Cast:  Commander (Moray Watson), Controller (Keith Varnier), Lee Jones (Gennie Nevinson), Brian Lincoln (Andrew Secombe), Hans Diter (Frederik De Groot), Lars Hendvorrsen (Luke Hanson), Marie Mueller (Katja Kersten)

Story:  Two divers drown a man in a lake while a man on a space walk has his suit decompressed by two assailants.  The computers say that the deaths were accidents but the investigating officers, Nathan Spring and David Theroux respectively, think otherwise.  Nathan has been short listed for the commander's job with the International Space Police or Star Cops as they are more commonly known.  Nathan doesn't want the job but somehow manages to pass the interview.  While visiting one of the space stations a politician, Lars Hendvorrsen, dies after a supposed space suit failure.  To his utmost annoyance Nathan is assigned to the case.  If Nathan manages to solve the case it will mean that he will get the job he doesn't even want...

Cast:  Lee Jones (Gennie Nevinson), Corman (Sian Webber), Paton (Alan Downer), Fox (Sean Scanlan), Gina (Carmen Gomez), John Smith (Benny Young), Traffic Controller (Deborah Manship), Mike (Richard Ireson), Lara (Rosie Kerslake)

Story:  A shuttle taking supplies to the Mars colony is blown off course after it's engines fire when they shouldn't.  There is no hope of rescue as the ship is heading away from Earth and only has limited life support.  Meanwhile back on Earth Nathan's girlfriend Lee Jones is murdered after receiving a coded message supposedly from Nathan himself.  A grief-stricken Spring feels that there is more to the murder than meets the eye but the investigating officer Devis, whom Nathan despises because of his reliance on computer predictions to solve cases, thinks otherwise.  He tells Nathan to leave the investigating to him.  However Nathan has other ideas...

Cast:  Michael Chandri (David John Pope), Leo (Trevor Butler), Ben (Thomas Coulthard), Shuttle Hostess (Tara Ward), Shift Foreman (Peter Quince), Process Operator (Peter Glancy)

Story:  A chemical works in Britain explodes because of computer error.  Seconds before the disaster the words "O Rose Thou Art Sick" appeared on the computer screen.  Meanwhile Nathan has been checking out his new officers and is sacking the ones he thinks are corrupt.  This includes Australian Pal Kenzy.  Nathan is called over to one of the research bases.  The base commander and head of research, Dr. Chandri has some information he has received using one of the pieces of equipment he has been developed.  It seems that a terrorist group is planning on hijacking one of the shuttles between the Earth and the Moon.  Nathan is Sceptical about the information.  He has a feeling that Chandri is not telling the whole truth.  Meanwhile back on Earth another computer failure causes a major crash in the Channel Tunnel...

Cast:  Commander Griffin (Daniel Benzali), Dilly Goodman (Marlena MacKey), Pete Lennox (Robert Jezek), Marty (Russell Wootton), Lauter (Angela Crow), Harvey Goodman (Morgan Deare), Receptionist (Shope Shodeinde)

Story:  A couple of space scrap merchants come across a module floating in space and take it aboard their shuttle to claim the reward for finding and moving it.  Meanwhile Nathan goes to the main American Space station, the Ronald Regan, to try and persuade the station commander, Griffin, to allow Star Cops to be posted on American stations.  However Griffin has problems of his own.  Dilly Goodman keeps calling him, demanding to know what has happened to her brother Harvey.  Griffin denies that Harvey ever set foot on the station.  Dilly goes to the Star Cops for help.  Nathan begins to suspect that there is a connection between this case and Hubble, a crooked American Star Cop Nathan forced to resign...

Cast:  Carlo Santanini (Michael Chesden), Marla Condarini (Susan Curnow), Inspector Canova (Stewart Guidotti), Lina Margello (Vikki Chambers), Personnel Officer (Flip Webster), Angelo Pordenone (Andre Winterton), Tour Guide (Carl Forgione)

Story:  A rocket taking nuclear waste into space aborts on take off and crashes.  Meanwhile, Nathan is ordered to take seven days leave on Earth leaving Theroux in charge of the investigation into the crash.  On the shuttle down to Earth Nathan meets an Italian woman and agrees to meet her in a couple of days.  However, a check on her identity shows no trace of the women ever having worked anywhere on the moon.  Nathan goes to the meeting place anyway and finds Angelo Pordenone there.  Nathan had had Pordenone sent back to Earth after drugs were found in his locker.  Pordenone tries to kill Nathan but Nathan manages to turn the table and kills Pordenone.  Was this an act of revenge or something more sinister?  When Nathan finds more money in his bank account than he's ever had before and a consignment of Heroin in his room he begins to suspect that he is being set up by the Mafia...

