1966 the Gas company sponsors the Julie Andrews Show

1966 Singer sponsors Tony Bennett's special

1960 Mr. Tweedy comic strip

Channel Chuckles (1965)

1960 Dennis the Menace for Rice Krispies

1959 Channel Chuckles

1955 Buffalo Bill belt giveaway from Milky Way

This is a movie I catch on TV every October 1966, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

In 1966 GE was giving away Halloween masks

1966 Munsters advertise Encyclopedias

This is interesting, Herman doesn't really read anything but comic books and all Grandpa reads is his book of potions, maybe Lily uses the encyclopedia though.

HALLOWEEN TV 1973 Odd Couple

This is just about the funniest episode of the Odd Couple where Felix hears something odd and is convinced the apartment is haunted. Victor Buono steals the show, as he did on every show he was on.

1966 Man from UNCLE

Now while I'm very fond of David McCallum I don't see why having a Russian secret agent advising people to buy US savings bonds was a good idea.

1969 channel chuckles

Off the Record comic 1959

1960 DEL MONTE ROUNDUP

I must confess I don't get the point of having these cowboys advertising raisins and canned fruit, the tie in isn't very obvious to me.

1951 HOWDY DOODY FOR RICE KRISPIES

1959 tv comic

BATMAN TV GUIDE COVER

WALLY COX NIGHT CLUB ACT

Before Wally Cox became famous as Mr. Peepers he regularly performed in NYC nightclubs.

Once he gained fame on television some of his monologues were released in album form.

PROMO 1979-1980 SERIES

1974 KODIAK BRIEF ACTION/ADVENTURE SERIES THAT REPLACED BRADY BUNCH

Clint Walker played Cal “Kodiak” McKay a state trooper stationed in the Alaska wilderness.  Kodiak has an Eskimo sidekick called Abraham Lincoln Imhook and the pair track down violent criminals.

This Alaska adventure show did not last long at all. The pilot was aired in May, 1974 and did well enough to be picked up for a fall series. However, once the pilot was aired at it’s regular Friday timeslot it was cancelled immediately. This show could not compete against the powerhouse Sandford and Son airing on NBC.

The show was filmed in Oregon and actually lasted 4 episodes, which had already been filmed before the cancellation.

EPISODE LIST

Red Snow, White Death

Kodiak is aided in tracking down a killer by an old Eskimo who just wants to journey to the mountains to die.

Death Chase

Kodiak chases after a girl and her boyfriend after her father is murdered.

A Time To Die

A father wants to kill his son’s murderer and does not Kodiak to bring the man to justice.

The Last Enemy

An old war buddy of Kodiak’s starting fighting an old war.

PROMO FOR 1969 FALL SERIES ON ABC

1970'S ABC FRIDAY NIGHT PROMO

MR PEEPERS STARRING WALLY COX

NBC SITCOM AIRING FROM 1952-1955

Wally Cox started out in New York City giving dance lessons. In the evenings, Cox wrote some stand up routines and tried them out on his roommate, Marlon Brando, and some other friends. They thought he was pretty funny and encouraged him to try out his routine in coffee houses in the Village. These were not jokes or one liners but humorous stories.

NBC discovered him in a coffee house and hired him to star in The Copper, which was about a timid policeman. The story aired on the Philco TV Playhouse and it was a hit. A TV series based on The Copper was attempted but did not work out. So NBC got the idea for a show about a timid science teacher in a small town and Mr. Peepers was born.

MAIN CHARACTERS

Wally Cox as Robinson J. Peepers

Patricia Benoit as Nancy Remington who was the school nurse and Mr. Peepers girlfriend and later wife.

Tony Randall as Harvey Weskitt who was the English teacher and Mr. Peeper's friend.

Marianne Lorne as Mrs. Gurney who was an elderly friend.

When NBC first decided to make the show, early in 1952, the script incorporated lots of slapstick. But Wally Cox insisted on taking it out. His humor was not compatible with any slap stick or violence. The humor from the show came from the characters and down to earth situations dealt with in a funny way.

The show was first aired in the summer of 1952 with Ford Motor Company as the sponsor. It was popular immediately but NBC decided not to renew the show since they felt it was too complicated to film. But there were thousands of letters of protest and when a slot opened up in the fall season, Mr Peepers was on his way.

 

BROADCAST

The show was broadcast live on the East Coast. Kinescopes were made and sent to the West Coast for broadcast there. Kinescopes were very crude, it basically involves filming a television screen while the live broadcast was airing. The films were then sent to the West Coast to be rebroadcast. So it was a film of a film and the film itself wasn't that great a quality.

