Space: 1999 Episode Guide Season Two

SPACE: 1999 EPISODE GUIDE
Second Season: 1976-1977

Cast

Commander John Koenig .............. Martin Landau
Doctor Helena Russell ........................ Barbara Bain
Maya ............................................... Catherine Schell
Tony Verdeschi .................................... Tony Anholt
Alan Carter.................................................. Nick Tate
Sandra Benes ..................................... Zienia Merton
Yasko Nugami ................................ Yazuko Nagazumi
Bill Frazer ................................................. John Hug
Doctor Ben Vincent .............................Jeffrey Kissoon

Technical Credits

Production Executive ................................. Reg Hill
Associate Producer .................... F. Sherwin Green
Technical Director ................................ David Lane
Lighting Cameraman ................ Brendan Stafford
.......................................................... Frank Watts BSC
Production Designer .......................... Keith Wilson
Special Effects Designed
and Directed By................................. Brian Johnson
Producer ......................................... Fred Freiberger
Music By ....................................... Derek Wadsworth
Production Manager ........................... Donald Toms
Casting Director ............................. Lesley de Pettitt
Editor ................................................... Archie Ludski
Sound Supervisor ..................................... Roy Baker
Sound Editors ...................................... Peter Pennell
..................................................... Jack T. Knight GBFE
Music Editor ............................................ .Alan Willis
Sound Recordist .................................... Peter Sutton
Camera Operator ..................................... Tony White
Costume Designer ............................ Emma Porteous
Assistant Director .......................... Dominic Fulford
Continuity .............................................. Doris Martin
Construction Manager ......................... Bill Waldron
Make-Up .................................................. Basil Newall
................................................................. Connie Reeve
Hairdressers ............................................ Jan Dorman
.......................................................... Jeanette Freeman
Wardrobe .................................................... Eve Faloon
Asst. Art Director .................................. Michael Ford
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Lighting Cameraman .............................. Nick Allder
Camera Operator .............................. David Litchfield
Electronics .............................. Michael S.E. Downing

Series Created By .......... Gerry and Sylvia Anderson

NOTE: here you can find the Episode Guide for Space: 1999 Season Two.

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THE METAMORPH
Writer: Johnny Byrne.
Director: Charles Crichton.
Guest Cast: Brian Blessed (Mentor), Anoushka Hempel.
This first episode of the season, produced by Fred Freiberger, introduces Maya to the regular cast. On the planet Psychon, an evil-minded alien named Mentor captures the Alphans and tries to drain their minds. His daughter Maya who is capable of transforming herself into any form, helps the Earth people to escape. [NOTE: later re-edited into the first half of the movie Cosmic Princess.]
ALL THAT GLISTERS
Writer: Keith Miles.
Director: Ray Austin.
Guest Cast: Patrick Mower (Dave Reilly).

Moonbase Alpha is invaded by hostile living rocks. John Koenig, Helena Russell and Maya must battle time and an army of strange alien life forms that can communicate, transport themselves and attack unsuspecting Alphans with deadly rays of coloured light.
THE EXILES
Writer: Donald James.
Director: Ray Austin.
Guest Cast: Peter Duncan (Carter), Stacy Dorning (Zova), Margaret Inglis (Mirella).
The Alphans come upon a fleet of missile-like objects that imprison the frozen bodies of exiles from another planet, and rescue two innocent-looking young aliens who turn out to be psychopathic killers.
JOURNEY TO WHERE
Writer: Donald James.
Director: Tom Clegg.
Guest Cast: Freddie Jones (Dr. Logan), Isla Blair (Carla), Roger Bizley, Laurence Harrington, Jeffrey Kissoon.
After a technological breakthrough goes awry, Koenig, Dr. Russell and Alan Carter are transported back to the planet Earth as it was in 1339 during the Black Plague.
THE MARK OF ARCHANON
Writer: Lew Schwartz.
Director: Charles Crichton.
Guest Cast: John Standing (Pasic), Michael Gallagher.
Two aliens discovered sealed in a chamber beneath the moon's surface are released from suspended animation. They then begin to infect the Alphans with a mysterious disease that causes outbursts of violence.
ONE MOMENT OF HUMANITY
Writer: Tony Barwick.
Director: Charles Crichton.
Guest Cast: Billie Whitelaw (Zamara), Leigh Lawson (Zarl), Geoffrey Bayldon (Number Eight).
Helena and Tony Verdeschi are kidnapped by a lovely female alien, who hopes to use the Earthlings as emotional blueprints for her heartless android masters.
THE RULES OF LUTON
Writer: Charles Woodgrove (aka Fred Freiberger).
Director: Val Guest.
Guest Cast: David Jackson, Godfrey James, Roy Marsden.
Because of Maya's accidental "murder" of some flowers on a strange planet ruled by highly intelligent plant life, she and John Koenig must stand trial and engage in mortal combat with three horrifying aliens who committed a similar "crime."
THE TAYBOR
Writer: Thom Keyes.
Director: Bob Brooks.
Guest Cast: Willoughby Goddard (Taybor), John Hug (Bill Fraser).
A travelling trader of the universe covets Maya in return for a device that could transport the Alphans back to Earth.
THE BETA CLOUD
Writer: Charles Woodgrove (aka Fred Freiberger).
Director: Robert Lynn.
Guest Cast: Dave Prowse.
Many Alphans are already mysteriously incapacitated when they are further menaced by a huge creature in a space cloud sent by another planet to steal their life-support system.
BRIAN THE BRAIN
Writer: Jack Ronder.
Director: Kevin Connor.
Guest Cast: Bernard Cribbins (Captain Michael).
A super-robot, originally from Earth, kidnaps Koenig and Dr. Russell on a planet with a poisonous atmosphere and threatens Moonbase Alpha with gravitational disturbance.
A B CHRYSALIS
Writer: Tony Barwick.
Director: Val Guest.
Guest Cast: Ina Skriver (A), Sarah Douglas (B).
Maya, Alan Verdeschi and John Koenig head for a planet protected by powerful energy beams from which shock waves wreaking devastation upon Alpha have been emanating for a week.
CATACOMBS OF THE MOON
Writer: Anthony Terpiloff.
Director: Robert Lynn.
Guest Cast: James Laurenson (Patrick Osgood), Pamela Stephenson (Michelle Osgood), Jeffrey Kissoon (Dr. Ben Vincent).
Blasted from a tunnel by an underground explosion, surrealistic visions of the destruction of Alpha haunt a miner as his critically ill wife fights for her life.
SEED OF DESTRUCTION
Writer: John Goldstone.
Director: Kevin Connor.
Guest Cast: None.
On an asteroid, John Koenig collapses inside a cave whose crystal-like walls reflect myriad images of himself, one of which, an evil duplicate of Koenig, returns in his stead to Alpha.
SPACE WARP
Writer: Charles Woodgrove (aka Fred Freiberger).
Director: Peter Medak.
Guest Cast: None.
Her powers disturbed by a mysterious disease, Maya loses control over her metamorphic powers, changing from one creature to another. Meanwhile, Koenig is separated light years from Alpha when the moon travels through a strange space warp, and Moonbase Alpha inhabitants are afflicted by sudden madness.

