Sheriff Taylor.... in SPACE

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mwbard informs me that, in 1979, Andy Griffiths was the star of a TV show called Salvage 1. It's a semi-hard SF show about a salvage and scrap dealer who builds a rocket out of junk, and flies to the Moon to retrieve the Apollo hardware. Isaac Asmimov worked on the show.

Naturally, it is on Youtube.

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[dagoski.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I loved this show! Too bad it didn't last very long. This wasn't so very beyond the realm of plausibility. When I was a kid, you could buy old an astounding array of old military aircraft and missile parts in Southern California. Granted, most of it was Korean War vintage or older and almost certainly broken. Still, I thought it was neat. You just can't find tank gun gyros anymore or let alone control sticks from Hughey helicopters. Man, I used to love digging through the scrap dealers in the San Fernando Valley and inland Orange County. This one section of the Valley in particular was where all the Army's surplus quonset huts went for retirement. I think every transmission shop and scrap dealer there used one of these as their office. They usually had their business name painted on an aircraft drop tank mounted on a signpost out front. There was even an Army/Navy story out in Orange County that had the first stage of something like an Atlas-Aegena rocket out front as a signpost(what I remember was that it was a huge rocket). All that was disappearing around the time this show aired and it was long gone by the mid eighties. Anyway, that's why I dug this show.