

The most famous of these is the video 'Moonbase Alpha provides a realistic simulation of life on a natural satellite', in which has gained 9 million views as of October 2020. Moonbase Alpha also spawned a meme surrounding the Fonix DECtalktext-to-speech functionality within its internal chat system, where users would spam certain nonsensical phrases and words into its chat rooms, parsed by the TTS system in a humorous manner. ^ Space: 1999 - Collision Course, Futura Publications, 1975.^ 'Collision Course' final shooting script, dated 13 August 1974.^ 'Collision Course' episode guide Space: 1999 website 'The Catacombs', Martin Willey.^ The Complete Gerry Anderson: The Authorised Episode Guide, Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, 2005.^ 'Collision Course' episode guide Fanderson - The Official Gerry Anderson Website.^ a b Destination: Moonbase Alpha, Telos Publications, 2010.^ Fanderson - The Original Gerry Anderson Website.It would be like moving bricks by moving the mortar binding them. Bergman would theorise that the atomic blast would divert the Moon and Atheria by the creation of a 'sub-etheric' shock wave the creation of a 'sub-atomic vortex' would act on not actual particles of matter, but on the 'sub-spatial matrix' confining them. While being true to the script, Tubb would attempt to address the scientific criticism that shock waves cannot propagate through the vacuum of space. The episode was adapted in the fourth Year One Space: 1999 novel Collision Course by E.C. Both would reappear in later spaceship graveyard sequences in 'Dragon's Domain' and 'The Metamorph'. Martin Bower constructed the Atherian spaceship and nuclear charge miniatures.Gazing out into space, she was to suddenly assume an enraptured expression and utter 'Arra.' Also lost was the end of the epilogue, where Koenig would leave Helena alone at the window. This missing sequence made sense of Arra's later line that the gene of which she and her people were part would mutate. Cut for time, it had Arra explaining to the Alphan that if he were to consider the Universe as a microscopic cell, his galaxy could be thought of as a single chromosome, the solar system as one gene and himself as a minuscule fragment of that gene. The final shooting script contains unaired dialogue between Arra and Koenig.She would tell him 'You'd better get this shot, because I'm not going to last long,' and they ploughed through her fifteen pages of work in an unprecedented two days. Austin recalls her being transported to and from the set via wheelchair. Production designer Keith Wilson recalls while she had no difficulty with her craft, she required direction from Ray Austin to understand her abstract and complicated dialogue. Suffering from multiple sclerosis, the role of Arra was her penultimate performance (she died 13 January 1976 at the age of 53, four months after the episode was broadcast by ATV). The accomplished and prolific British actress had appeared in stage, film and television productions on both sides of the Atlantic, winning numerous awards. The casting of Margaret Leighton as Arra was a coup for the series.
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This approach would be seen in his subsequent contributions to the series ('Death's Other Dominion' and 'Catacombs of the Moon').


Penned by American-born British television writer Anthony Terpiloff, this story would showcase the author's pet theme of the perseverance of faith and trust over logic and reason.

Later, Koenig broods as he stares out a window into the empty space sky. At the moment of contact, Atheria vanishes from existence.the Moon ploughing through the space it once occupied.
