The Space Kidettes

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The Space Kidettes
Genre
Hanna-Barbera Productions
Original release
NetworkNBC
ReleaseSeptember 10, 1966 (1966-09-10) –
February 4, 1967 (1967-02-04)

The Space Kidettes is an American Saturday morning

Hanna-Barbera Productions, originally airing on NBC during the 1966–67 season. In the show, junior rangers Snoopy, Jenny, Countdown and Scooter patrol the cosmos from their space-capsule clubhouse, with help from their dog Pupstar.[1] Twenty episodes were produced.[2]

Plot

Set in outer space, the series followed the adventures of a group of child astronauts,[3] who have acquired a treasure map and have to keep it away from their space pirate nemesis Captain Skyhook and his sidekick Static.[4]

Episodes

  • Molemen Menace[5]
  • Jet Set Go
  • Space Indians
  • Swamp-Swamped
  • Space Heroes
  • Space Witch
  • Tale of a Whale
  • Space Giant
  • Space Carnival
  • The Laser-Breathing Space Dragon
  • The Flight Before Christmas
  • Beach Brawl
  • Dog-napped in Space
  • Secret Solar Robot
  • King of the Space Pirates
  • Planet of Greeps
  • Cosmic Condors
  • The Space Mermaid
  • Haunted Planet
  • Something Old, Something Gnu

Voice cast

  • Chris Allen - Scooter (freckled kid, blue suit)
  • Lucille Bliss - Snoopy (kid with white hair, orange suit)
  • Daws Butler - Captain Skyhook
  • Don Messick - Countdown (leader / kid with glasses, green suit), Pupstar (dog), Static[6]
  • Janet Waldo - Jenny Jet (girl with cap and dress)

Production

Originally airing for one season on NBC as a half-hour program and sponsored by

Tennessee Tuxedo and Go Go Gophers to form a full half-hour for syndication.[7]

Edited further, it was later paired with edited reruns of cartoons from another NBC Hanna-Barbera program, (Young) Samson & Goliath to form the syndication package The Space Kidettes and Young Samson.[4] The original master elements for both programs were lost, leaving the syndicated edits as the only extant broadcast quality versions.[4]

All 20 episodes of The Space Kidettes and Young Samson were released on DVD via the Warner Archive Collection manufacture-on-demand program in 2011.[4]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 0-8108-1557-5
    . Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  2. ISBN 978-1476665993
    .
  3. ISBN 0-14-024916-8
  4. ^ a b c d Sinnott, John (March 27, 2011) Review of Space Kidettes and Young Samson Archived 2014-02-24 at the Wayback Machine. DVDTalk. Retrieved 2013-05-07
  5. ^ See https://archive.org/details/the-space-kidettes/ for an archive of all twenty episodes.
  6. ^ "Behind The Voice Actors - Space Kidettes". Archived from the original on 2013-05-21. Retrieved 2013-05-07.
  7. ^ "Digital Digest: The Space Kidettes/Young Samson DVD Review - SitcomsOnline.com News Blog". Archived from the original on 2013-05-12. Retrieved 2013-05-07.

External links

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