The show was broadcast in black and white with somewhat crude lighting and the sets were flimsy. These shows were not rerun, just one broadcast and that's it. But UCLA did digital restoration of the shows and they are now available on DVD. The films are of only fair quality, restoration can't make them better than they were originally. But the shows are still good and showcase the gentle humor of Wally Cox.

AFTER THE SERIES

After the show Wally Cox was, unfortunately, typecast as a meek, mild intellectual. For the rest of his life he played, with few exceptions, variations on Mr. Peepers. A few years after the show ended he was offered the lead in Hiram Holiday about a proofreader who goes around the world as a spy. It didn't last long and Wally Cox perhaps his greatest success as a regular guest star on the game show Hollywood Squares.

MUNSTERS SEASON 1 EPISODE GUIDE PART 2

LOW CAL MUNSTER
Herman's army reunion is coming up and he wants to go in uniform, however he has gained some weight. So he goes to the doctor to be put on a diet. The diet is very strict and leads to him having to skip Thanksgiving dinner. Second appearance of Paul Lynde as Dr. Dudley.

TIN CAN MAN
Eddie is failing science and to make up for it, he and Grandpa are building a science project, a robot.

HERMAN THE GREAT
Mr. Ramsey, the father of Eddie’s friend, is impressed that Herman can bend steel bars with his bare hands. So he hires Herman as the Masked Marvel, a wrestler. But Herman can’t win a match because he falls for all his opponent’s sob stories.

KNOCK WOOD, HERE COMES CHARLIE
Charlie, Herman’s twin brother, comes to town and convinces Lily to spend $5,000 for a machine that extracts uranium from sea water. Marilyn is sure Charlie is a con man and she is right, he sells the Munster’s neighbor one of the phony machines and Herman has to buy it back.

MUNSTERS SEASON 1 EPISODE GUIDE PART 1

MUNSTERS MASQUERADE Marilyn is dating Tom Daley and is anxious for Tom to meet her family. Tom suggests to his parents that they invite Herman and Lily to their upcoming costume party. Grandpa has a tantrum until he is also invited. Herman wearing a suit of armor, sees Tom's father dressed like a Frankenstein's monster.

MY FAIR MUNSTER Marilyn scares off another boyfriend when she brings him home, so Grandpa makes up a love potion for her. But the potion ends up in the breakfasts of Eddie, Herman and Lily. Eddie is chased home from school by adoring girl, the lady next door falls in love with Herman and Lily is serenaded by the mailman.

WALK ON THE MILD SIDE Herman is having problems sleeping so he goes walking in the park late at night. There is a mugger working the same area and the police mistake Herman for the mugger.

ROCK A BYE MUNSTER Marilyn will be having a child she is babysitting stay with the family for a few days. Herman and Grandpa overhear them talking and reach the conclusion that Lily is expecting a new baby. First appearance of Paul Lynde as Dr. Dudley, their family physician.

PIKE'S PIQUE The city wants to put a gas pipeline under the Munsters house, but Grandpa is reluctant because he worries about who they might dig up. The city ends up trying to put it there without getting permission. This leads to workmen breaking into grandpa's dungeon laboratory.

MUNSTERS SEASON 1

The Munsters first aired in September 1964 and the last episode aired in May of 1966. The show was never a big hit, but it has been available for syndication ever since and has since become popular.

The show is a family sitcom with a difference; the family were monsters. Universal was noted for it's monster movies and they just translated those characters into a comic family. Herman is a homage to Universal's Frankenstein's monster.

The Munsters are supposedly a regular, everyday family. They moved from Transylvania decades ago and live in Mockingbird Heights. Herman works in a funeral parlor, Lily is a housewife, grandpa is a mad scientist and Eddie and Marilyn go to school.

Marilyn, who the family calls unfortunate, is the ugly one of the family, looks like a wholesome Marilyn Monroe. She has many dates but they always flee when faced with her family.

The family has 3 pets; a raven that lives in the cuckoo clock, a cat that roars like a lion and Spot, a dragon/dinosaur who lives under the stairs and breathes fire.

