Mars Landing 1962 – Alternative 3


en.wikipedia.org For a copy of the entire show in high quality go to: www.themarsrecords.com www.abovetopsecret.com video.google.com video.google.com In the late 1970s the UK’s Anglia Television ran a weekly science series, Science Report. The final episode of the series was due to have been broadcast on April 1st, and as the series was not due to be recommissioned, the production team decided to produce a spoof edition for April Fool’s Day, which was duly written by Chris Miles and David Ambrose but retained the series’ format and presenter. Music was supplied by Brian Eno, a portion of his score being released on the 1978 album Music for Films. The episode began by detailing the so-called “brain drain:” a number of mysterious disappearances and deaths of physicists, engineers, astronomers, and others in related fields. Among the strange deaths reported was that of one “Professor Ballantine” of Jodrell Bank. Before his death, Ballantine delivers a videotape to an academic friend, but when viewed on an ordinary videotape machine the only result is radio static. According to the research presented in the episode, it was hypothesized that the missing scientists were involved in a secret American/Soviet plan in outer space, and further suggested that interplanetary space travel had been possible for much longer than was commonly accepted. The episode featured an Apollo astronaut — the fictional “Bob Grodin,” played by Shane Rimmer — who claims to have stumbled on a