A spaceship makes a crash landing on the moon. It appears to be unmanned
until Commander Koenig, Doctor Russell and Professor Bergman investigate and find six figures laid out in perspex caskets.
There is every indication that life no longer exists but to their horror, when forcing open one of the caskets, the body of
the woman inside is immediately reduced to ashes.
Almost at once, lights flash and the tops of the other caskets slide open and the five figures slowly
awaken. All are extremely tall and striking, their leader a dignified figure who gives his name as Captain Zantor.
The aliens have been in a state of suspended animation for three and a half centuries in Earth time.
Zantor explains that his planet, Kaldor, was dying. Spaceships have been sent to every planet which might sustain Kaldor's
kind of life. His ship was planned to orbit the moon so that its personnel could be re-animated for the final stage
of their journey to Earth.
The news excites Commissioner Simmonds, who has always refused to believe Koenig's explanation that
it is scientifically impossible for Moonbase Alpha to locate and return to Earth. He is determined to accompany the
Kaldorians on the remainder of their journey in the now fully-repaired spaceship.
He even suggests the ship should be commandeered so that six members of Moonbase Alpha could go.
Koenig angrily rejects any such idea and declares that the computer will select the best possible choice for the space left
vacant by the dead Kaldorian woman.
The name will be not be revealed until the last moment, but Simmonds is determined that he shall be
the choice although Captain Zantor would like it to be Helena Russell, who undergoes tests to ensure that the human system
would be suited to the state of suspended animation.
Simmonds eventually takes matters into his own hands by breaking into the Power Station and threatening
to destroy the whole of Monbase Alpha unless Koenig agrees to let him go. Koenig has a heart-searching decision to take
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Episode synopsis from Guide Book provided with the Digitally
Restored Network/Granada Ventures Series One Box Set
Copyright Granada Ventures
