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P.s. What Is The Best Disaster or Marooned Movie or TV Series in Space?

List page: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls4176610910/

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By disaster movie I mean ether something happens on a space ship that causes a maroon on another planet or the damage the spaceship or space station and the crew has to struggle to survive or struggle to survive the trip home.

If you can suggest another science fiction film that has a disaster in space as described up above, please report it here for them to be rescued.

The Captain’s log: 

Because so few of these films have been made that I had to extend this list into horror movies and stranded onto an alien world films. But I prefer it to be confined to the space ship. But I had to make a compromise to include marooning in order to make a decent list. But the borderline is “Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan” which did include a marooning.

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2 days ago

You should consider this one: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083530/?ref_=ext_shr

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Alien

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23 hours ago

Preferred capitalization of the title:

What Is the Best Disaster Movie on a Spaceship or in Space?

or it could be shortened, for example:

Best Disaster Movie in Space

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If you use a shorter title, you could move the question above the other text to make it visible.

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What is the best disaster movie set on a spaceship or in space?

By disaster movie I mean either something that happens on a space ship that causes being marooned on another planet or damage to the spaceship or space station and the crew has to struggle to survive or struggle to survive the trip home. Because so few of these films have been made, I had to extend this list into horror movies and stranded onto an alien world films. But I prefer it to be confined to the space ship. But I had to make a compromise to include marooning in order to make a decent list. But the borderline is “Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan” which did include a marooning. And one entry will be from a tv show. 

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I’ll make edits later on tonight.

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@Peter_pbn​ Is this okey? And why is the i in “Is” capitalized?

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16 hours ago

Thank you for remembering the mostly forgotten Silent Running.

For your consideration:

Dark Star

The Far Out Space Nuts (yes, it is a TV show)

Space: 1999 (another TV show)

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@TheOldJalapenoman​ ,

I really like Silent Running; who could possibly dislike a film that features drones named Huey, Louie and Dewey? However, I really dislike Peter Schickele's score for Silent Running. I'm a fan of Professor Schickele and this is the only piece of music he composed that I dislike.

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@dan_dassow​ Wait. Wait. Wait a sec?! P.D.Q. Bach was a film composer?!

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@TheOldJalapenoman​ all added. “Silent Running” was one of the first I had thought of for this list. I had just added it haphazardly because there were more popular films that I had thought of later that people would remember more. That is how powerful that film was. It was right with “Marooned”, “Robson Crusoe on Mars”, then “Silent Running”, then “Firefly: Out of Gas”, and “Alein”.

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@Tsarstepan​ yes. 

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7 hours ago

Good poll and I love " please report it here so any survivors can be picked up and be rescued." : )

Someone had the idea to put the first paragraph in the thread instead of the intro and I agree. You could link to it with something like "Go here to read about how the movies and series in the list were chosen" (and hyperlink "Go here"). You could probably come up with something that matches your vibe, of course. I like the idea of moving the longer paragraph to the thread for several reasons, including that it will highlight " please report it here so any survivors can be picked up and be rescued" and more people will get the benefit of reading that gem. 

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@rubyfruit76​ is this better?

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5 hours ago

Please revise your title to indicate that you have television series and not just movies in your list.FYC: 

Scavengers Reign

The Orbital Children

Stargate Universe