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Seasons:
1 full episode list
Release Date:
30 September 1959 (USA) more
Genre:
Sci-Fi more
Plot:
The more-or-less realistic adventures of Colonel Ed McCauley, head of the American space program. He battles saboteurs... more
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Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
Possibly the most accurate "hard" sci-fi series of all time more (17 total)

Cast

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William Lundigan ... Col. Edward McCauley (38 episodes, 1959-1960)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Space Challenge (USA) (syndication title)
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Runtime:
30 min (38 episodes)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

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Trivia:
Each episode of this series was budgeted at $50,000. more
Quotes:
Narrator: No matter where he travels, one thing will always be the same: man himself. Human nature will not change in the strange outposts of space. There will always be love and hate, courage and fear, and even greed. This is the story of an expedition to a distant world that was brought to the brink of disaster by one man's greed. more

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15 out of 15 people found the following comment useful.
Possibly the most accurate "hard" sci-fi series of all time, 30 January 2000
Author: Ed Uthman (uthman@airmail.net) from Houston, Texas

As with other reviewers, my impression of this never-syndicated, never-published-on-video series rests on childhood memories, in my case from age 7. However, at the time I had read a lot of popular books on the prospect of manned space flight, and "Men Into Space" resonated perfectly with the best that scientist-author Willy Ley and colleagues had to offer a 50's audience. As the episodes progressed, we witnessed man's first space flight, EVA, moon landing, and moon base operation. Space was depicted as silent (no "whooshing" spacecraft); multistage rockets were used; and full pressure suits were de rigueur.

I suppose this series stood on the broad shoulders of the Heinlein-penned film DESTINATION MOON (1950), but you have to credit the TV show's producers with a level of scientific integrity not seen in in network sci-fi before or since.

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