asks astronomer Patrick Moore in this series of highly personal films.

For more than 12 years Patrick Moore has been putting forward the conventional views of modern astronomy in books and on television. Next week he will be back in the space studio reporting on the Apollo 12 moon landing. But tonight he steps off that platform to question whether orthodox views should be as readily accepted as they are.

Is the sun really a hot flaming body dashing about the sky? Have astronauts really proved that the earth and the moon are round? Might not the universe be enclosed by a giant magnet? Is not the ultimate man already living on Saturn in the form of an incandescent egg, 40-feet tall.

These ideas and more are put forward in a cheerful, convincing, and fearless way by a number of 'independent thinkers.' Patrick Moore feels that the conventionalists (and he includes himself) would do well to listen to their ideas and at least to emulate their outlook on life.

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