Tom Corbett is the main character in a series of
Tom Corbett — Space Cadet stories that were depicted in radioand
in many other media formats in the 1950s.
The stories followed the adventures of Tom Corbett, Astro, and
Roger Manning, cadets at the Space Academy as they train to become
members of the elite Solar Guard. The action takes place at the
Academy in classrooms and bunkroom, aboard their training ship the
rocket cruiser Polaris, and on alien worlds, both within our solar
system and in orbit around nearby stars.
The Tom Corbett universe partook of pseudo-science, not equal to
the standards of accuracy set by John W. Campbell in the pages of
Astounding. And yet, by the standards of the day, it was much more
accurate than most media science fiction. Mars was a desert, Venus
a jungle, and the asteroids a haunt of space pirates, but at least
planets circled suns and there was no air in space. Contrast this
with Twilight Zone, years later, where people could live on asteroids
wearing ordinary clothes, or Lost in Space, years after that, where
a spaceship could be passing "Jupiter and Andromeda" at the same
time. Before Star Trek, Tom Corbett — Space Cadet was the most scientifically
accurate series on television, in part due to official science advisor
Willy Ley, and later due to Frankie Thomas.
This collection of Tom Corbett Space Cadet Greats includes 60 different
shows and appearances for a total of 19+ hours of listening enjoyment.
This product is a DVD collection of Old Time Radio mp3s. It is
designed to be played on your computer DVD drive with standard mp3
software - like Windows media player or its equivalent on Macintosh
computers. The mp3 files on the DVDs can be copied onto CDs for
play in your car stereo, home entertainment center, etc so you can
take your favorite shows with you anywhere you go.
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