Salvage 1 - Anyone remember it?

[Rob71]

Was just reminded of this series after watching The Astronaut Farmer. Anybody else have any memory of it?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079847/

Series Description:

The Salvage 1 TV show was a 60 minute sci-fi series on ABC about the owner of a salvage company who decided to "expand" his operations. He built a spaceship and headed for the moon to salvage the stuff left up there from one of the Apollo missions. Later episodes included one where they towed an iceberg to where water was needed. There were several other very good episodes, but unfortunately, the movie-length pilot episode about the moon was so fantastic that the rest of the series had a hard time living up to its standard.

Salvage 1 TV Show Cast:

Andy Griffith ............... Harry Broderick
Joel Higgins ................ Skip Carmichael
Trish Stewart ............... Melanie Slozar
Richard Jaeckel ............. Agent Jack Klinger
Jacqueline Scott ............ Lorene
J. Jay Saunders ............. Mack
Heather McAdam .............. Michelle Ryan

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[Doomhunter]

Originally Posted by Rob71

Was just reminded of this series after watching The Astronaut Farmer. Anybody else have any memory of it?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079847/

Series Description:

The Salvage 1 TV show was a 60 minute sci-fi series on ABC about the owner of a salvage company who decided to "expand" his operations. He built a spaceship and headed for the moon to salvage the stuff left up there from one of the Apollo missions. Later episodes included one where they towed an iceberg to where water was needed. There were several other very good episodes, but unfortunately, the movie-length pilot episode about the moon was so fantastic that the rest of the series had a hard time living up to its standard.

Salvage 1 TV Show Cast:

Andy Griffith ............... Harry Broderick
Joel Higgins ................ Skip Carmichael
Trish Stewart ............... Melanie Slozar
Richard Jaeckel ............. Agent Jack Klinger
Jacqueline Scott ............ Lorene
J. Jay Saunders ............. Mack
Heather McAdam .............. Michelle Ryan

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Apparently it received a 2013 dvd release

[drb999]

I watched it live.

[John1701D]

[movielib]

I had completely forgotten the Salvage 1 series so it took some memory searching to recall that I did watch this series (at least some of the episodes, if not all) back in 1979. I know for sure I saw the pilot. I remember it being quite entertaining.

As for a DVD release, I looked into it and all I could find was the release of a couple of 2-part episodes (not the pilot), unfortunately not the entire series.

I checked to see if I could find it streaming anywhere and I couldn't.

[Desk.]

Originally Posted by movielib

I had completely forgotten the Salvage 1 series so it took some memory searching to recall that I did watch this series (at least some of the episodes, if not all) back in 1979. I know for sure I saw the pilot. I remember it being quite entertaining.

As for a DVD release, I looked into it and all I could find was the release of a couple of 2-part episodes (not the pilot), unfortunately not the entire series.

I checked to see if I could find it streaming anywhere and I couldn't.

I remember this show from my childhood, and at least a while ago there were some episodes showing up on YouTube.

I've just looked it up, and the feature-length pilot is there.

It's a similar story for another childhood favourite, California Fever, if anyone remembers that one?

[MarcelS1]

Never heard of it!