Episode GuideITC Press Release: The Taybor
Episode GuideSYNOPSIS
A boisterous, flamboyant, larger-than-life trader from Hyper-space makes a remarkable appearance on the moon - and falls in love with Maya.
Taybor (WILLOUGHBY GODDARD) is an extraordinary figure, garbed in outlandish clothes which might have come straight from the Arabian Nights, his manner flamboyant and with the salty tang of a seafarer whose conversation is tinged with nautical expressions.
He materializes on the Moon, with his weird and wonderful spaceship the SS Emporium safely anchored, and announces that he is a trader from Hyper-space. Through scanning the Moon for sometime, he seems to know everyone by sight and by name - Cmdr. John Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU), Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN), Alan Carter (NICK TATE), Tony Verdeschi (TONY ANHOLT), Maya (CATHERINE SCHELL) and everyone else he encounters.
Taybor has come to trade, but from the outset it seems that his greatest interest is in Maya. When Koenig asks him about his remarkable craft and how he reached the Moon, he explains that it has a switch-on set destination co-ordinator which enables him to reach anywhere in the universe. The jump-drive process immediately interests Koenig, who realises that if Taybor will trade its secret and the Moon's Eagle crafts can be equipped with it, all the alpha personnel can be transported to a habitable planet, even back to Earth itself.
He even offers the Moon and all its equipment in exchange, but Taylor is at first suspicious and evasive; he insists on taking Koenig to the Emporium and dazzles him with his wonderful collection of beautiful things. Koenig's colleagues have reached a state of alarm at his mystifying disappearance into the strange dimension - or maybe non-dimension of Hyper-space when he and Taybor return just as suddenly and inexplicable.
By now, Taybor has decided to reach a deal. He bargains the secrets of his jump-drive in exchange for Maya!
Koenig is not even willing to discuss this possibility, but Helena comes up with a solution. Will Taybor accept a duplicate Maya - a model of herself brought to life by Maya, which will never grow old, will always be beautiful?
Taybor, in between trading with members of Alpha, decides to accept the offer but double-crosses and takes the real Maya. On board his flying cargo ship, she has no way of escape and no hope of rescue. But Taybor, the lover of beauty, has reckoned without her miraculous powers of transformation. He finds himself facing a hideous, outsize old hag, and a future with this repulsive-looking creature unless he lets her go!
"SPACE 1999" - SERIES II
CAST LIST
EPISODE NO. 7 - "THE TAYBOR" DIRECTOR: BOB BROOKS
KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU
HELENA - BARBARA BAIN
MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL
VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT
ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE
YASKO - YASUKO NAGAZUMI
DR. BEN VINCENT - JEFFERY KISSOON
1ST OPERATIVE/BARBARA - SARAH BULLEN
TAYBOR - WILLOUGHBY GODDARD
KAREN - LARAINE HUMPHRYS
THIRD GIRL - VICKI MICHELLE
ANDREWS - MEL TAYLOR
MODEL GIRL 1 - JENNY CLARE
MODEL GIRL 2 - CHAI LEE
MODEL GIRL 3 - PENNY PRIESTLY
FRASER - JOHN HUG
SLATTENLY WOMAN - RITA WEBB
Thanks to Allen Barnella