Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!linus!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: re: Commander Cody and Flash Gordon Message-ID: <235@ttidcc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 15:19:49 EST Article-I.D.: ttidcc.235 Posted: Tue Feb 12 15:19:49 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 16-Feb-85 05:58:16 EST Organization: TTI, Santa Monica, CA. Lines: 39 >From: @RUTGERS.ARPA:wesm@mitre-bedford >Subject: Commander Cody and Flash Gordon >Message-ID: <582@topaz.ARPA> > > Hey, out there in netland, do anyof you remember the 50's TV show >Commander Cody. I don't remember much from it, but as I recall it was a show >that was way ahead of its time. There was also a TV show, Flash Gordon, not >the Buster Crab thing, that was a half hour weekly show that lasted a year or >two. Anyone recall, or have any info on who starred, produced, etc. any of >these? I remember Commando Cody and his rocket powered flight jacket (a brown leather jacket with a rocket pack attatched to its back, controlled by extending the arms above the head). Cody also showed up in theaters in serial format and once or twice on more recent TV as a film put together from a sequence of the old TV shows. I also remember Captain Zero and Captain Midnight and their respective decoder rings and secret message kits. The secret message kit worked by writing on a thin strip of paper with a clear wax crayon. To read the message you pulled the strip through the secret compartment of a ring containing a small ink pad. Wish I knew what became of mine -- probably worth a fortune by now. Capt. Midnight had a couple of sidekicks, one of whom was his resident scientist of the egghead-stereotype school. This guy actually did bring up some interesting concepts, though not always accurately presented. I remember one time he was playing with a 1" ball of neutronium on his workbench that Midnight said "... must weigh a hundred pounds!". A little off on the details, but the concept was there. -- ============================================================================== The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe) Citicorp TTI If thy CRT offend thee, pluck 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. it out and cast it from thee. Santa Monica, California 90405 (213) 450-9111, ext. 2483 {vortex,philabs}!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe