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Jupiter Moon is the lavish space drama that launched the careers of a galaxy of stars and whose demise is still mourned by fans nearly sixteen years later. Featuring a host of bonus features, the first eleven episodes are presented here as a glorious 2-disc set.

Billed as “science possibility rather than science fantasy”, Jupiter Moon was launched in a fanfare of publicity on BSB’s Galaxy Channel on 26 March 1990. With an incredible first year budget of £6 million, a young and attractive cast, cliffhanger endings and inventive scripts, this epic soap opera fantasy was an immediate hit. Commissioned as an ongoing serial, it would air three times a week for nearly a year before BSB’s merger with Sky lead to the demise of the Galaxy Channel.

To ensure the series’ authenticity, each plot was worked out with the cooperation of British Aerospace and every script checked by the University of Birmingham’s Department of Space. Additionally, Jupiter Moon’s out of this world costumes were designed by, amongst others, Jean Paul Gaultier, Katherine Hamnett, Rifat Osbek and Red or Dead.

Jupiter Moon is an epic drama about the loves, passions and ambitions of young people growing up in an alien and dangerous environment, many million miles away from Earth…

Set in the future, mankind has reached Jupiter where a space city housing over 1,000 inhabitants has been established on the moon Callisto. Scientists are building a starship to seek new life round other suns. In orbit around Callisto is the fusion-powered spaceship Ilea, home of Columbus College, University of Space.

Onboard the Ilea are post-graduates and gifted undergraduates who must live and study under the constant threat of the unknown for the conquest of space has brought with it both triumphs and terrors, including new and deadly space viruses, volcanic storms and meteor attacks.

Volume one: Episodes 1 – 11

It’s New Year’s Eve, 2049.

The ‘University of Space’ spaceship ‘Ilea’ is orbiting one of the moons of Jupiter. While the students prepare to party, first-officer Finbow Lewis sees something very strange on the ship’s deep-space scanners. Something outside the Solar System is coming towards Jupiter at a frightening speed.