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Plymouth (film)

Plymouth
Genre Drama
Science Fiction
Written by Lee David Zlotoff
Directed by Lee David Zlotoff
Theme music composer Brad Fiedel
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
Production
Executive producer(s) Ralph Winter
Lee David Zlotoff
Producer(s) Ian Sander
Cinematography Hiro Narita
Editor(s) O. Nicholas Brown
John W. Wheeler
Production company(s) Rai 1 (in association with) ABC Studios
Zlotoff
Distributor ABC
Release
Original network ABC
Original release May 26, 1991

Plymouth is a 1991 science fiction television film that was shown on ABC Network in the same year, as a pilot for a planned series. It was created by Lee David Zlotoff and funded by the American Broadcasting Corporation, Walt Disney and Rai uno radiotelevisione, with Lockheed acting as technical advisors.

The film features a fictional small "all-American" Pacific Northwest logging and mining town called Plymouth that is destroyed by a Love Canal-style ecological disaster, in this case in the form of a severe radiation leak from a nearby factory. The corporation responsible, UNIDAC, compensates the surviving townsfolk for the loss of their homes, possessions, and accustomed lifestyle by establishing a Moon colony on the site of a previously struggling mining project. UNIDAC offers to pay each member of the town to emigrate and start their lives over in the new outer space colony named after their former town.

The film then focuses on their new lives as they adjust to space hazards such as radiation from solar storms, extravehicular excursions in airless environs, and medical crises in the micro-gravity of the Moon. The film starred Dale Midkiff, Cindy Pickett, Richard Hamilton and Jerry Hardin.


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