The Bringers of Wonder Part 1
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Year 2 - Episode 17
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| France/Canada |
Un message d'espoir 1ère partie |
A Message Of Hope Part 1 |
| Spain |
Los portadores de maravillas 1 |
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| Italy |
Attenti ai terrestri |
Beware the Earth People (terrestrials)! |
| Portugal |
Os Emissários do Terror I |
The Emissaries of Terror I |
| Portugal |
Os Criadores de Sonhos I |
The Creators of Dreams I |
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Everyone on Moonbase is electrified by the arrival of a spaceship from earth. Everyone, that is, except Commander Koenig. Where the others see long-lost friends and relatives, he sees hideous aliens, bent on taking over the Moonbase...
- The Superswift was built by Martin Bower in 3 weeks.
- The small pilot ship was also built by Martin Bower
- The domes were redressed from the towers in A B Chrysalis
- Martin Bower also built a second 22" Eagle. It is seen in publicity photos over the waste domes, but it is not in the episode.
- The aliens were made from latex painted in grease, with plastic tubing through which "blood" was pumped.
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- You would not be able to see a faster than light ship- it would be infinitely redshifted and thus invisible. If you could see it, your first view would be it landing; then you would see the image of it travelling backwards into space as the light caught up with the spacecraft. It covers 8 million miles in 6 seconds, which is 7.2 times the speed of light.
- In Koenig's crashed Eagle, fires are burning. Once the external doors are open for the firefighters, the vacuum would extinguish the flames.
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1912 days after leaving Earth orbit (Tue 7 Dec 2004)
| 1 fatality, Clive Kander. |
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Alpha Technology:
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Eagle 10 (Koenig, crashed)
blue Kreno creature, green lizard animal, kendo fighter, beetle.
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Aliens: Alien blobs
Cast:
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Footage:
- Shot of Koenig and Helena kissing is shown again in a flashback in Devil's Planet
- They have forgotten Journey To Where, in which they found the Earth date was 2120 AD.
- If they are telepathic, why do they not know Maya is a metamorph?
When Koenig crashes he does not have his front pack on. When the rescuers arrive, his back pack is on, although he was unconscious since the crash.
David Jackson on his role:
They gave me the script, and I didn't even have to memorise it! 'Your character is actually a 7 foot tent with blood vessels and eyes on the outside of it, and it can grow up to 9 feet.' They had a fellow about my size inside, dressed in a swim suit, sweating like anything, manipulating this thing, more like a teepee than a pyramid. It kept going up and down and sweating blood and I was just offstage in a T shirt and trousers. It was fun!
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- Novelised in The Psychomorph by Michael Butterworth published by Star (UK paperback), Warner (US), Bastei (Germany) and re-edited in Year Two (Powys, 2006).
- UK video: Polygram volume 24 (1996)
- UK DVD: Carlton (2001)
- France DVD: TF1 (2002)
- Italy DVD: Pulp Video (2005)
- Italy DVD: Collector's Edition Mondo Home (2007)
- Australia DVD: Magna Pacific (2003)
- US DVD: A&E set 7 (2002)
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