Space 1999 season 1The first season on DVD? check here: The first season episode guideBreakaway / season 1 - episode 1
John Koenig (Martin Landau) is at Moonbase Alpha to supervise a deep space prope that will explore the rogue planet Meta, from which there are signs of an advanced form of life. But on the other side of the Moon, at a disposal area where all Earth's nuclear waste is dumped, there is an accident. There is a nuclear explosion, gravity control is affected, and the Moon is pulled out of orbit, moving inexorably away from Earth. Koenig takes a decision that the entire crew should stay on Moonbase Alpha - because to evacuate and attempt a return to Earth would be suicidal.
Original score by Barry Gray, recorded at Wembley on Friday 15th March 1974. This was actually the second episode scored (Matter Of Life And Death was first).
A Matter of Life or Death / season 1 - episode 2
Helena's (Barbara Bain) husband Lee, who was previously missing, presumed dead, suddenly turns up on an Alphan spacecraft probing the planet Terra Nova, which is apparently capable of sustaining human life. But when the spacecraft returns to Alpha, Lee warns them not to go near the planet, and then dies. Koenig (Martin Landau), thinking of re-locating his entire crew to this Earth-like planet, takes an advance party to its surface. Then Koenig is killed, Lee re-appears with another warning and Koenig comes back to life. He must now decide - should he order an exodus to this strange new planet?
Original score by Barry Gray, recorded at Wembley on Thursday 14th March 1974. This was actually the first episode scored (Breakaway was recorded the following day).
One track (the guitar solo as the guards rush to the Care Unit to restrain Russell) was written and performed by Vic Elms.
Black Sun / season 1 - episode 3
The Moon is heading into a black sun. It's huge, it has a tremendous gravitational attraction, and it pulls everything into itself, even light. Koenig (Martin Landau) decides that six people in an Eagle might hold better chances of survival than those on Alpha. Helena (Barbara Bain) is one of the six who are assembled in the team that is sent away from the Moon. Koenig stays on the Moonbase, which is drawn into the black mass. And though, after a strange, cosmic experience, those on Moonbase survives, they are still seperated from the others, but where is the Eagle with Helena and the five other specially chosen occupants?
Original score by Barry Gray, recorded at Wembley on Thursday 25th April 1974.
Ring Around The Moon / season 1 - episode 4
Moonbase Alpha is taken captive by a huge energy sphere from the planet Triton. The sphere was a probe mission to discover if Earth would be threatening to the planet Triton. But since its launch Triton has blown up and disintegrated two million miles away. When the probe takes over Helena (Barbara Bain) to use her as a communicator with the Earth people, it is their task to attempt to prove that Triton has been destroyed and that therefore Alpha cannot be a threat...
Original score by Vic Elms and Alan Willis, recorded at Wembley on Monday 6th May 1974. Vic Elms was supposed to have prepared a score and conduct the orchestra. But Elms could not write music and did not know how to conduct. Instead he tried to demonstrate themes on his guitar. The orchestra refused to work with him, so (music arranger) Alan Willis had to take over, improvising some scores on the day.
Earthbound / season 1 - episode 5
A spaceship makes a crash landing on the Moon. Onboard, Captain Zantor and four other tall, striking aliens are found. Zantor explains that they left their dying planet, Kaldor, to find Earth. Commisioner Simmonds believes that the Kaldorians represent an opportunity to once again find Earth; they have one space on their craft and Simmonds is determined to have it. Koenig (Martin Landau) insists that the computer chooses the most appropriate Alphan to join the five Kaldorians on their mission, but Simmonds becomes desperate to have the place
There is no new music for this episode.
Another Time Another Place / season 1 - episode 6
It is a nightmare experience for the Moonbase personnel and for Regina Kesslann in particular when the Moon is caught in a strange vortex and produces a duplicate of itself. Regina begins to see the future... in which Moonbase once again meets its double, and finds it destroyed. Inexorably, it begins to happen.
