Love this movie! Saw it when it first aired. I was just a kid. Fell in love with the actor Jim McMullan, who played Ben and who sadly passed away in 2019 due to ALS. Very sad. But I love being able to watch this movie again! It's delightful. I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid so this movie was so fun for me. Thank you for sharing this!
A great story! This was a CBS Movie Of the Week and they reran it a couple of times afterwards. I was about 12 and remember watching it with my parents. We all really enjoyed it. Now, that I'm almost 60, that "magic" still exists in the movie. Wow! Thanks for uploading this!
Cool! 👍🏽 I love Cocoa Beach, and how fun you were able to be in this movie! I've extra'd too (although not in this) and I wonder if movies still pick extras the same way I got picked? I had heard where a movie was being shot, so my friend and I just wandered over to see if we could see anything, and it turned out they were looking for local people to be extras. Super fun! The only disappointing thing is SO MUCH footage ends up on the cutting room floor, lol. So when the movie premiered, we were like -- "Aw, they cut out THAT part!" and "And they cut out that other part!" But we still got a bit of screen time.☺️
Thanks for posting this. Never saw it as a kid but I'm glad to have seen it as an adult. Love that they didn't dumb the movie down to the level of the kid but instead made the kid rise to the level of an adult or at least try.
I remember watching this movie as a child on television. I haven't seen it since and I'm 53! Thank you for downloading this movie. I have been looking for this movie for a long time
Wow! I loved this Movie when I first saw it--thanks for posting this for us to all watch--again! I just love LLoyd Bridges! He is one of my favorite actors!! Though I was afraid of flying, I used to imagine I was the stowaway, because I wanted to experience zero gravity! I imagined so hard--I once dreamed it--it was the most awesome dream! Floating through the air weightless! Thanks for the awesome memories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God Bless! YOU made my day!
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop drinking....smoking...sniffing glue and whatever your bad habit might be LOL, meanwhile, Stryker is removing several pairs of sunglasses! OH yeah the memories!
LLOYD BRIDGES: " Stryker, the next voice you hear will be Buck Murdock of Alpha Beta base." Buck(William Shatner) Murdock;"Oh, cut the bleeding heart crap, will ya? We've all got our switches, lights, and knobs to deal with, Striker. I mean, down here there are literally hundreds and thousands of blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping and flashing - they're *flashing* and they're *beeping*. I can't stand it anymore! They're *blinking* and *beeping* and *flashing*! Why doesn't somebody pull the plug!
Even though this film is fiction, I was Extremely moved emotionally by "EJ's" speech to the Earth media about space travel & the need to keep going. Thanks for this movie! It's a testament to the human spirit to keep exploring our galaxy & the Universe for the GOOD of evolving life!!!
Is it me, or were awe and wonder more important back then? What gives people their sense of awe and wonder today? I think that will always be the greatest legacy of Project Apollo.
It was a speech delivered too late. Richard Nixon had decided to gut the Kennedy-era Moon program, scuttling several planned Moon shots and further lunar exploration. There has been no manned missions beyond low Earth orbit since the last Apollo flight. Republicans: huge deficits, no taxes for the rich, no vision, no plan.
I met the guy that plays E.J., the stowaway at a 'Comic/Movie con convention show in Los Angeles where he made a personal appearance several years ago. He was very friendly, and funny as hell.
I remember watching this when I was 7. It came on a couple of times when I was older, but it used to really spark my imagination of what it would have been like to have been E.J. It also peaked my interest in astronomy. I think the late 60s and early 70s were a great time to be a kid. It was a great time for space exploration, cartoons, and other cool things geared towards kids.
I remember being about 3 or 4 and I lived in the Cincinnati area and the Red's were always winning the world series so seeing the astronaut wearing a Red's hat in a movie made me feel like I lived somewhere famous lol
Of course, let a kid with zero training fly a spacecraft with a sick crewman on board and the other crewmen lost on the Moon. What could possibly go wrong? I recommend this movie for the new MST3K on Netflix.
I remember seeing this as a kid, and I bet every kid who watched it wanted to BE that stowaway. I know I sure did ! I've seen lots of movies, but most of them I see and forget. I've never forgotten this one.
