The Production Guide
Episode Order
by Martin Willey

The episodes of Space: 1999 did not have a strict order, apart from the first episode of each series. The TV market at the time preferred individual self-contained episodes, which allowed companies to shuffle new episodes and repeats, while ITC saved money by creating a limited number of film prints that would circulate between stations.

Production Order

In production, episodes were assigned production numbers, which is the order that they started filming. This is somewhat complicated by re-shoots, which meant several episodes had significant sequences filmed weeks or months later (Breakaway, Missing Link, The Last Enemy and Space Brain). The last episode to be completed was episode 20, Space Brain.

Most later releases (DVD, Blu-ray) use this order. There are minor set and cast changes through the series which make more sense in this order.

Number	Screen Episode Title	Shooting Dates
1	Breakaway	5 November 1973 (SFX), 26 November 1973 (live rehearsals), 3 December 1973- 11 January 1974, 22 Feb- 1st March (live shooting)
2	Matter Of Life And Death	14 Jan -30 Jan 1974
3	Black Sun	31 Jan- 21 Feb 1974
4	Ring Around The Moon	4 Mar- 13 Mar 1974
5	Earthbound	15 Mar- 1 April 1974
6	Another Time, Another Place	2 April- 19 April 1974, 25 April 1974
7	Missing Link	22 April- 7 May 1974, 22 July 1974
8	Guardian of Piri	8 May- 24 May 1974
9	Force Of Life	28 May- 7 June 1974, 1 July- 5 July 1974
10	Alpha Child	8 July- 19 July 1974
11	The Last Sunset	23 July - 6 Aug 1974, 21 August 1974
12	Voyager's Return	7 August- 21 August 1974
13	Collision Course	27 Aug- 6 September 1974
14	Death's Other Dominion	9 September- 23 September 1974
15	The Full Circle	24 September- 8 Oct 1974
16	End Of Eternity	9 Oct- 23 Oct 1974
17	War Games	24 Oct- 8 Nov 1974
18	The Last Enemy	8 Nov- 19 Nov 1974, 25 Feb- 27 Feb 1975
19	The Troubled Spirit	20 Nov- 4 Dec 1974
20	Space Brain	5 Dec- 19 Dec 1974, 25 Feb- 28 Feb 1975
21	The Infernal Machine	20 Dec 1974- 9 Jan 1975
22	Mission Of The Darians	10 Jan- 23 Jan 1975
23	Dragon's Domain	24 Jan- 10 Feb 1975
24	The Testament Of Arkadia	11 Feb-25 Feb 1975

Suggested Transmission List

This is an ITC document with a recommended broadcast order, from Martin Landau's archives.

The order was created to introduce stronger episodes early in the run, to get audiences interested, and later mix weaker and stronger episodes so they wouldn't lose interest. Notably a number of later episodes get moved to the front, while early episodes are shifted back.

The UK stations (such as ATV in Birmingham and LWT in London) follow it fairly closely, especially at the start. In the US, the major markets seem to be influenced by it (New York, Los Angeles), but the nature of the US market made it too difficult to follow.

Television stations received the episodes on 16mm film reels (later on videotape), which were sent from station to station (a process called "bicycling"). Each station did not get a full set of episodes; less important stations got individual episodes in random order from other stations. In the UK, many ITV stations ran the series at the same timeslot (7pm Thursday) and could share the same feed, but later in the run they shifted timeslots and episode orders were shuffled by the same bicycling of film reels between stations.

Suggested Order	Screen Episode Title	Production Order	ATV Order	New York Order
1	Breakaway	1	1	1
2	Force Of Life	9	2	13
3	Collision Course	13	3	4
4	War Games	17	4	8
5	Death's Other Dominion	14	5	3
6	Mission Of The Darians	22	9	9
7	Another Time, Another Place	6	16	15
8	Dragon's Domain	23	8	2
9	Alpha Child	10	7	6
10	The Troubled Spirit	19	22	21
11	The Last Sunset	11	17	20
12	The Infernal Machine	21	18	14
13	Space Brain	20	21	16
14	Voyager's Return	12	6	11
15	Black Sun	3	10	10
16	End Of Eternity	16	12	5
17	Earthbound	5	14	18
18	Ring Around The Moon	4	19	22
19	The Testament Of Arkadia	24	23	24
20	Guardian of Piri	8	11	7
21	Matter Of Life And Death	2	13	12
22	Missing Link	7	20	19
23	The Full Circle	15	15	17
24	The Last Enemy	18	24	23