The Bringers of Wonder, Part Two
| "The Bringers of Wonder, Part Two" | |
|---|---|
| Space: 1999 episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 18 |
| Directed by | Tom Clegg |
| Written by | Terence Feely |
| Original air date | 11 August 1977 |
"The Bringers of Wonder, Part Two" is the eighteenth episode of the second series of Space: 1999 (and the forty-second overall episode of the programme). The screenplay was written by Terence Feely; the director was Tom Clegg. The final shooting script is dated 23 June 1976. Live-action filming took place Wednesday 25 August 1976 through Tuesday 28 September 1976 (with a two-day interruption from 21 to 22 September to film additional scenes for "The Beta Cloud"). A day of second-unit filming was completed on Tuesday 30 November 1976. This was the series' only two-part episode.
It is 1915 days after leaving Earth orbit, and Moonbase Alpha is in the midst of a celebration. A rescue party from Earth travelling in a Superswift, an interstellar vessel equipped with a faster-than-light drive system, has arrived on the Moon. The Alpha castaways can now return home after more than five years of mad travel through a hostile universe. At this time, a team of Alphans—Alan Carter with nuclear physicists Jack Bartlett and Joe Ehrlich—have travelled uncountable light-years and are approaching Earth in the Superswift's compact pilot ship.
This is how events appear to the Alpha population. In reality, they are under the mental control of hostile aliens, who appear to the humans as family and friends comprising the crew of Superswift. The only person who can see them as they actually are is John Koenig. Three days previously while flying a reconnaissance mission, the Commander seemed to lose control of himself and, in his demented state, crashed in the vicinity of the nuclear-waste domes.
With severe concussion, Koenig was given treatment with an Ellendorf quadrographic brain complex, an experimental machine designed to electronically treat neurological trauma. On regaining consciousness, he was introduced to the 'Earth visitors' and—now immune to their mind control—saw the aliens for what they were and reacted violently to their invasion of Alpha. Unable to see the aliens as anything but friends, his own staff believed him to be unbalanced, sedated him, and placed him in restraints in the Medical Centre.
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