Amardeep's Year 1 Episode Guide
by Amardeep Chana

1. Breakaway -- Mishap hurls moon out of Earth's Orbit.
Special Features: Rescue Locator Beam for Eagle crashes. Stun gun & comlock close ups.
Notable Events: John Koenig crashes first Eagle in series.
Eagles Mentioned: 14; 2; 6; 1, 26; 1/6 (Commissioner's Eagle called one but numbered six)
Eagles Lost: 6 (JK crash), ? (Remote Controlled Monitoring Eagle crash), ? (Cargo Eagle hit by lightning), ? (Eagle docked to orbiting station lost in space/destroyed), ? ? ? (Three unaccounted for cargo Eagles probably destroyed)
People Lost: Collins, Eight Eagle pilots, Nordstrom, Frank Warren, Eric Sparkman
Notable Bloopers: Lightning in space, Earth & Moon illuminated inconsistently.

2. War Games -- Aliens mess with the Alphans' minds.
Special Features: Eagle pilot ejection mechanism. Eagle lasers.
Notable Events: Koenig mentions he is 9th Commander of Alpha.
Eagles Mentioned: none ?
Eagles Lost: Lots blown up, but it was all an illusion.
People Lost: 128 dead, but it was also an illusion.
Notable Bloopers: 2D paper Eagle blows up on launch pad.

3. Dragon's Domain -- Monster eats people. People don't believe survivor.
Special Features: Eagle modularity demonstrated. Laser rifle.
Notable Events: Alan beaten up twice. Loses comlock. Guns fired several times.
Eagles Mentioned: 1, 2, 3, 4
Eagles Lost: 1 (lost in space, except passenger module)
People Lost: Tony Cellini and three Ultra Probe crew members
Notable Bloopers: Eagle command modules have different shapes, Eagle 1/2 docks on right of probe but they enter through left door.

4. Force of Life -- Strange Ball of Light (blue) takes over an Alphan and freezes things.
Special Features: Big nuclear reactor door. Wrist monitors. Bergman's mechanical heart.
Notable Events: Victor's heart malfunctions.
Eagles Mentioned: none
Eagles Lost: none
People Lost: Nuclear technician Mark, unidentified woman, security guard
Notable Bloopers: TBD

5. The Black Sun -- Fictitious space phenomenon personifies MUF.
Special Features: Force field, anti gravity shields, Bergman's mechanical heart, Alpha News Service
Notable Events: Lots of 2001: ASO parallels
Eagles Mentioned: 1; 5 (survival ship)
Eagles Lost: 1 (blown up)
People Lost: Mike (Sandra's squeeze)
Notable Bloopers: TBD

6. Collision Course - Moon almost hits asteroid, successfully hits planet.
Special Features: Nuclear charges, Eagle cranes.
Notable Events: No drum roll going into credits, Koenig drugged and locked up, Mathias beaten up.
Eagles Mentioned: 29, 10, 11, 12, 1; 4
Eagles Lost: none, but 1 was damaged by nuke explosion
People Lost: none
Notable Bloopers: TBD

7. Death's Other Dominion -- Brian Blessed plays mad scientist who does bad things to Alphans.
Special Features: Comlock locator beam.
Notable Events: Victor gets zapped in a glass case.
Eagles Mentioned: 1
Eagles Lost: none
People Lost: none
Notable Bloopers: TBD

8. Alpha Child -- Aliens take over baby Alphan and make him grow really fast.
Special Features: Airlock (South Exit), armor piercing laser rifles.
Notable Events: Rapid stun gun firing, Mathias beaten up.
Eagles Mentioned: ?, ?, ?
Eagles Lost: none, but three were "stunned"
People Lost: Security guard shot by Koenig under Jarak's control
Notable Bloopers: TBD

9. Guardian of Piri -- Alien computer takes over Alpha computer and Alphans.
Special Features: Eagle docking tunnel, Victor's mechanical heart, Kano's brain implant, hand scanner, Eagle 'pods'.
Notable Events: Carter beaten up. Loses comlock.
Eagles Mentioned: 4/6 (marked 4 at first, then 6 after suspended in air); 24, 26, 27
Eagles Lost: 4/6 (left hovering over Piri)
People Lost: Susan (Red head getting "transfusion")
Notable Bloopers: Eagle 24 shown with 'pods' when landing on Alpha. It didn't have any at liftoff or during mission.