CAST

Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster
Yvonne de Carlo as Lily Munster
Al Lewis as Count Dracula, Lily's father
Butch Patrick as Edward Wolfgang Munster, Herman and Lily's son
Beverly Owen and Pat Priest as Marilyn Munster, Lily's niece

1960'S DETECTIVE SERIES MANNIX

This crime series aired on CBS from 1967 to 1975. The first season, Joe Mannix worked for a large detective agency, run by Lou Wickersham. This agency made extensive use of computers and Mannix didn't really fit into this environment.
Joe Mannix was a old school, tough guy PI and starting in the second season, Mannix was in a more appropriate environment, Mannix now worked out of a small ,one-man LA detective agency with his secretary, Peggy Fair, one of the few African Americans with a regular role on a TV series.

Mannix had regular contact with some police officers, who helped or hindered him on his cases. Mannix was a stoic character who got beat up every other episode. Joe Mannix, while not being a very handsome man, was a ladies man. The show was noted for lots of fights and car chases.

CAST
MIKE CONNORS AS JOE MANNIX

GAIL FISHER AS PEGGY FAIR

ROBERT REED AS ADAM TOBIAS (COP)

ARTHUR MALCOLM AS WARD WOOD (COP)

LARRY LINVILLE AS GEORGE KRAMER (COP)

MARK STEWART AS TOBY FAIR (COP)

JOSEPH CAMPENELLA AS LOU WICKERSHAM (SEASON ONE ONLY)

POOR, POOR PEGGY

Robert Bianco in the Pittsburgh Press newspaper had this to say about Mannix. I loved the "Who will kidnap Peggy this week " series. Why didn't he fire that woman? She was never at work, she was always causing trouble...By the end of the series, when they had run out story ideas, it seemed like someone was kidnapping her every week. That was all she did besides saying, "Here's your phone calls." That seemed to be her job description. Answer the phone and get kidnapped."

I think a more pertinent question, is why didn't she quit? Peggy was kidnapped quite a bit, you would think after the first or even second time she would have handed in her notice. But , no, Peggy stays and just keeps getting kidnapped.

1950'S OUR MISS BROOKS SITCOM

The series originated on CBS radio in the late 1940’s and continued to run through the mid-1950’s. From 1953 to 1956, Our Miss Brooks was also performed on television, with pretty much the same cast.


Eve Arden had a long career in films before the series, mostly in supporting roles. She was also quite popular on the radio, partially due to her great comic timing. But Arden is perhaps best known for Our Miss Brooks.


CAST

Eve Arden as Connie Brooks
Gale Gordon as Osgood Conklin
Robert Rockwell as Phillip Boynton
Richard Crenna as Walter Denton

Connie Brooks was an English teacher at Madison High School. She had a big crush on fellow teacher, Philip Boynton, who was very shy and taught biology. The principal of the school was Osgood P. Conklin, played by Gale Gordon. His character was always flying off the handle, sort of like his future character Mr Mooney on the Lucy Show. One of her students, Walter Denton, was played by Richard Crenna.

In the last season, Madison High was torn down and Miss Brooks went to work at Mrs. Nestor’s Private school. Mr. Conklin and eventually Mr. Boynton both taught at the new school. There was also a new teacher, Gene Talbot, played by Gene Barry, who started to pursue Miss Brooks, but her heart still belonged to Philip Boynton. They never did marry in the series, but in the feature film released that same year, there was finally a marriage.

THUNDERBIRDS ARE GOOD SEASON 2

ATLANTIC INFERNO
Jeff leaves Scott in charge and he gets involved in an situation at an oil rig. Later an additional problem from the rig causes more problems.

PATH OF DESTRUCTION
A crablogger (atomic powered logger) goes out of control and destroys a town on its way to destroy a dam.

ALIAS MR. HACKENBACKER
Brain (Mr. Hackenbacker) invents a plane safety device. While on its maiden flight, the plane is hijacked.

LORD PARKER’S ‘OLIDAY
Parker is on vacation at a Mediterranean resort that is soon threatened when a giant solar reflector is dislodged and point straight at the resort.

RICOCHET
A rocket damages a orbiting TV station and the crew needs to be evacuated.

GIVE OR TAKE A MILLION
2 crooks committing a robbery at Christmas time end up in a rocket full of toys going to a children’s hospital.

THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO SEASON 1

TRAPPED IN THE SKY
Hood, an criminal mastermind plants a bomb aboard the new atomic powered airplane, Fireflash. This leads International Rescue to their first mission, helping the crippled vehicle to land.

THE PERILS OF PENELOPE
Lady Penelope is tried to the railroad tracks by Dr. Godber. The evil scientist is trying to get a secret fuel formula from Penelope’s friend, Sir Jeremy Hodge.

