Helena Russell

Commander Straker is missing and presumed dead. Then, Moonbase Alpha discovers it has a new crewman who is having trouble adapting. His name - Ed Straker.

The Alphans find a new planet, but the natives subject them to hellish torture which leaves its mark on John and Helena's relationship.
Contains references to sexual assault.

An Alien fleeing from a deadly attack by an unknown force arrives on Alpha.

Koenig's honeymoon is over and an attack on Alpha causes some deaths. He becomes transparent and has to save Alpha while the Hordes rampage and terrorize them. Helena is shot.

The Alphans have settled on a planet and started to have families, not realising that the planet has a life-threatening secret...

An accidental discovery. An unusual collaboration. Will Alpha's journey come to an end...or has it just begun?
Earthbound alternative set after Season One.

As the runaway Moon approaches the triple-star system's outer reaches, a Survey Eagle team seeks out needed natural resources - and the answer to a riddle - on a chilly, fog-shrouded planet. Beyond, a return to the darkness awaits.
Newly revised and updated, from the original 1982 edition.

Alpha is now three days away from the planet called Beula. They are making reconnaissance plans. Will prophecy put an end to their lives as they journey to the planet and an uncertain future?
Includes Christian Content

The Alphans encounter a planet covered by a huge rainforest, with trees over a mile high. Humans have been there before though, and their outpost destroyed. When the Alphans investigate, their eagle crashes leaving them stranded…

It is Victor's Birthday, but has anyone remembered?

A 'fun' Year 1 story. It's about John and Helena and was written as a birthday gift for a friend.

Koenig and Russell are exploring a new planet when they become trapped in a cave and left for dead by their colleagues. They have to build a new home for themselves...

An alien spacecraft crash lands on the moon, Helena loses her memory, Maya and Tony make nice, Carter has worries, and Koenig amongst his personal problems, may have to deal with an alien invasion!

A scenario of possibility: a look into the world the runaway Moon left behind...and what happened when it returned…

Strange signals from the dark side of the moon lead Maya into danger when she encounters a legendary foe from Psychons past. Can John and Tony save her?

A collision with an unknown object must be averted, but will this be possible when the Commander is incapable of making a decision while at the same time the target of an assassin.

Three wishes… Imagine what would happen if a genie came to Alpha.

Helena is feeling blue. Who better to cheer her up than John?

Helena and John discover that the Titans have left another surprise. This time it is in Helena's blood. A happy time might turn tragic, as Helena's pregnancy turns deadly.
This is a two-part episode

Helena and John Koenig are still in stasis. When Helena dies, John has to travel the future without her. However, other deaths on Alpha lead to major changes. Many lives will be affected as they look into the future.
Includes Christian themes

Helena and John are resting when a crisis occurred and a big snow storm rolls in. Alan Carter pops the big question.

While dealing with an epidemic of depression after a failed Phase One probe, the Alphans are confronted by an entity that has taken over Moonbase Alpha's computers. An entity that is seeking a perfect mate. Set between Y1 and Y2.

This story take place after the inhabitants of the runaway moon find a new home.

An alien race gives Helena an incredible opportunity to change Earth history. Meanwhile, who is the double that has taken her place on Moonbase Alpha?

John is not himself and when Alpha staff start dying the investigation begin.

While asleep, John Koenig has a rather unusual dream involving both him and Helena. Is it the cause of some alien influence or something normal?

John Koenig embarks on a journey into the unknown, when he investigates a lush tropical island - surrounded on all sides by a shattered world. Sandra and Alan are also drawn into the mystery. Revised and updated from the 1982 original.

A web of stories by various authors detailing the lives of the Alphans after they start building a new civilisation in a solar system with a less than hospitable planet.

The Alphans move to a new home.

An oceanic world, scattered with chains of lush tropical islands, is the realm of the fireflies - one of which, accidentally, attaches itself to Helena.

Alternate universe series in which John and Helena started a relationship before Breakaway, with events leading to the Alphan adventures seen in Y2.
Includes some explicit material.