Project Apollo was unlike anything else in history. People who weren't born yet might have difficulty understanding why such a cheesy movie was so powerful to us Apollo kids. Just imagine sneaking on board. WOW!! So much more than WOW!!
Been searching for this for years. Thanks for uploading it. The detailed interior shots of the Visitor's Center brings back a lot of memories. They've changed a lot since then.
The footage of the countdown clock, ticking down the final seconds to launch, with the great SATURN V rocket showing in the background, is from the launch of APOLLO- 15, on JULY 26, 1971.
There was very little airline security at the time either. As the 1970 airline passenger said, “How can we be in Miami already? We haven’t even been to Cuba yet!”
Ikr! Years ago, when my dad got sent to work overseas for a few months, our whole family got to follow him through the gate and even ONTO THE PLANE (!) -- we took a pic of him in his seat waving, and when it was time for the plane to take off, the pilot announced in a calm and friendly voice -- everyone who's not taking this flight, you need to disembark please I miss those days. . . 😞 Flying now is so nasty. I have to remove even flip-flop sandals (too small for ANYTHING to be hidden inside) and I have to choose between getting my crotch and breasts felt-up, or getting a "naked-scanner" picture that removes all my clothes. When those naked scanners were first being beta tested at a few airports, they SAVED the pics of passengers who didn't know this was being done, so the company could show proof of concept. Now they SAY they delete the pics and digitally anonymize the faces; but I don't trust them after that. I choose the other option, which is a little bit less invasive. Flying sucks these days.🤦🏾♀️
Cute movie grew up when the space age was big news. I remember watching the moon landing in B&W tv on our first color TV set! Lol. Definitely a Trekkie of the originals. Live long and prosper 🖖
Do you see anything weird in this movie, if you look closely at the patches on the astronauts uniforms there are small aliens on there I mean real living one
It starts out preposterous, then it gets more and more preposterous. Then it ends. Ah well, at least the astronauts did not bring back little alien bunnies or black bricks.
I don’t know if this movie is worth anyone’s time today, but when I was a kid when it first aired in1975, watching this movie on network TV on a Friday night with my parents and my sister was the only thing I could be doing that made any sense at all. I hope some of you have good memories of it too. 😎
I was 75 years old when I first saw this in the sixtes. having watched if once more here on you& me tube gave me so much vitality that I won the ball toss tournament here at the home. Fosdick Bumpmyer Phd.
I was nine when I saw this on TV 41 years ago, and I kept thinking that nerdy boy was me! I had shaggy brown hair, even the same brown nerdy glasses and an unnatural obsession with science and the space program. I LOVED this movie then, and watching it again now has been a pure joy! I've looked for it before and never been able to find it anywhere. Thanks so much for posting it! For those who think this movie is stupid, well, I won't argue. It kinda is. It's a product of its time, and made-for-TV movies have always been pretty horrible, but this one really captured my imagination, and my few nerdy friends liked it too. Remember, being a nerd was a lonely existence in those days. It was definitely not cool. (Nowadays people actually want those glasses. Nerds like EJ and me got picked on for wearing them.) This was the nerd-boy's dream come true! Funny, I forgot how huge the Apollo capsule was inside ;)
@@lifeofgrandmadesiswearinge9377 I just watched this again as a sorta therapy for my COVID blues. (When I feel cooped up in my 800 sq ft apartment for months, I realize I much prefer it to hiding in a trash container for 10 hours, then a big tin can for 8 days.) This flick still works! Go EJ! We need that sense of wonder in our lives again!
Thanks for the upload! It brings back memories of the Apollo days when we were REALLY exploring and going places rather than endlessly circling the Earth. Too bad we didn`t pursue Apollo Applications and moon bases! We have a base at the south pole,why not the moon!
Even simpler. We didn't go to the moon. Video next to this comment for me was 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon'. That is something to look into.
This television movie was broadcast on Friday, 10 January 1975. Eleven years and 18 days later on 25 January 1986, the space shuttle “Challenger” was destroyed and the entire drew killed within a few minutes of lift-off because NASA ignored warnings just the day before by the contractor which made the o-rings for the solid rocket boosters that one or more rings would likely fail in sub-freezing weather and cause one of the rockets to explode.
