Roddenberry certainly copied a lot of stuff

Sorry. Don't remember this show

Amazing how much the Star Trek team plagiarized from this.

2:50 "26,000 billion miles away" and 3:13 "very close to Proxima Centauri". Wow, they actually got the distance to Proxima Centauri correct. Impressive scientific accuracy for 1950's TV sci-fi.

Commander to earth base: Earth, we have found that for some reason, space here is littered with Maple Leaves.....

These scenes remind me of playing “spaceship” with my brothers in the basement, where I lined up chairs, drew TV screens on the back of them, and would shut out the lights to simulate space. I tried to emulate the look of these shows. Great memory.

That would be Jason of STAR Command. Not Space Command

Ahhh, so little Donny T. said to himself, when I become president I want to be commander in chief of Space Command.

"It's a bakery!" If you don't find the show interesting, the closed captions are hilarious.

Those early spaceships sure were roomy.

Canada of the 1950s

WOW, this guy is a real rude person. Demanding this and that to be done. Constantly interrupting her with a ORDER to be done.

An old one here. I watched this series on our first TV. Strangely, I definitely recall theme music quite different to this ??

Aileen Taylor was HOT!

I love the fact that space travel and exploration by this time is regarded as boring 😂

Growing up in Detroit in the 50s we could tune in the CBC just across the river from us.

Maybe one day they will release this tv series

Why don't they release this tv out the public

ouch no more eps. is a crime

It’s amazing to imagine WW2 was still going on 7 years before this…. No time at all..

@06:41 He was always a lover of that warp drive 😂

Man. You know Scotty was happy to move from this nincompoop captain onto James Kirk.

So they also had subspace radio in those days for realtime reporting

I think 26 thousand billion miles is about 4.4 light years so Proxima Centurai would certainly be near. I'd love to know what rocket fuel they were using

FUCK the days before inertial dampeners!!

I am shocked by how not-dumb this is, not just by space opera standards but by 1950's sci fi standards. 12 minutes in and they haven't even made up any words

6:40 - now we know where star trek got its space warp drive and antigravity from!

Enjoyed this! Thanks for posting

Very cool to see this! By the way, that would be "Jason of Star Command", not Space Command.

Nice to see the Vulcan Bomber at the end of the episode. 29:39

Sheesh this is boring!

Approach them with gunports open, as a show of respect.

"We found a planet" (Doohan whispers "a ship") ...keep rolling, blooper reels have not been invented yet 😆

Given the limitations of the TV technology of the time, this is really a pretty good story, well presented and acted. I am impressed! I am sorry there are no other episodes. Thank you for this, truly a lost gem.

Interesting, thanks for posting. The look suggests a budget on a par with Rocky Jones or Tom Corbett, but this takes the material a bit more seriously. Radio science fiction at this time was adapting stories by the likes of Heinlein or Asimov and this seems to be trying to appeal to that audience more than just kids. Some pretty interesting shot composition when the one crewman goes down into the guts of the ship as well.

Dr who

Blokes In Spaaaaaace Wonder if they fit a beer joint, doughnut shop and bowling alley in the ship...

I SPY JAMES 'SCOTTY' DOHAN.....Captain Scotty???........Haaaaaaaa!

Still very entertaining Even after 70 years

This is the first time I've ever had to wonder which actor in a scene was Jimmy Doohan. It's old footage, the characters all look pretty similar, and Doohan was a master of voices, so the sound doesn't give it away. But there's an easy solution -- check which actor is hiding his right hand! Doohan lost his middle finger on D-Day, and by the time this was filmed, he'd clearly already mastered keeping his right hand out of the shot whenever possible so viewers couldn't tell.

Better than Star Trek Picard.

‘An Alien spaceship, I bet their not from earth.’

Billions of miles from Earth using only rocket power and yet their technology was so advanced that they could communicate instantly with Earth Command! I won't mention the fact -- okay I will -- that they must have started the journey to Proxima Centauri when they were still embryos too, even at 7000 miles per second. At that speed, the crew was pressed against their chairs which they said were 8Gs. Imagine the entire journey at that speed. Nobody could've survived under those conditions for very long. Also, what did they use for food and water? I like how at the end special effects used what appears to be a fire extinguisher exhaust blown at the Space Command title. These old shows are precious...kind of makes me wonder 70 years from now how our current sci-fi shows will hold up under future scrutiny?

Jimmy Doohan!

❤️❤️🍀❤️❤️ James presented "The Trouble with Tribbles" to a CU Boulder amphitheatre audience, in Spring 1979; I'm the Film Studies student who trailed out behind him, and found him alone: he graciously endured my questions, offered deep insights for at least 10 minutes. ❤️ We were the only two there when it began: I never once looked away... but when I did look up, there were 60 to 100 people (silent!), straining to hear every word. We talked about his success in redrafting "the Engineer" to be Scottish, not the severe German that Roddenberry had written in; talked about 'time from script arrival to shooting to airing' and other fascinations... 🍀🍀

Bill is SCOTTY!!!

Wonderful! What a find! "Space Command Earth to XSW1." Haha! Uhura would have got through.

Scotty has given her all she's got.

It was OK, but I still think SPACE PATROL is better.

Had a second look at it really looks like being on the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise. The similarities to to Star trek are there in the bridge scenes.