UK 52m Colour Director: Christopher Miles; Cast: Tim Brinton, Gregory Munroe, Carol Hazell, Shane Rimmer, Richard Marner
A fun mix of fact and mostly fiction, Alternative 3 was a hoax documentary that featured Tim Brinton, a well-known presenter on British television who lent the production a degree of credibility. Comparable to the War of the Worlds radio broadcast, Alternative 3 connected the UK "brain drain" to issues of global warming and NASA's Apollo missions to a global conspiracy to relocate earth's intelligentsia to Mars from a space station based on the Moon. In the history of space-based conspiracy theories, Alternative 3, followed by a 1978 novel of the same name, played an important role in the growth of conspiracy-based productions which have been popularized by films such as Capricorn One (1978), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon (2001) and Apollo 18 (2011) (Klaus Ming July 2013).
A fun mix of fact and mostly fiction, Alternative 3 was a hoax documentary that featured Tim Brinton, a well-known presenter on British television who lent the production a degree of credibility. Comparable to the War of the Worlds radio broadcast, Alternative 3 connected the UK "brain drain" to issues of global warming and NASA's Apollo missions to a global conspiracy to relocate earth's intelligentsia to Mars from a space station based on the Moon. In the history of space-based conspiracy theories, Alternative 3, followed by a 1978 novel of the same name, played an important role in the growth of conspiracy-based productions which have been popularized by films such as Capricorn One (1978), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon (2001) and Apollo 18 (2011) (Klaus Ming July 2013).