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This show was great then and it is now. I have enjoyed seeing it again.
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Though I'd never seen this show before, it was immediately familiar in both tone and style, not to mention for Johnathan Harris' overly dramatic mug. The show stars Harris (of Lost in Space fame) as Commander Gampu of the titular Space Academy, surrounded by a very ethnically diverse cast of young actors including Ric Carrott as Chris Gentry, Pamelyn Ferdin as Laura Gentry (Chris' psyonically connected twin sister), Maggie Cooper as Adrian, Brian Tochi (voice of Leonardo in the three live action TMNT movies as well as Toshiro Takashi from the Revenge of the Nerds movies and Cadet Nogata from the Police Academy Movies) as Tee Gar, Ty Henderson as Paul, and Eric Greene as the blue haired (well black haired with a slight blue dusting) Loki, an orphan picked up in the first episode from a desolate planet that is about to explode. The other character that rounded out the show was Peepo, voiced by Erika Scheimer, daughter of Lou Scheimer (who helped found Filmation and was executive producer on most of it's shows.)
The show ran for 15 episodes on Saturday mornings in 1977 and follows the adventures of the space cadets and their Commander as they seek out and explore space from their academy space station via their Seeker space ships (which is actually the recycled Ark II craft, and would later be used on Jason of Star Command, a loose spin-off of Space Academy.) Though the show is fairly dated in terms of wardrobe and hairstyles (they certainly didn't take a cue from Star Trek in this) it's immensely enjoyable in it's kid level Star Trek homages and campy light hearted-ness. One of the shows strengths is it's decent effects work with a mixture of really good shots (like a Seeker coming in for a landing in a docking bay) and some not so great ones, but all of it is almost on par with shows like Star Trek and Space 1999.
It's hard not to smile at the bad jokes and overly dramatic lines, which make it easy to look past the implausible plots and psuedo-scientific occurrences. Watching Chris and Laura psychically conversing or when Loki uses his infrared vision to spot particles of meteor dusk on the body of a seeker has a very campy charm. The only thing that really stood and kind of bugged me was the bile inducing amount of smiling the kids did. It's almost to a point where you can read a 1984-esque environment of fear into the acting style (you almost expect some of the characters to bust out with a line like, "Keep smiling or Gampu will kill us with his death ray.") It's the perfect Saturday morning trash though, that is a stepping-stone to the more adult shows like Battlestar Galatica or Dr. Who, and at the end of the day is a perfect example of a very important part in nostalgia, which is that there are some things that are meant only for kids, and that can be very important. You see that type of mentality in things like Lunchables that come with Pop Rocks-esque fizzy toppings, or commercials for Apple Jacks, sometimes things don't need to be anything more than they appear, they don't need to make sense, they just need to be cool for kids.
Shows like this are also a great example of something a child can use as a basis for kick starting their imagination. That's something that's lost on children's television and it's inevitable merchandising today. I truly think that this is a lost art in that by not going into large amounts of researched detail it forces a kid to fill in the gaps of logic (sort of like Donnie Darko for kids, but with less disturbing and much more scientific uncertainty), which is something that low budget or highly logic jumping shows tend to invoke.
At the end of the day, though the show is flawed, it is mindless fun (maybe too much because of it's datedness) and that's about all I want out of a Saturday morning TV show anyway. I will say that's sparked an interest in finding out what Jason of Star Command (which centers on a special ops-like extension of Space Academy) is like.
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I remember this from Saturday Morning Television growing up. It all very campy now, but back then it was great stuff...Morality plays set in the future
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4'th dvd was defective / the 1'st chapter would kick the dvd player back to the intro, of the DVD. was not happy because this was a show that i loved as a kid.
NOW waiting for re fund in my bank acount
ss'your's
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I remember watching this great saturday morning show as a kid and loveing it. this is one show that still holds up well and my kids love it. thanks to bci eclipise for finding it and getting it out for a new generation to see.
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