A few loose ends are tied up. Immediately follows "Dragon's Domain".

Following an asteroid collision, the Alphans discover a secret cache on the Moon. Meanwhile, Dr Russell is plagued with vivid dreams from a past she does not remember...

On visiting another planet, Helena, Sandra and Milly go missing. They are returned, but this time emotionally altered. All John's plans to ask Helena to marry him have gone up in smoke.

Present day Scotland - archeologists are baffled by an artifact uncovered when excavating during building works for a new visitor center at Banockburn.…

After an argument with John, Helena is feeling down. But her friend Kate is on hand to help out.

While Helena plans her wedding Koenig schemes to get her to change her mind about their pact. His plan backfires and Koenig has to pay the ultimate price.

They go back to Lud as the Silver Fish is birthed.

Helena is still reeling from her ordeal. Koenig is beside himself trying to get her to talk, dying to propose to her. When Victor gets ill and John is trapped in a cave in will Helena deal with the hurt to come back to him?

The Alphans encounter a new planet, but Helena has a very bad feeling...

An electronic virus with a mind of its own invades Alpha's computer in the hope of finding a mate. The only compatible woman happens to be Helena Russell...

John takes time off from his duties while Helena's broken leg heals. Their honeymoon of sorts is disturbed by a fireball heading for Alpha, and by John's jealousy when one of Helena's staff members needs her attention.

A deadly virus has taken some Alphans by surprise. Dr Russell and her staff rush to find a cure before anyone dies. And before John kills Helena while under the virus' control.

Alpha approaches a new planet, but is visited by a mysterious probe from another planet, which kidnaps the Koenigs and a few others. Helena is still in Maya’s body and soon finds that it will ultimately save their lives. Includes Christian themes
Includes Christian themes

John and Helena are still fighting and it escalates. Did she go too far, and is it too late to repair the damage? Hidden facts are brought to light too late and more than one firestorm hits Alpha.

Can Alan prevent Helena from disconnecting John's life support as the Moon descends into chaos?

Alpha's Italian Special impacts Koenig with expanding, rippling effect on others.

When a twist of fate allows Lee to return again to Alpha the usual order of the Space:1999 universe is changed forever. Join Helena and Lee in their quest to be reunited...

Maya es rescatada de su planeta y llevada a Alpha, pero los habitantes de la base no han recibido la noticia de buen grado. Una situación inesperada desencadena en Maya una reacción que pone en peligro su vida y la del personal de seguridad.

This story is in Spanish.Click here to read the English translation.

John attends a medical and gets closer to Helena!

Set immediately following the episode "Another Time, Another Place".

The Alphans encounter ancient spirits, trapped inside a crystal under a crater on the darkside of the moon. Are they benevolent or hostile in nature?

After the events in Y1, the Alphans move to underground facilities as the moon enters a massive nebula filled with deadly radiation. But the one holding the key to their survival goes missing during the transfer - Helena.
Now includes new Chapters 7 and 8.

John and Helena are trying to fight their feelings for each other when an alien takes over Helena's body and goes on a rampage, leaving John to fight both for Alpha's survival and the doctor's.

A series of stories chronicling the lives of John and Helena as they settle on a new planet after six years of wandering through space.

The Alphans encounter sorrow on a new planet.

This is based off some things Barbara Bain said in an interview regarding the backstory of her character. It is basically the story of WHY she ever came to be on Alpha. It starts happy but ends sort of tragic.

As Helena looks after a hydroponics worker, medication goes missing. The worker has Helena's drug but wants more. He is willing to kill to get her keys. Helena is left bleeding to death after his attack.

Drifting deeper into the new region of space, Alpha once again encounters the Cylons... and helps bring a dead civilization back to life.

John, Helena and Victor try to come to terms with the hazards of life and love on Alpha.

Helena and Alan are running the base while their respective spouses explore the dark side of the Moon. When an explosion occurs on the far side, what they find when they go to investigate is worse than their worst nightmare.

This story is in Spanish.Click here to read the English translation.

