ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

It's beginning to look like there are more science fiction television shows I haven't seen than shows I have!

Here's anther one. Wikipedia describes it like this.
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Jupiter Moon is a science fiction soap opera television series first broadcast by British Satellite Broadcasting's Galaxy channel in 1990.

150 episodes were commissioned and made, but only the first 108 were broadcast before the closure of BSB.[1] Episodes 109-150 were first shown in the UK on the Sci Fi Channel in 1996.

The series is set in the year 2050 and concentrates on the space ship Ilea in semi-permanent orbit above the space city on Jupiter's moon Callisto. The Ilea is home to a university and many of the programme's main plot strands revolve around the lives of the students . . .
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Andrew Kidd]

Sounds very similar to another BBC series, SPACE ISLAND ONE, which aired for a brief time on the Canadian sci-fi channel SPACE.

[Bud Brewster]

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The review below by IMDB user vgrattidge-1 is so well written I just had to share it here — especially since I know absolute nothing about this series myself.

Based on this person's recommendations, I'd loved to see it!
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It's the future of soap . . . but not as we know it!

13 September 2005 | by vgrattidge-1

Imagine that you're running a satellite TV station that wants to produce its own soap opera that will be markedly different from any other. What do you do? That's right, set it in space!

Jupiter Moon is the sometimes remarkable, sometimes wonderfully tacky soap of the British Satellite Broadcasting network that was absorbed by Rupert Murdoch's Sky Television in the early-90s. One of the casualties of the takeover was 'Jupiter Moon', despite the fact that in Europe (especially Gibraltar!)it had eclipsed any other soap on TV.

So, any good? Well, the teenage love affairs amongst the students of Columbus College (a university on the space craft, ILEA, which orbits the moon of Calypso in the Jupiter system, 2050 AD) is pretty woeful.

But the big dramatic stuff about humankind's first mission into deep space, the politics of Jupiter system and the natural disasters that can (and do) strike our gang of space age pioneers raises it up considerably.

Jupiter Moon's greatest achievement is how it offers a completely credible vision of the future in spite of a tight budget. With assistance from British Aerospace, the science and the special effects were rigorously checked and directors ensured that the assembled cast played it all for real.

As such, the driven Professor Brelan, earnest First Officer Lewis, and frosty navigator Mercedes Page all come to life and it's not long before you really care about what happens to them.

Then there's the full-on orchestral music score. EPIC!

Jupiter Moon is at last available on DVD (R2 only). Get through the first few episodes where the series is desperately trying to find its feet and you'll be onto a winner!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)