Space 1999 season 2The second season on DVD? check here: The second season episode guideThe Metamorph / season 2 - episode 1
On the trail of two captured pilots, Koenig (Martin Landau) goes to the planet Psychon to rescue them. On the planet, he finds Mentor, a man lording over a planet of virtual zombies who work for him as miners. Mentor believes that, using a biological computer that feeds on the minds and bodies of his slaves, he can rebuild Psychon as the beautiful world it once was. But he needs more human fodder - the Alphans! By using Mentor's daugther Maya (Catherine Schell), who has the power of molecular transformation - she is a shape-changer - Koenig believes he can defeat Mentor. Maya is unaware of her father's psychpathic ruthlessness, and this ignorance is to Koenig's advantage. Finally, the Alphans escapes, and Maya with them. Her powers and remarkable scientific knowledge will be welcome on the wayward Moon...
Original score by Derek Wadsworth
The Exiles / season 2 - episode 2
Trailing through space are fifty cylinder-shaped objects. When Koenig (Martin Landau) recovers one, they find inside a young man named Cantar. He appeals to Koenig to save his friends from their cylinders claiming thay have all been usurped from their home planet by invaders. But when Koenig recovers Cantar's wife Zova from her cylinder, trouble begins. The two force their way into Alpha's power section and use its energy to transport them, with Helena (Barbara Bain) and Tony as hostages, to their home planet, from which they were in fact exiled for crimes against their own people. But 300 years has passed, and this means there is one chance for the two Alphans to save themselves...
Original score by Derek Wadsworth
One Moment of Humanity / season 2 - episode 3
A striking alien woman names Zamara materialises aboard Moonbase Alpha and takes two people - Helena (Barbara Bain) and Tony - back to her planet, Vega. Zamara and her accomplice Zarl are in fact super androids developed by successive generations of self-reproducing computers. The humans who invented the first computers still exist on Vega, and the androids want to wipe them out. Their plan in kidnapping the two Alphans is to learn the ways of aggression and killing, about which they know nothing. Zamara and Zarl begin a long and unpleasant process of antagonising Helena and Tony in an effort to gain the information they need.
Original score by Derek Wadsworth
The dance music, Gino Vannelli's "Storm At Sun-Up", was selected by choreographer Lionel Blair before the episode was shot.
Zamara selects Beethoven's 9th Symphony from the Alphan library. The extract is from the second molto vivace part.
All That Glisters / season 2 - episode 4
After scanning a planet which contains Milgonite, a rare mineral vital to Alpha's life support system, the Alphans are eager to visit it. But by the time they discover that there is no milgonite, only a deceptive lethal, living rock, it is too late. The deadly rock is already aboard Alpha, and it survives on water - which it can find in the human body! It is geologist Dave O'Reilly and Maya (Catherine Schell) who devise a way to combat the menace.
Journey to Where / season 2 - episode 5
Hopes are high when a message is received by neutrone transmission from Earth. But though the Moon has been in outer space for only a few months, it is 2120 A.D. on Earth. The message comes from a Texan space scientist named Dr. Charles Logan, who explains to the alphans some technology which will give them one opportunity to return to Earth. Koenig (Martin Landau) decides that he, Helena (Barbara Bain) and Alan Carter (Nick Tate) will test it out before returning the entire crew to Earth. This cautious move is proven very wise when somehow the three of them arrive on Earth in 1339, in Scotland, which is engaged in civil war against England!
The Taybor / season 2 - episode 6
Taybor materialises on the Moon, an interstellar trader with a wonderful spaceship, the S.S. Emporium, that travels through hyperspace. When Koenig (Martin Landau) realises that the engine on Taybor's remarkable craft could transport the Alphan personnel to any planet, even Earth, he offers the entire Moon in exchange for the secret of Taybor's hyper-spacial travel. But Taybor wants something else - Maya (Catherine Schell)! When Koenig refuses such an exchange, Taybor kidnaps her.
Original score by Derek Wadsworth
The Rules of Luton / season 2 - episode 7
Temporarily left on Luton, a planet rich in vegetation, while their Eagle is repaired, Koenig (Martin Landau) and Maya (Catherine Schell) cannot resist the temptation to explore. But when Koenig eats some berries and Maya picks a flower, a thunderous voice booms out accusing them of murder. Though they plead ignorance, their damage to the plants is unforgivable to the judges of the planet and they must face the consequences. The two Alphans are forced into battle against some other criminal aliens, with the promise that the survivors will gain their freedom.
