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The Martian Chronicles: 1x2

The Settlers

February 2004: The colonisation of Mars proceeds rapidly, the rockets arriving like ‘silver locusts’. Settlers pour in, each in search of a dream – Fr Peregrine wants to meet Christ; the Lustigs want to find their missing son; the Parkhills want to make their fortune; and Wilder himself wants to meet a Martian…

The Martian Chronicles: Season 1 Episode 2
Jan. 22, 1980