Startling Barbara Bain — A Space: 1999 Podcast

Space Brain. Season 1, Episode 21. First broadcast Thursday 29 January 1976.
This month, executive interference turns a simple tale of mutual trust in a universe full of life and purpose into a bleak story about shooting a benevolent but defenceless cosmic intelligence through the brain. Still, we did enjoy the foam party on the way.

Missing Link. Season 1, Episode 20. First broadcast Thursday 22 January 1976.
This month, John Koenig awakens on an island full of noises, sounds and sweet airs: there he meets Temu Prospero and his daughter Vana, who is curious about this human concept you call love. Meanwhile, back on the base, Helena, Victor and Paul decide that killing the Commander would significantly improve everyone’s mood.

Ring Around the Moon. Season 1, Episode 19. First broadcast Thursday 15 January 1976.
This month, the people of the mythical planet Triton are so (understandably) keen to avoid any contact with the human race that they send a large yellow lightbulb to capture the Moon and to issue urgent demands for the entire contents of the base’s OneDrive. These demands mostly involve abducting Helena and inserting things into her brain, giving Barbara the chance to try out a bewildering array of new facial expressions.

The Infernal Machine. Season 1, Episode 18. First broadcast Thursday 8 January 1976.
This month, Leo McKern turns up on the Moon with his enormous scary spaceship husband, who threatens to kill everyone on the base and decimate its sizeable collection of Kenner die-cast model vehicles. But there’s also a moving depiction of grief here, and some kind of attempt to explore why exactly we all continue putting up with each other.

The Last Sunset. Season 1, Episode 17. First broadcast Thursday 1 January 1976.
This month’s mysterious immortal beings are — as usual — keen to avoid meeting the crew of Moonbase Alpha, but instead of simply killing everyone on the base, they decide to give them everything they ever wanted. Inevitably, things turn out very badly.