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The Taybor
(Year 2 / Episode 6)
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ITC Press Release
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"SPACE 1999" (Series II) Episode Seven:
"THE TAYBOR."
Original ITC press release
SYNOPSIS
A boisterous, flamboyant, larger-than-life trader from Hyper-space makes a remarkable
appearance on the moon - and falls in love with Maya.
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Taybor (WILLOUGHBY GODDARD) is an extraordinary figure, garbed in outlandish clothes
which might have come straight from the Arabian Nights, his manner flamboyant and
with the salty tang of a seafarer whose conversation is tinged with nautical expressions.
He materializes on the Moon, with his weird and wonderful spaceship the SS Emporium
safely anchored, and announces that he is a trader from Hyper-space. Through scanning
the Moon for sometime, he seems to know everyone by sight and by name - Cmdr. John
Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU), Dr. Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN), Alan Carter (NICK TATE),
Tony Verdeschi (TONY ANHOLT), Maya (CATHERINE SCHELL) and everyone else he encounters.
Taybor has come to trade, but from the outset it seems that his greatest interest
is in Maya. When Koenig asks him about his remarkable craft and how he reached the
Moon, he explains that it has a switch-on set destination co-ordinator which enables
him to reach anywhere in the universe. The jump-drive process immediately interests
Koenig, who realises that if Taybor will trade its secret and the Moon's Eagle crafts
can be equipped with it, all the alpha personnel can be transported to a habitable
planet, even back to Earth itself.
He even offers the Moon and all its equipment in exchange, but Taylor is at first
suspicious and evasive; he insists on taking Koenig to the Emporium and dazzles him
with his wonderful collection of beautiful things. Koenig's colleagues have reached
a state of alarm at his mystifying disappearance into the strange dimension - or
maybe non-dimension of Hyper-space when he and Taybor return just as suddenly and
inexplicable.
By now, Taybor has decided to reach a deal. He bargains the secrets of his jump-drive
in exchange for Maya!
Koenig is not even willing to discuss this possibility, but Helena comes up with
a solution. Will Taybor accept a duplicate Maya - a model of herself brought to life
by Maya, which will never grow old, will always be beautiful?
Taybor, in between trading with members of Alpha, decides to accept the offer but
double-crosses and takes the real Maya. On board his flying cargo ship, she has no
way of escape and no hope of rescue. But Taybor, the lover of beauty, has reckoned
without her miraculous powers of transformation. He finds himself facing a hideous,
outsize old hag, and a future with this repulsive-looking creature unless he lets
her go!
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NB All spelling and punctuation as in the original
"SPACE 1999" - SERIES II
CAST LIST
EPISODE NO. 7 - "THE TAYBOR" DIRECTOR: BOB BROOKS
KOENIG - MARTIN LANDAU
HELENA - BARBARA BAIN
MAYA - CATHERINE SCHELL
VERDESCHI - TONY ANHOLT
ALAN CARTER - NICK TATE
YASKO - YASUKO NAGAZUMI
DR. BEN VINCENT - JEFFERY KISSOON
1ST OPERATIVE/BARBARA - SARAH BULLEN
TAYBOR - WILLOUGHBY GODDARD
KAREN - LARAINE HUMPHRYS
THIRD GIRL - VICKI MICHELLE
ANDREWS - MEL TAYLOR
MODEL GIRL 1 - JENNY CLARE
MODEL GIRL 2 - CHAI LEE
MODEL GIRL 3 - PENNY PRIESTLY
FRASER - JOHN HUG
SLATTENLY WOMAN - RITA WEBB
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