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Commander Koenig (Martin Landau) & the crew of moonbase Alpha on
earth's runaway moon have discovered yet another earthlike planet &
think about settling there ... when the planet shoots something at them -
but it's not a bomb, as was expected, but a thing giving the moon
as a whole air to breath & an earthlike atmosphere of its own. The
Alphans quickly abandon their plans to leave for the other planet &
instead do what your friendly neighbourhood spaceman does when he suddenly
is confronted with an atmosphere: having picnics, playing tennis, giggling
a lot, falling in love & dancing in the rain (provided it rains). Then
Koenig sends off a crack team of Alpha's scientists (actually, the series'
regular actors) - pilot Alan (Nick Tate), Doctor Russell (Barbara Bain),
Controller Paul (Prentis Hancock), &
sitting-around-asking-stupid-questions Sandra (Zienia Merton) - off to
find a place on the moon for the Alphans to settle ... but of course their
spaceship crashes, & all the other spaceships seem to have been
rendered useless by the sudden occurence of atmosphere. Without any
spaceships to look for them,. our quartet is on its own, & of course
soon their food supplies run dangerously low ... until Paul finds some
hallucigenic fungus, eats from it & immediately becomes a dangerous
religious fanatic, who wants to start mankind anew with Sandra (whom he -
not yet drugged - has just fallen in love with) ... now all that would be
somewhat bearable, wouldn't the moon's atmosphere quickly vanish into ...
well, thin air. So Koenig has one of the moonbase's spaceships fixed &
makes himself a last desperate attempt to find his crewmates ... &
does hfind them, but has to geve Paul the beating of his life before he
can drag him back to the moonbbase. With the moon once again a barren,
atmosphereless rock, Alpha receives a message from the earthlike planet
they have so stupidly passed: In order to stop the Alphans from coming to
their planets, its inhabitants have temporarily given them what they want,
just to get rid of these warhungry earthlings ... As usual, the
script is incredibly stupid & makes little sense for anyone thinking
in terms of logic ... which doesn't necessarily make this one an unfunny
episode, exactly for these reasons, & for the story's dead-serious
execution.
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