Alternative-3 was a hoax TV documentary broadcast in the late 1970s.
It maintained there was a conspiracy between the scientific, military and economic elites of the world to escape a forthcoming planetary catastrophy by colonising Mars…
It was parodied perhaps by Douglas Adams with his Golgafrincham telephone-sanitisers, and shown at one of the Strange Attractor events in London.
So far, I’ve only managed to find some bad quality realmedia exerpts online, which is why I’m asking Ben’s new project, the Culture Lazyweb if anyone has an better digital version anywhere on the net.
Petafloptimism 
A torrent of SVHS rip of A3 is available:
http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/712883/Alternative_3_1977
i have the alternative 3 science report on missing scientists & full colour footage of the 1950 mars landing on dvd.
liesofserpentsariveroftears@hotmail.co.uk
I have an original copy in good condition for sale.
karurasun@hotmail.com