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Temporary mountain living has put some distance between my phone and me. There's no great reason for this. I get reception for the most part. It may be because some of the "smart" features don't work. Or, maybe it's just that I'm not in my regular day-to-day routine.
Whatever it is, my phone has lost its status as virtual appendage.
I'm musing about whether this will help me do more musing.
I'm pretty suspicious about screens, for the same reasons lots of folks are. One of my biggest complaints is they tempt me away from being present. We're so eager to jump out of our skin—sharing or interpreting the experience before we've even really had it! I bet you've heard a musician by this point challenge their audience to put their phones away and actually listen to the music. Pretty telling.
But, I'm not interested in wagging my finger at us either. This is partly because I'm as likely as the next to take my phone out at a concert. But it's mostly because our angst-filled wrangling about technology usually falls out into "oh no, bad" and "oh so good" camps. This divide seems really unhelpful.
There are real neurobiological impacts of our technology saturation. And we're crazy if we don't start to learn and think about these so we can make informed choices about what we want our brains to be able to do. We also need to decide what we are okay with them no longer being able to do.
No longer being able to do?
When Paul Miller mentions the fact that four months into his year of life without internet he could sit and read 100 pages of a novel without losing focus, he isn't being quirky. He's naming something real. The way most of us use technology is literally re-wiring our brains; eroding our ability to concentrate for long periods.
Arguments in the "good" camp usually claim technology is neutral (which, after a nice, nuanced beginning is, unfortunately, where Miller ends up). It's just a medium like a book or telephone is a medium. It simply delivers content and its "good" or "bad" affects depend only on what we do with that content. "Dead wrong," the author of The Shallows says (who is by no means anti-technology). He gives a great analogy about how our brains process information to show why.
We can only take in information in a container the size of a thimble and transfer it—one thimble at a time—to a larger container. The larger container is where we absorb ideas, make connections, think with complexity, imagine and create. I have this image of a clear, cold, compelling tinted glass bowl; a vast container out of which to drink deeply from the experiences we've taken in.
This process requires time and space.
Now, imagine holding that thimble underneath a bathtub faucet and turning the water on full blast (the analogy for most of our internet use). Water just sprays all over the place.
The Shallows offers other insights. Reading a book on an electronic reader? No measurable difference than reading a book on paper. But, throw in a few hyperlinks? (Yes, this blog = guilty.) Instead of steadily moving water one thimbleful at a time, our brains go into decision-making mode, making dozens of millisecond choices about whether or not to "click." The result? Complete thought fragmentation. We don't even notice it's happening. Amazing.
So, I used to be avowedly in the "bad" camp. While there I bad-mouthed Facebook. A lot. It's basically a rite of passage to be allowed into the "bad" camp. Eventually I discovered that besides staying caught up with family, I could find great writing, analysis, political discussion, even genuinely funny stuff there. To my greater shock, I found that some (not all!) of the mini-conversations that pop up in response to posts weren't meaningless or shallow. There are folks I like having contact with who would definitely fall of my radar otherwise given that there are only 24 hours in the day. Sure, I need to not confuse "contact" with "deep relationship" or forget to nurture deep relations in the more physical versions of my life, but as long as I'm clear about this—and about Facebook's many other perils—I'm a cautious convert.
So I've migrated (for more reasons than Facebook). But not to the "good" camp.
I'm in the "let's muse" camp. More and more I want to have conversations with folks who do use technology—including social media—but who are aware that it impacts us, and care about that fact. I want to avoid the good/bad deadlock and think about "best practices." Hanna Rosin's recent piece in the Atlantic was great for this.
Am I right in thinking that people don't stand in crowded places and talk on their phones at the top of their lungs nearly as often now as they used to? It seems to me we can learn.
Which brings me back to my new relationship with my phone, and musing about whether the practice of more disconnection will lead to more productive, satisfying, steady musing (about things other than technology, which I'm not actually all that interested in).
My theory: when a child is bored and is allowed to stay bored for more than a moment she almost always moves out of boredom into a game or adventure more imaginative than an adult could plan—one she won't create if she gets "plugged in" to fill the boredom. I think there's an adult version of this. What might grow out of those momentary pauses—lulls in conversation, sixty seconds at a counter while a clerk looks something up, waiting for my daughter to re-emerge after I've sent her to get dressed—if I don't fill them in with a quick peek at HuffPost, Facebook, my email?
Could this be time and space allowed to actually be? Give my thimble more chances to catch up, more often? Turn the faucet down to a more deeply satisfying stream? If so, can I learn to actually want this? Time will tell. And if so, my phone just may end up sitting lonely on the kitchen counter more often.


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I meet James Schamus the morning the Oscar nominations are announced, news of which he received with mixed emotions: cheering for the success of Dallas Buyers Club, a film he stewarded as head of Focus Pictures, and which garnered six nominations; and swallowing the somewhat bitter pill of it coming three months after he was unceremoniously fired. "We're going out with a bang." He grins.
We are in a Dominican restaurant around the corner from Schamus's office in New York, which he hired after leaving Focus. For the first time in almost 25 years, the 54-year-old is answering his own phone and has a staff of zero. Renting the office, which his creative partner, Ang Lee, helped him find, was an attempt to avoid falling into a post-redundancy slump and becoming "that guy in his pyjamas at noon". Some chance.
Schamus's parallel career, as an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, was waiting for him to pick it up once again, and he has been announced as the chair of the Berlin film festival this year, which, he jokes, he will be able to enjoy for the first time, relieved as he is of the need to buy anything. (That now falls to his successor, Peter Schlessel, whose appointment by NBC-Universal has been widely interpreted as a move to make Focus more strenuously mainstream.)
If you've loved a film in the last 15 years, chances are it was made by Schamus at Focus: Brokeback Mountain, Lost in Translation, Burn After Reading, Atonement, Milk, The Pianist, The Constant Gardener and Tinker, Tailer, Soldier, Spy were all Focus pictures – smart, stylish, funny, and often made with a greater eye on the international than the US market. Schamus ran the place with a shrewd combination of good taste and minimal snobbery. "I don't know why everyone thinks the high part and the low part of the brow are the only good parts," he says. "When did the middle get to be the bad brow? It's like, 'Oh, that's so bourgeois!' Let me put this in perspective: we don't really like miserable poverty, and we don't really like gigantic, asshole-ish 1% creephood. I think we're actually for the middle class. So make sure the middle class actually has some interesting stuff to think about."
It is bald statements like these that have led Schamus to have an unusually high profile for a studio head. He is discreet about individuals, but scornful about large swaths of the industry he works for and the absurdities it indulges in, among them the Oscars. "Hollywood, basically – what's the polite word for shitting? Defecates hundreds of millions of dollars, all so that everyone can chase after the little blue ribbon. The economics are insane. If you do the math, very few films get what's known as the Oscar bump."
Doing the math is what he likes to do. Schamus sees himself primarily as a "marketing guy", a casual term for the kind of string theory you need to read and play the world movie markets. Focus succeeded, he says, thanks to micro-marketing. The key to making money is in niche demographics – and, in this context, niche can mean whole continents outside America. "You can take the data and throw up a map of the world and see where, for example, family movies are big: northern Europe. Action movies: Middle East, zones in Asia. Sci-fi/fantasy: Russia."
Another bonus, over the years, has been his disposition. "I'm an eternal pessimist," says Schamus, "which is why I stayed in business, I think. Only two, three or four movies a year will make a $20m profit. So, you'd better plan on getting your ass kicked pretty regularly. Because if you plan on success every time, you're out of business."
His collaboration with Ang Lee has resulted in 11 films, from The Ice Storm, which Schamus adapted for the screen from Rick Moody's novel, to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain (the most successful Focus film of all time) and the period Shanghai spy movie, Lust, Caution, which has been the subject of more scrutiny in China than almost any film ever made. It is Schamus's favourite of Lee's films, " the most rigorous and uncompromising," he says, "and it was perversely fun to see how it played out culturally in different territories. Here, the New York Times was like, 'Oh, it starts with a really boring mah jong scene.'"
