Terrahawks (1983–1986): Season 2, Episode 9 - Play It Again, Sram - full transcript

Terrahawks, stay on this channel.

This is an emergency.

[TERRAHAWKS THEME BEGINS]

[UPBEAT MUSIC]

[MECHANICAL DESCENT SOUND]

And so, here from the famous studio in the
sky at World Network's fabulous TV city...

...we come to the final moments
in the World's Song Contest.

So let's hear it for
our four fab finalists.

Winner of the North
Sector heats...

... "Long Nights with You" performed
by the talented Miss Hevor Olsen.

[CROWD WHISTLES AND CHEERS]



For the South, "Outback Blues" sung by
the Aussie answer to the energy gap...

...Rod Stalwart.

Let's hear it for Rod.

And representing the East...

... "Katrina" by that terrific
trio, Kay, Gee and Bee. Ha.

And finally for the West, the beautiful
Miss Kate Kestrel with "SOS Mr Tracy".

You're gonna make it, Kate.

The audience thinks
you're great!

And now, a word
from our sponsors.

Flaming thunderbolts!

Get on with the vote,
you clowns.

Why iz there no
French song?

Because, Dix Huet, it was no
good. He, he, he, hum!

Mind you, Wales should
have swept the board.



Keep it down, you two.

They're gonna start the vote.

All right, juries, now
start hitting those buttons.

They're off and they're running
here at the World Song Contest...

...coming to you live from
fabulous TV City.

ANNOUNCER: The scores are:
North, thirty one.

South, ten.
East, twenty-five...

...and West, twenty-four.

HOST: And it's North
taking a early lead...

- HOST: ...but there's a long way to go yet!
- I can't take much more of this...

...kind of tension.

- ANNOUNCER: North now---
- For space' sake, another vote for North!

Who in space fire
picked these juries?!

It's rigged. RIGGED!

Calm down, Tiger.

Come on, Kate.
COME ON, KATE!!

And as we come up to the midpoint,
there's absolutely nothing in it.

ANNOUNCER: The scores are now
North, forty-nine, South, fifty-two...

- ...East, fifty, West, fifty-one.
- Go, go go!

Come on, Kate!

ANNOUNCER: The scores are now
North, eighty-seven...

- South, one three one...
- MARY: COME ON, KATE!

- East, seventy-six, and West, one three one.
- Str-oll on, "SOS Mr Tracy"!

This is incredible,
I can't believe it.

It is a tie, with South one three
one and West one three one.

Ladies and gentlemen, the deciding
vote is coming through right now.

[WHOOSH, TWIDDLY BLEEP]

[DRUM ROLL]

And there it is. The World
Song Contest has a winner!

Miss Kate Kestrel
and "SOS Mr Tracy".

[APPLAUSE AS MUSIC STARTS]

[MAN'S VOICE OVER RADIO]
"Calling International Rescue."

"International Rescue,
do you read me?"

"International Rescue, come in,
please. We need help."

[KATE SINGING]
"I turn my face into the wind."

"I feel a restless kind of
motion in the way she blows."

"And as the final day begins"...

- make a fist of whitened fingers..."
- Oh, Oh!

- ... "'Til the feeling goes."
- What're you doing?

- She won. I knew she would.
- "I never felt this much alone"...

- Who won?
- Kate Kestrel.

She won the
World Song Contest!

- So what?
- Sheushh! It means...

...she will represent the Solar
System in the interstellar contest.

That sounds most interesting!

- Oh, huh, huh, huh! Mother.
- Tell me all about it.

Come, sit upon my knee...

...sonny boy.

Yes, Mother.

[STATELY MUSIC]

HUDSON: Where to, madam?

Anderburr Records.

I've got a quite a surprise
for a certain Stuart Dapples.

Huh, man! I mean, Oh, no, it
can't be true - you're kidding!

Huh, I mean, you know...

...unpretentious little moi? Hur, hur, huh, hur!
You're winding me up, Miss Kestrel.

I'm telling you the truth.

Really? Ah-hur--- I mean, oh-ho,
well, I mean, that's utterly...

...amazing, like, um, fantastic.

PRODUCER:
What's happening, Stu?

What's happening? Yah, right, okay,
well, what's happening is...

...right, now, there's a...

...urm, uh, wai-wai-wait.
Right, what's happening is...

...Stuart Dapples, right, okay that's me,
Mr Producer, yah, okay? That's me. Erm---

I have been chosen, like,
in person, that is, like...

...there's me. I've been chosen, to---
Now, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it...

...to compere the Interstellar
Song Contest, hur-hur-huh-hurr!!

[MARTIAN MUSIC]

We are the sole
inhabitants of Mars.

One of the nine
great planets.

So, I have challenged
this, this, Kate Kestrel.

She has no right to
represent the Solar System.

She only won the
WORLD Song Contest.

Challenged her, Mother?

Yes, indeed.

Her song against ours.

But we don't have a song.

[LAUGHS] Come forward,
my Lord Wolfgang...

...MOID.
[HARPSICHORD INTRODUCTION]

...Master Of Infinite Disguise, has
assumed the role of the great...

