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At the start of the end credits, there is a title card that says "For Lionel Jeffries 1926 - 2010." Lionel Jeffries played Joseph Cavor in First Men in the Moon (1964).
As they approached the moon, an alarm number 1202 occurred and Cavor said "I'd ignore it". This is a reference to the "1202 Alarm" that the Apollo 11 LEM encountered when it approached the lunar surface in 1969. The astronauts on Apollo 11 similarly ignored the alarm as it was related to a radar system overload, and ground control believed they would have sufficient processing capacity to land anyway.
The film takes place in 1909 and on July 20, 1969.
Although this TV movie carries a dedication to Lionel Jeffries, the then-recently-deceased star of the 1964 film version, there is, curiously, no similar acknowledgment to Nigel Kneale, its screenwriter, although it borrows Kneale's idea of framing the H.G. Wells story within a modern story involving a 1960s moon landing. This is surprising, as Mark Gatiss, who wrote the script and plays Cavor, is a fervent admirer of Kneale's and has been known to call him the greatest of Britain's TV scriptwriters.
"Bedford: There isn't one solitary aspect of it, not one of its 10,000 possible uses, that will not make us rich, Cavor, beyond the dreams of avarice."
"Bedford: I was the first man on the moon. Jim: You were? Bedford: More than that... I was the first man IN the moon."
