Shout! Factory Community - The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space

7/10/2011 3:32 PM

Member since: 6/17/2011

The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space

Will anything ever come of this show?

Aired on STARZ network around 1999/2000. It was a sci-fi show , made to be campy, much like the same feeling you get from the show The Tick.

Copying and pasting info from IMDB.

The forces of evil are attempting to recapture a human-inhabited earthlike planet that has been liberated by rebels. The son of one of the rebel leaders, an electronic genius, searches the galaxy for a hero and finds Captain Zoom, star of a 1950's TV series. He is transported to the planet as its savior, which role he must play despite himself.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112292/plotsummary

Here's a youtube clip. Says it's a movie from 1995 on that IMDB link. But it was a brand new show when I was working at a company (unnammed) in 1999/2000. Maybe it was a movie then lead to a TV series later?

http://youtu.be/Fwd3T_rhSRI

IMDB listing

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112292/

7/11/2011 8:48 AM

SLHammer

Member since: 3/27/2009

RE: The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space

I remember seeing it...both on Starz & later in syndication. It was a made-for-TV movie, but in my opinion was far more creative and entertaining than the B-movie drek that Sci-Fi/SyFy is pumping out daily.

If it was ever intended as a regular series at any point, then the suits weren't interested for whatever reason. Ironically, this came out a few years before "Galaxy Quest" which had a very similar plot. (And a much bigger budget to work with as well.)