Episodes

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Full Title EpiCode	General Plot	Personal Opinions	Guest Cast
Regular Cast:	Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Nick Tate, Zienia Merton		'Guest' Cast
Season One
Regular Cast:	Barry Morse, Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Anton Phillips		'Guest' Cast
Breakaway 1a [3.0]	Humankind has finally found the best storage place for nuclear waste: the far side of the Moon. Suddenly, on the eve of the newest deep space mission, astronauts start dying of a mysterious malady. Meanwhile, the growing nuclear piles build up unseen potential energy, which abruptly releases in a tremendous explosion that blasts the Moon out of orbit.		Roy Dotrice, Phillip Madoc, Eric Carte, Lon Satton
Matter of Life and Death 1b [1.0]	Helena's long lost husband, Lee Russell, is found stowed away on an Eagle returning from a planet; but is he what he seems?		Richard Johnson, Stuart Damon
Another Time, Another Place 1c [1.0]	The Moon is suddenly severed, duplicated into alternate realities, yet within contact -- a deadly contact whose result can be death. One set has resettled an almost dead Earth, while the other set approaches, and becomes a threat.		Judy Geeson
Collision Course 1d [4.0]	The Alphans have to blast away an asteroid threatened the Moon with collision, then find a gigantic planet is following not far behind. Koenig pilots towards the planet, only to be swallowed up by a ship. He meets a mysterious, ageless woman who speaks of destinies, and returns him to Alpha, only to find he's not trusted by the rest.	One of the best.	Margaret Leighton
Force of Life 1e [2.0]	A ball of energy invades Alpha -- and a man who starts wandering Alpha, possessed with a lethal energy-sucking power and a building hunger to match.		Ian McShane, Gay Hamilton, Eva Rueber-Staire, John Hamill
Alpha Child 1f [2.5]	The first Alphan child is born, but immediately displays threatening abnormalities.		Julian Glover, Cyd Hayman, Wayne Brooks
Guardian of Piri 1g [4.0]	The Alphans approach a bizarre planet run by a computer whose idea of peace is stifling, deadly perfection, and whose seductively beautiful "Servant" is out to spread the Guardian's peace by any necessary means.	The surface of Piri is perhaps the single most unusual and memorable planetscape in SF. More importantly, a fine exploration of the theme of machine intelligence, a warning about the inhumanity of indolence, and something of a metaphor about (and against) drug culture. Also: a guest star who finds all the right nuances for her character. One of the best episodes.	Catherine Schell, Michael Culver, John Lee-Barber
War Games 1h [3.0]	The Alphans face a violent, overpowering force that considers humanity to be a plague, and badly damages the base. Yet what are the aliens really after?		Anthony Valentine, Isla Blair, James Fagan
Mission of the Darians 1i [2.0]	A huge space ark is found, with two extremely different classes of people inside, one cannibalistic.		Joan Collins, Dennis Burgress, Aubrey Morris, Paul Antrim, Gerald Stadden, Jackie Horton
Black Sun 1j [1.5]	The Moon is soon to be swallowed by a black hole. The Alphans struggle to find a way to survive, and encounter something extraordinary.	Though considered one of the best by many, I found there to be too much bad science to stomach easily. Also didn't seem to hang together really well, coming off like a hodge- podge as it built up to a climax that was actually quite good and interesting.	Paul Jones, Jon Lauimore
End of Eternity 1k [2.0]	A curious asteroid is found, with a man locked inside. The man, however, is immortal, and has plans....		Peter Bowles, Jim Smilie
Voyager's Return 1l [3.0]	An errant robotic explorer from Earth is found. Its drive system is deadly, however, and that proves considerable trouble, from several quarters.		Jeremy Kemp, Barry Stokes, Alex Scott, Lawrence Trimble
The Testament of Arkadia 1m [2.5]	The Moon encounters a dead world, but one which contains secrets and mysteries that drive two Alphans to extraordinary means, in pursuit of a startling goal.		Orso Maria Guerrini, Lisa Harrow
The Last Enemy 1n [3.5]	The Moon enters a solar system with two planets warring against each other, and offers an irresistable opportunity for both, putting the base in a deadly crossfire.		Caroline Mortimer, Maxine Audley, Kevin Stoney, Caroline Courage
Dragon's Domain 1o [1.5]	A man, haunted by ghosts in his past, and a creature no one believes he fought, begins to realize the same enemy has returned.		Gianni Garko, Douglas Wilmer, Michael Sheard, Susan Jameson, Barbara Kellerman
The Full Circle 1p [0.0]	On a fog-shrouded planet, humans become something of their past, a once-again living remnant of what they once were (and perhaps still are to some degree): cave men (and women).	This episode is not very good, involving a lot of silliness and stupid hysterics, not to mention a premise that is hard to stomach, even with the old 'suspension of disbelief.'	Oliver Cotton