10. Earthbound -- Aliens visit Alpha and get hijacked by Commissioner Simmonds.
Special Features: Round Eagle docking tunnel/vacuum chamber, "Lunar Time" display.
Notable Events: Eagle modularity demonstrated, Koenig slaps Carter on arm.
Eagles Mentioned: 1/6 (called 1 but marked 6); 2
Eagles Lost: none
People Lost: Simmonds presumed to die
Notable Bloopers: Alien sits up and another turns to look at Simmonds when he goes spastic.

11. Mission of the Darians -- Joan Collins plays an alien whose people are cannibals.
Special Features: TBD
Notable Events: Carter beaten up. Loses comlock.
Eagles Mentioned: 1
Eagles Lost: none
People Lost: Lowry (recycled)
Notable Bloopers: TBD

12. End of Eternity -- Big, immortal alien menaces Alpha.
Special Features: Airlock, Victor's anti-matter disintegrator apparatus.
Notable Events: Six security guards beaten up.
Eagles Mentioned: ? (landing on asteroid); ? (destroys asteroid)
Eagles Lost: none
People Lost: Mike Baxter (brain melt), medical orderly (broken spine)
Notable Bloopers: TBD

13. Voyager's Return -- An Earth launched space probe encounters Alpha after 15 years of deep space exploration. Aliens tag along to provide an action/adventure sub-plot.
Special Features: Vacuum tubes (a.k.a. valves) still play a major role in 1999's technology. Launch pad shown lowering only part way. Alpha lighting panels colored green. Launch pad 4.
Notable Events: Koenig slaps Carter on the arm.
Eagles Mentioned: 1,2; 6,9,10; 5; 4,6,10
Eagles Lost: 2 (blown up), 1 (damaged by fast neutrons)
People Lost: Steve Abrams
Notable Bloopers: Lightning in space, Earth & Moon illuminated inconsistently.

14. Matter of Life and Death -- Dr. Russell's husband returns and makes Koenig jealous, but she maintains her cool exterior.
Special Features: Anti-matter. Water analyzer. Alpha panels are white.
Notable Events: Short sequence of funky '70s music. Sandra screams. Mathias beaten up.
Eagles Mentioned: 1/6; 2
Eagles Lost: none
People Lost: none, but several got fried pretty good.
Notable Bloopers: TBD

15. The Infernal Machine -- A misguided mechanoid tries to use Alpha as a gas/food/lodging stop. Little does he realize that Alpha is not a full service station.
Special Features: Space Tanks! White Alpha panels.
Notable Events: Alan *recovers* a comlock. Two tanks and one launch pad blown up.
Eagles Mentioned: 1,2; 4
Eagles Lost: 1,2 suffer superficial damage. Three unidentified ships blown up.
People Lost: 3-6 Eagle crew and 2-4 tank crew.
Notable Bloopers: TBD

16. Another Time, Another Place -- Alphans get duplicated in a Twilight Zonish episode of drama complete with extra MUF.
Special Features: Alpha navigation beacon.
Notable Events: Koenig and Carter meet their dead selves. Helena kills herself. Sandra screams. Mathias gets thumped.
Eagles Mentioned: ?/6
Eagles Lost: none
People Lost: Regina.
Notable Bloopers: TBD

17. Ring Around the Moon -- Weird orange ball shows up causes brain melt. Some claim the worst episode of season I.
Special Features: Anti-gravity shields.
Notable Events: Carter crashes Eagle 3. Short sequence of funky '70s music during cross moon trek.
Eagles Mentioned: 3; 1; 1
Eagles Lost: 3 crashed. All but 4 eagles damaged in bays.
People Lost: Ted Clifford (brain melt), Donavan (Carter's copilot syndrome)
Notable Bloopers: Separated command module's interior showed service tunnel still attached.

