A new menace threatens Moonbase
personnel as they find themselves on a collision course with an asteroid which suddenly deviates from its course, attracted
by the vast gravitational field of a black sun. Instruments are affected as astronaut Ryan tries desperately to control
his Eagle spacecraft but is caught in a tremendous gravitational pull and disintegrates.
The significance of the phenomenon
is not lost on Commander Koenig and Professor Bergman. Here is evidence of the dreaded black sun, with its fantastic
gravitation that pulls everything into it, even light. Koenig estimates that they will have only three days before the
moon itself, and all on it, will become victims.
A scheme, born of theory based on desperation, is suggested by Bergman. Seven anti-gravity towers
stabilise Moonbase Alpha's gravity, Bergman believes that by linking and cross-linking the anti-gravity screens on each tower,
an entirely new forcefield could be effected which might save them by bending the pressure on three sides with such force
that, as they enter the black sun, they will be forced through its weakest point.
It is not long before the black sun is drawing their power. The atmosphere gets colder and colder.
Chances of survival are remote but Koenig decides that there will be a better chance for some to survive, at any rate, if
they could leave the moon in an eagle, like a lifeboat in space, perhaps finding their way to a planet where they could find
a new existence. He chooses six people with the best potential for survival. Doctor Helena Russell is one of them.
But time is getting even shorter. The gravitational force of the black sun is increasing every
minute. The Eagle takes off, with three men and three women. Carter is piloting. The others are left to
face the unknown as they are drawn closer and closer towards the black sun ... and into it.
Koenig and Bergman suddenly realise that they have become transparent. All sounds stop.
Koenig believes time has stopped. Their appearance changes. With startling rapidity, they age into old, old men.
A thought strikes Koenig that the whole universe is nothing but living thought. A child's
voice is heard as the two men find themselves walking among the stars. Every star, perhaps, is just a cell in the brain
of the universe, and the child's voice is heard to say "You think at what you call the speed of light. In eternity,
I have no hurry. I think a thought, perhaps, in every thousand of your years ... I am the known and the unknown ...
The seen and the unseen. All things come to me. I am not part of them."
Then the child is gone. Koenig and Bergman find they are normal again, they are through the
black sun. Unbelievably Bergman's forcefield has held, but what has happened? Where is the Eagle and its occupants...?
Episode synopsis taken from Guide Book provided with the Digitally
Restored Network/Granada Ventures Series One Box Set
Copyright Granada Ventures
