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Moonbase Alpha, the base on earth's runaway moon, receives an
unexpected visitor: God, or as he likes to be called these days, Magus
(Guy Rolfe). He offers the Alphans a new earth, their second Garden of
Eden so to speak - but once he has the first survey team, moonbase
commander Koenig (Martin Landau), doctor Russell (Barbara Bain), alien
shapeshifter Maya (Catherine Schell) and whatever-he-is Tony (Tony Anholt)
on earth 2, he doesn't make good his promise to offer the planet to all
Alphans but only wants to keep the four of them here for crossbreeding
experiments ... much to their dismay I might add. However, Magus's powers
seem limitless, so he cuts off communications between the survey team and
Alpha, destroys some of the moonbase just to demonstrate his power, and
... well, does other mean things. After a while though Maya finds out
that Magus isn't God at all but merely a pretty powerful magician who has
some crystal inside him that gives him superpowers - but not limitless
ones, and the crystal is fed its power by sunlight ... so our heroes build
a primitive trap for him, basically a manhole, and once he has fallen in,
they merely cover it, and Magus is powerless - which creates another
problem, because Magus's powers have held the planet together, and now the
moon is flying by, it tears the planet, which is considerably smaller than
earth, apart. Of course our heroes make it out in time ... One
of the more esoteric but also more ridiculous episodes of Space 1999,
that has at least some very nice miniature effects of the planet breaking
apart at the end, but before that there is also a man in a pretty fake ape
costume and a cheaply cobbled together mutant, Maya turning into a
hilarious monster and the like, while all the actors try to keep a
straight face fighting to the episode's plot which often borders on
feeling like a parody (clearly unintentionally, though). Well, it's a bit
of fun to watch at least, but by no way up to any sci-fi standards.
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