18. The Missing Link -- Aliens kidnap Koenig to use him as a lab rat. Koenig tries to score with Alien's daughter and they let him go.
Special Features: View of baffles in Eagle's rocket nozzles. Airlock West. Command module separation. Cargo Eagle. Launch pad 7 mentioned.
Notable Events: Carter crashes Eagle 1. Mathias gets thumped.
Eagles Mentioned: 1/4; 4; 7 (later marked 6).
Eagles Lost: 1 (crashed)
People Lost: none
Notable Bloopers: Separated command module's interior showed service tunnel still attached. "KEONIG" misspelled on medical monitor.

19. The Full Circle -- Alphans turn into cavemen and behave like Alphans.
Special Features: Alpha panels colored green. Sandra in cavewoman outfit.
Notable Events: Carter falls into a tiger pit, gets beaten up, and loses comlock. Sandra screams many many many times. Alan noticeably preoccupied with Sandra. David Kano leaves the base voluntarily.
Eagles Mentioned: 6; 1,2; 3
Eagles Lost: none
People Lost: Santos (Eagle 6 pilot died of heart failure as a caveman)
Notable Bloopers: Koenig's bruise is missing in episode wrap-up scene.

20. The Last Sunset -- The moon gains a biosphere and Paul goes on a trip.
Special Features: Explosive gas cylinders. Proatic (?) acid. Alpha panels are green. Number of serviceable Eagles mentioned to be 27. Sliding glass windows on Alpha. Launch pads 1,3,4,5 mentioned.
Notable Events: Carter crashes Eagle 28. Helena is throttled, Carter's beaten up, Morrow's clobbered, Mathias lucks out. 5 Eagles have stabilizer failures.
Eagles Mentioned: 2,7; 28; 1,9,12,24,14; 15; 4
Eagles Lost: 28 (crashed then exploded), ? (Koenig's crash)
People Lost: none
Notable Bloopers: TBD

21. Space Brain -- Gigantic organ falls prey to John Koenig's interstellar killing spree.
Special Features: Shave cream. Space walk back pack. Remote control Eagle. Launch pads 3,4 mentioned. Gravity control.
Notable Events: Mathias gets a licking. Alpha damaged by meteor impact. No drum roll going into title sequence.
Eagles Mentioned: 1; 4 (rescue Eagle); ? cargo Eagle; ? nuclear Eagle; 7 ("fastest" Eagle)
Eagles Lost: 1 (crushed by shave cream), ? (nuclear Eagle crashed)
People Lost: Wayland & Costeau (crushed Eagle 1 crew). Kelly (smothered by shave cream)
Notable Bloopers: Koenig's Eagle actually crashed and nuclear Eagle pulled away.

22. The Troubled Spirit -- Weird guy with plant fetish is haunted by his own ghost.
Special Features: Orange Alpha panels. Victor's death field.
Notable Events: Sixties style guitar concert.
Eagles Mentioned: none
Eagles Lost: none
People Lost: Warren, Laura (killed by ghost), Dan Mateo (killed by Victor's death field)
Notable Bloopers: TBD

23. The Testament of Arkadia -- MUF causes moon to stop and freeze over. Two Alphans decide to get back to nature at the expense of destroying Alpha.
Special Features: Reference Library. Protein Store. Tracking beam. Unarmed Survey Eagle. Ship to ship docking. Alpha panels are orange. Subspace frequency.
Notable Events: No drum roll going into title sequence.
Eagles Mentioned: 1; 4; 2 (unarmed Survey Eagle); 3,5 (persuit Eagles)
Eagles Lost: 4 (stayed on Arkadia)
People Lost: Luke Ferro and Anna Davis (stayed on Arkadia.)
Notable Bloopers: TBD

24. The Last Enemy - Women in tight leather clothes bring woe to Koenig and Alpha.
Special Features: Sandra's quarters. Exploding moon buggies. "Pod" Eagles. "Ultrasonic Magnetic Distortion". Launch pad 10 mentioned. Orange alpha panels.
Notable Events: Helena gets jealous of Dione hitting on John.
Eagles Mentioned: 5, 2, 1
Eagles Lost: none
People Lost: none
Notable Bloopers: TBD


MUF = Mysterious Unknown Force (plot element in Season I)
TBD = To Be Determined
TLA = Three Letter Acronym :)