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SPACE:1999
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Episode Guide
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Compiled by Chad Fogg
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Edited by Saul Jaffe (Moderator, Sf-Lovers)
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Cast
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Commander John Koenig......Martin Landau
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Doctor Elenor Russel........Barbara Bain
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Professor Victor Bergman.....Barry Morse (season 1)
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Maya.....................Catherine Shell (season 2)
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Commissioner Simmonds........Roy Dotrice (season 1)
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Paul Marrow............. Prentis Hancock
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Alan Carter................... Nick Tate
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Sandra.................... Zienia Merton
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Tony Verdeschi.............. Tony Anholt (season 2)
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[Note: summaries based on TV Guide listings]
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Season 1 (1975)
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1. BREAKAWAY
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Pilot/Debut: The "Mission Impossible" team of husband Martin Landau and
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wife Barbara Bain is reunited in a series whose credibility is heightened
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by authentic looking sets, Rudi Gernreich's costumes and, for television,
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spectacular special effects. On Moonbase Alpha, which monitors lunar
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storage sites for atomic wastes shuttled from earth, Commander Koenig and
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Dr. Russel oversee an eleventh-hour attempt to avert spectacular
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explosions on the moon that eventually hurtle it out of earth's orbit and
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cast 311 men and women stationed on the moon on the ultimate journey into
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space across the universe.
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Later re-edited into the first half of the movie "Alien Attack"].
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2. DRAGON'S DOMAIN
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Guest cast: Gianni Galko (Cellini), Douglas Wilmer (Commissioner Dixon)
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Dr. Russel retells the farfetched explanation offered by the sole survivors
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of a disastrous 1996 space probe. This episode features the classical
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music of Tomaso Albinoni's (1671-1751) "Adagio" as the space probe
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approaches an alien planet.
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3. A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
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Guest Cast: Richard Jonhson (Lee), Stuart Damon (Parks), Anton Phillips
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(Dr. Mathias)
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Helena Russel's husband, who has been missing in space for years,
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mysteriously appears on Moonbase Alpha to warn her away from the planet
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where he and everything on it exist as antimatter.
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4. END OF ETERNITY
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Guest Cast: Peter Boweles, Jim Smilie (Baxter)
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Commander Koenig rescues an immortal alien (Boweles) doomed to spend an
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eternity inside a barren asteroid. The liberated one repays his kindness
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by wreaking destruction among the Alphans.
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5. VOYAGER'S RETURN
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Guest Cast: Jeremy Kemp (Dr. Ernst Linden), Barry Strokes (Jim Haines),
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Alex Scott (Aarchon), Lawrence Trimble (Abrams)
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Moonbase Alpha is endangered by a malfunctioning, unmanned spacecraft that
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had been spewing lethal particles since its launch from Earth in 1985, and
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by aliens whose people have already been destroyed by the errant probe.
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6. MISSION OF THE DARIANS
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Guest Cast: Joan Collins (Kava), Aubrey Morris (Petros High Priest), Dennis
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Burgess (Newman), Paul Antrim (Lowry), Robert Russel (Hadin)
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A call for help is made on the Alphans by the incumbents of a gigantic,
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crippled ship who are the sole survivors of a dying planet.
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7. DEATH'S OTHER DOMINIION
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Guest Cast: John Shrapnel, Brian Blessed (Rowland), Mary Miller (Freda)
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A half-crazed Soothsayer (Shrapnel) warns the Alphans to flee from a frozen
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plant where Koenig and colleagues discover immortal members of an earlier
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space probe from Earth.
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8. COLLISION COURSE
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Koenig meets with the queen of an enormous planet to avoid collision with
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her world and his. And she insists on a preposterous solution.
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[Later re-edited into the 1st half of the movie "Journey Through The Black
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Sun"].
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9. FORCE OF LIFE
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Guest Cast: Ian McShane, Gay Hamilton (Eva), John Hamil (Donnix)
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Burned-out equipment and frozen corpses lie in the wake of a technician
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(McShane) who has become an instrument of destruction that feeds on energy
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and endangers anything that he touches.
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10. ALPHA CHILD
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Guest Cast: Julian Grover (Jarak), Cyd Hayman (Cynthia Crawford), Wayne
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Brooks (Jackie)
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When the first baby born on Alpha suddenly grows to the size of a
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5-year-old, Koenig senses a more sinister explanation than outer space
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conditions for a child that heralds an alien war in which, no matter who
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wins, Alpha loses.
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11. GUARDIAN OF PIRI
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Guest Cast: Catherine Shell (Servant of the Guardian), Michael Culver (Pete
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Irving)
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The Guardian of a tranquil and beautiful planet where machines do the
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bidding of all, lures moonbase personnel to the land of eternal peace,
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which Koenig realizes is living death.
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12. THE TROUBLED SPIRI
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Guest Cast: Giancarlo Prette, Hilary Dwyer (Laura Adams), Anthony Nichols
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(Dr. James Warren)
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A botanist (Prette) conducting experiments on communications with planets
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is haunted by a disfigured apparition.
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13. THE BLACK SUN
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"The Black Sun." A space phenomenon that even devours light draws Alpha to
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its center.
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Later re-edited into the 2nd half of the movie "Journey Through The Black
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Sun"].
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14. TESTAMENT OF ARKADIA
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Guest Cast: Orso Maria Guerrini (Luke Ferro), Lisa Harrow (Anna Davis)
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The Alphans encounter what may be the origins of life on Earth. The
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runaway moon's uncontrolled flight comes to a sudden halt at the outer
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limits of space, and Alpha's power plummets when it approaches an
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unidentified planet.
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15. THE LAST ENEMY
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Guest Cast: Caroline Mortimer (Dione), Maxine Audley (Theia), Kevin Stoney
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(Talos)
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Two warring planets, positioned so that they cannot shoot at each other
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directly, seize Alpha as a gun platform when it wanders into their range.
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16. EARTHBOUND
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Guest Cast: Christopher Lee (Captian Zantor)
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An alien ship bound for Earth lands on the runaway moon, its crew
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frozen-down for the long journey. Commissioner Simmonds, who was visiting
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the moon when it broke away from Earth, insists on a chance to go home
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aboard the vessel.
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17. ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE
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Guest Cast: Judy Geeson
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Past and future overlap as Moonbase Alpha personnel land on a duplicate
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moon and discover themselves, and the eerie phenomenon convinces a main
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mission staffer (Geeson) that she is living in her own future.
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18. THE INFERNAL MACHINE
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Guest Cast: Leo McKern
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An ancient man (McKern) and the talking machine he serves come to Alpha to
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request urgently needed supplies. Alpha then encounters one of the
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strangest mysteries of the universe in a living machine.
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19. MISSING LINK
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Guest Cast: Peter Crushing, Joanna Dunham (Vara)
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An anthropologist (Crushing) from the planet Zenno abducts Koenig to become
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the subject of study as a spaceman of an earlier life form.
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20. THE LAST SUNSET Paul (Hancock) and Sandra (Merton) look forward to
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raising a family as the Alphans prepare for an exodus to the planet Ariel,
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which apparently approximates Earth environment.
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21. SPACE BRAIN
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Guest Cast: Shane Rimmer (Kelly), Carka Romanelli (Melita)
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Alpha encounters a deadly force as it heads through space... and towards
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disaster when an outburst of strange hieroglyphics on all of the moon's
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screens portends its encounter with a "Space Brain."
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22. WAR GAMES
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Guest Cast: Isla Bliar (female alien), Anthony Valentine (male alien),
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Clifton Jones (David)
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After an alien attack devastates Alpha, John and Helena go to the hostile
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planet to plead for mercy on the survivors.
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[Later re-edited into the 2nd half of the movie "Alien Attack"]
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23. THE FULL CIRCLE
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On a strange planet, Sandra (Merton) is kidnapped by cave men
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whose chief bears a striking resemblance to Koenig.
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24. RING AROUND THE MOON
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An alien spaceship locks Alpha into an orbit and proceeds to steal
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classified data from its computer banks.
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Season 2 (1976)
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25. THE METAMORPH
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Guest Cast: Tony Anholt (Tony Verdeschi)
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Return: This episode introduces Moonbase Alpha's resident alien Maya
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(Catherine Schell), who has the ability to will herself into any creature
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at will.
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[Later re-edited into the first half of the movie "Cosmic Princess"].
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26. THE EXILES
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Guest Cast: Peter Duncan (Carter), Stacy Dorning (Zova), Margot Inglis
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(Mirella)
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The Alphans come upon a fleet of missle-like objects that imprison
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the frozen bodies of exiles from another planet.
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27. JOURNEY TO WHERE
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Guest Cast: Freddie Jones (Dr. Logan), Isla Blair (Carla)
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A technological breakthrough gone awry lands John, Helena, and Alan in
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plague-ravaged 14 century Scotland.
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28. THE TAYBOR
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Guest Cast: Willoughby Goddard (Taybor), John Hug (Bill Fraser)
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A traveling trader of the universe covets Maya in return for a device that
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could transport the Alphans back to Earth.
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29. NEW ADAM, NEW EVE
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Guest Cast: Guy Rolfe
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Magus (Rolfe), an alien bearing gifts and claiming to be the creator"
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offers the Alphans a present they can't refuse: a new Garden of Eden-earth.
