The Martian Chronicles
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The ExpeditionsEpisode Number: 1 Season Num: 1 First Aired: Sunday January 27, 1980 Prod Code: n/a |
This episode focuses on three missions to Mars.
While two young astronauts, York and Conover, journey to Mars, a Martian woman dreams of their visit. The Martians have a gift for telepathy, so her husband fears for Mars's safety. The expedition fails and ends in tragedy.
When three astronauts from the second expedition arrive, they are surprised to find a town that looks like Green Bluff, Illinois, where the Captain Black grew up. The town is populated with the young men's loved ones. They are bewildered but happy to be reunited with their friends and family. However, soon Black begins to suspect that everything is not as it seems.
When the third expedition arrives, Mars is a deserted planet. The previous astronauts had brought chicken pox which, surprisingly, killed them all. Most of the crew celebrates their landing by drinking and partying. However, a man named Spender feels they are being disrespectful to the remains of Martian civilization and decides to take matters into his own hands.
While two young astronauts, York and Conover, journey to Mars, a Martian woman dreams of their visit. The Martians have a gift for telepathy, so her husband fears for Mars's safety. The expedition fails and ends in tragedy.
When three astronauts from the second expedition arrive, they are surprised to find a town that looks like Green Bluff, Illinois, where the Captain Black grew up. The town is populated with the young men's loved ones. They are bewildered but happy to be reunited with their friends and family. However, soon Black begins to suspect that everything is not as it seems.
When the third expedition arrives, Mars is a deserted planet. The previous astronauts had brought chicken pox which, surprisingly, killed them all. Most of the crew celebrates their landing by drinking and partying. However, a man named Spender feels they are being disrespectful to the remains of Martian civilization and decides to take matters into his own hands.
| Writer: | Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson |
| Director: | Michael Anderson |
| Star: | Rock Hudson (Col. John Wilder), Gayle Hunnicutt (Ruth Wilder) |
| Guest Star: | Richard Oldfield (York), Richard Heffer (Conover), John Cassady (Briggs), Maggie Wright (Ylla), James Faulkner (Mr. K), Robert Beatty (Gen. Halstead), Nicholas Hammond (Capt. Arthur Black), Bernie Casey (Jeff Spender), Michael Anderson Jr. (David Lustig) |
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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 change it to suit ourselves. And ruin it. Just like we've ruined Earth.
Col. John Wilder: We won't ruin it.
Spender: No? Us Earthmen have a talent for ruining things. If there are any Martians alive in those hills, they're going to grow to hate us. (edit) Spender: You know, a race creates itself for a million years, refines itself, does everything it can to give itself respect and beauty, and then it dies - part in its own time, with dignity as it should be, but the other part... Does it perish of some majestic affliction? No, it doesn't. It dies of a disease that does not kill the youngest child on Earth. It's like saying that the Greeks died of mumps. Or the Roman Empire was decimated by athlete's foot. (edit)
Col. John Wilder: We won't ruin it.
Spender: No? Us Earthmen have a talent for ruining things. If there are any Martians alive in those hills, they're going to grow to hate us. (edit) Spender: You know, a race creates itself for a million years, refines itself, does everything it can to give itself respect and beauty, and then it dies - part in its own time, with dignity as it should be, but the other part... Does it perish of some majestic affliction? No, it doesn't. It dies of a disease that does not kill the youngest child on Earth. It's like saying that the Greeks died of mumps. Or the Roman Empire was decimated by athlete's foot. (edit)
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