Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site ahutb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!hoxna!houxm!ahuta!ahutb!leeper From: leeper@ahutb.UUCP (m.leeper) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: re: SF show from the fifties Message-ID: <520@ahutb.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 18:53:43 EST Article-I.D.: ahutb.520 Posted: Mon Mar 4 18:53:43 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 02:20:35 EST References: <497@ahutb.UUCP>, <1938@sdcc6.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 27 REFERENCES: <497@ahutb.UUCP>, <1938@sdcc6.UUCP> >Does the show _Space Patrol_ jog any memories in netland? > Not original memories this time, I don't remember watching the series on its original broadcast (1950-1956), though toward the end of its run I might have. I have seen several episodes at science fiction conventions and Night Flight ran some a little while back, I think. This is the sort of series you have to see when you are young, or you can never appreciate it. The series starred Ed Kemmer as Commander Buzz Corey. Kemmer's clean cut look and the association with science fiction apparently got him later roles as science teacher types like the one he played in THE SPIDER. Lyn Osborn played his gee-whiz sidekick Cadet Happy. The stories were pretty minimal but the special effects are interesting to watch considering the lack of technology and low budget. For example, to show a scene underwater, the characters made floating motions with their arms while the camera shot them through a fish tank. His ship was the XRZ. One of my sources quotes the opening as "High adventures in the wild vast regions of space. Missions of daring in the name of interplanetary justice. Travel into the future with Buzz Corey, commander-in-chief of the Space Patrol." And a whole generation grew up thinking that sentence fragments were dramatic! Mark Leeper ...ihnp4!ahutb!leeper