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Subject: re: SF show from the fifties
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Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 18:53:43 EST
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 >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
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