The Merchandise GuideVideo: US Laserdisc
Compiled by Martin Willey
The Merchandise Guide
A cluster of bizarre asteroids... a cave of unending images... a duplicate of John Koenig... aliens so powerful the universe faces destruction! Maya holds the key to this mysterious puzzle, but is she too late?
The moon drifts into a new and uncharted region of space full of bizarre jewel-like asteroids. In Main Mission Dr. Helena Russell, Maya and Tony Verdeschi begin to detect gradual power losses through the base.
Flight Lieutenant Alan Carter and Commander John Koenig leave to investigate the nearest asteroid and discover a crystallized surface - millions of facets reflecting multi-colored lights. Koenig spots a cave and leaves the Eagle to investigate. As he enters, he is confronted with hundreds of kaleidoscopic images of himself. He moves cautiously forward but becomes increasingly disoriented by the visual confusion. A high pitched noise suddenly grows into an intense shriek and Koenig falls to the ground into unconsciousness. The reflected images still stand and emit evil-looking beams of light from the eyes as the largest image steps out of the reflective surface onto the floor of the cave.
The duplicate Koenig fights his way back to the Eagle and Carter - unaware of what happened - takes off for Alpha. As the real John Koenig awakens, he finds himself a prisoner held by hundreds of distorting and changing shapes desperately trying to free themselves from their mirrored prisons.
In Main Mission the duplicate Koenig slowly goes berserk, destroying components of life support and essential equipment. Maya and Tony begin to suspect a behavior change and decide to investigate the asteroid for themselves. Little do they know the fate that awaits them in the mirrored caves. They must stop the images from breaking free - seeds of such destructive power that the universe itself faces total annihilation. Can Maya and Tony learn the secret before it is too late?!
MARTIN LANDAU as John Koenig
BARBARA BAIN as Dr. Helena Russell
Catherine Schell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maya
Tony Anholt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tony Verdeschi
Nick Tate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alan Carter
Zienia Merton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sandra Benes
Jeffery Kissoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. Ben Vincent
Executive Producer: Gerry Anderson Producer: Freddie Freiberger Screenplay by: John Goldsmith
Production Designer: Keith Wilson Special effects designed and directed by: Brian Johnson
Directed by: Kevin Connor
Color/Approx. Running Time: 52 Minutes
John and Tony are separated from Moonbase Alpha by hundreds of light years and in a diseased and feverish state, Maya loses control of her super powers! No one can stop the incredible creatures she transforms into!
Commander Koenig and First Officer Verdeschi are in Eagle One on their way to check out a strange derelict spaceship when Dr. Helena Russell reports a serious medical emergency: Maya has been stricken with a mysterious fever which Helena is unable to diagnose and which resists all her efforts to cure.
Suddenly Moonbase Alpha is gripped by a terrible shaking motion and disappears from Eagle One's screen. The moon has slipped through a space warp and has moved 500 light years away in a matter of minutes!
Eagle One's only hope is to find a "space window", pass through, and catch up with the moon. Meanwhile, in her feverish state Maya transforms herself into a ferocious alien creature and escapes, making her way towards the underground Eagle bay. Helena realizes that in her delirium, Maya is trying to return to her father on the planet Psychon - a planet that no longer exists.
Lasers, anaesthetic darts, not even gas can stop Maya/creature when she tries to launch an Eagle from an underground platform. In a spectacular explosion, the Eagle crashes into the roof of the Engineering section and Maya is dragged unconscious from the blazing Eagle. She then turns into the mightiest creature of all, brutally sweeping the Alphans aside.
Light years away, Eagle One has docked with the space derelict in the vain hope of finding something - anything - that can help them in their desperate plight. To their amazement, they find that the derelict was also the victim of the space warp. Dying from injuries as a result of an explosion, the alien Commander managed to leave taped instructions for finding the hole in space in case any other victim should find his ship. Scarcely able to believe their luck, Koenig and Verdeschi try to fix coordinates.
Back on Alpha, Maya, now an outer space creature, has smashed an airlock and escaped onto the moon's surface. Helena and Captain Alan Carter man a moonbuggy and give pursuit. They must catch her before her air runs out or before she regains her original form, in which case she will die immediately.
And on Eagle One, time slowly runs out as John and Tony try to decipher the complicated coded information, hoping that the coordinates will lead them through the space warp - and back to Moonbase Alpha.
MARTIN LANDAU as John Koenig
BARBARA BAIN as Dr. Helena Russell
Catherine Schell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maya
Tony Anholt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tony Verdeschi
Nick Tate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alan Carter
Zienia Merton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sandra Benes
Executive Producer: Gerry Anderson Producer: Freddie Freiberger
Screenplay by: Charles Woodgrove Production Designer: Keith Wilson
Special effects designed and directed by: Brian Johnson
Directed by: Peter Medak
Color/Approx. Running Time: 52 Minutes
Copyright Martin Willey. Thanks to James Poll.