Startling Barbara Bain — A Space: 1999 Podcast

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A Space: 1999 commentary podcast by the creators of Bondfinger and Flight Through Entirety.

  1. JAN 10

    Ring Around the Moon

    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.

    58 min

  2. 12/20/2025

    The Infernal Machine

    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.

    59 min

  3. 11/15/2025

    The Last Sunset

    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.

    59 min

  4. 08/23/2025

    Another Time, Another Place

    Another Time, Another Place. Season 1, Episode 16. First broadcast Thursday 18 December 1975. This month, an unexpected scripting anomaly returns the Moon to Earth’s orbit, where it will inevitably crash into another slightly older Moon, killing everyone on the base. But in the meantime, we experience a strange and elegiac meditation on having nowhere to belong and on our subjection to the vagaries of time. Haunting and inexplicable.

    58 min

  5. 07/19/2025

    The Full Circle

    The Full Circle. Season 1, Episode 15. First broadcast Thursday 11 December 1975. This month, a picnic on a verdant new planet — fresh air, space buggies, aggressive and bloodthirsty lice, hitting people with rocks, and menacing people with burning knives. But, for once, no one wants to kill everyone on the base, except the audience, probably.

    1h 1m

  6. 06/21/2025

    Earthbound

    Earthbound. Season 1, Episode 14. First broadcast Thursday 4 December 1975. This month, to our surprise, Christopher Lee turns up on Alpha, not to kill everyone on the base for once, but just to be terribly nice to everyone. But Alpha harbours a villain of its own, one even deadlier than Christopher Lee, but mostly to himself.

    1h 2m

  7. 05/17/2025

    Matter of Life and Death

    Matter of Life and Death. Season 1, Episode 13. First broadcast Thursday 27 November 1975. In this month’s long-delayed first regular episode, Barbara’s zombie husband returns from the dead to warn Koenig about Alpha’s planned Operation Exodus — a plan which will (inevitably) kill everyone on the base. But does he listen?

    1 hr

  8. 04/12/2025

    End of Eternity

    End of Eternity. Season 1, Episode 12. First broadcast Thursday 20 November 1975. This month, Peter Bowles drops Jonty and Charlotte off at school before heading over to Pinewood Studios to spend the day throwing security guards at each other and threatening to torture and kill everyone on the base. While wearing a surprisingly lovely outfit.

    1 hr
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