- Murder in Space
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- Murder in Space is also the title of a 1955 science fiction novel by David V. Reed.
Murder in Space Genre Science fiction Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern Produced by Robert Cooper Written by Wesley Ferguson 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 HillMusic by Arthur R. Rubinstein Country 
United StatesOriginal airing July 28, 1985 Running time 95 Minutes Murder in Space is a science fiction murder mystery 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 the murders start. The crew of the returning craft are forbidden to return until the murderer is caught.
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 was... 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.
Contents
Conestoga crew
Actor Character Rank Country Murdered How Possible motive Michael Ironside Neil Braddock Captain U.S.A. No Cathie Shirriff Olga Denarenko U.S.S.R. Yes Strangled Pregnant with other crew member's child. Damir Andrei Andrei Kalsinov Colonel U.S.S.R. Yes Blown up Timothy Webber Guy Sterling Canada Yes Cyanide poisoning Tom Butler Kurt Steiner Major East Germany Yes Strangled Leo Ilial Phillipe Berdoux Doctor France No Scot Denton David Tremayne Navigator U.S.A. No Kate Trotter Pamela Cooper England No Alberta Watson Dominica Mastrelli Italy No
Other cast members
Other cast members were reporters, wives and husbands, mission control staff and additional Russian characters.
Name Rank or part Played by Vice President Arthur Hill Dr. Andrew McCallister Space program director Wilford Brimley Dinah Greenberg Secretary to McCallister Gloria Carlin Jeffrey Kilbride Reporter Alan Jordan Mitch Carlino Peter Dvorsky Alexander Rostov Russian Politician Martin Balsam Dr. Margaret Leigh Doctor Nerene Virgin Giorgi Denarenko husband of cosmonaut Olga Denarenko Jan Rubes Irene Tremayne Wife of astronaut David Tremayne Wendy Crewson Prize money
- USA - $60,000
- UK - £10,000
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.[1]
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