Catacombs International Guide
Space 1999 In New Zealand

New Zealand

Among the New Zealand cast for Space: 1999 were Pamela Stephenson, Anouska Hempel, James Laurenson, Robert Reeves and Lisa Harrow.

New Zealand television, TV1, began in 1960; it was state owned, but showed commercials. A second TV channel, TV2, was launched in 1975. Both TV1 and TV2 switched to colour later that year.

Year One

Space: 1999 started on TV1 at the end of February 1976. The slot was on Saturday evenings, at 7pm after the news. On the same day, TV2 had been showing Thunderbirds at 4:40pm.

The following listings come from the New Zealand Listener weekly magazine (thanks to Patrick Te Pou, source). There are some oddities, notably that the series starts by showing Breakaway twice. Possibly the first showing on 28 February 1976 was pre-empted, perhaps by the Nelson by-election that day. All other year 1 episodes seem to have been shown without pre-emptions.

Year 1 finished in August 1976 (from 21 August, the slot went to Morecombe and Wise, and later Donny and Marie).

Year Two

The second series launched in February 1977, this time on Wednesday evenings. After 11 episodes, in mid-April 1977, it stopped, replaced by BBC hospital soap Angels. It restarted in a later Tuesday slot on 27 December, but stopped again after 7 episodes. It was replaced by It Ain't Half Hot Mum and When the Boat Comes In.

While the show was on hiatus, TV1 showed UFO (on Fridays from 21st July 1978)

The final 6 episodes of Space: 1999 began on Fridays from 29 December 1978, running after Coronation Street (and against Dr Who on TV2). When the series finished in February, it was replaced by CHiPs.

From the New Zealand Listener listings, there were 24 year 2 episodes shown, but two are listed twice, suggesting they were swapped for other episodes; 3 others were not titled. The 5 unknown episodes are Brian The Brain, New Adam New Eve, Catacombs of The Moon, The AB Chrysalis and The Beta Cloud.

Production Order	Episode	Original broadcast	Comments
1	Breakaway	Sat, 28 Feb 1976 7:00PM	Possibly pre-empted by the Nelson by-election.
1	Breakaway	Sat, 06 Mar 1976 7:00PM
2	Matter Of Life And Death	Sat, 13 Mar 1976 7:00PM
21	The Infernal Machine	Sat, 20 Mar 1976 7:00PM
23	Dragon's Domain	Sat, 27 Mar 1976 7:00PM
24	The Testament Of Arkadia	Sat, 03 Apr 1976 7:00PM
18	The Last Enemy	Sat, 10 Apr 1976 7:00PM
22	Mission Of The Darians	Sat, 17 Apr 1976 7:00PM
19	The Troubled Spirit	Sat, 24 Apr 1976 7:00PM
20	Space Brain	Sat, 01 May 1976 7:00PM
17	War Games	Sat, 08 May 1976 7:00PM
16	End Of Eternity	Sat, 15 May 1976 7:00PM
15	The Full Circle	Sat, 22 May 1976 7:00PM
14	Death's Other Dominion	Sat, 29 May 1976 7:00PM
13	Collision Course	Sat, 05 Jun 1976 7:00PM
12	Voyager's Return	Sat, 12 Jun 1976 7:00PM
10	Alpha Child	Sat, 19 Jun 1976 7:00PM
11	The Last Sunset	Sat, 26 Jun 1976 7:00PM
9	Force Of Life	Sat, 03 Jul 1976 7:00PM
8	Guardian Of Piri	Sat, 10 Jul 1976 7:00PM
7	Missing Link	Sat, 17 Jul 1976 7:00PM
6	Another Time, Another Place	Sat, 24 Jul 1976 7:00PM
5	Earthbound	Sat, 31 Jul 1976 7:00PM
4	Ring Around The Moon	Sat, 07 Aug 1976 7:00PM
3	Black Sun	Sat, 14 Aug 1976 7:00PM	Final episode of Year 1
25	The Metamorph	Wed, 02 Feb 1977 7:00PM	Year 2 starts, new Wednesday slot
26	The Exiles	Wed, 09 Feb 1977 7:00PM
27	One Moment Of Humanity	Wed, 16 Feb 1977 7:00PM
28	All That Glisters	Wed, 23 Feb 1977 7:00PM
29	Journey To Where	Wed, 02 Mar 1977 7:00PM	Possibly swapped for another episode (see 27 December).
30	The Taybor	Wed, 09 Mar 1977 7:00PM	Possibly swapped for another episode (see 3 January 1978).
31	The Rules Of Luton	Wed, 16 Mar 1977 7:00PM
32	The Mark Of Archanon	Wed, 23 Mar 1977 7:00PM
	?	Wed, 30 Mar 1977 7:00PM
	?	Wed, 06 Apr 1977 7:00PM
	?	Wed, 13 Apr 1977 7:00PM	Last episode for 9 months.
29	Journey To Where	Tue, 27 Dec 1977 7:30PM	Series returns with Tuesday slot
30	The Taybor	Tue, 03 Jan 1978 7:30PM
37	Seed Of Destruction	Tue, 10 Jan 1978 7:30PM
39	A Matter Of Balance	Tue, 17 Jan 1978 7:30PM
40	Space Warp	Tue, 24 Jan 1978 7:30PM
43	The Lambda Factor	Tue, 31 Jan 1978 7:30PM
44	The Seance Spectre	Tue, 07 Feb 1978 7:30PM	Last episode for 10 months.
41	The Bringers Of Wonder part 1	Fri, 29 Dec 1978 7:30PM	Series returns with Friday slot.
42	The Bringers Of Wonder part 2	Fri, 05 Jan 1979 7:30PM
45	Dorzak	Fri, 12 Jan 1979 7:30PM
46	Devil's Planet	Fri, 19 Jan 1979 7:30PM
47	The Immunity Syndrome	Fri, 26 Jan 1979 7:30PM
48	The Dorcons	Fri, 02 Feb 1979 7:30PM	Final episode.