Space: 1999 # 012

Jeremy Kemp . Slow to get started, and very talky, but this is still a wonderfully bleak episode with humanity/Earth responsible for a lot of accidental death and destruction in the universe at large. Kemp is terrific and has a fascinating character to play. It’s a pity the story requires so many outrageous coincidences to make it work. First, the idea of the moon meeting Voyager 1. Second, the fact that the very science responsible for everything is on Moonbase Alpha. Ignoring those two factors, this is a smart and rewarding episode. 8/10