RETURN WITH US NOW TO "THOSE THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR" WHEN "COMMANDER BUZZ CORRY" AND "CADET HAPPY" FLEW THE SPACE CRUISER "TERRA" INTO THE STRATOSPHERE, AND BEYOND, ON "SPACE PATROL"
This pioneering series is likely the inspiration for both MGM's 1956 science fiction classic, "Forbidden Planet," as well as for Gene Roddenberry's original 1966 groundbreaking television series, "Star Trek."
I fondly remember the show from childhood and recall my folks taking my brother and me to an appearance of the touring "Terra 1" in a Chicago suburb.
SPACE PATROL was one leg of the TV triumvirate that included CAPTAIN VIDEO and TOM CORBETT SPACE CADET. (Nobody remembers today the TOM CORBETT knockoff ROD BROWN OF THE ROCKET RANGERS that CBS produced for a year of Saturday mornings. starring the very young Cliff Robertson and Jack Weston.)
I fondly remember the show from childhood and recall my folks taking my brother and me to an appearance of the touring "Terra 1" in a Chicago suburb.
SPACE PATROL was one leg of the TV triumvirate that included CAPTAIN VIDEO and TOM CORBETT SPACE CADET. (Nobody remembers today the TOM CORBETT knockoff ROD BROWN OF THE ROCKET RANGERS that CBS produced for a year of Saturday mornings. starring the very young Cliff Robertson and Jack Weston.) Well ,I am somebody who does remember ROD BROWN OF THE ROCKET RANGERS as well as SPACE PATROL with the villain Marvin Miller who also gave a million dollars each week on THE MILLIONAIRE. And did you know Ernest Borgnine got his start on CAPTAIN VIDEO AND HIS VIDEO RANGERS when Captain Video was played by Richard Coogan who at the same time was playing in a daily CBS soap opera called LOVE OF LIFE.
