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Earth II (Original title)Earth Two (Help search title)
Date: 28 November 1971 (Television)

Country: USA

Director: Tom Gries

Synopsis: A vast space station, established as an independent nation and dedicated to peaceful research, Earth II detects a Red Chinese nuclear weapon, orbiting over Moscow. They succeed in defusing the Bomb.

Genre:
Science Fiction
TV Transmissions
Date: 28 November 1971Broadcast company: ABCCountry: USALanguage: English - Colour - Sound
Date: 26 April 1978Broadcast channel: BBC1Country: United Kingdom

Credits (29)
Production Company: Wabe Inc. Productions, Production Company: MGM Television, Producer: William Read Woodfield, Producer: Allan Balter, Production Executive: Paul R. Picard, Production Manager: Phil Rawlins, Assistant Director: Charles Washburn, Screenplay: William Read Woodfield, Screenplay: Allan Balter, Director of Photography: Michel Hugo, Special Photographic Effects: Howard A. Anderson Company, Process Effects: Carroll L. Shepphird, Special Photographic Effects: Howard A. Anderson Jr, Special Photographic Effects: Art Cruickshank, Special Photographic Effects: Robert Ryder, Special Effects: Joseph McMillan Johnson, Supervising Editor: Budd Small, Editor: Henry Berman, Art Director: George W. Davis, Art Director: Edward C. Carfagno, Set Decorator: Robert R. Benton, Set Decorator: Charles R. Pierre, Music: Lalo Schifrin, Music Director: Harry V. Lojewski, Sound: Harry W. Tetrick, Sound: Jerry Jost, Technical Adviser: R. Buckminster Fuller, Technical Adviser: Krafft A. Ehricke
Cast (18)
Gary Lockwood (David Seville), Scott Hylands (Jim Capa), Hari Rhodes (Dr Loren Huxley), Anthony Franciosa (Frank Karger), Mariette Hartley (Lisa Karger), Gary Merrill (Walter Dietrich), Inga Swenson (Illyana Kovalefskii), Edward Bell (Anton Kovalefskii), Lew Ayres (President Charles Carter Durant), Brian Dewey (Matt Karger), Diana Webster (Hannah Young), Bart Burns (Stiner), John Carter (Hazlitt), Herbert Nelson (Chairman), Serge Tschernisch (Russian), Vince Cannon (Technician), David Sachs (Surgeon), Bob Hoy (West)