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Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (TV Series 1950–1955) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Cast. Tom Corbett – Frankie Thomas Jr. Astro – Al Markim: A Venusian cadet. Roger Manning – Jan Merlin: A smug, egotistical cadet with an inordinately high opinion of his own abilities, although he occasionally proved himself to be nearly as skilled as he imagined himself to be.
English. Genre. Science fiction novel. Publisher. Grosset & Dunlap. Publication date. 1952. 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.
- Carey Rockwell
- English
- United States
- Science fiction novel
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet: With Frankie Thomas, Al Markim, Jan Merlin, Jack Grimes. 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.
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Cast includes Michael Harvey, Al Markim, Jan Merlin and Frankie Thomas. Five seasons. Three fifteen-minute episodes weekly for the first four seasons; weekly thirty-minute episodes in season five. Black and white.
And the emphasis was less on futuristic hardware (though there was plenty) and more on the adventures of the young cast. Tom Corbett (Frankie Thomas), a curly-headed teenage cadet at the Space Academy, four centuries hence, was a figure with whom youngsters could identify.
