| Space | |
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| Also known as | James A. Michener's Space |
| Genre | Miniseries |
| Based on | Space byJames 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 asJames A. Michener's Space) is a 1985 Americantelevision miniseries starringJames Garner as Sen. Norman Grant. It is based on the 1982novel of the same name byJames A. Michener that aired onCBS. Like the novel, the miniseries is a fictionalised history of theUnited Statesspace program.
Space won anEmmy 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]
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 the1947 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.
| Preceded by | Emmy Award for Outstanding Film Sound Editing for a Limited Series or a Special 1985 | Succeeded by |