creature she remembers from another planet [Kreno]. But the invading creature still cannot be overcome. [See note.] It seems to be foiled, though, by a defensive barrier thrown around the life support system. It is hurled back in a fantastic display of sparks...but survives. The situation appears hopeless. Facing almost certain death, Tony and Maya allow themselves for the first time to express how deeply they are really in love with each other, despite their usual light-hearted bantering. They have faced the truth. Now another truth hits Maya. The creature is not a life form. It is a robot. Just one chance is offered. The creature's control center must be reached. Maya transforms herself into an insect which might be able to penetrate the mechanism through the creature's ear.... Written by: CHARLES WOODGROVE [FRED FREIBERGER] Directed by: ROBERT LYNN Cast: JOHN KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU HELENA RUSSELL - BARBARA BAIN MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL TONY VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE SANDRA "SAHN" BENES - ZIENIA MERTON BILL FRASER - JOHN HUG BETA CLOUD CREATURE - DAVE PROWSE SPACE ANIMAL/KRENO ANIMAL - ALBIN PAHERNIK A Matter of Balance 15/39 When Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) decides to explore an apparently lifeless planet he wants one of Moonbase Alpha's botanists, Shermeen Williams (LYNNE FREDERICK) to be in the landing party. In spite of suffering from some strange hallucination Shermeen makes the trip and sets about collecting samples of the planet's vegetation. The landing party stumbles across a temple, and once again Shermeen is faced with her hallucination. This takes the form of a face which introduces itself as Vindrus and tells her to enter the temple. When Commander Koenig, Maya (CATHERINE SCHELL) and Bill Fraser (JOHN HUG) try to get in, they are attacked by a huge monster, which seems more interested in keeping them out of the temple than actually doing them harm. When Shermeen approaches from another direction, however, it lets her pass..... In the temple Shermeen comes face to face with Vindrus (STUART WILSON) who asks her help, explaining that he is only there in spirit and wants to transpose himself into her world as flesh and blood. He gives her a steel rod, telling her she will know how to use it when the time comes. Outside the temple, the others have discovered Shermeen's footprints leading inside, but still the monster will not let them pass. Maya transforms herself into a fox and sneaks by the monster. Once in the temple she reverts to her natural form and finds Shermeen. Before leading her outside once more, Maya makes a video record of the interior. Back in the Eagle, Koenig questions Shermeen about how she got into the temple so easily, but the girl is strangely evasive in her answers. Later, Maya shows her video of the inside of the temple and sees a machine which she recognizes as one for converting anti-matter into matter. Knowing that Shermeen has a crush on Tony Verdeschi (TONY ANHOLT), Koenig asks him to question her about the temple, hoping she will be more responsive. But while he is talking to her, Vindrus appears to them both and explains that his world is moving backwards to extinction, which is why he and his people want to transfer into the Alphans’ world. Tony is willing to help until Vindrus reveals that for every one who crosses over, another must cross back. Its all a matter of balance.… Tony races for the alarm button but is knocked unconscious by Vindrus. Under Vindrus’ influence, Shermeen commandeers an Eagle and lands back on the planet. [See correction.] Commander Koenig, Maya, and Tony follow and go to the temple where they find Shermeen, now transparent, in the anti-matter machine, and a very solid Vindrus in the matter cabinet. Vindrus steps out and calmly informs them that everyone on Moonbase Alpha will shortly be exchanged for one of his anti-matter cohorts. Once again Maya transforms herself—into a monkey this time—and sets out in a desperate bid to save the others.... Written by PIP & JANE BAKER Directed by CHARLES CRICHTON Cast COMMANDER KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU HELENA RUSSELL - BARBARA BAIN MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL TONY VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT BILL FRASER - JOHN HUG SHERMEEN WILLIAMS - LYNNE FREDERICK VINDRUS - STUART WILSON EDDIE COLLINS - NICHOLAS CAMPBELL MR. [CHRIS] POTTER - BRIAN OSBORNE Space Warp 16/40 Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) has a serious problem on her hands. Maya (CATHERINE SCHELL) has been stricken with a mysterious fever which Helena is unable to diagnose, and which resists all her efforts to cure it. Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) and Tony Verdeschi (TONY ANHOLT) are in Eagle 1 on their way to check out a derelict spaceship when they are told of Maya's illness. [See correction.] But before they can reply, Moonbase Alpha is gripped by a terrible shaking motion and suddenly disappears from Eagle 1’s screens. The moon has gone through a space warp and moved five light years in a matter of minutes.… Eagle 1's only hope is to find the '"window in space" and catch up. To help them in this longshot, Alan Carter (NICK TATE) launches a refueling eagle towards Moonbase Alpha's last known position. Meanwhile, Dr. Russell has other problems to add to the loss of the Eagle; in her feverish state, Maya transforms herself into a ferocious space animal and runs amok, making her way towards the Eagle launch bay. Seeing this on the monitors, Helena realizes that in her delirium, Maya is trying to get back to her dead father on her home planet, Psychon—a planet that no longer exists. In spite of all efforts to stop her, including the use of anaesthetic darts, Maya commandeers an Eagle and is only prevented from leaving Moonbase Alpha when the anaesthetic finally takes effect. The Eagle crashes [inside the launch bay] and Maya, still in her animal form, is rescued. In Medical Center, Helena tries desperately to help, but in a matter of moments Maya transforms into a second space animal and then a third! [See correction.] Sweeping all the Alphans brutally aside, she rushes from the Medical Center. Light years away, Eagle 1 has docked with the space derelict in the vain hope of finding something—anything—that will get them out of their plight. To their amazement they find that the derelict was also the victim of the space warp. Dying from injuries following an explosion that wiped out his crew, the commander of the craft managed to leave instructions for finding the "space window" in case any other space warp victims should find his ship. Scarcely able to believe their luck, Koenig and Tony check out the derelict's power system. Back on Moonbase Alpha, Maya—still as a space animal—has escaped onto the moon's surface, chased by Helena and Alan in a moon buggy. They are desperate to catch her before her air runs out or she changes back into Maya, in which case she will die immediately [in the vacuum of space]…. Inside Eagle 1, Commander Koenig and Tony Verdeschi are feeding their newfound information into their computer and fervently hoping that it will direct them through the "space window"—and back to Moonbase Alpha.… Written by Charles Woodgrove [Fred Freiberger] Directed by PETER MEDAK Cast JOHN KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU HELENA RUSSELL - BARBARA BAIN MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL TONY VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE SANDRA "SAHN" BENES - ZIENIA MERTON DR. BEN VINCENT - JEFFERY KISSOON PETROV - PETER PORTEOUS 1ST SECURITY GUARD - TONY OSOBA 2ND SECURITY GUARD - JOHN JUDD REFUELING EAGLE PILOT [Gary] - TREVOR THOMAS GRASSHOPPER [Maya Transformation] - ANDREW LODGE The Bringers of Wonder (Part 1) 17/41 When Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) crashes his Eagle after throwing his craft about the sky like a drunken driver, Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) is at a loss to explain his extraordinary behavior. After being dragged unconscious from the blazing wreckage, Koenig is hooked up to the brain impulse machine in the Medical Center, in spite of Maya's (CATHERINE SCHELL) worry that the machine is still experimental. No sooner has the excitement of the crash subsided than there is a gasp of disbelief from Sahn (ZIENIA MERTON) as she watches a radar monitor. Approaching Moonbase Alpha is a spaceship traveling faster than the speed of light. Moments later she picks it up on the TV screen and no-one in Mission Control [Command Center] is able to believe his eyes. There on the screen is a Superswift, a spacecraft that was still on the drawing board when Moonbase was blasted out of earth's orbit. But how can people on earth have built a craft to exceed the speed of light? All such questions are forgotten when the Superswift lands and out steps Tony Verdeschi's (TONY ANHOLT) brother Guido (STUART DAMON)! He is followed by the rest of the Superswift's crew, all of whom are known to someone on Moonbase Alpha. During the instant reunion party that follows, Guido announces that soon transporters will arrive to take them all back to Earth. But while everyone wallows in the euphoria brought about by the thought of going home, two of the newcomers exert a strange and evil influence over Sandstrom (EARL ROBINSON) a Medical Orderly. He goes to the Medical Center and starts switching off all the instruments attached to the still unconscious Koenig, but luckily he is seen by Dr. Ben Vincent (JEFFERY KISSOON) and Helena, who rush to Koenig's aid. None the worse for his attempted murder, the Commander comes to shortly after and is told of the arrival of the Superswift. Overjoyed by the prospect of going home, he goes to the Command Center to join the party, but stops