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Space: 1999
The Future Is Fantastic!
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
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TV DNA
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Signature profile
Space: 1999 reads strongest on World Building, Spectacle and Character Depth.
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Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.

S01E01
Breakaway
In September 1999, John Koenig reports to Earth's Space Research Centre at Moonbase Alpha as its new commander. A strange sickness is killing some of the Moonbase Alpha crew. Commander Koenig's investigation reveals that the source lies at Nuclear Waste Disposal Area 1 caused by excessive magnetic energy fields. The continuous build up of energy shortly causes massive explosion clusters that knocks the moon off orbit into deep space.
- Directed by Lee H. Katzin
- Written by George Bellak

S01E10
Black Sun
The travelling Moon drifts within range of a black sun. Pulled toward certain destruction by its inescapable gravitational force, the Alphans employ desperate measures to stay alive. As a lifeboat Eagle carries six persons to safety, the Moon plunges into the black sun, with only an experimental forcefield protecting Alpha.
- Directed by Lee H. Katzin, Charles Crichton
- Written by David Weir

S01E03
Collision Course
The Moon is on a collision course with an enormous planet. On a scouting mission, Koenig encounters Arra, the Queen of Atheria. The aged monarch proclaims the collision is a preordained event and must occur for her people to evolve to a higher plane of existence. Now Koenig must convince his staff to have faith and do nothing in the face of apparent destruction.
- Directed by Ray Austin

S01E02
Force of Life
The body of Anton Zoref is invaded by an unknown life force. The man soon manifests an uncontrollable ability to absorb energy. As the Alphans struggle to understand this mysterious force, Zoref's need becomes insatiable. Driven by instinct, he makes his way to the greatest source of energy on Alpha: the Nuclear Generating Plant.
- Directed by David Tomblin

S01E09
Mission of the Darians
Encountering a derelict spaceship, the Alphans respond to an automated distress signal. On board, they discover what remains of the once-great civilisation of Daria: an elite group which maintains control of the ship and a tribe which has descended into savagery. The Alphans are appalled when they discover what measures the Darians have taken to survive.
- Directed by Ray Austin
- Written by Johnny Byrne

S02E04
One Moment of Humanity
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.
- Directed by Charles Crichton
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.

Gerry Anderson
Creator

Sylvia Anderson
Showrunner
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David Weir
Writer

Fred Freiberger
Writer
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John Goldsmith
Writer
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Tony Barwick
Writer
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Jane Baker
Writer
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Anthony Terpiloff
Writer
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Philip Baker
Writer
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Terence Feely
Writer
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Art Wallace
Writer
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Christopher Penfold
Writer

Johnny Byrne
Writer

Terrance Dicks
Writer
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Michael Winder
Writer
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Jack Ronder
Writer
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Keith Miles
Writer
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Donald James
Writer
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Thom Keyes
Writer
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Lew Schwarz
Writer
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Edward di Lorenzo
Writer
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George Bellak
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Fred FreibergerProducer
- Gerry AndersonProducer
- Sylvia AndersonProducer
Writing
- David WeirWriter
- Fred FreibergerWriter
- John GoldsmithWriter
- Tony BarwickWriter
- Jane BakerWriter
- Anthony TerpiloffWriter
Direction
- Tom CleggDirector
- Val GuestDirector
- Frank WattsDirector
- David TomblinDirector
- Lee H. KatzinDirector
- Peter MedakDirector
Cinematography
- Brendan J. StaffordDirector of Photography
- Frank WattsDirector of Photography
Music
- Barry GrayOriginal Music Composer
- Derek WadsworthOriginal Music Composer
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