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 The stories initially closely followed the scripts written for the unpublished newspaper comic strip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.
mp4 files'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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