in horror when he sees the new arrival—in his eyes there are no friends from earth, as he has been led to believe, but a group of hideous aliens. And the monitor screen shows him not the Superswift but an alien spaceship! Horrified, he orders the Weapons Section to destroy the ship, and when this is countermanded by Tony, Koenig grabs a laser gun and tries to shoot Guido. But, under the influence of one of the visitors, Dr. Shaw (PATRICK WESTWOOD), Helena shoots him first... Clive Kandor (NICK HOBBS) of the Records Unit has been filming the party but when he returns to his lab to check the film he comes under the influence of Guido and Shaw who, realizing that it will show them as aliens, not Earth men, make him lock the lab and start destroying his equipment. When Maya hears about this she transforms herself into a ladybird [actually, a cockroach] and gets into the lab through the air-conditioning vent. In order to subdue Kandor she then becomes a space monster and, having knocked him out, breaks down the door. But this causes an explosion and Kandor is killed. Still unaware of the true identities of their "friends" the Alphans are happy to draw lots to see who should be the first three to return to Earth—in the Superswift's pilot ship. When Koenig regains consciousness he is horrified to learn that the chosen three are Moonbase Alpha's radioactive monitoring team. But before he can explain his concern, a worried Helena injects him with a sedative. Later, as he lies in the Medical center, an alien enters the room and begins to smother him. Screenplay by TERENCE FEELY Directed by TOM CLEGG Cast JOHN KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU HELENA RUSSELL - BARBARA BAIN MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL TONY VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE SANDRA BENES - ZIENIA MERTON DR. BEN VINCENT - JEFFERY KISSOON DIANA MORRIS - TOBY ROBINS GUIDO VERDESCHI - STUART DAMON JACK BARTLETT - JEREMY YOUNG JOE EHRLICH - DREWE HENLEY LOUISA - CHER CAMERON SANDSTORM - EARL ROBINSON DR. SHAW - PATRICK WESTWOOD PETER ROCKWELL - NICHOLAS YOUNG HENRY - ROBERT SHEEDY LIZARD ANIMAL - ALBIN PAHERNIK KEN BURDETT - AL LAMPERT PROFESSOR HUNTER - BILLY J. MITCHELL CLIVE KANDOR - NICK HOBBS The Bringers of Wonder (Part 2) 18/42 Just as the alien looms over Koenig, Helena and Maya enter the Medical Center, but they see not the alien, but Dr. Shaw, Helena's friend and former teacher. Shaw leaves and very soon Koenig comes around. He tries to convince Helena that he is right about their "friends" from earth. He suggests the brain machine he was connected to following his crash may have prevented the aliens from exerting their powers on him, and asks Maya to try it. She agrees and afterwards she, too, sees the aliens. Meanwhile the three men in the Superswift's pilot ship, Alan (NICK TATE), Ehrlich (DREWE HENLEY) and Bartlett (JEREMY YOUNG), are joyfully reporting that they are nearing earth, whereas, in fact, they are flying towards the Moonbase's nuclear waste domes. In order to find out why the aliens are making them do this, Maya transforms herself into one of the hideous creatures and joins a group of them. They quickly sense that there is a stranger among them and she has to change back in a hurry, but not before she has learnt that they live on radiation. She tells Koenig and Helena that they are after Moonbase Alpha's nuclear waste dumps, which they will have to blow up in order to get the energy they need. The moon will be totally destroyed but the aliens will survive. Which is why Alan, Ehrlich and Bartlett—under the alien's influence—are about to blow up the dumps, thinking they are now back on earth. Helena decides to use "white noise"—a sonic anaesthetic—on all Alphans, and it works. Suddenly, they all see their "friends from earth" for what they really are—hideous aliens. But there are three who are unaffected by the "white noise"—the radioactive monitoring team is still in the alien's control and making its way to the waste dumps. The alien's energy is now running out, but Maya thinks she may be getting enough just from the brains of all conscious Alphans so Koenig orders Helena to knock out everyone on the base with a contact gas. This done, he goes to the nuclear waste domes in search of three men who think they are enjoying themselves back on earth but who, in fact, are about to blow themselves and their companions off the face of the moon... Screenplay by TERENCE FEELY Directed by TOM CLEGG Cast JOHN KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU HELENA RUSSELL - BARBARA BAIN MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL TONY VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE SANDRA BENES - ZIENIA MERTON DR. BEN VINCENT - JEFFERY KISSOON DIANA MORRIS - TOBY ROBINS GUIDO VERDESCHI - STUART DAMON JACK BARTLETT - JEREMY YOUNG JOE EHRLICH - DREWE HENLEY LOUISA - CHER CAMERON SANDSTORM - EARL ROBINSON DR. SHAW - PATRICK WESTWOOD PETER ROCKWELL - NICHOLAS YOUNG HENRY - ROBERT SHEEDY LIZARD ANIMAL - ALBIN PAHERNIK KEN BURDETT - AL LAMPERT PROFESSOR HUNTER - BILLY J. MITCHELL CLIVE KANDOR - NICK HOBBS The Lambda Factor 19/43 Crossing an area of deep space, Moonbase Alpha should be enjoying a trouble-free time. But there are some annoying little disturbances for which there seems to be no explanation—minor instrument malfunctions, and a few cases of lack of discipline. And suddenly, a major tragedy—a pretty, young, medical technician, Sally Martin (LYDIA LISLE) dies a violent death in inexplicable circumstances. Further disturbances arise among the crew and Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) is assailed by terrible nightmares. An autopsy reveals that Sally was killed by some monstrous force, but Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) has no clue as to what it was. Security Chief Tony Verdeschi (TONY ANHOLT) starts an investigation and questions Mark Sanders (JESS CONRAD) and Carolyn Powell (DEBORAH FALLENDER). Mark was engaged to Sally but they parted and Mark took up with Carolyn. Both admit to the friction that followed, but deny any suggestion that they had a hand in Sally's death. Carolyn confirms that she is experimenting with some sort of pressure device but states that she hasn't achieved any results as yet. Maya (CATHERINE SCHELL) isn't so sure. When Alan Carter (NICK TATE) reports that three-quarters of Alpha’s Eagles are non-operational, sabotage is immediately suspected. Alan is checking things out when an atomic Eagle motor switches itself on. He [attempts to turn] it off but the motor just increases its power until it is approaching danger level. Alan now hits the alarm button but nothing happens. He tries desperately to wrench the power cable from the machine but hasn't the strength. He runs to the door but it won't open.... Alan's frantic hammering is heard by Tony and Maya. Maya transforms into a gorilla[-like creature], breaks down the door, and pulls out the power cable. In her room, Carolyn stares at her reflection in her mirror and begs the terrible power that has suddenly overcome her to go away.... [See correction.] For some time a large, gaseous cloud has appeared on the monitor screen, and Moonbase Alpha is now right in the middle of it. Maya reports that her sensors are picking up Lambda waves and Helena, realizing that these waves could affect certain people (giving them paranormal mental powers) decides to conduct some experiments. [See correction.] Meanwhile, Commander Koenig is beset by his awful nightmares again and when Helena visits him in his quarters he is very much below par. She reports that some Alphans, when tested, show a huge increase in paranormal powers and that one of them is Carolyn. Koenig, impressed but lost in his own problems, reminds Helena how, long ago, he had to leave two colleagues to die on Venus. It is these friends, Sam and Tessa, who now haunt him in his dreams. Upset by Sally's death, Mark tells Carolyn that he is convinced that she had something to do with it and that he can no longer continue their relationship. [See correction.] As he walks away, Carolyn's terrible power comes into play and Mark is crushed to death, just like his former fiancée. [See correction.] When Mark is found, Tony immediately suspects Carolyn, but Helena asks to be allowed one more set of experiments. Carolyn breezes through them, succeeding where the others have failed. Utterly convinced now, Tony tries to arrest her, but she escapes to the command Center and, using her extraordinary powers, takes control of Moonbase Alpha! But now Koenig has beaten his nightmares with the help of Helena, who senses that he is the only one with paranormal power equal to Carolyn's.Together they go to the Command Center where Koenig pits his mind against Carolyn's in a merciless mental battle that will decide the future of the moon base and its inhabitants.... Written by TERRANCE DICKS Directed by CHARLES CRICHTON Cast JOHN KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU HELENA RUSSELL - BARBARA BAIN MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL TONY VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE SANDRA "SAHN" BENES - ZIENIA MERTON CAROLYN POWELL - DEBORAH FALLENDER MARK SANDERS - JESS CONRAD GEORGE CRATO - ANTONY STAMBOULIEH CARL RENTON - MICHAEL WALKER PETER GARFORTH - GREGORY de POLNAY SALLY MARTIN - LYDIA LISLE TESSA - LUCINDA CURTIS SAM - DALLAS ADAMS The Seance Spectre 20/44 When planet Tora is sighted, commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) realizes that while it might be habitable, it is probably just another false alarm. [See correction.] What he does know for sure, however, is that it has suddenly shifted position, putting it on a collision course with Moonbase Alpha. He puts the Command Center off limits and switches off all outside video monitors. This angers a small group of Alphans, led by