Moonbase Alpha Technical Notebook
Season 2

3. One Moment of Humanity (Originally Titled "One Second of Humanity") Screenplay: TONY BARWICK Director: CHARLES CRICHTON	4. Journey to Where Screenplay: DONALD JAMES Director: TOM CLEGG
Zamara and Zarl need Tony and Helena to teach them the ways of expressing violent emotions. The androids seek to kill their human creators but lack the knowledge of violence.	The time warp has thrown the Alphans back to medieval Scotland, during the days of the dreaded Black Plague. Scots tribesmen capture them, mistake Helena's cold for the Plague, and prepare to burn them all.
Without warning, the power throughout Alpha dies. In a flash of light Zamara, of the planet Vega, appears in Command Center demanding that two Alphans return with her to Vega. If they do, Alpha's power will be returned. Helena and Tony are the ones chosen to teleport back to Vega. There, they discover that Zamara and her poeple are a race of superandroids and, what the pair at first assume are robots, are really the Vegan humanoids. The Vegans wear their robot guise because the androids learn from observation. The automatons want to destroy the humanoids. However, they have never seen violent emotions before and cannot, therefore, express them. That is the purpose of bringing Helena and Tony over. Failing to elicit the needed reactions from the two Alphans, Zamara brings Koenig and Maya over. A male android, Zarl, seduces Helena in front of Koenig who attacks the android in a jealous rage. They have seen; they have learned. Now they can kill. Zamara: BILLIE WHITELAW Zarl: LEIGH LAWSON Number Eight: GEOFFREY BAYLDON	From out of the void comes a voice call- ing from Texas City, planet Earth! A breakthrough in neutronic technology has allowed not only audio-visual contact, but will allow the Alphans a chance to be transported home via teleportation. Koenig, Helena and Alan are the first to enter the transference beam, but an earth- quake on Earth damages the equipment and the trio find themselves displaced in space and time. They soon discover that they are on Earth in Scotland, and the year is 1339. Hostile tribesmen capture them, but because Helena is sick with a fever, the Scotsmen think they have the Black Plague and prepare to burn the trio. Unless Maya can track them by their bio- monitors, Texas City cannot bring them back! Dr. Logan: FREDDIE JONES Carla: ISLA BLAIR MacDonald: ROGER BIZLEY Jackson: LAURENCE HARRINGTON