Space

TV Mini Series
1985
13h

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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 1970s.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 1970s.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 1970s.

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Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 1 win & 3 nominations total

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James Garner

Sen. Norman Grant

Susan Anspach

Elinor Grant

Blair Brown

Penny Hardesty Pope

Bruce Dern

Stanley Mott

David Dukes

Leopold Strabismus…

Harry Hamlin

John Pope

Barbara Sukowa

Leisel Kolff

Michael York

Dieter Kolff

James Sutorius

Tim Finnerty

Laurence Luckinbill

Narrator

Melinda Dillon

Rachel Mott

Martin Balsam

Sen. Glancey

Dick Anthony Williams

Gawain Butler

Les Lannom

Larry Penzoss…

Richard Delmonte

Ramirez

Beau Bridges

Randy Claggett

Stephanie Faracy

Debbie Dee Claggett

G.D. Spradlin

Tucker Thomas

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Trivia
Apollo 18, the fictitious moon mission that failed, was in the real world a canceled mission that could have landed on the moon in 1973. It was not the name for the Apollo component of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, NASA's rendezvous with a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 1975.

Goofs
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.

Alternate versions
Three versions exist. The original (1985) is 13 hours long and aired from Sunday-Thursday. (Alternated 2 and 3 hour episodes.) In July, 1987, CBS rebroadcast it every Saturday night, using a re-edited 9 hour version (Three 2's and a 3). In 1989, it hit syndication and was shown in a ten hour version. (You guessed it, 5 two hours.)

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Featured in The 37th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1985)

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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.