Space (miniseries)

This article is about the 1985 American television miniseries. For the 1975 British television series, see Space: 1999.

Space
Also known as	James A. Michener's Space
Genre	Miniseries
Based on	Space by James A. Michener
Written by	James A. Michener Richard Berg Stirling Silliphant
Directed by	Lee Philips Joseph Sargent
Starring	James Garner Beau Bridges Blair Brown Bruce Dern Harry Hamlin Michael York
Music by	Tony Berg Miles Goodman
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producer	Richard Berg
Producer	Martin Manulis
Cinematography	Héctor R. Figueroa (episodes 1, 5, 6) Gayne Rescher (episodes 2–4)
Editors	Donald R. Rode Patrick Kennedy George Jay Nicholson
Running time	780 minutes
Production company	Paramount Television
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	April 14 (1985-04-14) – April 18, 1985 (1985-04-18)

Space (also known as James A. Michener's Space) is a 1985 American television miniseries starring James Garner as Sen. Norman Grant. It is based on the 1982 novel of the same name by James A. Michener that aired on CBS. Like the novel, the miniseries is a fictionalised history of the United States space program.

Space won an Emmy 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.

Characters

Norman Grant (James Garner) is 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

Cast

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

Production credits

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

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

External links

• Space at IMDb