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One of three series internationally known as Space Patrol was the 1966 German TV show Raumpatrouille - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffs Orion (Space Patrol - The Fantastic Adventures of the Spaceship Orion), which was produced in collaboration with French TV, where it was entitled Comando spatial.It's 7 one-hour episodes (no commercials) long, impossible to find outside of its. Raumpatrouille Orion, by contrast, wants to make it very clear that this is an idealized vision of an outer space adventure. Earth is explicitly united, and all disputes over national boundaries, gender, race and ethnicity have long since ceased to exist, which it might be beneficial to point out is something Star Trek hasn't actually come out. Good Guy Bar: The Starlight Casino, where fleet and GSD personell of all ranks congregate to chat, flirt, talk shop and dance in some very odd 'futuristic' dances. The Orion crew can usually be found here off-duty and has a fleet-wide reputation for its alcohol intake. The Starlight has a glass roof through which you can see the tropical fish. Available for purchase on Amazon.de. Starlight Casino in the deep sea city on kitsch Raumpatrouille (Space Patrol) German SF TV 1966.

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Raumpatrouille – Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion was a German science fiction series of the 1960s. The first episode aired September 17, 1966, six years before Star Trek first aired on German TV. Although the ratings were good (between 37% and 56%^[1]), there were only seven episodes produced. The story follows the adventures of Major Cliff Allister McLane and his crew on the space ship ORION. McLane is a bit of a maverick and known for his skill, courage, loyalty (which his crew returns), and his history of insubordination. After disregarding another order he and his crew are transferred to Raumpatrouille (Space Patrol) as a disciplinary action. However, McLane still manages to find trouble in unexpected places and saves Earth from an invasion of the alien FROGS, robots, global warming and other threats.

Something that's especially worth mentioning about Raumpatrouille is that the female characters were revolutionary for its time.^[2] There is a female communications and operations officer who is part of McLane's regular team, the main female character and McLane’s love interest is a security officer who can (and does) pull rank on McLane^[3], and his former commanding officer, the military commander of Earth's space fleet and another recurring character, is a woman too.^[4]

The series continued first in book form (1968-1970) and then as pulp magazines (1972-1984), mostly as part of the science fiction publication Terra Astra but for a short time the ORION stories got a separate series.^[5] From 1977 on the issues included more or less regularly a reader column (LKS) where fans could talk about the TV and print version of the series, explain the canon terminology, publish fanfiction and fanart, especially blueprints, or just get into contact with other fans.^[6] All in all, there were 94 issues with LKS pages.^[7] There were several fanclubs and in later years even some online activity, and the fandom is still active today.

Raumpatrouille experienced several reruns on TV. The impact of the series was mostly a cultural one because it showed a lot of people who weren't fans what science fiction looked like and the score of the series is one that many people will immediately recognize.

The SGA fanvid Raumpatrouille Atlantis uses this for a German audience iconic quality of the title melody to comment on the similarities between the shows by creating a b/w intro sequence for Stargate Atlantis. The effects might be fancier but when it comes down to it, not much has changed since the days of the ORION. Incidentally, it seems the spaceship Orion in Stargate Atlantis was named after the ORION from Raumpatrouille.^[8]

Space Girl, a multifandom vid by Charmax celebrating the history of women in sci-fi, opens with footage from Raumpatrouille.

Resources

Starlight Casino - German fansite with information about the show and Raumpatrouille fandom in Germany and other countries (an English version of the site is available).

References

1. ^Josef Hilger. Raumpatrouille - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffs ORION, 2005, p. 419.
2. ^Eva Pflug ist tot, in: sueddeutsche.de , 06 August 2008. Newspaper article where the actor of the character Tamara Jagellovsk talks about having difficulties finding an acting job after Raumpatrouille because everyone saw her as a feminist which turned out to be a problem for her career. (Accessed 15 January 2010)
3. ^Tamara Jagellovsk gives an order, YouTube clip with English subtitles. The translation could be better but at least it gives you an idea of what’s going on. (Accessed 15 January 2010)
4. ^The ORION crew gets transferred to Space Patrol, Youtube clip with English subtitles; scene with McLane’s crew and their superiors, including General Lydia van Dyke (quality of translation see above). (Accessed 15 January 2010)
5. ^Hilger. Raumpatrouille, 2005, p. 362.
6. ^Hilger. Raumpatrouille, 2005, p. 363/364.
7. ^Hilger. Raumpatrouille, 2005, p. 366
8. ^Stargate Atlantis: Inferno, tv.com summary, see Allusions. (Accessed 15 January 2010)

