EPISODE GUIDE
By The Radio
Times
"Maybe you saw what you wanted to see. Look again." Nathan Spring
An Instinct for Murder
by CHRIS BOUCHER
BBC2 8.30pm Monday 6th July 1987
The year is 2027. Nathan Spring mistrusts the way police have become over reliant on computers, preferring to use his own instinct. He is far from pleased when informed that he has been shortlisted for the post of Head of the International Space Police Force - whose inefficiency has branded them with the nickname of the 'Star Cops'.
Conversations with the Dead
by CHRIS BOUCHER
BBC2 8.30pm Monday
13th July 1987
A freight ship on its way to the Martian colony suddenly develops engine trouble. The crew is still alive but, as any recovery mission might take years, technically the two are dead.
Intelligent Listening for Beginners
by CHRIS BOUCHER
BBC2 8.30pm Monday 20th July 1987
Nathan and Theroux visit an outpost on the Moon owned by the millionaire Michael Chandri, who seems to be working in listening systems and bugging devices. He informs them he has heard an Earth-Moon shuttle is soon to be hijacked.
Trivial Games and Paranoid Pursuits
by CHRIS BOUCHER
BBC2 8.30pm Monday 27th July 1987
Dilly Goodman tries to contact her brother who, as she explains to the people on the American space station, has been working there as a research scientist. They have no record of him. He does not seem to exist - or does he?
This Case to be Opened in a Million Years
by PHILIP MARTIN
BBC 2 9.55pm Monday 3rd August 1987
When a shuttle, used for dumping nuclear waste in space, crashes on launch, there is a nuclear alert on the Moonbase. Nathan has to return to Earth to face his own nightmare.
In Warm Blood
by JOHN COLLEE
BBC2 8.35pm Monday 10th August 1987
When the geological survey ship, Pluto 5, returns from an exploratory mission, the Star Cops are presented with a complicated problem. The whole crew has been dead for at least year.
A Double Life
by JOHN COLLEE
BBC2 8.35pm Monday 17th August 1987
Three embryos are mysteriously stolen from the Moonbase hospital. Chamsya Assadi, whose fortune they were to inherit, is determined to track down the thief in her own way, at any cost, ignoring any advice from the police.
Other People's Secrets
by JOHN COLLEE
BBC2 8.35pm Monday 24th August 1987
A psychiatrist visits Moonbase to conduct a special study into the effects of living in space. A series of small technical malfunctions contributes to upsetting the harmony.
Death On The Moon
by PHILIP MARTIN
The Missing Episode!
Little Green Men and Other Martians
by CHRIS BOUCHER
BBC2 8.35pm Monday 31st August 1987
The news that something outstanding has been discovered on Mars, and is now on its way to the Moon, creates an interest that results in death.