Re: [TML] A chance find that could make for a scenario or campaign, Plymouth, a failed 1990s TV pilot.
Ingo Siekmann 21 Jun 2026 12:31 UTC
Hallo,
I vaguely remember seeing this on German TV. IIRC it was a rather
mediocre movie at best.
And was there really a vac suit helmet with cow horns?
Bye
Ingo
Am 21.06.26 um 08:46 schrieb Graham Donald - gndonald2001 at
yahoo.com.au (via tml list):
> I was poking around on Wikipedia and stumbled across a page describing a
> failed 1990s TV pilot whose plotline could definitely be reworked into
> the Traveller setting. Entitled 'Plymouth' it's plot involved the
> contamination of a small town by a corporation and with the company
> deciding to turn lemons into lemonade by offering the inhabitants new
> homes on a failing lunar minesite.
>
> I'm sure people could find many ways to make the idea work in Traveller.
> What is linked to below is the Wikipedia page on the film and an
> upscaled (allegedly from a low generation VHS copy.) version of the film
> that's been posted to YouTube. I've not watched it all the way through
> yet, but I've seen some screenshots and this may be the first science
> fiction film to get into the idea of decorating spacesuits as a way of
> identifying who is who when everyone is suited up.
>
> Wikipedia Article
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_(film) <https://en.wikipedia.org/
> wiki/Plymouth_(film)>
>
> Full Movie. (Warning: In 4:3 ratio, at the time it was made 16:9 was not
> a thing and the uploader correctly preserved the aspect ratio.)
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWoQh8k0CRA <https://www.youtube.com/
> watch?v=YWoQh8k0CRA>
>
>
>
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