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30. THE MARK OF ARKONON
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Guest Cast: John Standig (Pasic)
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Two aliens discovered sealed in a chamber beneath the moon's surface suffer
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from a communicable disease that causes outbursts of violence.
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31. BRIAN THE BRAIN
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Guest Cast: Bernard Cribbins (Captain Michael)
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Kidnap victims Commander John Koenig and Dr. Helena Russel find themselves
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at the mercy of a robot on a planet with a poisonous atmosphere.
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32. THE RULES OF LUTON
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Guest Cast: David Jackson, Godfrey James, Roy Mardsen (aliens)
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Because of Maya's accidental "murder" of some flowers on a strange planet
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ruled by highly intelligent plant life, she and John must stand trial and
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engage in mortal combat with three aliens who committed a similar "crime."
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33. A-B CHRYSALIS
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Guest Cast: Ina Skriver (A), Sarah Douglas (B)
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Maya, Alan and John head for a planet from which shock waves wreaking
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devastation upon Alpha have been emanating for a week, a planet towards
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which the runaway moon is headed for.
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34. CATACOMBS OF THE MOON
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Guest Cast: James Laurenson, Pamela Stevonson (Michelle Osgood), Jeffrey
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Kissoon (Dr. Ben Vincent)
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Blasted from a tunnel by an underground explosion, miner Patrick Osgood
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(Laurenson) has a surrealistic vision of the destruction of Alpha.
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35. THE SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION
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On an asteroid, Cdr. John Koenig collapses inside a cave whose
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crystal-like walls reflect myriad images of himself, one of which returns
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in his stead to Alpha.
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36. SPACE WARP
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Her powers disturbed by a mysterious disease, Maya loses control over her
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metamorphic powers, changing from one creature to another. Meanwhile
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Koenig is separated light years from Alpha when the moon travels through a
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space warp.
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[Later incorporated into the 2nd half of "Cosmic Princess"]
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37. A MATTER OF BALANCE
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Guest Cast: Lynne Frederick (Shermeen), Stuart Wilson (Virdus)
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An alien whose people are moving back in time threatens to exchange them
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with Alpha's crew through a "time portal."
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38. THE BETA CLOUD
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Many Alphans are already mysteriously incapacitated when they are further
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menaced by a huge creature sent by another planet to steal their
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life-support system.
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39. THE LAMBA FACTOR
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Guest Cast: Debrah Fallander (Carolyn Powell), Jess Conrad (Mark Sanders)
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The appearance of a cosmic cloud coincides with the mysterious death of a
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young woman and nightmares experienced by Koenig.
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40. ONE MOMENT OF HUMANITY
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Guest Cast: Billie Whitelaw (Zamara), Leigh Lawson (Zarl), Geoffry Bayldon
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(Number Eight)
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Helena and Tony are pressed into service as teachers on a planet of robots
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eager to learn about emotions and willing to become humanoid themselves.
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41. ALL THAT GLISTERS
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Guest Cast: Patrick Mower (Dave Reilly)
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John, Helena and Maya must battle time and an army of living rocks that
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emit deadly rays of colored light.
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42. THE SEANCE SPECTRE
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Guest Cast: Ken Hutchinson (Sanderson), Carolyn Seymour (Eva)
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Dissident Alphans challenge Commander Koenig's authority when the moonbase
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appears to be on a collision course with a huge planet, and no one can
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agree on how to handle the crisis.
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43. BRINGERS OF WONDER (PART 1)
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Guest Cast: Stuart Damon (Guido Verdischi)
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A "Superswift" spaceship from Earth arrives to rescue the Alphans, but an
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experimental machine enable Koenig to perceive the apparent rescuers for
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what they really are - aliens intending to destroy the moon. First of two
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parts.
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[Both parts later re-edited into the movie "Destination: Moonbase Alpha"].
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44. BRINGERS OF WONDER (PART 2)
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The Alphans send Maya to infiltrate the ranks of alien warriors who are
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posing as rescuers from earth. Conclusion of a two-part story.
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45. DORZAK
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Guest Cast: Lee Montague (Dorzak), Jill Townsend (Sahala)
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A survivor from Maya's destroyed planet Psychon arrives on Alpha as the
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exiled prisoner of an alien woman.
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46. IMMUNITY SYNDROME
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The disintegration of their Eagle spacecraft traps John, Alan and a
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critically injured Tony on a planet they were exploding. As they are
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stranded on the nearby planet, they discover that they are being stalked by
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an alien and that they are now the prey of unknown creatures.
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47. DEVIL'S PLANET
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Koenig is sent to the moon of an alien's penal colony planet and is trapped
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by whip-wielding cat-women.
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48. THE DORCONS
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Guest Cast: Ann Firbank (Varda)
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The warrior Darcons threaten to invade Alpha unless Maya is handed over to
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them for use in their medical experiments.
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