Community hub
Recent from talks
Knowledge base stats:
Talk channels stats:
Members stats:
Captain Kremmen
Captain Kremmen was a British science fiction comedy radio serial set in the early 21st century. (The pilot opens in 2005.) It was written and performed for Capital Radio by the DJ Kenny Everett, beginning in 1976. It was also broadcast on Liverpool's Radio City and Nottingham's Radio Trent in the early 1980s. It featured the eponymous vain and dimwitted spaceship captain. Everett took the name Kremmen from a series of American radio comedy discs called "Superfun" produced by Mel Blanc and his son, Noel. One of the regulars in the series was voice actor Bob Arbogast, and he came up with Kremmen, as a fictitious brand name for spoof commercials. These were heard by Everett in his Radio London days, and he revived the name for his space captain, and used some of the Superfun spoof ads in the Kremmen series. Each episode began with an introduction by Patrick Allen.
The premise was subsequently adapted for television and other media.
Captain Elvis Brandenburg Kremmen - Born in Liverpool on Christmas Day in 1950, Kremmen grew up with an interest in becoming an astronaut like his idol, Dan Dare. In the animated version, he bears a striking resemblance to Kenny Everett, who was also born in Liverpool on Christmas Day (but in 1944).
Graduating from the Space Academy, Kremmen went on to become the world's most fabulous man, as well as a captain for Star Corps. He also has bionic veins, and a bionic left foot with a detachable big toe that converts into a space cannon. According to a 'computer read-out' at the beginning of the episodes, he has an IQ of 498 and a height of 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m), and is a supreme athlete, a concert pianist, concorde pilot, mountain climber, diplomat, space captain & genius. Another variation on the opening script said he had 'muscles in places where most other people don't even have places'.
Carla - Born in New York on 27 July 1950, Carla was an American and the world's most voluptuous woman. She came from a poor family, and used her beauty to get a job in Star Corps. Whenever alone with Kremmen, she persuades him to have casual sex with her. Her first visual appearance saw her looking like Marilyn Monroe, but this was changed in the TV series where she became a black woman with peroxide blonde hair. In the live-action sketch version, the character was played by Anna Dawson, who was also born on 27 July, but in Bolton in 1937.
Dr. Heinrich von Gitfinger - Kremmen's scientific aide from Germany. His name changes between media: in the graphic novel his surname was "Grelbman" and his first name in the newspaper comic strips was "Schweinhund" (literally "pig-dog" - a German insult). Gitfinger is extremely short (barely half the height of Carla and Kremmen) and wears a white lab coat. He also has glasses, in which fruit machine symbols sometimes appear. In some areas, he is portrayed as a Nazi. He is married and has children living in West Germany.
Other minor characters include Gonad, Schmuckstein, Threllmer and Fooman, who are all technicians aboard the Troll-1 – Kremmen's spaceship, which is more than a little reminiscent of a portable cassette recorder.
The Thargoids - Based on their synthetic homeworld of Thargoidia, the Thargoids are a race of beings led by Gort (a parody of a movie character with the same name), who drain all other beings of their knowledge so that they will be the most intelligent beings in the universe. They are described as having transparent heads, furry green eyeballs, seven legs and three lips. This latter feature is the reason the Thargoids drink tea; as Gort explained: "You try asking for llllager and llllime with llllips llllike these!"
Hub AI
Captain Kremmen AI simulator
(@Captain Kremmen_simulator)
Captain Kremmen
Captain Kremmen was a British science fiction comedy radio serial set in the early 21st century. (The pilot opens in 2005.) It was written and performed for Capital Radio by the DJ Kenny Everett, beginning in 1976. It was also broadcast on Liverpool's Radio City and Nottingham's Radio Trent in the early 1980s. It featured the eponymous vain and dimwitted spaceship captain. Everett took the name Kremmen from a series of American radio comedy discs called "Superfun" produced by Mel Blanc and his son, Noel. One of the regulars in the series was voice actor Bob Arbogast, and he came up with Kremmen, as a fictitious brand name for spoof commercials. These were heard by Everett in his Radio London days, and he revived the name for his space captain, and used some of the Superfun spoof ads in the Kremmen series. Each episode began with an introduction by Patrick Allen.
The premise was subsequently adapted for television and other media.
Captain Elvis Brandenburg Kremmen - Born in Liverpool on Christmas Day in 1950, Kremmen grew up with an interest in becoming an astronaut like his idol, Dan Dare. In the animated version, he bears a striking resemblance to Kenny Everett, who was also born in Liverpool on Christmas Day (but in 1944).
Graduating from the Space Academy, Kremmen went on to become the world's most fabulous man, as well as a captain for Star Corps. He also has bionic veins, and a bionic left foot with a detachable big toe that converts into a space cannon. According to a 'computer read-out' at the beginning of the episodes, he has an IQ of 498 and a height of 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m), and is a supreme athlete, a concert pianist, concorde pilot, mountain climber, diplomat, space captain & genius. Another variation on the opening script said he had 'muscles in places where most other people don't even have places'.
Carla - Born in New York on 27 July 1950, Carla was an American and the world's most voluptuous woman. She came from a poor family, and used her beauty to get a job in Star Corps. Whenever alone with Kremmen, she persuades him to have casual sex with her. Her first visual appearance saw her looking like Marilyn Monroe, but this was changed in the TV series where she became a black woman with peroxide blonde hair. In the live-action sketch version, the character was played by Anna Dawson, who was also born on 27 July, but in Bolton in 1937.
Dr. Heinrich von Gitfinger - Kremmen's scientific aide from Germany. His name changes between media: in the graphic novel his surname was "Grelbman" and his first name in the newspaper comic strips was "Schweinhund" (literally "pig-dog" - a German insult). Gitfinger is extremely short (barely half the height of Carla and Kremmen) and wears a white lab coat. He also has glasses, in which fruit machine symbols sometimes appear. In some areas, he is portrayed as a Nazi. He is married and has children living in West Germany.
Other minor characters include Gonad, Schmuckstein, Threllmer and Fooman, who are all technicians aboard the Troll-1 – Kremmen's spaceship, which is more than a little reminiscent of a portable cassette recorder.
The Thargoids - Based on their synthetic homeworld of Thargoidia, the Thargoids are a race of beings led by Gort (a parody of a movie character with the same name), who drain all other beings of their knowledge so that they will be the most intelligent beings in the universe. They are described as having transparent heads, furry green eyeballs, seven legs and three lips. This latter feature is the reason the Thargoids drink tea; as Gort explained: "You try asking for llllager and llllime with llllips llllike these!"