Episodes

End of Eternity (Year 1 / Episode 16)

ITC Press Release

"END OF ETERNITY" Original ITC press release The Alphans unleash a terrifying power when they free a killer who can't be killed. How can you deal with a psychopath who is immortal? The appearance of an asteroid is baffling. It is three light years from the nearest star and must have been travelling a thousand years in space. And computer reports that there is an atmosphere source somewhere inside it. Its proximity to the runaway moon gives Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) the opportunity to land on it, piloted by Mike Baxter (JIM SMILIE) and accompanied by Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE). They blast their way into it. Baxter is dazed by the explosion which later leads to the threat of blindness; and, in the living chamber inside, is an unconscious, terribly injured humanoid alien (PETER BOWLES). Yet when his is taken to Moonbase, there is not a scratch on him. A terrifying power has been unleashed. The man they have rescued gives his name as Balor, citizen of the planet Progron, a scientist who has achieved man's dream of immortality for his people, defeating death with the promise of eternal happiness. But with nothing to strive for, civilisation has lost its purpose and with it the realization that only death can give meaning to life. Balor has been blamed and banished, imprisoned in a living rock from the planet and cast in to space. But he is now, as Koenig soon comes to realise, a complete psychopath. He is hungry for pain and destruction. his immense strength and powers of re-generation and eternal life drive him on to destroy everything and everyone within his reach. No-one is safe from him, but there is no way of catching him and holding him. How can you kill a man who cannot be killed? The decision Koenig takes is a grim one. Somehow, he has to be lured into an airlock from which he can be released into space forever, but to trap him Koenig has to be with him..................... NB All spelling and punctuation as in the original. SCREENPLAY BY JOHNNY BYRNE DIRECTED BY RAY AUSTIN Guest Artist PETER BOWLES with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR. MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER JIM SMILIE as BAXTER

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