Sanderson (KEN HUTCHINSON), and while Koenig is out in an Eagle they take over the Command Center by using their laser guns. Sanderson then orders his girlfriend, Eva (CAROLYN SEYMOUR), Cernik (NIGEL PEGRAM) and Stevens (JAMES SNELL) to link hands, and he holds a seance. He tells them that he can see lots of trees and plants on the planet, and rivers and green grass. Tora is definitely habitable. Koenig then returns and resumes command, ordering Sanderson and the others to be confined to Medical Center, but Sanderson breaks out of the Medical Center and accuses Koenig of not wanting to find a habitable planet for fear of losing his dictator-like control over the moon base. In rejecting this, Koenig decides to take a closer look at Tora and have his Eagle tracked by the main Alpha computer, so everyone can see what he finds. Once again, he confines Sanderson and Eva to the Medical Center where Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) investigates her theory of green sickness, a condition brought about by Moonbase Alpha's lack of Earth-type greenery. Sanderson can't accept Commander Koenig’s reassurances. With Eva's help he [and Cernik and Stevens] breaks out again. They go to the main computer room [see correction] and remove critical components, forcing the eagle carrying Koenig and Maya (CATHERINE SCHELL) to crash-land on Tora. Both are unharmed and the eagle not critically damaged, but they find that Tora is just a dustbowl and very short of oxygen. On alpha, Tony Verdeschi (TONY ANHOLT) and Alan Carter (NICK TATE) manage to get the Eagle's engines started again by remote control but the Eagle’s oxygen plant has been severely damaged. In order to create more air for Koenig, Maya transforms herself into a large clump of bushes. [See correction.] Once back on Alpha, Koenig decides that the only way to avoid a collision with Tora is to blast the moon off course by detonating some of the nuclear waste dumps. In order to avoid loss of life he orders a complete evacuation of Moonbase Alpha. He contacts Sanderson and offers him a final chance for survival—get on one of the evacuating Eagles or face near certain death by remaining on Alpha. Eva and the others are now having serious doubts about Sanderson's seances and his predictions for the new planet. They decide to vote on whether to stay with him or take Koenig's advice. All except Sanderson vote to evacuate. Koenig and Maya are the last two remaining in the Command Center, where they are surprised by Sanderson, who knocks Koenig out with a laser gun and threatens to kill Maya if the evacuating Eagles don't orbit Tora prior to landing on the planet. Eva pleads with the now demented Sanderson who tries to kill Koenig, but Maya turns into a space monster and overpowers him. However, as soon as she reverts back to her natural form he escapes and disappears. Maya then flies the now recovered Koenig to the nuclear waste dumps in an Eagle [see correction] and he goes out onto the moon to set up the explosives. High above the surface, in another Eagle, Verdeschi, Dr. Russell, Carter, Benes, and others scan the moon's surface for Sanderson. As Koenig prepares the explosives that will trigger the nuclear explosion, Sanderson rises from behind some rocks, a laser rifle at his shoulder, and Commander Koenig in his sights.... Written by DONALD JAMES Directed by PETER MEDAK Cast JOHN KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU HELENA RUSSELL - BARBARA BAIN MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL TONY VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE SANDRA "SAHN" BENES - ZIENIA MERTON GREG SANDERSON - KEN HUTCHINSON EVA - CAROLYN SEYMOUR STEVENS - JAMES SNELL CERNIK - NIGEL PEGRAM SECURITY GUARD - CHRISTOPHER ASANTE Dorzak 21/45 The personnel of Moonbase Alpha are very much on their guard when a fantastic spaceship arrives and requests permission to land. In the absence of Commander Koenig (out on a mission [investigating a belt of asteroids which give some hope of colonization]), Tony Verdeschi (TONY ANHOLT) allows the ship to land. All are astonished when from it emerges a beautiful young woman, Sahala (JILL TOWNSEND). She announces that she is from the planet Norvah in the Croton galaxy ["Croton system"], and that she has a dangerous criminal on board who has seriously injured a crew member, now in need of urgent medical attention. Tony agrees to help, but then Sahala catches sight of Maya (CATHERINE SCHELL) and shoots her down with a ray gun! Sahala immediately explains that she had to shoot Maya, as she recognized her as a Psychon. Not long ago a spaceship arrived on Norvah from Psychon, its crew seeking refuge from their own planet as it was about to be destroyed. They were led by the man she now holds prisoner, Dorzak (LEE MONTAGUE), and he incited the Norvahns to violence after thousands of years of peace, which is why he is now being exiled. Fearing for Maya's life, Tony orders Sahala under arrest. But Alan, (NICK TATE) who is very taken with Sahala’s beauty, talks to her and persuades her to bring Maya back to consciousness. Later, a very relieved Tony tells Maya about Dorzak. Delighted that other Psychons successfully escaped her home planet, Maya is anxious to meet with him. But Maya, already acquainted with Dorzak from the past, knows him as a philosopher and poet—a man of peace. She refuses to believe that Sahala's story is true. Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) operates on the injured crew member, a woman called Yesta (KATHRYN LEIGH SCOTT), and, while dealing with her head wounds, finds and removes a small, implanted golden capsule. Meanwhile Maya has gone aboard the spaceship to talk to Dorzak, who denies Sahala's accusations. But while Maya tells Dorzak of her life on Moonbase Alpha, he is concentrating his mind on Yesta as she regains consciousness. Under his influence she accuses Sahala of causing all the trouble [murdering Clea]. Tony however, has had the golden capsule analyzed and learns that it is capable of preventing ESP messages from being received by the carrier. With her capsule removed, Yesta is now at the mercy of Dorzak's mind, and if he can influence her, he can influence the Alphans as well. X rays show that Sahala also carries a capsule, which means that she is now the only person Dorzak cannot control. Maya is informed of this but still cannot believe her fellow Psychon capable of such behavior. Tony suggests that the only way to convince her is to get Sahala and Dorzak alone together. In the twinkling of an eye, Maya has transformed herself into Sahala; but the meeting is a disaster, for she asks a question that Sahala wouldn't need to ask, and Dorzak, knowing of Maya's gift of molecular transformation, realizes what she has done and what it can do for him. Somehow he has to get Dr. Russell to remove the capsule from the real Sahala's head, then there will be nobody left immune to his powers. He forces Maya to tell him the secrets of molecular transformation, then swaps places with her! He is now free to use his powers on Helena and orders her to operate on Sahala.... Written by CHRISTOPHER PENFOLD Directed by VAL GUEST Cast HELENA RUSSELL - BARBARA BAIN MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL TONY VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE DR. ED SPANDAU [SPENCER] - SAM DASTOR YASKO - YASUKO NAGAZUMI 1ST SECURITY GUARD - PAUL JERRICHO 2ND SECURITY GUARD - JOHN JUDD DORZAK - LEE MONTAGUE SAHALA - JILL TOWNSEND YESTA - KATHRYN LEIGH SCOTT CLEA - SERETTA WILSON ED MALCOLM [SAM] - RICHARD LE PARMENTIER Devil's Planet 22/46 When Moonbase Alpha picks up a distress signal from the nearby planet Ellna, Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) and Blake Maine (MICHAEL DICKINSON) of the Medical Rescue Team go to investigate. Flying their Eagle low over the planet they see a large city, with a breathable atmosphere and vegetation similar to that on earth but, curiously, there is no sign of life. On landing they find a number of dead bodies dressed in similar uniform. Then a man—very much alive—appears from a large, transparent box, a transbeam station [transbeamer]. As he moves towards them in greeting, he crumples to the ground and dies. Baffled, Koenig and Maine leave the planet and [still looking for a habitable planet] decide to take a look at its moon. As they approach it their instruments pick up signs of life, but suddenly the Eagle goes out of control and crashes. The two men are shaken but unharmed, and crawl from the wreckage just in time to see a man—in the same type of uniform they have seen on Ellna—running for his life towards a large column marked "Sanctuary" [see correction] chased by three beautiful girls dressed in skin-tight catsuits and carrying long, electric whips! Koenig and Maine move in to help, but Maine runs into a force-field and is killed; and a horrified Koenig is knocked out by one of the girls. He comes to in a cell, surrounded by prisoners who suspect him of being a spy, planted by Elizia (HILDEGARD NEIL), overseer of Entra, a penal colony of the planet Ellna. They are infuriated when Koenig tells them that everyone on Ellna is dead and that any prisoner sent home will die as soon as he arrives. So angry are they that Elizia arrives just in time to prevent Koenig from being lynched! She manages to calm the prisoners, assuring them that they all have a chance of returning home—safe and sound. [See correction.] Another arrival is even more welcome to Koenig—that of Eagle 2, with Bill Fraser (JOHN HUG) and Alibe (ALIBE PARSONS) searching for the crashed Eagle. They request permission to land but Elizia refuses them, saying that both Koenig and Maine are dead. By threatening retaliation from Moonbase Alpha, Fraser changes her mind. When they land, Elizia shows them Koenig's Eagle and the spot at the force field where she tells them both Maine and Koenig died. Shattered