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Scene from 'Journey To Where'  

Episode Guide: Year Two

Title: "Journey To Where"

Within this page: Overview | Backplot | Plot Synopsis | Unanswered Questions | Analyses/Observations | Comments | Memorable Lines



Overview

Earth makes contact with Moonbase Alpha -- and may be able to transport the Alphans across space and time back home. But a mishap causes the first transport team to arrive home: in the year 1339 A.D.!

Production Number: 005 (Season Two)
Original U.K. airing week: 18 September 1976 (ATV Midlands)
Original U.S. airing week: 18 September 1976 (syndication)
Written by Donald James
Directed by Tom Clegg

Backplot

Plot Synopsis

(From the original ITC Press Release.)

The promise of a return to Earth - but the space-wandering Alphans find themselves lost in the midst of time.

A voice comes through from Earth. With it, the hope of return to their own planet at last for the occupants of the runaway Moon and the end of their long journey through space. A handful of survivors have built up a new civilization.

The message comes by neutrone transmission from Dr. Charles Logan (FREDDIE JONES) of space Station One, Texas City, with the promise to Cmdr. John Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) that the Alphans can be brought home if instructions can be followed to build a transference dome.

But is a voice from the future. Although the moon has been in outer space for only a matter of months, in Earth terms this represents decades. It is still 1999 A.D. on the Moon - but 2120 A.D. on Earth.

For space scientist Dr. Logan and his assistant Carla (ISLA BLAIR), it is an exciting prospect. There are hazards, however. Because of an impending galactic eclipse, time is short before the communication channel is cut. Worse still, when the transference dome is completed, calculations are affected through an earthquake in the Gulf of Mexico.

Only three are on the first flight: Koenig, Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) and Alan Carter (NICK TATE). Instead of arriving in Texas, they find themselves in a vegetated area, landing in bushes. The atmosphere is cloudy and cold. After the germ-free environment of Alpha, they are soon affected. Helena immediately goes down with a high temperature that develops into pneumonia.

Realization that they have landed in Scotland comes with the appearance of kilted Scottish warriors who promptly take them prisoner. Then, fantastically, they discover that they have plunged through a time warp, travelling back into the past. The year is 1339. And they are in the midst of the bitter conflict between Scotland and England.

Although Helena cures her pneumonia with a fungus found growing on the dungeon wall, the Scots chief, Macdonald (ROGER BIZLEY), assumes that they are English and jumps to the conclusion that they are bringing the plague to Scotland. His prisoners must be burned to death.

Meanwhile, desperate efforts to trace them are being made from Moonbasen Alpha and the Texas Space Station. To save them, the mists of time must be pierced...

"SPACE 1999" - SERIES II
CAST LIST

EPISODE NO. 3 - "JOURNEY TO WHERE"
DIRECTOR: TOM CLEGG

KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU
HELENA - BARBARA BAIN
MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL
TONY VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT
ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE
YASKO - YASUKO NAGAZUMI
DR. BEN VINCENT - JEFFERY KISSOON
1ST OPERATIVE - SARAH BULLEN
DR. LOGAN - FREDDIE JONES
CARLA - ISLA BLAIR
MACDONALD - ROGER BIZLEY
JACKSON - LAURENCE HARRINGTON
1ST OPERATIVE TEXAS - NORWICH DUFF
OLD CRONE - PEGGY PAIGE
GAELIC ADVISOR - A. K. CRAIGHEAD

Unanswered Questions

Analyses/Observations

Comments

Memorable Lines

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Moonbase Alpha
Commander John Koenig
Dr. Helena Russell
Professor Victor Bergman
Alan Carter
Controller Paul Morrow