ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Alpha Child</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR=#000000"> <TABLE ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="580" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="3" BORDER="0"> <TR> <TD ROWSPAN="2" WIDTH="150" VALIGN=MIDDLE ALIGN=CENTER><IMG SRC="1999 Pictures/1999 Logo.jpg" WIDTH="150" HEIGHT="116" BORDER="0" ALT="Space:1999 Logo"></TD> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="4" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"><B>'Alpha Child'</B><BR><FONT SIZE="3">by Christopher Penfold<BR>and Edward di Lorenzo*<BR>*Uncredited</TD> <TD ROWSPAN="2" WIDTH="150" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><IMG SRC="1999 Pictures/1999 Cast.jpg" WIDTH="180" HEIGHT="123" ALT="1999 Cast"></TD></TR> </TABLE> <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"> Alphan Cynthia Crawford gives birth to Jackie, the first child to be born on the Moon; but within a matter of hours the child rapidly grows to the size of a five-year old. Commander Koenig suspects that Jackie's inexplicable development is linked to the death of his father, who was a technician in Moonbase Alpha s nuclear generating plant. After Jackie draws a picture of a highly detailed spaceship, four such vessels appear over Alpha, hovering menacingly above the base. Jackie grows into a mature adult and reveals that he is Jarak, one of a number of alien travellers who seek physical forms in which to conceal their identities in order to escape their homeworld s strictly imposed genetic conformity. After Cynthia dies and is reborn as Rena, it becomes apparent that the rest of the aliens intend to take over the bodies of Alpha s personnel - only possible at the moments of birth and death... <BR><BR> Martin Landau (<B>Commander John Koenig</B>), Barbara Bain (<B>Doctor Helena Russell</B>), Barry Morse (<B>Professor Victor Bergman</B>), Prentis Hancock (<B>Paul Morrow</B>), Nick Tate (<B>Captain Alan Carter</B>), Zienia Merton (<B>Sandra Benes</B>), Clifton Jones (<B>David Kano</B>), Anton Phillips (<B>Doctor Bob Mathias</B>), Suzanne Roquette (<B>Tanya Alexander</B>), Julian Glover (<B>Jarak</B>), Cyd Hayman (<B>Sue Crawford / Rena</B>), Wayne Brooks (<B>Jackie Crawford</B>), Rula Lenska (<B>Joan Conway</B>), James Fagan (<B>Ken Johnson</B>), Loftus Burton, Sarah Bullen, Andrew Dempsey, Raymond Harris, Michael Stevens, Maureen Tan (<B>Main Mission Operatives</B>), Tony Allyn, Quentin Pierre (<B>Security Guards</B>), Vincent Wong (<B>Medic</B>) <BR><BR><B>Directed by Ray Austin <BR>Produced by Sylvia Anderson <BR>Series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson</B> <BR><BR><B>TX:</B> <FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"> <BR>UK (ATV Midlands):<BR> October 16th, 1975 <BR><BR><B>Notes:</B> <BR>*Featuring Commander John Koenig, Doctor Helena Russell, Professor Victor Bergman, Paul Morrow, Captain Alan Carter, David Kano, Sandra Benes and Doctor Bob Mathias <BR><BR>*The original script was written by Edward di Lorenzo, but then re-written by Christopher Penfold <BR><BR><BR> </BODY> </HTML>