The Continuity GuideMoonbase Guide
Furnishings
by Martin Willey
The Continuity Guide
The Eagle pilot seats also appear on Alpha, usually as examining seats in Medical (they are dentist seats in reality). Sometimes they have a beige fabric cover. The seats are first seen in the Medical Isolation room in Breakaway. The left arm rest is fixed, with a metal supporting rod underneath, while the right arm rest is movable (in The Troubled Spirit we see a chair with two supported arm rests; they were removable). On the right side are a series of sockets. The seat belts are not fixed to anything.
The seats are dentist chairs. The sockets on the right side are for attaching dental equipment such as a spittoon and tray tables. It is likely the production only had two chairs, moving one or both chairs to other sets as required.
Both seats are featured in the Eagle pilot section. The left arm-rest is supported by a metal bar; the right arm-rest is not (although the original dentist chair has metal bars on both sides).
In this shot from Alpha Child, the left arm rest has been removed.
In Year 1, the seats have a beige cover and usually each medical centre has both seats. In a few episodes they appear in the original black: Missing Link, Guardian Of Piri and Space Brain.
In Medical the seat has a large white base with metal wheels visible on top. This doesn't seem to be used in the Eagle version, although it does feature in other spaceship interiors.
In Year 2 the seat appears with a red cover, probably studio-fitted (it covers most of the sockets on the side). Later in the series, some quite loose red covers appear, removing the head rest and arm-rests. Normally only one seat appears; there are two in Mark of Archanon and Dorzak.
In Voyager's Return the seats belts are neatly wrapped behind the seats, but offering little security.
In Dragon's Domain, the seat is covered in yellow fabric.
This is a chair of the same model in a recreation of the Eagle set, for the 2024 convention. This seat has a metal support arm on the right; the series one rarely did. The head rest here has a long weighted sack that hangs over the back; the series seats have long thin fabric which is secured to the back with two pins, near the top of the head section and at the top of the main body.
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