2.13 Moonbase 3

The year is 2003 and Earth's intrepid humans have managed to set-up
several bases on the moon. There they face the implacable enemy
that is the silence and darkness of space - a serious and
apparently underestimated threat to the mental wellbeing of
moonbase personnel... Created by Doctor Who’s Barry Letts and
Terrance DIcks this 6-part series from 1973 starred Donald Houston,
Ralph Bates and Fiona Gaunt and had scripts from John Brason, John
Lucarotti and Arden Winch. Moonbase 3 lacks Doctor Who's monsters
and excitement and instead delights in technical details and
psychological concerns. As such it is something of a hard SF curio
which is widely regarded to be a misfire, even by Letts and Dicks
themselves. The big question is what will Andy & Martin make of
it from the vantage point of 2023, some 20 years after its
characters, with their very 70's attitudes, were meant to be
surviving on the moon? N.B. Having completed the first half of our
second A to Z series, we are taking a mid-season break but will
return in a few months with a drama beginning with the letter N...