Written by Terrance Dicks and Barry Letts
Directed by Ken Hannam

Story:  Doctor Helen Smith, resident psychiatrist on the European owned Moonbase 3 is worried over the mental state of one of the pilots, Harry Sanders.  However, with no real evidence against Sanders, she is forced to clear him for duty.  She tries to get the base's second-in-command, Michel Lebrun to persuade the base commander, Ransom to remove Sanders.  However, Sanders is Ransom's personal pilot and insists on using Sanders for his next trip to Earth.  During pre-flight checks Sanders is edgy. While in flight a minor fault occurs in the shuttle, But instead of getting help from Moonbase 3 he shuts down communications and goes outside the ship to do the repairs himself.  While doing to repairs he miscalculates and is thrown into space.  A desperate Ransom tries to pilot the ship himself.  Seconds later it explodes...

With the future of Moonbase 3 in doubt a new director, Welsh scientist David Caulder is appointed to Moonbase 3.  His first task is to investigate Ransom's death and just why Sanders was allowed to fly that shuttle when both Smith and Lebrun knew about Sander's mental state and Tom Hill, in charge of flight control had his suspicions too...

Story:  Two astronauts vanish without a trace on the surface of Moon.  Then an explosion rips through part of Moonbase 3.  Investigations find a track leading from the damaged section to the sector of the moon where the two astronauts disappeared.  Soon wild speculation of a monster on the moon begins to spread through the moonbases sapping moral and putting the entire moon project in jepordy...

Written by John Lucarotti
Directed by Christopher Barry

Story:  The number of errors amongst the scientists has suddenly shot up.  A directive from Brussels ordering that all projects should come in under budget forces Caulder to act quickly.

Story:  Brussels sends an inspector to Moonbase 3 to see if it's investment in the base is justified.  Caulder needs results from his scientists.  Meanwhile, the Base's psychiatrist, Helen Smith, is worried for the mental health of Steven Partness.  Is she right or should she be looking in another direction entirely...?

Written by John Lucarotti
Directed by Christopher Barry

Story:  An accident strands Tom Hill's shuttle on a flight path away from Earth and the Moon.  His only hope for survival is the flight skills of Colonel Gararov.  Gararov is left with a dilemma.  To attempt to rescue Hill would mean disobeying the orders of the director of the Russian Moonbase, General Trenkin...

Story:  The Arctic Sun Project is designed to set off a nuclear fusion device over the arctic, melting the ice to create a "Garden of Eden".  However, the project's designer, Sir Benjamin Dyce has come to the moonbase to try and stop the device being used.  He believes that they will not be able to contain the explosion, causing the human race to be wiped.  His protest fall on deaf ears until after the device is let off when a thick haze appears around the Earth.  Could this really be the end of the human race...?

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Last Updated:  17 January 2004