That opening scene, in which the heroine is shown playing mah jong, has, in China, been parsed for hidden purpose with the kind of zeal a western audience will bring to David Lynch. "The continuity person almost needed to be hospitalised – 2,000 continuity photos, because every single tile tells a story. The entire game had been plotted out, and we covered it from six or seven angles. What plays out in that six minutes is an epic, literary, philosophical, political, sexual narrative – a mind-boggling storm of thought."
The biggest mystery, perhaps, is how Schamus, who grew up in southern California, was able to write the script of a movie like Lust, Caution, a Mandarin-language film (his script was translated from the English) depicting a culture which he can only approach from the outside. As he says, drily, "What do I know from mah jong?" It's a question of trust and compatibility. "Working with Ang – I would say it's like Donald Rumsfeld's 'unknown unknown'. I have to live knowing that I don't know what I don't know, but somehow make that function. I don't pretend to be the expert, but I'm feeding into a mental and emotional machinery that is able to mobilise and use that stuff."
In 2003, he produced the movie Hulk, which Lee directed, a perfect example of Schamus's credo: that you don't get anywhere in the film business by being too precious. It amuses Schamus to watch even the loftiest film critics being forced to engage with "Giganto-Turd III, made by the most despicable, cretinous, money-grubbing, horrible dimwits". And afterwards having to admit that they have been entertained by whatever summer blockbuster it is that they've seen.
Two years ago, in partnership with Universal, Focus bought 50 Shades of Grey, a literary phenomenon that fascinates Schamus. "The discourse around the book was: 'I couldn't put it down, it was terribly written.' Nobody says that about Dean Koontz. In general, the trope is gendered. If it is badly written, boring, and repetitive, it is at least in good historical company. Samuel Richardson was basically writing 50 Shades of Grey. At the end of Pamela, she actually marries the guy who's been trying to rape her the whole book. And the discourse around that book was: 'These are perverse sexual fantasies for idle women.' Not even well written."
Schamus has a Phd in English Literature and spent his entire 20s in full-time education at Berkeley. He opted to write a dissertation on the Danish film-maker Carl Theodor Dreyer, and left California for New York in order to work on it, where he also started writing screenplays. To his astonishment, there was some buzz around his early efforts, and he was invited back to California for studio meetings, all of which were cancelled – along with his nascent career – by a writers' strike. Looking back, he says, that was probably a good thing. He might never have gone into producing, and the boy-wonder screenwriter wouldn't have been a good life for him. Why? Because he might have turned into Joe Eszterhas?
"There is that concern. Because I gain weight very easily." He recalls, with a shudder, a Vanity Fair Hollywood issue devoted to screenwriters. "It was so traumatising, that photograph. It was someone's Beverly Hills backyard and it's 25 guys, all with my build, but slightly more degenerated. Flannel shirts, jeans. They're all in the most macho poses, thumbs hooked in their belts. They all make, by my standards, fabulous amounts of money. And they all looked completely pissed off. They're neurotic and miserable. The job is ego-crushing. It's a gigantic ass-kick to the soul."
He pauses.
"That said, I love the challenge of Hollywood screenwriting. Love it. Give me a rewrite job on a popcorn movie – I love that stuff."

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"Third-graders who lack proficiency in reading are four times more likely to become high school dropouts."
Only in the rarest of incidents should a third-grade child still not be held back if they are not reading by 3rd grade.
"The ideal alternative: teachers and parents would collaborate on the creation of an individualized learning plan for each third-grader who needs help with reading — a plan that might involve specialized instruction, tutoring or summer school. Most important is taking action, researchers say, and not assuming that reading problems will work themselves out."
Why Third Grade Is So Important: The 'Matthew Effect'
Children who have made the leap to fluent reading will learn exponentially, while those who haven't will slump
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Have you been job hunting but, haven't found an ideal job that showcases your talents, education and interests? Let me ask you a question: Have you thought about starting your own business?
I have to warn you though, making the leap from employee to entrepreneur means changing not only your lifestyle, but also your mindset. Before spending time, money and energy starting a new business, you should ask yourself: Do I have what it takes to own a business or, am I better suited to being an employee?
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The Deptford Trilogy
The Deptford Trilogy (published 1970 to 1975) is a series of inter-related novels by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies.
The trilogy consists of Fifth Business (1970), The Manticore (1972), and World of Wonders (1975). The series revolves around a precipitating event: a young boy throws a snowball at another, hitting a pregnant woman instead, who goes into premature labor. It explores the longterm effects of these events on numerous characters.
The Deptford trilogy has won praise for its narrative voice and its characterizations. The main characters originate from the same small village. Each carries a secret that crosses the lives of the others and drives the plot forward. Fifth Business is considered one of Davies' best novels. The second novel, The Manticore, won the Governor-General's Literary Award in the English-language fiction category in 1972.
The trilogy was named for its setting in the fictional village of Deptford, Ontario. This is based in part on Davies' native Thamesville. Davies takes the view of different characters in each novel, and expresses each in a different style. The tone and unconventional literary devices of metafiction have led some later critics to suggest the series was a precursor to what has been called "slipstream" fiction in the 21st century.[1]
Fifth Business[edit]
Fifth Business is narrated by Dunstable (later Dunstan) Ramsay, who grows up in Deptford, a fictional town in southwestern Ontario, Canada. After World War I, he becomes a teacher and serves for decades at a college. The epistolary novel takes the form of a letter Ramsay writes to the headmaster of Colborne College after his retirement. He feels ill used by an article about him in the school paper. He recalls how, as a boy, he ducked a snowball intended for him. It hit a pregnant woman instead, and she gave birth prematurely. This incident and related events deeply affected Ramsay's life. He tells how he came to terms with his guilt. He also tells of his boyhood friend and enemy, Percy Boyd "Boy" Staunton, who becomes a wealthy businessman and politician.
The Manticore[edit]
The Manticore is the story of Boy Staunton's only son, David, who undergoes Jungian psychoanalysis in Switzerland. During his therapy, he tries to understand his father and his relationship to him. The novel is a detailed record of his therapy and his coming to understand his own life. It sheds new light on many of the characters introduced in Fifth Business, including his father's friend Dunstan Ramsay, who happens to be in Switzerland recuperating from a heart attack.
The Manticore won the Governor-General's Literary Award in the English-language fiction category in 1972.
World of Wonders[edit]
World of Wonders tells of Paul Dempster, a boy born prematurely who is befriended by Dunstan Ramsay. He learns to conjure and, as an adult, takes the name of Magnus Eisengrim as he establishes a successful career as a noted magician. Eisengrim is to portray Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin in a television movie. During lulls in the filming, he recounts his life, including obstacles he has overcome. He elaborates on his career as an actor traveling through Canada in the early 20th century. Dunstan Ramsay also appears in this novel. More insight is provided into the characters of Fifth Business.
Key characters[edit]
Dunstan Ramsay[edit]
Dunstan Ramsay is the narrator of both Fifth Business and World of Wonders (he is not the protagonist in the last novel). He also appears as a major character in The Manticore and as a supporting character in several other novels by Davies. Ramsay is a gentle schoolmaster with surprising depths and is probably a stand-in for Davies himself. (Since Davies has said that the main business of a writer is to be an enchanter, a weaver of spells, a magician,[2] Dempster/Eisengrim may stand for Davies.) Ramsay counsels his students to write in "the plain style," as Davies does—to highlight the story rather than the writer.
Ramsay appears in Davies' novels What's Bred in the Bone and The Lyre of Orpheus, two of his Cornish trilogy, and in the later novel The Cunning Man. Ramsay is not religious but he is fascinated by the lives of the saints. He writes several well-regarded treatises on saints. In the novels he is compared with Saint Dunstan in his struggle with Satan.
Magnus Eisengrim[edit]
Magnus Eisengrim is one of the names taken on by Paul Dempster. Like several of the main characters in Davies' novel, Paul undergoes a symbolic rebirth which is accompanied by a name change. It is eventually revealed that this name is derived from that of Isengrin, a wolf in the stories of Reynard the Fox.
