Series

Pathfinders to Mars

1960 · 1 season · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Family

IMDb

6.2

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.

Gerald Flood

Conway Henderson

George Coulouris

The Imposter / Harcourt Brown

Stewart Guidotti

Geoffrey Wedgwood

Pamela Barney

Professor Mary Meadows

Hester Cameron

Margret Henderson

Hugh Evans

Ian Murray

Astor Sklair

John Field

Bernard Horsfall

Professor Hawkins

• Guy VerneyDirector
• Sydney NewmanProducer

First aired

December 11, 1960

Last aired

January 15, 1961

Status

Ended

Original language

English

Episodes

6

Genres

Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Family

• Season 16 episodes · 1960