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Space: 1999 (1975-78)
  
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SPACE: 1999
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Incorporated Television Company Ltd (ITC) (
Lew Grade)
Gerry Anderson Productions/RAI/Group Three/ITC
Production Executive Reg Hill
Produced by Sylvia Anderson (season 1)
Produced by Fred Frieberger (season 2)
Associate Producer F. Sherwin Green (season 2)
Created by
Gerry and Sylvia Anderson.

UK Space series 1975-78 48 episodes 60 min colour
starring
Martin Landau as Commander John Koenig
Barbara Bain as Dr. Helena Russell
Barry Morse as Professor Victor Bergman (season 1)
Catherine Schell as Maya (season 2)
Tony Anholt as First Officer Tony Verdeschi (season 2)
with
Nick Tate as Captain Alan Carter
Zienia Merton as Sandra Benes
Yasuko Nagazumi as Yasko
Prentis Hancock as Paul Morrow
Clifton Jones as David Kano
Anton Phillips as Dr. Bob Mathias
John Hug as Bill Fraser
Jeffrey Krissoon as Dr Ben Vincent

Writers include Johnny Byrne, Anthony Terpiloff, Christopher Penfold, David
Weir, Edward de Lorenzo, Donald James, Tony Barwick, Pip and Jane Baker.

Directors include Lee H. Katzin, David Tomblin, Ray Austin, Charles Crichton,
Bob Kellett, Val Guest, Tom Clegg.

story consultant Christopher Penfold
moon city costumes by Rudi Gernreich

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ATV Midlands UK Fridays (17 Oct 1975- 02 Apr 76)

1.1 [--] Space: 1999:
BREAKAWAY (first episode)
17 October 1975 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
screenplay by George Bellak
story consultant Christopher Penfold
script editor Edward di Lorenzo
directed by Lee H. Katzin
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Prentis Hancock, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
Roy Dotrice ... Commissioner Simmonds
Philip Madoc ... Commander Gorski
Lon Satton ... Benjamin Ouma
Eric Carte ... Collins
The pilot episode that introduces the main cast and sets the stage for the series. Located on the moon is Moonbase
Alpha, a multinational scientific research facility. One of its duties is to also monitor and coordinate the
activities surrounding two large lunar dumping sites where nuclear waste from Earth is disposed of. The Alphans
are trying to launch a fast-tracked manned probe to an 'approaching' planet named Meta. The Meta Probe is in
jeopardy since two of the mission crew have come down with a mysterious illness. The Alphans tie the illness to
the nuclear waste about the time the smaller site unexpectedly explodes. While the Alphans try to avert a similar
explosion in the larger waste site, it explodes also, and pushes the Moon out of the Earth's orbit, leaving the
Alphans stranded on a moon destined to wander the universe.

1.2 [--] Space: 1999:
FORCE OF LIFE
24 October 1975 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Screenplay by Johnny Byrne / Directed by David Tomblin
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
Ian McShane ... Anton Zoref
Gay Hamilton ... Eva Zoref
John Hamill ... Mark Dominix
Eva Reuber-Staier ... Jane
A wandering energy force inhabits the body of Alpha technician Anton Zoref, turning him into an energy absorbing being.

1.3 [--] Space: 1999:
COLLISION COURSE
31 October 1975
Written by Anthony Terpiloff / Directed by Ray Austin
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate
Guest Star:
Margaret Leighton ...... Queen Arra
with
Alex Scott ............. Aarchon
Lawrence Trimble ....... Pilot Ambrams
Koening meets a woman older than Earth itself when the Moon moves onto a collision course with a larger planet.
After destroying an asteroid on a collision course with the moon, an even larger obstacle appears - an entire planet!
On a recon mission, John Koenig encounters an inhabitant who convinces him- on the basis of faith- that the moon
and the planet must collide. But no one else supports Koenig's stand.

1.4 [--] Space: 1999:
WAR GAMES
7 November 1975
Directed by Charles Crichton
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
Anthony Valentine ... Male Alien
Isla Blair ... Female Alien
Moonbase Alpha is attacked and devastated by warships from a nearby planet. With half of its population dead
Alpha can no longer survive. Commander Koenig and Dr. Russel go to the alien world to plead for the survivors,
but the inhabitants wish no one to disturb their serene existence.

1.5 [--] Space: 1999:
DEATH'S OTHER DOMINION
14 November 1975 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
Brian Blessed ... Dr. Cabot Rowland
John Shrapnel ... Capt. Jack Tanner
Mary Miller ... Freda
On the ice world of Ultima Thule the Alphans encounter members of lost earth expedition who have achieved immortality
- but at a price!

1.6 [--] Space: 1999:
VOYAGER'S RETURN
21 November 1975 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Screenplay by Johnny Byrne / Directed by Bob Kellett
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
Jeremy Kemp ... Dr. Ernst Linden
Barry Stokes ... Jim Haines
With:
Alex Scott ... Aarchon
Lawrence Trimble ... Pilot Abrams
The Alphans encounter the Voyager space probe that has been wandering the cosmos propelled by the Queller drive
- a faulty engine system. Following the probe is a fleet of alien ships from a world devastated by the drive.

1.7 [--] Space: 1999:
ALPHA CHILD
28 November 1975 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Directed by Ray Austin
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
Cyd Hayman ... Cynthia Crawford /Rena
Julian Glover ... Jarak
Wayne Brooks ... Jackie
The Alphan's joy turns to horror when the first child born on the Alpha matures into a five year old in a matter of
hours. This is only a prelude to the arrival of formless alien fugitives- who plan to inhabit Alpha's population.

1.8 [--] Space: 1999:
DRAGON'S DOMAIN
5 December 1975 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
Gianni Garko ... Tony Cellini
Douglas Wilmer ... Commissioner Dixon
Barbara Kellerman ... Dr. Monique Bouchere
Michael Sheard ... Dr. Darwin King
Susan Jameson ... Professor Juliet Mackie
Discredited eagle pilot Tony Cellini is beset by recurring nightmares in which he was the only survivor of
disastrous space mission. Now the moon is approaching the same set of circumstances that Cellini encountered.

1.9 [--] Space: 1999:
MISSION OF THE DARIANS
12 December 1975 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Screenplay by Johnny Byrne / Directed by Ray Austin
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
Joan Collins ... Kara
Aubrey Morris ... Petros High Priest
Dennis Burgess ... Neman
With:
Robert Russell ... Hadin
Paul Antrim ... Lowry
Gerald Staddon ... Male Mute
Jackie Horton ... Female Mute
The Alphans encounter a miles-long ark from the planet Daria, where the inhabitants have a very distinctive
class separation.

1.10 [--] Space: 1999:
BLACK SUN
19 December 1975 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Screenplay by David Weir / Directed by Lee H. Katzin
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
Paul Jones ... Mike Ryan
Jon Laurimore ... Smitty
The moon is approaching a black hole. Professor Bergman is a able to rig up an energy shield around the moonbase,
but Commander Koenig feels this is only a desperate measure and has an eagle with six personnel dispatched as the
rest of the moonbase await certain death.

1.11 [--] Space: 1999:
THE GUARDIAN OF PIRI
26 December 1975 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Directed by Charles Chrichton
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate
Guest Cast:

Catherine Schel
l ... Servant of the Guardian
Michael Culver ... Pete Irving
John Lee-Barber ............... Davis
James Fagan ................... Johnson
Contact is made with the planet Piri, where the main computer created an idyllic life that led to extinction of
its population through apathy. Now John Koenig must fight to save Alpha as his people fall under the same fate.

1.12 [--] Space: 1999:
END OF ETERNITY
9 January 1976 ATV Midlands UK Fri
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
Peter Bowles ... Balor
Jim Smilie ... Baxter
While exploring a cavern in an asteroid, the Alphans release Balor, a sadistic alien who has achieved immortality.

1.13 [--] Space: 1999:
MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
16 January 1976 ATV Midlands UK Fri
Screenplay by Art Wallace and Johnny Byrne
Story consultant Christopher Penfold / Script editor Edward di Lorenzo
Directed by Charles Chrichton
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
Richard Johnson ... Lee Russell
Stuart Damon ... Parks
Dr. Russell's presumed-dead husband mysteriously reappears on a reconnaissance mission to a nearby planet.
Will the promise of a new Earth-like planet turn out to be a false dawn?

1.14 [--] Space: 1999:
EARTHBOUND
23 January 1976 ATV Midlands UK Fri
Written by Anthony Terpiloff
Directed by Charles Chrichton
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
Christopher Lee ... Captain Zandor
Roy Dotrice ... Commissioner Simmonds
Representitives from a dying planet land on the moon. Their spacecraft has been programmed to take them to Earth.
Is this an opportunity for key moonbase personnel to return to Earth? Commander Koening is faced with an unexpected drama.

1.15 [--] Space: 1999:
THE FULL CIRCLE
30 January 1976 ATV Midlands UK Fri
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
Oliver Cotton ... Spearman
While exploring an Earth-type world several Alphans, including Commander Koenig and Dr. Russel, disappear after
sighting a strange fog. Shortly afterwards a race of primitive humans are encountered.

1.16 [--] Space: 1999:
ANOTHER TIME. ANOTHER PLACE
6 February 1976 ATV Midlands UK Fri
Screenplay by John Byrne / Directed by David Tomblin
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
Judy Geeson ... Regina Kesslann
A distortion in time produces two separate moons, with two separate Alphas from different eras.

1.17 [--] Space: 1999:
THE INFERNAL MACHINE
13 February 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Screenplay by Anthony Terpiloff and Elizabeth Barrows / Directed by David Tomblin
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
Leo McKern ... Companion Gwent
Gary Waldhorn ... Winters
The Alphans encounter Delmer Plebus Powells Gwent, a huge spacecraft that defies aerodynamics and is an
extension of Gwent's genius and ego.

1.18 [--] Space: 1999:
RING AROUND THE MOON
20 February 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Screenplay by Edward Di Lorenzo/ Directed by Ray Austin
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
Max Faulkner ... Ted Clifford
Maintenance technician Fred Clifford is possessed by an eerie yellow glow, which ultimately kills him.
It transpires that it is coming from a planet called Triton, which captures the Alphans and insists that
Helena should become the Eyes of Triton. Before long she is acting just as Fred Clifford did before his death...

1.19 [--] Space: 1999:
MISSING LINK
27 February 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Written by Edward Di Lorenzo / Directed by Ray Austin
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
Peter Cushing ... Raan
Joanna Dunham ... Vana
After Commander Koening's Eagle crashes on the planet Zenno, his soul is captured and scrutinized by a resident
alien, due to the fact that we humans appear to be their missing link.

1.20 [--] Space: 1999:
THE LAST SUNSET
5 March 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Directed by Charles Chrichton
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate
(No Guest Cast)
As the Alphans are planning to explore the planet Ariel, a 'missile' attaches itself to the en route Eagle.
Upon returning to Alpha, the 'missile' gives the Alphans a lunar atmosphere. But the joy at the possibility
of making a new world out of the Moon is short lived, as the moon does not enter orbit around the planet or
its sun, and Alpha faces destruction from the newly acquired lunar air.

1.21 [--] Space: 1999:
SPACE BRAIN
12 March 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Screenplay by Christopher Penfold / Directed by Charles Chrichton
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
Shane Rimmer ... James Kelly
Carla Romanelli ... Melita Kelly
Derek Anders ... Wayland
Alpha encounters an intangible mass as it heads through space - and towards disaster. Whatever the mysterious
energy field might be, it possesses a strange and frightening power.
Alien hieroglyphics appear on all of Alpha's screens and Koenig sends an Eagle to investigate. The Eagle is
lost and the pilot is taken over by a huge, alien 'Space Brain', using him as a channel to make the Alphans do
its bidding. Koenig has to destroy it.

1.22 [--] Space: 1999:
THE TROUBLED SPIRIT
19 March 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Screenplay by Johnny Byrne/ Directed by Ray Austin
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate
Guest Artists:
Giancarlo Prete ... Dan Mateo
Hilary Dwyer ... Laura Adams
Anthony Nicholls ... Dr. James Warren
With:
Big Jim Sullivan ... Musician
Dan Mateo, the Alphans' botanist, believes that he can communicate telepathically with his plants but collapses.
He comes to and appears to be fit and well but he is turning into a murderous and disfigured ghost who has been
taken over by an alien manifestation.

1.23 [--] Space: 1999:
THE TESTEMENT OF ARKADIA
26 March 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
Lisa Harrow ... Anna Davis
Orso Maria Guerrini ... Luke Ferro
The Alphans land on the planet Arkadia, where hieroglyphics suggest that it is the cradle of civilization from
which life on Earth began. Now it is desolate and cheerless and Koenig feels that it is unsuitable for colonization.
Two renegade crew members have other ideas, however, and take Helena hostage in their demands to settle on Arkadia.

1.24 [--] Space: 1999:
THE LAST ENEMY
2 April 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Directed by Bob Kellett
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse
With: Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
Caroline Mortimer ... Dione
Maxine Audley ... Theia
Kevin Stoney ... Talos
Carolyn Courage ... First Girl
The Alphans find themselves caught up in a long-running war between two rival planets, Betha and Delta.
When Betha appears to have been hit its commander Dione seeks sanctuary with the Alphans. Koenig attempts
to negotiate a truce but Dione has other ideas...

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(4 Sep 76 - 1 May 78)
Production Executive Reg Hill
Produced by Fred Frieberger / Associate producer F. Sherwin Green

2.1 [25] Space: 1999:
THE METAMORPH
4 September 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Written by Johnny Byrne/ Directed by Charles Chrichton
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
With: Nick Tate, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips
Guest Cast:
Brian Blessed ... Mentor
Anouska Hempel ... Annette Fraser
With:
Nick Brimble ... Ray Torens
Peter Porteous ... Petrov
John Hug ... Bill Fraser
Gerard Paquis ... Lew Picard
Terror emanates from a planet doomed despite its advanced scientific knowlege. But there's a new life for a
beautiful girl who discovers the secret of molecular transformation.
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An Eagle is sent onto the surface of the planet Psychon, which has titanium, needed for repairs to the Alpha Base.
It fails to return and is used by Psychon scientist Mentor as a bait with which to entice other members of the
Alphan crew onto the planet. Mentor is building a computer but it will be fuelled by the living brains of humans,
and he has his eye on those of the Alphan crew. Fortunately his daughter, the shape-shifting Maya, does not share
her father's views and is on the side of the Alphans.

2.2 [--] Space: 1999:
THE EXILES
11 September 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Directed by Ray Austin
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
With: Nick Tate, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips
Guest Cast:
Peter Duncan ... Cantar
Stacy Dorning ... Zova
Margaret Inglis ... Mirella
Anthony Blackett ... Stal
Peggy Ledger ... Old Lady
Sarah Bullen ... Operative Kate
Peter Porteous ... Petrov
With Maya now a crew member the Alphans discover a young couple called Cantor and Zova who have been in suspended
animation for some while. They claim that they are exiles from the planet Golos, following an invasion, and ask for
the help of Alphan crew members to restore the planet to them. Helena and Tony accompany them to the planet Golos,
where it is apparent that they are not the young innocents they appeared to be.

2.3 [--] Space: 1999:
JOURNEY TO WHERE
18 September 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Directed by Tom Clegg
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
With: Nick Tate, Zienia Merton, Jeffery Kissoon
Guest Cast:
Freddie Jones ... Dr. Charles Logan
Isla Blair ... Carla
Roger Bizley ... MacDonald
Laurence Harrington ... Jackson
Yasuko Nagazumi ... Yasko
Norwich Duff ... 1st Operative Texas
Peggy Page ... The Old Crone
A transmission from Dr. Logan in Texas City leads the Alphans to believe that they can finally land back on Earth,
though they have travelled through time and, when they touch down in Texas City, they will be in the twenty-second
century. However, due to a hitch, they find themselves in a barren and hostile environment. It is Scotland in the
fourteenth century where the Scots are at war with the English invaders.

