Episode 1: One in Four Goes

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30m
Jul 19, 1983

Gentian finds herself talking to the machinery while Ackroyd quite happily holds conversations with himself. Mattocks is concerned about both of them and discusses it with the only person he can trust — Bimbo.

Episode 2: Why Are We Here?

30m
Jul 26, 1983

Ackroyd denounces the whole mission as a big publicity stunt. Mattocks, meanwhile, has been caught out acting furtively and sending scrambled messages. Gentian and Ackroyd want to know what's happening but it's top secret...

Episode 3: Absence Makes the Heart

30m
Aug 2, 1983

Mattocks is pining for his wife but he gets no sympathy from the other two, who are determined to see that he lives up to his domestic responsibilities while he's at the space station. Beadle has a hot date.

Episode 4: We Are Not Alone

30m
Aug 9, 1983

Ackroyd is concerned that he is now maintaining some of the systems beyond their level of tolerance — emergency repairs are now the norm. During one of the blackouts Gentian sees a bright object outside her lab window.

Episode 5: One Week to Go

30m
Aug 16, 1983

One week to go and the crew breaks the record for the longest spaceflight in history. Beadle is ecstatic but Mattocks is behaving more strangely than normal, questioning things at a cosmic level — much to the annoyance of the other two.

Episode 6: Going Home

30m
Aug 23, 1983

After six months, the mission is completed and it's time to go home. Mattocks' recent epiphany still annoys the other two, and concern over re-entry has caused group insomnia. Ackroyd doesn't want to go home.

Episodes

Episode 1: One in Four Goes

Episode 2: Why Are We Here?

Episode 3: Absence Makes the Heart

Episode 4: We Are Not Alone

Episode 5: One Week to Go

Episode 6: Going Home

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Episode 1: One in Four Goes

Episode 2: Why Are We Here?

Episode 3: Absence Makes the Heart

Episode 4: We Are Not Alone

Episode 5: One Week to Go

Episode 6: Going Home

Episodes

E1 Episode 1: One in Four Goes

E2 Episode 2: Why Are We Here?

E3 Episode 3: Absence Makes the Heart

E4 Episode 4: We Are Not Alone

E5 Episode 5: One Week to Go

E6 Episode 6: Going Home

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E1 Episode 1: One in Four Goes

E2 Episode 2: Why Are We Here?

E3 Episode 3: Absence Makes the Heart

E4 Episode 4: We Are Not Alone

E5 Episode 5: One Week to Go

E6 Episode 6: Going Home

Episode 1: One in Four Goes

Episode 2: Why Are We Here?

Episode 3: Absence Makes the Heart

Episode 4: We Are Not Alone

Episode 5: One Week to Go

Episode 6: Going Home

Episode 1: One in Four Goes

Episode 2: Why Are We Here?

Episode 3: Absence Makes the Heart

Episode 4: We Are Not Alone

Episode 5: One Week to Go

Episode 6: Going Home