I grew up in 60s watching these lift offs on TV. Fantasized about being an astronaut but not seriously. Fun movie to re-watch I hope as E.J. did, that we make it to Mars. I bet I'll live to see it. Maybe grandkids will go.
Thanks for posting this. I watched it at a friend's house when I was a kid. Years later, I saw it again as the late night movie the day my son was born. I guess I'd forgotten it was a Made-for-TV movie. That explains why I couldn't find it on Netflix. Thank God for UA-cam!
AFTER SEEING THIS ON A HUMBLE IN 1975 IT REALLY MADE ME WANT TO BECOME AN ASTRONAUT I LOVE ASTRONOMY AND ONLY WISH I COULD GO TO THE MOON.WHAT A TRIP!!!!!!!!
the helmet puking scene was knarly!!! ugh!! haha i remember almost puking myself when i saw this as a kid.... i had a stomach bug that sunday night and dreamed i was puking in my helmet !! thats my childhood memoy of this movie ;)
I remember I was 10 years old watching this TV movie. I remember thinking If this boy could stowaway on the Saturn rocket, then I could do it. Oh the fantasies of a 10 years old boy like me.
Yo tambien!!! I was 9, and I learned from this movie that you can accomplish anything if you're sneaky and you call grown-ups Sir or Ma'am. But being sneaky doesn't come easily to nerds like EJ or me. (I for one was too clumsy.)
Wow, I'd almost forgotten this existed. The opening was amazing, people climbing around the capsules, you'd never get to do that today. It's also the visitor center building I recall as a kid...
Read the book. There was a phone call. But, to begin with, who would you call? NASA and Kennedy Space center numbers were probably listed. However, do you think they would have rung the phone of a person with the authority to abort the launch? Other calls would have to be made. If the person believed. More credible in person. At least it isn't a prank call.
They couldn’t even get NASA to abort the “Challenger” launch in 1986 (almost 11 years to the day that this movie was broadcast) in spite of direct warnings from the contractor that the o-rings would fail and the solid rocket boosters would explode.
I can't believe that it was actually better than I remembered. Lol I knew it was cheesy, so in my mind I guess I figured it was going to be worse than it was. That's a switch. It's usually the other way around.
I haven't seen this since I was 7 or 8 in the late 70s. My siblings and I loved this movie! Couldn't believe I remembered the name recently and looked it up. We had just moved to the Space Coast from up north. The rockets used to shake the windows of our house.
I missed the last half hour of this when it first aired, never found out how it ended. Then a couple of years later late at night they showed it again, I was pissed when it was just a dream.
I still remember the part at 9:38 when they are told that they are 87 pounds overweight. LOL!!!! Must be the rain on the exterior.... wow, what accurate instruments you have! Can you find the pea under the mattress?
Great movie and one thay I had forgotten about since it has been so long since I have seen it!!!It is wonderful to see this movie again!!!!!!!Thanks for this cool blast from the past:-)
He could be played by Barry Bostwick. In his "Brad" glasses from the same period, he'd look great! And we know he can play the nerd perfectly :) Seriously, I'd love to see the sequel.
I wanted to hear, I sure picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue, but then I took a stroll through the comments section and, violà. There it was. Five thousand times. 😂
i remember when i was a kid when i seen this movie. i thought it was kind of cool how a kid could have been a stowaway on a space capsule and wish i could got lucky to been in his place, and i was interested in space and airplanes and all kinds of stuff when i was young! the movie is of course kinda cheesy and somewhat urealistic now that i'm much older now and l know better! LOL!! THANKS FOR MEMORIES AND UPLOAD.
I can’t believe this movie exists!!! After watching SpaceX test the 4th flight of Starship on the 80th anniversary of D-Day, I started wondering if anyone could’ve possibly been a stowaway during the Apollo missions in the 1960’s. Like when a teenager sneaks into the landing gear on an airplane. I started wondering where someone would hide, how tall or short they would have to be, etc. Then this movie pops up on my feed! I know my phone listens in the background and suggests content I’ve been speaking about, but now these smartphones can read my mind! This era of AI is creepy!!
