Starflight One- Space Flicks From Back In The Day

[XP67_Moonbat]

Another one of those flashbacks I had while looking for that old ALSV article was about a movie regarding a stranded spaceplane getting rescued by the shuttle Columbia. Saw it ages ago on KTLA's Saturday matinee or something like that. They usually ran crapfest TV movies around noon.

After Googling, I found it. Starflight One. So here you go and have a good laugh on me.
http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Starflight_One_1982.aspx

The premise is pretty hokey and the effects were ugly. Sure, looking back, it's a crapfest. But it's one of those movies that somehow you can't forget.

After that, Salvage 1 comes to mind along with Stowaway To The Moon, and Hangar 18. Also coming to mind were Robinson Crusoe On Mars and that movie with the Doppelganger lifting body and the mirror Earth.

Funny how some of the stuff that inspired me as a kid makes my "WTF-meter" twitch today. But I still get nostalgic about it anyway.

Anyone else remember this one?

[Orionblamblam]

Anyone else remember this one?

Oh, yes indeed. I loved me some "Starflight One" back in the day, even though at 13 I was still able to look at it and go "hey, wait, that wouldn't work..."

Pity it's not available on DVD.

[Michel Van]

dam i saw that old TV-movie in a German Cinema in 1984 !
the German version was called here "Starflight One – Irrflug ins Weltall"
"Irrflug ins Weltall" = erring flight in to Space
Wat match perfect the Movie crap story, almost so good as  "Airplane II: The Sequel"...

Pity it's not available on DVD.

there one DVD Spanish with English audio, but its Region 2 encoding PAL

http://www.amazon.com/Starflight-One-Couldnt-Airport-NON-USA/dp/B0019D6H3G/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1271871353&sr=8-2

[joncarrfarrelly]

Oddly enough it was just on the other day, found it while idly channel surfing. Crapfest indeed.
Being carried by This.TV, another cable channel of old TV shows and cheesy movies.

http://www.thistv.com/starflight-one

[The Artist]

After that, Salvage 1 comes to mind along with Stowaway To The Moon, and Hangar 18. Also coming to mind were Robinson Crusoe On Mars and that movie with the Doppelganger lifting body and the mirror Earth.

Funny how some of the stuff that inspired me as a kid makes my "WTF-meter" twitch today. But I still get nostalgic about it anyway.

Anyone else remember this one?

I've not seen that one but I can tell you that the movie with the Doppelganger was Journey to the Far Side of the Sun - at least, that's what it was called here in the states. By the way, there was another mirror Earth movie called The Stranger. This one had less in the way of special effects and it was darker - 1984 kind of darker. "Remember - The TV watches you." I seem to recall that this one was from Bing Crosby Productions and may have been a pilot for a series.

Stowaway to the Moon is one of my campy favorites along with Capricorn One and The Astronaut - two variations on the theme of mission failure potential detected then NASA stages the landing (Mars in Capricorn and Moon in Astronaut) to prevent loss of funding.

Now. I wonder if anyone could help me with titles for these two. The first was a movie about the population of an orbiting space station trying to maintain their peaceful independence which was threatened when either China or the USSR parked an orbiting missile silo in a near-by orbit. The second movie was about the residents of an American town being relocated to become the population of the newly built lunar colony. The drama in this one was a blow-up of solar flair activity with some of the characters trapped out in the open.

Correction. I saw The Astronaut only once and that was when it first aired. I've just checked the listing on IMDB.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0068229/

This movie also dealt with a mission to Mars but in this one the astronaut dies during the mission. Otherwise, it is still the theme of cover-up that falls apart.

[Orionblamblam]

The second movie was about the residents of an American town being relocated to become the population of the newly built lunar colony.

"Plymouth," with Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102681/

[The Artist]

Thanks!

[quellish]

"Plymouth," with Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102681/

I've been trying to remember the name of that one for a while, I had a VHS of it at one point

[Michel Van]

The second movie was about the residents of an American town being relocated to become the population of the newly built lunar colony.

"Plymouth," with Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102681/

I like Space Hardware in that Disney TV Pilot 
they found someone who knew how to do it !
Pete Conrad ?
sad they didn't make "Plymouth the TV Series"

to Doppelganger aka Journey to the Far Side of the Sun
the story is insane but SFX and Space Hardware are Gerry Anderson best !
i say Phoenix and Dove (see picture )

so good they reused SFX for TV-serie UFO 

[XP67_Moonbat]

Michael,

Thank you. That pic of Doppelganger 1 brought back memories.

And while I'm in flashback mode, I found this diagram of the ship from Salvage 1. Check it out.

[Michel Van]

oh yes Salvage 1
i love that scene were NASA astronaut look on this Spacecraft
because the Vulture completely build of junk Cars parts
a Texaco gasoline Semitrailer with cement mixer as the capsule !
disturbed he look on landinggear who use cartires
Harry Broderick kick one tire and say
"oh yes we wend with that to Moon and Back !"

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Av0fSbfOJMU&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Av0fSbfOJMU&rel=1</a>

[Orionblamblam]

Salvage One clip...

Ye gods. The special effects look like something out of some Stalin-era Soviet propaganda house...

Just more evidence that sometimes things from your chiuldhood should *stay* in your childhood. Another example: Buck Rogers. Back when I was ten or so, Buck Rogers friggen' *rocked.* While I was not yet quite old enough to understand exactly why, Erin Gray in her spandex flight outfit was just plain fascinating. And the years passed, and finally while in college the Sci-Fi Channel ran a BR marathon. First time I'd seen the show since it originally aired. In retrospect... I shouldn't'a aughtta have watched that...

[XP67_Moonbat]

Yah, no kidding. Again, that's why my "WTF-meter" goes off when looking back.

[The Artist]

I wonder if anyone can come up with one that is cheesier than the one I just remembered - The Mouse on the Moon. IMDB info here www.imdb.com/title/tt0057328/

Now that I think of it, I remember thinking about this movie when I saw Salvage 1. I guess it was that revolutionary low acceleration fuel.

[Michel Van]

again a movie i love !

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/9yqZzPV5V7k&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/9yqZzPV5V7k&rel=1</a>

Salvage One clip...

Ye gods. The special effects look like something out of some Stalin-era Soviet propaganda house...

Just more evidence that sometimes things from your chiuldhood should *stay* in your childhood. Another example: Buck Rogers. Back when I was ten or so, Buck Rogers friggen' *rocked.* While I was not yet quite old enough to understand exactly why, Erin Gray in her spandex flight outfit was just plain fascinating. And the years passed, and finally while in college the Sci-Fi Channel ran a BR marathon. First time I'd seen the show since it originally aired. In retrospect... I shouldn't'a aughtta have watched that...

Stalin-era Soviet propaganda special effects ?
you never see the early years of Doctor Who...

Glen A. Larson  Buck Rogers, oh yes I had same feeling
Wat about the Original series from 1939 with Buster Crabbe ?
apropos Buster Crabbe
Flash Gordon series from 1936
and that lovely Trash version from 1980...