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Compiled by Martin Willey


SUNICRUST BREAD CARD SET (Sunicrust Bread)

Australia 1975

This was a set of 50 cards, each 5cm x 8 cm with colour photos.

These were inserted in Sunicrust bread with no wrapper; the protective vegetable oil coating has yellowed some cards.

The backs of cards were identical apart from the number. The card backs advertised "Alpha Shirts Plus Trip To Disneyland USA for 4 People". For an Alpha T-shirt you had to cut the bottom section from all 50 cards and send them to Sunicrust by November 14th 1975.
For the Disneyland competition you had to send a drawing of a "Space: 1999 spaceman" (there were 500 runners-up prizes of Timex calendar watches).
It mentions Melbourne's HSV-7 station which showed only one episode in 1975, Breakaway on Monday July 28th. HSV-7 had announced plans to show the series, but postponed it (the regular run began from Monday 23 February 1976), which must have surprised Sunicrust, who were promoting it on their cards. Other Australian stations (Sydney's ATN-7 and Canberra's CTC-7) showed the series in 1975, on different days.

There were some interesting and unusual photos, including a fairly high proportion of SFX shots, and some wildly inaccurate text descriptions: some examples below

Sunicrust card #11Astronauts searching for space fragments on Duplicate Moon.Ring Around The Moon
Sunicrust card #22Computer registering death of astronaut with mystery space disease.Breakaway
Sunicrust card #33Mission control showing computer security zone.Breakaway
Sunicrust card #44Commander Koenig fighting to regain control of Eagle, before crash landing.Breakaway
Sunicrust card #55Space pilot on control deck of an Eagle space ship.Breakaway
Sunicrust card #66Koenig's Eagle over smouldering nuclear waste area, which force him to crash.Breakaway
Sunicrust card #77 Eagle space ship, with atomic waste canister hit by fatal nuclear flash.Breakaway
Sunicrust card #88Removing canisters of atomic waste from underground silos, dark side of moon.Breakaway
Sunicrust card #99Professor Bergman using video communicator.Publicity
Sunicrust card #1010Earth's Space Research Centre orbiting the moon.Breakaway
Sunicrust card #1111Koenig's Eagle crashing on dark side of the moon.Breakaway
Sunicrust card #1212Eagle rocket ship in mid-space rescue mission.Publicity
Sunicrust card #1313Astronaut checking atomic leakage sensor ray.Breakaway
Sunicrust card #1414Deep-freeze on Moonbase Alpha, on collision course with Ultima Thule.Space Brain
Sunicrust card #1515Commander Koenig shooting pilot whose brain is damaged by atomic radiation.Breakaway
Sunicrust card #1616Moonbase Alpha crew member disintegrating after receiving intense radiation.Force Of Life
Sunicrust card #1717Commander Koenig and Dr.Russell on Terra Nova with space vehicle.Publicity, on Moon, not Terra Nova. Reversed
Sunicrust card #1818Two space astronauts, stricken by mystery illness suspected to be caused by radiation from Atomic Waste Disposal Area Two.Breakaway
Sunicrust card #1919Main computer keyboard frozen inoperative, as Moonbase nears Ultima Thule.Space Brain
Sunicrust card #2020Ray from Commander Koenig's gun shooting down crazed pilot, whose brain has been damaged by intense radiation.Breakaway
Sunicrust card #2121Confusion and debris on Moonbase Alpha, after atomic explosion.War Games
Sunicrust card #2222Attempt of crazed pilot to break pressurization of observation area.Breakaway
Sunicrust card #2323Space ship pilot with laser gun firing at invading Pirians.Alpha Child
Sunicrust card #2424Eagle ship removing atomic waste canisters.Breakaway
Sunicrust card #2525Stone-age people on planet Retha about to attack captive (Allan Carter).The Full Circle
Sunicrust card #2626Alpha personnel checking for Neutron pollution.Breakaway
Sunicrust card #2727Commander Koenig's living quarters on Moonbase Alpha.The Last Enemy, Dione's quarters on Betha.
Sunicrust card #2828Alpha crew destroying laboratory on ice planet (Ultima Thule).Death's Other Dominion
Sunicrust card #2929Monstrous live vegetation invading Eagle 5.Dragon's Domain, on Ultra Probe, not an Eagle
Sunicrust card #3030Astronauts exploring moon site, prior to setting up Moonbase Alpha.Ring Around The Moon
Sunicrust card #3131Commander Koenig and Dr.Russell on planet Kaldor.Matter of Life And Death on planet Terra Nova Reversed
Sunicrust card #3232Professor, Doctor and Commander trying to withstand G forces as moon is pulled out of orbit at supersonic speed.Another Time, Another Place
Sunicrust card #3333Title card and Moonbase Alpha.Publicity
Sunicrust card #3434Space ship Eagle blasting-off on probe of mystery planet.Publicity
Sunicrust card #3535Commander Koenig enjoying the wonders of the Space Museum.The Infernal Machine on Gwent; there is no space museum
Sunicrust card #3636General view of Moonbase Alpha, showing underground tubular duo-rail housing.Missing Link, Zenno, not Alpha
Sunicrust card #3737Checking magnetic field levels in atomic waste dump on dark side of moon.Breakaway
Sunicrust card #3838Professor Bergman and Commander Koenig attempting to simulate earth in space.Another Time, Another Place on Earth, not in space
Sunicrust card #3939A blinding nuclear explosion causes Earth's space research station to disintegrate.Breakaway
Sunicrust card #4040Atomic explosion, as seen from Eagle space ship.Breakaway
Sunicrust card #4141Underground duo-rail used as Alpha transit system.Publicity
Sunicrust card #4242Remote-control Eagle caught in magnetic force-field, about to be destroyed.Breakaway
Sunicrust card #4343Subterranean flight-deck of Eagle space ships.Earthbound
Sunicrust card #4444Moonbase Alpha bathed in glare from atomic explosion, which starts Breakaway.Alpha Child Reversed
Sunicrust card #4545Professor Bergman after attempted rescue of stranded space pilot.Black Sun
Sunicrust card #4646Checking forcefield reading in waste disposal dump.Breakaway
Sunicrust card #4747Professor Bergman and Dr. Russell discover cave of the living dead.The Testament of Arkadia
Sunicrust card #4848Command-crew mission control Moonbase Alpha.Publicity Reversed
Sunicrust card #4949Eagle crash-landing on mystery planet. Missing Link
Sunicrust card #5050Zoref requires intense atomic heat radiation for life, and in need, burns to death. Force of Life Reversed

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