A Space: 1999 commentary podcast from the makers of Bondfinger.

Head shot of Barbara Bain from the title sequence of Series 1 of Space: 1999. She looks impossible to startle.

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Matter of Life and Death

Barbara is on a strange planet with a cyclorama sky painted in soft red swirls, with dead vegetation and a fibreglass cliff in the background. She is covered in dirt. Before her, lying on the ground, is Koenig's body. She reaches out her hand to touch it gently.

Season 1, Episode 13.
First broadcast on Thursday 27 November 1975.

Episode 13 · Saturday 17 May 2025

In this month’s long-delayed first regular episode, Barbara’s zombie husband returns from the dead to warn Koenig about Alpha’s planned Operation Exodus — a plan which will (inevitably) kill everyone on the base. But does he listen?

Recorded on Friday 16 May 2025 · Download (60.4 MB)
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End of Eternity

Barbara is in a quarantines operating room with green-lit walls. She's wearing her now customary cling film scrubs. She looks up at something off camera, startled.

Season 1, Episode 12.
First broadcast on Thursday 20 November 1975.

Episode 12 · Saturday 12 April 2025

This month, Peter Bowles drops Jonty and Charlotte off at school before heading over to Pinewood Studios to spend the day throwing security guards at each other and threatening to torture and kill everyone on the base. While wearing a surprisingly lovely outfit.

Recorded on Friday 11 April 2025 · Download (60.9 MB)
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Guardian of Piri

Barbara is sitting on the ground leaning against one of Piri's weird trees made of glass and wire. She looks thoroughly blissed out. Out of focus in  the background are a few more blissed-out Alphans.

Season 1, Episode 11.
First broadcast on Thursday 13 November 1975.

Episode 11 · Saturday 1 March 2025

Just six weeks ago, famous miserable bastard John Koening was saving the entire crew from the horrific prospect of eternal bliss in the company of the hottest models the 1970s could offer. This week, he’s doing the same thing, only this time he’s brought a gun.

Recorded on Friday 28 February 2025 · Download (59.5 MB)
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Black Sun

Barbara and Victor are standing together, shoulder to shoulder,  in a room on Moonbase Alpha. Victor looks quite concerned, while Barbara is thoroughly startled

Season 1, Episode 10.
First broadcast on Thursday 6 November 1975.

Episode 10 · Saturday 25 January 2025

This month’s eerie and irrational space anomaly is, of course, intent on killing everyone on the base, and so with no hope left, the crew have no choice but to discover love, tranquility and grace. And to learn the valuable lesson that certain death is never certain when everyone is still contracted to do another twenty episodes.

Recorded on Friday 24 January 2025 · Download (59.6 MB)
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Mission of the Darians

Barbara is being held by the arms by two hairy men. She looks distressed.

Season 1, Episode 9.
First broadcast on Thursday 30 October 1975.

Episode 9 · Saturday 7 December 2024

This month, we’ve been invited to a century-long dinner by Joan Collins. The menu, as always: the basic proteins, amino acids, trace elements and enzyme variants of the lower classes.

Recorded on Friday 6 December 2024 · Download (64.4 MB)
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Dragon’s Domain

Barbara is sitting in a hospital bedroom on Earth; there is a sunny garden outside the window. She has full flashback hair, and appears to be looking at someone off camera with a mixture of incredulity and contempt.

Season 1, Episode 8.
First broadcast on Thursday 23 October 1975.

Episode 8 · Saturday 5 October 2024

This month’s eldritch alien threat is, for once, not intent on killing everyone on the base; instead it takes the more focused approach of killing everyone on a deep space probe and then hunting down and destroying Moonbase Alpha’s resident Italian big game hunter. Oh, and traumatising an entire generation of nerdy moppets in the 1970s.

Recorded on Friday 4 October 2024 · Download (63.1 MB)
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Alpha Child

Barbara is wearing a lot of cling film this month, apparently because she has just delivered a baby. And here she is on the screen in Main Mission, smiling happily while the baby looks across at her with suspicion.

Season 1, Episode 7.
First broadcast on Thursday 16 October 1975.

Episode 7 · Saturday 3 August 2024

An eerie green glow is making for Alpha, bringing with it the most terrible consequences, as the first baby born on the base undergoes two periods of ultra-rapid growth, becoming in mere seconds a terrifying English moppet and shortly after that Julian Glover in a skimpy miniskirt. Is this the next stage in human evolution, or merely an invasion by an alien who wants to give his mother a nice makeover and a good rogering before (inevitably) killing everyone on the base?

Recorded on Friday 2 August 2024 · Download (60.4 MB)
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Voyager’s Return

Barbara is in sickbay, standing in front of one of Alpha's glowing blue walls. Her face is half in shadow, and she is glaring disapprovingly at  someone off camera.

Season 1, Episode 6.
First broadcast on Thursday 9 October 1975.

Episode 6 · Sunday 16 June 2024

This month, John and Victor decide that the pursuit of a shoebox full of polaroids is a good reason to risk the crew’s lives — entrusting their safety to this week’s guest star, a Nazi rocket scientist or something with a secret past that inevitably involved killing a whole bunch of people in an easily foreseeable accident. However, things hot up with the arrival of three steatopygous spaceships captained by a heavily-made up alien with no facial expression, who is understandably resolved to kill everyone on the base and all the loved ones they left behind them.

Recorded on Saturday 15 June 2024 · Download (61.4 MB)
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Death’s Other Dominion

On a terrifyingly cold and bleak ice planet, Barbara,  wearing an environmental suit and snow goggles and covered in foam,  lies down in the snow to get some rest.

Season 1, Episode 5.
First broadcast on Thursday 2 October 1975.

Episode 5 · Sunday 5 May 2024

This month, we’re faced with an alarming metaphysical choice: eternal life among a bunch of absurdly hot models in Hugh Hefner’s second least favourite Swiss chalet, or a normal lifespan cleaning up the corridors of Moonbase Alpha after its latest nuclear catastrophe. Victor, Helena, Bob and Alan all want to make the obviously correct (if basic) choice, but their fun is inevitably spoiled by miserable old John Koenig and the second law of thermodynamics.

Recorded on Saturday 4 May 2024 · Download (60.3 MB)
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War Games

Barbara is a a glass tank in a brightly and colourfully lit room. She is wearing elaborate pink satin sci-fi robes and looking off into the\ distance. In the background is an alien man with a massive domed head.

Season 1, Episode 4.
First broadcast on Thursday 25 September 1975.

Episode 4 · Monday 12 February 2024

This month’s ethereal immortal beings in a surreal Pinewood studio are Isla Blair and Anthony Valentine, who are (reasonably enough) so keen to avoid meeting the crew of Moonbase Alpha that they decide to just kill everyone on the base instead. Or do they?

Recorded on Sunday 11 February 2024 · Download (60.4 MB)
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