The kid is Michael Link. He was on the TV show Julia. I knew him because he lived near my grandparents home in Malibu. He had a younger sister that I think did a little acting work too. Their mother tragically drowned in a flood near their home when she and the kids tried to drive on a road that had fast moving water moving across it. I think he had a “stage mom” and after her death he want back to being a normal So Cal kid.
Hi Keith! Michael Link here. I remember your grandparents well. They were so kind. It was a great place to spend time as a child. Cline Rd! Monte Nido, Malibu!
I never remembered the movie,but I did remember the dream of a young boy and his desire to follow that dream.I was about 13 when I saw the movie the first time.
Love this movie! Saw it when it first aired. I was just a kid. Fell in love with the actor Jim McMullan, who played Ben and who sadly passed away in 2019 due to ALS. Very sad. But I love being able to watch this movie again! It's delightful. I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid so this movie was so fun for me. Thank you for sharing this!
A great story! This was a CBS Movie Of the Week and they reran it a couple of times afterwards. I was about 12 and remember watching it with my parents. We all really enjoyed it. Now, that I'm almost 60, that "magic" still exists in the movie. Wow! Thanks for uploading this!
Same here
Oh Man! That brings me back! I was an extra in the movie…… Lived on Cocoa Beach at the time….
That's really cool! How did you get into the movie?
Cool! 👍🏽 I love Cocoa Beach, and how fun you were able to be in this movie!
I've extra'd too (although not in this) and I wonder if movies still pick extras the same way I got picked? I had heard where a movie was being shot, so my friend and I just wandered over to see if we could see anything, and it turned out they were looking for local people to be extras.
Super fun! The only disappointing thing is SO MUCH footage ends up on the cutting room floor, lol. So when the movie premiered, we were like -- "Aw, they cut out THAT part!" and "And they cut out that other part!"
But we still got a bit of screen time.☺️
I saw this as a little girl...and fell hard for the older astronaut....a great movie so glad to see it here.
Thanks for posting this. Never saw it as a kid but I'm glad to have seen it as an adult. Love that they didn't dumb the movie down to the level of the kid but instead made the kid rise to the level of an adult or at least try.
The great thing about movies during the 70's is they could be pretty dopey and still great at the same time. I loved this movie when I was a kid.
Utter madness
I remember watching this movie as a child on television. I haven't seen it since and I'm 53! Thank you for downloading this movie. I have been looking for this movie for a long time
Susan Haloe there's not ever been child on television?
Wow! I loved this Movie when I first saw it--thanks for posting this for us to all watch--again! I just love LLoyd Bridges! He is one of my favorite actors!! Though I was afraid of flying, I used to imagine I was the stowaway, because I wanted to experience zero gravity! I imagined so hard--I once dreamed it--it was the most awesome dream! Floating through the air weightless! Thanks for the awesome memories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God Bless! YOU made my day!
ME TOO!!!!
Looks like Charlie the Flight Director picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue...
"Now Stryker, take that kid and throw him out the window!"
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit taking amphetamine s.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop drinking....smoking...sniffing glue and whatever your bad habit might be LOL, meanwhile, Stryker is removing several pairs of sunglasses! OH yeah the memories!
Surely you can't be serious...
LLOYD BRIDGES: " Stryker, the next voice you hear will be Buck Murdock of Alpha Beta base."
Buck(William Shatner) Murdock;"Oh, cut the bleeding heart crap, will ya? We've all got our switches, lights, and knobs to deal with, Striker. I mean, down here there are literally hundreds and thousands of blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping and flashing - they're *flashing* and they're *beeping*. I can't stand it anymore! They're *blinking* and *beeping* and *flashing*! Why doesn't somebody pull the plug!
Even though this film is fiction, I was Extremely moved emotionally by "EJ's" speech to the Earth media about space travel & the need to keep going. Thanks for this movie! It's a testament to the human spirit to keep exploring our galaxy & the Universe for the GOOD of evolving life!!!
strange biped ooh,dear,fix en reals,no ares...
Is it me, or were awe and wonder more important back then? What gives people their sense of awe and wonder today? I think that will always be the greatest legacy of Project Apollo.