TERROR IN NEW YORK CITY
A TV reporter and cameraman are trapped in an underground river when a building collapses above them.

EDGE OF IMPACT
The Hood is back and he sabotages another aircraft, causing a crash into a manned relay station. The structure is about to collapse and International Rescue needs to save the 2 station operators.

DAY OF DISASTER
A Martian probe rocket is being taken across a bridge when it causes the bridge to collapse, sending the rocket into the rover. The crash triggers the countdown and the technicians inside the rocket must be rescued before it explodes.

30 MINUTES AFTER NOON
A British secret agent is trapped inside a vault filled with explosives. He needs to be rescued and the explosives prevented from causing a massive explosion.

DESPERATE INTRUDER
Brain and Tin-Tin (family friend of the Tracy’s) go searching for treasure in Lake Anasta. The Hood finds out and tries to get the treasure first.

END OF THE ROAD
International Rescue must save Eddie Houseman from a high ledge. The problem is that Houseman knows the Tracy’s and this might imperil their secret identities.

THE UNINVITED
Thunderbird 1 is conducting a rescue in the Sahara of 2 scientists who stumbled upon an underground race called Zombites.

SUN PROBE
A spaceship is on a mission to collect particles from the sun when it loses control. They have to save it from crashing into the sun.

OPERATION CRASH DIVE
A series of mysterious crashes of Frieflash airplanes leads to International Rescue investigating the situation. They soon find sabotage.

VAULT OF DEATH
A Bank of England employee is trapped in the new vault. Parker is able to save the day.

THE MIGHTY ATOM
The Hood steals a robot mouse and uses it to try and take pictures of International Rescue.

CITY OF FIRE
A fire is out of control in the underground parking of a large mall. A family is trapped and needs rescue.

THE IMPOSTERS
2 men are posing as International Rescue to steal some secret papers. Jeff Tracy doesn’t want to launch any more rescues until their names are cleared, but someone needs help.

THE MAN FROM MI5
Lady Penelope is in France trying to track down some criminals when she is kidnapped and tied up in a boat with a bomb in it.

CRY WOLF
2 boys in Australia are playing International Rescue when they are overheard and International Rescue races to the scene.

DANGER AT OCEAN DEEP
The Tracys try to save the crew of an ocean tanker who are in danger from a possible explosion of the fuel on board.

MOVE AND YOU’RE DEAD
Alan and his grandmother are trapped on a bridge with a bomb that will explode if they move.

THE DUCHESS ASSIGNMENT
A friend of Penelope’s is kidnapped and placed in a house that catches fire.

BRINK OF DISASTER
Jeff, Tin-Tin and Brain are on a monorail that is in danger from a broken section of track.

ATTACK OF THE ALLIGATORS
Some people are trapped in the Amazon by alligators that have grown enormously after drinking water containing a growth drug.

MARTIAN INVASION
2 actors are trapped in a cave during a film shoot. The Hood uses the situation to film International Rescue.

THE CHAM-CHAM
The singing group the Cass Carnaby 5 are suspects in the crash of American rockets.

SECURITY HAZARD
A boy stows away on Thunderbird 2 during a rescue and makes it to the Tracy’s island.

THUNDERBIRDS KIT KAT COMMERCIAL

This British commercial from 1993 shows that Thunderbirds must be pretty popular in syndication to justify building a commercial around it.

THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO

Thunderbirds is a classic children’s science fiction/adventure series. The series created by Gerry Anderson was his most popular. It debuted in 1965 and was the fourth Anderson series that used the Supermarionation process of puppetry. His earlier shows were Supercar, Fireball XL5 and Stingray, they had all been half hour shows but Anderson’s network insisted that the new series be one hour long. The series lasted 2 seasons and is still extremely popular today.


International Rescue is a secret organization started by Jeff Tracy. He is a former astronaut who uses his large fortune to start up IR and his 5 sons do the rescues. The headquarters is at the Tracy private island in the Pacific. Each of the sons has their own rescue vehicle able to go anywhere in or above the world to rescue people in danger.

THUNDERBIRD 1
This plane goes 700 MPH and is based under the pool on the Tracy’s island compound. Scott Tracy, the oldest son, is in charge of this vehicle. Scott is usually in charge of the rescues.

THUNDERBIRD 2
This giant freight plane is designed to carry rescue equipment which is organized into different cargo pods that the plane can quickly pick up and move to the rescue area. Virgil Tracy is the pilot. This plane is also based underground on the Tracy’s island.

