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Tom Corbett ? Space Cadet Happy ?
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If memory doesn't fail me, Cadet Happy was from "Buzz Corey in the 30th Century". In the Corbett books, at least, the main characters were Tom as captain, Astro as Engineer, and Roger (replaced midway through by TJ) as Astrogator.
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oh dear. I remember the television show. They didn't have air-tight hatches in the ships, they came out from behind the curtain. urrrrkrkr. The dialog for the telly show was atrocious as well.
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are talking shoe string budgets, and FX we take for granted didn't exist. It wasn't uncommon to see a shot of a rocket supposedly flying through space, where you could see the wire suspending it.
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There is also Clutch Cargo ! Where there was almost no movement in the cartoons, except for the voice actor's lips which were superimposed over the drawings of the characters. Basically, a slide show with voices.
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Welcome to SyncroVox (the technique that was used to produce the lips superimposed on cartoon faces.) It got applied because it was
cheap.
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When I was a kid Tom Swift Jr was in a number of books. Tom Swift jr and his space ship, his betatron, his space station, etc.
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Yep. A couple have hit public domain:
Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19258
Tom Swift and the Visitor From Planet X
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22333
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Dennis