Original score by Barry Gray, recorded at Wembley on Tuesday 25th June 1974.
Missing Link / season 1 - episode 7
When Koenig (Martin Landau) is severely injured in an Eagle crash, Dr. Russel battles to save him. But inside his head, Koenig is fighting a different battle. He believes himself to be on the planet Zenno, where a scientist named Raan is using him as an anthropological specimen. When Koenig becomes involved with Raan's beautiful daughter Vana, he must fight against his desire to stay on the planet Zenno or he may never survive to live again on Moonbase.
Vana's theme is an unused Barry Gray track intended to be the Moonbase Alpha theme. The script specifies the love theme from Tristan and Isolde, although this was not used. Otto Solin points out: "It would not be a bad idea to use this music here since they speak of being united as one in a world without fear ("...ewig einig, ...ohn' Erbangen").".
Library track: from Stingray "Ghost Of The Sea" by Barry Gray
Guardian of Piri / season 1 - episode 8
Three Alphans disappear while investigating the beautiful planet Piri. With Alan Carter (Nick Tate), Koenig (Martin Landau) lands on the planet, where he finds the three men, entranced with ecstatic smiles on their faces. Suddenly, an incredibly beautiful woman appears from within a brilliant light and explains that she is the servant of the Guardian of Piri. She offers the entire population of the Moon the opportunity to give up their human pain and enjoy Pirian life, as the first three Alphans have done. But only Koenig realises that she is offering them all a living death, and a terrible conflict ensues.
Library track: "Undersea" composed by Chuck Cassey (Chappell Recorded Music Library)
Force of Life / season 1 - episode 9
After the appearence of a strange ball of blue light in the sky, technician Anton Zoref collapses, unconscious. And when he recovers, he becomes possessed with a terrifying need for heat. Everything he touches - machinery, people - freezes instantly. Koenig (Martin Landau) orders power supplies to be shut off, and Zoref begins seeking human bodies for heat! His wife Eva is only saved by Alan Carter's (Nick Tate) quick thinking. But when Carter shoots Zoref, the laser energy gives him huge strength, and he breaks into the ship's reactor. A massive fission explosion occurs, from which a swirling comet of blue light heads out into the space sky.
Library tracks:
"Cosmic Sounds No. 1 and No. 3" composed by Georges Teperino (Chappell Recorded Music Library)
"The Latest Fashion" composed by Giampiera Boneschi (Chappell Recorded Music Library)
"Videotronics No. 3" composed by Cecil Leuter (aka Roger Roger) (Chappell Recorded Music Library)
Alpha Child / season 1 - episode 10
Cynthia Crawford gives birth to Alpha's first baby, and names the boy Jackie. But within hours the baby grows into a man who calls himself Jarak. He says that he is one of a 120 travelers escaping from their planet, because they were outcasts of a system of ruthlessly imposed genetic conformity. Their plan is to take over the bodies of those on Moonbase. Jarak explains that the moments of human birth and death are ideally suited to this purpose. Then suddenly, six spaceships appear from Jarak's home planet to confront him and his band of runaways... The outcome will determine the fate of Moonbase Alpha and its crew
Library track: Secret Service "Last Train to Bufflers Halt" by Barry Gray
The Last Sunset / season 1 - episode 11
The prospect of a normal life dangles tantalizingly for the occupants of the runaway Moon when they find a new solar system with a potentially habitable planet that Bergman identifies as Ariel. For a while, the crew are able to experience real air, warm sunshine and the hope of a new Earth. Paul Morrow and Sandra Benes (Zienia Merton) contemplate the possibility of a normal, loving Earth-bound relationship. But some strange discoveries on the surface of the planet soon shatter all the dreams of the future.