by this "proof", Fraser and Alibe return to their craft, unaware that a very-much-alive Koenig is watching helplessly from his prison cell as they lift off. Elizia has taken a strong fancy to the Commander, but when she tries to seduce him he throws her off and escapes. Reaching his Eagle he searches for weapons, but all are gone. Then, a sudden thought strikes him and, pocketing a small Distress Homing Transmitter he walks determinedly back to the prison complex and the transbeamer, to the amazement of Elizia and her guards. He then challenges Elizia: if she is telling the truth and there is no death on Ellna, she can go with him and bring him back. Caught in her own trap, Elizia cannot meet the challenge and Koenig transbeams himself to the planet, where he switches on the homing device which can now be picked up by Eagle Two. Back on Entra, Elizia faces another challenge—from her guards [and prisoners] who demand that she proves Koenig was lying. Now she has no option but to step into the transbeamer herself. As she appears on Ellna she comes face to face with Koenig again, and although she has only seconds to live, she is armed and he is not.... Written by MICHAEL WINDER Directed by TOM CLEGG Cast JOHN KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU BLAKE MAINE - MICHAEL DICKINSON BILL FRASER - JOHN HUG ALIBE - ALIBE PARSONS DR. ED SPENCER - SAM DASTOR ELIZIA - HILDEGARD NEIL CRAEL - ROY MARSDEN INTERROGATOR - DORA REISSER SARES/CONTROLLER - CASSANDRA HARRIS JELTO - ANGUS MacINNES KINANO - ARTHUR WHITE The Immunity Syndrome 23/47 While exploring an apparently peaceful, Earth-type planet, Tony Verdeschi (TONY ANHOLT) is horrified to find his colleague Joe Lustig (ROY BOYD) behaving like a crazed dog. When he tries to help, Lustig attempts to kill him, and in the ensuing fight it is the latter who is killed with his own stun gun. Tony is then overcome by the same force that turned Lustig into a maniac—a piercing sound and blinding light that renders him insane, too. Nearby, Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU), Alan Carter (NICK TATE) and Jerry Travis (KARL HELD) are checking out a strange, geodesic structure that they are unable to enter; but then, hidden under thick vegetation [see correction], Carter finds some solar cells. Recharged by the sun, they will open up the structure. When Lustig's body is found, Koenig leads a party in search of Tony, who has no wish to be found. So much so that he tries to kill his commander before collapsing, exhausted. Realizing that Tony is dangerously ill, Koenig and Alan attempt to fly him to Moonbase Alpha. But on the way their Eagle starts falling apart as all the metal in it is suddenly subjected to violent corrosion. Desperately, Alan tries to get back to base camp before his craft breaks up, but he is helpless to prevent a crash-landing. Miraculously, no-one is seriously hurt, but they learn that two Alphans on the planet are dead after drinking spring water—water that had been tested and found pure! On the moon base, Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) and Maya (CATHERINE SCHELL) watch in horror as their instruments indicate a dramatic change in the planet's atmosphere—a massive buildup of poisonous elements apparently caused by the Alphans' arrival! And there is a strong indication of an intelligent and hostile life-form. Due to the corrosion they are unable to communicate with the planet, but by using some metaline fibers [salvaged from a gun], Koenig and Carter rig a makeshift transmitter and report their plight, Koenig forbidding any rescue attempt as the Eagles would simply fall apart. But Maya has a brainstorm—Moonbase Alpha's reentry glider is made of carbon fiber.... On the planet, the solar cells are now recharged and the Alphans are able to enter the strange, geodesic structure. Inside they are astonished to find a uniformed skeleton, slumped in a chair in front of a screen. They switch the screen on and find themselves looking at a being who introduces himself as Zoran (NADIM SAWALHA)—now a skeleton—and he tells how he and his people befell a fate similar to that which faces the Alphans. Helena and Maya land in the glider and Maya immediately transforms into a bird, flying above the trees in order to spot the base camp. [See correction.] Meanwhile, Tony has regained consciousness and tells Koenig how Lustig died. Both are delighted when Helena and Maya arrive out of nowhere. But the women are shocked to find Tony so obviously close to death. Another visit to the geodesic structure gleans more information from the dying Zoran's screen image. He explains how he met a "being" composed of blinding light and sound and was made insane due to lack of protection. Temporarily recovered, he is now trying to help any other space traveler who might investigate the planet. Koenig finds his protective suit [see correction] and insists on trying it. Carefully modified so he can neither see