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Space: Above and Beyond(TV show/series, 1995-1996)

45min per episode | Genres: Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama

Scripted Reality in 1 season with 23 episodes

Space: Above and BeyondRating: 3.6/5 (with 58 votes)
Space: Above and Beyond is an American science fiction television series that aired on Fox, created and written by Glen Morgan and James Wong. Planned for five seasons, it only ran for one season from 1995–1996 before being canceled due to low ratings. It was nominated for two Emmy Awards and one Saturn Award. Ranked last in IGN's top 50 Sci-Fi TV Shows, it was described as "yet another sci-fi show that went before its time." Set in the years 2063–2064, the show focuses on the "Wildcards", members of the United States Marine Corps 58th Squadron of the Space Aviator Cavalry. They are stationed on the space carrier USS Saratoga, acting as both infantry and pilots of SA-43 Endo/Exo-Atmospheric Attack Jet ("Hammerhead") fighters, battling an invading force of extraterrestrials. ()
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Set in the years 2063–2064, the show focuses on the "Wildcards", members of the United States Marine Corps Space Aviator Cavalry, 58th Squadron. They are stationed on the space carrier USS Saratoga, and act as infantry and pilots of SA-43 Endo/Exo-Atmospheric Attack Jet fighters.

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Space: Above and Beyond Seasons and Episodes

