Written by Wesley Ferguson Theme music composer Arthur B. Rubinstein | Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern Country of origin United States | |
Starring Michael Ironside
Wilford Brimley
Martin Balsam
Damir Andrei
Tom Butler
Wendy Crewson
Scot Denton
Peter Dvorsky
Leo Ilial
Alan Jordan
Jan Rubes
Cathie Shirriff
Kate Trotter
Nerene Virgin
Alberta Watson
Arthur Hill Producer(s) Robert Cooper
Otto Penzler | ||
Murder in Space is a 1985 science fiction murder mystery television movie set in the near future. The crew of an international space mission are on the return leg from Mars to Earth when an explosion occurs on the craft Conestoga, shortly after a series of murders starts. The crew of the returning craft are forbidden to return until the murderer is caught.
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On its initial premier, the film was shown without the ending and a competition was set for the viewers to solve the mystery of who the murderer or murderers were. The conclusion of the film was shown several days later, with the contestants eliminated one by one until the winner correctly identified the killer or killers. The final 30 minutes of the film was shown at a later date when the mystery was solved.
Other cast members
Other cast members were reporters, wives and husbands, mission control staff and additional Russian characters.
Prize money
Accompanying book
A novel also called "Murder In Space", published by Penguin, was produced around the same time; the last page of the book was an entry form for the competition to solve the mystery. It was written by "FX Woolf", a pen-name for Howard Engels and Janet Hamilton.