Astronauts

Astronauts

Ended First aired 26/Oct/1981 United Kingdom English 2 season(s) 13 episode(s)
ComedySci-Fi & Fantasy
Astronauts Malcolm Mattocks, Gentian Foster and David Ackroyd are sent into outer space to occupy a space station for six months.
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Season 2 · Series 2
6 episode(s) · Air date: 18/Jul/1983
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S2E6
Going Home
Air date: 23/Aug/1983 · Time: 20:00 · Runtime: 30 min
Summary

After six months, the mission is completed and it's time to go home. Mattocks' recent epiphany still annoys the other two, and concern over re-entry has caused group insomnia. Ackroyd doesn't want to go home.

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After six months, the mission is completed and it's time to go home. Mattocks' recent epiphany still annoys the other two, and concern over re-entry has caused group insomnia. Ackroyd doesn't want to go home.

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S2E5
One Week to Go
Air date: 16/Aug/1983 · Time: 20:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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One week to go and the crew breaks the record for the longest spaceflight in history. Beadle is ecstatic but Mattocks is behaving more strangely than normal, questioning things at a cosmic level — much to the annoyance of the other two.

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One week to go and the crew breaks the record for the longest spaceflight in history. Beadle is ecstatic but Mattocks is behaving more strangely than normal, questioning things at a cosmic level — much to the annoyance of the other two.

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S2E4
We Are Not Alone
Air date: 09/Aug/1983 · Time: 20:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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Ackroyd is concerned that he is now maintaining some of the systems beyond their level of tolerance — emergency repairs are now the norm. During one of the blackouts Gentian sees a bright object outside her lab window.

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Ackroyd is concerned that he is now maintaining some of the systems beyond their level of tolerance — emergency repairs are now the norm. During one of the blackouts Gentian sees a bright object outside her lab window.

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S2E3
Absence Makes the Heart
Air date: 02/Aug/1983 · Time: 20:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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Mattocks is pining for his wife but he gets no sympathy from the other two, who are determined to see that he lives up to his domestic responsibilities while he's at the space station. Beadle has a hot date.

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Mattocks is pining for his wife but he gets no sympathy from the other two, who are determined to see that he lives up to his domestic responsibilities while he's at the space station. Beadle has a hot date.

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S2E2
Why Are We Here?
Air date: 26/Jul/1983 · Time: 20:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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Ackroyd denounces the whole mission as a big publicity stunt. Mattocks, meanwhile, has been caught out acting furtively and sending scrambled messages. Gentian and Ackroyd want to know what's happening but it's top secret...

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Ackroyd denounces the whole mission as a big publicity stunt. Mattocks, meanwhile, has been caught out acting furtively and sending scrambled messages. Gentian and Ackroyd want to know what's happening but it's top secret...

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S2E1
One in Four Goes
Air date: 19/Jul/1983 · Time: 20:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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Gentian finds herself talking to the machinery while Ackroyd quite happily holds conversations with himself. Mattocks is concerned about both of them and discusses it with the only person he can trust — Bimbo.

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Gentian finds herself talking to the machinery while Ackroyd quite happily holds conversations with himself. Mattocks is concerned about both of them and discusses it with the only person he can trust — Bimbo.

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Season 1 · Series 1
7 episode(s) · Air date: 25/Oct/1981
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S1E7
Episode 7
Air date: 07/Dec/1981 · Time: 20:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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Nine weeks into the mission: depression is rampant. The food is boring. The routine is boring. Then, catastrophe! A wiring fault plunges the station into darkness. With Mattocks and Ackroyd out of action, Foster must rely on Bimbo to save her.

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Nine weeks into the mission: depression is rampant. The food is boring. The routine is boring. Then, catastrophe! A wiring fault plunges the station into darkness. With Mattocks and Ackroyd out of action, Foster must rely on Bimbo to save her.

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Episode 6
Air date: 30/Nov/1981 · Time: 20:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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Fifty days in space should be newsworthy, but the media has already lost interest. Beadle promises to remedy the situation. Ackroyd, however, is more interested in the potent product of his lab experiment involving yeast, fruit flies and a copious quantity of blackcurrant juice...

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Fifty days in space should be newsworthy, but the media has already lost interest. Beadle promises to remedy the situation. Ackroyd, however, is more interested in the potent product of his lab experiment involving yeast, fruit flies and a copious quantity of blackcurrant juice...

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Episode 5
Air date: 23/Nov/1981 · Time: 20:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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After five weeks of constant surveillance, relations between the crew and Ground Control are strained. So when Beadle disappears for lunch, the astronauts decide to get even.

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After five weeks of constant surveillance, relations between the crew and Ground Control are strained. So when Beadle disappears for lunch, the astronauts decide to get even.

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Episode 4
Air date: 16/Nov/1981 · Time: 20:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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Earthly problems invade the space station and Gentian Foster believes she knows why: Ackroyd's being beastly because he doesn't fancy her, and Mattocks is being patronising because he does.

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Earthly problems invade the space station and Gentian Foster believes she knows why: Ackroyd's being beastly because he doesn't fancy her, and Mattocks is being patronising because he does.

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Episode 3
Air date: 09/Nov/1981 · Time: 20:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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Gentian's in charge of the Life Science Projects, and David's doing Earth Observation, Astronomy, Crystallography and Communications — leaving Malcolm doing the dusting. And not terribly well. It takes a major crisis before the Mission Commander finally comes into his own.

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Gentian's in charge of the Life Science Projects, and David's doing Earth Observation, Astronomy, Crystallography and Communications — leaving Malcolm doing the dusting. And not terribly well. It takes a major crisis before the Mission Commander finally comes into his own.

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S1E2
Episode 2
Air date: 02/Nov/1981 · Time: 20:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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In their orbiting space station, the crew members are trying to acclimatise themselves while rapidly discovering each other's foibles. Sleep eludes them, and they realise that privacy is a thing of the past...

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In their orbiting space station, the crew members are trying to acclimatise themselves while rapidly discovering each other's foibles. Sleep eludes them, and they realise that privacy is a thing of the past...

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S1E1
Episode 1
Air date: 26/Oct/1981 · Time: 20:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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It's the dawning of a new era. US Air Force Colonel Lloyd Beadle unveils his British space travellers for the press, whose imaginations go into overdrive when they learn that one of the crew is a woman. But Beadle has another ace up his sleeve: Bimbo, a mongrel dog.

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It's the dawning of a new era. US Air Force Colonel Lloyd Beadle unveils his British space travellers for the press, whose imaginations go into overdrive when they learn that one of the crew is a woman. But Beadle has another ace up his sleeve: Bimbo, a mongrel dog.

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Christopher Godwin
Christopher Godwin
Commander Malcolm Mattocks
Carmen du Sautoy
Carmen du Sautoy
Dr Gentian Foster
Barrie Rutter
Barrie Rutter
Technical Officer David Ackroyd
Bruce Boa
Bruce Boa
Colonel Beadle
Mary Healey
Mary Healey
Valerie
Hilton McRae
Hilton McRae
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Ben Aris
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Michael Delorzo
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Julian Delorzo
Hugh Walters
Hugh Walters
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Diana Berriman
Pamela Miles
Pamela Miles
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Barry Lowe
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Lesley Saweard
Mrs Ackroyd
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Philip Elsmore
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Terry Pearson
Technical Operator
Jeffry Wickham
Jeffry Wickham
Rudi

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Douglas Argent
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Allan McKeown
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Tony Charles
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Dick Clement
Dick Clement
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Ian La Frenais
Ian La Frenais
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Bill Oddie
Bill Oddie
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Graeme Garden
Graeme Garden
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