Many people don’t know that Heinlein wrote screenplays for episodes for a proposed television series called Project Moonbase. The TV show was scraped in favor of a movie instead.

Project Moonbase contains the screenplay for the now classic sf film, plus eleven finished teleplays and two story outlines for a projected television show, The World Beyond. In addition to original tales (the story outlines “Home Sweet Home” and “The Tourist”) Project Moonbase also contains teleplay adaptations of such RAH classics as “Delilah and the Space Rigger,” "And He Built a Crooked House.”

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    12 days ago

    For a 50s Sci-Fi movie it’s not terrible. Col. Britis doesn’t have much agency, typical of the time. She’s not nearly as dynamic as Heinlein’s typical heroines. Maybe later in the TV series she would have grown a backbone.