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Pathfinders to Mars

Pathfinders to Mars

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Overview

A secondary mission in a new rocket, MR4, to the Moon takes off from Buchan Island. This time Henderson takes the lead role as pilot accompanied by Professor Wedgwood's oldest son Geoff as radio operator, Professor Mary Meadows, Henderson's niece Margret along with Hamlet. However one of the crew turns out to be science writer named Harcourt Brown who has plans to divert the ship to Mars determined there is life on the planet. Brown succeeds in getting MR4 to Mars, but with the length of the journey, the crew decide that the only way to get home is to find water on Mars.

Produced by Sydney Newman

Top Cast

Gerald Flood

Gerald Flood

Conway Henderson

George Coulouris

George Coulouris

The Imposter / Harcourt Brown

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Stewart Guidotti

Geoffrey Wedgwood

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Pamela Barney

Professor Mary Meadows

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Hester Cameron

Margret Henderson

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Hugh Evans

Ian Murray

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Astor Sklair

John Field

Bernard Horsfall

Bernard Horsfall

Professor Hawkins

About Pathfinders to Mars

Pathfinders to Mars is a sci-fi & fantasy, family series that first aired in 1960. it stars Gerald Flood, George Coulouris, Stewart Guidotti. A secondary mission in a new rocket, MR4, to the Moon takes off from Buchan Island. This time Henderson takes the lead role as pilot accompanied by Professor Wedgwood's oldest son Geoff as radio operator, Professor Mary Meadows, Henderson's niece Margret along with Hamlet. However one of the crew turns out to be science writer named Harcourt Brown who has plans to divert the ship to Mars determined there is life on the planet. Brown succeeds in getting MR4 to Mars, but with the length of the journey, the crew decide that the only way to get home is to find water on Mars.

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