Space: Above and Beyond was a space-based series by former X-Files writers Glen Morgan and James Wong.

Set in 2063, the series opened with a feature-length episode in which several Earth colonies were wiped out in an attack by aliens and showed Earth's response via the US Marine Corps, specifically the 58th Squadron (a.k.a. The Wildcards) under the command of Colonel TC McQueen.

Despite getting off to a rather dismal start, the series soon picked up, with standout episodes such as the almost dialogue-free Who Monitors the Birds and the final, cliff-hanging two-part story (And If They Lay Us Down to Rest... / ...Tell Our Moms We Done Our Best). Sadly for fans, the ratings didn't pick up and the axe fell after just a single season.

The series allegedly had a budget in the region of $2m per episode, and to be fair it showed — the CGI work still looks far more impressive than for many other programmes of a similar age. And although it has never been acknowledged, the series can in many ways be seen a forerunner of the revived Battlestar Galactica, which also took a far more gritty approach to space warfare than other fan favourites such as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Babylon 5.

In the UK the series premiered on satellite and cable station Sky 1, before later turning up on late-night terrestrial television where it enjoyed two complete runs on BBC2 late on Friday evenings.

After the failure of the series Morgan and Wong went back to The X-Files for a short while before taking over the reins of Millennium for its second, and arguably best, season.