Apollo 11's astronauts will walk on the moon - and the huge satellite dish outside a sheep-farming Australian town will beam it globally. But as giddy locals await the moment the world will rely on them, the dish flatlines. And its Aussie crew and by-the-book NASA supervisor from the U.S. differ on how to fix it. A comical culture clash erupts in this fact-based tale of how history's biggest televised event was almost cancelled.
Directed by
Rob Sitch
Written by
Santo Cilauro (conceived and written by); Tom Gleisner (conceived and written by); Jane Kennedy (conceived and written by); Rob Sitch (conceived and written by).
Starring
Sam Neill (Cliff Buxton); Billy Mitchell (Cameron); Rosalind Hammond (Miss Nolan (as Roz Hammond)); Christopher-Robin Street (Damien); Luke Keltie (Graeme); Naomi Wright (Melanie); Ben Wright-Smith (Nicholas); Beverley Dunn (Secretary (voice)); Grant Thompson (Mr. Callen); Bille Brown (Prime Minister); Bernard Curry (Newspaper Reporter); Kevin Harrington (Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell); Tom Long (Glenn Latham); Patrick Warburton (Al Burnett); Roy Billing (Mayor Robert 'Bob' McIntyre). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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