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Space Academy
Created by Allen Ducovny
Presented by Filmation
Composer(s) "Yvette Blais" and "Jeff Michael"
Country of origin USA
Language(s) English
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Production
Executive
producer(s)		 Norm Prescott
Lou Scheimer
Producer(s) Arthur H. Norman "Norm" Prescott ( January 31, 1927 - July 2 2005) was co-founder and executive producer at Filmation Studios Louis Scheimer (born October 19, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American producer one of the original founders of Nadel
Running time 30 min. (with commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel CBS
Original run 1977 – 1979
Chronology
Related shows Jason of Star Command
External links
IMDb profile

Space Academy was a live-action sci-fi children's television program, produced by Filmation and airing on CBS television on Saturday mornings from 1977 to 1979. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. Jason of Star Command was a live action Television show by Filmation which ran between 1978 and 1981. Children's television series are Television programs designed for and marketed to Children normally broadcast during the Morning and Afternoon For the unrelated isometric graphics engine used by Ultimate Play the Game in their 8-bit computer games see Filmation engine. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) A total of fifteen half-hour episodes were made over two seasons.

The program starred veteran actor Jonathan Harris (best remembered as Dr. Jonathan Harris ( November 6, 1914 – November 3, 2002) was an American stage and Character actor. Smith from Lost in Space) as Commander Isaac Gampu, the head of the academy. Lost in Space is a Science fiction TV series created and produced by Irwin Allen, produced by 20th Century Fox Television, and Among his costars (and academy students) were Pamelyn Ferdin, Ric Carrott, Maggie Cooper, Brian Tochi, Ty Henderson, and Eric Greene. Pamelyn Ferdin (born February 4 1959 is an American Animal rights activist and former Child actress. Brian Keith Tochihara (born May 2, 1959 in Los Angeles California) better known as Brian Tochi, is an American Actor, The program also featured a pint-sized robot called Peepo (actually a radio-controlled machine, voiced by Erika Scheimer through a vocoder). Radio control (often abbreviated to R/C or simply RC) is the use of radio signals to remotely control a device Erika Scheimer (born "Erica" Schiemer circa 1960 is an occasional voice-actress in the cartoons of the defunct Filmation animation-studio A vocoder, ˈvoʊkoʊdər (a Portmanteau of vox/voc ( voice) and encoder) is an analysis / synthesis system mostly used for speech in which the input is A frequent element in stories was the use and display of telekinesis. The term psychokinesis (from the Greek ψυχή, "psyche" meaning mind soul heart or breath; and κίνησις, "kinesis" Orders were acknowledged by saying "ORACO" ("Order[s] Received And Carried Out").

Much like the premise of Star Trek's Starfleet Academy, the Space Academy (located on an asteroid, and occasionally shown on camera) brought together the best young minds, and those with special skills and abilities, to learn and prepare to experience the unknown, as Earth people continued to branch out into space during the 38th Century A.D. (or later; the opening narration gave the Academy's founding date as "the star year 3732," but this may not correspond to Earth years, nor is it known how old the Academy was at the time of the series). In the Fictional Asteroids, sometimes called Minor planets or planetoids', are bodies—primarily of the inner Solar System —that are smaller than planets but Gampu's earlier space explorations had exposed him to conditions that immensely slowed his aging process; though appearing in his sixties or seventies, his true age was well over 300 years old, giving him a unique perspective on history, and some ideal qualifications as a teacher.

Each of the students had their own unique aspects: Ferdin's character Laura (and her TV brother Chris, played by Carrott) had highly-developed telekinetic and psychic powers. The word psychic (ˈsaɪkɨk from the Greek psychikos—"of the soul mental" refers to the claimed ability to perceive things hidden from the normal senses Greene's character Loki (an orphaned alien, discovered in the first episode) was a playful young prankster (hence his adopted name) who could teleport and see in infrared, and who often used the catchphrase "Camelopardus!". Teleportation is the movement of objects from one place to another more or less instantaneously either by Paranormal means or through technological artifice Infrared ( IR) radiation is Electromagnetic radiation whose Wavelength is longer than that of Visible light, but shorter than that of Camelopardalis ( from Ancient Greek καμηλοπάρδαλις - kamēlopardalis Giraffe) is the name of a large but faint northern Tochi's Tee Gar had superstrength and continued the martial arts traditions of his Asian ancestors, augmenting them with newer disciplines, some originating in space. Superhuman strength, also called super strength, super-strength or enhanced strength, is an ability commonly utilized in Fiction. Martial arts are systems of codified practices and traditions of training for Combat. Asian or Asiatic is a Demonym for people from Asia. However the use of the term varies by country and person often referring to people from a particular Henderson's character, the highly intelligent Paul Jerome, was described as coming from an Earth colony; although Jerome appears as a Space Academy crewmember in the first episode with Loki just joining the Academy, Jerome is reintroduced as if he were a new character in the second episode with Loki already an "established" member, an apparent continuity error acknowledged in the program notes of the show's DVD release. In Fiction, continuity (also called time-scheme) is consistency of the characteristics of persons plot, objects places and events seen by the reader or However, the error can be reconciled, since none of the characters introduced to Paul in the second episode had actually met him in the first, since in the first episode he only appeared in the control room while the others were away on a mission.

As with much 1970s children's television fare, lessons and morals were taught in each episode, including the ideas that even super powers, as possessed by some academy students, weren't a cure-all for problems or a substitute for logic, reasoning and compassion, and that even the old and wise could still make occasional mistakes. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. Children's television series are Television programs designed for and marketed to Children normally broadcast during the Morning and Afternoon As the students encountered members of extraterrestrial races, and even mutated descendants of Earth colonists in space, they developed their own wisdom and understanding. See also List of extraterrestrials in fiction In Popular cultures Life forms -especially intelligent life forms that are of extraterrestrial

The common spaceships in the series were called Seekers, and were used much like a spacebound van or passenger truck. (The Seeker's nose was a re-used prop from an earlier Filmation series, Ark II. Ark II was a live-action Science fiction series aimed at children that aired on CBS beginning in 1976 as part of its Saturday morning line-up )

A spin-off came in 1979, titled Jason of Star Command and starring Craig Littler and James Doohan. Jason of Star Command was a live action Television show by Filmation which ran between 1978 and 1981. James Montgomery Doohan ( March 3, 1920 &ndash July 20, 2005) was a Canadian character and voice Actor While the same sets and locations were used, and it was explained that Star Command was a special section of the Space Academy, almost no crossovers occurred between the two shows.

BCI Eclipse released Space Academy: The Complete Series on January 16 2007; included on the DVD besides the actual episodes are all the scripts and the original writers' guide (or "series bible"). The episodes are presented in order of original airdate.

Taglines

Episode List

  1. The Survivors of Zalon
  2. Castaways in Time and Space
  3. Hide and Seek
  4. Countdown
  5. There's No Place Like Home
  6. The Rocks of Janus
  7. Monkey Business
  8. The Phantom Planet
  9. Planet of Fire
  10. Life Begins at 300
  11. The Cheat
  12. My Favorite Marcia
  13. Space Hooky
  14. Star Legend
  15. Jonny Sunseed

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