View of a Dead Planet

Episode aired Oct 14, 1973

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7.9/10

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Drama Sci-Fi

Controversy surrounds the Arctic Sun Project, a plan to detonate a hydrogen bomb above the Arctic Circle to melt the icecaps and open up new land for development. When the project is initiat... Read allControversy surrounds the Arctic Sun Project, a plan to detonate a hydrogen bomb above the Arctic Circle to melt the icecaps and open up new land for development. When the project is initiated, all contact with Earth is lost as it becomes enveloped in a strange mist. The inhabita... Read allControversy surrounds the Arctic Sun Project, a plan to detonate a hydrogen bomb above the Arctic Circle to melt the icecaps and open up new land for development. When the project is initiated, all contact with Earth is lost as it becomes enveloped in a strange mist. The inhabitants of the Moon colonies struggle to come to terms with the possibility that Earth has bee... Read all

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7.9/10

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Trivia
There was an unmanned British mission to the Moon in 1993.

Goofs
Despite establishing Garrick Hagon's character as Bruno Ponti in his previous appearances, the credits for "View of a Dead Planet" list him as Bruno Bertoli. A crewmember named Bertoli had been noted as a pilot in the previous edition, Castor and Pollux (1973).

Quotes
Sir Benjamin Dyce: [gesturing to Moonbase window] Look out there, all of you. What do you see?
Michel Lebrun: The Earth.
Sir Benjamin Dyce: And can you see your beloved France?
Michel Lebrun: Yes, not clearly...
Sir Benjamin Dyce: And can you see where France stops and Germany, Switzerland or anywhere else starts?
Michel Lebrun: Not with the naked eye...
Sir Benjamin Dyce: You cannot see that if the soil is as close to your face as this meaningless bit of cloth!
[throws mini-French flag to the floor]
Sir Benjamin Dyce: It is only on maps that the colour of one country is different from the colour of the next.
Michel Lebrun: There is nothing wrong with a man being proud of his own country.
Sir Benjamin Dyce: There is everything wrong with it!