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RAUMPATROUILLE ORION!!

I must have been around 9 or 10 years old when I saw Raumpatrouille on

a dilapidated black and white [let’s say “blacky brown and white!”]

TV in Dalborn,Germany. So I had fairly vague memories of some of the

episodes. However,as a 20 something I still had a,uh,crush on Eva Pflug

-actress,singer and all round “well fit” lady! So when I saw a couple of her

LP records I bought ‘em!

The series was never shown in the UK or USA,though I thought it had

[then,until coming back to the UK I thought Felix The Cat,Laurel & Hardy

and even Rawhide were German tv shows!]. I think I may have some of the

German strips from LUPO on disc -I’ll have to check. There was,it seems,

a badly English sub-titled dvd out at one point and in 2003[?] a movie length

compilation.

I thought for years that only I remembered the series. But no!!!

Carol McCloud asked on the Eurocomics group some time ago:

“Does anyone know of any comics based on the 1960’s German SF TV show
Raumpatrouille (sometimes called Raumschiff Orion)?”

I asked around and……
” ‘Mick Baxter’ over at Comic Hauptforum provided these links”

Außerdem 1997 bei B&K:
http://www.comicguide.de/php/detail….&display=short

Nicht zu vergessen die restlichen dre Folgen in
Super Tiptop 6
http://www.comicguide.de/php/detail….h&display=long

And while I was still trying to find a German language version,Daniel Dickholtz came up with this,bless him!

Here’s the five-page story from Hungary! Please note that while the actors’ likenesses are on target, a lot of the production design isn’t. Why they decided to use the pod from 2001 instead of one of the Orion’s lancets is anybody’s guess…

Of course no artist can ever do justice to Eva Pflug [I think I still have one of her LP records in a cupboard! Great singer]. sigh

LINKS

Produktion “Raumpatrouille Orion - Rücksturz ins Kino!”

Bavaria Film GmbH

Schwanstein Entertainment AG

Raumpatrouille Fan-Seiten

www.orionspace.de

www.ac1000.de - Fanclub Raumpatrouille Orion Germany - F.R.O.G.

www.rdmmultimedia.de - Eine Raumpatrouille-Archivseite ohne Werbung.

http://home.t-online.de/home/ORIONMUSEUM.Koeln/Homepage.htm - Das Orionmuseum von Josef Hilger

http://rp@sk96.de - SK: Raumpatrouille (Stefan Kucinski, seit 1996)

http://www.reschke.de/ideenmagazin/i_raumpat_orion.htm - Ein Essay zur Raumpatrouille Fernsehserie.

Some sites do have English text options but this Geocities site is in English

http://www.geocities.com/raumpatrouilleorion/space_patrol.html

Let me know what you think!