T.V. :Tom Corbett, Space cadet

Tom Corbett is the main character in a series of Tom Corbett — Space Cadet stories that were depicted in television, radio, books, comic books, comic strips, coloring books, punch-out books and View-Master reels in the 1950s. The stories followed the adventures of Tom Corbett, Astro, and Roger Manning, cadets at the Space Academy as they train to become members of the elite Solar Guard. The action takes place at the Academy in classrooms and bunkrooms, aboard their training ship the rocket cruiser Polaris, and on alien worlds, both within our solar system and in orbit around nearby stars.

TV is the medium where Tom Corbett first appeared. The stories initially closely followed the scripts written for the unpublished newspaper comic strip Tom Ranger, Space Cadet, by Joseph Greene from 1949. The series aired, in different years, on all four major television networks: on CBS from October 2 to December 1950, ABC from January 1951 to September 1952, NBC from July to September 1951, DuMont from August 1953 to May 1954, and on NBC again from December 1954 to June 1955, with the final broadcast on June 25, 1955.

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'Tom Corbett, Space cadet' - Runaway rocket (1954)
Episode: The runaway rocket - Air Date: May 22, 1954.
This was the final episode on DuMont. "Tom Corbett" would return in the fall on NBC.

"Tom Corbett, Space Cadet" is one of only a few programs to be broadcast on all four major networks during its five year run. From Oct 2, 1950 - Dec 29, 1950 on CBS, from Jan 1, 1951 - Sep 26, 1951 on ABC, from Aug 29, 1953 - May 22, 1954 on DuMont and from Dec 11, 1954 - June 25, 1955 on NBC.

!!!Watch out for "Uncle Joe" in one of the commercials. He really gave me the creeps!!!

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Episode "Assignment Mercury" - Air Date: Feb. 26, 1955

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Episode "Pursuit of the deep space projectile" which aired on April 30, 1955 and contains original commercials for 'Kraft Caramels'.

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Episode: Ambush in space - Air Date: May 21, 1955

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Episode: Fight for survival - Air Date: June 4, 1955

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Episode: Fight for survival -

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An interview session with Frankie Thomas and Jan Merlin who both starred in "Tom Corbett Space Cadet!"

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Space Patrol and Tom Corbett are given the Cass of Shadows treatment

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