Too Bad there isn't any TV like this anymore, good morals, clean dialog, fun on a budget! Dumont was gone from the airways a few months later in 1955. Very little survives from the DuMont Television Network except what is in archives adn collections....Great Show....
It's a shame that the sci-fi channel went sy-fy and is a joke. How great it would be to run these in the times as they did back then. ALL the 50's, 60's series and serials.
Now that all the cable channels are owned by one giant corporation all they do is run the same shows on every station . Ancient Aliens must be on 6-10 stations and make a new show 2 times a year.
Here it is months later & I'm still watching this great episode repeatedly. I don't get out much. :-) Anyway, this really is a superb episode -- the season-ender! On a sad note, it was Jan's final show. He went on to the movies. Made some decent ones, but I think he should have stuck it out, and I believe he would have if he'd known there was only one season remaining. Tom, Astro & Roger were a team -- THE Team! THE Space Cadets! A genuine shame that THE Team came up a mere ONE year short!!
Hey, that's the original "Bad Seed" Patty McCormick in one of the commercials! Still very active, just a kid of 65! Gosh I wish they'd saved more of these, how could they destroy these? Well, look, they found the lost 45 minutes of Metropolis (1926) in S America, maybe somebody's got the Kinescopes SOMEWHERE--had a bunch of Buzz Correy Space Patrol episodes they keep finding, so maybe. Maybe. Hope so.
"Straight man." Give me... a brake. He loved children of all ages. What drugs are you on? Obviously, you've been out to lunch for far too long. Rock Jones had a big one. And don't forget... Roger, this was meant to make money off those post WWII little shits. "We can get them to swallow any thing." Remember Quaker Puffed Cereal? I made my mother buy so many boxes of that crap, I could afford Capt. Midnight's sister... and I didn't discover I was gay until the mid 60s. And don't touch me Patty... unless you are waring the right kind of shoes. Oh, Gooood. "What a world, what a world." Margret Hamilton, aka, The Wicked Witch of the West.
@@charlesdavis7087 Clearly, you were highly traumatized by a 50's sci fi kiddie show and the Quaker Oats Man when you wrote this. Remember, stay away from old B&W low budget tv shows, Oat based products, wipe the drool from your lips and take your meds...and CHILL DA FUCK UP. Peace!
@@RX552VBK I loved this shi__. This is where my heart is. Right here and right now. Thanks... for checking in. Blessings. I believe in the evolution of Peter Pan and Flash Gordan. Super Man and the whole MCu universe. Blessings Gary.
Sgt.Carter is wearing a souvenir T shirt in one scene. It says " Vulcan " on it. Watch closely in the scene when the rocket is malfunctioning. "So I've been to Vulcan , .....so.what !!".
Good old veteran actor Frankie Thomas, selling Red Goose shoes with breatheable mesh, never gets flustered -- not even when he uses the shoe in his hand to knock the other shoe off its pedestal, he doesn't miss a beat, and calmly waits for just the right moment to pick the shoe up and place it on the table right in line with the camera, and then goes to extra trouble to lay the one in his hand on the WRONG side so that when the camera zooms in, we are greeted by a pair of splay-footed shoes!
It's nice to see Gomer Pyle's future gunnery sergeant hard at work on his acting skills onboard the Scout, even though Captain Strong very clearly and very incorrectly ordered him aboard the Polaris rather than the Scout. Don't you just LOVE LIVE TV without even the simplest of things like cue cards?!? I know I sure did and still do -- more than ever!!
Did you notice that the rockets all looked like the German V-2? So did the Oldsmobile Rocket 98's and 88's. That was the design before NASA came along with a new rocket design.
The only film of a rocket taking off that was available in 1954 was that of a captured V-2 being launched. Sometimes you just have to use what you've got.
These are great-but i think Rocky Jones was the best made. Shot on film instead of video, they looked better and had very good SFX. It also had strong female characters too.
+Gary Keyes What you say is correct. Rocky Jones was shot directly on film, and the image quality is much better. Tom Corbett was broadcast live, and until video tape came along in late 1956, the only way to record a live tv program was filming it off a tv monitor. So with Tom Corbett you are seeing a film made from a tv picture tube. This was called a kinescope, and it had its own set of problems, and the picture quality was not nearly as good as shooting to directly to film, or even video tape. Shooting directly to film was superior to either, and this was the reason Desi Arnaz decided to film I Love Lucy instead of broadcast it live, otherwise I Love Lucy would look much like what you see above. Mel Brooks was a writer for Sid Ceasar's Your Show of Shows in the early 1950s, and he complained bitterly about the quality of kinescopes. "We were recorded on Saran Wrap," he said.
@@jsat5609 Yep, Desi is a pioneer in early TV. he doesn't get enough credit for his approach to early setups (especially the 3-Camera shot and audience participation).
