Peter Cushing as Raan Friends or foes? The famous an-
thropologist Raan (Peter Cushing)
from the planet Zeno; Commander
Dione (Caroline Mortimer) from the
planet Betha; and Captain Zantor
(Christopher Lee), a space fugitive.


to gain emotions tried the same sort
of thing. She certainly had a knack
for attracting weirdos.
   So much for Helena. The Alpha
Child
was the first--and only--baby
ever born on the moon after it left
Earth's orbit. Within hours, though,
he grew into a full-grown, rational
man because his body had been
taken over by an extraterrestrial
mentality. The child's mother (Cyd
Hayman) died soon afterward, and
her form was immediately possessed
by the mind of Rena, an alien wo-
man. Later, when the otherworld-
ers' enemies arrived in powerful
spaceships, the process was re-
versed; the newborn earthling be-
came a baby again, and his mother
returned to life, (don't ask me how)
and regained her own senses.
   Getting back to Another Time,
Another Place
, that episode also
featured Judy Geeson as a guest-
star. She was cast as Regina Kess-
lann. who suddenly became clairvoy-
ant when the Moon's passage
through outer space accelerated
tremendously. After predicting
their forthcoming orbit around the
parallel Earth, she claimed that she
was married to series regular Alan
Carter (Nick Tate). who hardly knew
her. She died soon afterward, and
X-rays revealed that she had two
separate brain patterns!
   What appeared to be the most
fascinating female of all turned up in
The Black Sun. As the moon was
irresistibly drawn into a black hole
in space, strange things began to
happen. Heroes John Koenig (Mar-
tin Landau) and Victor Bergman
(Barry Morse) aged prematurely,
and soon afterward they encoun-
tered a being that had the voice of
a women. Undoubtedly a vastly su-
perior being, she (?) told them a
little about the structure of
the cosmos. "It is a living being,"
she claimed, "and every star is a cell
in an incredibly vast brain." The enti-
ty added, "I am the known and the
unknown, the seen and the unseen.
All things come from me; I am not
part of them." Bergman inquired
whether she was God, but their hos-
tess did not answer. The two men





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