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Space Patrol Orion

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So Doug Horne turned me on to this German Sci Fi show from 1966
call "Raumpatrouille" (English title "Space Patrol Orion")

The Starship Orion with Commander Cliff McLane & crew, When not out saving the Universe
resided on submarine Base 104 under Earth's ocean

The crew would spend time at the "Starlight Casino" an officers mess for dancing & cocktails

The sound track for the series is amazing, A mix of lounge & 60s TV themes
I hope Sven will add to this as he grew up with it in Germany.

Check out an episode here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=9y7-qFpbA1E

A clip with English subtitles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulVBbtI5qNk&feature=related

Check out the dancing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVg2zDWLqk4&feature=related

The great Theme song from the show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8RIV3xzffI

[ Edited by: Atomic Tiki Punk 2012-03-06 01:56 ]

H

this is Cool..!

I am a big "Raumpatrouille Orion" fan.
unfortunately they produced only seven episodes.

the crew:

the great soundtrack album:

Cheers,
HT

Count me in as a fan...that dancing is out of this world. Thanks for all the links...too bad they only made a limited amount...they are very well done...please don't shoot me...but they blow Dr Who right out of the water.

Awesome stuff indeed. I always thought that "yesterdays view of tomorrow" was better than reality. Thanks for posting.

Yes, I viewed that religiously as a kid. The Peter Thomas soundtrack intro is burned into my mind, here again, WITH subtitles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AvjMHs7U7I

Very exciting, but also very dorky, it was obviously a Starship Enterprise rip-off. It is still beyond me how they thought they could get away with building a common household hot iron into the set without anybody noticing :D :


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO30NF7vfgI&feature=related

The music, the design, and the costumes were really cool, but the coolest/dorkiest were definitely the dance scenes. I just know you want to see MORE futurist dancing!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znN0KJUd_0M&feature=related

Grown men and women making fools of themselves with supposed futurist dance fads :lol:

30 years later, it was a house that looked like the Orion spaceship that was the connection that got the Book of Tiki published:


My friend Pete Moruzzi knew the architects who were renovating the Chemosphere house for Benedikt Taschen, and they gave him my proposal. The rest is (Tiki) history. :)

German Sci-fi has some other gems, like this late 50s musical, with even worse dancing, but GREAT sets:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MNznaalZTI&feature=youtu.be

Watch it all, to see where she escapes to!
And then, unbeknownst to us, there was the genre of EAST-German Sci-Fi cinema!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYT4qTkWWJA

...that apparently carried on well into the 70s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3y9H4SWJu8&feature=related

That was very entertaining Sven, Thanks!

More future dancing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJe-CdWsICY&feature=youtu.be

[ Edited by: Atomic Tiki Punk 2012-03-08 18:02 ]

TM

Soundtrack CD ordered!

On 2012-03-09 08:27, lucas vigor wrote:
Soundtrack CD ordered!

The soundtrack is great Lucas, One of the best I have heard in a long time.
I did order a Movie version of the show from Germany (Only DVD with English subtitles available)
There is an import box set of all 7 episodes (No subtitles though)

I bought the LP as a MP3 download.

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