NEW ADAM, NEW EVE
Writer: Terence Feely.
Director: Val Guest.
Guest Cast: Guy Rolfe (Magus).
A space being bearing gifts and calling himself "God" offers the Alphans a new planet Earth to colonise.

A MATTER OF BALANCE
Writers: Pip and Jane Baker.
Director: Charles Crichton.
Guest Cast: Lynn Frederick (Shermeen), Stuart Wilson (Virdus).
The keeper of an alien temple whose dying race are moving back in time threatens to exchange them with Alpha's crew through a "time portal".
THE BRINGERS OF WONDER, PART 1
Writer: Terence Feely.
Director: Tom Clegg.
Guest Cast: Stuart Damon (Guido Verdeschi), Patrick Westwood.
A "Superswift" spaceship from Earth arrives to rescue the Alphans, but an experimental machine enables Koenig to perceive the apparent rescuers for what they really are: horrifying aliens intending to destroy the moon.
THE BRINGERS OF WONDER, PART 2
Writer: Terence Feely.
Director: Tom Clegg.
Guest Cast: Stuart Damon (Guido Verdeschi), Patrick Westwood.
The Alphans send Maya to infiltrate the ranks of alien warriors who are posing as rescuers from Earth. Conclusion of a two-part story. [Both parts later re-edited into the movie Destination: Moonbase Alpha.]
THE LAMBDA FACTOR
Writer: Terrance Dicks.
Director: Charles Crichton.
Guest Cast: Debra Fallander (Carolyn Powell), Jess Conrad (Mark Sanders). The appearance of a cosmic cloud coincides with the mysterious death of a young woman and nightmares experienced by Koenig, transforming one of moonbase Alpha's women into a megalomaniac with strange super powers.
DEVIL'S MOON
Writer: Michael Winder.
Director: Tom Clegg.
Guest Cast: Hildegarde Neil.
Commander Koenig is sent to the moon of an alien's penal colony planet, and is captured and held prisoner by a race of whip-wielding cat women.
DORZAK
Writers: Pip and Jean Baker.
Director: Charles Crichton.
Guest Cast: Lee Montague (Dorzak), Jill Townsend (Sahala).
An evil space criminal, survivor from Maya's destroyed home planet Psychon, arrives on Moonbase as the exiled prisoner of an alien woman, threatening the Alphans.
SEANCE SPECTRE
Writer: Donald James.
Director: Peter Medak.
Guest Cast: Ken Hutchinson (Sanderson), Carolyn Seymour (Eva).
Dissident Alphans challenge Commander Koenig's authority when the Moonbase appears to be on a collision course with a huge planet, an no one can agree on how to handle the crisis.
IMMUNITY SYNDROME
Writer: Johnny Byrne
Director: Bob Brooks
Guest Cast: Nadim Sawalha (Zoran), Karl Held (Travis)
The disintegration of their Eagle spacecraft traps John, Alan and a critically injured Tony on a planet they were exploding. As they are stranded on the nearby planet, they discover that they are being stalked by an alien and that they are now the prey of unknown creatures.
THE DORCONS
Writer: Johnny Byrne
Director: Tom Clegg
Guest Cast: Ann Firbank (Varda).
The warrior Dorcons threaten to invade Alpha unless Maya is handed over to them for use in their medical experiments. Last episode.
CHILDREN OF THE GODS
Story behind "The Lost Episode" of Space: 1999.

Sources: Western Washington TV Guide (1975-6), Fantastic Television by Gary Gerani.
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