Into Infinity (The Day After Tomorrow) – Nostalgia Central

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This British science fiction drama from Gerry Anderson (co-produced with the American NBC network and also known as The Day After Tomorrow) follows a crew of three adults and two children travelling aboard the Altares – a spacecraft of the future that can travel at the speed of light – on a 24,000 million-mile journey to Alpha Centauri to carry out scientific tests.

Captain Harry Masters (Nick Tate) is in command, and his crew includes his teenage daughter and co-pilot Jane (Katharine Levy), navigator Tom Bowen (Brian Blessed) and his 11-year-old son David (Martin Lev), and Tom’s wife Anna (Joanna Dunham), who is also the crew doctor.

From Alpha Centauri, the Altares pushes deeper into space, where the crew encounters a meteor shower, a Red Giant (a dying star), and, finally, when essential equipment on the Altares fails, a black hole that pulls the ship into another universe.

Gerry Anderson intended Into Infinity as a pilot for a potential television series of seven one-hour episodes, designed to teach children about scientific subjects in the format of an entertaining action-adventure. This one was based on Einstein’s theory of relativity.

Budget constraints ultimately prevented the production of any further episodes.

Filmed at Pinewood Studios (with SFX filmed at Bray Studios), the sets and effects were based on those used in Anderson’s TV series, Space: 1999.

Dr Tom Bowen
Brian Blessed
Anna Bowen
Joanna Dunham
Captain Harry Masters
Nick Tate
Jane Masters
Katharine Levy
David Bowen
Martin Lev
Jim Forbes
Don Fellows
Narrator
Ed Bishop

Director
Charles Crichton

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