Destination: Moonbase Alpha (8 page)
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Authors: Robert E. Wood
As promotional material for
Space: 1999
would state, ‘The Future is Fantastic!’
YEAR ONE
PRODUCTION CREDITS
CREDITED ON EPISODES
Executive Producer Gerry Anderson
Producer
Sylvia Anderson
Story Consultant
Christopher Penfold (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.12, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16)
Script Editors
Edward di Lorenzo (1.1, 1.2, 1.5, 1.6, 1.8), Johnny Byrne (1.3, 1.4, 1.7, 1.10, 1.11, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.17, 1.18, 1.20, 1.21, 1.23) * No Script Editor credit appears onscreen for episodes 1.9, 1.12, 1.16, 1.19, 1.22 or 1.24.
Moon
City Costumes Designed by Rudi Gernreich
Series
Created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson
Music
by Barry Gray
Music Associate
Vic Elms
Special Effects
Brian Johnson
Production
DesignerKeith Wilson
Production Manager
Ron Fry
Director of Photography
Frank Watts BSC
Casting Director
Michael Barnes
Supervising
Editor David Lane
Camera Operators
Tony White (1.1), Neil Binney (1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 1.18, 1.19, 1.20, 1.21, 1.22, 1.23, 1.24)
Assistant Director
Ken Baker
Sound Recordist
David Bowen
Editors
Derek Hyde Chambers (1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 1.10, 1.12, 1.14, 1.16, 1.18, 1.20, 1.22, 1.24), Alan Killick (1.9, 1.11, 1.13, 1.15, 1.17, 1.19, 1.21, 1.23), Mike Campbell (1.3, 1.5, 1.7) *No Editor credit appears on episode 1.1, although this is attributed to Supervising Editor David Lane.
Sound Editors
Peter Pennell (1.1, 1.3, 1.5, 1.7, 1.9, 1.11, 1.13, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 1.18, 1.22, 1.23, 1.24), Roy Lafbery (1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 1.10, 1.12, 1.14, 1.19, 1.20, 1.21)
Music Editor
Alan Willis
Continuity
Gladys Goldsmith (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 1.18, 1.19, 1.20, 1.21, 1.22, 1.23, 1.24), Phyllis Townsend (1.8)
Make-up
Ann Cotton (1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 1.7, 1.10, 1.11, 1.14, 1.15, 1.17, 1.20, 1.22, 1.24), Basil Newall (1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 1.9, 1.12, 1.13, 1.16, 1.18, 1.19, 1.21, 1.23)
Hair Designer
Helene Bevan
Wardrobe
Eileen Sullivan
Special Effects Director
Nick Allder
Lighting Cameraman
Harry Oakes
Camera Operator
Frank Drake
Electronics
Michael S E Downing
An ITC-RAI Co-Production
Produced by GROUP THREE for World-Wide Distribution
Made at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, England
Special Effects created at Bray Studios,
England
Processed by Rank Film Laboratories
UNCREDITED ON EPISODES
Miniatures Brian Johnson, Martin Bower, Wag Evans and Space Models, Terry Reed, Derek Freeborn, Brian Eke, Eric Backman and Mike Trim.
