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.