About this season
Space Island One is a British/German science fiction television series that ran for 26 episodes beginning in 1998. A co-production between the UK's Sky One channel and the German Vox channel, it starred Judy Loe as Kathryn McTiernan, the commander of the multinational crew of the space station Unity.
Episodes (14)
1. Message from Keeler
Aired 7 January 1998 • 45 min
Newly arrived environmental specialist Paula Hernandez finds slotting into place with the rest of the Unity team is harder than she expected after her over-curiosity triggers a bomb left behind by her mysterious predecessor.
2. All the News that Fits
Aired 14 January 1998 • 45 min
A visiting journalist uncovers the background to an aborted space mission, as Paula begins her sexual pursuit of Dusan, and Harry has some startling news.
3. Quarantine
Aired 21 January 1998 • 45 min
4. Rogue Satellite
Aired 21 January 1998 • 45 min
5. Dangerous Liaison
Aired 4 February 1998 • 45 min
A visitor has a personal agenda, which involves the destruction of Unity when his child prodigy, a member of the crew, appears to have turned against him.
6. Crew Test
Aired 11 February 1998 • 45 min
A group dynamics expert exposes cracks and resentments in the crew by purposely digging into their privacy and provoking arguments and confrontations.
7. The Barrier Of Second Attention
Aired 18 February 1998 • 45 min
8. Sarcophagus
Aired 25 February 1998 • 45 min
A devious entrepreneur utilises Unity as a platform from which to perform somewhat questionable space burials for the benefit of new television audiences.
9. Spring Fever
Aired 4 March 1998 • 45 min
Crew discipline slides when Kathryn takes ground leave and Shannon is left in charge. An experiment in pheromones results in Paula attempting the seduction of an increasingly distant Dusan.
10. The Third Man
Aired 11 March 1998 • 45 min
Desperate circumstances aboard a stricken mining vessel result in madness and cannibalism to stay alive after being lost for three years. The survivors are rescued by Unity and attempts must be made to uncover the truth.
11. Awakening
Aired 18 March 1998 • 45 min
A laser, designed to zap space junk, malfunctions resulting in chaos aboard Unity. Shannon's poor health raises concerns with Paula. While tensions aboard Unity climb, Harry, Lyle and Commander McTiernan are unable to be awakened from an induced sleep experiment. Kaveh and Dusan ignore Paula's concerns, and as a result Shannon's health deteriorates resulting in a stroke.
12. Nemesis
Aired 25 March 1998 • 45 min
Abandoned stealth armoury is accidentally reactivated by one of Shannon's probes and it identifies the space station as a hostile entity.
13. A Child is Born
Aired 1 April 1998 • 45 min
The various personal problems of Unity's crew have been driving them apart, but the occasion of the first child to be born in space brings a return to harmony...eventually.