Startling Barbara Bain

Jan 24 2025 10 ep. 61 mins 21

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A Space: 1999 commentary podcast by the creators of Bondfinger and Flight Through Entirety.

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Black Sun

Jan 24 2025 58 mins

Black Sun. Season 1, Episode 10. First broadcast Thursday 6 November 1975. This month’s eerie and irrational space anomaly is, of course, intent on killing everyone on the base, and so with no hope left, the crew have no choice but to discover love, tranquility and grace. And to learn the valuable lesson that certain death is never certain when everyone is still contracted to do

Mission of the Darians

Dec 06 2024 63 mins

Mission of the Darians. Season 1, Episode 9. First broadcast Thursday 30 October 1975. This month, we’ve been invited to a century-long dinner by Joan Collins. The menu, as always: the basic proteins, amino acids, trace elements and enzyme variants of the lower classes.

Dragon’s Domain

Oct 04 2024 62 mins

Dragon’s Domain. Season 1, Episode 8. First broadcast Thursday 23 October 1975. This month’s eldritch alien threat is, for once, not intent on killing everyone on the base; instead it takes the more focused approach of killing everyone on a deep space probe and then hunting down and destroying Moonbase Alpha’s resident Italian big game hunter. Oh, and traumatising an entire g

Alpha Child

Aug 02 2024 59 mins

Alpha Child. Season 1, Episode 7. First broadcast Thursday 16 October 1975. An eerie green glow is making for Alpha, bringing with it the most terrible consequences, as the first baby born on the base undergoes two periods of ultra-rapid growth, becoming in mere seconds a terrifying English moppet and shortly after that Julian Glover in a skimpy miniskirt. Is this the next stage in

Voyager’s Return

Jun 15 2024 60 mins

Voyager’s Return. Season 1, Episode 6. First broadcast Thursday 9 October 1975. This month, John and Victor decide that the pursuit of a shoebox full of polaroids is a good reason to risk the crew’s lives — entrusting their safety to this week’s guest star, a Nazi rocket scientist or something with a secret past that inevitably involved killing a whole bunch of people in an

Death’s Other Dominion

May 04 2024 59 mins

Death’s Other Dominion. Season 1, Episode 5. First broadcast Thursday 2 October 1975. This month, we’re faced with an alarming metaphysical choice: eternal life among a bunch of absurdly hot models in Hugh Hefner’s second least favourite Swiss chalet, or a normal lifespan cleaning up the corridors of Moonbase Alpha after its latest nuclear catastrophe. Victor, Helena, Bob and

War Games

Feb 11 2024 59 mins

War Games. Season 1, Episode 4. First broadcast Thursday 25 September 1975. This month’s ethereal immortal beings in a surreal Pinewood studio are Isla Blair and Anthony Valentine, who are (reasonably enough) so keen to avoid meeting the crew of Moonbase Alpha that they decide to just kill them all instead. Or do they?

Collision Course

Dec 29 2023 59 mins

Collision Course. Season 1, Episode 3. First broadcast Thursday 18 September 1975. Moonbase Alpha is on a collision course this week, ineluctably destined to crash into a giant pustulent planet. Or is it? Commander Koenig — overcome by the charms of Queen Margaret Leighton — doesn’t think so, and so he turns up to Main Mission in his pyjamas like a Moonie and threatens to gun

Force of Life

Nov 24 2023 61 mins

Force of Life. Season 1, Episode 2. First broadcast Thursday 11 September 1975. An eerie blue glow invades Alpha and takes control of a young Ian McShane, who suddenly becomes prone to bouts of German Expressionism and freezing attractive young people from the 1970s. A star is born this week, in Force of Life.

Breakaway

Oct 27 2023 68 mins

Breakaway. Season 1, Episode 1. First broadcast Thursday 4 September 1975. September 13th, 1999. A nuclear waste dump on the moon is destroyed in an explosion so violent and so catastrophic that it creates a major science fiction show on ITV and the commentary podcast which tells its story. But before that, we witness some harrowing deaths, some attractive moustaches, and the quive