Space: 1999

The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Cast:Martin Landau , Barbara Bain , Nick Tate , Zienia Merton , Sarah Bullen , Barry Morse , Catherine Schell , Prentis Hancock , Clifton Jones , Anton Phillips , Tony Anholt , John Hug , Yasuko Nagazumi , Jeffery Kissoon , Albin Pahernik , Annie Lambert , Shane Rimmer , Robert Rietty

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Breakaway

Thu, Sep 4, 1975

Commander John Koenig, the new commander of Moonbase Alpha, leads the investigation of a mysterious disease at the station and uncovers evidence of a far greater looming disaster.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Force of Life

Thu, Sep 11, 1975

A wandering energy force inhabits the body of Alpha technician Anton Zoref, turning him into an energy absorbing being.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Collision Course

Thu, Sep 18, 1975

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.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ War Games

Thu, Sep 25, 1975

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.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Death's Other Dominion

Thu, Oct 2, 1975

On the ice world of Ultima Thule the Alphans encounter members of lost earth expedition who have achieved immortality- but at a price!

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Voyager's Return

Thu, Oct 9, 1975

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.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Alpha Child

Thu, Oct 16, 1975

The Alphans' 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.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Dragon's Domain

Thu, Oct 23, 1975

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.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Mission of the Darians

Thu, Oct 30, 1975

The Alphans encounter a miles-long ark from the planet Daria, where the inhabitants have a very distinctive class separation.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Black Sun

Thu, Nov 6, 1975

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.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ Guardian of Piri

Thu, Nov 13, 1975

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.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ End of Eternity

Thu, Nov 20, 1975

While exploring a cavern in an asteroid, the Alphans release Balor, a sadistic alien who has achieved immortality.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Matter of Life and Death

Thu, Nov 27, 1975

Dr. Russell's presumed-dead husband mysteriously reappears on a reconnaissance mission to a nearby planet.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ Earthbound

Thu, Dec 4, 1975

A vessel of alien pacifists, bound for Earth, lands on the moon. They are greeted as friends by all- except Commissioner Simmons who sees their vessel as way to return home.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ The Full Circle

Thu, Dec 11, 1975

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.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ Another Time, Another Place

Thu, Dec 18, 1975

A distortion in time produces two separate moons, with two separate Alphas from different eras.

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ The Last Sunset

Thu, Jan 1, 1976

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.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ The Infernal Machine

Thu, Jan 8, 1976

The Alphans encounter Delmer Plebus Powells Gwent, a huge spacecraft which defies aerodynamics and is an extension of Gwent's genius and ego.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ Ring Around the Moon

Thu, Jan 15, 1976

Maintenance technician Ted 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 Ted Clifford did before his death.

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ Missing Link

Thu, Jan 22, 1976

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.

21Season 1

S1.E21 ∙ Space Brain

Thu, Jan 29, 1976

Alien gyphs appear on all of Alpha's screens. 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.

22Season 1

S1.E22 ∙ The Troubled Spirit

Thu, Feb 5, 1976

Dan Mateo, one of Alpha's botanists, believes that he can increase their food supply by communicating telepathically with his plants. After passing out during one of his electronic experiments, Alpha seems to become haunted by a murderous and disfigured spirit.

23Season 1

S1.E23 ∙ The Testament of Arkadia

Thu, Feb 12, 1976

The Alphans land on the planet Arkadia, where glyphs suggest it is the cradle of civilisation from which life on Earth began. Now it is desolate and Koenig feels it is unsuitable for colonisation. Two renegade crew members have other ideas, however, and take Helena hostage in their demands to settle on Arkadia.

24Season 1

S1.E24 ∙ The Last Enemy

Thu, Feb 19, 1976

The Alphans find themselves caught up in a long-running war between two rival planets, Betha and Delta. When a Bethan gunship, which has landed on the moon as a tactical advantage, appears to have been hit its commander Dione seeks sanctuary with the Alphans. Koenig attempts to negotiate a truce but Dione has other ideas...

