Atom Squad
| Television series | |
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| Original title | Atom Squad |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 1953-1954 |
| length | 15 minutes |
| Episodes | 142 in 1 season |
| genre | Adventure , science fiction |
| production | Adrian Samish |
| music | Miklós Rózsa |
| First broadcast | July 6, 1953 on NBC |
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Atom Squad ( English : Atom - Squadron ) is an American science fiction - television series that following the example of 1953-54 Captain Video and His Video Rangers manufactures and live has been sent.
action
The Atomic Squad is a top-secret US atomic police force that aims to prevent foreign powers, especially the Soviet Union , from gaining possession of American atomic energy technology . It operates from a secret laboratory in New York City from.
In the first episode, The Man Who Stopped the Moon , a megalomaniac with a tried neutron gun ( neutrino Gun ), the course of the moon to stop to dictator to be the earth. In The Attack of the Pentagon , Soviet agents try to attack the Pentagon . In The Trouble at Fort Knox, Soviet agents contaminate a gold transport with ionizing radiation . In The Bomb That Wouldn´t Stand Still , in turn, Soviet agents drive an atomic bomb in trucks through the capital Washington, DC In The Ship That Sailed to Nowhere , an alliance between an American defector and Russians is uncovered who, with the help of an underwater magnet, drives American shipping to the Want to succumb. In The Scheme to Flood America , the scientists encounter an attempt by an ex- Nazi to manipulate the weather in the USA. In Stranger From Outer Space , the members of the Atom Squad are confronted with aliens, as well as in The Fugitives From Galaxy 29 .
Production history
The series is clearly based on Captain Video . The contemporary background is the Korean War and the arrest of the Soviet spies Klaus Fuchs , Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Alger Hiss .
The series was broadcast daily at 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. The episodes usually consisted of five programs each, so that one episode was broadcast per week. A total of 26 episodes and 142 programs are recorded.
Lore
As far as is known, not a single broadcast has been preserved because it was broadcast live and either no Kinescope copies were made or these have not been transmitted.
literature
- Patrick Lucanio / Gary Coville: American science fiction television series of the 1950s: Episode guides and credits for twenty shows , Jefferson, NC (Mc Farland) 1998. ISBN 0-7864-0434-5