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.
