The Exiles

Season 2, Episode 2.
First broadcast on Saturday 11 September 1976.

Episode 27 · Saturday 31 October 2026

This month, the remaining crew of Moonbase Alpha discover, to their horror, that the fifty missiles orbiting their moon are apparently full of blonde young people from children’s TV — the titular exiles, who are determined to return home and teach their elders a valuable lesson about animal cruelty and how to make spaceships out of egg cartons and sticky-back plastic. Inevitably, they intend to do this in a way that will kill everyone on the base, and so Helena has no alternative but to pull a particularly vigorous face before springing into action.