Helena and John are finally settling down to married life when a ship appears. Helena's son, now 18, has come to bring his mother home, over John Koenig's dead body, of course.

In the aftermath of Victor Bergman's death, Commander Koenig and Dr. Russell's relationship intensifies. Meanwhile, could there be a murderer on Moonbase Alpha?

Helena goes into false labor as the Alphans drop like flies. A portal to space opens as danger lurks.

In an alternate reality, Koenig and Russell are enjoying a camping holiday, which is interrupted when a strange gateway appears near their tent.

John and Helena say goodbye to an old friend.

Present day site of Lost Royal Chapel, Sterling Castle, Scotland. A book of ancient text is uncovered during remedial work to the castle floor.

As the Alphans begin life on a new planet no one expects it’s already inhabited by creatures with ulterior motives until disaster strikes.
Contains descriptions of graphic sexual violence.

The Alphans have returned to Earth, but John still believes they are on Alpha and Helena faces a difficult choice.

The Koenig's face their biggest challenge as John's life is turned upside down. Everyone is running around and death is everywhere

After the ordeal with the drug thief, Helena moves in with John, only to be lost to him again as she goes into a coma.

During the chaos surrounding hidden gas left by the Titans, Helena finds peace in the midst of the storm. John too is brought to his knees in more ways than one. Will the Titans' place to destroy Alpha succeed?
Contains religious themes.

Moonbase Alpha comes into contact with a powerful mysterious force that affects everyone. Can they survive?

Moonbase Alpha is nothing more than a nudist camp for middle aged farts with saggy butts, and an unhealthy desire to parade about naked...

John and his crew are kidnapped as they investigate the new planet after the moon goes into orbit around it. Continuation of the Amour series.
Includes Christian themes

John Koenig goes on the war path and Alan Carter gets hurt. A secret is revealed.

What if the radically different first and second seasons of Space:1999 actually took place in two parallel universes?

John Koenig and Helena Russell are profoundly affected by a passing fleet of ships

Dr Russell discovers a strange crystal during a recon mission to a meteorite, which causes her to lose control of her mind and body. Spurred on by love, Koenigs returns to the meteorite to find an antidote.

A successful experiment in Victor Bergman's lab goes horribly wrong and suddenly no one knows who Helena Russell is -- except John Koenig. How do you deal with having your life completely erased as if you never existed?

Helena is unable to sleep and John is getting increasingly worried.

Helena has to learn to cope with a long distance relationship and parenthood. John trains on Lud. A crisis arises.

An unidentified object is discovered in a small crater miles away from Alpha’s base. Tremors start rocking the base as the object tries to dislodge itself. John and Helena are trapped in a cave-in.

Present day; archaeologist John Spears took a slug of bourbon, and settled down to read the words Maya Verdeschi wrote well over six hundred years ago…..

A very old man from the far future must travel back to the ancient past to prevent the Alphans' timeline from berin wiped out.

Emotions are running high in the days leading up to Breakaway

After five years of wandering through space, the Alphans finally find their Promised Land when the Moon goes into orbit around a habitable planet. But how long will it stay there?

Alpha is now under a black cloud and Helena Koenig can sense the peoples pain and despair. John Koenig has to make a decision to save Alpha that might cost him his very existence. Father and son square off.

A Valentine's day poem for John and Helena.

As Helena and John's wedding looms on the horizon, things are not as they appear. Victor and Maya have bad news; the dream machine has side effects. John and Helena's love has to face yet another challenge.

A humanoid race searches for similar beings to study their sexual behavior and find the Alphans.

While surveying a planet, John and Helena come across some friendly natives and are invited back to their village for a celebration.

After years of wandering through space, John & Helena and, the Alphans finally find their Promised Land when the hapless Moon goes into orbit around a habitable planet. Or does it?

John and Helena swap costumes for a Halloween party, but three uninvited guests give them an opportunity to swap more than that.

A story based on the episode Black Sun and how it brought John and Helena together.

Helena seizes a brief opportunity to share some time with Captain Zantor.