Astronauts

Astronauts

1981 2 Seasons 13 Episodes ⭐ 7.0 Comedy Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Astronauts Malcolm Mattocks, Gentian Foster and David Ackroyd are sent into outer space to occupy a space station for six months.

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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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Episode 1

It's the dawning of a new era. US Air Force Colonel Lloyd Beadle unveils his British space travellers for the press, who

EP 2

Episode 2

In their orbiting space station, the crew members are trying to acclimatise themselves while rapidly discovering each ot

EP 3

Episode 3

Gentian's in charge of the Life Science Projects, and David's doing Earth Observation, Astronomy, Crystallography and Co

EP 4

Episode 4

Earthly problems invade the space station and Gentian Foster believes she knows why: Ackroyd's being beastly because he

EP 5

Episode 5

After five weeks of constant surveillance, relations between the crew and Ground Control are strained. So when Beadle di

EP 6

Episode 6

Fifty days in space should be newsworthy, but the media has already lost interest. Beadle promises to remedy the situati

EP 7

Episode 7

Nine weeks into the mission: depression is rampant. The food is boring. The routine is boring. Then, catastrophe! A wiri

EP 1

One in Four Goes

Gentian finds herself talking to the machinery while Ackroyd quite happily holds conversations with himself. Mattocks is

EP 2

Why Are We Here?

Ackroyd denounces the whole mission as a big publicity stunt. Mattocks, meanwhile, has been caught out acting furtively

EP 3

Absence Makes the Heart

Mattocks is pining for his wife but he gets no sympathy from the other two, who are determined to see that he lives up t

EP 4

We Are Not Alone

Ackroyd is concerned that he is now maintaining some of the systems beyond their level of tolerance — emergency repair

EP 5

One Week to Go

One week to go and the crew breaks the record for the longest spaceflight in history. Beadle is ecstatic but Mattocks is

EP 6

Going Home

After six months, the mission is completed and it's time to go home. Mattocks' recent epiphany still annoys the other tw

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