Houston, We've Got a Problem

Made for TV movie about the Apollo 13 scare. Would love to see this again as my dad has a bit part

This made for TV piece of junk shows exactly why made for TV movies are held in disdain.

This is supposed to be the Apollo 13 story, but it has nothing to do with the astronauts. All of the film is about the flight controllers and their personal problems at home. It is just stupid.

Gary Collins is in it... enough said.

Robert Culp should have know better than to be in this.

Most of the story in the film is fictitious.

Thank goodness Ron Howard came along twenty years later and told the Apollo 13 story is a way that NASA and everyone involved deserved.

Don't let the 5.9 rating fool you. There's one guy who has given this mess a 10 rating, while I and the other half-dozen people who remember this atrocity have been GENEROUS by giving it mostly two stars.

Yes, there was an Apollo 13 mission, and yes it had a problem. They also got most of the astronauts' names right (although many of the Mission Control personnel are, thankfully, not real persons.) But that's pretty mush where any accuracy ends.

For Pete's sake, the movie is a mistake before it even begins: the TITLE is incorrect! According to NASA transcripts of the flight, mission commander Jim Lovell said "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem" followed by Jack Swigert saying "We've had a problem here." (In fairness, Ron Howard didn't quite get it right in "Apollo 13" either.)

Go watch "Apollo 13" instead, which was based on Jim Lovell 's actual memoir, and had Apollo mission controller Jerry Bostisk and moonwalker Dave Scott as technical advisors. Leave this mess on the shelf.

When "Apollo 13" came out, I thought I was the only person in America who remembered this made-for-TV effort. As a space-crazy 13 year old, I recall watching and enjoying this film, and I'm surprised that no effort was made to bring it out on video or DVD so people could compare the two films. No doubt the production values of "Apollo 13" are far superior and the presence of a by-then burnt out Sandra Dee in the cast probably signals the film wasn't all that good. Still, I'd like to see it again.

It show the human side behind the technical marvels of the apollo program. The commentary keeps you informed as to what is going on and the included history videos fit in well with the flow of the movie.