Cast:  Richard Ho (Richard Rees), Christina Janssen (Dawn Keeler), Receptionist (Susan Tan)

Story:  Pluto Seven has failed to make contact since it's return from deep space.  Theroux goes to investigate and soon discovers that the crew is dead.  They all died at exactly the same time.  Meanwhile Krivenko asks Nathan to check out of friend of his, Christina Janssen.  She has broken off communications with Moonbase.  Nathan goes to her station only to find that she too is dead.  A link between Pluto Seven and Christina Janssen's death soon becomes apparent.  For one thing they were both employed by the Hanimed Corporation.  For another the temperature in both places was stuck at 41 degrees Celsius...

Cast:  James Bannerman/Albi (Brian Gwaspari), Chamsya Assadi (Nitza Saul)

Story:  Chamsya Assadi embryos are stolen from a cryogenic facility on the Moonbase.  The Star Cops swing into action but are unable to stop the "kidnapper" from leaving the base.  On his way out he gases Anna Shun unconscious.  She puts together a photo fit of the man that seems to fit concert pianist James Bannerman.  Bannerman's father had been an associate of Chamsya Assadi's arms dealer late husband before he had killed Bannerman's father.  He seems to have the perfect motive for the crime.  However, Bannerman was giving a concert on Earth at the time of the "kidnap"...

Cast:  Ernest Wolffhart (Geoffrey Bayldon), Dr Angela Parr (Maggie Ollerenshaw), Hooper (Barrie Rutter), Beverly Anderson (Leigh Funnell)

Story:  Small things are going wrong at Moonbase at a time when a safety inspector, Ernest Wolffhart is looking around.  Maintenance man Hooper is complaining that he is over work.  He also says that there is a saboteur on Moonbase.  To help lighten Hooper's load and root out the saboteur Nathan assigns Theroux to be Hooper's assistant.  Meanwhile a psychiatrist comes to the base to carry out research on the crew.  Colin Devis has a shock when he discovers that the Psychiatrist is Angela Parr, one of his ex-wives...

Cast:  Daniel Larwood (Roy Holder), Andrew Philpot (Nigel Hughes), Susan Caxton (Lachelle Carl), Operations Manager (Wendy MacAdam), Co-pilot (Bridget Lynch-Blosse), Pilot (Kenneth Lodge), Customs Officer (Peter Neathey), Outpost Controller (Philip Rowlands), Surveyor (David Janes)

Story:  An artefact is found buried on the planet Mars that proves that life once lived there.  The artefact is packed up and is due to arrive on moonbase.  Reporter Daniel Larwood arrives on the base.  Larwood was a colleague of Kenzy's from her murky past.  Kenzy is convinced that Larwood hasn't come to the base just to report on the arrival of the artefact.  Could the death of an unregistered pilot and the discovery of an ancient statuette in a crate in the cargo bay hold the key to Larwood's story?

Known character names:  Han, Eugene Huldrych.

Story:  The Chinex company is one of two firms to have been given the contract to catapult moon soil into orbit so that it can be used in the construction of a space station.  The Star Cops get involved when one of the technicians working on the project, Hans, is found murdered in one of the launcher tubes for the moon soil.  Nathan assigns Star Cops to each of the five people he suspects of committing the murder.  However, Krivenko is soon putting pressure on Nathan to allow the suspects to leave the Moonbase.  Nathan arrests the suspect he thinks did the murder and lets the others go.  However, shortly after the arrest the suspect is found dead, having been poisoned.  Nathan realises that the entire moon soil project is a con and exposes the culprit while they are addressing the Chinex Company's worldwide shareholders video-meeting.

Posted:  16 January 1999
Last Updated:  6 June 2002