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The Planets is an educational miniseries produced by the BBC and A&E and released in 1999. The series was remastered in 2004. It documents the Solar System and its nature, formation, and discovery by humans during the space age. The series of eight episodes includes a substantial amount of archival footage from both the United States and Soviet space programs. It also depicts the Solar System through computer graphics. There were a total of eight episodes produced for the series. The series featured appearances from famous pioneering space scientists and explorers, and was narrated by Samuel West in the original 1999 edition, and Mark Halliley in the 2004 remastered edition.
Original Release
04/29/1999 on BBC
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Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Mark Halliley | Self - Narrator |
| Sasa Vasilievski | Self |
| Jerry Soften | Self |
| Donald Black | Self |
| Charles Conrad | Self - Commander, Apollo 12 / Self - Astronaut |
| Boris Chertok | Self - Rocket Designer / Self - Energia Space Corporation |
| Carolyn Porco | Self - Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Arizona / Self - University of Arizona |
| Sergei Khrushchev | Self - Brown University, Rhode Island |
| Chris McKay | Self - NASA AMES Research Centre / Self - NASA Ames Research Center |
| William Hartmann | Self - Planetary Sciences Institute, Arizona / Self - Planetary Science Institute, Arizona |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Different Worlds | Thursday, 29 April 1999 |
| 2 | Terra Firma | Thursday, 06 May 1999 |
| 3 | Giants | Thursday, 13 May 1999 |
| 4 | Moon | Thursday, 20 May 1999 |
| 5 | Star | Thursday, 27 May 1999 |
| 6 | Atmosphere | Thursday, 03 June 1999 |
| 7 | Life | Thursday, 10 June 1999 |
| 8 | Destiny | Thursday, 17 June 1999 |
Directors
Writers
David McNab, Jacqueline Smith, James Younger, Becky Jones
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Mark Halliley | Self - Narrator |
| Sasa Vasilievski | Self |
| Jerry Soften | Self |
| Donald Black | Self |
| Charles Conrad | Self - Commander, Apollo 12 / Self - Astronaut |
| Boris Chertok | Self - Rocket Designer / Self - Energia Space Corporation |
| Carolyn Porco | Self - Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Arizona / Self - University of Arizona |
| Sergei Khrushchev | Self - Brown University, Rhode Island |
| Chris McKay | Self - NASA AMES Research Centre / Self - NASA Ames Research Center |
| William Hartmann | Self - Planetary Sciences Institute, Arizona / Self - Planetary Science Institute, Arizona |
| Imre Friedmann | Self - Florida State University |
| Brad Smith | Self - University of Hawaii / Self - Astronomer |
| Mikhail Marov | Self - Venera Mission Engineer / Self - Russian Academy of Sciences |
| Karen Stone | Narrator (for US version) |
| Douglas Gough | Self - Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University |
| Sasha Basilevsky | Self - Vernadsky Institute, Moscow / Self - Geologist |
| Arnold Selivanov | Self - Russian Institute for Space Instruments / Self - Venera Mission Engineer |
| Gerry Soffen | Self - Viking Mission Scientist |
| Bruce Murray | Self - Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1976-1982 |
| Larry Soderblom | Self - US Geological Survey, Arizona |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| John Lynch | Executive Producer |
| David McNab | Producer |
| Gina Kocjancic | Producer |
| James Younger | Producer |
| Jacqueline Smith | Producer |
| Becky Jones | Producer |
