6.9/10343 votes#1 - The Metamorph
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/4/1976
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
6.5/10280 votes#2 - The Exiles
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/11/1976
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
6.6/10274 votes#3 - Journey to Where
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/18/1976
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
6.3/10276 votes#4 - One Moment of Humanity
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/25/1976
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: N/A
5.9/10265 votes#5 - Brian the Brain
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/2/1976
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
Writer: Donald James, Jack Ronder
6.1/10253 votes#6 - New Adam, New Eve
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/9/1976
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
6.0/10249 votes#7 - The Mark of Archanon
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/16/1976
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
5.3/10274 votes#8 - The Rules of Luton
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/23/1976
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
5.7/10245 votes#9 - All That Glisters
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 10/28/1976
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
5.5/10243 votes#10 - The Taybor
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/4/1976
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
6.6/10240 votes#11 - Seed of Destruction
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/11/1976
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
6.8/10262 votes#12 - The AB Chrysalis
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 11/18/1976
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
5.4/10238 votes#13 - Catacombs of the Moon
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 11/25/1976
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
Writer: John Goldsmith, Anthony Terpiloff
5.8/10236 votes#14 - Space Warp
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/2/1976
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
6.0/10226 votes#15 - A Matter of Balance
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/9/1976
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
Writer: Jane Baker, Pip Baker
6.1/10245 votes#16 - The Beta Cloud
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 12/16/1976
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
6.4/10225 votes#17 - The Lambda Factor
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 12/23/1976
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
7.2/10278 votes#18 - The Bringers of Wonder (1)
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 8/4/1977
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...
Director: Tom Clegg, Frank Watts
Writer: Terrance Dicks
7.1/10258 votes#19 - The Bringers of Wonder (2)
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 8/11/1977
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
5.8/10225 votes#20 - The Seance Spectre
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 8/18/1977
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
6.7/10240 votes#21 - Dorzak
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 8/25/1977
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
6.2/10239 votes#22 - Devil's Planet
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 9/1/1977
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
6.6/10233 votes#23 - The Immunity Syndrome
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 10/29/1977
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
6.7/10241 votes#24 - The Dorcons
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 11/12/1977
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
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.
Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyDrama
Network:ITV1
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"The Metamorph" is the best rated episode of "Space: 1999" season 2. It scored 6.9/10 based on 343 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".