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The Worst Episodes of Space: 1999

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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 Worst Episode
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    Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 13 - Catacombs of the Moon
    3.3/10(3 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 8 - The Rules of Luton
    4.3/10(3 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 10 - The Taybor
    4.3/10(3 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 4 - One Moment of Humanity
    4.4/10(5 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 1 Episode 15 - The Full Circle
    4.7/10(3 votes)

    #5 - The Full Circle

    S1:E15

    When exploring a habitable planet, members of the Alphan survey party vanish without a trace. Are they the victims of an indigenous tribe of Stone Age humanoids? The mystery deepens when a dead caveman is found to have capped teeth. Others soon notice the primitive cave chief and his mate bear an uncanny resemblance to the missing John Koenig and Helena Russell.

    Director:Bob Kellett
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Space: 1999 Season 1 Episode 20 - Missing Link
    4.7/10(3 votes)

    #6 - Missing Link

    S1:E20

    John Koenig finds himself trapped on the planet Zenno, in the home of an alien scientist and his daughter. Advanced two million years beyond Earthmen, the aliens consider Koenig their missing link. Faced with the threat of being treated like an experimental animal for the rest of his life, Koenig uses an unexpected weapon to confound his captor: love.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:Edward di Lorenzo

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  7. Space: 1999 Season 1 Episode 9 - Mission of the Darians
    5.3/10(6 votes)

    #7 - Mission of the Darians

    S1:E9

    Encountering a derelict spaceship, the Alphans respond to an automated distress signal. On board, they discover what remains of the once-great civilisation of Daria: an elite group which maintains control of the ship and a tribe which has descended into savagery. The Alphans are appalled when they discover what measures the Darians have taken to survive.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:Johnny Byrne

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  8. Space: 1999 Season 1 Episode 19 - Ring Around the Moon
    5.5/10(4 votes)

    #8 - Ring Around the Moon

    S1:E19

    A technician falls under an alien influence, accessing classified information before mysteriously dying. Soon after, the Moon is stopped in space by the powerful rays of an alien spacecraft. The aliens' only interest in Alpha is the data held in its computers, information they now plan to obtain through the possessed eyes of their next agent: Helena Russell.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:Edward di Lorenzo

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  9. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 3 - Journey to Where
    5.7/10(3 votes)

    #9 - 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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  10. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 6 - New Adam New Eve
    5.7/10(3 votes)

    #10 - 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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  11. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 9 - All That Glisters
    5.7/10(3 votes)

    #11 - 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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  12. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 19 - The Bringers of Wonder (2)
    5.7/10(3 votes)

    #12 - 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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  13. Space: 1999 Season 1 Episode 7 - Alpha Child
    5.8/10(4 votes)

    #13 - Alpha Child

    S1:E7

    The Alphans celebrate the arrival of the first child born on the Moon. The blessed event sours when the infant grows into a five-year-old child in minutes. Trying to accept him, the Alphans do not notice that little Jackie Crawford is much more than he seems. When hostile spaceships approach the base, Koenig realises, too late, that the aliens have an agent on Alpha.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 18 - The Bringers of Wonder (1)
    5.8/10(4 votes)

    #14 - 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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  15. Space: 1999 Season 1 Episode 13 - Matter of Life and Death
    6.0/10(4 votes)

    #15 - Matter of Life and Death

    S1:E13

    A lush Earth-type planet holds the promise of a new home for the people of Moonbase Alpha. When the reconnaissance Eagle returns, it carries an unexpected passenger: Helena's husband, who died five years ago. The mysterious Lee Russell tells the Alphans that death awaits them on the new planet. The Alphans ignore his warning and unknowingly descend into a world of antimatter.

    Director:Charles Crichton
    Writers:Art Wallace, Johnny Byrne

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  16. Space: 1999 Season 1 Episode 21 - Space Brain
    6.0/10(3 votes)

    #16 - Space Brain

    S1:E21

    An Eagle and its crew are crushed to death by an enormous energy field in space. When one of Alpha's astronauts is possessed by the anomaly, he tells them the energy field is a living space brain, which responded to the 'threat' with antibodies Finding the Moon on a collision course with the Brain, the Alphans make plans to avoid the same fate as the Eagle.

    Director:Charles Crichton
    Writer:Christopher Penfold

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  17. Space: 1999 Season 1 Episode 22 - The Troubled Spirit
    6.0/10(3 votes)

    #17 - The Troubled Spirit

    S1:E22

    Dan Mateo, hoping to unlock the secret of communication with plants, unleashes a killing force from the depths of his own mind. This macabre spectre seeks vengeance for Mateo's horrible death—which has not yet occurred. Bridging the span between science and the supernatural, the Alphans hope to break the cycle and exorcise the ghost without killing the man.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:Johnny Byrne

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  18. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 5 - Brian the Brain
    6.0/10(3 votes)

    #18 - 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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  19. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 7 - The Mark of Archanon
    6.0/10(3 votes)

    #19 - 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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  20. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 22 - Devil's Planet
    6.0/10(3 votes)

    #20 - 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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  21. Space: 1999 Season 1 Episode 2 - Force of Life
    6.1/10(7 votes)

    #21 - Force of Life

    S1:E2

    The body of Anton Zoref is invaded by an unknown life force. The man soon manifests an uncontrollable ability to absorb energy. As the Alphans struggle to understand this mysterious force, Zoref's need becomes insatiable. Driven by instinct, he makes his way to the greatest source of energy on Alpha: the Nuclear Generating Plant.

    Director:David Tomblin
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 11 - Seed of Destruction
    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #22 - 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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  23. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 20 - The Seance Spectre
    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #23 - 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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  24. Space: 1999 Season 2 Episode 24 - The Dorcons
    6.3/10(3 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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  25. Space: 1999 Season 1 Episode 3 - Collision Course
    6.4/10(6 votes)

    #25 - Collision Course

    S1:E3

    The Moon is on a collision course with an enormous planet. On a scouting mission, Koenig encounters Arra, the Queen of Atheria. The aged monarch proclaims the collision is a preordained event and must occur for her people to evolve to a higher plane of existence. Now Koenig must convince his staff to have faith and do nothing in the face of apparent destruction.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Catacombs of the Moon" is the worst rated episode of "Space: 1999". It scored 3.3/10 based on 3 votes. Directed by Robert Lynn and written by John Goldsmith, Anthony Terpiloff, it aired on 11/25/1976. This episode scored 1.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Rules of Luton".