Plymouth

Plymouth (1991)

The residents of a town displaced by an industrial accident agree to take over a failing mining base on the Moon as their new place to live and work. Their first big test comes in the form of a wave of radiation from a massive solar flare.

Date of release
1991-05-26
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Drama, Science Fiction, TV Movie
Director
Lee David Zlotoff

Casting

Interesting facts

Plymouth is a 1991 science fiction television film that was shown on ABC Network in the same year, as a pilot for a planned series. It was created by Lee David Zlotoff and funded by the American Broadcasting Corporation, Walt Disney and Rai uno radiotelevisione, with Lockheed acting as technical advisors.

Production

The film had a reported $8 million budget, with $3.5 million coming from ABC. After production was finished in 1990, it remained unaired for a year. Despite apparent enthusiasm from ABC executives and Walt Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, ABC declined to purchase the series, saying only, "It just didn’t meet our needs."

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