On December 28, 1908, Paul was born prematurely after his mother was hit in the head by a snowball thrown by Percy Boyd Staunton. She went insane after the mishap. Paul is raised by his strict and religious father but runs away from home. He is taken by the World of Wonders troupe, where he is abused but learns the skills of a conjuror. This moment in his life is also significant for his first change in alias, that of Faustus (a name later translated into Faustina, both female assistants to Eisengrim).
After several years, Paul becomes the understudy of a famous, aged English actor. Working as his stunt double, Paul slowly adopts his personality and appearance and almost assumes his persona.
Paul (now known as Magnus Eisengrim) tells this story to his co-workers while they are working on a movie about Robert-Houdin.
- ^ Broderick, Damien (2000). Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science, p. 33.
- ^ Quoted in LaBossiere, Robertson Davies: A Mingling of Contrarieties, p. 126.
External links[edit]
- Quotations related to The Deptford Trilogy at Wikiquote


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Regardless of my clients' struggles, my intention is always that they find a way to live in harmony with their highest selves and make powerful, soul-centered decisions guided by their innermost truths.
In planning a series of upcoming readings events, however, I've become newly re-aware of another essential aspect of my work: discerning what exactly is blocking someone's essential truth from emerging right now.
To me, this has always been a particularly exciting and educational aspect of my work because there are as many obstacles to the expression of one's truth as there are people. The possibilities, in fact, are endless.
I can't tell you by looking at someone what stops them. But when I look at their cards, I can see entire constellations of fears and behavior that prevent them from taking the risks necessary to live a soul-centered life.
Sometimes, I see someone fearing the destruction that may be unleashed when the truth gets out. At other times, a person is so judgmental of certain, very human, qualities that he or she won't look at themselves honestly for fear of finding something unacceptable.
Sometimes I see a person trying to avoid unacknowledged pain – fearful of being obliterated by their own enormous grief. At other times, an individual may be tottering on the edge of their comfort zone and lacking the faith – or connection to a higher power – that will have them make a jump.
I believe that, in our hearts, we all want to live in harmony AND we all long to have our outer lives reflect our inner truths.
As human beings, we yearn to see our deepest passions blossom in the light of day. But when it's not clear what's holding us back, it makes it that much harder to make the best choices towards those ends.
When I am able to help someone discover what those blockages are, often only then can they take the first steps towards consciously choosing whether to remain in fear or choose something new: whether to remain in the bud, or open to bloom.
It is always an honor to be such an important part of someone's journey to self – and soul – discovery. But no matter how much safety and love I can offer, the choosing part is always up to them. If you knew what was holding you back, what would you choose?


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May 2013: Durham Jones & Pinegar represented Sunroc Corporation in its acquisition of the assets of A-T Asphalt Paving, Inc., dba Southern Utah Asphalt, headquartered in St. George, Utah, and the assets of its related companies located in Washington County and Iron County, Utah. Sunroc Corporation provides construction materials and services throughout the Intermountain West, including ready-mix concrete, asphalt, sand and gravel, masonry products, earthwork and site development work, utility construction, asphalt paving, demolition and trucking. Amount undisclosed (Paul M. Durham)


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While we may not often find ourselves fleeing from predators and scavenging for food, modern life is still full of all kinds of stressful situations. From getting stuck in traffic to that big deadline at work, stresses big and small can have a huge impact on our mental – and physical – health.
But finding ways to de-stress shouldn't be another form of stress in our lives! That's why we put together these nine super simple tips for de-stressing at home.
- Buy a plant. Not only are houseplants great for air quality (in addition to adding oxygen, some even purify the air), they are great for lowering your stress. Researchers have shown that just the presence of plants trigger our relaxation responses.
- Put down your smart phone (and tablet… and laptop…). Mounting research is showing that our screen addictions are actually horrible for our mental health. Many experience anxiety, stress and the feeling of being unable to "disconnect" from work and other responsibilities. Take some time for tech detox and enjoy some screen-free time. The harder it feels to disconnect, the more it's probably just what you need!
- Turn on some tunes. There's a reason we call some songs "soothing" – slow songs help you relax and even release the feel-good brain chemical dopamine. Since most of us store our music on our electronic devices, just make sure you turn on the tunes and then step away from the screen!
- Get crafty. Activities such as knitting and cross-stitch have been shown to create a meditative affect on your brain. As an added bonus, you'll end up with some beautiful, handcrafted pieces to show for your efforts!
- Bring out your inner child. Adults have begun to re-discover the simple joys of coloring. That's right! While it may have started as a fad, adult coloring books look like they're here to stay due to their proven relaxation benefits.
- Declutter. A cluttered home leads to a cluttered mind. One of the most important things you can do in your home to create a relaxing space is to organize and declutter. While the organization process may seem stressful at first, the end result of a clearer and less-congested space will have a huge impact how easy it is to relax at home.
- Catch some quality zzzzzs. Not enough or poor quality sleep make it a whole lot harder for your body to deal with stressful situations. It's during sleep that our bodies recharge and repair themselves from the physical and mental stresses of the day. Make sure you're prioritizing getting a full night's sleep. If you're getting seven or more hours and still wake up feeling less than refreshed, consider investing in a new mattress. All good health starts with a great night's sleep.
- Practice gratitude. The importance of gratitude has been making its way into the news a lot lately – and with good reason! Studies have shown that a grateful outlook is one of the largest factors in individual happiness. Have a hard time looking on the bright side? The good news is that gratitude can be learned. One of the easiest ways to start is by keeping a gratitude journal. Start by writing out five things each day that you're grateful for and watch how your outlook – and stress levels – being to improve!
- Find the right light. One of the easiest and also most drastic ways to change the look – and more importantly feel – of a room is to update the lighting. Harsh, bright overhead lighting is, well, harsh. Floor and table lamps with lower watt bulbs will instantly give any room a more relaxing vibe.


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Naomi's story, told by her Mum, Ruth
On the 13th October 2014 my 17 year old daughter had an epileptic seizure in the bath and I found her submerged and unresponsive. I managed to resuscitate her and she was rushed to our local hospital, which we are fortunate enough to have on our doorstep, Salford Royal Hospital, where after several hours in A+E she was placed in an induced coma and taken to the Critical Care Unit (CCU).
She spent 10 very long days at Salford Royal where she showed little improvement and when she did it was rapidly followed by a deterioration. After the first 7 days in CCU the doctors had mentioned the possibility of ECMO which would mean a move to Wythenshawe Hospital. This was only mentioned almost in passing and we weren't keen for Naomi to move hospitals as Salford was so convenient for us and our extended family. By the 9th day in CCU, 22nd October, Naomi was really struggling and it was distressing to see. Her lungs were unable to cope with trying to repair themselves from the damage from the bath water under the pressure of the ventilator.
At around 11pm on the 22nd October, we received a call from CCU. We were staying at the hospital in relatives room not far from the ward. We were asked to come to the ward to discuss Naomi going to Wythenshawe for ECMO. The doctors explained why this needed to happen and that they had already informed the ECMO team who were on the way to Salford as it was felt it couldn't wait until the morning. Around 90 minutes later Naomi was in theatre being prepared with the ECMO for the journey to Wythenshawe which happened around 3am.
My Husband and I are well aware that had Naomi not gone to Wythenshawe that night we would be telling a very different story.
Once Naomi had moved we started to do some research regarding ECMO and realised that despite us initially thinking it wasn't very convenient for us, we were actually incredibly lucky to have such a facility so close to home. Given the small number of beds across the country we were unbelievably grateful.
Visiting Naomi on ECMO we never ceased to be astounded at how this machine had given our daughter the best chance possible. Over the next 8 days with the incredible care of the staff and the wonder that is ECMO Naomi improved and was able to move back to Salford on the 1st November. She spent another 2 weeks on CCU coming off the ventilator due to problems with her epilepsy, another week on the rehab ward and a week at home.
