Ten Space Patrol Stories You're Not Likely To See: 1/ The Mysterious Cushion Of Raeburn Now you see it, now you don't... First his chin's virtually on his desk, then miraculously he's propped up so we can see him. And if you look closely, you can see the reason - first a slender black cushion, then a whacking great block under his butt! Do you think he was just too embarrassed to get someone to lower the desk ? 2/ The Poor Hygiene Of Slim Well why else does Captain Larry Dart always get the Venusian to go through Comtamination Control first ? 3/ The Hardware Factors Of Plotline For most early episodes, the molungs were self contained helmets. Then some bod at Space Headquarters gets the brilliant idea to add oxygen tanks to the set up. And what happens ? First Slim ruptures a tank on Titan and then Dart damages an airline on Lumen. Later on, they do away with the tanks once and for all. Moral - if it ain't broke, don't fix it... 4/ The Rotating Couch Of Neptune Well even if it's not a couch, we still want to know why it's rotating round and round (and why the Neptunians take it on holiday with them!). Is Tyro trying to get into the Interplanetary Book Of Records for 'Most Elaborate Plant Pot' we've ever seen? Obviously not, as the plants get replaced by a large ball-bearing later on... 5/ The Fantastic Impact Of 024 It may only have featured in one episode but Galasphere 024 obviously made quite an effect on Larry Dart. His subconscious slips give away his pining for the emergency Galasphere for almost a quarter of the adventures... 6/ The Hidden Racism Of Earth What if Venusians are blue and Martians are green but Earth people couldn't handle it? They have enough problems just handling the colours they come in. So a massive campaign was underway to convince everyone that, hey... they're just the same colour as us. Only a brave few dared reveal the truth... Bill Mevin - stand up and be counted! 7/ The Vengeful Barbers Pole Of Husky Well if you left the hairdressers with a bunch of twigs stuck to your head, you'd probably do something nasty to the culprit, wouldn't you? Only as revenge goes, nicking the pole and trying to incorporate it into the Galasphere workings... ? Martian justice - 2100 style... 8/ The Dirty Walkways Of Galasphere You can tell the majority of Space Patrol are men, take a look at the walkway in the Galasphere Control Room - all transparent and spotless at the start but gets progressively grubbier as time goes on. Does Dart get Husky or Slim (or himself for that matter) to give it a clean? Does he hell! They install an opaque one that doesn't show the dirt as much! 9/ The Dubious Gender Of Slim Well we know he's not exactly the most macho of the crew but the white eyeliner and the bouffant hairstyle in series two are a bit of a giveaway, aren't they? What are you trying to tell us, girl... 10/ The Missed Opportunity Of Palitoy With merchandise from the series at a premium, and so few puppets actually used in the series, Palitoy or any other one of the big manufacturers missed a real kill by issuing a base set of figures which you can accessorise into other characters. Just take Slim - add a beard and different uniform and hey presto - you've got Major Valla. Buy General Smith and you get Sam Marsden free! Or buy the Gallia box set with accessories for Tara, Miga, Patra etc...