2.4 [--] Space: 1999:
ONE MOMENT OF HUMANITY
25 September 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
With: Nick Tate, Zienia Merton
Guest Cast:
Billie Whitelaw ... Zamara
Leigh Lawson ... Zarl
Geoffrey Bayldon ... Number Eight
Sarah Bullen ... Operative Kate
Lionel Blair .................. Choreographer
A sinister woman called Zamara materializes on the shop, forcing Helena and Tony to accompany her to the planet of
Vega, whose natives are anything but friendly. A servant of the Vegans, known only as Number Eight, informs the two
Alphans that he and his race are the natural inhabitants of the planet and that Zamara and her race are androids,
who, it turns out, want the Alphans to teach them warfare.

2.5 [--] Space: 1999:
BRIAN THE BRAIN
1 October 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
directed by Kevin Connor
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
With: Nick Tate, Zienia Merton, Yasuko Nagazumi
Guest Cast:
Bernard Cribbins ... Captain Michael
Michael Sharvell-Martin ... Brian / Robot
John Hug ... Fraser
Marc Zuber ... Security Lieutenant
Annie Lambert ... 1st Operative
The Alphans encounter an eccentric and intelligent robot who is known as Brian the Brain. Brian's creator Captain
Michael and his crew have all died in mysterious circumstances and Brian asks for the help of Koenig and his crew.
However, it soon becomes very apparent that Brian is anything but harmless and was in fact responsible for the deaths
of Captain Michael and his colleagues. And he is ready to do the same to the Alphans.

2.6 [--] Space: 1999:
NEW ADAM, NEW EVE
8 October 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Directed by Charles Crichton
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
With: Nick Tate, Zienia Merton, Yasuko Nagazumi
Guest Cast:

Guy Rolfe
... Magus
Bernard Kay ... Humanoid
Albin Pahernik ... Maya / Creature
Annie Lambert ... 1st Operative
Barbara Wise ... Beautiful Girl
The tall and imposing Magus arrives on board the ship. He claims godlike powers, namely that he effected the Creation.
But he is now disillusioned with the way that Life has progressed and wishes to start again. He plans to mate Helena
and Tony and Maya with Koenig. But of course he is not God but a renegade cosmic sorcerer, and quite illogical at that,
who needs to be controlled.

2.7 [--] Space: 1999:
THE MARK OF ARCHANON
15 October 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Written by Lew Schwartz / Directed by Charles Crichton
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
With: Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
John Standing ... Pasc
Michael Gallagher ... Etrec
Veronica Lang ... Lyra / Maurna
Raul Newey ... Dr. Raul Nunez
Anthony Forrest ... Carson
John Alkin ... Johnson
John Hug ... Fraser
Yasuko Nagazumi ... Yasko (recurring)
The latest extra-terrestials to be rescued by the Moon Alpha Base crew are Pasc and his young son Etrec. They are from
the usually peaceful planet of Archaron and they claim that they are victims of a rebellion, engineered by Pasc's wife
Lyra. However, Helena discovers that they have both been infected with a virus which makes them considerably less
friendly and more deadly than their initial claim.

2.8 [--] Space: 1999:
THE RULES OF LUTON
22 October 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Directed by Val Guest
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
With: Yasuko Nagazumi
Guest Cast:
David Jackson ... Alien Strong
Godfrey James
... Alien Transporter
Roy Marsden ... Alien Invisible
Whilst Koenig and Maya are exploring a planet called Luton,which is lush in vegetation, she picks a flower and he
helps himself to some fruit. As a result they are put on trial for murder by three talking trees, the Judges of Luton.
The trial is by combat and the pair must face three aliens, one with superstrength, one which can render itself
invisible and one which can teleport.

