Year 1 - Episode 20
Screenplay by | Christopher Penfold |
Directed by | Charles Crichton |
Guest Artists | Shane Rimmer, Carla Romanelli |
Denmark | Rumhjernen | |
France/Canada | Cerveau spatial | Space Brain |
Germany | Wer programmiest Kelly? | Who Programs Kelly? |
Italy | Il cervello spaziale | The Space Brain |
Japan | Attack of the Huge Space Brain | |
Netherlands | Kosmisch Brein | Cosmic Brain |
Poland | Mozg kosmosu | |
Portugal | O Cérebro do Espaço | The Brain Of Space |
Spain | Cerebro del espacio | Space Brain |
South Africa | Ruimtebrein | Space Brain |
Alpha encounters an intangible mass as it heads though space...and towards disaster. Whatever the mysterious energy field might be, it possesses a strange and frightening power. ITC summary
Commander John Koenig | Martin Landau |
Doctor Helena Russell | Barbara Bain |
Professor Victor Bergman | Barry Morse |
Kelly | Shane Rimmer |
Melita | Carla Romanelli |
Paul Morrow | Prentis Hancock |
Alan Carter | Nick Tate |
Sandra Benes | Zienia Merton |
David Kano | Clifton Jones |
Doctor Bob Mathias | Anton Phillips |
Wayland | Derek Anders |
Tanya Aleksandr | Suzanne Roquette |
Main Mission Operative Lee (Oswald) | Loftus Burton |
Main Mission Operative Ann | Ann Maj-Britt |
Main Mission Operative Kate | Sarah Bullen |
Main Mission Operative | Jacqueline Delhaye |
Main Mission Operative | Laurie Davis |
Main Mission Operative | Mike Stevens |
Alphan | Alan Harris |
Main Mission Operative | Andy Dempsey |
Main Mission Operative | Lesley Stamps |
Nurse | Judith Hepburn |
Nurse B | Diana Reeves |
Nurse C (NOT SEEN) | Erica Svenson |
Patient (NOT SEEN) | Carol Dee |
Cousteau | James Snell |
Security Guard (Tony Allan) | Tony Allyn |
Security Guard (Pierce Quinton) | Quentin Pierre |
Technician | Michael Sirett |
Technician | Robert Atiko |
Stunts | Eddie Stacey Joe Dunne Marc Boyle Dorothy Ford |
Int. Main Mission
Int. Command Office
Int. Alpha Corridor
Int. Kelly's Quarters
Int. Medical/Observation
Int. Technical
Int. Computer Room
Int. Eagle Pilot Section
Int. Eagle Passenger Section
Ext. Space (spacewalk)
The Computer Room originally appeared in Black Sun with some slight differences.
3 fatalities, Cousteau, Wayland, Kelly.
In the script cast list and some publicity material, Melita is listed as "Melita Janni" - although the surname is never used in dialogue. They are married (Koenig talks to her about "her husband"), so it is possible that Kelly is a forename; alternatively Melita may use her maiden name.
Eagle 1 (Wayland and Cousteau, destroyed); 4 (Rescue); 7 (Koenig, fastest); remote Eagle (crashed); cargo Eagle
None
Space brain
During the space-walk, the stripes on the rescue pod are gone.
Several publicity shots exist of a fight between Kelly and Alan Carter in the Eagle cabin. This makes no sense in the context of the episode (as rewritten) and is not seen in the final print.
Carla Romanelli and (partially hidden behind Barry Morse) Troubled Spirit star Giancarlo Prete with the Main Mission crew. Probably shot on the first day of shooting, 5 December 1974, when Prete was still filming his final scenes of the previous episode. Picture thanks to Mark Spalding.
The microcosm meets the macrocosm. The universe that the single complex cell of Alpha moves as itself only the interior of a brain that was huge beyond comprehension. It's a science fiction idea I find appealing, that within ourselves other universes exist.
Two shots on the Carlton DVDs are in widescreen (with black borders top and bottom). They are zoomed in on the Network DVDs, cropping the sides of the shot.
Contents copyright Martin Willey