Conference noted::sf

    	Could it be a remake of the ABC-TV show SPACE PATROL made in
    the early 1950's?
    	Or perhaps that very show itself dubbed in German?
    
    	Larry
    

	 No, it  could't  have been the _same_ show - Swedish TV doesn't use
	 dubbing,  and  certainly  not  in German! We'd have had the English
	 sound with subtitles.

	 The remake theory, though, sounds plausible, but I have the distinct
	 impression that the series was a German original. It wasn't a space
	 opera,  and I'm pretty sure it was brand new when it was shown here
	 (late 60's). What was the ABC 'Space Patrol' about?

	 <PO>

    	I believe ABC-TV's SPACE PATROL was that network's competitor
    to another early 1950's SF show, TOM CORBETT-SPACE CADET, which
    was loosely based on Robert Heinlein's SF novel, SPACE CADETS.
    
    	Larry
    

    I don't recall ever hearing about a German sf tv show, let
    alone a possible remake of the old SPACE PATROL. I wonder if
    it's possibly a tv version of the Perry Rhodan series, though
    I haven't heard of one. Of the works I have on sf in media,
    there aren't any that discuss "foreign" (ie. non-American or
    non-British Commonwealth) tv shows.
    
    --- jerry

	 Odd. I'm  _very_  sure it was German. I suppose we have to wait for
	 some German SF enthusiast to enter this conference...

	<PO>

    I didn't mean to imply that there *weren't* any German sf tv
    shows, just that I hadn't heard of any, nor do any of my books
    on the subject mention any.
    
    --- jerry

    Re: .3
    
    I remember a juvenile SF series about the adventures of a Tom Corbett
    and his buddies Roger and Astro.  Does anyone know how these tie-in
    with the television show?
    
    Rich

	 I think I may have answered my own question... Browsing through the
	 1978  International  Science  Fiction Yearbook, I actually found an
	 entry.  Supposedly shown in Netherlands in 1977, a German series by
	 the  name of 'Spaceship Orion' was mentioned. Since the name of the
	 spaceship in the series I remember was in fact 'Orion', it's got to
	 be  the  same  one.  It  was  probably called 'Raumschiff Orion' or
	 something like that in German.

	 I'd still  appreciate  more information about the series, if anyone
	 has seen or heard of it.

	 <PO>

    My Exwife is German and she mentioned a SF she always use to watch.
    I'll see her on Saturday and get the details.
    
    Steve

    re:.7
    
    The Tom Corbett books were based on the tv show. The he show ran
    from 1950-1955 (roughly) and the books from 1953-1956 (roughly).
    There were eight of them altogether, written by "Carey Rockwell"
    (no one that I know of has discovered the true authorship).
    
    --- jerry

    RE .9
    I checked with my Ex and Se said it was called "The Adventures of
    the Starsip Orion"
    
    Steve

    I can't believe I stumbled [accidently] on a note about the old
    Tom Corbett shows.  I saw them on USA network a couple of years
    back and they were the worst I've ever seen.  [Maybe that makes
    them 'classic'].  I mean, honestly, being able to rescue someone
    on the outside of a ship who had drifted off the hull during a
    spacewalk, claiming his qualification for tossing the rope [ha!]
    to the unfortunate as "I wasn't the skee-ball champ of the academy
    for nothing"!
    
    USA justifiably ran them as their version of the Boskone 2am turkey.
    
    Heinlen?  Sigh...