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Commander Cody and Flash Gordon [message #115631] Wed, 18 September 2013 18:10 Go to next message
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Originally posted by: @RUTGERS.ARPA:wesm@mitre-bedford
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From: wesm@Mitre-Bedford


	Hey, out there in netland, do anyof you remember the 50's TV show
Commander Cody. I don't remember much from it, but as I recall it was a show
that was way ahead of its time. There was also a TV show, Flash Gordon, not
the Buster Crab thing, that was a half hour weekly show that lasted a year or
two. Anyone recall, or have any info on who starred, produced, etc. any of
these?
Re: Commander Cody and Flash Gordon [message #117391 is a reply to message #115631] Mon, 23 September 2013 18:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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 >Hey, out there in netland, do anyof you remember the 50's TV
 >show Commander Cody.  I don't remember much from it, but as
 >I recall it was a show that was way ahead of its time.

Do I remember Commando Cody, Sky Marshal of the Universe???  I was a
little tyke in kindergarden and the week split neatly in two parts.
There was the hour on Saturday morning when they showed Commando Cody
and Captain Midnight.  Then there was the dull part of the week that
lasted 167 hours!  Judd Holdren wore the Republic serials rocket suit
and fought the minions of The Ruler from the planet Saturn.  I just
loved to see the spaceships that took off horizontally like planes and
to watch Cody fly between them with his rocket suit.  If you want to
see the props again, watch for serials on TV.  The suit is in KING OF
THE ROCKET MEN, the suit and the spaceships were in RARAR MEN FROM THE
MOON and ZOMBIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE.  The TV series was not so much
ahead of its time as it was the serials of a year or so earlier brought
to the tv screen.

Captain Midnight, incidently, was a scientist who had a secret
super-scientific laboratory on top of a mountain.  He was played by
Richard Webb and his sidekick was Ichobod Mudd (Sid Melton, later of
the Danny Thomas Show).  He lab also had a sceintist at his beck and
call, Tut -- short for Aristotle Jones, played by Olan Soule.  His
personal jet was the Silver Dart ("Fire up the Silver Dart, Ikky!").
He also had a secret army of kid helpers called the Secret Squadron.
The code of the Secret Squadron was "Justice -- through strength and
courage."  In various episodes he dealt with a good scientist turned
into a monster called "the electrified man" whose touch was deadly.
Also there was a guided missile that looked like a cannister vacuum
cleaner and rolled sinisterly along the ground guided to its victim.
Both were pretty scary to my kindergardener mind.  In syndication, the
name was changed to Jet Jackson.

 >There was also a TV show, Flash Gordon, not the Buster Crab

That's Crabbe.

 >thing, that was a half hour weekly show that lasted a year
 >or two.  Anyone recall, or have any info on who starred,
 >produced, etc.  any of these?

I liked it, but not as much as the above two.  The series was produced
in Germany.  I remember Flash on Earth in a VW bug with a sun roof and
I thought a sun roof was a science fiction idea.  Flash was played by
Steve Holland, Dale Arden by Irene Champlin, and Alexis Zarkov by Joe
Nash.  I liked the space ship a lot.  This series was shown in 1957,
the previous two in 1955.

Portions of my memory on the above were aided by TOTAL TELEVISION by
Alex McNeil.

Now let me ask a really obscure one.  I remember around 1955 or 1956
watching a show with someone having a machine with a window that could
see the past (or future?) I think that they could also step through the
window.  I vaguely remember the show, but have never seen a reference
to it anywhere.

				Mark Leeper
				...ihnp4!ahuta!leeper
re: Commander Cody and Flash Gordon [message #117397 is a reply to message #115631] Mon, 23 September 2013 18:01 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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>From: @RUTGERS.ARPA:wesm@mitre-bedford
>Subject: Commander Cody  and Flash Gordon
>Message-ID: <582@topaz.ARPA>
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>        Hey, out there in netland, do anyof you remember the 50's TV show
>Commander Cody. I don't remember much from it, but as I recall it was a show
>that was way ahead of its time. There was also a TV show, Flash Gordon, not
>the Buster Crab thing, that was a half hour weekly show that lasted a year or
>two. Anyone recall, or have any info on who starred, produced, etc. any of
>these?

