Spacemens Luck

 

Where Tom Corbett, Captain Video, CMDR Corry and Other Spacemen Still Live

Tom Corbett, Space Cadet first aired on Television as a TV series from Oct 1950 to 1956. During the shows run it also had a separate series running six months on radio from January 1, 1952 – June 26, 1952. This article will be concentrating on the radio version of Tom Corbett, Space Cadet.

In both the radio and TV versions the stories followed the adventures of Cadet Tom Corbett, Cadet Astro, and Cadet Roger Manning, at the Space Academy as they qualified to become Officers in the elite Solar Guard. The stories centered around their cadet training and the many adventures that the happened into.

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Welcome to the Spacemen’s Luck website. Here we can enjoy our  reminisces from our childhood memories of the age of space.

My name is Thurman “Ray” Plumlee and I am a baby boomer who was born in the mid 40′s (specifically 1947) and enjoyed the radio and TV shows of the 1950′s, 1960′s and even the earlier action cliff hanger serials going back to the early 1930′s. Basically, anything “men in space” from my youth and the earlier programs that inspired them.

My personal favorites are Science Fiction Theater, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, Commando Cody (the Rocketman), Rocky Jones, Space Ranger, Men Into Space, CDR Buzz Cory of the Space Patrol and, of course, Twilight Zone.

That is not to say I didn’t enjoy the other shows like Captain Video, Dimension X, Tales of Tomorrow, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Captain Z-Ro, and many others. They too are favorites.

When I was growing up there were not many new TV shows being aired. Fortunately a lot of what there was, was juvenile action science fiction related. Also there were not many, if any, movies being made for TV. So a lot of what we saw were the movies from the 1930′s and 1940′s. Especially those cliff hanger serials such as Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon and Rocketman.

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