09/24/1995Season 1 - 23 episodes
#1 | 09/24/1995Pilot
3.9/5 (with 3 votes)
In the year 2063, the final frontier is a battle field. An earth united in peace takes its first steps toward interplanetary colonization, only to be threatened by an enigmatic alien race. Enter the 58th Squadron, a group of wet-behind-the-ears pilots with the Marine Corps Air and Space Cavalry. Under the rigorous tutelage of Sgt. Maj. Frank Bougus, reluctant leader Nathan West and fellow cadets Shane Vansen and Cooper Hawkes embark on a mission to save the galaxy.
#2 | 10/01/1995The Farthest Man from Home
3.8/5 (with 2 votes)
When the USS Saratoga passes close to the planet, Vesta Colony, where the Earth colonist were attacked, West goes AWOL and flies down to the planet in hopes that his girlfriend, Kylen, somehow survived.
#3 | 10/08/1995The Dark Side of the Sun
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)
Nightmares come to life for Shane when a sentry-duty assignment on an asteroid leads the 58th into a bloody confrontation with a battalion of rogue androids, among which are the AI's who murdered her parents.
#4 | 10/15/1995Mutiny
3.8/5 (with 2 votes)
When mutiny erupts aboard a civilian cargo ship carrying 200 In Vitro embryos, Cooper faces a difficult decision-should he protect his fellow soldiers, or join forces with the rebellious Tanks?
#5 | 10/22/1995Ray Butts
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)
The Saratoga has a mysterious new passenger: a battle-scarred special-forces commando whose classified mission directives put the 58th at his disposal, even if it means leading them to certain disaster.
#6 | 11/05/1995Eyes
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)
The Saratoga becomes a pressure cooker of violence and political intrigue when an assassination on Earth forces a delegation of UN officials to use the craft as the site of an important conference.
#7 | 11/12/1995The Enemy
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)
The soldiers of the 58th become their own worst enemies when a routine supply mission goes awry, leaving them stranded in alien territory and suffering from the effects of a mysterious Chig weapon.
#8 | 11/19/1995Hostile Visit (1)
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)
A commandeered alien battleship provides the 58th with information about an important Chig outpost, giving the Earth forces an opportunity to make a Trojan-horse attack against the enemy-if the 58th can learn to fly the craft in time.
#9 | 11/26/1995Choice or Chance (2)
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)
After narrowly escaping the crippled alien battleship, the 58th finds itself imprisoned in the catacombs of a Chig penal colony. While Wang suffers in an alien torture chamber, Nathan encounters someone he'd only dreamed of seeing again.
#10 | 12/03/1995Stay with the Dead
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)
A failed rescue mission leaves the 58th presumed dead, except for Nathan, who lands in the hospital, where a nagging memory that his comrades are still alive is passed off as a result of suffering from severe head trauma.
#11 | 12/17/1995The River of Stars
3.8/5 (with 2 votes)
Christmas Eve finds the 58th in dire straits: its transport vehicle, damaged in battle, is hurtling uncontrolled into enemy territory and the pilots must struggle to stay alive with no power, no weapons, and no hope of being rescued.
#12 | 01/07/1996Who Monitors the Birds?
3.8/5 (with 2 votes)
Stranded and practically defenseless on an alien world, Hawkes accepts an assassination assignment that's supposed to buy him an immediate Honorable Discharge from the Marines.
#13 | 01/14/1996Level of Necessity
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)
The 58th enters the tunnels to try to find and destroy a Chig ammo dump. In the tunnels on the way to the ammo dump, Lubin is killed, and Damphousse predicts that one more of them will die.
#14 | 02/04/1996Never No More (1)
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)
Shane risks her life when she volunteers to fight an enemy spacecraft with another squadron, led by a former boyfriend whose new love was killed during a mission.
#15 | 02/11/1996The Angriest Angel (2)
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)
McQueen seeks reinstatement of his pilot status so he can fly what could be a suicide mission: find and destroy a seemingly invincible Chig super-bomber.
#16 | 02/18/1996Toy Soldiers
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)
West discovers that his brother has enlisted in the Corps and is serving under a young, gung-ho lieutenant who's so determined to make a name for himself as a soldier, that he will risk endangering the lives of his entire battalion.
#17 | 03/03/1996Dear Earth
3.8/5 (with 2 votes)
The members of the 58th receive letters from home, some with good news, some with bad, while McQueen and Cooper are ordered to cooperate in a TV documentary about In Vitroes serving in the United States Marine Corps.
#18 | 03/24/1996Pearly
3.8/5 (with 2 votes)
On a planet overrun with Chigs, the 58th retreat with a tank driver of the US 7th Cavalry upon a tank named "Pearly". They encounter the eccentric Major Cyril MacKendrick, sole survivor of a battalion of the British Coldstream Guards. Wang encounters a Silicate of the same model that previously tortured him.
#19 | 04/12/1996R&R
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)
The exhausted Wild Cards are granted R&R aboard the Bacchus, a pleasure ship where it's said anything can, and does, happen.
#20 | 04/19/1996Stardust
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)
A mysterious group of extremely high-ranking officers disembark on the Saratoga and the 58th are ordered to escort an unresponsive space APC. The mysterious APC suddenly locks on their Hammerheads and opens fire.
#21 | 04/20/1996Sugar Dirt
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)
When Commodore Ross sees there's an opportunity to launch a potentially crippling offensive against the Chigs. Forced to abandon the 58th on a barren planet, Ross leaves the marines to fend for themselves with little ammo, no food-and no hope of rescue.
#22 | 05/26/1996And If They Lay Us Down to Rest...
4.3/5 (with 2 votes)
The 58th is deployed to a seemingly barren moon to make final preparations for a major offensive by the Earth forces, but when they arrive they discover that the moon is home to an unknown species-and that Operation: Roundhammer may cause its extinction.
#23 | 06/02/1996Pilot(2)
3.9/5 (with 2 votes)
When an Earth outpost 16 light-years away is destroyed by an unknown alien force, a group of young United States Marine Corps Space Aviators find themselves on the front lines of an intergalactic battle to save their home planet.
#23 | 06/02/1996...Tell Our Moms We Done Our Best
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)
While peace talks on the USS Saratoga go awry, the disgraced 58th are sent to retrieve POWs trapped in a crippled Space APC. Several enemy space fighters attack and the 58th take heavy losses. It is discovered the Chigs are only offering peace because they know Earth's military will defeat them.
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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 12 languages: Bosnian (BS), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Russian (RU), Ukrainian (UK)
Status: Canceled
First episode released on: 09/24/1995
Last episode released on: 06/02/1996
Creator: Glen Morgan
Producer: Tom Towler
Executive Producer: Glen Morgan, James Wong, Stephen Zito
Composer: Shirley Walker
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Vesmír: Civilizace v ohrožení"

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