I remember Commando Cody and his rocket  powered  flight  jacket  (a  brown
leather  jacket  with  a  rocket  pack attatched to its back, controlled by
extending the arms above the head).  Cody also showed  up  in  theaters  in
serial  format  and  once or twice on more recent TV as a film put together
from a sequence of the old TV shows.

I also remember Captain Zero and  Captain  Midnight  and  their  respective
decoder  rings  and  secret message kits.  The secret message kit worked by
writing on a thin strip of paper with a  clear  wax  crayon.  To  read  the
message  you  pulled  the  strip  through  the secret compartment of a ring
containing a small ink pad.  Wish I knew what became of  mine  --  probably
worth a fortune by now.

Capt.  Midnight had a couple of sidekicks, one of  whom  was  his  resident
scientist of the egghead-stereotype school.  This guy actually did bring up
some interesting  concepts,  though  not  always  accurately  presented.  I
remember  one  time  he  was  playing  with  a 1" ball of neutronium on his
workbench that Midnight said "... must weigh a hundred pounds!".  A  little
off on the details, but the concept was there.

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Santa Monica, California  90405
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Re: Commander Cody and Flash Gordon [message #117427 is a reply to message #115631] Mon, 23 September 2013 18:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Date: Fri, 15-Feb-85 14:58:28 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 15 14:58:28 1985
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> Captain Midnight, incidently, was a scientist who had a secret
> super-scientific laboratory on top of a mountain.  He was played by
> Richard Webb and his sidekick was Ichobod Mudd (Sid Melton, later of
> the Danny Thomas Show).  He lab also had a sceintist at his beck and
> call, Tut -- short for Aristotle Jones, played by Olan Soule.  His
> personal jet was the Silver Dart ("Fire up the Silver Dart, Ikky!").
> He also had a secret army of kid helpers called the Secret Squadron.
> The code of the Secret Squadron was "Justice -- through strength and
> courage."  In various episodes he dealt with a good scientist turned
> into a monster called "the electrified man" whose touch was deadly.
> Also there was a guided missile that looked like a cannister vacuum
> cleaner and rolled sinisterly along the ground guided to its victim.
> Both were pretty scary to my kindergardener mind.  In syndication, the
> name was changed to Jet Jackson.
> 
> 				Mark Leeper
> 				...ihnp4!ahuta!leeper

Amazing what the mind can dredge up.  I was born in '55 and didn't expect
to remember anything having to do with this.  After reading the above
note I realized I have vivid memories of this show.  The electrified man
had me scared for weeks afterwards.


"Don't argue with a fool.      Ethan Vishniac
 Borrow his money."            {charm,ut-sally,ut-ngp,noao}!utastro!ethan
                               Department of Astronomy
                               University of Texas
                               Austin, Texas 78712

*Anyone who wants to claim these opinions is welcome to them*
Re: Commander Cody and Flash Gordon [message #117479 is a reply to message #115631] Mon, 23 September 2013 18:07 Go to previous message
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In article <582@topaz.ARPA> @RUTGERS.ARPA:wesm@mitre-bedford writes:
>From: wesm@Mitre-Bedford
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>	Hey, out there in netland, do anyof you remember the 50's TV show
>Commander Cody. I don't remember much from it, but as I recall it was a show
>that was way ahead of its time.

	I watched one episode, my SF fan club shows such things
from time to time.  I thought it was rather silly, sort of like
the old movie serials. It was about this guy(a sort of Flash Gordon
type) who had this rocket suit who went about saving the Earth.
Of course when it was produced this was not yet a cliche.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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