THUNDERBIRD 3
This orange spacecraft is piloted by Alan, who is a little more reckless than his older brothers and the family heartthrob. His craft is also based on the island. It comes out from under the balcony of the family home.

THUNDERBIRD 4
An underwater craft, it is in a cargo pod carried to rescues by Thunderbird 2. Gordon pilots the submarine for water rescues. Gordon is the family joker.

THUNDERBIRD FIVE
This is a satellite orbiting the Earth. It keeps an eye on the Earth and transmit data back to the island headquarters. John Tracy is the son who is perpetually stuck on the station relaying information on rescues back to his brothers, who do the actual rescuing. Sometimes International Rescue is contacted directly, but usually John is the one who hears a distress call and calls his father for help. He monitors all communications from his station and only occasionally gets back home.

The Tracy family doesn’t work alone. Lady Penelope is in charge of International Rescue’s England base. She drives a pink Rolls Royce equipped with gadgets that James Bond would envy, including a machine gun behind the front grill. Lady Penelope is driven by loyal chauffeur, Parker, who tries to help in the rescues with limited success.

Brain is the resident engineer who designs all the craft, gadgets and rescue equipment that International Rescues uses on their adventures. He is an amiable and eccentric scientist, devoted to Jeff Tracy and his family.

SPACE 1999 SEASON 2 EPISODE GUIDE

METAMORPH An alien named Mentor threatens to drain the brains of the moonbase crew. He needs their energy to repair his biological computer. His daughter ,Maya, helps the crew to escape and goes with them.

THE EXILES The Alphans find 2 aliens inside a cylinder orbiting the moon. They revive the aliens who respond by kidnapping 2 of the crew.

JOURNEY TO WHERE The moonbase gets a message from a future Earth, offering to return them to Earth, which they do, but they are transplanted to Scotland in the 1300's, during a plague outbreak.

ONE MOMENT OF HUMANITY Dr Russell and Tony are kidnapped by aliens who want to use them to teach their androids how to kill.

BRIAN AND BRAIN A robot kidnaps the commander and the doctor, Maya uses her shape shifting powers to rescue them.

NEW ADAM NEW EVE Magus appears before the Alphans offering them a new home.He wants the commander, doctor, Tony and Maya as his new Adam and Eves.

THE MARK OF ARCHANON 2 aliens are discovered in suspended animation below the Moon's surface.

THE RULES OF LUTON Koenig and Maya are on an alien planet and pick some plants. They are accused by some trees of murder.

ALL THAT GLITTTERS The Aplans meet living rocks on an alien planet.

THE TAYBOR A space trader visits the moon and offers to get them back to Earth, in exchange for Maya.

SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION An astroid is draining power from the moonbase.

THE A B CHRYSALIS An energy beam come from an planet and rocks the station. They investigate and find a computer protecting a humanoid population.

CATACOMBS OF THE MOON Dr Russell tries to save a patient, whose husband is having visions of the station's destruction.

SPACE WARP The moon goes into a space warp, moving 5 light years. But not everyone is on the moon, some are stranded in a space ship trying to get back to the moonbase.

A MATTER OF BALANCE Vindrus, an anti matter alien, tries to take over the moonbase.

THE BETA CLOUD An illness strikes the station and a space creature attacks the station.

THE LAMBDA FACTOR The moon passes by a gas cloud which gives a crew member paranormal powers.

THE BRINGERS OF WONDER A ship from Earth arrives and promises to get the crew home. But Koenig sees through the illusion to the aliens behind it.

THE SÉANCE SPECTRE Some of the crew hold a seance to find out that a recently seen planet will be a good home.

DORZAK A spaceship arrives on the moon with a prisoner from Maya's home planet.

DEVIL’S PLANET The Alphans respond to a distress signal from a penal colony.

THE IMMUNITY SYNDROME Koenig goes exploring an Earth-like planet where is finds a being whose attempts to communicate can drive people insane.

THE DORCONS A Dorcan spaceship demands that Maya be handed over.

SPACE 1999 SEASON 1 EPISODE GUIDE

BREAKAWAY Moon leaves Earth's orbit.

FORCE OF LIFE Crewman is possessed by a heat-craving alien.

COLLISION COURSE Moon on collision course with planet. Alien Queen believes the collision is her people's destiny.

WAR GAMES Moonbase seems to be under attack and most of the crew dies, but all is not what it seems.