2.9 [--] Space: 1999:
ALL THAT GLISTERS
29 October 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
written by Kieth Miles / Directed by Ray Austin
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
With: Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
Patrick Mower ... Dave O'Reilly
The travellers land on a world inhabited by living, lethal rock-organisms.
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The Alpha Moonbase needs a rare ore known as Milgonite, which is detected on an extremely dry planet. Koenig
leads a small landing force and discovers a glowing rock formation which comes alive and cuts off the party's
links with the base. It is a trap - the planet needs water to survive and has lured the travellers there for
the water in their bodies.

2.10 [--] Space: 1999:
THE TAYBOR
5 November 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Directed by Bob Brooks
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
With: Jeffery Kissoon, Yasuko Nagazumi
Guest Cast:
Willoughby Goddard ... Taybor
John Hug ... Fraser
Laraine Humphrys ... Karen
Rita Webb ... Slatternly Woman
Mel Taylor ... Andrews
The expansive Taybor, an inter-galactic merchant arrives from hyper-space on his ship the 'Emporium'. He is
offering to sell things to the Alphans. Koenig realizes that if the Taybor sold them his space-ship, it would
enable the Alphans to fly back to Earth, but the price the Taybor is asking for this transaction is Maya.

2.11 [--] Space: 1999:
SEED OF DESTRUCTION
12 November 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Directed by Kevin Connor
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
With: Nick Tate, Zienia Merton, Jeffery Kissoon
Guest Cast:
Martha Nairn ... Female Operative
Jack Klaff ... Guard
James Leith ... Guard
Albin Pahernik ... Creature
Whilst he is exploring an asteroid Koenig is taken over by an alien race known as the Kalthon, who replace him
with an exact double. In consequence every action ordered by the fake Koenig is solely for the benefit of the
Kalthon and to the detriment of the welfare of the Alphans. Helena realizes that something is wrong when 'Koenig'
is cold to the touch and needs to convince the other crew members.

2.12 [--] Space: 1999:
THE A B CHRYSALIS
19 November 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Directed by Val Guest
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell
With: Nick Tate, Yasuko Nagazumi
Guest Cast:
Ina Skriver ... A
Sarah Douglas ... B
Robert Rietty ... Sphere (voice)
John Hug ... Bill Fraser
David Sebastian Bach ... Guardian's Brother
Sarah Bullen ... Kate
Albin Pahernik ... Creature
The Alphans land on a planet seemingly devoid of any human existence but being run by a group of machines.
The machines explain to the visitors that their human overlords are in a state of regeneration but the chief
machine, the Guardian,sees the Alphans as posing a threat and it is down to two newly regenerated females known
as A and B to decide their fates.

2.13 [--] Space: 1999:
CATACOMBS OF THE MOON
26 November 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Directed by Robert Lynn
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
With: Zienia Merton
Guest Cast:
James Laurenson ... Patrick Osgood
Pamela Stephenson ... Michelle Osgood
Jeffery Kissoon ... Dr. Ben Vincent
Lloyd McGuire ... First Engineer
Brendan Price ... Security Guard
Alan Hunter ... Co-Pilot
Nova Llewellyn ... 1st Alphan Woman
Saul Reichlin ... Engineer
Karen Ford ... Nurse
Ship's engineer Tony Osgood believes he can obtain tiranium, to make a new heart for his sick wife Michelle,
from the catacombs of the moon, using dynamite. The explosion which follows gives him a vision of the future
in which the ship is pursued by a fireball and this comes true. Though Helena is making a new heart for Michelle
Osgood becomes impatient and drags his wife back into the catacombs, giving Koenig a double task - to avoid the
fireball and save the Osgoods.

