Mission Terra

Mission Terra is a German child and youth series that was produced in the years 1985-88 by the Hessischer Rundfunk, in collaboration with the TV studio -Film GmbH Berlin / Heidelberg. The aim of the series is to impart education in the form of entertainment children and adolescents. It mainly scientific topics; the series began a critical look at human behavior. Directed by Carlo Rola. It assisted him Barbara Schubert and Renate Landkammer. The subtitle of the series is: "Expedition to the blue planet."

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On a planet in another galaxy, there is a highly developed civilization of human-like beings. They discovered one day the blue planet Terra ( Earth ) and sends an expedition to explore the alien planet. After three further explorations, Commander Ro and the scientist Dr. Kyra with a fifth expedition to Terra is appointed as manager. Moreover, even among the talking robot Mikrolino, the flying eye zoom and on-board computer MOX for crew members. As it turns out upon landing, the breathing air on the planet Terra commander for Ro and Dr. Kyra is toxic and so they are instructed in their research on the help of the smart and adventurous robot Mikrolino and zoom. The aim is as much as possible to learn about the ways of life, as they call it, "intelligent biped ', and to explore relationships of the habitat Earth. For example, as the diet of the people, the problem of waste disposal or the weather on Earth is examined.

The Flying Eye Zoom and Mikrolino who occasionally gets into threatening situations and even ends up almost in the junkyard, procure the alien scientists important information, which are then processed by the onboard computer MOX. It then results in short films in which the respective processes, as for example the recycling of glass will be explained. As a travel agent of the Department serves their spaceship Metamor 5 that flies in miniature size by the world. Metamor 5 can dip and disappear in any subject, for example in a gumball machine or a ketchup bottle. This often leads to difficulties and brings a flight crew several times in danger.

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Board game

From the television series Terra mission, there is a board game version. It was developed by Jan von Kügelgen and appeared in a co-production with Wolfgang - man -Verlag GmbH Berlin, and Frank 's Verlagshandlung Stuttgart.