# Future Earth, Space shuttle, series ID **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 28, 2017, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-earth-space-shuttle-series-id/783191 "2017-03-28T02:03:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-earth-space-shuttle-series-id/783191/1 "2017-03-28T02:03:16Z")
I’m trying to remember a TV series that I _think_ was shown in the late-'70s. Could’ve been early-'80s, but I think it was '70s. Some astronauts are on a space ship, which was nothing more than the Space Shuttle with different graphics on it. As I recall, it was not actually supposed to be a shuttle, but some other vessel with greater capabilities. I think the crew were in suspended animation. When they returned to Earth (crash landed?) it’s sometime in the Future. Some catastrophe happened, and civilisation was set back quite a bit. So the astronauts were the technologically advanced ones. _Genesis II_ is too early. _Earth II_ is too late, and was not set on Earth. _Strange New World_ sounds familiar. It had a Shuttle-like craft, but it’s not exactly how I remember it. (Of course, I could be remembering it wrong.) John Saxon’s appearance is familiar too, as is the word ‘PAX’. But that looks like a movie, and not a series. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-earth-space-shuttle-series-id/783191/2 "2017-03-28T03:24:19Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I’m trying to remember a TV series that I _think_ was shown in the late-'70s. Could’ve been early-'80s, but I think it was '70s. Some astronauts are on a space ship, which was nothing more than the Space Shuttle with different graphics on it. As I recall, it was not actually supposed to be a shuttle, but some other vessel with greater capabilities. I think the crew were in suspended animation. When they returned to Earth (crash landed?) it’s sometime in the Future. Some catastrophe happened, and civilisation was set back quite a bit. So the astronauts were the technologically advanced ones. > > _Genesis II_ is too early. _Earth II_ is too late, and was not set on Earth. _Strange New World_ sounds familiar. It had a Shuttle-like craft, but it’s not exactly how I remember it. (Of course, I could be remembering it wrong.) John Saxon’s appearance is familiar too, as is the word ‘PAX’. But that looks like a movie, and not a series. You were partly right with _Genesis II_. What you’re remembering is _Planet Earth_, which was the second pilot for G2. John Saxon replaced Alex Cord from the first pilot, but basically the idea is the same. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-earth-space-shuttle-series-id/783191/3 "2017-03-28T21:48:28Z")
“[Buck Rogers in the 25th Century](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078579/?ref_=nv_sr_1)” starts out exactly like that, except there is only one astronaut. His name: Buck Rogers. [Opening here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BINijYepahA) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-earth-space-shuttle-series-id/783191/4 "2017-03-28T21:51:15Z")
I don’t remember the female-dominated society, but Alex Cord is familiar. Or was it John Saxon? One of them. It was definitely not _Buck Rodgers_. . ---
**Author:** ![ssgenius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@ssgenius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ssgenius)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-earth-space-shuttle-series-id/783191/5 "2017-03-28T22:48:10Z")
Try this > **[Planet Earth (1974) - Moria](https://www.moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/planet-earth-tv-1974.htm)** > > The second of Gene Roddenberry's Genesis II pilots. The idea of a society where women keep men as slaves has a giggly silliness