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I'm fond of 'Space Race' documentaries and "For all Mankind' was a sort of benchmark in that field. This one ranks alongside that one in terms of quality and emotion (I'm a boomer). Interviews with the astronauts Lovell, Borman and Anders tell how the grew up, what motivated them and how they got into the astronaut group. All that is punctuated with personal photos, archival footage and in some cases reenactments of incidents. All good stuff and excellently done.

When they get to the events at Nasa leading up to the Apollo mission (Gemini in particular) it starts to get mesmerizing If you don't know about that period you will be seriously enlightened. The punctuated astronaut interviews amidst the storytelling brings it all down to a human level. Thank you Lovell, Borman and Anders for getting involved in this.

Superior graphics animation to show what archival footage could not, superior restoration of both Nasa and news footage and superior editing make this a must watch for Space fans. Another call out to the composer for making the music enhance the story and not bombastic and overbearing as is usual these days The Director of course deserves kudos for making this picture and thank you to Kickstarter doners for letting this become a reality.

"Thank You Apollo 8 for saving 1968"

Yes, the consensus is that this movie is not very good. It's OK. A passable time filler with not very good acting by the leads - not that they had much to work with. 'Bad' acting in a TV movie doesn't have to put any picture out of court on the entertainment scale, witness another Ludlam TV adaptation: the Bourne Identity with Richard Chamberlain from 1988. Great script, vivid location filming and coherent plot line make for an entertaining watch. But back to this.

A disappointment despite guest stars of which only Jose Ferrer's brief role shows acting chops that can a turn bad dialogue into something memorable. Still, if you like a WW2 period piece with 1970's era fashions you might get into it. The cars are great.

Bergerac. Has to go to London on a mysterious mission from Crozier to do ...what? Both the viewer and Bergerac don't quite know what this mission is to be about, but it becomes apparent much later in the episode. Who can be trusted? Corruption at the highest levels of the MET? What is going on here? Stick with it as it is an unusual storyline.

At this point in its run Bergerac stories are starting to go off the rails into a more violent and less charming storyline. I personally liked the earlier ones better, but this episode is worth watching and NOT 'pointless'. By the end of this series in a couple of years most of the good qualities of "Bergerac" were gone. (IMHO). On to Midsomer. LOL.