![]() The characters here are not Star Trek goody two shoes types who all get along and can be guaranteed to do whatever is morally right, their team includes a manic depressive, an egotist and many other fascinatingly real characters. Moonbase 3 also contains that other classic BBC sci fi trait, realism, both in characters and settings. Check out Blakes'7 or Star Cops for other more popular examples of this. ![]() The BBC never had the budget for whiz bang special effects and so concentrated on characters, story lines and heavyweight theatrical actors. This is a long forgotten example of how much more interesting sci fi used to be be pre George Lucas. Very nearly lost forever as a result of the BBC's mass clear out of tapes in the 1970's, this gritty and claustrophobic sci fi series was only recently rediscovered in the vaults of a Canadian TV station.
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