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No. of series
  
1

Original network
  
Channel 4

Final episode date
  
16 September 1997

Presented by
  
Greg Proops

7.8/10
IMDb

Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

No. of episodes
  
10 (list of episodes)

First episode date
  
15 July 1997

Network
  
Channel 4

Number of episodes
  
10

Starring
  
Bill Bailey Craig Charles

Original release
  
15 July (1997-07-15) – 16 September 1997 (1997-09-16)

Cast
  
Craig Charles, Greg Proops, Bill Bailey

Similar
  
Is It Bill Bailey?, Takeshi's Castle, I'm a CelebrityGet Me Out of, Robot Wars, Jailbreak

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Space Cadets is a British comedy panel game broadcast on Channel 4 in 1997. It was presented by "High Commander" Greg Proops with Bill Bailey and Craig Charles as the "Space Captains" (captains of the two teams). It ran for just one series with 10 episodes.

Contents

Like the BBC's Have I Got News for You, the contestants were celebrities and the show was played mainly for laughs. Bestselling author Terry Pratchett once appeared as a guest. When the contestants were asked who was Britain's most shoplifted author, Pratchett immediately answered "I am!" which was the correct answer.

The space cadets


Opening sequence text

The following text appeared on the screen in the opening title sequence (over footage of Charles, Bailey and Proops): 3 Cosmic Comics, On A Journey From Planet Mirth To Do Battle Against The Weird, The Unthinkable, The Unknown. They Are Space Cadets.

Rounds

These are only some of the rounds used on the show. It is unknown if any other rounds were played in episodes 8–10.

  • Doctor, Who Am I? has each team captain standing center stage and being "morphed" into a character that may or may not be related to sci-fi. They then ask their teammates questions which can only be answered with "negative" or "affirmative" in order to decipher their "new identities".
  • Space Oddities has each member of a team giving explanations of what they think a given object is, with only one being right. The opposing team must guess which is correct.
  • The War of The Words is like Film Dub on Whose Line Is It Anyway?, but with a sci-fi clip.
  • What Happens Next? has each team guessing what happens next in a sci-fi film shown to them.
  • Photon Photos has the teams guessing what is happening in a still photo and what movie it is from.
  • How Did They Get Out of That? has each team watching a clip of sci-fi characters in peril and must guess how the characters get out of peril.
  • Mind Your Klingon has Proops giving a phrase in the Klingon language and the players must translate the phrase into English.
  • Final All-Comers Trivia Scan has Proops asking the teams sci-fi trivia questions until time runs out.

    • Episode guide

    The coloured backgrounds denote the result of each of the shows:

         -- indicates Craig's team won      -- indicates Bill's team won

    References

    Space Cadets (game show) Wikipedia
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