Thursday, October 30, 2025

Captain's 50th Anniversary Theatre & Library SPACE: 1999 "Breakaway" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

It's the year 1999, and Commander John Koenig has just assumed command of Moonbase Alpha!

His assignment: prepare the Meta Probe crew, who will launch shortly to explore a rogue planet that's entered the Solar System.
But something...not disease nor radiation...is crippling and killing the Meta Probe crew, as well as other Moonbase personnel!
Koenig, Medical officer Dr Helena Russell, and renowned scientist Professor Victor Bergman figure out that magnetic radiation from Nuclear Waste Disposal Area #1 all the affected people worked near caused their physical decay and deaths.
Shortly after they've implemented safeguards, Waste Dump #1's contents combust, destroying the site.
The much larger Nuclear Waste Disposal Area #2, which had been showing similar readings, now begins the same progression towards fission/fusion.
To forestall that, the entire base's staff begin trying to extract and spread out the nuclear waste over the surface of the Moon...
As we continue, you can listen to the audio by clicking HERE 
(The audio will open in a new window and you'll have to set the playback at 7:20 to continue from where it left off yesterday.) and read the comic!
Think of it as a podcast...with visuals!
Penciled by Russ Heath & Rich Buckler and inked by Dick Giordano & Terry Austin, this original-material comic was one of two produced by Power Records in 1975.
The scripter of the adaptation of the pilot episode is unknown.
The other comic/record, "Return to the Beginning" wasn't an adaptation of a TV episode, but a new story by an unknown writer.
Here's a kool bonus for you...audio from all seven of Power Records' Space: 1999 episodes!
Just click on the ep's title and the audio will open up in a new window.
"Breakaway" (without the comic book), along with "Death's Other Dominion" and "Mission of the Darians" were released on a 33 1/3 LP record album.
"Return to the Beginning" (also without the comic book), along with another original story, "It Played So Softly On the Ear" and adaptations of episodes "End of Eternity" and "Dragon's Domain"were on a second 33 13 LP record album.
Enjoy!

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Captain's 50th Anniversary Theatre & Library SPACE: 1999 "Breakaway" Part 1

You Saw the "Semi-Animated Comic" of This Tale HERE.

Now you can listen to the audio by clicking HERE (The audio will open in a new window.) and read it as a comic!
Think of it as a podcast...with visuals!











Pause the audio, since the story will continue...tomorrow!

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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Captain's 50th Anniversary Library SPACE: 1999 "Breakaway"

Just as There Were Three Graphic Versions of the Pilot Episode "Breakaway"...

...there were three prose versions of tthat episode, including two that weren't seen in America!
For example, this short story appeared in the first British Space: 1999 Annual, a hardcover which featured prose and comic stories as well as background info and games!




There was also a prose adaptation in the first Space: 1999 novelization by EC Tubb, published in both America and England, incorporating the first four episodes.
Tubb also wrote  Space: 1999 "Earthfall" a double-length novel re-adapting "Breakaway", but ignoring everything after that, creating a new narrative spanning decades and returning the second generation of Alphans, along with elderly survivors of Breakaway, to a devastated Earth!
It was, until recently, available only in England!
Next Week: Our Space: 1999 Retrospective Concludes with the Actual "Breakway" Comic Book from Power Records!
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Captain's 50th Anniversary Library SPACE: 1999 "Moonless Night"

Our final graphic adaptation of the pilot episode, "Breakaway", from the first issue of the color Charlton comic series.
Script by Nicola Cuti (who also wrote last week's "The Last Moonrise").
Art by Joe Staton (who, most recently, helped reboot the long-running Dick Tracy newspaper strip).
Next Week:
The Never-Seen-in-America Illustrated Short Story Adaptation of "Breakaway" from the 1975 British Space: 1999 Annual!
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