One month after coming off the ECMO Naomi was back at school.
Naomi celebrated her 18th Birthday in March with most of her close family (28 of us), all of whom had visited Naomi as some point during her time in hospital. Then and even now, nearly 12 months on, all comment on how she is a walking miracle like nothing ever happened.
My husband and I keep the picture of Naomi on the ECMO machine on our phones. 1. To make us remember that things can always be worse and 2. To show anybody who will listen about the miracle that is ECMO and the NHS.
Peter's Story, told by his daughter, Charley
Simple surgery to remove a rare cancer of the prostate. It would be life changing for Dad, but at least he would have his life. After the first 24 hours things were looking good and the surgeons said he would be out by the weekend. He was in Birmingham hospital and when I phoned the Intensive care unit to check he had a comfortable night, I instantly knew there was something wrong and travelled the 200 miles to be with my mum by his side. The next 12 hours proved to be life changing and his condition dramatically deteriorated.
Birmingham, knowing that there was nothing more that they could do to save his life phoned with urgency to Leicester to suggest dad for ECMO. Leicester were at maximum capacity for ECMO patients and even if they had space, they would be unlikely to take him due to his age. At 66, dad was 1 year over the age that ECMO is deemed likely to be successful. But dad wasn't a normal 66 year old, fit and healthy, loved nothing more than a game of football with the grandchildren. Luckily for us, the next call was to Manchester and they had no hesitation in accepting his case.
Immediately, a team was despatched and travelled from Manchester to Birmingham. On arrival, the 6 strong team explained the risk involved, which was high but in the grand scheme of things, we had no other option. The surgery took place in Birmingham and after 45 minutes, we were called down to say goodbye. Dad travelled from Birmingham to Manchester, ECMO attached on blue lights at 12 midnight. My sister, Mum and I followed the ambulance. On arrival we were instantly put at ease by the amazing staff in Manchester. The ECMO team had already called ahead and a family meeting room was made available for the 3 of us to rest until morning. My Mum and I top and tailed on a hospital bed and my sister curled up on a small sofa. The following morning, we woke to tea and toast.
Dad was on ECMO for 5 days, which is a very short time, we were told 2 weeks was likely but like I said, my Dad isn't normal.
Today we have returned to Wythenshawe hospital and the ECMO team for our catch up. It wasn't easy, Dad had no recollection of his time there and it brought back so many difficult memories for myself and my Mum. Initially, we were shown to the family room…..last time we were there the 3 of us camped overnight top and tail.
If you are reading this you have either been through ECMO or are going through it. If you are still on the journey all I can say is you are in the safest hands in Manchester. We will never forget how the smallest things made the biggest difference.
On the morning on 24th Feb I drove myself to Monklands hospital in Airdrie, I was admitted with suspected pneumonia. They had me on oxygen and were treating me with IV antibiotics. After a few days the doctor wanted to send me home but my bloods showed that the inflammation in my body was too high.
The next morning I ended up in ICU as my oxygen saturations levels were too low. It was then later confirmed that I had swine flu. I was put on the CPAP but found it too uncomfortable and was taken off it as the nurse said it wasn't working. I asked to be sedated due to the pain I was in, to which they agreed. My family were contacted and told that I was going to be sedated and ventilated, but that they would be able to come and see me before I went under. By the time they made the journey to the hospital I was fully sedated and on the ventilator as my oxygen levels had dropped.
Later that evening I was transferred onto the 'oscillating' ventilator, as my oxygen levels were too low and my carbon dioxide levels were too high. The doctor in ICU told my family that this machine was as good as they had. It was at this point the ECMO was mentioned.
The next part of the story comes from my wife. The ECMO machine was brought down from Aberdeen, and a team of doctors and nurses followed. I was assessed by the team and they decided to put me on the ECMO in Monklands and transfer me to Aberdeen Royal while on it. When my family came to say their goodbyes there were around 12 staff who had been working on me.
I was on the ECMO for 7 days, and needed continuous dialysis, and frequent blood transfusions. 2 days after coming off ECMO I was transferred back down to Monklands. I spent a further 3 days in ICU and was then transferred to the renal ward. Finally I was discharged home on 25th March.
I returned to Aberdeen in June to meet and thank the staff who looked after me and to try confirm to myself that I had been in Aberdeen, as I thought this had been some conspiracy or dream.
I am very lucky to be here to be able to tell my story.
My story began on a family holiday to Spain in October 2014. I began to feel ill a couple of days before the end of the holiday but put it down to a chill or a little too much sun. I managed to see the rest of the holiday out but remember little about the journey home. The following day I attended A&E at my local hospital where I was quickly diagnosed with double pneumonia caused by the legionella bacteria. I recall waiting in A&E but this is the last thing I remember for more than 2 weeks. The next part of my story has been told to me by my partner and family. I was immediately admitted hospital but my condition continued to deteriorate. I was transferred to the Critical Care Unit and then soon after placed on a ventilator.
The following day the doctors began speaking to the ECMO unit at Wythenshawe Hospital who offered their advice to try and improve my condition. However I continued to deteriorate and my condition was such that I was accepted for ECMO treatment and a team from Wythenshawe arrived to carry out the surgery. The operation went well and I was then taken back to Wythenshawe with them. I was on ECMO for 8 days. Following the ECMO treatment I spent a further few days at Wythenshawe in Acute Intensive Care. I remember little about this period as although the sedation had ceased I drifted in and out of consciousness. Eventually I was transferred back to West Yorkshire to Dewsbury Hospital on 18 November. At this point I was mostly awake but unable to speak as I had a tracheostomy. I found this very frustrating particularly as I couldn't write things down to communicate due to my hands being so weak.
Throughout my stay in hospital both at Wythenshawe and the early in my stay at Dewsbury I had many strange dreams and nightmares that I was convinced were real. I would frequently tell my partner that I remembered certain events only to be told that they never happened
I remained in Dewsbury until December when I was allowed home. I was still very weak and reliant on walking aids to get about. However, my condition improved rapidly after this, and I have been able to achieve all the goals I set myself whilst lying in hospital. I was determined to be able to attend the first match of the season of my rugby league team, Castleford Tigers and to be able to play 18 holes of golf by the end of February, both of which I achieved. I know this wouldn't have been possible without the work of the ECMO Team at Wythenshawe who undoubtedly saved my life. My partner was told that I will be invited back to the unit where I will be able to meet some of the team and see the diary that was kept recording my treatment. My partner continued to keep a diary whilst I was in Dewsbury, which was great to fill in the gaps and I can't wait to get to Wythenshawe to see the diary and to personally thank the members of the ECMO team for saving my life.
Jane's Story
When I became ill I was on a caravan holiday with my Mum in Woolacombe Devon. Mum was up before me; this was unusual and she found me in bed swollen and red and couldn't stir me fully. I remember I couldn't get warm in bed the night before. As the doctor wouldn't come to visit me, Mum struggled to take me to the local doctors. From here the doctor called an ambulance as I was struggling to breathe and I was taken to North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple where I was put on life support, suffering from viral pneumonia.
I cannot remember anything after this, but through my relatives and diaries kept, which is brilliant idea, I am able to tell you from this point. Within 2 days life support wasn't working enough, my lungs were at 88%, and my organs were failing due to lack of oxygen. ECMO was mentioned but there were no spare beds. A man who needed a bed before me improved, so thankfully I climbed to the top of the queue although there were no ECMO machines available. All my relatives were under extreme stress as without one I would not survive. Within the hour a bed became available in Manchester. Specialists travelled later that evening from Manchester by RAF helicopter to operate and put me on ECMO.
I was then flown to Manchester UHSM and was in Manchester for 3 weeks. During this time I was sedated in a coma. I was moved to back to Rotherham ICU where I was taken off sedation. I opened my eyes 3 days later and was moved to HDU followed by isolation for 3 weeks. I left Rotherham Hospital on 13th June 2014.
During time whilst under sedation I had dreams and nightmares which were very real to me, so real I told my family lots of stories which I believed.
