Moonbase Alpha News Service

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You may be looking for Alpha News Service, a zine published by "The Space:1999 Society."

Zine
Title: Moonbase Alpha News Service
Publisher: "official publication of Moonbase Alpha International (Eagle 1)"
Editor(s): Karen Robinson
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Medium: print
Fandom: Space: 1999
Language: English
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Moonbase Alpha News Service is a gen Space: 1999 newsletter published in New Jersey. It is unclear how many issues there were.

Issue v.1 n.1

Issue v.1 n.2

cover of v.1 n.2

Moonbase Alpha News Service v.1 n.2 was published in spring 1977 and contains 18 pages. It is scanned in here.

  • the editor notes that the fan club that sponsors this newsletter has 116 members
  • results of the episode poll
  • "M.A.N.S." (Moonbase Alpha News Service) fan questionnaire
  • episode summaries
  • word finds
  • photo caption contest announced
  • the stars in the news/career updates
  • Nightmare, fiction by Mary Tchir
  • A Spark of Life, poem by Mary Tchir
  • trivia
  • Alien Dimension, fiction by Debbie Phares
  • photo gallery of publicity shots
  • some news clippings
  • update on "the Space:1999 Convention" in Columbus, Ohio
  • The Technical Breakdown of Moonbase Alpha ("taken from the ITC Official Handbook for year two")
  • illos by Bruce Young, Steve Wychronki (spelling of this last name very unclear)