Catacombs International Guide
Japan

JAPAN

Thanks to Haruo Toda

46 episodes were broadcast (Bringers Of Wonder part 1 and 2 were not shown on TV until a recent digital CS TV broadcast). The episodes had a new Japanese theme song to replace the Gray/Wadsworth themes (this was not included on the digital broadcast or on the DVDs).

The series was not networked, and, like the US and UK, film prints were circulated between regional stations. The second series was shown four years after the first, on a different network.

In Tokyo, Year One was shown on TBS on Sundays from 3rd April 1977 at 1600- 1656. From the 17th episode, another episode was added on Saturdays (that is, two episodes per week). The series finished on 25th September 1977.

Year Two was shown on another major Japanese TV network, TV Asahi, from 18th May 1981, every weekday until 19th June 1981. Again, the timeslot was 4pm; more inconvenient on weekdays.

There were several repeats, the last being in the early 1980s on TV Tokyo. In 1999-2000, the series was shown on the digital TV channel CS "Super Channel" (one channel of "PerfecTV!" - currently "SkyPerfecTV!"). (There may also have been a 1997 repeat). The "Super Channel" is one of the related businesses of "Tohoku Shinsha", a distributor of overseas visual programmes in Japan. They repeat a number of ITC series such as Thunderbirds and Stingray, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, The Prisoner, UFO as well as 1999.

Merchandising:

• Mikasa Novels published translations of the first three Michael Butterworth Year Two novels
• Complete Visual Guidebook of Gerry Anderson's Space Odyssey Space: 1999 was published by Tokuma Shoten in 1981
• Three posters by Shiseido Cosmetics
• Jigsaw puzzle
• Space: 1999 Disco Mate Theme Single (Disco Co. Ltd) (1977)
• Popy Space Eagle die-cast model
• Various garage kits (Teru Space Models, late 1980s)
• Imai Eagle kit (1976, frequently reissued)
• Konami small Eagles and Hawk models (2003)
• Aoshima Eagle die-cast models (2004, repackaging of Product Enterprise Eagles)
• Space: 2100 (Bringers Of Wonder) video
• Video and laserdisc: Alien Attack and Journey Through The Black Sun; laserdisc only Cosmic Princess, by Bandau Emotion
• First season laserdisc set (four volumes) by Bandau Emotion (1993)
• DVD box sets (2001)

The original screening order shown here was also used on the DVDs. The Japanese episode titles were remarkably redolent of pulp science fiction/B-movies.

Nr	Date (Tokyo)	Japanese Title (Translation)	Original Title
Y1.01	3 April 1977	Mankind at a Crisis! Big Explosion in the Space Base	Breakaway
Y1.02.	10 April 1977	No Return to the Earth!	Earthbound
Y1.03.	17 April 1977	Big Battle with Space Fleets	War Games
Y1.04.	24 April 1977	Black Sun - a Black hole	Black Sun
Y1.05.	1 May 1977	Bizarre! A Birth of Space Child	Alpha Child
Y1.06.	8 May 1977	True Colour (Character) of the Space Freezing Man	Force Of Life
Y1.07.	15 May 1977	Coming of the Huge Space Town!	Mission Of The Darians
Y1.08.	22 May 1977	Temptation of the Space Paradise	Guardian Of Piri
Y1.09.	29 May 1977	Moon is about to Collide with a Big Planet!?	Collision Course
Y1.10.	5 June 1977	Attack of Primitive Space Cavemen	The Full Circle
Y1.11.	12 June 1977	Space Devil, Infernal Machine	The Infernal Machine
Y1.12.	19 June 1977	A Red Sun, The Last Sunset	The Last Sunset
Y1.13.	26 June 1977	Space Destroyer, Nuclear Bomb Ship	Voyager's Return
Y1.14.	3 July 1977	Living dead in Space	Matter Of Life And Death
Y1.15.	10 July 1977	Revolt of the Space Computer	Ring Around The Moon
Y1.16.	17 July 1977	Space Battleships, Launching the Missiles!	The Last Enemy
Y1.17.	23 July 1977	Emergence of Monsters in Space Tomb!	Dragon's Domain
Y1.18.	24 July 1977	When the Moon Splits into Two	Another Time, Another Place
Y1.19.	30 July 1977	Human Experimentation in the Space Zoo	Missing Link
Y1.20.	31 July 1977	Attack of the Huge Space Brain	Space Brain
Y1.21.	17 Sept 1977	Mystery of Everlasting Life	Death's Other Dominion
Y1.22.	18 Sept 1977	The Curse of the Space Evil Spirit	The Troubled Spirit
Y1.23.	24 Sept 1977	Cell-regenerating Man of Space	End Of Eternity
Y1.24.	25 Sept 1977	O, God! Bring New Peace in Space!	The Testament Of Arkadia
Year 2
Y2.01	18 May 1981	Escape! PSYCHON, the Planet of Metamorphosing	The Metamorph
Y2.02	19 May 1981	Traitors of Planet GOLOS	The Exiles
Y2.03	20 May 1981	Temptation of the Space Androids	One Moment Of Humanity
Y2.04	21 May 1981	Bizarre! Lethal Colour-changing Rock	All That Glisters
Y2.05	22 May 1981	Time travel bound for the longing Earth	Journey To Where
Y2.06	25 May 1981	Visitor from out of Space	The Taybor
Y2.07	26 May 1981	The Rules of Planet ARCHANON	The Mark Of Archanon
Y2.08	1 June 1981	Terror of the Plant Planet LUTON	The Rules Of Luton
Y2.09	2 June 1981	Intrigue of the Killing Computer	Brian The Brain
Y2.10	3 June 1981	Pseudo-utopia	New Adam, New Eve
Y2.11	4 June 1981	Space Lightning! Shockwave	The A B Chrysalis
Y2.12	5 June 1981	S.O.S., The Moon is a Hell!	Catacombs Of The Moon
Y2.13	8 June 1981	Planet KALTHON, Seed of Destruction	Seed Of Destruction
Y2.14	9 June 1981	Save the Life-supporting System!	The Beta Cloud
Y2.15	10 June 1981	Fear of the Four-dimension Space	Space Warp
Y2.16	11 June 1981	Intruder from the Anti-World	A Matter Of Balance
Y2.17	12 June 1981	Murder Case of Lambda Supernatural Transformation Power	The Lambda Factor
Y2.18	15 June 1981	Move, Moon! TORA, the Planet of Nostalgia	Seance Spectre
Y2.19	16 June 1981	Dorzak, An Uninvited Guest	Dorzak
Y2.20	17 June 1981	Nightmare of the Colonised Satellite ENTRA	Devil's Planet
Y2.21	18 June 1981	Mysterious Space Intelligence	The Immunity Syndrome
Y2.22	19 June 1981	Maya! Forever is here, ALPHA...	The Dorcons
Not broadcast		SPACE: 2100	The Bringers Of Wonder