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Space Cowboys

Comedy drama about a team of superannuated astronauts who are rejected by NASA in the 1950s but find themselves in demand years later when a Russian satellite system malfunctions.

Sci-fi comedy drama about a team of superannuated astronauts who are rejected by NASA in the 1950s but find themselves in demand years later when a Russian satellite system malfunctions and plunges towards Earth. With only the original team knowing how to prevent the impending disaster, NASA begs them for help, but the men only agree on the condition that they are sent into space to carry out the mission themselves.

2 hours, 6 minutes

Last on

Wed 13 Jun 200723:25
BBC One Northern Ireland

Credits

ActorClint Eastwood
DirectorClint Eastwood
ActorTommy Lee Jones
ActorDonald Sutherland
ActorJames Garner
ActorJames Cromwell
ActorMarcia Gay Harden
ActorWilliam Devane
ActorLoren Dean
ActorCourtney B Vance
ActorBarbara Babcock

Broadcasts

  • Wed 13 Jun 200722:45
    BBC One except Northern Ireland & Scotland
  • Wed 13 Jun 200723:15
    BBC One Scotland
  • Wed 13 Jun 200723:25
    BBC One Northern Ireland