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THE SEANCE SPECTRE

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Collision course with a gigantic planet! Moonbase Alpha must evacuate... but how long can they last adrift in space?

A gigantic planet is sighted on a direct collision course with the runaway moon. Commander Koenig and Maya immediately take off in Eagle One to investigate this ominous disaster. When Koenig orders Main Mission Control off limits, a small group of Alphans become very distressed. They believe that Koenig is withholding information and that the planet is habitable. Their leader, Sanderson accuses Koenig of being a dictator on the base and is deceiving the base to protect his authority. Koenig rejects this but decides to take a closer look at the planet having his Eagle tracked by the main computer so that everyone on the base can see what he finds.

Koenig orders Sanderson and crew to be confined to medical center but Sanderson breaks away and damages the computer readout forcing the Eagle to crash on the planet surface. Koenig and Maya find that the planet is a deserted wasteland with very little oxygen. On Alpha, First Officer Verdeschi and Capt. Alan Carter start the damaged engines by remote control and blast the Eagle back to Alpha.

Koenig decides that the only way to avoid a collision is to blast the moon off course by detonating the remaining nuclear waste dumps. In order to minimize loss of life, the entire base is evacuated into every operating Eagle. Meanwhile, Sanderson has escaped into a travel tube and prepares plans of his own. Maya and Koenig fly in Eagle One to the nuclear waste dumps to set up the explosives. As John triggers the timing device, Sanderson appears and shoots him with a laser and damages Eagle One. Now the fate of Alpha lies in the hands of this maniac.

MARTIN LANDAU as John Koenig
BARBARA BAIN as Dr. Helena Russell
Guest Stars: KEN HUTCHINSON as Sanderson
CAROLYN SEYMOUR as Eva

Catherine Schell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maya
Tony Anholt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tony Verdeschi
Nick Tate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alan Carter
Zienia Merton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sandra Benes

Executive Producer: Gerry Anderson Producer: Freddie Freiberger Screenplay by: Donald James
Production Designer: Keith Wilson Special effects designed & directed by: Brian Johnson
Directed by: Peter Medak

Color/Approx. Running Time: 52 Minutes

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DEVIL'S MOON

Compare with ITC summary.. The title here is the script title; the actual episode is named "Devil's Planet".

Commander Koenig is captured on a planet prison run by alien catwomen! He faces slow torture with one way out - the deadliest game of all - The Hunt!

Moonbase Alpha picks up a distress signal from a nearby planet, Ellna. Commander Koenig and Blake Maine of the Medical Rescue Team go to investigate. Flying low over the planet, they discover a magnificent city, but curiously, no sign of life. On landing, they find hundreds of dead bodies dressed in a peculiar uniform. Suddenly, a man appears from a transparent box. As he moves toward them in greeting, he crumples to the ground and dies.

Strange signals are picked up from the moon of the planet and Koenig decides to investigate. The Eagle mysteriously goes out of control and crashes. The two men crawl from the flaming wreckage and see a man - in the same uniform they saw on the planet - chased by three exotic alien catwomen carrying whips that send arcs of electricity through the air! The Alphans move in to help but Maine is hit by a whip and dies instantly. The women attack Koenig and capture him.

Koenig comes to in a prison cell, surrounded by prisoners who suspect him of being a spy planted by Elizia, overseer of this penal colony of the planet. The prisoners attack Koenig when he tells them that everyone on Ellna is dead. Elizia manages to calm the prisoners, assuring them that they all have a chance of returning home safe and sound The Hunt! - If any one prisoner can make it to the transfer station on foot, he will immediately be sent home.

Elizia has taken a sadistic fancy to Koenig but when she tries to seduce him, he escapes onto the open ground. Infuriated, Elizia orders her guards to bring back the dead body of John Koenig.

Reaching the wreckage of his Eagle, Koenig searches for weapons, something with which to fight back as the guards with their deadly whips close in all around him.

MARTIN LANDAU as John Koenig
BARBARA BAIN as Dr. Helena Russell
Guest Star: HILDEGARD NEIL as Elizia

Catherine Schell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maya
Tony Anholt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tony Verdeschi
John Hug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bill Fraser

Executive Producer: Gerry Anderson Producer: Freddie Freiberger
Screenplay by: Michael Winder
Production Designer: Keith Wilson Special effects designed & directed by: Brian Johnson
Directed by: Tom Clegg

Color/Approx. Running Time: 52 Minutes