It was a speech delivered too late. Richard Nixon had decided to gut the Kennedy-era Moon program, scuttling several planned Moon shots and further lunar exploration. There has been no manned missions beyond low Earth orbit since the last Apollo flight. Republicans: huge deficits, no taxes for the rich, no vision, no plan.
AMAZING! I can't believe this film is available! THANK YOU for posting!
This was a cute story. The kid EJ was a great character.
Where is he now?
I met the guy that plays E.J., the stowaway at a 'Comic/Movie con convention show in Los Angeles where he made a personal appearance several years ago. He was very friendly, and funny as hell.
Let's see... altitude: 21,000 feet. Speed: 520 knots. Level flight. Course: zero-niner-zero. Trim and mixture: wash, soak, rinse, spin
This is such a GOOD MOVIE. My sister and I use to watch it every year when it came on TV when we were kid's in the 70's.
I remember watching this when I was 7. It came on a couple of times when I was older, but it used to really spark my imagination of what it would have been like to have been E.J. It also peaked my interest in astronomy. I think the late 60s and early 70s were a great time to be a kid. It was a great time for space exploration, cartoons, and other cool things geared towards kids.
I aLSO WAS 7 at THE TIME
I remember being about 3 or 4 and I lived in the Cincinnati area and the Red's were always winning the world series so seeing the astronaut wearing a Red's hat in a movie made me feel like I lived somewhere famous lol
Thanks Mr. Johnson I watched when I was a kid. ❤ it then ❤ it now. Your channel is a gold mine of great 70s and 80s movies to tysvm .
Of course, let a kid with zero training fly a spacecraft with a sick crewman on board and the other crewmen lost on the Moon. What could possibly go wrong? I recommend this movie for the new MST3K on Netflix.
GOOD MOVIE I SAW IN 1976; 77 I MISSED THOSE DAYS
When the kid talks about Earth as the place - THE PLACE - where life is supposed to be, I teared up. That was back in the day, that is now as well.
I remember seeing this as a kid, and I bet every kid who watched it wanted to BE that stowaway. I know I sure did ! I've seen lots of movies, but most of them I see and forget. I've never forgotten this one.
Project Apollo was unlike anything else in history. People who weren't born yet might have difficulty understanding why such a cheesy movie was so powerful to us Apollo kids. Just imagine sneaking on board. WOW!! So much more than WOW!!
Lloyd Bridges played in sea hunt. Hes not stupid.
Last time I saw this was back in the early 70s, when it aired on television. Thanks for sharing this.
I was 9 yo when I saw this movie. Wow ... I can't believe I found it! Thanks for posting it.
I haven't seen this since it was first broadcast in the mid 70's. I could never find this film anywhere. Thanks for the upload and sharing.
I felt the same way.
Me too😁
Been searching for this for years. Thanks for uploading it.
The detailed interior shots of the Visitor's Center brings back a lot of memories. They've changed a lot since then.
The footage of the countdown clock, ticking down the final seconds to launch, with
the great SATURN V rocket showing in the background, is from the launch of
APOLLO- 15, on JULY 26, 1971.
Apparently, back then, space launches had looser security than commercial airline flights have today.
James Mcenanly mainly poise zen ivy...
Even in the early 2000s, a single cellphone had more power than all the computers at Nasa and Houston combined
There was very little airline security at the time either. As the 1970 airline passenger said, “How can we be in Miami already? We haven’t even been to Cuba yet!”
Ikr! Years ago, when my dad got sent to work overseas for a few months, our whole family got to follow him through the gate and even ONTO THE PLANE (!) -- we took a pic of him in his seat waving, and when it was time for the plane to take off, the pilot announced in a calm and friendly voice -- everyone who's not taking this flight, you need to disembark please
I miss those days. . . 😞
Flying now is so nasty. I have to remove even flip-flop sandals (too small for ANYTHING to be hidden inside) and I have to choose between getting my crotch and breasts felt-up, or getting a "naked-scanner" picture that removes all my clothes.
When those naked scanners were first being beta tested at a few airports, they SAVED the pics of passengers who didn't know this was being done, so the company could show proof of concept. Now they SAY they delete the pics and digitally anonymize the faces; but I don't trust them after that. I choose the other option, which is a little bit less invasive.
