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The Martian Chronicles (1980–1980) — drama · science-fiction · mystery on NBC

The answer: Concluded January 29, 1980.
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Genre
Drama · Science-Fiction · Mystery
Network / streamer
NBC
Premiered
January 27, 1980
Ended
January 29, 1980
Runtime
~120 min per episode
TVMaze rating
7.7 / 10
1season
3episodes
7.7/ 10

About The Martian Chronicles

Earth sends its first manned probe to Mars in 1999, and a jealous Martian murders the two astronauts when his wife has erotic dreams of meeting them. Members of a subsequent expedition are hypnotized into believing that they have landed in the childhood community of their leader and have been reunited with deceased family and friends, and they are poisoned by the Martians. Col. John Wilder leads a third expedition and learns that a chicken pox virus brought to Mars by the first two expeditions has almost eradicated the Martian population. A member of Wilder's team becomes obsessed with protecting Mars from Earthman and murders some of the others in Wilder's party, before Wilder kills him. Colonists arrive on Mars to settle, among them priests seeking God, and a lone Martian masquerades as the most desired persons of various settlers. Global war on Earth reduces man's natal planet to radioactive waste, and most of the settlers returned there prior to the holocaust. Wilder struggles to assemble the remaining humans on Mars, who cope with their loneliness in different ways and will not leave their piece of Mars, before Wilder meets a Martian of past or future who tells him the secret of simple Martian life and convinces him to abandon the Earth lifestyle.

The Martian Chronicles episode schedule

3 aired

Aired · 3

DateEp.Title
January 29, 1980 S1·E3 The Martians
January 28, 1980 S1·E2 The Settlers
January 27, 1980 S1·E1 The Expeditions