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Docking Bay 31 Galaxy II Captain Video!
Electronic Wizard!
Master of Time and Space!
Guardian of the Safety of the world!
Fighting for Law and Order, Captain Video operates from a mountain retreat—with secret agents at all points of the Globe! Possessing scientific secrets and scientific weapons—Captain Video asks no Quarter –and gives none to the forces of Evil!
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With these exciting words, Captain Video the first science fiction program appeared on television in 1949. And a whole new world opened up for the next generation that was watching.
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Even though it was done to a very minuscule budget this 30-minute show still managed to establish a new movement among the younger viewing audience of this newest of entertainment mediums. No longer were young boys and girls content to be cowboys and Indians. Now they wanted to be "Video Rangers".
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Whereas the series was short on money, it was long on drama, and acting talent. Its weekly adventures kept viewers riveted.
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For the first year of broadcasting, although he resembled Buck Rogers the wildly popular adventure strip space hero, the good Captain Video did not have a spaceship. His adventures, although they ranged over the entire globe and used wildly imaginative scientific devices never included one. So, being master of all things scientific, he invented one. It was named the Galaxy.
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However, at one point, later in the series, the Galaxy was destroyed. Unfortunately for historians and fans alike, no pictures or kinescopes of it survive. It was lost completely. Undaunted, Captain Video developed a second improved spaceship, the Galaxy II. It is this ship, the only ship from this pioneering TV series that we know something about.
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The Galaxy II appeared in 1954. Created on an extremely small budget, the new spaceship was actually made from a composite of two jet airplane model kits. But the special effects were excellent and the TV goers thrilled to the weekly adventures of Captain Video and his new spaceship. To them, as seen through the dim eye of the black-and-white televisions of the day, the Galaxy II was a fantastic predictor of things to come.
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Even today, details on this second ship are difficult to come by as no kinescopes of its exterior have survived. That makes our knowledge extremely limited. It is only through released still pictures that we’ve discovered what the Galaxy II looks like.
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The impact of this sleek effective looking rocket cruiser was immense on young TV viewers of the day, many of whom grew up to be aerospace engineers. This is a great spaceship from the early days of Space Opera adventure.
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Also it did predict something of the future. Years later; many other Sci-Fi spaceships, from Death Stars to Cylon fighters, would be made in the very same way it was—by taking kits of existing models and ‘bashing’ them together.
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Links to Additional information available in the Trade Zone.
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A Precision Design Drawing of this Spaceship -----------------------------------------
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NOTE: Due to a recent arrived newer picture of the Galaxy II which required an extensive redrawing of the original Design Drawing that appeared in the Spaceship Handbook, this drawing is temporarily unavailable.
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