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Raumpatrouille – Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion (literal translation: Space Patrol – The Fantastic Adventures of the Spaceship Orion), also known as Raumpatrouille Orion, and Space Patrol Orion in English, was the first Germanscience fictiontelevision series. Its seven episodes were broadcast by ARD beginning September 17, 1966 six years before Star Trek first aired in West Germany (in 1972). Being a huge success with several reruns audience ratings went up to 56 %.^[1] Over the years, the series acquired a distinct cult status in Germany .^{[citation needed]}

Premise

In the series flying saucers, such as spaceship Orion, are flown by humans, whilst the aliens fly fighter jet-like contraptions. The titular ship of the series title, 'Spaceship Orion', (German 'Raumschiff Orion') is portrayed as being a fast space cruiser (German: Schneller Raumkreuzer), the newest starship in mankind's fleet and the fastest spacecraft ever created by humans.

In an entertaining and ironic way the show tells the story of Commander Cliff Allister McLane (Dietmar Schönherr), an Earth starship captain and his loyal crew. He is Orion's commander in the developing war against an alien race called the Frogs. He is notoriously defiant towards his superiors.

Characters

• Major Cliff Allister McLane (Dietmar Schönherr) is the commander of the Orion and a friend to most of its crewmen. He is a daredevil and hero who does not fight for money or glory, but for peace. He has been a member of Earth's space fleet for 15 years and was a soldier in at least one previous large-scale war (in the novels, these adventures of Cliff and his crew were described, too). As a running gag, McLane often has to destroy the spaceship Orion to save Earth, afterwards being awarded command of a better vessel (also named 'Orion'). In the TV series it was shown only with the destruction of the Orion VII, though in the novels it went as far as to the Orion X-C.
• Lt. Mario de Monti (Wolfgang Völz) is the computer specialist and gunner ('armament officer') of the Orion and a good friend of Commander McLane. He is often shown drinking with his friends and he is a womanizer who likes to flirt with young, attractive women (not even Tamara is safe from him, but she turned him down pretty heavily).
• Lt. Atan Shubashi (Friedrich Georg Beckhaus) is the astrogator and star cartographer of the Orion. He is the owner of 264, one of the last 367 poodles that still exist on Earth.
• Lt. Hasso Sigbjörnson (Claus Holm) is the Orion's engineer, a character reminiscent of Star Trek'sMr. Scott. He likes to drink and is the only crewmember who is married (his wife is named Ingrid and he always promises her to retire from active duty). He is an old friend of Commander McLane who usually helps him to explain to Ingrid why he can't retire after all.
• Lt. Helga Legrelle (Ursula Lillig) is the female surveillance and communication officer of the Orion. Like the other members of the crew, she dislikes Tamara Jagellosvk and feels monitored by her. Like Jagellovsk, Legrelle has a secret crush on Commander McLane and reacts very jealously whenever she notices Jagellovsk paying too much attention to him.
• Lt. Tamara Jagellovsk (Eva Pflug) is a female member of the GSD ('Galaktischer Sicherheitsdienst', German for 'Galactic Security Service', the military intelligence service) who has been given the task of keeping McLane under control. Tamara likes McLane, however, and is very amused by his sense of humour. The Crew at first strongly dislike her, but with time they develop a feeling of mutual respect. Tamara can issue 'Alpha Orders' which are orders of highest priority that have to be obeyed by McLane at all cost.
• Frogs are a highly advanced and very intelligent, energy-like race of extraterrestrial conquerors who are attempting to destroy Earth's space fleet and eliminate mankind. They have extremely fast starships and powerful energy-weapons. Some of their technological abilities are superior to Earth's. In the novels, it was finally found out how they called themselves: Uraceel.
• General Winston Woodrov Wamsler (Benno Sterzenbach) is McLane's commanding officer while he is demoted to 3 years of space patrol duty at the TRAV ('Terrestrische Raumaufklärungsverbände', 'Terran Space Reconnaissance Division').
• General Lydia van Dyke (Charlotte Kerr) was Cliff's original commanding officer when he was still at the 'Schnelle Kampfverbände' ('Fast Battle Cruiser Division') and she expected him 'not to resign like a sulking space cadet' when he was demoted, but to return to her fleet after his 3 years of patrol duty. She is also the commanding officer of the space ship Hydra.
• Oberst (= Colonel) Hendryk Villa (Friedrich Joloff) is the head of the GSD ('Galaktischer Sicherheitsdienst', 'Galactic Security Service') and thus the boss of Lt. Tamara Jagellovsk.
• Lt. Michael Spring-Brauner (Thomas Reiner) is the adjutant of Gen. Wamsler and has a strong dislike towards McLane and his crew (which is mutual). He is a stuck-up bureaucrat and tries to make McLane's life as miserable as he can.
• Space Marshal Kublai Krim (Hans Cossy) is the commanding officer of the Earth Space Forces (Kommandant der Raumstreitkräfte)
• Sir Arthur (Franz Schafheitlin) is the head of the Earth Space Forces (Oberkommandant der Raumstreitkräfte)
• von Wennerstein (Emil Stöhr) is a representative of the Earth government