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ The Metamorph

Sat, Sep 4, 1976

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 bait with which to entice other members of the Alphan crew onto the planet. Mentor is building a biological computer that will hopefully transform his deteriorating planet back into the Eden it once was. However, the machine can only be fueled by the living brains of humans, and Mentor has his eye on those of the Alphan crew. Fortunately, Mentor is not alone on the planet; his innocent daughter, the shape-shifting Maya, is unaware of her father's plans, so Koenig tries to convince her to side with the Alphans.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ The Exiles

Sat, Sep 11, 1976

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 recover the rest of their comrades who are trapped in missile-like canisters in orbit around the moon. Helena and Tony convince Koenig that the alien couple are innocent beings and allow them the chance to recover their people. However, Cantor and Zova abduct Helena and Tony, transporting them to the planet Golos, where it is apparent that they are not the young innocents they appeared to be.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Journey to Where

Sat, Sep 18, 1976

A transmission from Dr. Logan in Texas City leads the Alphans to believe that they can finally land back on Earth through a revolutionary teleportation process. The downside is that it is now 2120 on Earth and the surface has become an unbreathable wasteland through centuries of pollution. The Alphans, though, are intent on abandoning the wandering moon. However, due to a hitch, the Alphan test subjects find themselves in a primitive and hostile environment. It is Scotland in the fourteenth century where the Scots are at war with the English invaders, who kidnap the Alphan trio.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ One Moment of Humanity

Sat, Sep 25, 1976

A sinister woman called Zamara materializes on the base, 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.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Brian the Brain

Sat, Oct 2, 1976

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 unless they supply him with enough nuclear fuel to sustain him "forever".

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ New Adam New Eve

Sat, Oct 9, 1976

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.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ The Mark of Archanon

Sat, Oct 16, 1976

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.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ The Rules of Luton

Sat, Oct 23, 1976

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 super-strength, one which can render itself invisible, and one which can teleport.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ All That Glisters

Thu, Oct 28, 1976

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.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ The Taybor

Thu, Nov 4, 1976

The expansive Taybor, an intergalactic merchant arrives from hyperspace on his ship, The Emporium. He is offering to sell things to the Alphans. Koenig realizes that if the Taybor sold them his spaceship, it would enable the Alphans to fly back to Earth, but the price the Taybor is asking for this transaction is Maya.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Seed of Destruction

Thu, Nov 11, 1976

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.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ The AB Chrysalis

Thu, Nov 18, 1976

Alpha is on the verge of being destroyed by intense shockwaves emanating from a planet they are approaching. The Alphans land on the 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 a threat and it is down to two newly regenerated females known as A and B to decide their fates.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Catacombs of the Moon

Thu, Nov 25, 1976

Ship's engineer Patrick Osgood believes he can obtain tiranuim to make a new heart for his sick wife Michelle, from the catacombs of the moon, using explosives. The explosion which follows gives him a vision of the future in which the moon is destroyed by a fireball and a sudden heat storm strikes. Though Helena is making a new heart for Michelle, its repeated failures cause Osgood to become impatient. Convinced he is his wife's only salvation, he drags Michelle down into the catacombs, giving Koenig a double task - to avoid the fireball and save the Osgoods.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ Space Warp

Thu, Dec 2, 1976

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.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ A Matter of Balance

Thu, Dec 9, 1976

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.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ The Beta Cloud

Thu, Dec 16, 1976

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.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ The Lambda Factor

Thu, Dec 23, 1976

Lambda waves permeate Moonbase Alpha, causing instruments to malfunction and people to behave out of character. Crew member Sally dies in mysterious circumstances. Koenig is assailed by guilt-driven visions from his own past. It eventually becomes clear that the Lambda Variant has amplified psychic abilities on the base, in particular for Carolyn Powell, whose lover was previously Sally's boyfriend, and who is beset by jealous rage. Dr. Russell aids Koenig to overcome his own "ghosts", and prevent Carolyn from taking over the Moonbase.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ The Bringers of Wonder: Part 1

Thu, Aug 4, 1977

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.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ The Bringers of Wonder: Part 2

Thu, Aug 11, 1977

Koenig convinces Helena and Maya that their supposed rescuers from earth are really hostile aliens who want a nuclear explosion on Moonbase Alpha.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ The Seance Spectre

Thu, Aug 18, 1977

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.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ Dorzak

Thu, Aug 25, 1977

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.

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ Devil's Planet

Thu, Sep 1, 1977

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.

23Season 2

S2.E23 ∙ The Immunity Syndrome

Sat, Oct 29, 1977

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.

24Season 2

S2.E24 ∙ The Dorcons

Sat, Nov 12, 1977

The Dorcans demand that Moonbase Alpha hand over Maya so that the use of her brain stem can continue their immortal existence.