Space Island One (Season 1)

Message from Keeler (Episode 1)

Writer: Andrew MacLear

Air date: 1998-01-07

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Newly arrived environmental specialist Paula Hernandez finds slotting into place with the rest of the Unity team is harder than she expected after her over-curiosity triggers a bomb left behind by her mysterious predecessor.

All the News that Fits (Episode 2)

Writer: Andrew MacLear

Air date: 1998-01-14

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: A visiting journalist uncovers the background to an aborted space mission, as Paula begins her sexual pursuit of Dusan, and Harry has some startling news.

Quarantine (Episode 3)

Writer: Stephen Baxter

Air date: 1998-01-21

Runtime: 45 min

Rogue Satellite (Episode 4)

Writer: Andrew MacLear

Air date: 1998-01-21

Runtime: 45 min

Dangerous Liaison (Episode 5)

Writer: Andrew MacLear

Air date: 1998-02-04

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: A visitor has a personal agenda, which involves the destruction of Unity when his child prodigy, a member of the crew, appears to have turned against him.

Crew Test (Episode 6)

Writer: Matthew Bardsley

Air date: 1998-02-11

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: A group dynamics expert exposes cracks and resentments in the crew by purposely digging into their privacy and provoking arguments and confrontations.

The Barrier Of Second Attention (Episode 7)

Writer: Matthew Bardsley

Air date: 1998-02-18

Runtime: 45 min

Sarcophagus (Episode 8)

Writer: Adrian Rigelsford

Air date: 1998-02-25

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: A devious entrepreneur utilises Unity as a platform from which to perform somewhat questionable space burials for the benefit of new television audiences.

Spring Fever (Episode 9)

Writer: Andrew MacLear

Air date: 1998-03-04

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Crew discipline slides when Kathryn takes ground leave and Shannon is left in charge. An experiment in pheromones results in Paula attempting the seduction of an increasingly distant Dusan.

The Third Man (Episode 10)

Writer: Matthew Bardsley

Air date: 1998-03-11

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Desperate circumstances aboard a stricken mining vessel result in madness and cannibalism to stay alive after being lost for three years. The survivors are rescued by Unity and attempts must be made to uncover the truth.

Awakening (Episode 11)

Writer: Jimmy Richards

Air date: 1998-03-18

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: A laser, designed to zap space junk, malfunctions resulting in chaos aboard Unity. Shannon's poor health raises concerns with Paula. While tensions aboard Unity climb, Harry, Lyle and Commander McTiernan are unable to be awakened from an induced sleep experiment. Kaveh and Dusan ignore Paula's concerns, and as a result Shannon's health deteriorates resulting in a stroke.

Nemesis (Episode 12)

Writer: John Brosnan

Air date: 1998-03-25

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Abandoned stealth armoury is accidentally reactivated by one of Shannon's probes and it identifies the space station as a hostile entity.

A Child is Born (Episode 13)

Writer: Andrew MacLear

Air date: 1998-04-01

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: The various personal problems of Unity's crew have been driving them apart, but the occasion of the first child to be born in space brings a return to harmony...eventually.

Edge of Night (Episode 14)

Runtime: 45 min