"Raumpatrouille - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion" (1966) TV series

Creator:

Rolf Honold

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

17 September 1966 (West Germany)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Plot:

Some things from tomorrow may sound like a fairy tale. This is a fairy tale from the day after tomorrow ...

Cast

Dietmar Schönherr	...	Cliff Allister McLane (7 episodes, 1966)
Eva Pflug	...	Tamara Jagellovsk (7 episodes, 1966)
Wolfgang Völz	...	Mario de Monti (7 episodes, 1966)
Claus Holm	...	Hasso Sigbjörnsen (7 episodes, 1966)
Friedrich G. Beckhaus	...	Atan Shubashi (7 episodes, 1966)
Ursula Lillig	...	Helga Legrelle (7 episodes, 1966)
Benno Sterzenbach	...	Gen. Wamsler (7 episodes, 1966)
Claus Biederstaedt	...	Introduction (7 episodes, 1966)
Friedrich Joloff	...	Col. Villa (6 episodes, 1966)
Franz Schafheitlin	...	Sir Arthur (5 episodes, 1966)
Hans Cossy	...	Marshal Kublai-Krim (5 episodes, 1966)
Thomas Reiner	...	Adjutant Michael Spring-Brauner (5 episodes, 1966)
Charlotte Kerr	...	Gen. Lydia van Dyke (4 episodes, 1966)
Reinhard Glemnitz	...	Voice of von Wennerstein / ... (4 episodes, 1966)
Norbert Gastell	...	Hydra-Offizier / ... (3 episodes, 1966)
Alfons Höckmann	...	Rott (3 episodes, 1966)

Also Known As:

Raumpatrouille (West Germany) (short title)
Raumpatrouille - Die Abenteuer des schnellen Raumkreuzers Orion (West Germany) (rerun title)
Raumschiff Orion (West Germany) (informal title)
Space Patrol (International: English title)

Runtime:

Germany:60 min (7 episodes)

Country:

West Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Bavaria Filmstudios, Geiselgasteig, Grünwald, Bavaria, Germany

Company:

Bavaria Atelier

Trivia:

One of the steering controls on the Orion's bridge is obviously made out of an iron.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: You can see two crewmembers in the fifth episode "Kampf um die Sonne" (Translation: "Fight for the Sun"). You can see them in the scene when the "Lanzet"-shuttle of the "Chroma"-people crashes. They were not fast enough to duck behind the shuttle. Actually both should only destroy the shuttle with a pair of wires.

Quotes:

Introduction: [opening narration] What seems like a fairy tale today may be reality tomorrow. Here we have a fairy tale of the day after tomorrow. There are no more national states, only mankind and her colonies in outer space. We settle on stars far-off, the bottom of the sea is developed as living place...

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 (2004)

SciFi from Germany

This series were my first contact with science fiction and after 30 years it's great to see them again. The series are repeated in Germany from time to time and it's a lot of laugh to see a flat-iron or a faucet, which are used as ship-controls. After the mission the crew met in the bar, which was deep underwater and you can see the fishes through the windows. IMHO there were two things, which made this mini-series successful. First, the crew-members were from different countries which was explained by their names (it was the time of the cold war). On the other side, there were extraterrestrial enemies, the "frogs", who wanted to slave the earth. And all the things were "sciene-fiction", they had video-phones (in a time where only a handful of people had a phone), they lived on the ground of the sea, they were flying with space-ships through the universe.