The ECMO team couldn't have been more supportive and continue to do so even now. I am extremely grateful as without them I wouldn't be here.


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We're happy to say that the first in hopefully many bicycle workshop courses run at Shand HQ is now open for booking. This first one (well two actually) is a wheelbuilding course. We're acting as hosts for Derek McLay of Wheelsmith to run 'An introduction to wheelbuilding'. It'll run on the 16th of November and again on the
23rd of November (). All bookings are to be made with Wheelsmith and NOT us.
See the link below for more details and how to book.
An Introduction to Wheelbuilding


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List of Space: 1999 episodes
Space: 1999, a British science-fiction television series, ran for 48 episodes broadcast between 1975-77. The first series (or season, often referred to as Year One) of 24 episodes began transmission in 1975, though production of the first episode began in 1973. In addition, a number of compilation films have been produced using material from multiple episodes, some containing additional footage. A brief, semi-official series denouement was filmed for exhibition at the Breakaway 1999 fan convention,[1] held in Los Angeles, California in September 1999.
Individual episodes are intended to be broadcast in a progressive order so that, for Year One, "Breakaway" should be broadcast first, with "Black Sun" and "Earthbound" being broadcast at an early stage to present the Moon entering a new and different part of space and the Alphans encountering their first aliens. However, many stations in the United States aired "Dragon's Domain" (production number 23) as the second installment after "Breakaway" in September 1975. In the United Kingdom, "Force of Life" (production number 9) was the follow-up to "Breakaway". The other guidelines are that the episodes should progress to show John Koenig's and Helena Russell's relationship develop and blossom. "The Metamorph" should be the first episode of Year Two, followed by the remaining episodes (there is a two-part episode in Year Two) in the order that the days on Russell's status report (which commences each episode) dictates. Regional and national stations aired the series in a wide range of orders. In some cases, this included mixing Year One and Year Two episodes at random. Most episodes run 60 minutes in length although several episodes have a runtime of 50 minutes.
Original episode air dates below reflect the order of Space: 1999 as broadcast first, in Australia and the UK. The transmission dates given below are those for the UK.
Year One (1975–1976)Edit
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|Original air date[3]
|Lee H. Katzin
|George Bellak
|4 September 1975
|In September 1999, John Koenig reports to Earth's Space Research Center at Moonbase Alpha as its new commander. A strange sickness is killing some of the Moonbase Alpha crew. Commander Koenig's investigation reveals that the source lies at Nuclear Waste Disposal Area 2 caused by excessive magnetic energy fields. The continuous build up of energy shortly causes massive explosion clusters that knocks the moon off orbit into deep space.
|"Force of Life"
|David Tomblin
|Johnny Byrne
|11 September 1975
|The body of Anton Zoref is invaded by an unknown life force. The man soon manifests an uncontrollable ability to absorb energy. As the Alphans struggle to understand this mysterious force, Zoref's need becomes insatiable. Driven by instinct, he makes his way to the greatest source of energy on Alpha: the Nuclear Generating Plant.
|"Collision Course"
|Ray Austin
|Anthony Terpiloff
|18 September 1975
|The Moon is on a collision course with an enormous planet. On a scouting mission, Koenig encounters Arra, the Queen of Atheria. The aged monarch proclaims the collision is a preordained event and must occur for her people to evolve to a higher plane of existence. Now Koenig must convince his staff to have faith and do nothing in the face of apparent destruction.
|"War Games"
|Charles Crichton
|Christopher Penfold
|25 September 1975
|Approaching an inhabited planet, the Alphans are suddenly pounced upon by warships. In an unprovoked attack, Moonbase Alpha is devastated by Earth-style Hawk fighters. With 128 dead and Alpha unable to sustain life, Koenig and Helena appeal to the aliens for mercy. The aliens proclaim the Earthmen to be an invading virus, with no right to exist.
|"Death's Other Dominion"
|Charles Crichton
|Anthony Terpiloff,
Elizabeth Barrows
|2 October 1975
|On a frozen planet called Ultima Thule,[4] the Alphans encounter shipwrecked humans from a lost expedition. The expatriates from Earth enjoy an idyllic existence: they have been made immortal and have lived there for over 880 years. They invite the Alphans to join them in paradise, but dissidents reveal all is not as it seems, teaching Koenig that immortality comes with a price.
|"Voyager's Return"
|Bob Kellett
|Johnny Byrne
|9 October 1975
|The automated Earth space probe Voyager One is approaching the Moon. With the radioactive exhaust from its engine certain to extinguish all life on Moonbase, the Alphans try to gain control and shut down the drive. Help comes when the probe's designer is found living on Alpha under an assumed name. However, Voyager is being followed by alien ships seeking revenge.
|"Alpha Child"
|Ray Austin
|Christopher Penfold
|16 October 1975
|The Alphans celebrate the arrival of the first child born on the Moon. The blessed event sours when the infant grows into a five-year-old child in minutes. Trying to accept him, the Alphans do not notice that little Jackie Crawford is much more than he seems. When hostile spaceships approach the base, Koenig realises, too late, that the aliens have an agent on Alpha.
|"Dragon's Domain"
|Charles Crichton
|Christopher Penfold
|23 October 1975
|In 1996, Tony Cellini commanded a high-profile space mission which ended in disaster. The sole survivor, he told an outrageous tale of a spaceship graveyard and an alien 'dragon' which devoured his crew. Believed by no one, he was left a broken man. Five years later, the truth is revealed when the runaway Moon approaches the same deadly Sargasso in space.
|"Mission of the Darians"
|Ray Austin
|Johnny Byrne
|30 October 1975
|Encountering a derelict spaceship, the Alphans respond to an automated distress signal. On board, they discover what remains of the once-great civilisation of Daria: an elite group which maintains control of the ship and a tribe which has descended into savagery. The Alphans are appalled when they discover what measures the Darians have taken to survive.
|"Black Sun"
|Lee H. Katzin
|David Weir
|6 November 1975
|The travelling Moon drifts within range of a black sun. Pulled toward certain destruction by its inescapable gravitational force, the Alphans employ desperate measures to stay alive. As a lifeboat Eagle carries six persons to safety, the Moon plunges into the black sun, with only an experimental forcefield protecting Alpha.
|"Guardian of Piri"
|Charles Crichton
|Christopher Penfold
|13 November 1975
|Strange events befuddle the Alphans as they approach the planet Piri. When exploring its lifeless surface, Koenig encounters the seductive servant of the mysterious Guardian of Piri. She offers the wayward Alphans a life of peace and perfection. Realising the deadly truth behind the peace of Piri, Koenig struggles to free his people from the Guardian's influence.
|"End of Eternity"
|Ray Austin
|Johnny Byrne
|20 November 1975
|While exploring an asteroid, the Alphans critically injure an alien trapped within. Bringing him to Alpha, he is declared dead. However, he recovers spontaneously and his wounds have completely healed. The indestructible Balor is a scientist whose people had discovered the secret of immortality. He explains that his people branded him a dissident as their society descended into malaise brought about by widespread deathlessness. He was imprisoned inside the asteroid and cast out. Actually Balor is a psychopath, offering a drastic solution to his people's apathy; now freed of the eternal prison, he plans to spend eternity practicing the art of pain and torture, with the Alphans as his subjects.
|"Matter of Life and Death"
|Charles Crichton
|Art Wallace,
Johnny Byrne
|27 November 1975
|A lush Earth-type planet holds the promise of a new home for the people of Moonbase Alpha. When the reconnaissance Eagle returns, it carries an unexpected passenger: Helena's husband, who died five years ago. The mysterious Lee Russell tells the Alphans that death awaits them on the new planet. The Alphans ignore his warning and unknowingly descend into a world of antimatter.
|Charles Crichton
|Anthony Terpiloff
|4 December 1975
|An alien spacecraft crashlands on the Moon, its passengers refugees from a dying world. As their destination is Earth, they generously offer to take one person with them when they depart. The scheming Commissioner Simmonds takes steps to ensure that he is the lucky individual chosen, even if it means destroying Alpha.
