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Alien Attack

The ultimate space-age disaster ... and a desperate struggle for survival

1980 1 hour 44 minutes
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62/100

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Earth's Moon is the site of Moonbase Alpha, a scientific research colony nestled in the crater Plato. Staffed by over 300 men and women from Earth, it is the operations center for several space expeditions. It is also a watchdog for vast amounts of atomic waste from Earth stored in silos on the Moon's far side. Magnetic radiation builds up and causes the wastes to explode with such force that the Earth's centripetal pull on the Moon is overcome, and the Moon is broken free of Earth's orbit to drift at incredible speed out of the Solar System off the plane of the ecliptic. The survivors on Moonbase Alpha are unable to return to Earth and must survive in unknown space on their wandering Moon. They encounter a planet whose advanced people project an illusion of a devastating attack on Moonbase. This TV movie was edited from scenes of two episodes ("Breakaway" and "War Games") of "Space: 1999" (1975).

Released

4th September 1980

45 years ago

Runtime

1 hour 44 minutes

Finishes at 8:00am

Ratings and awards

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    6.2/10

  • TMDb Logo

    61%

  • FilmFlow Logo

    62%

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Directed by

Lee H. Katzin, Charles Crichton

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Written by

Christopher Penfold, George Bellak

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