(As the intro of the series says 'there are no nations anymore', the names of the characters hint at a nationality, but they are obviously members of a united Earth and not separate countries.)

Fictional Technology in Space Patrol

• Astrodisc (German 'Astroscheibe') is a viewing screen that can produce holographic images of space. It has the same function as the bridge screen of the Enterprise. The astrodisc stands in the middle of the Orion's bridge.
• Light thrower batteries (German 'Lichtwerferbatterie') are the weapons most frequently used by Earth's space fleet and the ships of the Frogs. These weapons appear in many different sizes, ranging from hand lasers to planet destruction-cannons. Orion was the first German production to feature the English word 'laser'.
• Antimatter bombs these are bombs containing antimatter and were used in the attempt to destroy the 'Supernova' in the 2nd episode ('Planet außer Kurs', Planet off course).
• Overkill is a new weapon that was introduced in the 4th of the TV episodes ('Deserteure') and that was installed at the Orion as first Earth space ship. It seems to be a disintegrator style weapon that is able to obliterate large parts of a planet and cause enormous craters hundreds of kilometres wide.
• ASG wrist communication devices (in German: 'Armbandsprechgerät') are part of the technology of Earths space fleet. They are compact com devices that are worn around the wrists.
• Robots (German 'Roboter') are helpers, guards and even housekeepers in the world of tomorrow. Their use is shown to be problematic, because they are depicted as suffering from frequent malfunctions, making them dangerous to human beings (especially if they are battle robots). They appear in the series as androids and floating battle robots. Some of the humanoid robots are very similar in design to the modern, Vietnamese robot TOPIO.
• Deep sea bases (German 'Tiefseebasis') are giant cities located under water. They are modern, beautiful and have big windows to allow the people to see fish and other underwater life forms. The Orion usually starts and lands at Basis 104 which is located in the Carpentaria Gulf of Australia
• Faster-than-light-engine (German 'Überlichtantrieb') is the main drive that allows the crew to traverse the universe at speeds faster than light. The Frogs use a similar but superior technology, with the result that their spacecraft can out-pace the ships of the Space Patrol.
• Magnet shield (German 'Magnetschild') is a protective shield which is used by the Frogs. The Shield appears as a powerful energy-bowl that encircles the starship.

Special effects and set decoration

Many of the special effects seen in the black-and-white series, like the underwater casino and space port, were created by means of the Schüfftan process.

As the series' budget was comparatively low, the set designers resorted to using modified common everyday objects; for instance, electric irons, inverted clock pendulums, washing-machine console parts and designer pencil sharpeners were used as props control panels, sewing thread coils and banana plugs as futuristic machine parts, and plastic cups as ceiling lights. Many panels were produced by the then-newly invented thermoforming process. Lots of designer furniture was also used, notably Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's 258-type couch, Harry Bertoia's Diamond-type armchair, Yrjö Kukkapuro's Karusseli-type armchair, Charles Eames's Aluminium group #EA105 chair, George Nelson's DAF Chair and Eero Saarinen's Tulpe table/chair combo. Joe Colombo's famous Smoke-type drinking glasses were used throughout the series.

