Name that Sci Fi Show!

[ellyssian]

It was on sometime between 1975 and 1985(?) on Saturday mornings; it was live action.

I think it had a Jason and the Argonauts in Space kind of feel - although maybe a bit more swashbucklery. Something with space pirates maybe? Almost like the movie Ice Pirates except geared more for kids.

I seem to recall a space ship - the good guys maybe, but more likely that of the bad guys - that was closer to a meteroite, with superstructures built into the rock.

Any ideas?

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[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Not related, but part of the same conversation - a tv series one guy at work remembered, but no one else did: UFO.

Space: 1999 - that seventies-era show set in the far-flung future - featured much in the discussion, and included drawings of the Eagle (One?) on a whiteboard (complete with the oft-visible strings and the oft-hidden puppeters controls to give that realistic shifty motion during landing scenes).

[wolfette]

how could one forget UFO?

Space 1999, I can well understand forgetting - I keep trying to at any rate.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

I don't remember even hearing about UFO - but I'll check out the link once I get home and see if that rings any bells.

[wolfette]

I don't think UFO did well in the US. There was supposed to be a 3rd season made, but in order to make it "sale-able" to the US, they changed the cast, the format, the set up, the storyline .......... and called it "Space 1999".

[nolawitch.livejournal.com]

UFO, mmmm. I so had the hots for Ed Bishop and those Skydiver pilots! Ooh la la!

[wolfette]

they shouldn't be allowed to show things like Commander Straker in his tight white trouser suit to 13 year old girls


(drool)

is this it?

[jenjiyana.livejournal.com]

Space Academy Reunion Class of '77!, November 22, 2006
Who could forget that the year Star Wars blasted its way across cinemas that Space Academy launched on CBS Saturday mornings? The SA was a man-made planetoid built upon a large asteroid in space that was navigated by way of an interstellar star drive and commanded by Lost In Space's Dr. Smith, Jonathan Harris, who played 300 year-old Commander Isaac Gampu. The SA contained several really cool space shuttles or "Seekers" that allowed them to take off-campus expeditions to nearby planets. The Seekers were basically designed after the Ark II vehicle (minus the wheels) which had been Filmation's previous live-action Saturday morning sci-fi entry. The culturally diverse and co-ed students attending the SA included Lt. Adrian played by Maggie Cooper, Lt. Laura Gentry played by Pamelyn Ferdin (the voice of Lucy from the Peanuts and Sally on Sealab 2020) and her brother Captain Chris Gentry played by Ric Carrott, Lt. Paul Jerome played by Ty Henderson, Tee-Gar Soom played by Brian Tochi (the voice of Leonardo in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films), and Loki played by Eric Greene along with a funky robot named Peepo (voiced by She-Ra Erika Scheimer) who looked as though he could have been the distant cousin of Buck Rogers' Twiki. The students each had some kind of special skills and abilities like telekinesis and invisibility which were attributes used to overcome hostile situations and the stories generally involved plots that included some kind of moral for kids by teaching them the consequences about making the right choices but who really cared? For its day, this show boasted some of the best visual effects on television (cheezy by today's standards of course) with detailed scale models and stop-motion aliens. What kid wouldn't be intrigued by this show at that age? Bell-bottoms and blue-screens never looked so passe but for those of us who were glued to the television every Saturday morning in the 1970's should find this old-school fun and a somewhat embarrassing nostalgic trip down memory lane.

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[jenjiyana.livejournal.com]

no wait..it doesnt appear to have been on long enough..

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[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... no, but I think it may have been Jason of Star Command, which was a spinoff of Star Academy...

No. I'm positive it was Jason of Star Command. Dragos was the Bad Guy, and his ship was similar to the Academy...

Thanks! =)

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[jenjiyana.livejournal.com]

glad to have helped...i dont remember this one at all which is weird

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[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

Yay, Space Academy!

(I'd forgotten all about how much I loved that show!)

[hughcasey.livejournal.com]

Jason of Star Command.

[hughcasey.livejournal.com]

Damn... got beaten to it!

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Heh.

Is it a good thing or a bad thing that I figured you'd know the answer? =)