Journey to the Far Side of the Sun

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Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (also known by its original title Doppelgänger) is a 1969 British science fiction film directed by Robert Parrish and starring Roy Thinnes, Ian Hendry, Patrick Wymark, Lynn Loring, Loni von Friedl and Herbert Lom. It was written by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and Donald James, and produced by the Andersons for their company Century 21. Set in the year 2069, the film concerns a joint European-NASA mission to investigate a newly discovered planet which lies directly opposite Earth on the far side of the Sun. The mission ends in disaster and the death of one of the astronauts, following which his colleague realises that the planet is a mirror image of Earth in every detail, with a parallel and duplicate timeline. The film was the first major live-action production by the Andersons, known for their Supermarionation television programmes such as Thunderbirds. Having originally conceived the story as a television play, they were encouraged by their employer Lew...

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