ChicRawIdol
A brilliant film that helped define a genre
ThedevilChoose
When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
Dana
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
GUENOT PHILIPPE
That's not I first thought about of when I started watching this TV show. In this series, I remembered Nathan Juran's FIRST MEN IN THE MOON, Irving Pichel's DESTINATION MOON, Kubrick's 2001 SPACE ODYSSEY, Phil Kaufman's THE RIGHT STUFF, Rich Donner's X15, Robert Altman's COUNTDOWN, Byron Haskin's CONQUEST OF SPACE...Well, nothing to do with other space operas where aircrafts have to fight monsters of all kinds. I am not a pure sci-fi specialist, and this TV show is made for those die hard buffs looking for authentic details, speaking of truly facts, close to actual events. Too technical for me. Sorry. I prefer the ALIEN kind, or IT THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE.But I insist: this is a truly good TV series. There must exist this kind of stuff, and not only monsters all over the space.
bbanks-6
I was only 9 years old when the first episode of men into space came out. I was hooked from then on on all science fiction. Especially those that showed space walks and landing on other planets. The special effects were pretty good for the time period and were very believable. I just throughly enjoyed the program. The whole concept of landing on the moon and space walking was a few years premature and really just what seemed like an impossible dream. However it came to fruition only 10 years later. I think as a kid that grew up in this time period, there were many fantasies that us kids would share with our friends. We had very little TV, but the movies were only a quarter and I loved many of the movies like: The Day the Earth Stood Still, Red Planet, War of the worlds, and many of the Japanese made space movies like the Misterians. Of-course you cannot leave out the Twilight Zone and Outerlimits. What great fun!
jbrotychoorion
I'm a huge scifi buff, but was much too young to get a grasp of what this show was all about (I was 3 or 4 at the time). However, every time I saw William Lundigan in anything else I always thought about the show. What struck me (and these are the compressed memories of a child, remember) was that it seemed that while in every episode I saw the Col. on some sort of space mission, it always seemed that he was always home in time for dinner, as if this were a 9 to 5 job, and like Ward Cleaver would tuck the kids in at night....but perhaps I'm confusing this with something else......the effects and space outfits reminded me a lot of the old outer limits episode where "space spores" invaded a space station.....
md6778
This show was another that vanished after one season but appealed to the imaginations of kids with unfamiliar concepts as weightlessness and a "hard vacuum". The show featured the McCauley character and crew blasting off on missions in a standardized multistage (?) vehicle, and doing space walks, rendezvous and powered landings. One episode had McCauley rescue a colleague on a very small asteroid doomed for destruction. As they departed the asteroid, the viewer sees petroglyphic markings on the space rock evidently left by an alien civilization (is this the episode titled "Is There Another Civilization?"). Shows of this genre inspired a generation of scientists and science buffs.