|"The Full Circle"
|Bob Kellett
|Jesse Lasky Jnr.,
Pat Silver
|11 December 1975
|When exploring a habitable planet, members of the Alphan survey party vanish without a trace. Are they the victims of an indigenous tribe of Stone Age humanoids? The mystery deepens when a dead caveman is found to have capped teeth. Others soon notice the primitive cave chief and his mate bear an uncanny resemblance to the missing John Koenig and Helena Russell.
|"Another Time, Another Place"
|David Tomblin
|Johnny Byrne
|18 December 1975
|After an encounter with a space-time anomaly, the Alphans find their Moon back in the Solar System on a course to re-enter Earth orbit. The celebration ends when it becomes apparent Earth is an inhospitable wasteland. The mystery deepens when they discover a duplicate Moon already in orbit and a duplicate Moonbase Alpha lying empty and deserted.
|"The Last Sunset"
|Charles Crichton
|Christopher Penfold
|1 January 1976
|Anonymous alien benefactors provide the wandering Moon with a breathable atmosphere. The Alphans rejoice as they realise they have a wonderful new home in their own backyard. Preparations are made to settle and begin building a new civilisation on the Moon's surface. Koenig is suspicious of the aliens' motives, wondering how long this generous gift will last.
|"The Infernal Machine"
|David Tomblin
|Anthony Terpiloff,
Elizabeth Barrows
|8 January 1976
|The Alphans are visited by a bizarre spacecraft, whose request for supplies hides a deeper purpose. The ship, Gwent, is found to be sentient, the attempt of a vain alien genius to live forever. Powerful, unstable and craving companionship, Gwent intends for Koenig, Helena and Bergman to replace its aged, dying creator.
|"Ring Around the Moon"
|Ray Austin
|Edward di Lorenzo
|15 January 1976
|A technician falls under an alien influence, accessing classified information before mysteriously dying. Soon after, the Moon is stopped in space by the powerful rays of an alien spacecraft. The aliens' only interest in Alpha is the data held in its computers, information they now plan to obtain through the possessed eyes of their next agent: Helena Russell.
|"Missing Link"
|Ray Austin
|Edward di Lorenzo
|22 January 1976
|John Koenig finds himself trapped on the planet Zenno, in the home of an alien scientist and his daughter. Advanced two million years beyond Earthmen, the aliens consider Koenig their missing link. Faced with the threat of being treated like an experimental animal for the rest of his life, Koenig uses an unexpected weapon to confound his captor: love.
|"Space Brain"
|Charles Crichton
|Christopher Penfold
|29 January 1976
|An Eagle and its crew are crushed to death by an enormous energy field in space. When one of Alpha's astronauts is possessed by the anomaly, he tells them the energy field is a living space brain, which responded to the 'threat' with antibodies. Finding the Moon on a collision course with the Brain, the Alphans make plans to avoid the same fate as the Eagle.
|"The Troubled Spirit"
|Ray Austin
|Johnny Byrne
|5 February 1976
|Dan Mateo, hoping to unlock the secret of communication with plants, unleashes a killing force from the depths of his own mind. This macabre spectre seeks vengeance for Mateo's horrible death—which has not yet occurred. Bridging the span between science and the supernatural, the Alphans hope to break the cycle and exorcise the ghost without killing the man.
|"The Testament of Arkadia"
|David Tomblin
|Johnny Byrne
|12 February 1976
|The wandering Moon suddenly changes course and comes to a halt in the vicinity of a dead world. As Alpha's power fails, the only hope for survival is to evacuate to the planet, which was ravaged by a nuclear war in the distant past. Searching for answers, a team is sent to the surface, where they discover the shocking truth of the origin of Mankind.
|"The Last Enemy"
|Bob Kellett
|Bob Kellett
|19 February 1976
|The Moon approaches a solar system with two planets on opposite sides of its sun. The Alphans are trapped in an interplanetary conflict when warships from both worlds trespass on the Moon to fire missiles at their opponents' planets. After taking in a refugee from a destroyed gunship, the Alphans discover they have drifted into the middle of a literal war of the sexes.
- Although not broadcast until the summer of 1975, production on the pilot episode, "Breakaway", commenced in November 1973.
- The closing moments of "Breakaway" strongly suggest that the Alphans are considering maintaining contact with the planet Meta and possibly even settling there.[5] The planet "Terra Nova" in the episode "Matter of Life and Death" is considered as Meta, an idea possibly taken from the novelization, though in fact the opening dialogue makes it clear that this is not the first planet that the Alphans have encountered, which Meta would logically have been.
- The description for "Black Sun" is modified from the original ITC summary, which states that the Moon is on collision course with an asteroid that turns into a black sun. In the episode, an asteroid changes course and is destroyed by what the Alphans discover to be a "black sun" or black hole.
- "War Games", stated to be the highest-budgeted single episode of any TV series up to that time, was an overt commentary on humanity's combative nature. After firing pre-emptively on an apparently hostile alien task force, Alpha is devastated by an unstoppable alien enemy that wrecks the base and kills half the inhabitants. In another of the series' metaphysical twists, the Alphans are apparently given a second chance at the end, when time rewinds to moments prior to the attack so that Commander John Koenig may rethink his fateful decision. The aliens inform the Alphans that the events of the episode occurred in an instant of time to show them the consequences of their potential actions.[6]
- "Dragon's Domain" and "Force of Life" are more typical variations on the alien monster theme, although both have more metaphysical leanings. "Dragon's Domain" is essentially a re-telling of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon, while "Force of Life" raises questions about the nature of life, and what forms it could assume.
- "Voyager's Return" essentially serves as an allegory for whether someone who causes death and destruction in the pursuit of knowledge, whether knowingly or unknowingly, can truly redeem himself and be forgiven. It also touches on whether a whole populace can be held responsible for the actions of one of its members.
- "The Testament of Arkadia" predated Glen A. Larson's original Battlestar Galactica TV series by almost three years, in delving into the concept of "life here began out there". The episode also addresses one of the story arcs briefly touched upon throughout Year One, in that the journey of the Alphans might not have been as happenstance as it appeared to be. Additionally, "The Testament of Arkadia" depicts a lifeless planet that holds clues as to the origins of mankind but was ravaged thousands of years earlier in a nuclear war. A similar theme was adopted by Ronald D. Moore for his remake of Battlestar Galactica when dealing with the "original" planet Earth.
- "Death's Other Dominion" addresses the question of what price is too much for advancements in medical science: in this case, the search for the cause of an immortality that has already been achieved for reasons unknown.
Year Two (1976–1977)Edit
|Directed by:[2]
|Written by:[2]
|Original air date[7]
|"The Metamorph"
|Charles Crichton
|Johnny Byrne
|4 September 1976
|The Alphans fall into the grasp of the despotic Mentor, an alien scientist trying to restore his ravaged world to its former glory. His biological computer requires the energy obtained from living brains to complete his task. When captured, Koenig is offered a choice: surrender the Alphans to a horrifying living death or face complete annihilation. Mentor's beautiful daughter Maya, who is a metamorph and from whom Mentor has concealed his actions, may be able to aid the Alphans.
|"The Exiles"
|Ray Austin
|Donald James
|11 September 1976
|A fleet of alien missiles takes up orbit around the Moon. When one is brought down for examination, the Alphans discover it contains the frozen body of a young man. Revived, he begs for Koenig to recover the rest of his people, innocent victims of a ruthless alien coup. The Alphans are soon reminded that appearances can be deceptive.
|"Journey to Where"
|Tom Clegg
|Donald James
|18 September 1976
|A radio call from planet Earth to the moon gives hope of transporting the Alphans back home, until things go terribly wrong during the first crewed transport sequence.
