When Bill returns to Moon City he heads straight to the bar where he finds a worried Clementine. She explains that nobody has seen her brother for months and unless he can register his recent mineral claim he will lose his mining site and all of his money within the next two days. Kemp agrees to take her to the far side of the Moon and search for him but Hubbard's henchman, Harry, intervenes and a low-gravity bar room fight breaks out.
As the police move in Bill grabs Clem and heads for his ship.
A blooper occurs at the beginning of the scene when the camera pans from the bar to the approaching Bill & Dimtri and they are still waiting for their cue to carrying on walking towards camera.

I make spacemen crazy at found, The sight of me.... in orbit, Hold on tight and we shall ride.........

A nice down angle shot during one of the launch sequences - that also has the benefit of hiding the support pole.
The main model was only about 2 feet high, featured a motorised rotating radar dish, telescopic moving leg struts, and gas piping to the main engine and small thrusters to simulate a rocket effect.

Moon Zero Two (above left) touchs down at a supply base, called Farside Five, and Bill and Clem take a Moon Bug to her brothers claim.
They arrive only to find his long dead body, but what seems like an accident soon looks like murder as gunmen move in.

Take me soon....... Riding to the Moon, Goner be there soooon....

After a shootout leaves their vehicle wrecked they have to take a damaged Bug Dozer back to the base.
The Moon Bug shots are quite well done, although the wire that pulls the model along can be seen occasionally and the full size prop moves far too slowly. Brian Johnson (Space 1999/Alien) was one of many effect technicians to work of this film (without getting a credit) and remembers working with the bug where the full sized vehicle moves behind a rock face and the camera pans to the other side to reveal the model driving off into the distance, which isa really nice effect - although his main memory is that the Director of Photography believed the Moon was GREEN!

Another nice special effect happens on the way back to Farside Five when the Bug overheats and explodes as Bill and Clem run for cover. This is another foreground miniature shot. Stuntmen in spacesuits run across the studio floor on the lower right side of the screen while a model Bug sits on a piece of moonscape, only feet in front of the camera, on the top left hand side. With careful positioning and lighting the two blend together very well, with explosions on the model, full size set and flying debris timed to go off simultaneously.

Safely back at Farside Five they find Bill's girlfriend, Liz Murphy, waiting to arrest them for the earlier fight, but Hubbard and his henchmen arrive and Liz is shot dead. Holding a gun to Clem's head Bill is forced to take them back to the asteroid for its final course correction to land it on the dead Wally Taplins mining site - which will shortly be transfered into Hubbard's ownership.

On the asteroid a gunfight takes place as Bill, Dimtri and Clem get the upper hand leaving Hubbard and Whitsun on a one way trip to the Lunar plains and destruction.

We'll love the world we land on, And love is what we'll be making.......

The space shots were photographed using the same type of technique as that later used in Space 1999. The model was attached to a support pipe in front of a black velvet background and the movement was created by moving the camera - not the model.

A happy ending as the trio fly back to Moon City.
Although Bill's girlfriend has only just been brutally shot, and then died in his arms, he wastes no time in chatting up the very young, and now very rich, Miss Taplin. I like his style!

You know the way we're flying, Me and you..................

Special Effects Expert Les Bowie interviewed at work on Moon Zero Two
From Screen Test Annual 1974
Photo: Hammer Film Productions

I need the high life..............
Riding.............................Riding to the Moooon
Music: Don Ellis .....Vocals: Julie Driscoll
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