Alien Attack
Alien Attack
A Science Fiction and Drama film released in 1980, Alien Attack runs 1h 44m and comes from United Kingdom. Soap2Day lists it with Lee H. Katzin directing and Martin Landau and Barbara Bain in the cast. It holds 6.5/10 from 10 votes. 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).
- Genre: Science Fiction, Drama
- Country: United Kingdom
- Director: Lee H. Katzin, Charles Crichton
- Cast: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Nick Tate, Prentis Hancock, Zienia Merton, Roy Dotrice, Anthony Valentine, Isla Blair, Philip Madoc, Lon Satton, Eric Carte
