The Planets

2019TV Mini Series⏱️ 59m

Documentary

⭐ 9

IMDB Rating

4,279 votes

Welcome to the greatest story that's never been told. In a new, ground breaking series we'll be telling the story of the planets as never before.

Director

N/A

Writers

N/A

Stars

Brian Cox, Fran Bagenal, Heidi Becker

Release Date

May 28, 2019

Language

English

Country

United Kingdom, United States, China

🏆 1

Wins

🎯 4

Nominations

💬 54

Reviews

📋 9.7K

Watchlists

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🎭 Top Cast

Brian Cox

as Self - Presenter

Fran Bagenal

as Self - Juno Mission Scientist

Heidi Becker

as Self - Juno Mission Scientist

Cathy Olkin

as Self - Deputy Principal Investigator New Horizons

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Ashwin Vasavada

as Self - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Julie Webster

as Self - Cassini Chief Engineer

👤

Carolyn Porco

as Self - Cassini Imaging Team Leader

Alan Stern

as Self - Principal Investigator New Horizons

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Michele Dougherty

as Self - Cassini Principal Investigator

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Jeff Cuzzi

as Self - Cassini Ring Scientist

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio

1.78 : 1

Sound

Stereo

Color

Production

BBC Studios, Tencent Penguin Pictures, Nova

🏷️ Keywords

planetsolar systemmarsvenusmercury

🎯 Categories

History DocumentaryNature DocumentaryScience & Technology DocumentaryDocumentary

⭐ Featured Review

Worth the licence fee on its own

by ron-g-baker • 2019-06-17

9/10

"Great production values , improved grahics and good narration. One of the best Space docs of the last few years. Carl Sagan is looking on warmly. Biggest Volcano in the Solar System, olympus mons, only because we have no idea what hides on Jupiter Saurn Neptune Uranus. More like this please ...But maybe its too expensive??..."

💡 Did You Know?

When the Venera probes first sent back their images from the surface of Venus, there was wide speculation that there was life on the planet due to irregularities in the images noted as "black flaps" and "scorpions". It wasn't until later confirmed that the anomalies in the images were simply artifacts due to image processing. The surface of Venus is essentially the temperature of the inside of a burning house.