"Space" (1985) TV mini-series

Directors:

Lee Philips
Joseph Sargent

Writers:

Richard Berg (writer)
James Michener (novel)

Release Date:

14 April 1985 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A 13-hour mini-series detailing James A. Michner's fictional account of the American space program from the years after World War II to the Apollo landings on the moon in the early 1970's.

Plot Keywords:

Space | Moon | Apollo | NASA | Astronaut

Awards:

Won Primetime Emmy. Another 3 nominations

Cast

James Garner	...	Sen. Norman Grant
Susan Anspach	...	Elinor Grant
Beau Bridges	...	Randy Claggett
Blair Brown	...	Penny Hardesty Pope
Bruce Dern	...	Stanley Mott
Melinda Dillon	...	Rachel Mott
David Dukes	...	Martin Scorcella / Leopold Strabismus
Harry Hamlin	...	John Pope
Barbara Sukowa	...	Leisel Kolff
Michael York	...	Dieter Kolff
Ralph Bellamy	...	Paul Stidham
Roscoe Lee Browne	...	Farquar
Martin Balsam	...	Sen. Glancey
James Sutorius	...	Finnerty
Stephanie Faracy	...	Debbie Dee Claggett

Also Known As:

James A. Michener's Space

Runtime:

120 min (5 parts)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:12

Filming Locations:

Orfordness, Suffolk, England, UK

Company:

Dick Berg-Stonehenge Productions

Trivia:

Apollo 18, the fictitious moon mission that failed, was the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (NASA's rendezvous with a Russian Soyuz spacecraft) nickname in later years since it used the Apollo era spacecraft.

Goofs:

Continuity: When the Saturn V rocket is shown on the launch pad for Apollo 18, the scene changes between shots from a Saturn V to a Saturn IB.

The Right Stuff with fictional characters.

Based on the James Michener novel of the same name this mini series which originally aired on CBS tells the tale of Americas space program through fictional characters. Beginning with German Rocket scientists who choose to go to the Americans side after the war up to the manned lunar landings. The politics, money making business, careers and romances of those who made up the space program are covered.

The original broadcast was the best version. It has been rebroadcast a few times since but has always been edited in some form or another. A little heavy at times on the soap opera romance bit but still a good mini series. Don't miss reading the novel by Michener.