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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Barbara Bain

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.

Saturday 3 August 2024 · Episode 7

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?

Download · Open in new window · Duration: 0:59:41 · Recorded on Friday 2 August 2024
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