Space 1999 Catacombs TV Times

LWT, original and repeat screenings. Older Gerry and Sylvia Anderson productions such as Thunderbirds, Joe 90 and UFO were still being shown on LWT and ATV in the mid-1970s, but had mostly dropped from other ITV regions.

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1975

TV Times	Episode	Original LWT broadcast
	UFO: The Long Sleep	Fri 28 March 1975 11:25pm The last show on the Good Friday holiday, apparently the only UFO episode for 1975. UFO appeared in various slots in 1974; in January at 10:30am Sundays, then the Saturday morning slot as part of Saturday Scene at 11:30am in summer, with a short run on Sundays at 1pm in September 1974 (following a run of Thunderbirds in the same slot that finished 1 September). It would not been seen again until February 1977.
	Thunderbirds: Trapped in the Sky	Sun 6 June 1975 12:30pm A short run of Thunderbirds on Sundays in summer 1975. Thunderbirds had a longer run in 1974, from Sunday 17 February (1:20pm, 1:10pm by April, 1pm in May), sometimes with Stingray stepping in when sport reduced the timeslot, with the last episode 1 September 1974. Joe 90 had a 1:30pm Sunday slot in November and December 1974.
	Thunderbirds: Thirty Minutes After Noon	Sun 29 June 1975 12:30pm
	Thunderbirds: Desperate Intruder	Sun 6 July 1975 12:30pm
	Breakaway	Sat, 6 September 1975 5:50pm
	Force of Life	Sat, 13 September 1975 5:50pm
	Collision Course	Sat, 20 September 1975 5:50pm According to these credits, guests include Alex Scott as Aarchon and Lawrence Trimble as Pilot Abrams (both to be seen later in Voyager's Return)
	War Games	Sat, 27 September 1975 5:50pm
	Death's Other Dominion	Sat, 4 October 1975 5:50pm Says the TV Times: This episode is a "couples" effort: the producer, the scriptwriters and the stars, Martin Landay and Barbara Bain, are husband-and-wife pairs.
	Voyager's Return	Sat, 11 October 1975 5:50pm According to these credits, John Hammil appears as Dominix and Eva Reuber-Staier as Jane (they were actually in Force of Life, but not credited when that was shown)
	Alpha Child	Sat, 18 October 1975 5:50pm The TV Times for London featured the series at the top of the page: Mystery man in the Moon
	Dragon's Domain	Sat, 25 October 1975 5:50pm
	Mission of the Darians	Sat, 1 November 1975 5:50pm The following programme changes from A Joke's a joke to the second series of Don't drink the water, a follow-up to On The Buses.
	Black Sun	Sat, 8 November 1975 5:50pm
	Guardian of Piri	Sat, 15 November 1975 5:50pm
	End of Eternity	Sat, 22 November 1975 5:50pm
	Matter of Life and Death	Sat, 29 November 1975 5:50pm
	Earthbound	Sat, 6 December 1975 5:50pm
	The Full Circle	Sat, 13 December 1975 6:25pm (last before Christmas, 6:25pm-7:25pm)