Matte paintings
Ray Caple (Zenno, Daria interiors, ‘Last Enemy’ surface)
Floor SFX
Les Bowie
The following additional production employees were listed on an August 1973 Group Three Productions ‘unit list’ for
Space: 1999
:
Executive –
Group Three Productions
Reg Hill
Second Assistant Director
Steve Lanning
Third Assistant Director
Roy Button
Production Secretary
Jane Oscroft
Gerry Anderson’s Secretary
Kate Curry
Sylvia Anderson’s Secretary
Linda Matthews
Follow Focus
Mike Tomlin
Clapper/loader
Paul Turtle
Boom Operator
Fred Tomlin
Sound Camera Operator
Maurice Smith
Sound Maintenance
Austin Partridge
Electronic Effects Operator
Geoff Grimmell
Electronics Engineer
Michael Faithful
Assistant Art Director
Michael Ford
Draughtsman
Dennis Bosher
Art Department Assistant
Richard Holland
Production Buyer
Sid Palmer
Construction Manager
Bill Waldron
Hairdresser
Maud Onslow
Wardrobe Assistants
Elvira Angelinetta and Betty Rogers
Script Secretary
Diana Healy
First Assistant Editors
Peter Gray and Colin Needs
Second Assistant Editor
Linda Pearce
Assistant Dubbing Editors
Phillip Sanderson and Edward Bond
Special Effects Technician
Allan Bryce
Casting Secretary
Rosemary Palmer
Production Accountant
Terry Connors
Assistant -
Production Accountant Ray Buckley
Accounts Assistant
Margaret Woods
Secretary to M Landau
and B Bain Gail Samuelson
Driver to M Landau
and B Bain Ray Atkins
Unit Drivers
Doug Lister and Brian Boreham
Electrical Supervisor
John May
Chargehand Electrician
Freddie Webster
Chargehand Props
Wally Hocking
Standby Props
John Gillies and K Wilks
Chargehand Dressing Props
Chick McCarthy
Standby Carpenter
K G Mears
Standby Stagehand
L Bailey
Standby Rigger
J Kelly
Standby Painter
G Honor
Grip
Michael Beauchamp
Unit Runner
Steven Homes
Special Effects Unit (Bray Studios)
Special Effects Art Director
Cyril Forster
Design Draughtsman
Ron Burton
Special Effects Assistant
Alan Barnard
Focus Puller
David Litchfield
Clapper/loader
Terry Pearce
Secretary
Jill Larkin
1.1
BREAKAWAY
Screenplay by George Bellak and Christopher Penfold*
Directed by Lee H Katzin
*Christopher Penfold does not receive on-screen credit.
Selected Broadcast Dates:
UK
London Weekend Television (LWT):
Date: 6 Sept 1975. Time: 5.50 pm
Granada:
Date: 26 Sept 1975. Time: 6.35 pm
US
WPIX (New York):
Date: 20 Sept 1975. Time: 7.00 pm
KRON (San Francisco):
Date: 5 Sept 1975. Time: 10.00 pm
Australia
HSV7:
Space: 1999
World Premiere
Date: 23 July 1975. Time: 7.30 pm
Credited Cast: Martin Landau
(Commander John Koenig),
Barbara Bain
(Doctor Helena Russell),
Barry Morse
(Professor Victor Bergman),
Prentis Hancock
(Controller Paul
Morrow),
Zienia Merton
(Data Analyst Sandra Benes),
Anton Phillips
(Doctor Bob
Mathias),
Nick Tate
(Captain Alan Carter),
Philip Madoc
(Commander Anton
Gorski),
Lon Satton
(Benjamin Ouma),
Eric Carte
(Astronaut Collins)
Guest Artist: Roy Dotrice
(Commissioner Simmonds)
Uncredited Cast: Suzanne Roquette
(Tanya Alexander),
Barbara Kelly
(Voice of Computer),
Don Fellows
(GTV Newsman),
Roy Scammell
(Jim Nordstrom),
Alf Joint
(Steiner),
Laurie Davis
(Eagle Stewardess),
David Rhys Anderson
(Frank Warren),
Shane Rimmer
(Voice of Eagle 2 Pilot),
Loftus Burton
(Operative Lee Oswald),
Chai Lee
(Operative Anna Wong),
Paul Weston
(Operative Lew),
Michael Zorba
(Operative Michael),
Christopher Matthews
,
Valerie Van Ost
,
Norma West
,
Maggie Wright
(Main Mission Operatives),
Alan Harris
(Alphan),
Tony Allyn
(Security Guard Tony Allan),
Quentin Pierre
(Security Guard Pierce Quinton),
John Clifford
(Security Guard)
Previously Titled:
‘Zero G’ (a 30 minute script by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson), ‘The Void Ahead’ (a 60 minute script by George Bellak) and ‘Turning Point’ (60 minute length, re-written by Christopher Penfold)
Plot:
In the year 1999, mankind is using the Earth’s Moon as a dumping ground for nuclear waste. Moonbase Alpha, with a population of 311 men and women, has been established in order to monitor the waste dumps and function as a large-scale scientific space research station. While Alpha prepares the launch of a probe to the newly discovered planet Meta, problems are mounting … An unexplained illness – the Meta Probe Astronaut Virus Infection – is killing astronauts, magnetic radiation of unprecedented violence has been detected and Nuclear Waste Disposal Area One burns itself out in a sub-surface firestorm. Then, on 13 September 1999, Nuclear Waste Disposal Area Two erupts in a massive explosion. The blast, acting like a gigantic rocket motor, hurls the Moon and Moonbase Alpha out of Earth orbit on an unknown trajectory into deep space …