Danger Twice a Week
’M sure Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, is very good listening for children. I’m sorry, since it seems to be my fate to listen to it twice a week, that it does not yet inspire in me that anaesthetised fondness I was beginning to feel for Superman. Ethically I should say it’s superior, since it has rejected the deus ex machina solution-the boys defeat danger by facing it, aided, of course, by Scriptwriter’s Loophole, a device whereby the cliff we hung from on ‘Tuesday is seen by Thursday to have a handy path leading down from it. What I don’t like about the programme (yet) is its technicality, the humiliation of having to ask one’s child, as well as
one can through the scream of supersonic flak, exactly how an air-pressure neutraliser works. The programme is largely lacking in literary quality, though I had hopes for Roger when he described some Martian Moloch as having a face "as blank as a radar screen." It turned out, of course, that
it actually was a radar screen.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 769, 15 April 1954, Page 11
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180Danger Twice a Week New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 769, 15 April 1954, Page 11
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