In the thread "No Alien Cares About the Moon?!?!?" several posts mention that in some episodes the time since the Moon left Earth obit is mentioned.
Fletcher119 wrote in part:
...It would seem that Freiberger produced the show as though season one never existed, apart from the moon blasting out of orbit.
The one mention of Victor Bergman ended up as a deleted scene from "The Metamorph".
There were no references to any events that had occurred on season one (besides the moon's breakaway).
Koenig and Helena had met on "Breakaway" but a whole conflicting backstory was created on "Bringers of Wonder", where Helena and Diana Morris had become rivals on Earth over Koenig.
"The Metamorph" occurred 342 days after the moon had left Earth, although "Dragon's Domain" had taken place 877 days after...
In another post Jimmy-128 discusses teenage character Shermeen Williams from "A Matter of Balance" and says:
Never understood what the hell was she doing there in the first place. She's described more than once as a teenager. Even assuming that she's nineteen, Helena states that 1702 days have passed since the Moon left Earth's orbit--over four and a half years. There's no way a fifteen-year-old would have been assigned to Moonbase Alpha, even in the unlikely event that she was qualified to work there.
So at least three episodes are dated by the number of days passed since leaving Earth's orbit. If all 48 episodes have such dating watch them in that order. If only some episodes have such dating it will be a start in finding the right order.
Those episodes not dated by days since leaving Earth can be dated by production order.
Sometimes dating episodes by days since leaving Earth or by production order might seem to make Story A happen before Story B even though some evidence in the episodes might seem to contradict that.
But remember that in an episodic TV series most episode more or less happen in alternate universes separate from the alternate universes of the other episodes.
Among many other reasons, if in an adventure series a hero faces great danger in every episodes the odds that he will survive the entire series will be incredibly small. For example, if the hero has a ten percent chance of dying in every episode and thus a ninety percent chance of surviving, his probability of surviving ten episodes will be 0.348, of surviving twenty episodes will be 0.12, of surviving thirty episodes will be 0.0421, of surviving forty episodes will be 0.014, of surviving fifty episodes will be 0.0051, and so on.
So the 48 episodes of
Space 1999 should happen in almost 48 separate alternate universes.
Thus all first season episodes should happen only after the first episode "Breakaway", but not after other first season episodes. And most second season episodes should only happen after "Breakaway" and after "The Metamorph", the first second season episode, and not after any other first or second season episodes.
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Fletcherj119
7 years ago
If you watch the episodes in announced "number of days since..." order, "Dragon's Domain" (877 days since...) would come right before "The Rules of Luton" (892 days since...). To make matters more conflicting, it is stated at the opening of "Luton" that the moon had just emerged from a 42-day space storm, in which "Dragon's Domain" would've occurred right in the middle of it.
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magolding-94772
7 years ago
I don't remember enough about "Dragon's Domain" and "The Rules of Luton" to see any conflict between them starting 15 days apart apart and in that order.
As for the space storm:
But remember that in an episodic TV series most episode more or less happen in alternate universes separate from the alternate universes of the other episodes.
Among many other reasons, if in an adventure series a hero faces great danger in every episodes the odds that he will survive the entire series will be incredibly small. For example, if the hero has a ten percent chance of dying in every episode and thus a ninety percent chance of surviving, his probability of surviving ten episodes will be 0.348, of surviving twenty episodes will be 0.12, of surviving thirty episodes will be 0.0421, of surviving forty episodes will be 0.014, of surviving fifty episodes will be 0.0051, and so on.
So the 48 episodes of Space 1999 should happen in almost 48 separate alternate universes.
Thus all first season episodes should happen only after the first episode "Breakaway", but not after other first season episodes. And most second season episodes should only happen after "Breakaway" and after "The Metamorph", the first second season episode, and not after any other first or second season episodes.
So it is possible that sometime before both "Dragons Domain" and "The Rules of Luton" advanced space aliens detected the Moon and debated whether to use their giant tractor beams to divert its course away from or toward their home world. Or maybe, unaware of the Moon and it's course, they were debating whether to use their control of space weather to extinguish the space storm mentioned in Rules of Luton". In the alternate universe of "Rules of Luton" the Moon passed through the space storm between day 850 an day 892, and in the alternate universe of "Dragon's Domain" the space weather, in possibly a different area of space, was clear on day 877.
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Fletcherj119
7 years ago
I would have loved to have seen them simply redub Helena's opening narration of "Dragon's Domain" from 877 days to a lesser number, also correcting the embarrassing "drifting between galaxies" reference to "drifting between solar systems", which is what her line should've been.
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john_harley63
7 years ago
Better still would be changing the dates on the series 2 episodes as you can't mess around with perfection! They should have dated The Metamorph at 1000 days since leaving earth orbit rather than 342 which was ridiculous!
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