Space: Above and Beyond
Space: Above and Beyond
TV ShowCanceled

Space: Above and Beyond

7.2 / 10
1995
1 season
23 episodes
Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDrama

Set in the years 2063–2064, the show focuses on the "Wildcards", members of the United States Marine Corps Space Aviator Cavalry, 58th Squadron. They are stationed on the space carrier USS Saratoga, and act as infantry and pilots of SA-43 Endo/Exo-Atmospheric Attack Jet fighters.

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Seasons

  • Pilot

    1.Pilot

    5.5
    24-09-199591m

    In the year 2063, the final frontier is a battle field. An earth united in peace takes its first steps toward interplanetary colonization, only to be threatened by an enigmatic ali...

  • The Farthest Man from Home

    2.The Farthest Man from Home

    7.5
    01-10-199545m

    When the USS Saratoga passes close to the site of the Tellus Colony, where the Earth colonist were attacked, West goes AWOL and flies down to the planet in hopes that his girlfrien...

  • The Dark Side of the Sun

    3.The Dark Side of the Sun

    7.0
    08-10-199545m

    Nightmares come to life for Shane when a sentry-duty assignment on an asteroid leads the 58th into a bloody confrontation with a battalion of rogue androids, among which are the AI...

  • Mutiny

    4.Mutiny

    7.5
    15-10-199545m

    When mutiny erupts aboard a civilian cargo ship carrying 200 In Vitro embryos, Cooper faces a difficult decision-should he protect his fellow soldiers, or join forces with the rebe...

  • Ray Butts

    5.Ray Butts

    8.0
    22-10-199545m

    The Saratoga has a mysterious new passenger: a battle-scarred special-forces commando whose classified mission directives put the 58th at his disposal, even if it means leading the...

  • Eyes

    6.Eyes

    6.7
    05-11-199545m

    The Saratoga becomes a pressure cooker of violence and political intrigue when an assassination on Earth forces a delegation of UN officials to use the craft as the site of an impo...

  • The Enemy

    7.The Enemy

    8.0
    12-11-199545m

    The soldiers of the 58th become their own worst enemies when a routine supply mission goes awry, leaving them stranded in alien territory and suffering from the effects of a myster...

  • Hostile Visit (1)

    8.Hostile Visit (1)

    8.0
    19-11-199545m

    A commandeered alien battleship provides the 58th with information about an important Chig outpost, giving the Earth forces an opportunity to make a Trojan-horse attack against the...

  • Choice or Chance (2)

    9.Choice or Chance (2)

    7.0
    26-11-199545m

    After narrowly escaping the crippled alien battleship, the 58th finds itself imprisoned in the catacombs of a Chig penal colony. While Wang suffers in an alien torture chamber, Nat...

  • Stay with the Dead

    10.Stay with the Dead

    7.0
    03-12-199545m

    A failed rescue mission leaves the 58th presumed dead, except for Nathan, who lands in the hospital, where a nagging memory that his comrades are still alive is passed off as a res...

  • The River of Stars

    11.The River of Stars

    7.5
    17-12-199545m

    Christmas Eve finds the 58th in dire straits: its transport vehicle, damaged in battle, is hurtling uncontrolled into enemy territory and the pilots must struggle to stay alive wi...

  • Who Monitors the Birds?

    12.Who Monitors the Birds?

    7.5
    07-01-199645m

    Stranded and practically defenseless on an alien world, Hawkes accepts an assassination assignment that's supposed to buy him an immediate Honorable Discharge from the Marines.

  • Level of Necessity

    13.Level of Necessity

    8.0
    14-01-199645m

    The 58th enters the tunnels to try to find and destroy a Chig ammo dump. In the tunnels on the way to the ammo dump, Lubin is killed, and Damphousse predicts that one more of them...

  • Never No More (1)

    14.Never No More (1)

    8.0
    04-02-199645m

    Shane risks her life when she volunteers to fight an enemy spacecraft with another squadron, led by a former boyfriend whose new love was killed during a mission.

  • The Angriest Angel (2)

    15.The Angriest Angel (2)

    6.5
    11-02-199645m

    McQueen seeks reinstatement of his pilot status so he can fly what could be a suicide mission: find and destroy a seemingly invincible Chig super-bomber.

  • Toy Soldiers

    16.Toy Soldiers

    8.0
    18-02-199645m

    West discovers that his brother has enlisted in the Corps and is serving under a young, gung-ho lieutenant who's so determined to make a name for himself as a soldier, that he will...

  • Dear Earth

    17.Dear Earth

    7.5
    03-03-199645m

    The members of the 58th receive letters from home, some with good news, some with bad, while McQueen and Cooper are ordered to cooperate in a TV documentary about In Vitroes servin...

  • Pearly

    18.Pearly

    7.5
    24-03-199645m

    On a planet overrun with Chigs, the 58th retreat with a tank driver of the US 7th Cavalry upon a tank named "Pearly". They encounter the eccentric Major Cyril MacKendrick, sole sur...

  • R&R

    19.R&R

    8.0
    12-04-199645m

    The exhausted Wild Cards are granted R&R aboard the Bacchus, a pleasure ship where it's said anything can, and does, happen.

  • Stardust

    20.Stardust

    8.0
    19-04-199645m

    A mysterious group of extremely high-ranking officers disembark on the Saratoga and the 58th are ordered to escort an unresponsive space APC. The mysterious APC suddenly locks on t...

  • Sugar Dirt

    21.Sugar Dirt

    8.0
    20-04-199645m

    When Commodore Ross sees there's an opportunity to launch a potentially crippling offensive against the Chigs. Forced to abandon the 58th on a barren planet, Ross leaves the marin...

  • And If They Lay Us Down to Rest...

    22.And If They Lay Us Down to Rest...

    8.5
    26-05-199645m

    The 58th is deployed to a seemingly barren moon to make final preparations for a major offensive by the Earth forces, but when they arrive they discover that the moon is home to an...

  • ...Tell Our Moms We Done Our Best

    23....Tell Our Moms We Done Our Best

    7.0
    02-06-199645m

    While peace talks on the USS Saratoga go awry, the disgraced 58th are sent to retrieve POWs trapped in a crippled Space APC. Several enemy space fighters attack and the 58th take h...

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