Surprisingly enough, few articles on ITC Entertainment's
Space:1999 have appeared in professional magazines. The
expensive series lasted for two years, and during that time 47
episodes were aired (the second season entry, The Bringers
of Wonder, was a two-parter). This, the most lavish of
Gerry Anderson's British series, quickly gained a large
gathering of fans who religiously followed the exploits of
Moonbase Alpha every week.
This study deals with the women of that program-some of
whom were very sexy. The two resident heroines, Helena and
Maya, experienced some hairy times, but in addition, alien gals
turned up in almost every adventure. Many of them were played
by American and British stars, and most of the characters-while
beautiful-turned out to be evil. Nonetheless they were nice to
look at.
Helena Russell (Barbara Bain), Alpha's chief medical officer,
experienced some embarrassing things during her space career.
In "Another Time, Another Place, " she was part |
of a landing party that traveled to a duplicate - but devastated-Earth. There,
she encountered an older version of herself , who was presumed to be her
sometime in the future. Because of a number of second season occurrences,
this story is considered to have taken part in an alternate universe; therefore,
the characters found on the planet were not our heroes. Full Circle went
the opposite route, and showed her regressing into a cavewoman-type; she
never looked better. Her atomic structure was altered in Ring Around the
Moon, resulting in her teleportation to the planet Triton. Upon returning to
Alpha, she was under enemy control for a while. Early in the second season
entry, New Adam, New Eve, she was hypnotized into making out with
Tony Verdeschi (Tony Anholt) for purposes of mating with him. Fortunately,
this alien plot was interfered with by the arrival of a blue gorilla, who also
tried to make it with her. Finally, in One Moment of Humanity, a
"male" android who wanted |