Flying sucks these days.🤦🏾♀️
I remember seeing this when I was a kid and always thought it was so cool
I remember watching this during the school holidays.Loved it coz i was space mad!!
Cute movie grew up when the space age was big news. I remember watching the moon landing in B&W tv on our first color TV set! Lol. Definitely a Trekkie of the originals. Live long and prosper 🖖
By the time this aired there was no more space program. Gutted by Richard Nixon to disassemble the Kennedy legacy.
I watched this on TV back in 1975.... I was in 5th grade and the same age as E.J. ---
Do you see anything weird in this movie, if you look closely at the patches on the astronauts uniforms there are small aliens on there I mean real living one
Wow, I haven't seen this since i was a kid in the early 80s, might have even been the 70s. Thank you for the upload!
It starts out preposterous, then it gets more and more preposterous. Then it ends. Ah well, at least the astronauts did not bring back little alien bunnies or black bricks.
I don’t know if this movie is worth anyone’s time today, but when I was a kid when it first aired in1975, watching this movie on network TV on a Friday night with my parents and my sister was the only thing I could be doing that made any sense at all.
I hope some of you have good memories of it too. 😎
I was skeptical, but you are indeed correct. It aired on a Friday, 10 January 1975.
I had not heard of this show.
Very entertaining!
This movie was fun to watch from start to finish...thank you so much!!!
Nice afternoon movie. Captures the feelings of a generation back then. Great to see Pete Conrad playing the part as well.
Wow, I saw this movie once when I was younger than EJ in the movie. Now, they're planning on returning to the moon in 4 more years.
Havent seen this since I was a little kid. Very cool to find it here.
this movie totally overlooked how dangerous space travel really was back then - even now.
I was 75 years old when I first saw this in the sixtes. having watched if once more here on you& me tube gave me so much vitality that I won the ball toss tournament here at the home. Fosdick Bumpmyer Phd.
Mort Weiss LMAO u win the best comment award for this post. :D
So that would make you just over a hundred and forty now, right? Right!
beaconrider it would make him 117....yeah, right to that too!!!
I stand corrected. I read his post again of it being in the sixties...either way, yeah, right!!!!
Mort Weiss, quite a feat there, since this movie was made in 1975. I was 18 years old, myself; going on 19. (Yes, I'll be 61 in December.)
I was nine when I saw this on TV 41 years ago, and I kept thinking that nerdy boy was me! I had shaggy brown hair, even the same brown nerdy glasses and an unnatural obsession with science and the space program. I LOVED this movie then, and watching it again now has been a pure joy! I've looked for it before and never been able to find it anywhere. Thanks so much for posting it!
For those who think this movie is stupid, well, I won't argue. It kinda is. It's a product of its time, and made-for-TV movies have always been pretty horrible, but this one really captured my imagination, and my few nerdy friends liked it too. Remember, being a nerd was a lonely existence in those days. It was definitely not cool. (Nowadays people actually want those glasses. Nerds like EJ and me got picked on for wearing them.) This was the nerd-boy's dream come true!
Funny, I forgot how huge the Apollo capsule was inside ;)
Beena Plumber
I was 8 when I saw this 😸
Beena Plumber me too I was 13 at the time loved it then an now
@@lifeofgrandmadesiswearinge9377 I just watched this again as a sorta therapy for my COVID blues. (When I feel cooped up in my 800 sq ft apartment for months, I realize I much prefer it to hiding in a trash container for 10 hours, then a big tin can for 8 days.) This flick still works! Go EJ! We need that sense of wonder in our lives again!
it's still a good movie thankyou 😀
gee what a great show that I dearly loved hope to find more like this and thank you great memory CHEER !!!
Its amazing how movies have an impact on us. Seem believable at the time. What influence.
Sweet. Cannot believe this hasn't ever been released!
Thank you for uploading this film. I remember watching it when I was a kid and have been looking for it!
I saw this years ago... nice to see again 👍🇳🇿
Thanks for the upload! It brings back memories of the Apollo days when we were REALLY exploring and going places rather than endlessly circling the Earth. Too bad we didn`t pursue Apollo Applications and moon bases! We have a base at the south pole,why not the moon!
jpamusher simple. money and politics.
