Five Weeks in a Balloon (film) intended to exploit the hype of Fox’s own "Cleopatra" (1963). Allen's film is played much more for comedy than Juran's film. In Verne's novel and the Woolner Brothers' film, the balloon was named the "Victoria". Allen's film renames it the "Jupiter" with Allen giving the name "Jupiter II" to the spaceship on "Lost in Space". Filming took place in early 1962. It was the only film being made on the Fox lot at the time, due to costs incurred by "Cleopatra" (1963). The film was entirely shot in Hollywood except for some second unit shots in Africa. Allen wanted to
Spaceship Zero explains, the game is based on a 1950s German radio play ("Raumschiff Null" being a direct translation of "Spaceship Zero"). The German radio play was based on a 1930s American moviehouse serial called "Spaceship to the Stars" (which eventually became an American television show in the 1950s). The German radio play eventually spawned a German television show (of the same name) that aired from 1978 to 1980. And all this has spawned an American film production. The game plays off the ruse in a variety of ways. For instance, a section of the book is devoted to episode summaries from