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Overview

Samuel, a Russian-born Jewish inventor who specialises in the development of hearing aids, is tasked with a secret mission by MI5 to use his technological expertise to contribute to western Cold War efforts. Following the tensions of the space race and the first hydrogen bomb test, Samuel's efforts factor in to the emergence of the modern world.

Series Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Toby Stephens

    Samuel Petrukhin

  2. Cast 1

    Keeley Hawes

    Kathleen Shaw

  3. Cast 1

    Linus Roache

    Richard Shaw

  4. Cast 1

    Mark Bonnar

    Field

  5. Cast 1

    Lucy Cohu

    Miriam Petrukhin

  6. Cast 1

    Claire Bloom

    Aunt Mary

  7. Cast 1

    Lily Sacofsky

    Hannah Petrukhin

  8. Cast 1

    Timothy Spall

    Lord Arthur Wallington

  9. Cast 1

    Gary Beadle

    Courtney Johnson

Last Season

Poster

Season 1

2019 | 6 episodes

season 1 of Summer of Rockets premiered on May 22, 2019.

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I enjoyed this series, mostly, especially the way it represented the 50s era, which to me sometimes feels more ignored than the decades of the 40s and 60s. I felt the acting was very good and the writing mostly good. Every major character is given a subplot, which I usually found realistic and entertaining. One review I read pointed out that the movie suffered from being politically correct, and I always worry about that description. That reviewer was unhappy that white men made up all the bad guys. Perhaps the black man kissing a white woman struck him as unlikely in that era. I had no pr...