1976

	The Infernal Machine	Sat, 10 January 1976 11:30am In 1976 the show moves to Saturday mornings, as part of the Saturday Scene magazine for children, just before World of Sport. UFO had run in this slot in 1974, as did The Protectors.
	Ring Around the Moon	Sat, 17 January 1976 11:30am
	Missing Link	Sat, 24 January 1976 11:30am
	The Last Sunset	Sat, 31 January 1976 11:30am Barry Morse appears later that day in an episode of The Adventurer, with Catherine Schell
	Space Brain	Sat, 7 February 1976 11:30am
	The Troubled Spirit	Sat, 14 February 1976 11:30am
	The Testament of Arkadia	Sat, 21 February 1976 11:30am
	The Last Enemy	Sat, 28 February 1976 11:30am
	Another Time, Another Place	Sat, 6 March 1976 11:30am
	Thunderbirds: The Imposters	Sat, 13 March 1976 11:30am The first run of Space: 1999 has ended, passing the slot to 10 year old episodes of Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds
	Thunderbirds: Danger at Ocean Deep	Sat, 20 March 1976 11:30am
	Thunderbirds: Move and You're Dead	Sat, 27 March 1976 11:30am The second Thunderbirds is the last for a while, replaced by the Ron Ely Tarzan series from the mid-1960s
	Thunderbirds: Lord Parker's 'Oliday	Sun, 4 July 1976 1:00pm A run of Thunderbirds episodes reappear on Sunday afternoons in July.
	Thunderbirds: The Cham-Cham	Sun, 11 July 1976 1:00pm
	Thunderbirds: Brink of Disaster	Sun, 18 July 1976 1:00pm
	Thunderbirds: Attack of the Alligators	Sun, 25 July 1976 1:00pm
	Thunderbirds: Alias Mr. Hackenbacker	Sun, 8 August 1976 1:00pm
	The Metamorph	Sat, 4 September 1976 11:30am (Saturday 11:30am) The second series resumes in the Saturday morning slot.
	The Exiles	Sat, 11 September 1976 11:30am
	Journey To Where	Sat, 18 September 1976 10:20am
	One Moment of Humanity	Sat, 25 September 1976 11:00am
	Brian the Brain	Sat, 2 October 1976 11:00am
	New Adam New Eve	Sat, 9 October 1976 11:30am
	The Mark of Archanon	Sat, 16 October 1976 11:30am
	The Rules of Luton	Sat, 23 October 1976 11:00am The magazine is renamed Supersonic Saturday Scene, with the pop show Supersonic now following Space: 1999, pushing the series earlier.
	All That Glisters	Sat, 30 October 1976 10:55am Billed wrongly as Seed of Destruction (see also wrong billing on 15 October 1978). The first appearance of the art featuring Joan Collins as Kara from Mission of the Darians
	The Taybor	Sat, 6 November 1976 10:55am
	Seed of Destruction	Sat, 13 November 1976 10:55am
	The AB Chrysalis	Sat, 20 November 1976 10:55am
	Catacombs of the Moon	Sat, 27 November 1976 10:55am (billed as A Matter of Balance)
	Space Warp	Sat, 4 December 1976 10:55am
	Thunderbirds: Security Hazard	Sun 5 December 1976 11:10am
	A Matter of Balance	Sat, 11 December 1976 10:55am
	Thunderbirds: Vault of Death	Sun 12 December 1976 11:10am
	The Beta Cloud	Sat, 18 December 1976 10:55am (last episode before Christmas, last Year 2 for 10 months)
	Thunderbirds Are Go!	Sun, 26 December 1976 12:00 The first broadcast of the 1966 film on LWT, the day after Christmas

1977

	Thunderbirds: The Perils of Penelope	Sun 2 January 1977 11:10am
	End of Eternity	Sat, 8 January 1977 11:30am First repeat run of Space: 1999, in the old Supersonic Saturday Scene timeslot (previously taken by Star Maidens). Oddly, they do not start with Breakaway
	The Full Circle	Sat, 15 January 1977 11:30am
	Ring Around the Moon	Sat, 22 January 1977 11:30am
	Missing Link	Sat, 29 January 1977 11:30am Earlier on Supersonic Saturday Scene, host Sally James introduced guests Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, plus a competition (not mentioned in the TV Times, which only mentions the star guest Leo Sayer).
	Another Time, Another Place	Sat, 5 February 1977 11:30am
	The Last Sunset	Sat, 12 February 1977 11:30am
	Space Brain	Sat, 19 February 1977 11:30am
	UFO: Timelash	Friday 25 February 1977 11:40pm A late night Friday slot for some later episodes of UFO, between the Russell Harty talk show and close-down (in the 1970s, all three TV channels shut down shortly after midnight). Episodes continued through March until April.
	The Infernal Machine	Sat, 26 February 1977 11:30am
	UFO: The Psychobombs	Fri 4 March 1977 11:40pm
	The Troubled Spirit	Sat, 5 March 1977 11:30am
	UFO: Mindbender	Fri 11 March 1977 11:40pm
	Earthbound	Sat, 12 March 1977 11:30am
	UFO: The Man Who Came Back	Fri 18 March 1977 11:40pm
	Matter of Life and Death	Sat, 19 March 1977 11:30am
	UFO: The Responsibility Seat	Fri 25 March 1977 11:40pm With the Space: 1999 art of Joan Collins and Martin Landau last seen on 18 December 1976.
	The Testament of Arkadia	Sat, 26 March 1977 11:30am
	UFO: The Long Sleep	Fri 1 April 1977 11:40pm
	The Last Enemy	Sat, 2 April 1977 11:30am
	Breakaway	Sat, 9 April 1977 11:30am The first episode appears unexpectedly in the middle of the repeat run.
	Force of Life	Sat, 16 April 1977 11:30am The Supersonic segment disappears, so the Saturday morning schedule is renamed back to Saturday Scene (with Clapperboard added).
	Collision Course	Sat, 23 April 1977 11:30am As during the original September 1975 broadcast, the credits include Aarchon and pilot Abrams.
	War Games	Sat, 30 April 1977 11:30am
	Death's Other Dominion	Sat, 7 May 1977 11:30am
	Voyager's Return	Sat, 14 May 1977 11:00am Moves to 11:00am-12, as World of Sport starts earlier (in preparation for the F.A. Cup Final on 21 May)
	Alpha Child	Sat, 21 May 1977 11:00am
	Dragon's Domain	Sat, 28 May 1977 11:30am Moves back to 11:30am-
	Mission of the Darians	Sat, 4 June 1977 11:30am
	Black Sun	Sat, 11 June 1977 11:30am
	Guardian of Piri	Sat, 18 June 1977 11:30am
	The Seance Spectre	Sat, 10 September 1977 11:30am The final episodes of Year 2 are finally run. Saturday Scene has been retired, with a new magazine Our Show starting this week (including US comedy Happy Days). Space: 1999 is not part of this magazine (for now), sitting between it and World of Sport. The episode title is correct, but the cast list and director are from Dorzak (when the episode is repeated on 10 December 1978 they repeat this listing error)
	Devil's Planet	Sat, 24 September 1977 11:30am (2 week break before next episode)
	The Lambda Factor	Sat, 8 October 1977 11:00am (11:00am-12:00) Space: 1999 moves into the Our Show magazine, following after Happy Days.
	The Bringers of Wonder - Part 1	Sat, 15 October 1977 11:00am Happy Days moves after Space: 1999
	The Bringers of Wonder - Part 2	Sat, 22 October 1977 11:00am
	The Immunity Syndrome	Sat, 29 October 1977 11:00am After three weeks, Our Show ends at 11am, with Space: 1999 and Happy Days now standalone.
	Dorzak	Sat, 5 November 1977 11:00am Oddly spelled as "Dorzac" instead of "Dorzak".
	The Dorcons	Sat, 12 November 1977 11:00am

