The Catacombs The Production Guide
Sets
by Martin Willey

Most of the Alpha sets were on Pinewood stage L; most alien sets were on stage M. Occasionally other stages at Pinewood were used, such as the North Tunnel and stage H.

A few episodes used location filming, on the Pinewood backlot, nearby Black Park, and a landfill site in Knowl Hill.

In Year 1, the only standing set was Main Mission/Koenig's office. All other Alpha sets would be broken down and reassembled each episode. The travel tubes, corridors and Eagle interiors plus several Alpha sets would often be found on different stages.

In Year 2, more standing sets were built around the corridor set. Some of the standing sets were revamped as other rooms during the series, as the Command Office set had been for a few year 1 episodes.

The Year 2 standing sets on Pinewood stage L.

Year One Sets

Number Screen Episode Title Main Mission/ Command Office Living quarters Eagle Other Moonbase sets Alien sets
1 Breakaway

Koenig's

Flight Control

Helena's Office

Medical Isolation & observation area

Disposal Area 2 surface

Monitoring Depot room & corridor

2 Matter Of Life And Death

Helena's

Autopsy Room

Care Unit 3

Victor's quarters

Planet surface

3 Black Sun Command Office revamped as Main Power Unit

Kano's

Paul's

Computer Room

Intensive Care Unit

Victor's quarters (as #2)

Lunar surface with tower

Interior Black Sun

4 Ring Around The Moon

not seen

Care Unit 3 (as used in #2)

Victor's quarters (as #2, #3)

Airlock

Lunar surface

Interior Triton ship

5 Earthbound

Steps added

Command Office revamped as Main Power Unit

not seen

Medical Centre

Interior Kaldorian ship

6 Another Time, Another Place Kano's desk added

not seen

Diagnostic Unit

Autopsy Room (revamp of Diagnostic Unit)

Earth surface

Interior living unit.

7 Missing Link Command Office revamped as Diagnostic Unit

Koenig's

Computer in passenger module

Airlock

Interior Zenno

Lunar surface

8 Guardian of Piri

Koenig's

Diagnostic Unit

Piri surface

9 Force Of Life

Zoref's

Nuclear Generating Area 3

Intensive Care Unit

Medical Security Wing & observation area

Solarium

10 Alpha Child Wall panels change from white to green

not seen

Nuclear Generating Area (as used in #9)

Medical Centre & observation area

Victor's quarters (as #2, #3, #4)

Airlock

Lunar surface

11 The Last Sunset

not seen

Technical Section

Airlock north

Lunar surface

Exterior airlock (studio car park)

12 Voyager's Return

not seen

Experimental

Medical Centre

Interior Voyager

13 Collision Course

Koenig's

Medical Centre

Interior alien ship

14 Death's Other Dominion

not seen

not seen

Thule surface

Ice Palace

Shipyard balcony

Cave of Revered Ones

15 The Full Circle

not seen

Medical Centre

Retha surface (various locations)

Exterior of cave

Cave complex

16 End Of Eternity Wall panels change from green to yellow

Baxter's

Intensive Care Unit & observation area

Medical Centre

Airlock E

Asteroid surface

Asteroid tunnel

Asteroid living area

17 War Games Wall panels change to white or red

not seen

Medical Centre

Alien chamber

Space (spacewalk)

18 The Last Enemy Wall panels change to yellow or red

Sandra's

not seen

Dione's living quarters

Satazius bridge

19 The Troubled Spirit Wall panels white

not seen

not seen

Hydroponics Unit 2

Medical Centre & observation area

Auditorium

not seen

20 Space Brain Wall panels white or green

Kelly's

Technical Section

Computer Room (as #3)

Intensive Care Unit & observation area

Space (spacewalk)

21 The Infernal Machine Wall panels white

not seen

not seen

Interior Gwent

22 Mission Of The Darians Wall panels white

not seen

not seen

Daria entrance

Long Corridor

Wrecked corridor

Balcony

Bridge

Forest & Village

Darian Office

Gene Bank Room

Recovery Room

Spare Part Room

Various corridors

23 Dragon's Domain Wall panels white

Helena's

Cellini's

Technical Section

Medical Centre & observation area

Victor's quarters (as #2, #3, #4, #10)

Victor's 1996 lab

Ultra Probe

1996 Hospital Room

Dixon's Office

24 The Testament Of Arkadia Wall panels white

Command Office revamp as Gymnasium

not seen

Protein Store (corridor section only)

Reference Library (in darkness)

Arkadia surface

Cave

Year Two Sets

Screen Episode Title Command Centre Living quarters Eagle Power Room Weapons Room Medical Centre Other Moonbase sets Alien sets
1 The Metamorph

not seen

not seen

Grove of Psyche & Brain Transfer Room

Cell

Corridors

Cave complex

2 The Exiles

Koenig's

not seen

Underground Research Station

Golos Life Support Centre

Space

3 One Moment Of Humanity

Helena's

not seen

Vega garden

vega computer

Corridors

Caves

4 Journey To Where

not seen

As Transfer Dome

not seen

Texas City control room

Earth forest

Banquet room

Bonfire room

Cell

5 All That Glisters not seen

not seen

Elongated passenger section

not seen

not seen

not seen

not seen

Planet Surface

6 The Taybor

Helena's

Survey Equipment Room

Taybor's grand salon

Emporium hull (section)

Space (moonbuggy)

7 The Rules Of Luton

not seen

not seen

not seen

not seen

Planet surface

8 The Mark Of Archanon

not seen

As TechLab 3

& in rugby corridor

not seen

Caves

not seen

9 Brian The Brain

not seen

not seen

not seen

Planet surface

Interior Swift

Interior Mothership

10 New Adam, New Eve

not seen

not seen

not seen

not seen

Planet surface

Caves

11 The Catacombs Of The Moon

Tony's

Area 3

As Explosives Storeroom & as Medical Room

not seen

Catacombs

Lunar surface (bed)

12 The A B Chrysalis

not seen

not seen

not seen

Moon airlock/lift

Moon chamber

Planet chamber

Planet viewroom

13 Seed Of Destruction

not seen

not seen

not seen

not seen

Kalthon caves

14 The Beta Cloud

not seen

As Life Support

Hydroponic Section

Main electrical Unit

Techlab 5 & vacuum room

not seen

15 A Matter Of Balance

Shermeen's

Tony's

As Hydroponics

not seen

not seen

not seen

Forest & temple

Interior temple

16 Space Warp

not seen

not seen

not seen

Elevator

Flight Control

Airlock 7

Moonbuggy airlock

Lunar surface

Interior derelict

17/ 18 The Bringers Of Wonder

not seen

As Records Labs & corridors

not seen

not seen

Lunar surface

Pilot ship interior

Fuel store airlock

Monitoring dome lobby

Dome core

19 The Lambda Factor

Koenig's

Carolyn's

As Engineering

not seen

Recreation Centre

not seen

20 The Seance Spectre

not seen

As Computer Room

not seen

Elevator

Recreation Centre

Lunar surface

21 Dorzak

Dorzak's

As Sam's

not seen

not seen

Interior Croton ship

22 Devil's Planet

not seen

not seen

not seen

not seen

not seen

Ellna surface

Entra surface (crash site, sanctuary, gate area)

Entra throne room

security ward

cell

corridors

23 The Immunity Syndrome

not seen

not seen

not seen

not seen

not seen

Glider cockpit

Planet Surface (glades, camp)

Dome door

Interior dome

24 The Dorcons

Koenig's

not seen

not seen

Dorcon State Room

Dorcon Surgery

Operations Area

Various corridors

Ventilation Duct


Copyright Martin Willey