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The third one was the 1966 German TV show ''Raumpatrouille - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffs Orion'' (Space Patrol - The Fantastic Adventures of the Spaceship Orion), which was produced in collaboration with French TV, where it was entitled ''Comando spatial''. It's 7 one-hour episodes (no commercials) long, impossible to find outside of its mother country and later spawned a big heap of paperback and pulp novels. It, like [[StarTrek a certain concurrent American TV series]] was about a bunch of people that actually ''patrolled'' space. Only, unlike said American TV show (and like a couple of [[BlakesSeven later]] [[{{Firefly}} shows]]), the crew relations were strained at best.

* 3. ''Hüter des Gesetzes'' (Guardians of the Law): A robot story.

* 7. ''Invasion'': A ManchurianCandidate comes close to making the Frog invasion a success.

* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: [[GratuitousGerman O ja]]!

* Lieutenant Helga Legrelle (communications, observation, deflector shields). Not so secretly sweet on the dashing commander.

* UnfortunateIngredients: The name of the intelligence agency/secret police, ''Galaktischer Sicherheitsdienst'' (GSD) contains the name of the Nazi ''Sicherheitsdienst'' (SD).

* Major Cliff Allister [=McLane=], the [[TheCaptain commander]] and TheHero.

* Lieutenant Hasso Sigbjörnson ([[TheEngineer engineering]]). The [[TeamDad oldest and only married member of the crew]].

* Lieutenant Helga Legrelle (communications and observation). Not so secretly sweet on the dashing commander.

* Major Cliff Allister [=McLane=], the commander and TheHero.
* Lieutenant Hasso Sigbjörnson (engineering). The [[TeamDad oldest and only married member of the crew]].
* Lieutenant Mario de Monti (armament). A ladies' man, at least in his own mind.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Lieutenant Spring-Brauner, General Wamsler's aide-de-camp. Some of the members of the O.R.B. (''Oberste Raumbehörde'', i. e. supreme space authority) also verge on this.

* SpaceIsAnOcean: Partly averted. The officers have non-naval ranks (major, colonel, general, marshal) and the ''Orion'' crew to a large extent behave like stereotypical air force combat pilots.

* Major Cliff Allister [=McLane=], the commander.
* Lieutenant Hasso Sigbjörnson (engineering). The oldest and only married member of the crew.

* Lieutenant Atan Shubashi (astrogator).
* Lieutenant Helga Legrelle (communications and observation).

The ''Orion'' and its close-knit crew originally belong to the the rapid space unit commanded by General Lydia van Dyke, but because of their continual indisciplined and insubordinate behaviour, they are transferred to the lowly space patrol at the beginning of the first episode. To make matters worse, Lieutenant Tamara Jagellovsk of the Galactic Security Service is assigned as a watchdog to make sure that henceforth [=McLane=] sticks to regulations, with the authority to give him orders if need be.

The ''Orion'' and its crew originally belong to the the rapid space unit commanded by General Lydia van Dyke, but because of their continual indisciplined and insubordinate behaviour, they are transferred to the lowly space patrol at the beginning of the first episode.

* MultinationalTeam: The crew of the ''Orion'' consists of major Cliff McLane, and lieutenants Hasso Sigbjörnson, Mario de Monti, Atan Shubashi and Helga Legrelle. They are joined by security officer Tamara Jagellovsk.

* ThreeLawsCompliant: The robots in the series are, although in the third episode "Guardians of the Law" [[spoiler: the robots on a mining colony, after witnessing a murder, go haywire and imprison all humans to ensure that no harm befalls them]].

-> ''What still sounds like a fairy tale today could be reality tomorrow. Here's a fairy tale from beyond tomorrow: There are no more nation-states, there is just humanity and her colonies in space. Distant planets are being settled, the sea bottom has been won for habitation. With as yet unimaginable velocities spaceships speed through our galactic system. One of these spaceships is the Orion, a tiny part of a gigantic defence system that protects Earth from threats from outer space. Let us accompany the Orion and her crew on their patrol duties on the edge of infinity!''
->-- ('''Raumpatrouille''', opening narration)

The third one was the 1966 German TV show ''Raumpatrouille - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffs Orion'' (Space Patrol - The Fantastic Adventures of the Spaceship Orion), which was produced in collaboration with French TV, where it was entitled ''Comando spatial''. This one's the footnote. It's 7 episodes long, impossible to find outside of its mother country and later spawned a bunch of novels. It, like [[StarTrek a certain concurrent American TV series]] was about a bunch of people that actually ''patrolled'' space. Only, unlike said American TV show (and like a couple of [[BlakesSeven later]] [[{{Firefly}} shows]]), the crew relations were strained at best.

* MultinationalTeam: The crew of the ''Orion'' consists of major Cliff McLane, and lieutenants Hasso Sigbjörnson, Mario de Monti, Atan Shubashi and Helga Legrelle. They are joined by security officer Tamara Jagellovsk.

* MultinationalTeam: The crew of the ''Orion'' consists of major Cliff McLane, and lieutenants Hasso Sigbjörnson, Mario de Monti, Atan Shubashi and Helga Legrelle. They were joined by security officer Tamara Jagellovsk.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Lieutenant Spring-Brauner, General Wamsler's aide-de-camp. Some of the members of the O.R.B. (''Oberste Raumbehörde'', i. e. supreme space authority) also verged on this.

* ThreeLawsCompliant: The robots in the series are, although in the third episode "Guardians of the Law" [[spoiler: the robots on a mining colony, after witnessing a murder, decide to imprison all humans to make sure the first law isn't broken]].

* MultinationalTeam: The crew of the ''Orion'' consists of major Cliff McLane, and lieutenants Hasso Sigbjörnson (Scandinavian), Mario de Monti, Atan Shubashi and Helga Legrelle. They were joined by security officer Tamara Jagellovsk.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Lieutenant Spring-Brauner, General Wamsler's aide-de-camp. Some of the members of the O.R.B. (''Oberste Raumbehörde'', i. e. supreme space authority) also verge on this.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Lieutenant Spring-Brauner, General Wamsler's aide-de-camp.

The third one was the 1966 German TV show ''Raumpatrouille - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffs Orion'' (Space Patrol - The Fantastic Adventures of the Spaceship Orion). This one's the footnote. It's 7 episodes long, impossible to find outside of its mother country and later spawned a bunch of novels. It, like [[StarTrek a certain concurrent American TV series]] was about a bunch of people that actually ''patrolled'' space. Only, unlike said American TV show (and like a couple of [[BlakesSeven later]] [[{{Firefly}} shows]]), the crew relations were strained at best.

The third one was the 1966 German TV show ''Raumpatrouille''. This one's the footnote. It's 7 episodes long, impossible to find outside of its mother country and later spawned a bunch of novels. It, like [[StarTrek a certain concurrent American TV series]] was about a bunch of people that actually ''patrolled'' space. Only, unlike said American TV show (and like a couple of [[BlakesSeven later]] [[{{Firefly}} shows]]), the crew relations were strained at best.