Even simpler. We didn't go to the moon. Video next to this comment for me was 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon'. That is something to look into.
Well you didn't go to the Moon. But humans did. Deal with it.
They lied to me too only, with a little help, I was able to see through the lies.
Their were 22 Apollo missions wasn't that enough... lol
On the flip side is a short story called The Cold Equations.
'Sorry, E.J., you know the rules, and we're eighty seven pounds over. Into the airlock!'
The movie is awesome, Ive loved it when I first saw it in the 70s.
This television movie was broadcast on Friday, 10 January 1975. Eleven years and 18 days later on 25 January 1986, the space shuttle “Challenger” was destroyed and the entire drew killed within a few minutes of lift-off because NASA ignored warnings just the day before by the contractor which made the o-rings for the solid rocket boosters that one or more rings would likely fail in sub-freezing weather and cause one of the rockets to explode.
Rest their souls.
A kid stowed away on our Moon rocket? Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
Lotta memories watching this on TV.
I loved this as a kid in the 70s.
Wow...this brings back great memories growing up as a kid in the 70's, in Orlando, FL.
Rough Shadow yeah yuh sez yer not even Woody Allen too,but yunno,we know
I grew up in 60s watching these lift offs on TV. Fantasized about being an astronaut but not seriously. Fun movie to re-watch
I hope as E.J. did, that we make it to Mars. I bet I'll live to see it. Maybe grandkids will go.
I'm too much a space geek to see just how incredibly implausible this is ;D
I really enjoyed this movie ,, thank you
Thanks for posting this. I watched it at a friend's house when I was a kid. Years later, I saw it again as the late night movie the day my son was born. I guess I'd forgotten it was a Made-for-TV movie. That explains why I couldn't find it on Netflix. Thank God for UA-cam!
+smdias65 Same here. Exactly. I was just 10 or 12 years old. 60 now. WOW.
+smdias65
Released 1975. Here you go:-
www.imdb.com/title/tt0073752/
7:11 Had that exact watch. This was probably the show that made me beg my parents to get it for me.
I love this film! Thank you so much for posting it :)
Yes, I thank you too for sharing this. One of my favourite movies.
Excellent movie!
AFTER SEEING THIS ON A HUMBLE IN 1975 IT REALLY MADE ME WANT TO BECOME AN ASTRONAUT I LOVE ASTRONOMY AND ONLY WISH I COULD GO TO THE MOON.WHAT A TRIP!!!!!!!!
the helmet puking scene was knarly!!! ugh!! haha i remember almost puking myself when i saw this as a kid.... i had a stomach bug that sunday night and dreamed i was puking in my helmet !! thats my childhood memoy of this movie ;)
Haven't thought of this movie in over 40 years. Wow. Of course it's dated bow but it was fascinating to watch as a kid. Thanks.
I have watched this when I was a kid, and it was very interesting to me at that time...
Great movie,easy to watch,makes me feel good.9-10
I remember I was 10 years old watching this TV movie. I remember thinking If this boy could stowaway on the Saturn rocket, then I could do it. Oh the fantasies of a 10 years old boy like me.
Yo tambien!!! I was 9, and I learned from this movie that you can accomplish anything if you're sneaky and you call grown-ups Sir or Ma'am. But being sneaky doesn't come easily to nerds like EJ or me. (I for one was too clumsy.)
Wow, I'd almost forgotten this existed. The opening was amazing, people climbing around the capsules, you'd never get to do that today. It's also the visitor center building I recall as a kid...
Great movie saw it when it first came out. Great then great now classic
Thinking a simple phone call would have made the rest of the movie unnecessary
Read the book. There was a phone call. But, to begin with, who would you call? NASA and Kennedy Space center numbers were probably listed. However, do you think they would have rung the phone of a person with the authority to abort the launch? Other calls would have to be made. If the person believed. More credible in person. At least it isn't a prank call.
They couldn’t even get NASA to abort the “Challenger” launch in 1986 (almost 11 years to the day that this movie was broadcast) in spite of direct warnings from the contractor that the o-rings would fail and the solid rocket boosters would explode.
