Space:1999 Logo 'The Metamorph'
by Johnny Byrne
1999 Cast

Titanium is needed to repair Moonbase Alpha’s life support system, and so when traces of the rare metal are located on the barren and volcanic planet Psychon an Eagle is sent to investigate. However, the craft is enveloped by a mysterious ball of light and dragged to the surface of the planet. Commander Koenig is contacted by Mentor, a Psychon scientist who offers to return the two crewmembers to him at a rendezvous point in space; however, the meeting is a trap, and Koenig, Doctor Russell, Carter and Picard are forced to land their Eagle on Psychon. They encounter a mine populated with a workforce of mindless zombies, and then come face to face with Mentor and his beautiful, shape-shifting daughter Maya. Koenig learns that the scientist is working on a project to restore his world using a biological computer named Psyche; but the computer is powered by the minds of intelligent beings - and Mentor intends use the Alphans as its newest source of power…

Martin Landau (Commander John Koenig), Barbara Bain (Doctor Helena Russell), Catherine Schell (Maya), Tony Anholt (Tony Verdeschi), Nick Tate (Captain Alan Carter), Zienia Merton (Sandra Benes), John Hug (Bill Fraser), Brian Blessed (Mentor), Anouska Hempel (Annette Fraser), Anton Phillips (Doctor Bob Mathias), Gerard Paquis (Lew Picard), Peter Porteous (Petrov), Nick Brimble (Ray Torens), Sarah Bullen (Operative Kate), George Lane Cooper, Alf Joint (Overseers), John Dixon (Small Chipping Alien), Neil McCaul (Zombie Chipping Alien), Roy Stewart (Coloured Chipping Alien), Pam Rose, Robert Reeves (Command Center Alphans), Chris Figg, Nina Mitchen (Alphans)

Directed by Charles Crichton
Produced by Fred Freiberger
Series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson


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UK (ATV Midlands):
September 4th, 1976

Notes:
*Featuring Commander John Koenig, Doctor Helena Russell, Captain Alan Carter and Sandra Benes, and introducing Tony Verdeschi, Bill Fraser and Maya

*Working titles: ‘The Biological Soul’, ‘The Biological Computer’