2.14 [--] Space: 1999:
SPACE WARP
3 December 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Directed by Peter Medak
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
With: Nick Tate, Zienia Merton, Jeffery Kissoon
Guest Cast:
Peter Porteous ... Petrov
Tony Osoba ... 1st Security Guard
John Judd ... 2nd Security Guard
Trevor Thomas ... Refuel Eagle Pilot
Andrew Lodge ... Grasshopper
Koenig and Verdeschi are sucked into a space warp. A feverish Maya is stricken with a fever that causes her to
transform into a repulsive space monster.

2.15 [--] Space: 1999:
A MATTER OF BALANCE
10 December 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
Guest Cast:
Lynne Frederick ... Shermeen Williams
Stuart Wilson ... Vindrus
John Hug ... Bill Fraser
Nicholas Campbell ... Eddie Collins
Brian Osborne ... Mr. Potter
Several crew members explore the planet Sunin, including botanist Shermeen Williams, who appears to have visionary
gifts. She links up with an alien,called Vindrus, who wants her help in transferring his body and that of his
race, into solid matter, giving them proper human form so that they can join the universe as real matter. However,
for every one of his race made flesh,an Alphan must lose their matter.

2.16 [--] Space: 1999:
THE BETA CLOUD
17 December 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Written by Charles Woodgrove / Directed by Robert Lynn
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
With: Nick Tate, Zienia Merton
Guest Cast:
Dave Prowse ... Cloud Creature
John Hug ... Bill Fraser
Albin Pahernik ... Space / Kreno Animal
A strange cloud drifts over the base and causes most of the crew to be stricken with illness. A monster, the
'cloud creature' appears out of the cloud and runs amok on the base. A voice from the cloud explains its purpose.
The base must give up its life support in order to prevent the cloud from dying. With most of the crew indisposed
through illness, it is down to Maya to employ her shape-shifting skills to beat the creature.

2.17 [--] Space: 1999:
THE LAMDA FACTOR
24 December 1976 ATV Midlands UK, Fri
Written by Terrance Dicks / Directed by Charles Crichton
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
With: Nick Tate, Zienia Merton
Guest Cast:
Deborah Fallender ... Carolyn Powell
Jess Conrad ... Mark Sanders
With:
Anthony Stamboulieh ... George Crato
Michael Walker ... Carl Renton
Gregory de Polnay ... Peter Garforth
Lydia Lisle ... Sally Martin
Lucinda Curtis ... Tessa
Dallas Adams ... Sam
Lamda waves permeate the Base, causing instruments to malfunction and people to behave out of character. Crew member
Sally dies in mysterious circumstances. it eventually becomes clear to Koenig that the waves have taken over
Carolyn Powell, whose lover was previously Sally's boyfriend, and they have augmented her senses, giving her a superior
form of telepathy. Koenig must do battle with her to prevent her, as the Lamda waves' vessel, taking over the Base.

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2.18 [--] Space: 1999:
THE BRINGERS OF WONDER pt 1
4 August 1977 ATV Midlands UK, Thurs
Directed by Tom Clegg
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
With: Nick Tate, Zienia Merton, Jeffery Kissoon
Guest Cast:
Stuart Damon ... Guido Verdeschi
Toby Robins ... Diana Morris
Jeremy Young ... Jack Bartlett
Drewe Henley ... Joe Ehrlich
Patrick Westwood ... Dr. Shaw
Cher Cameron ... Louisa
Al Lampert ... Ken Burdett
Billy J. Mitchell ... Professor Hunter
Earl Robinson ... Sandstrom
Robert Sheedy ... Henry
Nicholas Young ... Peter Rockwell
Albin Pahernik ... Lizard Animal
While unconscious and connected to an experimental brain machine, Koenig dreams that he and his friends are on
the way home. Upon awakening everyone appears to be hideous monsters.