Good, but Space Patrol was better for a live show, and Rocky Jones had best production values and continuity because it was not broadcast live but recorded directly to film. Both shows had better production values than Tom Corbett, and strong female characters. Frank Sutton is listed in the closing credits.
I'll never get an answer from this, since you wrote this 5 years ago - but.. Why would they do this live, if they were going to record it on a telescine anyhow? Clearly though, this is done live.
@@fuzzywzhe I ain't dead yet!! Union rules. AFTRA, the union for live tv performers, (filmed tv shows were covered by the SAG (Screen Actors' Guild Union, many years later the 2 finally merged, and there was no video tape in 1954) anyway AFTRA union rules required that shows recorded on telecine or kinescope be broadcast live, and limited the use of kinescope recordings to 60 days, all because of the misguided notion that this would create more work for their union members. Of course the secondary reason was for purposes of time shifting, broadcasting in different time zones because the US has 4 time zones, and a show broadcast live at 10: 00 am in New York would be "live" at 6:00 am in California, hardly an ideal time.
@@jsat5609 That's interesting. Were there different rules for FILMED television shows? I'm watching this and am frankly amazed this was done live - simply because of the extensive sets they had. The coordination that had to be in real time to do this, is astounding. They must have had at least 1/2 dozen cameras, and I know how huge they were back then. It seems like it would have been far less expensive (and higher quality) to produce the show on film. I know that Kinescope was used for time shifting, but doing it that way, you lose a tremendous amount of resolution because recording off from a monitor is hardly ideal. If they put it on film to begin with, there would be less cameras, you could do more than 1 take, you wouldn't have to have the level of coordination, and you have to develop the film anyhow. Doing this live seems more expensive, certainly more difficult, and I can't think of a benefit of doing it live. I also know there were a lot of rules with regard to Kinescope for screen actor's unions and guilds. I can only think that, again, union rules precluded the use of film. Also, I didn't expect you to be dead. My parents were born in 1939 and 37 and they are both still alive. I have to send them a set of radio broadcasts of The Shadow. I don't even know if they had a television as young adults and they certainly didn't as little kids.
Ha...light through window on first ship blast off went the wrong way... Went bottom to top. Light from engine would have come through but top ( ceiling) first as light/flame from near ground...then as it went up would be even with window on second craft...then as craft flew up in sky, above, showing towards floor of second ship. But in movie it goes floor to ceiling
Frank Sutton's career nosedived after Gomer Pyle USMC. Maybe he was typecast. Was doing dinner theater in Shreveport Louisiana at the time of his death. Heart attack. Age 50.
Frank Pierce It's too bad that the Jim Nabors Hour didn't last too long. That was a variety show that came after Gomer and included Nabor's co-stars Sutton and Ronnie Schell!
@@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427 I've heard that the network wanted to change the Jim Nabors Hour and get rid of Sutton and Ronnie Schell. Nabors stood by his Gomer Pyle era buddies, refused to go along with this idea, and the show was cancelled.
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+David Carlson I doubt that it was NAZI symbolism, just the only rocket launch footage available in 1954. The US captured and tested quite a number of V 2's.
Too Bad there isn't any TV like this anymore, good morals, clean dialog, fun on a budget! Dumont was gone from the airways a few months later in 1955. Very little survives from the DuMont Television Network except what is in archives adn collections....Great Show....
When I was four this was my favorite TV program!
It's a shame that the sci-fi channel went sy-fy and is a joke. How great it would be to run these in the times as they did back then. ALL the 50's, 60's series and serials.
Now that all the cable channels are owned by one giant corporation all they do is run the same shows on every station . Ancient Aliens must be on 6-10 stations and make a new show 2 times a year.
Here it is months later & I'm still watching this great episode repeatedly. I don't get out much. :-) Anyway, this really is a superb episode -- the season-ender! On a sad note, it was Jan's final show. He went on to the movies. Made some decent ones, but I think he should have stuck it out, and I believe he would have if he'd known there was only one season remaining. Tom, Astro & Roger were a team -- THE Team! THE Space Cadets! A genuine shame that THE Team came up a mere ONE year short!!
I was born in '64--but I don't care how old it is...I LOVE SF!!!!!
I loved this show as a kid! I just wish they had more of them to watch again. :(
Rocky Jones had the budget that this show didn't have. This was probably made on video tape, where Rocky Jones was done on film.
Can't thank you enough for bringing this great episode to us. THANKS!!
Hey, that's the original "Bad Seed" Patty McCormick in one of the commercials! Still very active, just a kid of 65!
Gosh I wish they'd saved more of these, how could they destroy these? Well, look, they found the lost 45 minutes of Metropolis (1926) in S America, maybe somebody's got the Kinescopes SOMEWHERE--had a bunch of Buzz Correy Space Patrol episodes they keep finding, so maybe.
