#space patrol

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024 ✿  A N G E L B L U E

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Rocketships - art by Richard Groh (1990s)

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Space Patrol #2 (October-November 1952) cover by Clarence Doore.

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[tomoleary]

Basil Wolverton - Space Patrol #3 unpublished original art (1939)

Source (17MP)

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Virginia Hewitt Space Patrol (1950)

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Space Patrol helmets

[therobotmonster]

So what does this remind you of?

Doesn't that ad remind you of a youtube sponsored ad read?

[lil-doodles]

Drawing of characters from Space Patrol, an old American sci-fi television show.

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Knit Plush Print ✿  A N G E L B L U E

[dukeofriven]

It's a real problem with Monty Python even for aware Python fans, because a lot of the stuff in Python that is references or satire of something then-topical is just stuff that's fallen off the radar, so you get a lot of things that feel like they originated with Python that actually predate or are contemporaneous with them (and that's not even to touch on Python recycling sketches and ideas from the writers' own earlier works, but more people have seen one episode of Flying Circus than they have a single second of, say, At Last the 1948 Show). We actually had a discussion of a related phenomenon on discord about The Cage, the pilot of Star Trek: TOS that Roddenberry long said was dismissed as being 'too cerebral' by the executives - and how that doesn't hold up under scrutiny (and no one else who worked on it ever repeated this claim) because it's not very cerebral, and its not even very cerebral by the standards of 1965 television. But Roddenberry, mythologizing and spinning reams of bullshit in the eighties about how 'special' Star Trek was, knew that few people in his audience had much memory or experience with 1965 television and suddenly The Cage could be remade as a brilliant and distinct, nothing-like-it-before before-its-time bolt from the heavens, instead of a badly paced mid-60s sci-fi drama with some good set design, some fun ideas, but a lousy lead character. Sudden Star Trek could be remade as an origin point, instead of an evolution of earlier ideas - because the audience had largely only ever seen Star Trek and not Space Patrol.

Literary Boss Baby Syndrome is especially annoying when the one book they've ever read is, like, Dune or Lord of the Rings or something, because while they're still usually wrong about stuff being a direct reference, they'll be right just often enough that you can't dismiss them out of hand.

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Space Patrol (1962) ep15, colorized

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The one-of-a-kind avant-garde theme music from 1962's British puppet series "Space Patrol"

The series was created, written and directed by previous Gerry Anderson collaborator Roberta Leigh, whose career is amazing and who also wrote the theme.

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For Science Fiction Day: Eight Spacey Shows from the Early Days of TV

January 2 is the day on which Isaac Asimov celebrated his birthday, and as a consequence it has now been embraced by many as Science Fiction Day. It seems like the perfect time for a brief glimpse into a forgotten TV cul-de-sac, the kid-oriented space adventure series of the late ’40s and early ’50s. These super low budget in-studio productions were modeled on the B movie serials released in…

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Space Patrol comes to Talking Pictures TV this June

Space Patrol comes to Talking Pictures TV this June

Not to be confused with the live action US show of the same name, 1960s marionette show Space Patrol is coming to Talking Pictures TV. Written and produced by Roberta Leigh, who also gave us Torchy the Battery Boy and Twizzle. It’s also known as Planet Patrol to avoid that confusion. The show arrives on June 15. Very much not to be confused with Anderson’s Fireball XL5, this show was a little…