Episode Guide: Year Two
Title: "New Adam, New Eve"
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Overview
A humanoid entity with remarkable supernatural powers meets the Alphans, claiming to have shaped humanity's origins on Earth. And now he wishes to start anew with another "Garden of Eden" -- using the Alphans.
Production Number: 010 (Season Two)
Original U.K. airing week: 9 October 1976 (ATV Midlands)
Original U.S. airing week: 8 October 1976 (syndication)
Written by Terence Feely
Directed by Charles Crichton
Backplot
- In the year 1999, lunar nuclear waste storage dumps have exploded, due to magnetic radiation, sending Earth's moon into interstellar space. The inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha, unable to escape, are seeking a new home.
Plot Synopsis
(From the original ITC Press Release.)
A saintly, impressive figure claims to be God, the creator of mankind. He offers Koenig and his companions a new Earth, a new Eden, where life can begin again. But who is he really? What are the fantastic powers he possesses?
It all begins with weird readings on the monitor, magnetic turbulence, an enchanting display of psychedelic patterns and colours, strange music and them the appearance of a tall, commanding, saintly figure who introduces himself as Magus (GUY ROLFE)... "Your Creator."
The claim that he is God is emphasized by his disappointment with the way mankind has squandered and polluted all the wonderful resources at his disposal and his offer to provide a second chance - a new Earth, a new Eden, where everything could begin again.
His suggestion that a team from the moon should visit the new planet to see for themselves is accepted by Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU), but Magus insists on choosing his own team, consisting of Koenig, Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN), Maya (CATHERINE SCHELL) and Tony Verdeschi (TONY ANHOLT), and as soon as they arrive all contact with the Moon is broken.
To their dismay, they discover that he is planning to use them as his new Adams and Eves. A new human species will spring from them. But his pairing is not as they would have wished. For biological reasons, Helena is to be Tony's mate, Maya the Commander's.
They resist at first, but Magus weaves a spell of romance which brings the couples he has selected together, caught up in magnetic mutual attraction. The setting is idyllic: a beautiful, lush glade which they are forbidden to leave and which has a terrifying outcome for them when they do so and become involved in a vicious fight between an ape-like creature herself into an equally vicious creature.
It is Helena who senses a flaw in Magus's claim to be God, and Maya who discovers that he has some kind of power source inside him - an implant and fantastically potent, which means that his powers are physical, not psychic.
It is Maya, too, who finds a way for them to break through a force field and come face to face with a humanoid (BERNARD KAY) who reveals that he is one of the mutants who have come from Magus's attempts to learn the secret of creation. Magus is not God but a super-being, the last of a race of cosmic magicians who learned the ultimate secrets of physics.
Magus has to admit this truth but tells them that he needs them to breed a new species of mankind, strong, resourceful, brilliant and dedicated. Together, they can work on the great mystery of creation. Their refusal to co-operate, he warns them, will mean the destruction of their companions on the Moon.
Magus has one weakness, however. For some reason, he cannot stand the dark. Realization dawns that his power comes from light. Their one chance now is to rob him of the light from which he obtains his force of energy...
"SPACE 1999" - SERIES II
CAST LIST
EPISODE NO. 10 - "NEW ADAM AND EVE"
DIRECTOR: CHARLES CRICHTON
KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU
HELENA - BARBARA BAIN
MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL
TONY VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT
ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE
YASKO - YASUKO NAGAZUMI
1ST OPERATIVE - ANNIE LAMBERT
MAGUS - GUY ROLFE
CREATURE/MAYA - ALBIN PAHERNIK
HUMANOID - BERNARD KAY
BEAUTIFUL GIRL - BARBARA WISE
Unanswered Questions
Analyses/Observations
Comments
Memorable Lines
"I know all about love. I invented it." - Magus
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