Where’s Science Fiction Theater?
Good one!
And how about
Men Into Space, an American science-fiction television series broadcast from September 30, 1959 to September 7, 1960 which realistically depicted future efforts by the United States Air Force to explore and develop outer space. The black-and-white filmed show starred William Lundigan as Col. Edward McCauley.
Re: Men into Space.
I may be thinking of the wrong show, but I seem to remember an episode where they’re exploring an area of the moon, and then get called back to the ship.
The camera pans around to the back of a rock face and there’s an obvious fossil embedded in the rock.
I think I was 11 or 12 at the time.
Another one like this for me was the BSG (1978) episode, “The Hand of God”, where at the very end of the episode you find out that the distorted long-range signal they’ve been hearing is the audio from the Apollo 11 moon landing. But the crew has already left the astronavigation dome and they don’t hear it.
This is the first time we have a real idea of what time period BSG is set in relative to us.