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The Best Episodes of Space: 1999 Season 2

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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 1 - The Metamorph
    6.9/10(370 votes)

    #1 - The Metamorph

    S2:E1

    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 a bait with which to entice other members of the Alphan crew onto the planet. Mentor is building a computer but it will be fuelled by the living brains of humans, and he has his eye on those of the Alphan crew. Fortunately his daughter, the shape-shifting Maya, does not share her father's views and is on the side of the Alphans.

    Director:Charles Crichton
    Writer:Johnny Byrne

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  2. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 2 - The Exiles
    6.5/10(306 votes)

    #2 - The Exiles

    S2:E2

    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 restore the planet to them. Helena and Tony accompany them to the planet Golos, where it is apparent that they are not the young innocents they appeared to be.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:Donald James

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  3. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 3 - Journey to Where
    6.7/10(298 votes)

    #3 - Journey to Where

    S2:E3

    A transmission from Dr. Logan in Texas City leads the Alphans to believe that they can finally land back on Earth, though they have travelled through time and, when they touch down in Texas City, they will be in the twenty-second century. However, due to a hitch, they find themselves in a barren and hostile environment. It is Scotland in the fourteenth century where the Scots are at war with the English invaders.

    Director:Charles Crichton
    Writer:Donald James

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  4. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 4 - One Moment of Humanity
    6.3/10(299 votes)

    #4 - One Moment of Humanity

    S2:E4

    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.

    Director:Charles Crichton
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 5 - Brian the Brain
    5.9/10(289 votes)

    #5 - Brian the Brain

    S2:E5

    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.

    Director:Kevin Connor
    Writers:Donald James, Jack Ronder

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  6. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 6 - New Adam New Eve
    6.0/10(276 votes)

    #6 - New Adam New Eve

    S2:E6

    The tall and imposing Magus arrives on the base. He claims god-like 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 an illogical one at that, who needs to be controlled.

    Director:Charles Crichton
    Writer:Terence Feely

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  7. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 7 - The Mark of Archanon
    5.9/10(271 votes)

    #7 - The Mark of Archanon

    S2:E7

    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.

    Director:Charles Crichton
    Writer:Lew Schwarz

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  8. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 8 - The Rules of Luton
    5.3/10(299 votes)

    #8 - The Rules of Luton

    S2:E8

    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 superstrength, one which can render itself invisible and one which can teleport.

    Director:Val Guest
    Writer:Fred Freiberger

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  9. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 9 - All That Glisters
    5.7/10(269 votes)

    #9 - All That Glisters

    S2:E9

    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.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:Keith Miles

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  10. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 10 - The Taybor
    5.5/10(271 votes)

    #10 - The Taybor

    S2:E10

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

    Director:Bob Brooks
    Writer:Thom Keyes

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  11. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 11 - Seed of Destruction
    6.6/10(264 votes)

    #11 - Seed of Destruction

    S2:E11

    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.

    Director:Kevin Connor
    Writer:John Goldsmith

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  12. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 12 - The AB Chrysalis
    6.9/10(288 votes)

    #12 - The AB Chrysalis

    S2:E12

    The Alphans land on a 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 posing a threat and it is down to two newly regenerated females known as A and B to decide their fates.

    Director:Val Guest
    Writer:Tony Barwick

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  13. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 13 - Catacombs of the Moon
    5.3/10(263 votes)

    #13 - Catacombs of the Moon

    S2:E13

    Ship's engineer Patrick Osgood believes he can obtain titanium, to make a new heart for his sick wife Michelle, from the catacombs of the moon, using dynamite. The explosion which follows gives him a vision of the future in which the ship is pursued by a fireball and this comes true. Though Helena is making a new heart for Michelle, Osgood becomes impatient and drags his wife back into the catacombs, giving Koenig a double task - to avoid the fireball and save the Osgoods.

    Director:Robert Lynn
    Writers:John Goldsmith, Anthony Terpiloff

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  14. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 14 - Space Warp
    5.8/10(260 votes)

    #14 - Space Warp

    S2:E14

    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.