Library tracks:
track from Supercar "Celestial Theme" by Barry Gray
track from Stingray "Raptures Of The Deep" by Barry Gray
track from Joe 90 "King For A Day" by Barry Gray
track from Secret Service "A Case For The Bishop" by Barry Gray
track from Thunderbird 6 by Barry Gray
Voyager's Return / season 1 - episode 12
Moonbase Alpha receives signals from the computer of Voyager One, an unmanned spaceship launched in 1985. But since its launch, Voyager One's Queller Drive engine has been polluting space with dangerous fast neutrons that annihilate matter. There is only one man aboard, Dr. Ernest Linden, who could possibly shut down the Queller drive. It will be a desperate race against time. But Linden's assistant, Jim Haines, whose parents died because of the Queller drive malfunction, discovers that Linden is in fact the inventor of the drive having changed his name from Ernest Queller. He loses his temper, and hits Linden/Queller. But Helena (Barbara Bain) revives the injured man, and he finishes the task of disabling the destructive drive. But then a humanoid alien with a force of three spaceships arrives, seeking vengeance for the millions of his fellow citizens killed by the effects of the Queller drive...
Library track: from Thunderbird 6 by Barry Gray
Collision Course / season 1 - episode 13
The Moon is on collision course with a planet many times its size, and a decision to change the course of the planet, by laying nuclear mines in its path, is postponed when it is discovered that the planet may harbour life. Koenig (Martin Landau) immediately sets out to reconnoitre the planet, but it is intercepted by Arra, Queen of the planet, which is called Astheria. She wants Koenig to call off the nuclear mines operation. But on Moonbase, they are convinced it is the only way to prevent a collision. Koenig must return to Moonbase to argue the case for Arra, but Helena (Barbara Bain) diagnoses that he has radiation sickness and is hallucinating. What is to be done, with time running fast out?
Library tracks:
track from Joe 90 "Arctic Adventure" by Barry Gray
track from Joe 90 "Operation McClaine" by Barry Gray
track from Thunderbird 6 by Barry Gray
Death's Other Dominion / season 1 - episode 14
When the Alphans are invited to share a lost paradise - and immortality - on the frozen planet Ultima Thule, they soon discover their hosts are members of a space expedition launched from Earth in 1986. It could mean doom for them all
Library track from Joe 90 "The Big Fish" by Barry Gray
The Full Circle / season 1 - episode 15
A landing party is sent to the newly discovered planet Retha. But when they don't return, a full-scale rescue is led by Koenig (Martin Landau). Alan Carter (Nick Tate) and Sandra (Zienia Merton) are seperated from the rest of the rescue team, and they stumble across a caveman-like civilisation, led by the Cave Chief and his Cave Wife, who strongly resembles Koenig and Helena (Barbara Bain). It soon becomes clear that there is a time warp on the planet and that some of the crew will have to be brought back from 40.000 years of history into the present.
Original score by Barry Gray, composed and arranged in Guernsey. Recorded at Wembley on Tuesday 3rd December 1974.
Library track from Thunderbird 6 by Barry Gray
End of Eternity / season 1 - episode 16
The appeareance of an asteroid, three light years from the nearest star, that must have been traveling for a thousand years in space, is baffling. When the computer reports there is an atmosphere source somewhere inside it, Koenig (Martin Landau) and two others land on the asteroid. In the living chamber inside, they find an unconscious, terribly injured humanoid alien. But when he is taken to Moonbase, there is not a scratch on him. The man gives his name as Balor, citizen of the planet Progron. He is a scientist who discovered immortality, and has been blamed for the ensuing meaninglessness Progron's people felt in their lives, and imprisoned in a living rock and cast into space. When Koenig realises that the immortal, re-generating man is a complete psychopath, he knows he must kill him. Koenig must lure him into an airlock and release him into space forever, but to trap him Koenig has to be with him
Library tracks:
"Experiments In Space- Malus" composed by Robert Farnon (Chappell Recorded Music Library)
"Experiments In Space- Dorado" composed by Robert Farnon (Chappell Recorded Music Library)
"Stratosphere" composed by Davis Snell (Chappell Recorded Music Library)
"Videotronics No. 3" composed by Cecil Leuter (Chappell Recorded Music Library)
"Cosmic Sounds No. 1" composed by Georges Teperino (Chappell Recorded Music Library)
War Games / season 1 - episode 17
Moonbase Alpha is at war, attacked by an un-named planet. Windows are smashed and men sucked into space by the attack. Defending Eagles are destroyed in the air. Main Mission is wrecked and 129 are dead. Only one hope remains - to confront the enemy, so Koenig (Martin Landau) and out in an unarmed Eagle. They meet eerie figures situated in strange columns of light - a male and a female alien. The alien explains that they are protecting them from Earthmen's fear - an enemy which they claim would destroy their civilisation. Then they negate the whole war, leaving Alpha as it was before but with Koenig warned, their planet safe.
