Space Patrol Orion

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 ]

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 ]

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.