Victor Bergman
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| Victor Bergman | |
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| Species: | Human |
| Gender: | Male |
| Date of birth: | JUNE 27, 1940, LONDON, ENGLAND |
| Date of death: | 2000? |
| Home planet: | Earth |
| Affiliation: | Moonbase Alpha |
| Posting: | Moonbase Alpha's lead scientist, confidant and adviser to Commander John Koenig |
| Rank: | Third in command, Physicist, philosopher and astronomer |
| Section: | None |
| Portrayed by: | Barry Morse |
Professor Victor Bergman is the name of a recurring character on the UK science fiction television series Space: 1999. The role was portrayed by English actor, Canadian citizen Barry Morse.
Victor is in his mid 50s and serves as Moonbase Alpha's lead scientist, and as a close confidant and advisor to Commander John Koenig.
He is conversant with most of the scientific disciplines, and is something of a philosopher. He is also a noted astronomer; his discovery of the planet Ultra in 1994, as was mentioned in Dragon's Domain. He also is very capable in astrophysics and physics in a broader sense (for example in Black Sun).
For some reason, in 1997 he was sent back to Earth from the Moonbase, but was back on Alpha by 1999 (noted in the episode Breakaway).
Professor Bergman had an artificial heart, which came up in the episodes Black Sun, Force of Life, Guardian of Piri and The Infernal Machine and was mentioned briefly in the second season episode Catacombs of the Moon.
Victor appeared in every episode of the first series of Space: 1999, which aired in the 1975-1976 television season, but did not return for the second series.
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The fate of Professor Bergman is alluded to in a single line of the shooting script for The Metamorph, when one character notes "One lousy spacesuit with a faulty helmet and Victor had to be in it." This scene was filmed, but cut from the final print. Since this scene was never broadcast and has never been seen, fans do not consider this to be the canonical fate of Bergman. However, this was also mentioned in the 'Planets of Peril' novelisation of the early season 2 episodes.
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