After being demoted from front-line combat to local space patroling, Cliff McLane and his crew discover previously-unknown beings composed of pure energy have overrun a distant outpost.
(SPOILERS: the sharp-eyed among viewers may have noticed that certain members of the star fleet showed great reluctance to deal with the invaders.
Wonder why?)
Now, the aliens return with a plan to send a rogue planet hurtling on a collision course with Earth!
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Be back next Wednesday for another retro-kool adventure!
...as we present the first episode of Space Patrol (technically, "Space Patrol Orion"!) (BTW, it's the third tv series to use the name, after the 1950s American broadcast-live show and the early 1960s British puppet series.)
Meet Commander McLane and his rowdy "gang" (as their commanding officer refers to them), learn why they're being disciplined (again), and see why, despite various infractions against both civilian and military authorities, they're not doing life sentences in an interplanetary brig.
Also witness the introduction of the series' main villains, "Frogs", sentient energy beings who want to conquer the universe.
There's a lot to cover, so click on the screen and dive in...
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What if Captain Kirk and his crew were a bunch of rule-breaking, hard-partying jerks...
...who still managed to save the universe on a weekly basis?
Meet Major Cliff Alistair McLaine and his international crew on this blog every Wednesday from December 31st onward!
Here's a trailer from a theatrical feature film compiled from several episodes to give you a taste...
And here's the title sequence with its variation of the "Space: the final frontier.." narration...
The 1966 seven-episode series was never broadcast in the US, but matches its' contemporary, Star Trek, for high adventure, drama, and innovative special effects, plus a really kool jazz soundtrack!
...so let's join the hosts and hostesses of DC's various late, lamented, sci-fi/mystery anthologies as they attempt to top each other with Yuletide tales in this almost half-century old, never-reprinted story...
Written by Bob Rozakis, penciled by Romeo Tanghal, and inked by Dan Adkins, this one-time get-together of hosts plus the The Phantom Stranger and Madame Xanadu (who had their own books) occured in DC Special Series #21: Super-Star Holiday Special(1980)!
A Clash of Cultures is Highlighted, Both on This Cover...
...by Bill Sienkiewicz, and the story by writer Ann Nocenti and artist Tony Salmons from Marvel's Amazing High Adventure #1 (1984), neither of which has ever been reprinted!
...but when it comes down to it, High Adventure can result from almost any situation!
Now that's an Amazing High Adventure!
No monsters!
No aliens!
Nothing supernatural!
Just a guy against the world...ready to keep on going!
Two extremely-underrated talents, Bill Mantlo and John Severin, produced this never-reprinted tale about the indomitable Human Spirit for Marvel's Amazing High Adventure #4 (1986), which, sadly, never had a sequel!
...is a kool (almost) parody of those Victorian-era "scientific romances" involving a cranky elderly scientist, his beautiful daughter, the scientist's studly assistant, and a vile, venomous villain!
Coincidence?
Staying (just barely) on the razor's edge from "high camp", writer Mike Carlin and artist Gerry Taloc, who created this never-reprinted story from Marvel's Amazing High Adventure #1 (1984), know the answer...and they ain't saying!
