Series One (1983)
Episodes aired first in the Central Television region, on Saturday mornings, then other ITV broadcast regions, such as LWT, on Sunday afternoons. The last two episodes, "A Christmas Miracle" and "To Catch a Tiger", were broadcast across the network on Saturday mornings.
| Ep. # | Title | Director | Writer | First UK Air Date(s) | Production Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Expect the Unexpected (Part 1)" | Alan Pattillo | Gerry Anderson | 8 October 1983 (1983-10-08) (Central Television) 13 October 1983 (1983-10-13) (Tyne Tees Television) 23 October 1983 (1983-10-23) (Granada Television) |
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| Zelda attacks NASA's outpost on Mars and establishes her home, then mounts an attack on Earth, forcing the Terrahawks into battle. | |||||
| 2 | "Expect the Unexpected (Part 2)" | Alan Pattillo | Gerry Anderson | 15 October 1983 (1983-10-15) (Central) | 01b |
| The Terrahawks struggle to defend against the aliens' strange powers, and find they may be forced to stop the attack at the cost of Ninestein's life. | |||||
| 3 | "Thunder-Roar" | Alan Pattillo | "Cubby Dreistein" | 22 October 1983 (1983-10-22) (Central) | 03 |
| Zelda defrosts one of her monsters, Sram, who unleashes his devastating voice against the Terrahawks. | |||||
| 4 | "Happy Madeday" | Tony Lenny | "Kit Tenstein" | 29 October 1983 (1983-10-29) (Central) | 08 |
| Zelda unleashes MOID, Master of Infinite Disguise, who kidnaps Hiro and impersonates him. | |||||
| 5 | "The Ugliest Monster of All" | Tony Lenny | "P. U. Mastein" | 5 November 1983 (1983-11-05) (Central) | 10 |
| The Terrahawks find a teddy bear-like alien adrift in a space capsule and take him back to Hawknest. However, he is actually one of Zelda's monsters and begins to wreak havoc in the base. | |||||
| 6 | "Close Call" | Desmond Saunders | "Cubby Dreistein" | 12 November 1983 (1983-11-12) (Central) | 04 |
| The Overlander is hijacked, but the hijacker, a news reporter by the name of Darrel, is a potential security hazard for the Terrahawks. | |||||
| 7 | "The Gun" | Tony Bell | "Koo Garstein" | 19 November 1983 (1983-11-19) (Central) | 11 |
| Yung-Star devises a way to make the Cubes more powerful by combining them. Zelda forms a group of them into a gun and threatens to destroy a newly constructed dam. | |||||
| 8 | "Gunfight at Oaky's Corral" | Tony Bell | "T. I. Gerstein" | 26 November 1983 (1983-11-26) (Central) | 09 |
| Ninestein enters an old-fashioned gun fight between one of Zelda's Cubes in the Arizona desert. | |||||
| 9 | "Thunder Path" | Tony Lenny | "Effie Linestein" | 3 December 1983 (1983-12-03) (Central) | 12 |
| Zelda gives Sram another chance to defeat the Terrahawks by sending him to hijack the Overlander, an automated vehicle that delivers vital supplies to Hawknest. | |||||
| 10 | "From Here to Infinity" | Alan Pattillo | "Katz Stein" | 10 December 1983 (1983-12-10) (Central) | 05 |
| An old space probe approaches Earth, but the Terrahawks worry because it was never meant to return. | |||||
| 11 | "Mind Monster" | Tony Bell | "Tom Katstein" | 17 December 1983 (1983-12-17) (Central) | 13 |
| The Terrahawks pick up a capsule in space containing only a strange vapour. However, it actually contains a gaseous monster that meddles with their minds. | |||||
| 12 | "A Christmas Miracle" | Tony Lenny | "Kate Noweestein" | 24 December 1983 (1983-12-24) (ITV Network) | 19 |
| Zelda attacks Earth on Christmas Eve, convinced that the Terrahawks' guard will be down. However, Ninestein anticipates such a move, and all-out war erupts. Perhaps the Christmas spirit can even reach someone like Zelda... (Broadcast only in the UK, on Christmas Eve 1984, and excluded from all repeat runs of Terrahawks in the 1980s.) | |||||
| 13 | "To Catch a Tiger" | Tony Lenny | "Claude Backstein" | 31 December 1983 (1983-12-31) (ITV Network) | 14 |
| Zelda lures Ninestein with the captured two-man crew of a commercial space transporter. When the Terrahawks electronically isolate themselves from after rescuing the men, Kate has to inform Ninestein that the mission to get him back is ahead of schedule. |
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