The Continuity Guide
Moonbase Guide
by Martin Willey

The Big Doors between the Command Office and Main Mission. When opening them partially, only the left hand panel slides open. When they open fully they split in the centre.

The view to Main Mission.

The staff around a Mezzatessera round table. The object overhanging them from the right is a Lucciola floor lamp.

The Command Office in the eerie light of the black sun. Furnishings include an Earth globe, two Throwaway sofas, the Toga chairs, Giano Vano Ruote telephone tables and a Mezzatessera round table.

The Command Office. Note the Communications Post and Selene chair

There is a collection of rocks on the glass shelves between the side doors, and various containers in the wall shelves. The chair, often seen to the side of Command Office, is a Vicario design, wider than the standard Gaudi seats.

Alongside Koenig's desk is a large Earth globe.

The sunken floor of the office. Windows look out over Alpha buildings.

A view of the Command Desk in front of the Main Mission doors. A Toga chair is in the foreground. When the Big Doors are open, the Command Desk may be moved forward, sometimes well into Main Mission (see early scenes in The Last Sunset)

A close up of the windows. Moonbase buildings are seen below, with the lunar hills beyond. Characters frequently peered out into the darkness of space.

The alternative configuration of the room featured a large conference table. It must be broken into parts to be removed and replaced by the Mezzatessera table. The chairs are Selene.

The conference table with the two doors visible beyond.

Another view towards the far wall, showing the communications post, with the "C" designation.

Another Command Conference; this view shows the communications post and the rarely used wall screen.

This wall screen almost always shows a test card design, but is used occasionally as here in Breakaway (other episodes include in Another Time, Another Place).

The normal wall screen display.

Note the crystals and gyroscope on Koenig's desk. This and the two white Kartell ash trays are the only decoration. Koenig sits on a Domani chair.

In Another Time, Another Place the screen is used again.

Command Desk screen with a screen-saver (looks remarkably like the Microsoft Windows 98 "Mystify" screen saver).

Another screen-saver. This is the only desk screen in Main Mission.

Command Desk keys, in front of the screen.

More Command Desk keys.

Koenig at work. The keyboard extension he is working on first appears in Another Time, Another Place

The side facing the Command Office is mainly used for paperwork.

A view from the Command Desk to the Earth globe and windows. The long white boxes on the desk are a Pio Manzu Kartell ash tray (orange versions appear in Command Center in Year 2).

View up to the globe, desk and doors.

The globe shows some interesting coastlines: Sweden is submerged in an enlarged Baltic Sea, but Finland and the Gulf of Finland is correct. In Africa, Cameroon is drowned by a large delta from the Bight of Biafra to Lake Chad. Small islands such as the Balearics, Crete, Cyprus and Socotra (off the horn of Africa in the Arabian Sea) are present and correct.

The Americas and Caribbean islands seem accurate. The Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake in the North West Territories of Canada are visible. There are two lakes in the south west US, one of which must be the Great Salt Lake in Utah and the other may be Utah Lake (a little larger and more distant from the Great Salt Lake than in reality). Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, South America, is also clearly shown. Oddly the largest American lakes, the Great Lakes on the Canada United States border, are missing.

India, Thailand, Indonesia, China and Japan all seem fairly accurate.

North Vietnam is missing, as well as the southern peninsula of Thailand that connects to Malaysia. The southern hemisphere, including Australia, South America and South Africa, is permanently hidden by the globe's mounting.

Matter Of Life And Death. The southern hemisphere, including most of Australia, south central South America and southern Africa, is permanently hidden by the globe's mounting. In this view Antarctica can just be discerned, painted in white. Thanks Craig Rohloff

Knocked onto its side, the globe reveals that the north polar icecap is painted on in white. Thanks Craig Rohloff

This publicity shot also shows the icecap. You can see the Finland and Norway around a large Baltic Sea that has drowned Sweden. The thin archipelago of Novaya Zemlya can be seen, and Svalbard, the Norwegian island shown here at the edge of the ice cap.

During the interrogation scene in Matter Of Life And Death, the Command Office is redressed slightly, with red lighting. The script does specify the Command Office location, but it's possible the redress was meant to suggest another location. The Earth globe and Command Desk are both gone, as are the tubes on the shelves.