The First Men in the Moon. (2010 TV film)

In 1969, the Apollo moon landing is to be televised internationally but at a country fair in England a small boy named Jim meets the 90-year-old Julius Bedford who tells him that, in 1909, as a struggling writer, he met eccentric Professor Cavor, inventor of Cavorite, a gravity-defying substance which they used to build a sphere, which took them to the Moon.

Rory Kinnear ... Bedford
Mark Gatiss ... Cavor
Alex Riddell ... Jim
Peter Forbes ... Dad
Katherine Jakeways ... Mum
Julia Deakin ... Mrs. Fitt
Lee Ingleby ... Chessocks
Philip Jackson ... Grand Lunar (voice)
Ian Hallard ... Phi-Oo (voice)
Reece Shearsmith ... Moon
Steve Pemberton ... Sun
Bunsen ... Faraday
Jayne Dickinson ... Comet Girl
Vanessa Havell ... Comet Girl
Richard Hawkyard ... Selenite
Robert Judd ... Selenite
Matt Odell ... Selenite
Richard Rosson ... Selenite
Charlie Ryall ... Stallholder

Directed by Damon Thomas

Writing Credits:
Mark Gatiss ... (screenplay)
H.G. Wells ... (novel)