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Thomas Wingett Corbett Jr. [1] (born June 17, 1949) is an American politician, lobbyist, and former prosecutor who served as the 46th governor of Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he was also attorney general of Pennsylvania .
Tom Corbett is the main character in a series of Tom Corbett—Space Cadet stories that were depicted in television, radio, books, comic books, comic strips, and other media in the 1950s. The stories followed the adventures of Corbett, Astro, and Roger Manning (originally; later, T.J. Thistle), cadets at the Space Academy as they train to ...
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet. Four centuries into the future, Cadets Tom Corbett, Roger Manning and Astro are training to become Solar Guards. Their ship, the "Polaris" took them to numerous adventures, usually natural catastrophes rather than villains.
May 17, 2006 · Frankie Thomas, who became famous in the 1950s for his starring role in the TV children’s show “Tom Corbett, Space Cadet,” has died. He was 85. Thomas died Thursday of respiratory failure at...
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet Series. 9 primary works • 10 total works. The stories followed the adventures of Tom Corbett, Astro, and Roger Manning, cadets at the Space Academy as they train to become members of the elite Solar Guard.
The Tom Corbett - Space Cadet comic strip by Ray Bailey, ran Sunday and daily in American newspapers, from September 9, 1951 to September 6, 1953. Paul S. Newman scripted through February 8, 1953. Starting in 2016, some titles are being reprinted in paperback with new cover art.
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet is a TV series that aired 1950–1955, depicting the fictional character Tom Corbett. Episodes were 15 minutes (weekdays) and 30 minutes (Saturdays).
HOME PAGE. Tom Corbett, Space Cadet was thought to be based on characters in Robert Heinlein's juvenile novel SPACE CADET published in 1948. The similarity of the main characters in SPACE CADET to characters in Tom Corbett was developed as an early page to show on the series.
The sequence follows teenaged Tom Corbett (Thomas) and his pals Astro and Roger Manning, who are cadets in the Solar Guards, an interplanetary police force in 2350 CE that helps maintain the Solar Alliance of Earth, Mars and Venus; the default background is their training Spaceship, the Polaris.
Tom Corbett debuted on CBS on 2 October 1950 – based on the novel Space Cadet by Robert A. Heinlein – to cash in on the enormous popularity of DuMont’s Captain Video and His Video Rangers.