You've just got to take this for what it is and enjoy it. I had a good time watching it anyway.
I can't believe that it was actually better than I remembered. Lol
I knew it was cheesy, so in my mind I guess I figured it was going to be worse than it was. That's a switch. It's usually the other way around.
I haven't seen this since I was 7 or 8 in the late 70s. My siblings and I loved this movie! Couldn't believe I remembered the name recently and looked it up. We had just moved to the Space Coast from up north. The rockets used to shake the windows of our house.
I missed the last half hour of this when it first aired, never found out how it ended.
Then a couple of years later late at night they showed it again, I was pissed when it was just a dream.
You misunderstood the ending. It wasn't a dream, although, figuratively speaking, EJ's dream was to become an astronaut.
I still remember the part at 9:38 when they are told that they are 87 pounds overweight. LOL!!!! Must be the rain on the exterior.... wow, what accurate instruments you have! Can you find the pea under the mattress?
If the guard asked how much the kid weighed of the parents they may have found out the kid was aboard.
Great movie and one thay I had forgotten about since it has been so long since I have seen it!!!It is wonderful to see this movie again!!!!!!!Thanks for this cool blast from the past:-)
this was a really good show. now they should have made a part 2, after the kid grew up. NASA paid his scholarship and became an astronaut !!
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He could be played by Barry Bostwick. In his "Brad" glasses from the same period, he'd look great! And we know he can play the nerd perfectly :) Seriously, I'd love to see the sequel.
No sequels, they ruin everything.
I loved this as a kid in the 70s as well. Now it makes me laugh.
I wanted to hear, I sure picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue, but then I took a stroll through the comments section and, violà. There it was. Five thousand times. 😂
aired in early 1975 a tv movie on "THe CBS Friday Night Movies!!!!"
LLOYD BRIDGES must’ve revived this exact role for the classic comedy movie Airplane. No wonder he was such a natural in that movie.
i remember when i was a kid when i seen this movie. i thought it was kind of cool how a kid could have been a stowaway on a space capsule and wish i could got lucky to been in his place, and i was interested in space and airplanes and all kinds of stuff when i was young! the movie is of course kinda cheesy and somewhat urealistic now that i'm much older now and l know better! LOL!! THANKS FOR MEMORIES AND UPLOAD.
saw not seen GN
This movie should be on DVD and cable
Thank you so much! I just don't ever remember seeing this one! If I did, I have forgotten about it. My grandkids would love it!
I can’t believe this movie exists!!! After watching SpaceX test the 4th flight of Starship on the 80th anniversary of D-Day, I started wondering if anyone could’ve possibly been a stowaway during the Apollo missions in the 1960’s. Like when a teenager sneaks into the landing gear on an airplane. I started wondering where someone would hide, how tall or short they would have to be, etc. Then this movie pops up on my feed! I know my phone listens in the background and suggests content I’ve been speaking about, but now these smartphones can read my mind! This era of AI is creepy!!
Cool flick, 1974. Thanks for sharing.
Not a very good ending, but all in all a pretty interesting movie, fairly decent family movie, I give it a thumbs up. 👍
The kid is Michael Link. He was on the TV show Julia. I knew him because he lived near my grandparents home in Malibu. He had a younger sister that I think did a little acting work too. Their mother tragically drowned in a flood near their home when she and the kids tried to drive on a road that had fast moving water moving across it. I think he had a “stage mom” and after her death he want back to being a normal So Cal kid.
Hi Keith! Michael Link here. I remember your grandparents well. They were so kind. It was a great place to spend time as a child. Cline Rd! Monte Nido, Malibu!
I was 13 when it came out great movie
GREAT FILM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you!
real good movie thanks for posting
Clean movie from those 8track tape days 1975 Apollo Soyuz era
I went to Kennedy some time ago, great place.
11:37...no way...guards would have filled that car full of holes.
The kid would have died on liftoff too.
I was just waiting for him to break out in "Take Me Home Country Road" LOL
I remember watching this and eating rice pudding.
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Thank God you never met Bill Cosby.
E. J.: On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.
I never remembered the movie,but I did remember the dream of a young boy and his desire to follow that dream.I was about 13 when I saw the movie the first time.