Maybe. Hope so.
Frank Sutton was a wonderful character actor--and a great straight man!
"Straight man." Give me... a brake. He loved children of all ages. What drugs are you on? Obviously, you've been out to lunch for far too long. Rock Jones had a big one. And don't forget... Roger, this was meant to make money off those post WWII little shits. "We can get them to swallow any thing." Remember Quaker Puffed Cereal? I made my mother buy so many boxes of that crap, I could afford Capt. Midnight's sister... and I didn't discover I was gay until the mid 60s. And don't touch me Patty... unless you are waring the right kind of shoes. Oh, Gooood. "What a world, what a world." Margret Hamilton, aka, The Wicked Witch of the West.
2354 would put Tom Corbett in the 24th century, like Jean - Luc. Picard . Enterprise D was launched in 2363.
@@charlesdavis7087 Clearly, you were highly traumatized by a 50's sci fi kiddie show and the Quaker Oats Man when you wrote this. Remember, stay away from old B&W low budget tv shows, Oat based products, wipe the drool from your lips and take your meds...and CHILL DA FUCK UP. Peace!
@@RX552VBK I loved this shi__. This is where my heart is. Right here and right now. Thanks... for checking in. Blessings. I believe in the evolution of Peter Pan and Flash Gordan. Super Man and the whole MCu universe. Blessings Gary.
I came here because of the Nancy Drew movies from the 30's. Tom Corbett played Ted Nickerson when he was about 18!
_Look busy Space Cadet, here comes the Captain!_
And the spacesuits with Red Goose shoes double as clown outfits for those long voyages.
Sgt.Carter is wearing a souvenir T shirt in one scene. It says " Vulcan " on it.
Watch closely in the scene when the rocket is malfunctioning.
"So I've been to Vulcan , .....so.what !!".
Good old veteran actor Frankie Thomas, selling Red Goose shoes with breatheable mesh, never gets flustered -- not even when he uses the shoe in his hand to knock the other shoe off its pedestal, he doesn't miss a beat, and calmly waits for just the right moment to pick the shoe up and place it on the table right in line with the camera, and then goes to extra trouble to lay the one in his hand on the WRONG side so that when the camera zooms in, we are greeted by a pair of splay-footed shoes!
love it. never heard of it. still has a radio show feel to it.
Seeing Patty McCormack talking about shoes........makes me.......NERVOUS!
a very young looking "Sgt Carter" as crewman!
It's nice to see Gomer Pyle's future gunnery sergeant hard at work on his acting skills onboard the Scout, even though Captain Strong very clearly and very incorrectly ordered him aboard the Polaris rather than the Scout. Don't you just LOVE LIVE TV without even the simplest of things like cue cards?!? I know I sure did and still do -- more than ever!!
Did you notice that the rockets all looked like the German V-2? So did the Oldsmobile Rocket 98's and 88's. That was the design before NASA came along with a new rocket design.
Well, ware in the heck did you think we got the design? Ever heard of the "Paper Clip" project?
The only film of a rocket taking off that was available in 1954 was that of a captured V-2 being launched. Sometimes you just have to use what you've got.
The little girl on the Red Goose commercials is Patty McCormick who had the lead role in the movie The Bad Seed.
Back in the 50's this was the future.
Frank Sutton also put in a stellar (no pun intended) performance as Ernie Borgnine's buddy in the much respected film "Marty" in '55.
The future Sgt Carter on Gomer Pyle USMC is seen here...did you spot him? (9:52).
kenneth britton Sharp eyes! He was pretty cute!
Golleeee! It's Sargent Carter!
The world beyond tomorrow...
Funny how much this spaceship looks like a warehouse.
Makes sense. You need the space for storage. LOL!
These are great-but i think Rocky Jones was the best made. Shot on film instead of video, they looked better and had very good SFX. It also had strong female characters too.
+Gary Keyes What you say is correct. Rocky Jones was shot directly on film, and the image quality is much better. Tom Corbett was broadcast live, and until video tape came along in late 1956, the only way to record a live tv program was filming it off a tv monitor. So with Tom Corbett you are seeing a film made from a tv picture tube. This was called a kinescope, and it had its own set of problems, and the picture quality was not nearly as good as shooting to directly to film, or even video tape. Shooting directly to film was superior to either, and this was the reason Desi Arnaz decided to film I Love Lucy instead of broadcast it live, otherwise I Love Lucy would look much like what you see above. Mel Brooks was a writer for Sid Ceasar's Your Show of Shows in the early 1950s, and he complained bitterly about the quality of kinescopes. "We were recorded on Saran Wrap," he said.
@@jsat5609 Yep, Desi is a pioneer in early TV. he doesn't get enough credit for his approach to early setups (especially the 3-Camera shot and audience participation).