...musician,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Play the tune you
have composed.

[BASSOON-LIKE SOUND]

It's utterly useless.

Hmm. Perhaps it
was a mistake.

Yes, MOID might have done
better if he had been Liszt.

Zelda lives on Mars and is therefore
a resident of the Solar System.

She invaded Mars by force.

A lot of people
invade a lot of places.

She took her case to the
United Planets where it was upheld.

So we don't
have a choice.

Yes, we have a choice.

Take up Zelda's challenge or
back down and let her song...

...represent the Solar System.

All right.
We take Zelda on.

Where?

We must try to avoid any
kind of publicity.

There is a remote asteroid, Yazga.
It's been declared a neutral zone.

[ETHEREAL MUSIC]
Zelda has agreed.

The competition
will be held there.

[SPACE MUSIC]

[BLEEP] Leaving
Earth Orbit.

Setting course
for Yazga. [BLEEP]

Ten ten,
Space Sergeant.

Where's that so-called compere?

Stu Dapples? He's with
Kate in the recreation area.

Ah, what's our cover story?

He thinks he's aboard
a military starship.

And that's the
way we'll play it.

Is the escort assembled?

They are already space-borne,
Mother.

Then prepare for lift-off!

[TENSE MUSIC]

[ENGINE NOISE]

The song is very
good, Mother.

It could win.

I need to be
certain of victory.

That is why I have brought
along some--- insurance.

Insurance?

Yes, a demon
of the drums.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[YUNG-STAR GASPS]

Sram, a drummer?!

Par excellence.

He has been known
to bring the house down.

[EVIL CACKLING]

[THUNDEROUS ROAR]

No, Sram. Not yet. Save your thunder
for the accursed Terrahawks.

[SCREECHING CACKLE]

[SPACE MUSIC]

Hey, y'know, this all, like, urm--- Well,
y'know, it's a bit weird, you know?

I mean, I was supposed to be compering,
like, okay, y'know, like the um...

...compering the Interstellar Song
Contest, yeah? I mean, like, um, well...

- ...what's going on?
- Welcome to the Starship Centaurise.

- I'm Captain Burke.
- Oh, yeah, well, erm...

...nice to meet you, Captain.

Er, where does this er,
you know. Erm...

...where does the contest
take place then?

There's an abandoned
mining complex on Yazga.

Oh, yeah, right, a mining complex
like, er--- A mi--- Wha--?!

A hole in the ground
you mean?

Don't worry, we've brought
all the necessary equipment.

- Lights and things.
- Yeah, but Captain!

We are overflying the complex
now, Doctor--- I mean, Captain.

It looks like Zelda's
already arrived.

We can't perform in here,
it's a--- it's a cavern.

Even the best groups
have to start somewhere.

You half-wit.

This cavern, as you call it,
will witness our greatest triumph.

Zelda's so devious, this has
to be a trap of some kind.

Of course it's a trap.

That's why we've planned
for every contingency.

Are you and your
men ready, Zero?

[BLEEP] Oh, yes, sir. We is straining
like greyhounds in the slips. [BLEEP]

[WHOOSH]
He's getting worse.

Let's go.

[STATELY MUSIC]

All right, Zero, when you've set up all
the equipment you know what to do.

[BLEEP] Sah! [BLEEP]

[LANDING NOISE]

[ENGINES SLOWING]

So, we meet once
more, clone.

I wish I could say
it was a pleasure.

- Are you ready, Android?
- I am ready.

But where is your
despicable songstress?

She'll be here, go and
do your worst.

The stage is ready.
[EVIL CACKLING]

My worst! I will! Ah-ha, ha, ha!
I certainly will! [EVIL CACKLE]

[ETHEREAL MUSIC]

[STAGE CREW] Stand by.
Stage lights. Running.

Oh, yeah.
Are we running?

I mean, urm. Okay, hello,
one two, one two, one two, okay.

Er, is there
anyone out there?

We're ready, Earth-scum.

"Earth-scum"? Ho, yeah, that's really
charming. I mean come on, I mean...

...imagine if we'd been going
out live, man, you know?

Get on with it, you cretin.

Get on with it, yah, okay,
right, okay, going - yep.

Right, starting. Erm---
[CLEARS THROAT THEATRICALLY]

Presenting: Zelda and the Musoids.

Introduce us.

Okay, yah, right okay, introduce you,
right, here we go, urm - right.

[CLEARS THROAT]
On synthesizer we have, urm...

...Cy-Star!

WON-DER-FUL!
[PLAYS SOME NOTES]

Huh, okay, wonderful, yah.
And on bass we have...

...Yung-Star!

Ho, ho, huh, huh, ho, ho! That's me!
[PLAYS SOME NOTES]

That's me!
Huh, huh, ho, ho!

Okay, yah, incredible, I mean like,
over the top, you know - OTT.

Okay, right. And on drums
we have--- Sram, Lord of Felony...?

[HEAVY BREATHING]

Flaming thunderbolts.

[HEAVY BREATHING]

And finally, the group's
lead singer, uh-huh--- Zelda.