The Mark of Archanon / season 2 - episode 8
A survey reveals a metallic cabinet long-buried beneath the surface of the Moon. Inside are found Pasc and his son Etrec, from Archanon, the planet of peace. Pasc was part of a team send to Earth on a mission of goodwill, but the hatred and violence on Earth was contagious, and the two affected were locked away by their own people - by Pasc's wife Lyra, in fact. But Pasc decides that this new lease of life may be his opportunity to make up for past misdeeds.
Brian the Brain / season 2 - episode 9
A spaceship approaching the Moon identifies itself as one of the four "Swift" ships that left Earth in 1996 and disappeared without a trace. Koenig (Martin Landau) is astonished when he discovers that there are no crew aboard, just a lively computer named Brian the Brain. But when he and Helena (Barbara Bain) go on board the "Swift" ship, Brian kidnaps them.
New Adam New Eve / season 2 - episode 10
A man appears claiming to be God, selects two couples to begin a new Earth, and explains he was rather disappointed with the way the first one turned out. The couples are rather mismatched - Helena (Barbara Bain) with Tony Verdeschi, and Koenig (Martin Landau) with Maya (Catherine Schell) - but using his powers, "God" makes it all seem alright. But when the four Alphans discover that God is not God, but just Magus, a cosmic magician who knows the ultimate secrets of physics, they are on the path to finding his weakness and return to Alpha.
This is the only Year 2 episode with library music (How Beautiful Is Night by Robert Farnon, played during the campfire scene).
Catacombs of the Moon / season 2 - episode 11
Down in the catacombs of the Moon, engineer Patrick Osgood is searching for Titanium. It is for a dual purpose; it is needed to save his wife's life in heart-surgery, and it is vital to Moonbase Alpha's life support system, and stocks of the metal are low. Time is running out, and when Osgood fails to find any Titanium, he becomes very unbalanced. He forces the medical team to release his wife, and takes her into the catacombs. Koenig (Martin Landau) decides that some of the Titanium in the store can be released for the operation - but now the Osgoods have to be found.
The AB Chrysalis / season 2 - episode 12
The Moon has been suffering regular twelve-hourly bombardments by enormous electrical waves, and one more such wave could spell final destruction for Moonbase Alpha. Koenig (Martin Landau) decides to go to the source of the bombardment, a nearby planet. He discovers a civilisation there whose people are in a chrysalis stage, protected only by their computer, which sees Moonbase as a threat to them and are therefore attacking it. Then two of the people come out of the chrysalis stage and into consciousness.
Seed of Destruction / season 2 - episode 13
Whilst exploring a bizarre, jewel-like asteroid, Koenig (Martin Landau) is detained and replaced by a double. The fake Koenig returns to Moonbase, and it is only slowly that the Alphans recognize that there is something strange about him. And when Maya (Catherine Schell) analyses a crystal "Koenig" has brought back from the asteriod, she is startled. The crystal is a seed which will draw all the energy from Moonbase in order to revitalise its home, the asteroid where the real Koenig is still prisoner.
The Beta Cloud / season 2 - episode 14
After a cloud of space dust causes a mysterious illness on Alpha, an Eagle crew is send to track the storm cloud. But when the Eagle returns a week later, its only occupant is a huge, terrifying space creature. The cloud returns, and a voice explains to the Alphans that the space creature is their agent, and they want the Moonbase life support system. Tony and Maya (Catherine Schell) fight a desperate battle against the seemingly indestructable creature. At one moment, when both believe their death is imminent, they confirm their love for one another.
Space Warp / season 2 - episode 15
Two crises strike the Alphans simultaneously. Koenig (Martin Landau) and Tony, checking out a derelict spaceship in Eagle one, encounter a space warp and end up five light years away. Meanwhile, Maya (Catherine Schell) is striken by a mysterious fever that Helena (Barbara Bain) can neither diagnose nor cure. Though Koenig begin to discover a way to return through the space warp, on Alpha, Maya is deliriously changing into all sorts of creatures, including her father Mentor, and before long she changes into a space animal and escapes to the Moon's surface.
Original score by Derek Wadsworth
A Matter of Balance / season 2 - episode 16
When Koenig (Martin Landau) decides to explore an apparently lifeless planet, he takes botanist Shermeen in his landing party. In a temple on the planet into which she wonders, Shermeen comes under the spell of a being named Vindrus. She wants to help save Vindrus' doomed race - but she doesn't realise that for each of Vindrus' group that is saved, one Alphan will be doomed - and she is to be the first.