    Director:Peter Medak
    Writer:Fred Freiberger

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  15. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 15 - A Matter of Balance
    6.0/10(249 votes)

    #15 - A Matter of Balance

    S2:E15

    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.

    Director:Charles Crichton
    Writers:Jane Baker, Philip Baker

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  16. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 16 - The Beta Cloud
    6.1/10(267 votes)

    #16 - The Beta Cloud

    S2:E16

    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.

    Director:Robert Lynn
    Writer:Fred Freiberger

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  17. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 17 - The Lambda Factor
    6.4/10(247 votes)

    #17 - The Lambda Factor

    S2:E17

    A pretty, young Alpha technician dies a horrible and unexplained death. Dr. Russell's experiments reveal that one of the crew is possessed of paranormal mental powers and is trying to take control of Moonbase Alpha....

    Director:Charles Crichton
    Writer:Terrance Dicks

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  18. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 18 - The Bringers of Wonder (1)
    7.3/10(300 votes)

    #18 - The Bringers of Wonder (1)

    S2:E18

    Everyone on Moonbase is electrified by the arrival of a spaceship from earth. Everyone, that is, except Commander Koenig. Where the others see long-lost friends and relatives, he sees hideous aliens, bent on taking over the Moonbase...

    Directors:Tom Clegg, Frank Watts
    Writer:Terrance Dicks

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  19. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 19 - The Bringers of Wonder (2)
    7.2/10(280 votes)

    #19 - The Bringers of Wonder (2)

    S2:E19

    People from Earth have landed on Moonbase Alpha, promising to take the Alphans back home. Commander Koenig, however, sees not fellow human beings, but aliens, and tries to kill some of them. Horrified, Helena stuns him with a laser gun and later, as he lies unconscious in the Medical Center, Koenig is approached by one of the aliens (for that is what they really are) who tries to smother him...

    Director:Tom Clegg
    Writer:Terence Feely

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  20. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 20 - The Seance Spectre
    5.9/10(245 votes)

    #20 - The Seance Spectre

    S2:E20

    Some subterranean miners start chanting for a planet that will cause the Moon to pass through a nebula deadly to those living at Moonbase Alpha.

    Director:Peter Medak
    Writer:Donald James

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  21. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 21 - Dorzak
    6.7/10(261 votes)

    #21 - Dorzak

    S2:E21

    A spaceship arrives on Moonbase Alpha carrying a prisoner, whom Maya is astonished to learn is Dorzak, a survivor from her planet, Psychon. But can he, a man of peace, really be guilty of the crimes of violence for which he is being exiled?

    Director:Val Guest
    Writer:Christopher Penfold

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  22. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 22 - Devil's Planet
    6.2/10(258 votes)

    #22 - Devil's Planet

    S2:E22

    Answering a distress signal, Commander Koenig is forced to crash-land his Eagle on Entra - moon of the planet Ellna - which turns out to be the planet's penal colony, and Koenig finds himself a prisoner of the beautiful Elizia and her equally beautiful prison guards.

    Director:Tom Clegg
    Writer:Michael Winder

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  23. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 23 - The Immunity Syndrome
    6.6/10(252 votes)

    #23 - The Immunity Syndrome

    S2:E23

    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.

    Director:Bob Brooks
    Writer:Johnny Byrne

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  24. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 24 - The Dorcons
    6.7/10(260 votes)

    #24 - The Dorcons

    S2:E24

    The Dorcons -the most powerful race in the galaxy -demand that the Alphans hand Maya over to them. Koenig refuses, until Moonbase Alpha is savagely attacked and invaded! Then, having let them take Maya he makes a desperate attempt to save her....

    Director:Tom Clegg
    Writer:Johnny Byrne

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"The Metamorph" is the best rated episode of "Space: 1999" season 2. It scored 6.9/10 based on 370 votes. Directed by Charles Crichton and written by Johnny Byrne, it aired on 9/4/1976. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "The Exiles".