2. The Settlers (1980)
February 2004: The colonisation of Mars proceeds rapidly, the rockets arriving like 'silver locusts'. Settlers pour in, each in search of a dream - Fr Peregrine wants to meet Christ; the Lustigs want to find their missing son; the Parkhills want to make their fortune; and Wilder himself wants to meet a Martian...
Release date: 1980-01-22
Season number: 1
Episode number: 2
Runtime: 120 minutes
Director: Michael Anderson
Writer: Richard Matheson
Guest stars
Cast
Rock Hudson
as Col. John Wilder
Darren McGavin
as Sam Parkhill
Roddy McDowall
as Father Stone
Joyce Van Patten
as Elma Parkhill
Gayle Hunnicutt
as Ruth Wilder
Phil Brown
as Narrator
Peter Marinker
as McClure
Richard Oldfield
as Captain Nathaniel York
Burnell Tucker
as Bill Wilder
Alison Elliott
as Lavinia Spaulding
Richard Heffer
as Captain Conover
Rest of the cast - click here to expand
Maggie Wright - Ylla, Derek Lamden - Sandship Martian, Anthony Pullen Shaw - Edward Black, John Cassady - Briggs