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    Kids TV TV Shows - 1950s 2 Mins Read

    Space School

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    1 9 5 6 (UK)
    4 x 30 minute episodes

    The three tweely-named Winter children – Wallace (Michael Maguire), Winnie (Anne Cooke) and Wilfred (David Barry) – live with their mother (Maud Long) on the space station Earth Satellite One while their father is on a survey mission to study the moons of Mars.

    Between classes at space school, the Winters become friendly with the various people who live and work in the colony.

    There’s ace pilot Space Commodore Sterling (John Stuart), hot-headed Irish daredevil Captain O’Rorke (Matthew Lane), Cockney navigator “Tubby” Thompson (Don McCorkindale) and Sam Scroop (Neil McCallum), the “trapper of the spaceways” and cook onboard the Commodore’s ship. On the periphery is Humphrey Soames (David Drummond), a newshound for the Interplanetary Television Commission.

    The series acted as a lesson in science and then-current theories about space travel, postulating a possible future amid never-knowingly-too-thrilling space adventures.

    The four-part BBC series aired on Sundays in January 1956.

    Commodore Sir Hugh Sterling
    John Stuart
    Captain Michael O’Rorke
    Matthew Lane
    Engineer Tubby Thompson
    Don McCorkindale
    Sam Scroop
    Neil McCallum
    Miss Osborne
    Julie Webb
    Wallace Winter
    Michael Maguire
    Wilfred Winter
    David Barry
    Winnie (Winifred) Winter
    Anne Cooke
    Humphrey Soames
    David Drummond
    Mrs Winter
    Maud Long
    Captain of the School
    Anthony Toller
    The Stranger
    Shay Gorman

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