![]() Instead of the usual pretentious esoteric nonsense that'll have you shaking your head asking WTF was that episode about ? We have a very simple episode featuring a giant rubber octopus. Is Cellini succumbing to insanity caused by the guilt of a failed space mission several years earlier or are his delusions of a space monster based in reality ? This is a slightly atypical episode of SPACE 1999. when john grabs it from her to read, it's only a page and a half long!Ĭaptain Tony Cellini is being plagued by intense vivid nightmares, so much so that Dr Helena Russell is concerned by his mental state. helena dutifully recording her little report on moonbase stationary on a cute little orange electric typewriter (where on earth - oops - on moon - did she get replacement ribbons?). you have to love the beginning and ending shots of this episode, with dr. hmmm.5 years later, i wonder where the moon is headed. a discredited pilot returns from a probe mission with a crazy story of a monster and a field of abandoned spaceships. as far as story, well, it isn't much, but it does have some nifty flashbacks to the crew before they left the earth's orbit. i was such a fan, i would run around the house right before it came on, singing the theme song. ![]() there was never much in the way of gore on this show, so the smoking, partially digested bodies of the crew of the ultra probe sliding out of the monster's belly and along the deck like little children coming down a slide was a grabber when i first saw this. This one remained in my mind for years after i saw it as a kid. That's intelligently written and well played by Morse, subtly (slightly) saying he thinks Tony's story is true, hence Helena is being stupid. Victor is good here (as usual) when they reach the ship graveyard, when he points out that it does look like flies caught in a spider web. ![]() ![]() Even when there is plenty of evidence supporting it, as Koenig does point out. Helena is real here in a sense that she sticks with her belief the guy was lying about the dragon. you want heroes in your TV, at least in this era. The people of Alpha are too much like real life people. Even worse, it immediately ejects the burned, charred and smoking corpse! Sheesh! This ep shows one of the reasons this show was a flop. The mind control aspect is terrifying to the viewers and the fellow crewmembers, bewildered as they watch their fellow crew run into the arms of this thing. Even as a much older adult, and seeing the obvious puppet, it's still pretty darn effective. I think it slipped through the cracks, considering I was probably 6 or 7 years old. I don't recall exactly when this was shown, but I suspect it was a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. Space 1999 wasn't a huge success in America, and that seemed to result in it often being shown in off-prime times.
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