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So Poor it Makes Roddenberry's "Star Trek" seem like a work of Shakespeare....
Perhaps not the best example of British sci-fi from the 70's set in 2003 on a European and American manned moonbase, this series debuted in 1973 approximately three years after Gerry Anderson's "UFO" and aired one year before "Space 1999." Produced by "Dr. Who" Barry Letts and writer Terrance Dicks, one would expect great things form this talented team and a series with James Burke ("Connections" and "The Day the Universe Changed), as a technical advisor. <
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>Sadly, this is not the case with "Moonbase 3." Talky, pretentious, and dull, with laughable special effects along with flimsy sets, "Moonbase 3" tries hard to realistically portray the daily life and hazards on the moon, yet manages to fall flat on its face most of the time. Some of the episodes like "Outsiders" and "Castor and Pollux" are tense and interesting dramas--the former about a manic depressive scientist on the base who contemplates suicide, and the latter, about a nailbiting space rescue from a capsule. <
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>The minatures used on the series are no better than the average kit you can find at your local hobby store, and the characters protrayed by the actors seem to spend the majority of their time fighting among themselves rather than the elements that threaten their lives on the moonbase. Likewise, the actors portraying the American team are quite laughable with their forced and embarassing "southern" accents (Why do the British insist that every American must sound like a untalented and shoddy understudy of Big Daddy in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?") <
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>Donald Houston is admirable as the commander of this troupe of generally unknown British actors (with the exception of Ralph Bates from the Hammer horror films), with haircuts that seem more appropriate for a amateur production of Shakespeare's "Richard III." Notwithstanding the interesting premise that producer Gerry Anderson would turn into a short-lived and dubious success a year later with "Space 1999," "Moonbase 3" is clearly an also ran in the annals of British sci-fi, appropriately regulated to the void of deep space.