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Stardate 07.04.2022.A: 'The Space Giants' (1966-1967) Remains One Of The Fondest Memories Of My Youth

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Here's a life lesson observation for you, my friends: the older you get, the less you remember from the furthest back.

Yes, I understand that the older we grow the more we must keep chucked away somewhere in the gray matter -- or is that grey matter? -- but that's not really my point.  What I'm trying to say is that the better moments of my childhood grow a bit more pronounced with the passage of time.  Sure, it's safe to say that much of them have clouded over by now -- my ripe old age -- but there are some things that still manage to poke through ... and my time with the Japanese import The Space Giants is one of them.

This wasn't something that I experienced on its first run in the United States (it likely aired in TV syndication of the day), but rather I discovered it as a young'un probably in the very early 1970's.  Essentially, this was what a family of superheroes looked like back in the day: they were somewhat ordinary humans until required to jump into action, and then they'd transform into these rocketships that could jet all around the planet on adventures.  When I once tried to explain the show to a friend, he thought I was talking about the Transformers, but, no: this wasn't animated.  This was live action -- with some very questionable level of special effects -- and it was about as good as TV got for my young eyes.

As I said, I don't much remember the specifics.  What I do recall was a family -- joined by a space wizard -- who acted out according to their own moral compass.  It was quite entertaining.

In any event, I won't belabor the point any longer.  I just saw it among the July 4th citations, and I wanted to promote it with a bit more.

Here's a link to the first episode that's up on YouTube.com.  Enjoy!

-- EZ
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Bernard bush
9/6/2024 08:52:07 am

I myself often race home too see the next Episode after Episode I also remember too whistle once for gam twice for Jan three times for Goldar and never whistle the fourth time unless and Emergency

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