Space Command
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Original title | Space Command |
Country of production | Canada |
original language | English |
Year (s) | 1953-1954 |
length | 30 minutes |
Episodes | 150 in 2 seasons |
genre | Science fiction |
Theme music | Unknown |
Director | Murray Chercover |
idea | Alfred Harris |
script | Alfred Harris |
production | Alfred Harris, Sydney Newman |
First broadcast | March 13, 1953 to May 29, 1954 on CBC |
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Space Command was the first Canadian science fiction television series and was broadcast live from the CBC studio in Toronto in 1953/54 in the English-speaking area of the country . The model was the American series Captain Video and His Video Rangers . With the exception of one episode, the series is considered lost , although the live broadcasts were recorded using a kinescope . One of the main characters was James Doohan . Allegedly William Shatner appeared in several episodes, but this is not certain.
action
The spaceship XSW1 , crew Captain Steve Cassel, Phil Mitchell and Frank Anderson, explores the solar system in search of extraterrestrial intelligences . It is subordinate to the Space Command under the direction of Dr. Joseph Edmunds, who is assisted by the radio operator Ilene Morris.
Documentary film recordings of an Avro Vulcan and a rocket are mounted in the credits .
Lore
Apparently only one episode has survived. It is believed that the remaining kinescope recordings, probably 16 mm film material , were destroyed for silver extraction in the early 1970s .
See also
literature
- Fred B. Rainsberry: A history of children's television in English Canada, 1952-1986 , Metuchen (Scarecrow Press) 1988. ISBN 0-8108-2079-X .
- Paul Rutherford: When Television Was Young: Primetime Canada 1952–1967 , Toronto / Buffalo / London (University of Toronto Press) 1992. ISBN 0-8020-6647-X .