Episode Guide: Year Two
Title: "Space Warp"
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Overview
While investigating a derelict alien spaceship, a powerful space warp separates the Moon from Eagle One -- with Koenig and Verdeschi stranded! And on Moonbase Alpha, Maya suffers from an illness which makes her delusional... and desiring to return to Psychon (which no longer exists!) by any means possible.
Production Number: 014 (Season Two)
Original U.K. airing week: 2 December 1976 (ATV Midlands)
Original U.S. airing week: 3 December 1976 (syndication)
Written by Charles Woodgrove (pseudonym for executive producer Freddie Freiberger)
Directed by Peter Medak
Backplot
- In the year 1999, lunar nuclear waste storage dumps have exploded, due to magnetic radiation, sending Earth's moon into interstellar space. The inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha, unable to escape, are seeking a new home.
Plot Synopsis
(From the original ITC Press Release.)
Eagle One gets lost in space and, as if that isn't enough, Moonbase Alpha has problems of its own when Maya's ability to transform herself into any living being goes out of control.
Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) has a serious problem on her hands: Maya (CATHERINE SCHELL) has been stricken with a mysterious fever which Helena is unable to diagnose and which resists all her efforts to cure it.
Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) and Tony Verdeschi (TONY ANHOLT) are in Eagle One on their way to check out a derelict spaceship when they are told of Maya's illness. But before they can reply, Moonbase Alpha is gripped by a terrible shaking motion and suddenly disappears from Eagle One's screens. It has gone through a space warp and moved five light years in a matter of minutes...
Eagle One's only hope is to find the 'space window' and catch up. To help them in this longshot, Alan Carter (NICK TATE) launches a refuelling eagle towards Moonbase Alpha's last known position. Meanwhile, Dr. Russell has other problems to add to the loss of Eagle - in her feverish state Maya transforms herself into a ferocious space animal and runs amok, making her way towards the Eagle bay. Seeing this on the monitors Helena realises that in her delirium, Maya is trying to get back to her dead father on the planet Psychon - a planet that no longer exists.
In spite of all efforts to stop her, including the use of anaesthetic darts, Maya commandeers an eagle and is only prevented from leaving Moonbase Alpha when the anaesthetic finally takes hold. The Eagle crashes and Maya, still in her animal form, is rescued. In the Medical centre Helena tries desperately to help but in a matter of moments Maya transforms into a second space animal and then a third! Sweeping all the Alphans brutally aside, she rushes from the Centre.
Light years away, Eagle One has docked with the space derelict in the vain hope of finding something- anything - that will get them out of their plight. To their amazement they find that the derelict was also the victim of a space warp. Dying from injuries following an explosion which wiped out his crew, the Commander of the craft managed to leave instructions for finding the 'space window' in case any other space warp victim should find his ship. Scarcely able to believe their luck, Koenig and Tony check out the derelict's power system.
Back on Moonbase Alpha, Maya - still as a space animal - has escaped onto the moon's surface, chased by Helena and Alan. They are desperate to catch her before her air runs out or she changes back into Maya, in which case she will die immediately...
And on Eagle One Commander Koenig and Tony are feeding their newfound information into their computer and fervently hoping that it will direct them through the 'space window' - and back to Moonbase Alpha...
"SPACE 1999" - SERIES II
CAST LIST
EPISODE NO. 14 - "SPACE WARP"
DIRECTOR: PETER MEDAK
KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU
HELENA - BARBARA BAIN
MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL
VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT
CARTER - NICK TATE
SAHN - ZIENIA MERTON
DR. BEN VINCENT - JEFFERY KISSOON
PETROV - PETER PORTEOUS
1ST SECURITY GUARD - TONY OSOBA
2ND SECURITY GUARD - JOHN JUDD
REFUELLING EAGLE, PILOT - TREVOR THOMAS
GRASSHOPPER - ANDREW LODGE
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Memorable Lines
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