Plymouth

I thought that this was a well written movie, better than most made for TV sci-fi. I thought that it made living on the moon look very believable. I wish it would get released to DVD before something happens to my VHS copy.

I enjoyed the movie as its a world we can "dream" of with a smile. someday we will have a similar reality of the aspect of "living" in space. I used to have a fuzzy tape of it when it aired and now that tape gotten destroyed. it would be great to see it again and "dream"

Plymouth aired today (July 1, 2001) in the UK. Thought the premise sounded pretty dopey, but it wasn't too bad after all. All the way through it, I was thinking "Picket Fences in Space" and that's kind of what it turned into, but it was in no way offensive. I guess it was a pilot for a TV series, but if they ever made one, it never aired in UK. Dale Midkiff is suitably square-jawed as the hero, Gil. Great to see some sci-fi that doesn't have bumpy-headed aliens!

Sometimes you come by a movie, that try to show how the world would look in the future. This story of "the first moon base" is moving in a gentle and realistic tempo. Its not an action movie, but tries to be a vision of how thing may be in the future. The style (cloth, hair, big head set, keyboards etc.) in the movie is typical 1990 - so it has this old time kind of look, but a part from that its a really enjoyable movie. So if you would like to see a (fairly) realistic vision of the future, you will enjoy this. As the title shows, this could be the story of an ordinary American mining city - just on the moon - with the twists in the plots that comes with it.

I had this on an old Polaroid VHS tape next to my carefully-managed set of Fox's Alien Nation, Season 1.

I recall that the writers actually borrowed from some science-fiction of the time, in that the astronaut suits had "bomber art" like dragon scales or fins to suit their owner.

I remember liking Dale Midkiff from his appearance in Pet Sematary and Cindy Pickett from John Hughes movies, with a host of character actors filling out the cast. You had the nerdy Will Robinson expy, and a valid reason to not only build a moon base, but to staff and run it like an actual town.

Never understood why it didn't get picked up, because prime-time TV had a shortage of good science-fiction shows, and those popular ones were less believable than something which bordered on actual current science.