Plots(1)
Norman Grant (James Garner), a former war hero turned senator who tirelessly promotes the American space program despite almost insurmountable opposition. Other principal players include John Pope (Harry Hamlin), who, after failing to win his way to Annapolis, matriculates from a Navy recruit to test pilot to pioneering astronaut in the company of fellow space-traveler Randy Claggett (Beau Bridges); Penny Hardesty Pope (Blair Brown), an ambitious and beautiful counsel to Senator Grant since his election and wife of John Pope; Leopold Strabismus (David Dukes), a hedonistic wheeler-dealer who hopes to capitalize on the 1947 UFO scare; German rocket scientist Dieter Kolff (Michael York), whose ideals (or lack thereof) are put to the test when he shifts his allegiance from the Nazis to the Americans; and Stanley Mott (Bruce Dern), an aeronautical engineer whose secret assignment is to make certain that men like Kolff aren't snatched up by the Soviets after the fall of Germany. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![James Garner](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/267/267724_ae39ba.jpg)
James Garner
USA
Best series:
God, the Devil and Bob (2000) (series)
Maverick (1957) (series)
Streets of Laredo (1995) (series)
![Beau Bridges](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/433/162433020_e50ead.png)
Beau Bridges
USA
Best series:
Homeland (2011) (series) - actor, a.f.
Into the West (2005) (series)
Lessons in Chemistry (2023) (series)
![Blair Brown](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/463/162463696_6a0646.png)
Blair Brown
USA
Best series:
Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969) (series)
Orange Is the New Black (2013) (series)
The Affair (2014) (series)
![Susan Anspach](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/574/162574874_5e4c64.jpg)
Susan Anspach
USA
Best series:
The Hitchhiker (1983) (series)
Murder, She Wrote (1984) (series)
![Bruce Dern](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/965/162965008_c06296.jpg)
Bruce Dern
USA
Best series:
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) (series)
Rawhide (1959) (series)
Goliath (2016) (series)
![Melinda Dillon](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270370_33ee7d.jpg)
Melinda Dillon
USA
Best series:
The Twilight Zone (1985) (series)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) (series)
Picket Fences (1992) (series)
![Harry Hamlin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/371/371135_5e6304.jpg)
Harry Hamlin
USA
Best series:
Shameless (2011) (series)
Mad Men (2007) (series)
Batman: The Animated Series (1992) (series)
![David Dukes](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/150/678/150678552_73ceb1.jpg)
David Dukes
USA
Best series:
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) (series)
Sliders (1995) (series)
![Barbara Sukowa](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/168/720/168720710_jp3a8h.jpg)
Barbara Sukowa
West Germany
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Servant (2019) (series)
12 Monkeys (2015) (series)
![Michael York](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268872_50a68d.jpg)
Michael York
UK
Best series:
The Simpsons (1989) (series)
Justice League Unlimited (2004) (series)
How I Met Your Mother (2005) (series)
![Ralph Bellamy](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272319_ce221a.jpg)
Ralph Bellamy
USA
Best series:
Rawhide (1959) (series)
The Winds of War (1983) (series)
War and Remembrance (1988) (series)
![Roscoe Lee Browne](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272688_869f34.jpg)
Roscoe Lee Browne
USA
Best series:
The Shield (2002) (series)
Batman: The Animated Series (1992) (series)
Spider-Man (1994) (series) - actor, a.f.
![Martin Balsam](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/168/526/168526970_09ksp1.jpg)
Martin Balsam
USA
Best series:
The Twilight Zone (1959) (series)
Rawhide (1959) (series)
The Octopus (1984) (series)
![G. D. Spradlin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/394/394596_f90b51.jpg)
G. D. Spradlin
USA
Best series:
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
Columbo (1971) (series)
War and Remembrance (1988) (series)
![David Spielberg](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/143/058/143058592_0e6af6.jpg)
David Spielberg
USA
Best series:
Northern Exposure (1990) (series)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) (series)
Mork & Mindy (1978) (series)
![Clu Gulager](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/473/163473783_f08fb8.jpg)
Clu Gulager
USA
Best series:
Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958) (series)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) (series)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) (series)
Burke Byrnes
USA
Best series:
Highway to Heaven (1984) (series)
Tales from the Crypt (1989) (series)
The Streets of San Francisco (1972) (series)
![Dyanne Thorne](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270257_2aea21.jpg)
Dyanne Thorne
USA
Best series:
Star Trek (1966) (series)
![Christina Pickles](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/078/830/78830948_9a4717.jpg)
Christina Pickles
UK
Best series:
Friends (1994) (series) - actor, a.f.
How I Met Your Mother (2005) (series)
Family Guy (1999) (series)
Peter Nelson
USA
Best series:
The Boys (2019) (series)
V: The Final Battle (1984) (series)
V (1984) (series) - a.f.