The Continuity GuideMoonbase Guide
by Martin Willey
The Continuity GuideThe wall units are very similar to those in the Year 1 configuration, but the room is smaller and there is no separation between the sleeping area and the living area. The single bed may be against any of three walls. No-one has double beds. Unlike Year 1, there is no communications post (although there is in Keith Wilson's set plan); the wall panel screens are used instead. There is no side door, so presumably occupants must go into the public corridor in search of the bathroom.
The room is seen in revamped format as a section of Medical Center in The Bringers Of Wonder part 1.
Koenig's quarters are seen in The Exiles, The Mark Of Archanon, and The Lambda Factor.
Publicity shot of Koenig's living quarters, with a very large sign by the door.
A big sign on the front door.
The view to the front door in Koenig's quarters. There are two cupboards adjacent to the door (more than in the Year 1 living quarters). Retained furniture includes the sofa and Pileo floor lamp.
The low table is a Mezzatessera. The white lamp is a Tatu lamp
Producer Fred Freiberger, designer Keith Wilson and director Ray Austin on the set during The Exiles
Koenig's quarters has, in The Exiles only, the wall screen with the text "Commander Koenig / Living Quarters". The same wall screen was seen in his quarters in Breakaway, and in the Command Office. This is the last time it is seen in the series.
A close-up of the screen.
The end wall in Koenig's quarters, with his contoured bed (and discarded sheets). Alongside the bed is a Sorella lamp on a Giano Vano Ruote bedside table. On the right is a Ribbon chair.
In Koenig's quarters, the wall is a mirror of the opposite wall, with communications unit and desk. On the desk is a Triumph-Adler Gabriele 2000 typewriter, just like Helena's in Dragon's Domain. Note the moon globe on the shelf.
Koenig's quarters (presumably) as seen in the end of The Mark Of Archanon. This is the end where the bed is normally positioned.
Koenig's quarters in The Lambda Factor. The comms wall panel and desk are in the standard positions; we don't see the facing wall.
Helena's quarters are seen in The Exiles, One Moment Of Humanity, and The Taybor.
The end wall in Helena's quarters, from The Exiles. We don't see where her bed is in this episode. This shot also reveals the rarely seen facing wall, although in the same episode there is one fake reverse shot (Helena and Maya are shot talking to each other with the same curved corner and cupboards behind them). When Maya transforms, we briefly see a Medical Center computer panel behind her, which is not on this set.
Helena's quarters in One Moment Of Humanity, with the contoured bed, now opposite the curved corner. Note the rarely seen coat stand, a design called Melpomene.
In The Taybor we see the same abstract design asOne Moment Of Humanity alongside the door.
You can just see Helena's "visible man" and "visible woman" models, first seen in her office in Breakaway.
Helena has two of her blue jackets hanging up, plus a couple of sets of Hampa Pak picnic trays. There's a red Tatu lamp on her shelf.
Close up of the communications unit
A longer view of the wall.
Note the bedside Sorella lamp.
We only see Maya's quarters in Seed Of Destruction
Maya's quarters in Seed Of Destruction.
Maya has a flat bed, not the normal contoured type. It is also a double bed, not a single bed. The beds may be positioned against any of the four walls.
The desk unit and a communications unit with two small screens are usually alongside each other.
On the wall adjacent to the communications screen is a pink panel with a print from the astronomical atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius, published in 1660. This print is also seen in the Recreation Center and Bergman's quarters
Tony's quarters appear in Catacombs Of The Moon and Matter Of Balance.
We see Tony's quarters in Catacombs Of The Moon. He has a contour bed, his beer machine machine, and an unusual chair and table. There is an ashtray on the table, so he must be a smoker.
Tony's quarters in A Matter Of Balance. The beer machine is in much the same place. There is a long brown sofa and two chairs.
Other living quarters seen are those of Carolyn Powell (The Lambda Factor), Shermeen Williams (Matter Of Balance), Dorzak (Dorzak), and Area 3 Living Quarters (Catacombs Of The Moon).
In A Matter Of Balance, Shermeen has a large plant pot on an Ara table.
Corner of Shermeen's quarters, with prints of plants. This set section may have been specially built for this shot, but if it represents the far end of the quarters, the comms wall panel is gone.
Carolyn's quarters from The Lambda Factor have only one cupboard; the second is a normal wall panel.
The "Area 3 Living Quarters" in Catacombs Of The Moon. The bed is in an unusual position, replacing the table, and an Alarm button has been added. These are not Osgood's quarters, perhaps belonging to one of the girls? (Perhaps not both, as it is a single bed). It reveals a rather serious security problem if anyone can get into someone else's bedroom.
The detention unit is a sparsely furnished room; contoured bed, two chairs and Stadio 120 table. There is no desk unit in this set. Even the cupboards have empty rails.
Unusually we see most of the facing wall, where the camera is normally positioned.
Dorzak's quarters have a little more furniture, including Melpomene hat-stand and Sorella bedside lamp. The desk wall panel is back. The bed is on the opposite wall to that in the Detention Unit.
Copyright Martin Willey