Earth II

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.

Earth II was a made-for-TV movie from 1971 -- a pilot for a TV series that never got off the ground -- set onboard an Earth-orbiting space station.

The Earth II station was supposed to be a haven for those weary of all the strife going on down on the real Earth, replete with a "no weapons of any kind are allowed" policy, gleaming white hallways, and a friendly international staff of scientist. Of course, something goes wrong, in the form of a Chinese nuclear bomb that assumes a station-keeping orbit right next to Earth II, and threatens to detonate should sufficient sunlight exposure melt its failsafe fuses.

No relation to the 1990s TV series Earth 2.


Tropes used in Earth II include: