"Tom Corbett, Space Cadet" ... in space!
An astronaut named Steve Robinson has a TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET lunchbox (from the 1950-55 TV series) and has said that he intended to take it up into space with him on a mission. Well, apparently he...
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That's wonderful news, Tom. I just sent it to a lot of people old enough to be TOM CORBETT fans, and to the foremost Robert A. Heinlein scholar I know. (The series was derived from Heinlein's novel...
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Gosh, we're a sentimental bunch of old fogeys, aren't we? This really is a kind of lump-in-the-throat moment for those of us who remember how faraway a dream space travel was when we were watching...
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I sent Tom's message with Merlin's quote to a bunch of people, many of whom are old enough to have watched Tom Corbett. Writer Mel Gilden sent it on to other friends, and one sent this response:...
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I never had the lunch box, but when I was a little kid I had a nifty Tom Corbett Space Academy, with small hardrubber figures of the characters, and a setting you could put together, made of painted...
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Tom Corbett, Space Cadet was my favorite of all the saturday morning space shows of the 1950's and I have all the Dell comics and even several episodes on video. I had always hoped they'd make a Tom...
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LesDaniels wrote: I never had the lunch box, but when I was a little kid I had a nifty Tom Corbett Space Academy, with small hardrubber figures of the characters.... Here it is: Marx slideshow
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When I saw DESTINATION MOON at the Music Box Theatre as a kid it reminded me of CORBETT -- because of the similar relationships between the charaters. And I'm fortunate to have become friends with Jan...
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LesDaniels wrote: I never had the lunch box, but when I was a little kid I had a nifty Tom Corbett Space Academy, with small hardrubber figures of the characters, and a setting you could put together,...
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TomWeaver999 wrote: An astronaut named Steve Robinson has a TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET lunchbox (from the 1950-55 TV series) and has said that he intended to take it up into space with him on a mission....
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Jan Merlin, one of the stars of TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET, just e-mailed to tell me he now has an asteroid named after him: << (13441) Janmerlin = 2098 P-L Discovered 1960 Sep. 24 by C.J. Van...
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Frankie Thomas at the Friends of Old Time Radio con in 2005 (don't miss the last one ever, two weeks from now.) One of his last appearances.
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Like Bela and the Dracula cape, Frankie Thomas was buried in his Tom Corbett outfit.
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Thanks for the photos of the space academy, guys!
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TomWeaver999 wrote:Like Bela and the Dracula cape, Frankie Thomas was buried in his Tom Corbett outfit. Really? Now that's cool. I like that. And it beats being buried in your Nancy Drew drag outfits.
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I don't know how to post photos so when Frankie Thomas died, I forwarded to one of the mods an e-mail of photos of F.T. in his coffin in his outfit, for posting in his Final Farewells thread. But I...
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