The Bringers of Wonder 1 / season 2 - episode 17
After crashing his Eagle, Koenig (Martin Landau) is dragged unconscious from the blazing wreckage and hooked up to the brain impulse machine. Meanwhile, a faster-than-light ship arrives on the Moon. It is the "Superswift" - a craft that was on the drawing board when the Moon broke away. Everyone in the Superswift's crew seems to be known by one Alphan or another, Tony's brother Guido, announces that transports will soon be coming from Earth to rescue the Alphans. But when Koenig regains consciousness, he sees not fellow Earth men, but only hideous aliens. When the aliens discover that one of the Alphans is able to see them, they plan to kill him..
The Bringers of Wonder 2 / season 2 - episode 18
Having survived, Koenig (Martin Landau) suggests to Maya (Catherine Schell) that perhaps it was being connected to the brain machine that kept him from being deceived. After she tries it, Maya too can see the hideous aliens. Meanwhile the aliens, who consume radiation to survive, are planning to manipulate three Alphans into blowing up the Moon's nuclear waste dumps to create energy for them to live on. Soon it is left to just Koenig, Maya and Helena (Barbara Bain) to defeat the devastating force of the aliens!
Bartlett plays Beethoven's 5th Symphony.
The Lambda Factor / season 2 - episode 19
A pretty, young Alpha technician dies a horrible and terrifying death. Alan Carter (Nick Tate) is almost killed by a switched-off atomic motor. Maya (Catherine Schell) discovers that a large gaseous cloud in space is giving off Lambda waves - waves that would give some people paranormal mental powers. The a girl named Carolyn takes over the Command Center and the whole of Moonbase, using these extraordinary powers. Koenig (Martin Landau) must fight a merciless battle against her that will decide the future of Moonbase and its inhabitants.
The Seance Spectre / season 2 - episode 20
The planet Tora is sighted, but it is on a collision course with the moon. When Koenig (Martin Landau) orders that the Command Center be made off-limits, a small group of Alphans are angered. Under the leadership of Sanderson, they use their laser guns to take over the command center. Then they hold a seance, and claim that they can "see" that Tora would be habitable. Koenig quickly regains control, and thoug the rebels are confined for medical tests, they escape. Koenig is now faced with two problems - the imminent collision with Tora, and Sanderson, who would upset all their chances.
Dorzak / season 2 - episode 21
A fantastic spaceship arrive and is given permission to land on the Moon. A beautiful young woman named Sahala emerges from it, seeking medical attention for a crew member who she says was injured by a dangerous criminal they have captured. But when the criminal turns out to be a man from Maya's (Catherine Schell) home planet, Psychon, named Dorzac, and he persuades Maya that he was not responsible for the evil acts Sahala accused him of, the troubles begins.
Devil's Planet / season 2 - episode 22
Answering a distress signal, Koenig (Martin Landau) and Blake Maine go first to the desolated planet Ellna, and then to its moon, Entra, where their Eagle goes out of control and crash-lands. The first thing they see is a man being chased by three beautiful girls dressed in skin-tight catsuits and carrying long, electrical whips! It turns out that Entra is Ellna's penal colony; within minutes Maine is killed, and then Koenig is imprisoned. Can he escape or be rescued by the Alphans?
The Immunity Syndrome / season 2 - episode 23
On a seemingly inhabitable planet, a series of misfortunes befall Alpha's advance party. Tony Verdeschi is rendered insane by a piercing sound coupled with a blinding light. The metal in their Eagle violently corrodes and the craft starts to fall apart. Two Alphans die after drinking spring water that had been tested and found pure. Then, inside a strange, geodetic structure, they find a skeleton of a uniformed man. But before he died, the man, named Zoran, made a video recording explaining how any future visitors to the planet might survive.
The Dorcons / season 2 - episode 24
Maya (Catherine Schell) is terrified when a huge alien spaceship materialises nearby, as she recognizes it as a Dorcon ship - the Dorcon being the most powerful race in the galaxy. She explains that Dorcons have hounded Psychons for centuries, believing that the brain stem from a Psychon can give them immortality. When the three Dorcon leaders, the Supreme Archon, Consul Varda and Archon's nephew Malic, demand Maya be sent to them, Koenig (Martin Landau) refuses. So Varda comes aboard Alpha and Maya is taken by force. But Koenig manages to go with her to the Dorcon ship, and using the power struggle between the three Dorcon leaders, creates an opportunity for Maya to be rescued. report error and omissions here
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