nor hear, and relying on instructions via a built-in two-way communicator, Koenig ventures blindly into the area where Tony and Lustig were struck down. He must make friendly contact with the being before all Alphans on the planet suffer Zoran's fate.... Written by JOHNNY BYRNE Directed by BOB BROOKS Cast JOHN KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU HELENA RUSSELL - BARBARA BAIN MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL TONY VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE ZORAN - NADIM SAWALHA JERRY TRAVIS - KARL HELD FRASER - JOHN HUG DR. ED SPENCER - SAM DASTOR ALIBE - ALIBE PARSONS JOE LUSTIG - ROY BOYD LES JOHNSON - WALTER McMONAGLE SECURITY GUARD - JOHN JUDD SECURITY GUARD - JAMES LEITH [?] VOICE - HAL GALILI The Dorcons 24/48 Everyone in Command Center is astonished when they see a huge alien spaceship materialize on their screens. But Maya is not just astonished—she's terrified! For she recognizes it as a Dorcon ship and knows that the Dorcons—the most powerful race in the galaxy—have come for her. She explains that they have hounded the Psychons for centuries, believing that through them they can achieve immortality. The Dorcons are led by the Archon (PATRICK [Dr. Who] TROUGHTON), Supreme Leader of the federated worlds of Dorca, Consul Varda (ANN FIRBANK), and the Archon's nephew and heir, Malic (GERRY SUNDQUIST). Malic, an evil youth who craves his uncle’s power, is all for invading Moonbase Alpha, but the Archon will have none of it. He wants the Psychon, Maya, but without violence if possible. So Varda appears on the Command Center's screen and demands that Maya be sent to the Dorcon spaceship. When Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) refuses, Moonbase Alpha is subjected to a devastating barrage of energy bolts. The Alphan laser guns are totally useless against the Dorcon ship; and when the moon base is obviously being destroyed, Koenig tells Varda to call off the attack or he will kill Maya. Varda agrees and, using a Meson Converter, transforms herself and three soldiers to the Command Center. Moonbase Alpha has been successfully invaded! In a desperate attempt to evade capture, Maya transforms herself into a female Alphan, but to no avail. Varda seeks her out and takes her back to the Dorcon spaceship via the Meson Converter, but at the last second Koenig gets himself transformed with them, only to be [stunned and] thrown into a cell immediately. Maya, however, is taken to a "surgery area" where she is prepared for an operation that will remove her brain stem. This will be transplanted into the Archon's body, giving him—or so the Dorcons believe—eternal life. Malic begs Varda to let the Archon die, but she knows that if Malic becomes Supreme Leader he will bring war and destruction to their people, and she refuses his request. Furious, Malic helps Commander Koenig to escape from his cell, telling him to rescue Maya before it is too late. Having sent Commander Koenig on his way, Malic then sounds the alarm, but this doesn't prevent the Archon from going to the surgery for his life-giving operation. Koenig dare not trust Malic's instructions, so he begins a frantic search for Maya, all the while dodging the Dorcon guards who have instructions to kill him on sight. Commander Koenig finally reaches the surgery, only to find that Malic has got there before him. He has killed the Archon but released Maya from her unconscious state, allowing her to transform into a vicious creature in time to attack Malic before he can kill Commander Koenig. But the Dorcon is not so badly hurt that he can't tell his guards that Koenig has killed the Archon, and when the Commander and Maya reach the transporter beam they find Varda and several guards waiting for them. Believing Malic's claim [that Commander Koenig killed the Archon], Varda tells Commander Koenig that he and Maya will die and that Moonbase Alpha will be wiped out in retaliation for the Archon's death. But when Malic appears and demands that Maya live, so that he may achieve immortality, Commander Koenig tries desperately to convince Varda that it was Malic, not he, who killed her leader. She realizes that he is telling the truth, and when a hysterical Malic tries to kill her, Koenig and Maya make a dive for the transporter beam.... Written by JOHNNY BYRNE Directed by TOM CLEGG Cast JOHN KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU HELENA RUSSELL - BARBARA BAIN MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL TONY VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE ALIBE - ALIBE PARSONS SECURITY GUARD - JOHN JUDD STEWART - LAURENCE HARRINGTON COMMAND CENTER ALPHAN - HAMISH PATRICK ARCHON - PATRICK TROUGHTON CONSUL VARDA - ANN FIRBANK MALIC - GERRY SUNDQUIST 1st DORCON OPERATIVE - KEVAN SHEEHAN 1st DORCON SOLDIER - MICHAEL HALSEY FEMALE MEDICAL OFFICER - HAZEL McBRIDE MAYA CREATURE - ALBIN PAHERNIK |
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