#Judd Holdren

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Judd Holdren and Aline Towne - Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe (1953)

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Judd Holdren as Commando Cody

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From the Golden Age of Television

Series Premiere

Commando Cody, Sky Marshall of the Universe - Enemies of the Universe - NBC - July 16, 1955

Science Fiction

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by Ronald Davidson

Produced by Franklin Adreon

Directed by Fred C. Brannon

Starring

Judd Holdren as Commando Cody (Larry Martin)

Aline Towne as Joan Gilbert

William Schallert as Ted Richards

Craig Kelly as Commissioner Henderson

Gregory Gaye as The Ruler

Peter Brocco as Dr. Varney 

Zon Murray as Ross

Coleman Francis as Security Guard

Tom Steele as Ghost Town Arsonist

Dale Van Sickel as Clancy

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Joan Gilbert trying to give Commando Cody a purple purple.

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Younger folk may not remember, it probably wasn't taught in school, but back in '55, when we were attacked from outer space by an unknown enemy, a masked super-scientist built an atomic-powered space ship, travelled to the source of the missiles, and fought an escalating series of attacks including massive storms, deadly germs, darkening of the sun, a robot, a mind control ray, artificial suns, pushing the Moon out of orbit, and tilting the Earth's axis.

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Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe (1953) is a twelve-chapter serial from Republic Pictures starring Judd Holdren (above). Originally intended for television syndication, Sky Marshall was first released theatrically in 1953, it was then sold to NBC television in 1955.

​Commando Cody, Sky Marshal of the Universe

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Zombies of the Stratosphere Chapter 6: Murder Mine (1952)

Republic Pictures. Dir. Fred C. Brannon

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WATCHED

[The actual movie, not that MST3K stuff, I can't watch a movie that's being mocked by shadows. I miss the plot and everything.]

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Vivian Mason and Judd Holdren, The Lost Planet, 1953

   Characters Ella Dorn and Rex Barrow with the Neutron Wave Reverser

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On July 16, 1955, the first installment of the second Comando Cody serial was released. "Comando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe" started out life meant to be a TV series, but was then changed to a movie serial. Eventually, in 1955, it did end up being syndicated on NBC. George Wallace, who played the lead in the first serial "Comando Cody: Radar Men from the Moon" (1952), was replaced by Judd Holdren as Comando Cody. He had previously played the role that was meant to be Cody in "Zombies in the Startosphere" (1952), but for some reason, the character's name was changed to Larry Martin. It is said that the rocket packed Commander Cody in the Star Wars universe was a hat tip to the character by George Lucas who loved and based the movies on the old sci fi serials, particularly Flash Gordon. (Comando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe", 12 part Serial July 16 - October 8, 1955, Event)

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Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe (1953)

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​Commando Cody, Sky Marshal of the Universe (aka Judd Holdren) - Cody’s communication badge could contact people on several planets and pre-dated the Star Trek communicator.

A 1955 NBC 12-part series based on the high-flying hero introduced in the 1952 film serial, Radar Men from the Moon, starring Judd Holdren as Cody. Each week Cody, armed with a jet pack and rocket ship, stopped the diabolical Ruler from using his scientific genius to take over the world (and thus justify his moniker).

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From the Golden Age of Television

Series Premiere

The Silent Service - The Jack at Tokyo - Syndication - April 5, 1957

War Drama

Running Time:

Written by Thomas M. Dykers, Radm US Navy Retired

Produced by McGowan Productions Inc.

Directed by Steuart E. McGowan

Hosted by Thomas M. Dykers, Radm US Navy Retired

Stars:

Myron Healey as Captain Thomas M. Dykers

Douglas Henderson as Chief Machinist Mate Earl Archer

Judd Holdren as Lt. Commander J. P. Roach

Brad Trumbull as Lt. Miles P. Refo

Steve Mitchell as Sound Man

Don Durant as Lt (j.g.) Jim Calvert

Charles G. Martin as Phone Talker

Bill Kennedy

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Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952) was the third of Republic Pictures “Rocket Man” serials, preceded by King of the Rocket Men (1949), Radar Men From the Moon (1952), and followed by Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe (1953).  Even though all four serials featured a hero who wore a helmet and rocket pack, he was only called Rocket Man in King of the Rocket Men.

The last three serials did, however, make liberal use of footage from King of the Rocket Men, especially the flying scenes.  That explains why the hero’s costume in all four serials was essentially the same.

Commando Cody (played by George Wallace) was introduced in Radar Men From the Moon, and Zombies of the Stratosphere was supposed to feature him again.  For some unknown reason, the hero was changed to “Larry Martin.”  Larry (played by Judd Holdren) had the same assistants as Cody did (although the characters were renamed), as well as the same sets and props.

Larry Martin was gone, but Judd Holdren as  Commando Cody was back again the next year in Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe.  This fourth serial was originally intended as a 12-episode television series, but played in theatres first before being broadcast on NBC in 1955.

Zombies of the Stratosphere remarkably features no zombies at all.  Instead it has villainous Martians, gangsters, a robot, a wild plot to use hydrogen bombs to force Earth and Mars to switch their positions in the Solar System, and one of the first appearances of a young actor named Leonard Nimoy.

A heavily truncated feature-length version of the serial (167 minutes edited down to 70) was released as Satan’s Satellites, which saw a lot of airplay on television.

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Lady in the Iron Mask *** (1952, Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, Alan Hale Jr, Judd Holdren, Steve Brodie) - Classic Movie Review 8904

Lady in the Iron Mask *** (1952, Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, Alan Hale Jr, Judd Holdren, Steve Brodie) – Classic Movie Review 8904

Louis Hayward, who had been The Man in the Iron Mask (that is Louis XIV / Prince Philippe of Gascony) in the 1939 film, this time stars as French musketeer D’Artganan, while Patricia Medina plays both Princess Anne and her lookalike sibling Louise, in director Ralph Murphy’s cheap but jolly, and highly colourful 1952 gender-swap Lady in the Iron Mask version of the tale by Alexandre Dumas Père.

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Judd Holdren-TV’s COMMANDO CODY-SKY MARSHALL (1953)

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