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Terrance Dicks / Barry Letts / John Brason / John Lucarotti / Arden Winch, Moonbase 3

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TitleMoonbase 3
Artist(s):Terrance Dicks / Barry Letts / John Brason / John Lucarotti / Arden Winch
Category:BBC - Non-BBC label (Click on this button to view other releases of BBC - Non-BBC label DVD's.)
Label and catalogue number:Picture of images/labels/Second Sight.jpg labelSecond Sight - 2NDVD 3038
Format:Disc DVD's
Country:UK UK flag
Released:2012
Genre:Dramas - Sci-fi View all other tracks listed as Dramas - Sci-fi.
Run-off codes:2NDVD3038/A LAYER A SECOND SIGHT *10456 DVD9
2NDVD3038/B LAYER A SECOND SIGHT *10463 DVD9
Item deleted?Yes
Distributed / printed byPicture of images/labels/Second Sight.jpg labelSecond Sight
Page views:355 times since 20th May, 2017, global rank is 11206, rank in dvds is 438.
My rating:*****
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Cover conditionNear mint
Record conditionVery Good Plus
Number have1
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Tracks

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Side & trackTrack and ArtistLength
A1Departure and arrival [Terrance Dicks / Barry Letts]51.42
A2Behemoth [John Brason]51.09
A3Achilles heel [John Lucarotti]51.45
B1Outsiders [John Brason]52.02
B2Castor and Pollux [John Lucarotti]51.33
B3View of a dead planet [Arden Winch ]51.44
Total length of media 5:09:55.

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Extra notes on cover, middle (gatefold sleeve) and any inserts


Starring


Donald Houston
Barry Lowe
Fiona Gaunt
Ralph Bates

Written by


Terrance Dicks
Barry Letts
John Brason
John Lucarotti
Arden Winch

Music by


Dudley Simpson

Produced by


Barry Letts

Directed by


Ken Hannam
Christopher Barry

Synopsis


Episode 1 - Departure and arrival
Astronaut Harry Sanders (Michael Wisher) suffers a mental breakdown while piloting a shuttle from the Moon back to Earth, causing an accident that kills him and his passenger, Moonbase 3 director Tony Ransome (Michael Lees). Under political pressure to close the Moonbase following the deaths, the Director-General of the European space programme appoints David Caulder to take over as Director of Moonbase 3 and investigate the accident.

Episode 2 - Behemoth
When two seismologists mysteriously vanish in the Mare Frigoris region, Caulder bans all travel into the area, a decision that upsets Dr Heinz Laubenthal (Peter Miles) who is conducting research in the area but won't reveal what he is working on. Some time later, Laubenthal is killed in an explosion in his laboratory. Investigations reveal that the lab walls were breached from the outside and strange tracks are found leading from the lab in the direction of the Mare Frigoris. As rumours of space monsters begin to disrupt life on the moonbases, Caulder leads a team into Mare Frigoris in search of the truth.

Episode 3 - Achilles heel
While Caulder is pressured to deliver results from Moonbase 3's research programme under threat of budget cuts, the CORA radio astronomy project is thrown into disarray by a series of accidents. As the situation develops it becomes apparent that one of the three CORA scientists Adam Blaney (Edward Brayshaw), Bill Knight (Malcolm Reynolds) and Kate Weyman (Anne Ridler) is suffering from a mental breakdown and is sabotaging the project.

Episode 4 - Outsiders
Faced with an inspection ahead of potential budget cuts, Caulder's hopes of demonstrating that the Moonbase 3 research programme is worthwhile lie with two brilliant, but erratic, researchers, Stephen Partness (Tom Kempinkski) and Peter Conway (John Hallam), both of whom are showing evidence of cracking under the strain.

Episode 5 - Castor and Pollux
While Caulder explores the possibility of participating in a joint expedition to Jupiter with the Russians, an accident during a routine docking manoeuvre with a satellite leaves a shuttle with Tom Hill on board tumbling out into deep space. Caulder mounts a rescue mission but must convince the Russians to help him.

Episode 6 - View of a dead planet
Controversy surrounds the Arctic Sun Project, a plan to detonate a hydrogen bomb above the Arctic Circle to melt the icecaps and open up new land for development. When the project is initiated, all contact with Earth is lost as it becomes enveloped in a strange mist. The inhabitants of the Moon colonies struggle to come to terms with the possibility that Earth has been destroyed and they are all that's left of humanity.
 

Other versions

I have the title track on these releases:
[albums]REB 188Original music from great BBC - TV shows
[albums]REH 214Music from BBC Childrens Programmes
[albums]REH 324BBC space themes
[singles]RESL 13Moonbase 3

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