Vocal backing by the Musoids.

Oh, right, yah.
Okay, Okay.

Right, and--- Zelda and the Musoids!

[HISSING]

You were right, Mary,
Zelda's full of tricks.

We'll be ready, Tiger.

A-one, two, one two three four.

ZELDA:
Greetings, Earth-things.

I am Zelda,
ruler of the Universe!

- CUBES: "Who's that bad?"
- "I'm that bad."

"Well, everybody know
that she's that bad."

"Wicked, cruel, vicious, mean,
coolest cat you ever seen."

- "Who's the worst?"
- "I'm the worst."

"Everybody knows that
I'M the worst."

"I'm the meanest queen
that's ever been, but"---

"If I try - I could be worse!"

[CACKLING DURING
INSTRUMENTAL BREAK]

WONN-DER-FUL!

[ALL LAUGH]

[GURGLING]

Be quiet, you
drooling half-wit.

"Who's the hag with
the evil team?"

"Ugly, man, and very mean."

"I'm the hag I think you mean,
I'm lovely, bad and really mean."

"She'll trick and cheat and
tell you lies."

"My evil eye will hypnotise."

"She's the killer queen with
a mean machine."

"I?ll blow you all to
smith-EREENS!"

"Bad bad, do the math.
Everybody move to the Zelda rap."

"Bad, bad, do the math.
Everybody move!"

"Zap that, do the rap,
everybody move to the Zelda rap."

"Zap that, do the rap,
everybody, GROOVE!"

[SONG ENDS WITH
CYMBAL SMASH]

They're not bad.

I've heard worse.

And now the fabulous
Miss Kate Kestrel!

Kate's about to sing.
Are you in position, Zero?

[BLEEP] We is
ready, sah. [BLEEP]

[MUSIC STARTS]

[VOICE OVER COMMS EFFECT]
"Calling International Rescue.

"International Rescue,
do you read me?"

"International Rescue come in,
please. We need help."

[KATE SINGING]
"I turn my face into the wind."

"I feel a restless kind of
motion in the way she blows."

"And as the final day begins."

"I make a fist of whitened
fingers 'til the feeling goes."

[FLYPAST NOISE]

[BEEPING]
We have a contact.

Identify.

[FLYPAST NOISE]

Intruders are alien.
Two ZEAFs.

What is Zelda up to?

"SOS, Mr Tracy, the western
world is falling."

"SOS, International Rescue
hear us calling."

"SOS, I turn my face up to the sky."
- It's no contest, Zelda.

[KATE SINGING]
"I feel a wall of pressure"...

... "building either side of me."
- We shall see.

- "As if the answer to my cry"...
- The clone is right, Mother.

This song is much better
than ours.

Then we will have to
do something about it.

[FLYPAST NOISE]

I have prepared myself.

We use my power;
we will be safe.

"SOS, Mr Tracy, the
western world is falling."

"SOS, International
Rescue hear us calling."

"SOS."
- "Calling International Rescue."

[MISSILE AND COMMS
SOUND EFFECTS]

[WEAPON FIRE,
ROAR OF EXPLOSIONS]

[RAPID FIRING CONTINUES]

"SOS."
[RUMBLING]

Ho-ho-k-ay, huh, what was--- er,
what was that, Captain Burke?

We'll take care of it.

- Locked on to targets.
- Fire. [ALERT BEEPING]

[WEAPONS FIRE, FLYPAST NOISE]

[BOOM OF EXPLOSION]

[ENGINE NOISE]

[WEAPON FIRE]

We've destroyed your
ZEAFs, Zelda.

You've lost. The song
contest and the fight.

Not yet, clone.

Play it, Sram.

[SYNTHESIZED DRUMS]

[TWIDDLY BLEEP]

[CLATTER OF FALLING ROCK]

Burke, hey, hey, you know, I mean
that whole roof, you know...

I mean, it could cave in, man.

Get down here, Zero.

Get the container ready.

[BOINGING] Huh.
Oof!

All right, lads. Attach yourselves.
Move it, move it.

Let's be 'aving you, then. I suggest
you get inside the container, ma'am.

Right, Zero.

Let's get outta here.

Okay, right, yah.
I mean--- Yes.

[THREATENING SOUNDS
INCREASING]

Let's move it.
Let's go.

Roll on!

[TERRAHAWKS RIFF]

The Terrahawks
are getting away.

What has happened
to Sram?

Humm, humm.

PLAY IT AGAIN, SRAM.

[THUNDEROUS ROARING]

[ROARING]

Arrgh!

[ROARING]

OH! The roof's caving in.

Arhh, use your power.

SAVE US, MOTHER!

SAVE US!

[ROAR]

Don't touch.

- How is it, Yung-Star?
- Busted.

It's broken. Finished.

Yung-Star could
lose his nose, Zelda.

Serves him right.

But how would he smell?

The same way he does now.
Utterly disgusting. Ha, ha, ha!

I've always said old jokes are the best.
[CACKLE]

[END THEME]

Ripped & Corrected By mstoll
April 2017