2.19 [--] Space: 1999:
THE BRINGERS OF WONDER pt 2
11 August 1977 ATV Midlands UK, Thurs
Directed by Tom Clegg
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
With: Nick Tate, Zienia Merton, Jeffery Kissoon
Guest Cast:
Stuart Damon ... Guido Verdeschi
Toby Robins ... Diana Morris
Jeremy Young ... Jack Bartlett
Drewe Henley ... Joe Ehrlich
Patrick Westwood ... Dr. Shaw
Cher Cameron ... Louisa
Al Lampert ... Ken Burdett
Billy J. Mitchell ... Professor Hunter
Earl Robinson ... Sandstrom
Robert Sheedy ... Henry
Nicholas Young ... Peter Rockwell
Albin Pahernik ... Lizard Animal
Koenig convinces Helena and Maya that their supposed rescuers from earth are really hostile aliens who want a
nuclear explosion on Moonbase Alpha.

2.20 [--] Space: 1999:
THE SEANCE SPECTRE
18 August 1977 ATV Midlands UK, Thurs
Directed by Peter Medak
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
With: Nick Tate, Zienia Merton
Guest Cast:
Ken Hutchinson ... Greg Sanderson
Carolyn Seymour ... Eva
Nigel Pegram ... Cernik
James Snell ... Stevens
Christopher Asante ... Guard
Some subterranean miner start chanting for a planet that will cause the Moon to pass through a nebula deadly to
those living at Moonbase Alpha.

2.21 [--] Space: 1999:
DORZAK
25 August 1977 ATV Midlands UK, Thurs
Directed by Val Guest
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
With: Nick Tate, Yasuko Nagazumi
Guest Cast:
Lee Montague ... Dorzak
Jill Townsend ... Sahala
Kathryn Leigh Scott ... Yesta
Sam Dastor ... Dr. Ed Spencer
Seretta Wilson ... Clea
Richard Le Parmentier ... Ed Malcolm
Paul Jerrico ... 1st Security Guard
John Judd ... 2nd Security Guard
When a ship carrying a prisoner lands at Moonbase Alpha after asking for assistance, Maya insists that the prisoner
is a poet and not a murderer and releases him.

2.22 [--] Space: 1999:
DEVIL'S PLANET
1 September 1977 ATV Midlands, Thur
Directed by Tom Clegg
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
Guest Cast:
Hildegarde Neil ... Elizia
Roy Marsden ... Crael
Dora Reisser ... Interrogator
Cassandra Harris ... Sares / Controller
Angus MacInnes ... Jelto
Arthur White ... Kinano
Michael Dickinson ... Blake Maine
John Hug ... Fraser
Alibe Parsons ... Alibe
Sam Dastor ... Dr. Ed Spencer
After investigating a planet where all humanoid life had been eradicated, Koenig becomes trapped in a prison on
one of the moons where no one knows that their planet has been wiped out.

2.23 [--] Space: 1999:
THE IMMUNITY SYNDROME
8 Sep 1977 (date to be verified)
written by Johnny Byrne / Directed by Bob Brooks
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
With: Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
Nadim Sawalha ... Zoran
Karl Held ... Jerry Travis
With
Sam Dastor ... Dr. Ed Spencer
John Hug ... Bill Fraser
Hal Galili ... Voice
Alibe Parsons ... Alibe
Walter McMonagle ... Les Johnson
Roy Boyd ... Joe Lustig
The arrival of the Alphans on another planet seems to cause a change in its atmosphere, setting off pollution
and poisoning of the water. They meet Zoran, the sole survivor of the last exploratory force, who tells them
that the planet is controlled by an immortal being - with whom Koenig must parley if he and his crew are to
leave the planet alive.

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2.24 [--] Space: 1999:
THE DORCONS
12 November 1977 (date to be verified)
Directed by Tom Clegg
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
With: Nick Tate
Guest Cast:
Patrick Troughton ... Archon
Ann Firbank ... Consul Varda
Gerry Sundquist ... Malic
Alibe Parsons ... Alibe
Laurence Harrington ... Stewart
Kevin Sheehan ... 1st Dorcon Operative
Michael Halsey ... 1st Dorcon Soldier
Hamish Patrick ... Command Center Alphan
Hazel McBride ... Female Medical Officer
The Dorcans demand that Moonbase Alpha hand over Maya so that the use of her brain stem can continue their
immortal existence.

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