Orion's cockpit was a 2.50m high, 10m wide interior set, built within a 28m exterior diameter sound stage. It stood on a 60 cm high metal tube construction to hide the 10,000m cable harness that connected its 3,200 flashing light bulbs to a 40 kg, electric motor-driven pinned-barrel mechanical sequencer.

The stage designer was Rolf Zehetbauer, who later won an Academy Award for his work on Cabaret.

Production

Rumours about the considerable costs of the series having led to its termination after only seven episodes were denied by the widow of the Orion's original screen writer, implying that it was planned from the start to have only seven installments. More episode screenplays were written than were filmed, however, and it has been claimed that more could not be realised by the German film industry both due to general funding problems and because, after seven episodes, the cost of the SFX and hire of the studio space had drained the resources of the Bavaria Film production company^{[citation needed]}. The French company ORTF contributed 20% to production funding and some scenes, notably in episode 5, were re-shot for the French audience using French actors.

Novelizations

145 novels based on and continuing the series were published over the years, often with settings which were considerably different to those seen in the series.

Feature film

A movie composed of various scenes from the original series, together with some new footage, debuted in 2003 but did not match the success of the original series. As described by Dietmar Schönherr in an interview, the series had tried to deal with serious issues, a fact appreciated by many of its viewers. The movie's producers tried to replicate the series in Trash culture style, however, thereby alienating much of the original fan base. The title of the movie was 'Raumpatrouille Orion – Rücksturz ins Kino'. The storyline was about the invasion and attacks of the Frogs, the term now becoming an acronym for 'Feindliche Raumverbände ohne galaktische Seriennummer'. In English this translates as 'Enemy Space Formation Without Galactic Serial Identification Number'. This description appears for the first time in the film and was never mentioned in the series.

Soundtrack and introduction

The emblematic soundtrack was composed by Peter Thomas.

The voice-over introduction (similar to that used in Star Trek the same year), both set tone and atmosphere of the series.

Voice-over introduction in German:

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'Was heute noch wie ein Märchen klingt, kann morgen Wirklichkeit sein. Hier ist ein Märchen von Übermorgen: es gibt keine Nationalstaaten mehr. Es gibt nur noch die Menschheit und ihre Kolonien im Weltraum. Man siedelt auf fernen Sternen. Der Meeresboden ist als Wohnraum erschlossen. Mit heute noch unvorstellbaren Geschwindigkeiten durcheilen Raumschiffe unser Milchstraßensystem. Eins dieser Raumschiffe ist die ORION, winziger Teil eines gigantischen Sicherheitssystems, das die Erde vor Bedrohungen aus dem All schützt. Begleiten wir die ORION und ihre Besatzung bei ihrem Patrouillendienst am Rande der Unendlichkeit.'

English translation:

'What may sound like a fairy tale today may be tomorrow's reality. This is a fairy tale from the day after tomorrow: There are no more nations. There is only mankind and its colonies in space. People have settled on faraway stars. The ocean floor has been made habitable. At speed still unimaginable today, space vessels are rushing through our Milky Way. One of these vessels is the ORION, a minuscule part of a gigantic security system protecting the Earth from threats from outer space. Let's accompany the ORION and her crew on their patrol at the edge of infinity.'

Episodes

• 'Angriff aus dem All' ('Attack from Space')
• 'Planet außer Kurs' ('Planet off Course')
• 'Die Hüter des Gesetzes' ('Keepers of the Law')
• 'Deserteure' ('Deserters')
• 'Kampf um die Sonne' ('Battle for the Sun')
• 'Die Raumfalle' ('The Space Trap')
• 'Invasion' ('Invasion')

Sources

• Josef Hilger (2003). Raumpatrouille. ISBN 3-89602-334-9
• Jörg Kastner (1995). Raumpatrouille ORION. ISBN 3-910079-53-9
• Jörg Kastner (1991). Das große Raumschiff Orion Fanbuch. ISBN 3-442-23642-8
• Raumpatrouille Orion. Bd.1, Wuppertal 1997, ISBN 3-930646-05-6

References

1. ^(German)'Science-Fiction aus dem Baumarkt'WDR

External links

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• Raumpatrouille - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion at the Internet Movie Database
• (German)Starlight Casino
• (German)AC1000 - Raumpatrouille fan group
• (German)Raumpatrouille Orion Rücksturz ins Kino (the movie)
• (German)Raumpatrouille quiz

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