Born in 1947 and recognize V-2 rockets.
Roger was the familiar bad guy on all the old Westerns Jan Merlin.
You know I have a suspicion that they never went into space at all.
LOVED IT AS A 7YR OLD
Sgt. Carter in space. Too bad Pyle wasn't in this show.
"Full space speed"
Sending my full support🇵🇭
6:00 Sgt Carter is that you? 😀
Good, but Space Patrol was better for a live show, and Rocky Jones had best production values and continuity because it was not broadcast live but recorded directly to film. Both shows had better production values than Tom Corbett, and strong female characters. Frank Sutton is listed in the closing credits.
Liked the crew and cast of characters in Space Patrol best.
John Satterfield -- Yeah, good thing they had strong female characters. lol!
I'll never get an answer from this, since you wrote this 5 years ago - but..
Why would they do this live, if they were going to record it on a telescine anyhow? Clearly though, this is done live.
@@fuzzywzhe I ain't dead yet!! Union rules. AFTRA, the union for live tv performers, (filmed tv shows were covered by the SAG (Screen Actors' Guild Union, many years later the 2 finally merged, and there was no video tape in 1954) anyway AFTRA union rules required that shows recorded on telecine or kinescope be broadcast live, and limited the use of kinescope recordings to 60 days, all because of the misguided notion that this would create more work for their union members. Of course the secondary reason was for purposes of time shifting, broadcasting in different time zones because the US has 4 time zones, and a show broadcast live at 10: 00 am in New York would be "live" at 6:00 am in California, hardly an ideal time.
@@jsat5609 That's interesting.
Were there different rules for FILMED television shows?
I'm watching this and am frankly amazed this was done live - simply because of the extensive sets they had. The coordination that had to be in real time to do this, is astounding. They must have had at least 1/2 dozen cameras, and I know how huge they were back then.
It seems like it would have been far less expensive (and higher quality) to produce the show on film.
I know that Kinescope was used for time shifting, but doing it that way, you lose a tremendous amount of resolution because recording off from a monitor is hardly ideal.
If they put it on film to begin with, there would be less cameras, you could do more than 1 take, you wouldn't have to have the level of coordination, and you have to develop the film anyhow.
Doing this live seems more expensive, certainly more difficult, and I can't think of a benefit of doing it live.
I also know there were a lot of rules with regard to Kinescope for screen actor's unions and guilds. I can only think that, again, union rules precluded the use of film.
Also, I didn't expect you to be dead. My parents were born in 1939 and 37 and they are both still alive. I have to send them a set of radio broadcasts of The Shadow. I don't even know if they had a television as young adults and they certainly didn't as little kids.
Is that sargent carter from gomer pyle i see at the beginning?
Ha...light through window on first ship blast off went the wrong way... Went bottom to top. Light from engine would have come through but top ( ceiling) first as light/flame from near ground...then as it went up would be even with window on second craft...then as craft flew up in sky, above, showing towards floor of second ship. But in movie it goes floor to ceiling
Do you think the original audience really noticed, or even cared?
@@jsat5609 nope, not even 'technical staff's....did. ha
Frank Sutton's career nosedived after Gomer Pyle USMC. Maybe he was typecast. Was doing dinner theater in Shreveport Louisiana at the time of his death. Heart attack. Age 50.
Frank Pierce It's too bad that the Jim Nabors Hour didn't last too long. That was a variety show that came after Gomer and included Nabor's co-stars Sutton and Ronnie Schell!
@@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427 I've heard that the network wanted to change the Jim Nabors Hour and get rid of Sutton and Ronnie Schell. Nabors stood by his Gomer Pyle era buddies, refused to go along with this idea, and the show was cancelled.
@@jsat5609 Makes me respect Jim Nabors even more!
yes that is frank sutton. sgt carter.
2 thumbs up!
Note the narrator's VO credit at the end...it's Jackson Beck...the voice of Popeye!
King Bee You mean the voice of Bluto/Brutus. Jack Mercer was the voice of Popeye!
Popeye was also voiced by. # 1 , Lewis Costello , Early 30's. #2, Jack Mercer.early 40's into the 1960's.
Remember, Spaceman's luck..........you 'll need it!!!.
Square jawed, steely eyed rocket men, champions of justice, riding on the cutting edge of the sword of freedom, pure 50s shite 🤔😉
Frank company b Sgt. Carter sutton!
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Eat me too lawyer.
wade williams if you are an attorney you are a cockwipe. If not you have a puerile "sense of humor".
@@Vinj94 This reply is from 3 years ago, and the video is still up. If he's an attorney, I don't want him working for me.
Where id Gomer?
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Note the NAZI symbolism with the spliced in V2 launch video?
+David Carlson I doubt that it was NAZI symbolism, just the only rocket launch footage available in 1954. The US captured and tested quite a number of V 2's.