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Space 1999 - The Immunity Syndrome
episode 2.21
UK 1977
produced by
Gerry Anderson, Fred Freiberger for ITC
directed by Bob Brooks
starring Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt, Nick Tate, Nadim Sawalha, Karl Held, Sam Dastor, John Hug, Hal Galili, Alibe Parsons, Walter McMonagle, Roy Boyd
screenplay by Johnny Byrne, created by Gerry Anderson, Sylvia Anderson, music by Derek Wadsworth, special effects by Brian Johnson
TV-series
Space 1999
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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A survey team from Moonbase Alpha has landed on a planet earth's
runaway moon is passing, and they find ideal living conditions - including
edible fruit and drinking water - paired with the absence of a humanoid
population that could dispute their right to colonize. So they're
understandably ecstatic about finally having found their "new
earth". But then one crewman goes crazy, and is killed when chief of
security Tony (Tony Anholt) desparately tries to disarm him. Then though
Tony goes crazy and takes off. It takes the Alphans a time to track them
down, but ultimately Commander Koenig (Martin Landau) can disarm him and
knock him out in one-on-one combat. But Tony's in a condition that can't
be treated on the planet, so Koenig and pilot Alan (Nick Tate) want to fly
him to Alpha, but on the way to the moon, the metal of their Eagle starts
to erode, so much so that vital control levers just break off. And it's
only just that they can crashland the Eagle on the planet and everyone
gets out in one piece. But things go from bad to worse, as all of a
sudden, fruit and water turn poisonous, killing some of the crew, and
everything metal just breaks, including all communication systems - which
of course also means communications with Alpha are lost. But the Alphans
also find a structure buried under the dirt, a structure that turns out to
be an alien spaceship, and once our heroes have gained entry to the ship,
they find out it was manned by a survey team just like them, that just
like them found a great planet to colonize - that slowly killed them. Back
on the moon, science officer Maya (Catherine Schell) and medical officer
Doc Russell (Barbara Bain) grow worried sick about the survey team, so
much so that they decide to land on the planet on a glider made out of
carbon fiber (no metal), even if that might be a one-way trip. Together
they find out that the planet is guarded by an almost god-like being that
has killed merely because it didn't understand the presence of other
beings, but is willing to learn and even willing to let the Alphans live
on the planet in perfect harmony - but by now the planet is already out of
the window it would take to colonize, and the survey team can really only
just picked up and flown back to Alpha before the planet's out of reach
... Some of the miniature work, like the Eagle crashlanding, or
the glider landing, is pretty great in this one and stands the test of
time even. The same unfortunately cannot be said about the story that
lacks subtlety on one hand, but also really exciting setpieces on the
other. And the ending, as novel as it might be, is also a bit
underwhelming. Now the whole thing's by no means terrible, just doesn't
match up to expectations, really.
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