Men Into Space (1959–1960)
Just about the earliest memory I have of television... maybe.
3 August 2000
Can I comment on a show which may or may not be the show that I barely remember? Although I seem to have definitely misremembered it's title for all these many years, this isn't too surprising... I was pre-literate when it originally aired. After all this time I don't really remember the show itself, rather I remember that I remember the show. Judging by the comments here though, it's most probably the one I'm looking for; it has the ring of the show that enthralled me each week. However, not since I first saw it have I EVER heard even a hint that the show ever existed, nor met ANYONE who remembered it... and believe me, I've hunted. If anyone can confirm that this is my show or can tell me if I'm wrong, email me please. Prove to me I didn't imagine it all. Here is all I can remember:

I remember quonset huts on the Moon, and one episode where a singing, guitar-playing member of the Moon crew dies (how, I don't remember). This was the same episode where they detect radio signals from deep space which spent (quite properly) years in transit. They briefly debate what their response will be, but one of them decides to transmit a recording of their dead comrade singing a song which, after years in transit, will be mankinds first reply.

Now I saw my show in the San Francisco area, and just on the chance that my memory wasn't wrong and that there was some freak name change, I've always thought it was called "Journey to the Moon." Whatever it was called, it was THE television show I HAD to see every week and one of the earliest bits of television memory I have. I've almost haven't forgotten it.
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