This is in equal parts the fault of poorly Is Creasey as Dr Russell who comes across more like a whiny juvenile than a The loss of momentum by repeatedly withdrawing from the thick of the action isĪ great disappointment to what should have been an edge-of-your-seat finale.ĭetermination and guts with the right amount of compassion. Jumping between the explosive event and the observation of it back on earth. Itĭoes falter through some odd directorial choices however, most notably in theĬlimax when the moon breaks orbit and the action is disrupted several times by

Need for long, worried looks or having to cut the camera to a special effect. The action moves much quicker without the It breaths new life into the character dynamics and adds a touch of modern scientific knowledge to make more sense of the dubious premise, but still only finds mixed success. The updated script by Nicholas Briggs reimagines the Gerry and Sylvia Anderson television pilot, also called Breakaway, which sets the series in motion when the moon breaks free from Earth’s orbit, taking with it the residents of the self-sustaining lunar base. Mark Bonnar and Maria Teresa Creasey replacing Martin Landau and Barbara BainĪs Commander John Koenig and Dr Helena Russell respectively. With most of the original TV cast now eitherĭeceased or quite aged, Big Finish reinvents the world of Moonbase Alpha with Terrahawks, Dark Shadows, Blake’s 7, Stargate SG-1, Survivors, and The Tomorrow People to make the It joins other television classics such as Doctor Who, The Prisoner, Captain Scarlet,

Retained a cult following and is now the latest entry in the growing catalogue Television’s Space: 1999 ran for two seasons in the mid-1970s but it has

Space 1999 by Nicholas Briggs