Space (miniseries)

Space
Also known as	James A. Michener's Space
Genre	Miniseries
Written by	James A. Michener (novel) Richard Berg Stirling Silliphant
Directed by	Lee Philips Joseph Sargent
Starring	James Garner, Beau Bridges, Bruce Dern, Harry Hamlin, Michael York
Composer(s)	Tony Berg Miles Goodman
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	Richard Berg Martin Manulis
Editor(s)	Donald R. Rode Patrick Kennedy George Jay Nicholson
Cinematography	Héctor R. Figueroa (episodes 1, 5, 6) Gayne Rescher (episodes 2-4)
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
First shown in	April 14–18, 1985

Space is a television mini-series created by CBS in 1985. It is based on a novel of the same name by James A. Michener published in 1982. The program is also called "James A. Michener's Space". Like the novel, the mini-series is a fictionalised history of the United States space program. The show starred James Garner.

"Space" won three Emmy Awards, including an award for film sound mixing. It originally aired from April 14 through 18, 1985, and consisted of five parts running a total of 13 hours. In subsequent showings, it was cut to nine hours.^[1]

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast and crew information 2.1 Cast 2.2 Production Credits 3 Awards 4 References 5 External links

Plot

Norman Grant (James Garner), a former war hero turned senator who tirelessly promotes the American space program despite almost insurmountable opposition. Other principal players include John Pope (Harry Hamlin), who, after failing to win his way to Annapolis, matriculates from a Navy recruit to a naval officer, Naval Aviator, test pilot and pioneering astronaut in the company of fellow space-traveler Randy Claggett (Beau Bridges); Penny Hardesty Pope (Blair Brown), an ambitious and beautiful counsel to Senator Grant since his election and wife of John Pope; Leopold Strabismus (David Dukes), a hedonistic wheeler-dealer who hopes to capitalize on the 1947 UFO scare; German rocket scientist Dieter Kolff (Michael York), whose ideals (or lack thereof) are put to the test when he shifts his allegiance from the Nazis to the Americans; and Stanley Mott (Bruce Dern), an aeronautical engineer whose secret assignment is to make certain that men like Kolff aren't snatched up by the Soviets after the fall of Germany.

Cast and crew information

Cast

• Beau Bridges as Astronaut Randy Claggett
• Blair Brown as Penny Hardesty Pope
• Bruce Dern as Dr. Stanley Mott
• James Garner as Senator Norman Grant
• Harry Hamlin as Astronaut John Pope
• Michael York as Rocket Scientist Dieter Kolff
• Barbara Sukowa as Liesel Kolff

Production Credits

Lionel Couch (Art Director), James Michener (Book Author), Hector R. Figueroa (Cinematographer), Gayne Rescher (Cinematographer), Tony Berg (Composer (Music Score)), Miles Goodman (Composer (Music Score)), Lee Philips (Director), Joseph Sargent (Director), Donald R. Rode (Editor), Patrick Kennedy (Editor), George Jay Nicholson (Editor), Dick Berg (Executive Producer), Allan Marcil (Producer), Martin Manulis (Producer), Joseph Jennings (Production Designer), Stirling Silliphant (Screenwriter), Dick Berg (Screenwriter),

Awards

• 1985: Emmy Award, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Limited Series or a Special
• 1985: Emmy Award nominee, Outstanding Limited Series
• 1986: Artios Award nominee, Best Casting for TV Miniseries

References

External links

• Space at the Internet Movie Database

Preceded by The Day After

Emmy Award for Outstanding Film Sound Editing for a Limited Series or a Special 1985

Succeeded by An Early Frost

Works by James A. Michener Novels The Fires of Spring (1949) • The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1953) • Sayonara (1954) • Hawaii (1959) • Caravans (1963) • The Source (1965) • The Drifters (1971) • Centennial (1974) • Chesapeake (1978) • The Watermen (1979) • The Covenant (1980) • Space (1982) • Poland (1983) • Texas (1985) • Legacy (1987) • Alaska (1988) • Caribbean (1989) • Journey (1989) • The Novel (1991) • South Pacific (1992) • Mexico (1992) • Recessional (1994) • Miracle in Seville (1995) • Matecumbe (2007) Non-fiction The Future of the Social Studies (1939) • The Voice of Asia (1951) • The Floating World (1954) • The Bridge at Andau (1957) • Rascals in Paradise (1957) • Japanese Prints (1959) • Report of the Country Chairman (1961) • Iberia (1968) • Presidential Lottery (1969) • The Quality of Life (1970) • Kent State: What Happened and Why (1971) • Firstfruits, A Harvest of 25 Years of Israeli Writing (1973) • Sports in America (1976) • About Centennial: Some Notes on the Novel (1978) • United States of America (1982) • Collectors, Forgers — And A Writer: A Memoir (1983) • All We Did Was Fly to the Moon (1985) • Six Days in Havana (1989) • Pilgrimage: A Memoir of Poland and Rome (1990) • The Eagle and the Raven (1990) • My Lost Mexico (1992) • The World Is My Home (1992) • Writer's Handbook (1992) • Creatures of the Kingdom (1993) • Literary Reflections (1993) • William Penn (1994) • Ventures in Editing (1995) • This Noble Land (1996) • A Century of Sonnets (1997) Short story collections Tales of the South Pacific (1947) • Return to Paradise (1951) • Selected Writings of James Michener (1978) Film, TV and theatrical adaptations South Pacific (musical) (1949) • The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1953) • Return to Paradise (1953) • Sayonara (1957) • Until They Sail (1957) • South Pacific (film) (1958) • Hawaii (1966) • The Hawaiians (1970) • Centennial (1978) • Space (1985) • Texas (1994) • South Pacific (film) (2001)