1978

	The Metamorph	Sat, 22 July 1978 11:30am First repeat of Year 2, following a new Saturday morning children's show, Southern's The Saturday Banana hosted by Bill Oddie (meanwhile ATV's Tiswas was becoming popular on other ITV regions, and by 1979 would become almost national).
	The Exiles	Sat, 29 July 1978 11:30am
	The AB Chrysalis	Sat, 5 August 1978 11:30am No episode on Saturday 12 August (instead there is a Fantastic Four episode, and World of Sport starts at 12 noon).
	New Adam New Eve	Sat, 19 August 1978 11:30am For this episode, Tony Anholt plays Tony "Berdeschi".
	The Mark of Archanon	Sat, 26 August 1978 11:30am First episode with new LWT ident, and the TV Times entry has the Joan Collins art last seen on an episode of UFO (see March 1977)
	The Rules of Luton	Sat, 02 September 1978 11:30am (last Saturday episode) The last Saturday episode (it will be replaced by the Ron Ely Tarzan series)
	All That Glisters	Sun, 17 September 1978 1:25pm (moves to Sunday, 1:25-2:20pm) The series moves to Sunday midday, following the news show Weekend World and cartoon Funky Phantom, and leading up to The Big Match
	The Taybor	Sun, 24 September 1978 1:25pm
	Brian the Brain	Sun, 1 October 1978 1:30pm (moves to 1:30-2:30pm)
	One Moment of Humanity	Sun, 8 October 1978 1:30pm The preceding show is now quiz show University Challenge
	A Matter of Balance	Sun, 15 October 1978 1:30pm Billed as Seed of Destruction (see also wrong billing on 30 October 1976). After The Big Match, the Gerry Anderson film Journey To the Far Side of the Sun gets its premiere on LWT.
	Space Warp	Sun, 29 October 1978 1:30pm
	Catacombs of the Moon	Sun, 5 November 1978 1:30pm Anthony Terpiloff gets a TV Times listing note; his episode of The Return of The Saint "The Arrangement" directed by Peter Medak with guests Carolyn Seymour and Sarah Douglas was at 7:15pm.
	The Beta Cloud	Sun, 12 November 1978 1:30pm
	The Lambda Factor	Sun, 19 November 1978 1:30pm
	Devil's Planet	Sun, 3 December 1978 1:30pm
	The Seance Spectre	Sun, 10 December 1978 1:30pm As for the original broadcast (10th September 1977) the cast list and director are for Dorzak. One difference is that Barbara Bain now plays "Helen", not "Helena".

LWT, Sat, 24 January 1976 or HTV Sat, 8 July 1978

Granada Fri, 10 October 1975 or HTV Fri, 31 October 1975

LWT, Sat, 28 February 1976 or HTV Sat, 15 July 1978

LWT, Sat, 21 February 1976 or HTV Sat, 24 June 1978

LWT, Sat, 30 October 1976 but All That Glisters was shown instead

LWT, Sat, 27 November 1976 but Catacombs of the Moon was shown instead or Sat, 11 December 1976 when it was actually shown

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