Chrysler Presents a Bob Hope Comedy Special (1965)

An original NBC TV network promo photo from 1965 for Chrysler Presents A Bob Hope Comedy Special.

Bob is of course wearing the Men in Space suit and helmet.


Steve

A Suitography of the "Men into Space" Spacesuits (1959 and onwards)

This is turning out to be the most recycled of space helmets/suits.  I've blogged some and I keep finding more so I'm going to start keeping a list, which I will l update as we go along.  Feel free to point out any I've missed.

Men Into Space (1959)  TV Show
The Phantom Planet (1961)  Film
Sea Hunt - The Aquanettes (1961)  TV Show
Moon Pilot (1962)  Film
The Lucy Show - Lucy Becomes an Astronaut (1962)  TV Show

The Twilight Zone - Death Ship (1963) TV Show
The Outer Limits - The Man who was Never Born (1963)  TV Show
The Outer Limits - Cold Hands, Warm Heart (1964)  TV Show
The Outer Limits - Moonstone (1964)  TV Show
The Outer Limits - The Invisible Enemy (1964) TV Show
Chrysler Presents a Bob Hope Comedy Special (1965)  TV Show
Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster (1965)  Film
Sergeant Deadhead (1965)  Film
The Outer Limits - The Premonition (1965)  TV Show
The Outer Limits - Specimen Unknown (1965)   TV Show
Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea - The Silent Saboteurs (1965)  TV Show
It's About Time (1966)  TV Show
The Perils of Pauline (1967)  Film
El Planeta de las mujeres invasoras (1967)  Film
Gigantes Planetarios (1967)  Film

Night Gallery - Nature of the Enemy (1970) TV Show
The Lawrence Welk Show - The Tap Dancing Astronaut (1975) TV Show
Crack in the World (1965)  Film
Star Wars: A New Hope - Part 2 - (1977)  Film
Penthouse - October 1978 - Lust in Space (1978) Magazine
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)  TV Show
Salvage 1 - Golden Orbit (1979) TV Show
Heavy Metal (1981)  Film
Laverne & Shirley - Lost in Spacesuits (1982)  TV Show
Kids Incorporated - NASA Space Week (1984)  TV Show
The Sure Thing (1985)  Film

Bill Dana - José Jiménez - Gallery (????) TV Show

 

 

 

Steve

 

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)

Images from the feature length first episode of the 1979 TV movie Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Interestingly, for 37 odd episodes, I don't recall a lot of space suit action.

This is Buck wearing the suit they found him in although it appears to lack a space helmet.  Even more interesting is the fact that the suits is on loan from the prop store and has a long history through film and TV, starting in (1959) Men into Space and continuing all the way to Laverne and Shirley (1982) and possibly beyond.  Follow the "Men into Space Helmets" thread to view the history of its appearances in company with a particular space helmet.

A big thanks to blog follower Tim for bringing this latest appearance to my attention.

Steve

Men Into Space (1959)

I know very little about this American TV show except it ran for 38 episodes from 1959 to 1960 and was about men in space.  I don't think we got it over here on this side of the pond but the little I've read online make it sound quite interesting for its time.

 

Enjoy the rest of the gallery and then contemplate if this is the same space helmet as worn by Danz Borin in Star Wars IV

 

And this is Star Wars' Danz Borin...

  

So what do we think?

 

 

Steve