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Compiled by Martin Willey

THE RULES OF LUTON

Compare with ITC summary. There is nothing in the episode about "a fate so horrible, it can only happen once in a 1000 years".

Maya and John battle three grotesque aliens in an arena the size of an entire planet! Only the winners will leave alive... the losers must face a fate so horrible, it can only happen once in a thousand years!

Dr. Helena Russell has picked up a medium-sized planet on her sensors. All indications point to a surface rich in vegetation and Commander John Koenig, Maya and First Officer Tony Verdeschi head to the planet for a survey. On contact with the surface, Eagle 1 develops an oxygen leak and Tony leaves Maya and John to continue with analysis while a replacement Eagle is obtained.

Unknowingly, Maya uproots some flowers only to hear screams of agony and a thunderous voice, "Cannibals... murderers... you shall be punished!"

With a flash of light, Maya and John are transported to a large arena where they face three horrible aliens. These aliens also accidentally committed murder by eating some of the vegetation and now must fight to the death for freedom.

Totally repulsed, completely out of touch with Alpha and without weapons, Maya and John escape into the dense jungles. If they can kill the three aliens, they will be free to return to Alpha. It is now a deadly game of cat and mouse. When John is wounded by an alien spear and Maya is caught in the ravenous clutches of another alien, the odds change... for the worse!

MARTIN LANDAU as John Koenig
BARBARA BAIN as Dr. Helena Russell
Guest Stars: DAVID JACKSON as Alien
GODFREY JAMES as Alien
ROY MARSDEN as Alien

Catherine Schell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maya
Tony Anholt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tony Verdeschi

Executive Producer: Gerry Anderson Producer: Freddie Freiberger
Screenplay by: Charles Woodgrove
Production Designer: Keith Wilson Special effects designed & directed by: Brian Johnson
Directed by: Val Guest

Color/Approx. Running Time: 52 Minutes

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THE TAYBOR

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Greetings from the space Jack-of-all trades! TAYBOR - The mystical outer space sultan whose magical tricks prove to be the undoing for Moonbase Alpha.

A rainbow-colored spaceship carrying the most unusual man in all the galaxies lands on Moonbase Alpha. It is the S.S. Emporium, and its captain introduces himself: "Taybor's the name - trading's my game!"

He has the most fantastic and unusual things to trade - magical objects, extraordinary mechanical devices and marvelous things of beauty, but most important, a device which could possibly take the Alphans through hyperspace and back to Earth. It is that "jump-drive" device which Koenig desperately wants.

In return for his "jump-drive" device, Taybor wants only one thing - Maya, the enchanting, beautiful resident Alien of Moonbase Alpha. Commander John Koenig convinces Taybor that instead of taking Maya, he should accept a model of Maya, sculpted by Helena. The model, John says, will never grow old, will always be a thing of beauty, and will keep the lonely Taybor company throughout his days in space. Taybor reluctantly agrees but is really planning an evil space peddler's trick.

He lures Maya to his spaceship and suddenly disappears with her into hyperspace. Maya attempts to escape by using her powers of molecular transformation and becomes a variety of vicious space creatures, but Taybor also is possessed with incredible powers. He freezes the menacing Maya in a forcefield and imprisons her.

Finally, Maya transforms herself into the one thing that Taybor would never allow himself to live with - an old, fat, toothless hag.

MARTIN LANDAU as John Koenig
BARBARA BAIN as Dr. Helena Russell
Guest Star:
WILLOUGHBY GODDARD as Taybor

Catherine Schell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maya
Tony Anholt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tony Verdeschi
Nick Tate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alan Carter
Jeffery Kissoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. Ben Vincent
John Hug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bill Fraser

Executive Producer: Gerry Anderson Producer: Freddie Freiberger Screenplay by: Thom Keyes
Production Designer: Keith Wilson Special effects designed & directed by: Brian Johnson
Directed by: Bob Brooks

Color/Approx. Running Time: 52 Minutes