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Scene from 'Dragon's Domain'  

Episode Guide: Year One

Title: "Dragon's Domain"

Within this page: Overview | Backplot | Plot Synopsis | Unanswered Questions | Analyses/Observations | Comments | Memorable Lines



Overview

Astronaut Tony Cellini is faced with a demon from his past -- literally.

Production Number: 023 (Season One)
    - filmed Monday, January 27 - Monday, February 10, 1975

Original U.K. airing week: 23 October 1975 (ATV Midlands)
Original U.S. airing week: 5 December 1975 (syndication)
Written by Christopher Penfold
Directed by Charles Crichton

Backplot

Plot Synopsis

(From the original ITC Press Release.)

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A macabre monster in outer space... an eerie graveyard of lost spaceships. Real or imaginationation? Years of mental torment reach a terrifying climax

Tony Cellini (GIANNI GARKO) is a man of contrasts. He is tall, strong, rugged and an all-round sportsman. But he is also a sensitive, imaginative poet. The two aspects of this Alpha astronaut are, perhaps, responsible for the plight he has found himself in, and Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) and Dr Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN) disagree emphatically about him. Cellini and John Koenig are old friends and Koenig is staunchly loyal in trusting Cellini's integrity; but Helena has always had doubts about his mental stability believing him to be a suppressed hysteric.

The mystery surrounding Tony Cellini is revived when he appears to go berserk and tries to take off, entirely alone, in an Eagle command module. He is restrained and kept under examination in the Medical Centre as Koenig and Helena again argue about the drama which developed from a space probe of which Cellini had been in command before the moon broke away from its orbit.

The longest journey ever undertaken by man was launched to confirm the discovery made by Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE) of a new planet given the name of Ultra. Accompanied by medical expert Dr. Monique Fauchere (BARBARA KELLERMANN) astro-physicist Dr. Darwin King (MICHAEL SHEARD) and radiation expert Dr. Juliet Mackie (SUSAN JAMESON), Cellini set out on the hazardous probe.

Only Cellini survived, after a fantastic escape, with a story the experts refused to believe - the story of an eerie area of stationary spaceships, a graveyard in space, with a terrifying outcome with the opening of airlocks, admitting a gruesome, rampaging mass of writhing tentacles. Cellini's desperate lashings with an axe saved his life, but the others fell victim to the monster.

Cellini has lived with the nightmare ever since. Now by a chance in a million, the moon has drifted into that area again, but only he realizes this. Can he now vindicate himself? Trying to do so involved his Moonbase colleagues in a crescendo of horror...

SCREENPLAY BY CHRISTOPHER PENFOLD

DIRECTED BY CHARLES CRICHTON

Guest Stars:
GIANNI GARKO
DOUGLAS WILMER

with
PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW
CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO
ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES
ANTON PHILLIPS as DR. MATHIAS
NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER
BARBARA KELLERMANN as DR. MONIQUE BOUCHERE
MICHAEL SHEARD as DR. DARWIN KING
SUSAN JAMESON as PROFESSOR JULIET MACKIE

Unanswered Questions

Analyses/Observations

Comments

Memorable Lines

 

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Moonbase Alpha
Commander John Koenig
Dr. Helena Russell
Professor Victor Bergman
Alan Carter
Controller Paul Morrow