Library track: "The Astronauts" composed by Mike Hankinson (Chappell Recorded Music Library)
The Last Enemy / season 1 - episode 18
Moonbase Alpha becomes caught up in a war between two planets when a spacecraft uses the Moon as a base to attack the enemy. The spacecraft is destroyed and a single survivor goes to Alpha in an escape capsule. It is a young and beautiful girl named Dione, from the planet Betha, who explains that her planet is, and always has been, at war with the planet Delta. Koenig (Martin Landau) contacts the Supreme Commander of Delta Armed Forces and the Chief Commissioner of the Betha Defence to negotiate a ceasefire. But he has reckoned without the cunning of fervent Dione.
Library track: "Cosmic Sounds No. 3" composed by Georges Tperino (Chappell Recorded Music Library)
The Troubled Spirit / season 1 - episode 19
Dan Mateo, a botanist conducting experiments in the Hydroponic Unit with his assistent Laura Adams, suddenly collapses. Then, under Helena's (Barbara Bain) care in the Medical Unit, he sees the shadowy shape of a horribly scarred man. Helena also sees it, believing it to resemble Mateo. When Koenig (Martin Landau) and Dr. Warren, head of the Hydroponic Unit, forbid Mateo to continue his experiments, Warren sees the shadowy figure - and then dies. When Mateo secretly continues his experiemnts, Laura Adams quarrels with him. Again the mysterious figure appears - and Laura dies. On Bergman's advice, Mateo is allowed to carry out his experiments openly. Once again, the ghostly, mutilated figure appears, and it is without doubt a spirit Mateo. Now some form of scientific exorcism may be the only hope.
Original score by Jim Sullivan, recorded at Wembley on Wednesday 20th November 1974. Sullivan is seen peforming in the concert scene. The instrument is a Coral Electric Sitar.
Space Brain / season 1 - episode 20
The sudden outburst of strange, alien hieroglyphics on all of Alpha's screens is followed by the sights of what looks like a huge space anemone. An Eagle sent to investigate is horribly compressed and propelled back towards Alpha as a white-hot missile. Then Alan Carter's (Nick Tate) colleague, Kelly, comes into contact with the anemone-like being. Back on Alpha, it is clear that Kelly has been taken over and possessed by the mysterious alien force. By the time that Kelly is able to communicate that the huge space 'brain' is not aggressive, but just trying to prevent a collision, it may be too late. Koenig (Martin Landau) has ordered an Eagle loaded with an enormous nuclear charge to be aimed at the creature.
Library track: "Mars, Bringer Of War" composed by Gustav Holst, arranged by Malcolm Sargent (published by EMI Music For Pleasure)
The Infernal Machine / season 1 - episode 21
A huge spacecraft, breaking every known law of aerospace propulsion, appears in the sky and is given permission to land on the Moon. Koenig (Martin Landau), Helena (Barbara Bain) and Bergman are admitted to the craft, where they meet an extraordinarily ancient man, Companion. He explains that the whole craft is a living machine named Gwent, which he serves. But Companion is sick and soon dies. Gwent, also, is weakening, and when he demands that Koenig and Helena act as replacements for Companion, they launch a grim battle of wits against this machine with a human personality.
