History Series / MoonbaseThree

Set onboard the titular lunar outpost [[{{Zeerust}} in the year 2003]], the series starred Donald Houston as base director David Caulder, who is appointed to the position after the previous director [[BusCrash is killed while returning to Earth]]. Co-starring are Ralph Bates as Deputy Director [[FrenchJerk Michel Lebrun]], Fiona Gaunt as base psychiatrist Dr. Helen Smith, and Barry Lowe as base technical section head Tom Hill.

* ExtyYearsFromNow: 2003 was thirty years in the future at the time of production.

* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: The Soviet Union still exists in 2003. It operates Moonbase 2, one of five lunar outposts (the others being operated by the US, Europe, China and Brazil). Furthermore, in the fifth episode "Castor and Pollux", it is revealed that the Soviets are on the verge of sending a manned mission to UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} and that their long-term goal is to launch a manned orbital flight of UsefulNotes/{{Jupiter}} using UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} as a springboard.

''Moonbase 3'' was a [[ShortRunners short-lived]] [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] sci-fi drama created by ''Series/DoctorWho'' producers Creator/TerranceDicks and Barry Letts, originally broadcast in 1973.

** In both "Achilles Heel" and "Outsiders", she is completely blind to the strange patterns of behaviour and relatively obvious warning signs displayed by two emotionally disturbed men as she is too distracted by her attraction to them. She does realise that they have problems but believes that they are of the kind that can be solved by her kissing them.

* {{Zeerust}}: The series takes place in 2003, a time when the United States, the Soviet Union, Europe, China and Brazil all have moonbases. A European manned probe to Venus is discussed at some length in "Achilles Heel".