Season 1 • Episode 4
LatestFinbow studies an enhanced recording of the abnormality in an attempt to find its present whereabouts. Chantal agrees to do some computer modelling to predict the abnormality's behaviour. A shuttle carrying repair engineers to fix the crash-damaged Centaur docks with the Ilea. Space City Medical are worried that Victoria is developing Space Confinement Syndrome. Rosie discovers Cats and Mercedes in a passionate embrace.
Jupiter Moon was a science fiction television series first broadcast by British Satellite Broadcasting's Galaxy Channel from 26 March 1990 until December the same year. 150 episodes were commissioned, but only the first 108 were broadcast by BSB. It was commissioned to fulfill the perceived need for a soap opera in BSB's line-up and, as such, it was shown three times a week, with an omnibus edition at weekends. In the year 2050, the spaceship Ilea lies in semi-permanent orbit above the space city on Jupiter's moon Callisto. The Ilea is home to a university and many of the main plot strands revolve around the students, helping the programme to deal with more mundane issues despite its far-flung setting. A secondary plot deals with an attempt to travel to the stars known as the Daedalus Project.
Production
Gloriously cheap space-station sets that wobble.
Acting
Anna Chancellor's early career space camp.
Writing
150 episodes of interplanetary student loan drama.
Creator
William Smethurst
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
BSB collapsed and merged with Sky in November 1990, killing Jupiter Moon mid-season with 42 unaired episodes sitting in a vault.
This was Britain's answer to the space soap boom—except Babylon 5 actually launched. The Ilea's cramped corridors feel like a metaphor for BSB's entire doomed satellite venture.
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