Library tracks:
"Mission Control" composed by Harry Soskin (Chappell Recorded Music Library)
"Outer Space" composed by Robert Farnon (Chappell Recorded Music Library)
"Lunar Landscape" composed by Roger Roger (Chappell Recorded Music Library)
"The Monsters" composed by Ivo Vyhnalek (Chappell Recorded Music Library)
"Dark Suspense No. 1" composed by Beda Folten (Chappell Recorded Music Library)
"Subterranean" composed by Joe Venuto (Chappell Recorded Music Library)
"Celestial Mirror" composed by John Cavacas (Chappell Recorded Music Library) was listed on cue sheets but not used.
Mission of the Darians / season 1 - episode 22
Decoded signals from a colossal, fifty-mile-long spaceship indicates a major emergency. Koenig (Martin Landau) orders a mercy flight to the spaceship, taking with him, Helena (Barbara Bain), Bergman, Alan Carter (Nick Tate), Paul Morrow and a security man. They discover that the ship is commanded by agelessly beautiful Kara and a man named Neman, who, along with twelve other people, are the only true survivors of a planet called Daria that they left 900 years before. But when Koenig discovers that the Darians have been keeping themselves alive by cannibalistically transplanting organs from a degenerate civilisation in another part of the spaceship, he realises that he and his team must must act quickly if they are to avoid meeting the same fate.
Library tracks:
"Experiments In Space- Vega" composed by Robert Farnon (Chappell Recorded Music Library)
track from Stingray "Ghost Of The Sea" by Barry Gray
"The White Mountain" (introduction) composed by Frank Cordell (Chappell Recorded Music Library)
Dragon's Domain / season 1 - episode 23
Tony Cellini and Koenig (Martin Landau) are old friends. But when the Moon drifts close to an area near the planet Ultra where Cellini survived an incredible experience, he appears to go beserk and attempts to take off, entirely alone, in an Eagle command module. It was once on his way to Ultra that Cellini and three others came to eerie graveyard of spaceships. They were attacked by a monster, a gruesome, rampaging mass of writhing tentacles, and only Cellini survived to tell the tale. Now back to the same area of space, Cellini wants to vindicate himself.
Library track: "Adagio for strings and organ in G Minor" composed by Tommaso Albinoni, arranged by Allain Lombard (published by Delyse [Envoy] Recording Co.) This track is widely used in film, including Rollerball in 1975 and Gallipoli in 1981. Gerry Anderson had wanted to use it in his 1968 film Doppelganger (aka Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun), but Barry Gray had composed a track for the sequence (when the astronauts sleep on their way to the other planet).
The Testament of Arkadia / season 1 - episode 24
When the Moon comes close to the planet Arkadia, it stops moving and power begins to drop dangerously. Koenig (Martin Landau) decides to visit the planet, and takes Helena (Barbara Bain), Bergman, Alan Carter (Nick Tate) and specialists Luke Ferro and Anna Davis with him. In a cave, they find human skeletons and inscriptions on the wall which Davis and Ferro translates, and a strange story is revealed. A holocaust struck Arkadia a long, long time ago - and the survivors who migrated to another planet became the original humans of Earth! As suddenly as it began, the power loss on the Moon ceases and Koenig decides to leave the empty, but once again, habitable, Arkadia. However, Luke and Anna have fallen in love, and by tricking Koenig, remain on Arkadia to make their own Eden.
Library tracks:
"Appassionata" composed by Paul Bonneau and Serge Lancen (Chappell Recorded Music Library)
"Picture Of Autumn" composed by Jack Arel and Pierre Dutour (Chappell Recorded Music Library) report error and omissions here
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