|"One Moment of Humanity"
|Charles Crichton
|Tony Barwick
|25 September 1976
|Zamara, a striking alien woman, materialises aboard Moonbase and insists that two crew members must come to her planet, Vega, while the moon passes through Vega's space. The two, Tony and Helena, find they are being provoked and it is humanoid versus androids on Vega. Guest-starring Billie Whitelaw and Leigh Lawson
|"Brian the Brain"
|Kevin Connor
|Jack Ronder
|2 October 1976
|Guest-starring Bernard Cribbins in two roles. With the moon's trajectory reported to be shifting due to an unknown cause, the Alphans happen across a roving spaceship run entirely by a computer. Brian the Brain, as he prefers to be called (voice by Bernard Cribbins), proves to be a devious device until the truth is uncovered.
|"New Adam, New Eve"
|Charles Crichton
|Terence Feely
|9 October 1976
|A man appears claiming to be God and proceeds to select two couples from the Alphans to populate a new earth.
|"The Mark of Archanon"
|Charles Crichton
|Lew Schwarz
|16 October 1976
|Searching in the Moon's Catacombs for minerals, Alan Carter and his assistant come across a buried cryogenic pod containing a man and a boy.
|"The Rules of Luton"
|Val Guest
|"Charles Woodgrove"[9]
|23 October 1976
|Following the detection of a defect in an Eagle, Tony Verdeschi is forced to leave John Koenig and Maya on a prospective home planet for the Alphans, whilst he returns to fetch another Eagle. After picking a flower and eating a Berry, both John and Maya are accused of murder by the ruling plant life on Luton. Their sentence is a fight to the death with three other accused aliens.
|"All That Glisters"
|Ray Austin
|Keith Miles
|28 October 1976
|Seeking a mineral, Koenig and his expedition team are trapped on a desert planet whose dominant life form is a rock that is thirsty for liquid water.
|"The Taybor"
|Bob Brooks
|Thom Keyes
|4 November 1976
|A roving trader known as Taybor offers to trade the Alphans the technology to return to Earth, with Maya's companionship as the price.
|"Seed of Destruction"
|Kevin Connor
|John Goldsmith
|11 November 1976
|Whilst exploring a bizarre asteroid, Koenig is detained and replaced by a double which directs Alpha to direct most of its energy at the asteroid. Some of the crew react negatively at his double's dictatorial behaviour.
|"The AB Chrysalis"
|Val Guest
|Tony Barwick
|18 November 1976
|Koenig, Carter and Maya investigate the source of destructive waves, originating at regular intervals, destroying Moonbase Alpha and encounter an unusual civilization.
|"Catacombs of the Moon"
|Robert Lynn
|Anthony Terpiloff
|25 November 1976
|In the catacombs of the Moon, engineer Patrick Osgood is searching for titanium for a new heart to save his wife's life but he is developing a psychiatric disorder in his desperation and on account of dreams. The Moon is being bombarded by mysterious heat rays.
|"Space Warp"
|Peter Medak
|"Charles Woodgrove"[9]
|2 December 1976
|While Koenig and Tony investigate a derelict spaceship, the Moon passes through a space warp; at the same time, Maya is stricken by a fever and loses metamorphic control, becoming beasts the Alphans cannot manage, while they wait and hope Koenig and Tony will find their way to the space warp to rejoin them.
|"A Matter of Balance"
|Charles Crichton
|Pip and Jane Baker
|9 December 1976
|Botanist Shermeen is part of a reconnaissance team exploring a new planet but she's under a mysterious spell, being spoken to by a spectral man named Vindrus who has recruited Shermeen to help with a yearned-for escape plan.
|"The Beta Cloud"
|Robert Lynn
|"Charles Woodgrove"[9]
|16 December 1976
|A cloud of space dust causes a mystery illness on Alpha; an Eagle crew is sent to discover its secrets, but the craft returns only with a strange beast that withstands all assaults and which Maya realizes isn't a life form. The senders of the beast want elements of Alpha's life support system.
|"The Lambda Factor"
|Charles Crichton
|Terrance Dicks
|23 December 1976
|Maya discovers that a huge gaseous cloud is giving off Lambda waves which could give some people paranormal powers. One of the affected Alphans cracks and begins to take control. Koenig faces spectres, two people he condemned to death many years earlier during an expedition to a space station orbiting Venus.
|"The Bringers of Wonder, Part One"
|Tom Clegg
|Terence Feely
|4 August 1977
|Koenig seems to go berserk while flying an Eagle; as he is in Medical Center unconscious, a Superswift appears, lands and its crew is revealed as a team of people from Earth come to take the Alphans home. When Koenig seems to recover after some wave therapy applied to his brain, he does not see the old friends and acquaintances everyone else sees, nor a Superswift; Koenig sees hideous telepathic aliens and an alien spacecraft.
|"The Bringers of Wonder, Part Two"
|Tom Clegg
|Terence Feely
|11 August 1977
|Koenig convinces Helena to doubt the credibility of the visitors and treat Maya the same way he was treated. Maya can confirm Koenig's perception of aliens and after treating nearly everyone, Koenig, Maya and Tony work to stop the aliens, whose real intent is to detonate nuclear fuel to provide their sustenance.
|"The Seance Spectre"
|Peter Medak
|Donald James
|18 August 1977
|The leader of a surface survey team, Sanderson, all suffering from a mental disorder brought on from the monotonous lunar terrain, suspects Koenig of concealing discovery of a habitable planet. He incites his team to help him take over the Command Center from Koenig, intent on inhabiting the new planet named Tora that is on a collision course with the moon.
|Val Guest
|Christopher Penfold
|25 August 1977
|An alien ship lands seeking aid, but when its commander emerges and sees Maya, she stuns Maya, putting her in stasis. It is learned that the ship bears Dorzak, a Psychon refugee who behaved criminally on the commander's planet. Dorzak beguiles Maya about his intent, using extremely well-developed psychic abilities to control others' thoughts.
|"Devil's Planet"
|Tom Clegg
|Michael Winder
|1 September 1977
|Koenig and a colleague land on an Earth-like planet, once populated but now devoid of life, they flee when a man steps from a transport booth and dies. They fly the Eagle to the planet's companion body and crash, the colleague is killed by a forcefield and Koenig is captured. Taken to a penal colony on the planet's moon, he becomes the person of interest to the warden who then conceals Koenig's survival when other Alphans arrive in search of the Eagle crew.
|"The Immunity Syndrome"
|Bob Brooks
|Johnny Byrne
|29 October 1977
|While on a survey of a planet to replenish food and water on Moonbase Alpha, an alien form attacks a crewman who seemingly goes mad; after a brief struggle with the crewman, Tony Verdeschi is attacked by the alien as well. Koenig and the survey party must find Tony and help him regain his senses before the madness kills him and solve the mystery of the alien life form. All their technology breaks down, preventing them from leaving or receiving aid; all food - native and their own supply - become toxic.
|"The Dorcons"
|Tom Clegg
|Johnny Byrne
|12 November 1977
|Alpha is approached by an alien vessel, which Maya recognizes as a Dorcon ship. The Dorcons are enemies of the Psychons. The Dorcon ship eventually manages to take Maya from Moonbase Alpha so that the ship's commander can harvest Maya's brain stem to provide immortality to the supreme ruler. An attempt by Koenig to free Maya ensues before the Dorcons can do the transplant that will kill Maya. But the immature, scheming heir has other plans. (This episode eventually will serve as the series finale.)
- The time elapsed since leaving Earth orbit may allow an interpretation of the calendar date. However, even if the Alphans still use the Gregorian calendar, Earth has moved forward considerably in time, as evidenced in the episode "Journey to Where", in which it is 2120 on Earth. (The Alphans know that because of the Moon's high velocity, Einsteinian time dilation and the unknown phenomena that hurl them through space, time on Earth would progress more rapidly than on the Moon.)[10] The series was not consistent in how it used this number. The two-part "The Bringers of Wonder", for example, is said to take place hundreds of days apart, which is not possible (although the correct passage of days appeared in the script for "The Bringers of Wonder, Part Two", this was erroneously transcribed in Barbara Bain's script for the post-production recording session). Another time, the events of three episodes seem to occur almost simultaneously ("Devil's Planet" at 2306 days, "The Lambda Factor" at 2308 days and "The Immunity Syndrome" at 2310 days). If the numbers of days mentioned throughout Year Two are accurate, the episodes take place over a period of more than five years (while all the events of Year One passed in under 342 days). Additionally, it is stated, in "Dragon's Domain", that it has been 877 days since the Moon left orbit.
