17 January 2010

Rocket to Uranus


An old Mitch Miller album apparently associated with the 1950s television series Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, which had a marching song and a pledge:

I solemnly swear to defend the liberty of the Planets;
to safeguard the freedom of space
and uphold the cause of peace throughout the universe.
To this end, I dedicate my life.

One can't help but imagine that when that album was being created there was a bit of nudge-nudge-wink-wink going on.

Via Sloth Unleashed.

5 comments:

  1. bigjohn756January 17, 2010 at 8:31 PM

    I remember being impressed with one episode of Space Cadets where the villains smashed all the tubes in the transmitter of the Polaris and Tom and the Cadets decided that they could call for help if they went into space where there was a vacuum so that the tubes would work.
    What a great show full of real science very unlike Captain Video.

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    1. AnonymousJanuary 22, 2012 at 12:03 PM

      That is because a real, serious Science and Science Fiction writer created Tom Corbett. One Issac Asimov.

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  2. Philippa LodgeJanuary 17, 2010 at 9:18 PM

    wow. are those guys carrying spare blasters in their pants legs, or are they just happy to see Uranus.

    Man. I shouodn't have said that.

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  3. Comic GuyJanuary 17, 2010 at 10:05 PM

    Worst pick-up line ever.

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  4. stephen beginJanuary 18, 2010 at 10:59 AM

    haha i noticed the odd bulge too...

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