Watching the second episode of "The Time Tunnel" on Hulu.
The heroes get time-portalled onto the first manned mission to Mars in 1978. They get to work on the ship after a meteorite strike holes the "service module". They get into spacesuits and take a walk outside.
Hey - wait a minute - I've seen those suits before! I've seen that whole ship before!
Irwin Allen evidently was an early adopter of recycling back in 1966 - he used a goodly chunk of footage from 1950's "Destination Moon", based on Heinlein's "Rocket Ship Galileo". The space suits and other sets and props are either the same used 16 years earlier, or good reproductions.
I had forgotten how cheesy this show - and most of Allen's sci-fi - was. Entertaining for a kid, and fun as something to look back on fondly, but I can't help but pick nits - like where the bad guy (a Soviet, of course! - but not explicitly called such) pulled a 1911 out of a locker in vacuum with full sound effects of the door opening, the magazine releasing, and the slide working.
Now. I've got to check out 'Lost in Space" and see how badly that matches up with my memories...
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