The Best Episodes Written By Christopher Spencer

Episode Rankings

1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - Race for Rockets

   S1:E19/14/2005

   Race For Rockets, spans 1944-1949. We see Wernher von Braun's work on the V-2 for the Nazis during the last years of the Second World War, his surrender to American troops and his move to the USA. We see Sergei Korolev's release from the Gulag, and how he is set to work on Soviet rockets, first attempting to copy the V-2, then building a more efficient rocket of his own.

   Director:N/A

   Writer:Christopher Spencer

   Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

   Director:N/A

   Writer:Christopher Spencer
2. 

   6.5/10(2 votes)

   #2 - Race to the Moon

   S1:E410/5/2005

   Race To The Moon, spans 1964-1969. Both sides now plan to put a man on the Moon - while the Soviets struggle, the Americans pull ahead in the space race with Project Gemini, but then suffer a disaster with the Apollo 1 fire. The Soviet space programme suffers its own blows: Sergei Korolev dies when his heart fails during an operation, Soyuz 1 crashes and kills cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, and their planned moon rocket, the N-1 rocket, fails to successfully launch. In America, von Braun has difficulties with the Saturn V, but they are overcome, and the rocket successfully launches the first manned lunar mission, Apollo 8, and the first manned lunar landing, Apollo 11.

   Director:N/A

   Writer:Christopher Spencer

   Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

   Director:N/A

   Writer:Christopher Spencer
3. 

   6.5/10(2 votes)

   #3 - Race for a Space Man

   S1:E39/28/2005

   1959-1961. Both the Americans and Soviets are planning manned space flight, and we see both sides preparing to do so with the development of the Vostok programme (Russia) and Project Mercury (USA). After difficulties and failures on both sides, the Soviets succeed in putting Yuri Gagarin into space first, with the Americans putting Alan Shepard up shortly afterwards.

   Director:N/A

   Writer:Christopher Spencer

   Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

   Director:N/A

   Writer:Christopher Spencer
4. 

   6.5/10(2 votes)

   #4 - Race for Satellites

   S1:E29/21/2005

   Race For Satellites, spans 1953-1958. As the Cold War intensifies, Korolev is asked to build a rocket capable of carrying a five-ton warhead to America - he designs and constructs the R-7 Semyorka, and is later allowed to use it to launch the first satellite, Sputnik 1. Meanwhile, von Braun struggles to persuade the US government to allow him to launch his own satellite - after Sputnik's launch and the failure of the US Navy to launch a Vanguard satellite, he is finally allowed to launch the first American satellite, Explorer 1.

   Director:N/A

   Writer:Christopher Spencer

   Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

   Director:N/A

   Writer:Christopher Spencer
5. 

   5.0/10(1 votes)

   #5 - Revolution

   S1:E310/5/2006

   132 BC. Tiberius Gracchus, with the final victory in Rome's 120 year long Punic Wars against Carthage, its greatest ever Mediterranean rival, brings him immense glory and the rich unseen wealth, but almost nothing trickles down to the destitute. The rich patricians yest removing the military threat of Carthage also removes the best control on them. He learns many veteran families lose everything, even their land, which is taken by the rich. Now he joins the army against a Hispanic tribe, the Numantines, which manages to encircle the 20,000 legionnaires and refuses to negotiate with consul Mancinus, but takes the word of Gracchus, for the sake of his father who concluded an honorable peace with them; the troops return, their families rejoice but the senate blames the commanders for a disgraceful surrender. Tiberius uses his popularity to stand for the office of popular tribune, hoping to counter Nasicas extremist line in the senate.

   Director:N/A

   Writer:Christopher Spencer

   Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

   Director:N/A

   Writer:Christopher Spencer