DEATH’S OTHER DOMINION An ice planet is discovered that is populated with people from Earth.

VOYAGER’S RETURN The old Voyager space probe is encountered by the survivors. The probe is now dangerous, leaking deadly nuetrons.

ALPHA CHILD The first child is born on the base and the child grows very quickly.

DRAGON’S DOMAIN Tony Cellini, a survivor of a deep space mission tells the crew of story of a monster inhabiting the area that the Moonbase has drifted into.

MISSION OF THE DARIANS The crew of the moonbase respond to a distress call and find a ship that has been drifting for 900 years.

BLACK SUN The moon gets drawn into a black sun with little chance of survival.

GUARDIAN OF PIRI The crew is offered a new life on the planet Prir, but Koenig is suspicious.

END OF ETERNITY Koenig frees a immortal killer from its prison.

MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH Dr. Russell's husband, believed to be dead, reappears warning them not to land on the planet, Terra Nova.

EARTHBOUND An alien ship visits the moon and announces they are on the way to Earth.

THE FULL CIRCLEE A moonbase ship returns from exploring with no crew aboard, only a dead caveman.

ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE The moon and the base's personnel are duplicated and they find themselves orbiting Earth, but it is just a duplicate.

THE LAST SUNSET Probes from an alien intelligence land on the moon and start to change its atmosphere, making it oxygen rich.

THE INFERNAL MACHINE A living machine lands of the planet and its living companion soon dies. It wants Koenig and Dr. Russell to be his new companions.

RING AROUND THE MOON A probe from planet Triton takes over the moonbase.

MISSING LINK Koenig is injured and taken to the planet Zenno to be studied.

SPACE BRAIN A strange phenomenon in space destroys one of the moonbase's ships and takes over the mind of a crewman.

THE TROUBLED SPIRIT Scientist Mateo is trying to communicate with plants and is haunted by his own ghost.

THE TESTAMENT OF ARKADIA The moon stops traveling through space, held by the planet Arkadia. They land of the planet and find evidence that life on Earth originated on that planet.

THE LAST ENEMY The moon drifts into the middle of a war and Koenig must negotiate a cease fire.

SPACE 1999 CLASSIC SCI-FI SERIES

This British series was the last collaboration from the married team of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. They had previous success with science fiction shows using their process of supermarionation. The series were made with marionettes and had wonderful special effects and exciting story lines.



Now the team turned to science fiction using human actors. For their time, the special effects and models were wonderful. Now, of course, they look very dated. The computers were huge and the décor is awful. But in 1975, when the show debuted, this was considered an exciting show.



The series, unlike the Anderson’s earlier efforts, was meant to be a serious sci fi series for adults. It took 2 years for the series to be ready to air and was very expensive. The show was first show in Great Britain, but immediately it was syndicated in other countries, where it was an immediate success. The series was less successful in England and during the show, the creators ended their marriage. This lead to the cancellation of the show, which was going downhill in terms of quality, anyway. But some of the early episodes were very good and the series is worth a second look.

Moonbase Alpha is a thriving station on the moon with over 300 inhabitants. It has various uses, including serving as a base for space exploration and as a dumping ground for nuclear waste. As the pilot opens, there is a problem, some members of the crew are dying. The nuclear waste doesn’t appear to be the problem, but the doctor isn’t so sure.



Commander Koenig has just returned to take command of the station. Earth Command is only interested in getting an explorer ship off the base in time, but Koenig is worried about the deaths and investigates.



By the end of the episode the nuclear waste has exploded and torn the moon out of Earth’s orbit. The station is still intact, but the moon is travelling through space, cut off from Earth. Koenig doesn’t try to get back to Earth, believing there is not a realistic chance of them making it back alive. Moonbase Alpha is now on their own, off to new adventures and dangers and encounters with alien life.

CAST



Martin Landau as Commander John Koenig
Barbara Bain as Dr. Helena Russell
Barry Morse as Professor Victor Bergman
Nick Tate as Alan Carter
Zienia Merton as Sandra Benes
Prentis Hancock as Paul Morrow
Anoton Phillips as Dr. Bob Mathias
Clifton Jones as David Kano
Catherine Schell as Maya
Tony Anholt as Tony Verdeschi



Commander Koenig ran the station, Dr. Russell was head of the medical team and Bergman was the onboard scientist. My favorite character was Maya, who was introduced in the second season. She was an alien with the ability to shapeshift into any living creature.