- The Year Two episodes aired on Associated Television over the course of more than a year. Due to a long mid-series gap, some sources consider episodes 2.17 to 2.24 to mark a third series. In some regions of the United Kingdom, the final episode, "The Dorcons", did not air until the summer of 1978. In others, it did not appear until the 1998 BBC Two repeat run. Year Two was available from an earlier date in countries other than the UK; for example, in Canada, CBC had aired all of Year Two by May 1977, and 10 episodes had been aired before transmission began in the UK.
Compilation filmsEdit
Four films were assembled from various episodes of Space: 1999 in the 1970s and 1980s. One aim was to provide content for new American and European cable and satellite TV stations (and for theatrical release, which occurred in a number of European countries). A fifth film, Spazio 1999, was created specifically for theatrical release in Italy. With the exception of Spazio 1999, the films were released on home video years before individual episodes.
- Spazio 1999 is a 1976 Italian release consisting of heavily edited segments from the episodes "Breakaway", "Ring Around The Moon" and "Another Time, Another Place". It features a score by film composer Ennio Morricone, replacing the original score by Barry Gray.
- Destination: Moonbase Alpha, released in 1978 by ITC London, was the first widely available re-edit of Space: 1999, based upon the two-part Year Two episode "The Bringers of Wonder". The narrator informs viewers that it is 2100 and that Moonbase Alpha drew its power from nuclear waste. In many countries, this episode could be seen only in a re-edited form since it did not appear in syndication (although the two episodes were restored for the Region 1 DVD release).
- Alien Attack, released in 1979 by ITC London, retroactively introduces foreign audiences to the premise of the series with a compilation of "Breakaway" and "War Games". It moves events from 1999 far into the 21st century. This film also includes footage specially shot for this release, specifically scenes set in the offices of the International Lunar Commission on Earth.
- Journey Through the Black Sun, released in 1982 by ITC New York, combines the Year One episodes "Collision Course" and "Black Sun". Scenes from both episodes, such as the character of Alan Carter confronting Commander John Koenig in "Black Sun", were cut.
- Cosmic Princess, also released in 1982 by ITC New York, focuses on the Year Two character Maya and combines the episodes "The Metamorph" and "Space Warp". The alien's dialogue from "Space Warp" is altered, and the alien's difficulties, as well as Maya's condition, are presented as being directly related to "The Metamorph" as if the events of that episode occurred only days before. A small number of scenes, such as Maya's father, Mentor, chiding her for what he views as misuse of her shapechanging abilities, were cut. This film appeared in an early episode of the TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Some American VHS editions of the English-language releases include specially filmed introductions by B-movie actress Sybil Danning (who never appeared in the original series). Space: 1999 actors Martin Landau and Barbara Bain were reportedly upset at this re-packaging and launched legal proceedings.[11]
Message from Moonbase AlphaEdit
At the Breakaway 1999 convention,[1] held in Los Angeles, California in 1999, a short featurette entitled Message from Moonbase Alpha premiered on 13 September. Produced by fans and written by Space: 1999 script editor Johnny Byrne, the short film features a tearful monologue performed by actress Zienia Merton in character as Sandra Benes.
The premise of the film, set decades after the events of the TV series (of which "The Dorcons" is the final episode), is that Moonbase Alpha's life-support systems have finally started to fail. Fortunately, a space warp has propelled the Moon to within range of an Earth-like planet, dubbed Terra Alpha. Following a vote (which was contested by some), Commander John Koenig has made the decision for all inhabitants to evacuate Alpha and settle on the planet before the Moon travels out of range. Sandra states that Operation Exodus is a gamble, as the planet is an unknown factor: the Moon is determined to be entering an orbit of sorts, but it will not return to Terra Alpha for another 25 years.
Meanwhile, Maya has devised a way for Alpha to send a message back to Earth using another space warp. Sandra, the last Alphan to leave the Moon, is given the task of sending it, but it is not known when or if the message will arrive. The film ends with the Meta signal (an unidentified radio transmission from nearby planet Meta featured at the end of the pilot episode "Breakaway"), indicating that the first signal the Alphans receive from space is, in fact, one that they have sent to themselves from the future. The featurette was shot on a small set using design elements from both Years One and Two and includes character and special effects footage from various episodes, some of which underwent minor alterations.
With the exception of Sandra, the only series characters mentioned in the present tense (meaning that they are still active at the time of arrival at Terra Alpha) are Maya and John Koenig, but Helena Russell also appears in the title sequences. Sandra also eulogises several notable Alphans who are now deceased, including Victor Bergman and Paul Morrow, and also mentions her fiancé Michael (from "Black Sun") and Luc and Anna (from "The Testament of Arkadia").
Byrne devised Message from Moonbase Alpha to permit the possibility of a sequel series. According to Byrne's revival concept, this series would be set about 25 years later and feature the children of the Alphans who leave Terra Alpha when the Moon and its Moonbase eventually return. Although there was some press and fan speculation regarding the proposal at the end of 1999, the series remains undeveloped. Byrne himself died in 2008.
The original arrangement between all the parties involved in the production of Message from Moonbase Alpha and (then) copyright holders of Space: 1999, Carlton Media International, was that the film would be screened only once, at the September 1999 convention. However, it was subsequently shown at other events and made available as a special feature on various DVD releases in the United States, Canada, France and Italy, in both its original and adapted forms.
- ^ a b Willey, Martin. "Breakaway: 1999 Convention Report". The Catacombs: International Guide. Retrieved 17 September 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f Bentley, Chris (2008) [2001]. The Complete Gerry Anderson: The Authorised Episode Guide (4 ed.). Richmond, London: Reynolds and Hearn. ISBN 978-1-905287-74-1.
- ^ Fanderson: The Official Gerry Anderson Website. All dates based on original ATV Midlands broadcasts.
- ^ Geppert, Alexander C.T. (25 April 2018). Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century. Springer. p. 215. ISBN 978-1-349-95339-4.
- ^ Space: 1999 episode "Breakaway".
- ^ In a reworked episode titled "God's Will", created by Canadian video editor Eric Bernard and screened at the MainMission:2000 convention in New York City, this ending is changed so that there is no second chance after Victor Bergman, David Kano and Paul Morrow are killed, making the episode a "bridge" between Years One and Two. Characters introduced in Year Two are digitally added to certain key scenes. Bernard had gone on to re-edit the entire series which he has re-christened Space: 2099 with tighter editing and digital visual effects. The "God's Will" concept is retained and the episode, re-titled "Sidon's Revenge", is the last of the Year One episodes in his new chronology and leads into the changes observed in Year Two.
- ^ Fanderson: The Official Gerry Anderson Website. All dates based on original ATV Midlands broadcasts.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av "Space 1999 - Season 2". IMDb.
- ^ a b c Pseudonym adopted by Fred Freiberger, Year Two producer.
- ^ Space: 1999 episodes "Another Time, Another Place", "Journey to Where" and "The Bringers of Wonder".
- ^ Destination: Moonbase Alpha, Telos Publications, 2010.
External linksEdit
- List of Space: 1999 - Season 2 episodes on IMDb
- List of Space: 1999 episodes at TV.com
- Space: 1999 at epguides.com
- List of Space: 1999 episodes (Year One) at Fanderson.org.uk
- List of Space: 1999 episodes (Year Two) at Fanderson.org.uk
- List of Space: 1999 episodes (Year One) at Space1999.net
- List of Space: 1999 episodes (Year Two) at Space1999.net
- List of Space: 1999 episodes at CliveBanks.co.uk
- List of Space: 1999 episodes at TheVervoid.com


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