Earth sends its first manned probe to Mars in 1999, and a jealous Martian murders the two astronauts when his wife has erotic dreams of meeting them. Members of a subsequent expedition are ...
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Title: The Martian Chronicles (1980– )
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Col. John Wilder
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Ruth Wilder
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Major Jeff Spender
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Ben Driscoll
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Commander Arthur Black
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Sam Parkhill
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Father Stone
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Genevieve Seltzer
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Elma Parkhill
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Anna Lustig
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Father Peregrine
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Marilyn Becker
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David Lustig
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General Halstead
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Mr. K
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Christ
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Terence Longdon | ... |
Wise Martian
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Peter Hathaway
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Alice Hathaway
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Wolfgang Reichmann | ... |
Lafe Lustig
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Ylla
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Briggs
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Lavinia Spaulding
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Sam Hinston
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Captain Conover
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Sandship Martian
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McClure
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Captain Nathaniel York
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Edward Black
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Bill Wilder
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Earth sends its first manned probe to Mars in 1999, and a jealous Martian murders the two astronauts when his wife has erotic dreams of meeting them. Members of a subsequent expedition are hypnotized into believing that they have landed in the childhood community of their leader and have been reunited with deceased family and friends, and they are poisoned by the Martians. Col. John Wilder leads a third expedition and learns that a chicken pox virus brought to Mars by the first two expeditions has almost eradicated the Martian population. A member of Wilder's team becomes obsessed with protecting Mars from Earthman and murders some of the others in Wilder's party, before Wilder kills him. Colonists arrive on Mars to settle, among them priests seeking God, and a lone Martian masquerades as the most desired persons of various settlers. Global war on Earth reduces man's natal planet to radioactive waste, and most of the settlers returned there prior to the holocaust. Wilder struggles to ... Written by Kevin McCorry <[email protected]>
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martian | space war | fictional war | tv mini series | lost civilization |Taglines:
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EnglishRelease Date:
27 January 1980 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Crónicas marcianas See more »Filming Locations:
Titan Missile Museum - 1580 W. Duval Mine Road, Green Valley, Arizona, USA See more »Company Credits
Production Co:
Charles Fries Productions, Stonehenge Productions, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) See more »
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(compact video) | (PAL DVD) | (DVD) | | (theatrical) | (TV) (edited)Sound Mix:
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The miniseries was originally scheduled for release in September 1979 as a major kickoff to the 1979-80 season. Unfortunately, it fell victim to some negative publicity from Ray Bradbury himself. Although Bradbury had worked with scriptwriter Richard Matheson in adapting his book to the small screen, he was less than thrilled with the final production. At one point, shortly before the miniseries' scheduled release, Bradbury found himself the sole representative of the production at a press conference. When one reporter asked him what he thought of the miniseries, he responded candidly, "Booooooooring!" NBC soon shelved the miniseries and did not air it until January 1980. See more »Goofs
In the opening scene of "The Expeditions", the wires used to slowly lower the Mars probe are visible. See more »Quotes
Maj. Jeff Spender: I just believe in things that were done. And there were so many things done here. Streets and houses and books and big canals and clocks and places with names - things that were used and touched for centuries. And I don't see how we could ever use them without feeling uncomfortable. Oh, we could change the names, but the old names will still be there. So no matter how we touch Mars, we won't be able to really touch it. See, that'll make us angry. We'll get mad at that and just rip it up. We'll ...[...]
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I saw this in 79-80, when I was 8 years old. It was shown quite late once a week on the BBC. Due to its late showing and married with my tender age, I was the only person out of all my peers who watched it. It left a big impression on me and I can still remember some of the scenes over twenty years on.....The thing is I have asked scores of people over these years to see if anyone remembered it. As the years passed and not one person said they had, I was beginning to wonder if it was a product of my fertile imagination - especially with its dreamy tone. Here we are on IMDB (one of my very favourite web sites) and you have proved to me that I am not totally mad. I hope it will be available in the UK one day so I can see just why it left this mark on me. I won't place a review though as it would be unfair after so long. LONG LIVE IMDB!!!