Death's Other Dominion 1q [2.5]	The Alphans encounter another band of humans, survivors of an exploration ship that disappeared mysteriously. The problem is, the frozen world they have settled on has given them immortality -- with a high price.		Brian Blessed, John Shrapnel, Mary Miller
Ring Around the Moon 1r [0.0]	An alien probe takes over people, eventually killing them, in an attempt to get information.	Yuck. My least favorite episode, one which makes very little sense, meandering in a pointless plot, with lousy characterization, and filled with logical absurdities.	Max Faulkner
Earthbound 1s [2.5]	Peaceful aliens, bound for Earth, find the Moon first. With a tragic vacancy on their ship, the have an opening for one Alphan to return to Earth. Which one, though? Some aliens are peaceful, but is man?	A great episode with an excellently subtle performance by one guest star played against the fine, far from subtle perfomance of the other main guest.	Christopher Lee, Roy Dotrice
The Infernal Machine 1t [2.0]	A curious machine intelligence, flying through space, suffers the loss of its humanoid "Companion," and decides it wants one or more of the humans as replacements -- and is willing to use force.		Leo McKern
Missing Link 1u [1.0]	After a crash that critically injures Koenig, he is subjected to study by an alien who thinks Koenig represents a 'missing link' of sorts.	First twenty minutes and last minute pretty interesting and often creepy, but its center is a wholly unbelievable love story, for which the actors had no chemistry together. The 'missing link' aspect was poorly explored.	Peter Cushing, Joanna Dunham
The Last Sunset 1v [2.5]	As the Moon approaches a planet called Arial, a series of small devices land, and start releasing gases, which amazingly gives the Moon an atmosphere, giving the Alphans hope they can permanently settle... on the Moon!	Very intriguing idea, carried out reasonably well.
Space Brain 1w [2.0]	The Moon approaches a curious space force, one which begins to emit crushing form in increasingly deadly amounts.	An episode that has become high in 'camp' value for its memorable scenes of foam filling up the moonbase. Not bad, but not that good either.	Shane Rimmer, Carla Romanelli, Derek Anders
The Troubled Spirit 1x [1.0]	A man is haunted, by his own ghost!	I'm not a fan of horror, but I have to say the premise is chilling, and fairly well carried out, though the episode still grated on me.	Giancarlo Prette, Hilary Dwyer, Anthony Nicholls, Val Musetti
Season Two
Regular Cast:	Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt, Yasuko Nagazumi, John Hug, Jeffrey Kissoon		'Guest' Cast
The Metamorph 2a [4.0]	Alpha, missing a couple key members and now hunkered down in lower levels, encounters Psychon, a world full of deception at every turn, run by one of its last remaining members, whose dream of restoring his world has driven him to build a mind-ripping machine, while raising a daughter who has learned Psychon's strange biological ability: transformation.	My favorite episode of the series, portraying an alien with layers of madness and sanity; someone willing to drain away minds and keep their zombie-like bodies going, while shielding all this away from his beautiful daughter, who grows up naive but normal (for an alien metamorph :-)	Brian Blessed, Anoushka Hempel, Gerard Paquis, Peter Porteous, Nick Brimble
All That Glisters 2b [2.0]			Patrick Mower
Journey to Where 2c [2.0]			Freddie Jones, Isla Blair, Laurence Harrington
The Taybor 2d [3.0]			Willoughby Goddard
New Adam, New Eve 2e [4.0]			Guy Rolfe, Bernard Kay, Annie Lambert, Barbara Wise
Mark of the Archanons 2f [1.0]			John Standing, Michael Gallagher, Veronica Lang, John Alkin, Anthony Forrest, Raul Newey
Brian the Brain 2g [3.0]			Bernard Cribbins
The Rules of Luton 2h [2.0]			David Jackson, Godfrey Jones, Roy Marsden
AB Chrysalis 2i [3.0]			Ina Skriver, Sara Douglas, Robert Rietty, David Sebastian Bach, Sarah Bullen
Catacombs of the Moon 2j [0.0]			James Laurenson, Pamela Stephenson, Lloyd McGuire, Brendan Price, Alan Hunter, Nova Llewellyn
Seed of Destruction 2k [3.0]			Martha Nairn, Jack Klaff, James Leith
The Exiles 2l [2.0]			Peter Duncan, Stacy Dorning, Margret Inglis
Space Warp 2m [3.0]
A Matter of Balance 2n [2.0]			Lynne Frederick, Stuart Wilson
The Beta Cloud 2o [3.5]			David Prowse
The Lambda Factor 2p [2.0]			Deborah Fallander, Jess Conrad
One Moment of Humanity 2q [1.0]			Billie Whitelaw, Leigh Lawson, Geoffrey Bayldon
The Seance Spectre 2r [2.0]			Ken Hutchinson, Carolyn Seymour
The Bringers of Wonder I 2s [3.0]			Stuart Damon
The Bringers of Wonder II 2t [3.0]			Patrick Westwood
Dorzak 2u [2.0]			Lee Montague, Jill Townsend
The Immunity Syndrome 2v [3.0]
Devil's Planet 2w [1.0]			Hildegard Neil
The Dorcons 2x [4.0]			Ann Firbank

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