Camelopardalis! Who said that?

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What person in a TV series used to exclaim that? It would have been in the 1970s or at the very latest early '80s.

I just got the final season of Tom Baker’s Doctor Who, and Peter Davison’s first season on BluRay (which are terrific, by the way). I hadn’t seen some of these episodes since they were first aired in the US when I was a teenager. These were the Adric years, and I had the memory that he went around exclaiming “Camelopardalis!” in moments of surprise or when he was impressed by something. But I’ve been through all the episodes now and Adric hasn’t once said anything like that.

Some boy on some TV show of the era did. Anyone remember it?

Searching for the word only brings up information about the constellation.

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You’re thinking of the really, really bad kids’ sf show Jason of Star Command.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_of_Star_Command https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078631/

James Doohan must’ve really needed to pay the rent that month…

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Bonus points to anyone who can actually find Camelopardalis in the night sky! :stuck_out_tongue:

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You sure this wasn’t from Buck Rodgers? I definitely remember somene (a scientist I think) saying that, as an exclamation (eureka, wow, etc)
I don’t remember Jason, but maybe I blocked it out…

Brian

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I have!

It’s pretty boring.

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Tim O’Connor, maybe? Yeah, it definitely sounds like a Larson-ism, like “frack” and “yaron.”

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I was able to pick it out in the northwoods of Minnesota. Any place with light pollution, forget it. :mad:

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I am sure. I watched it as a kid and I still remember the boy using “cameleopardis!” as an exclamation.

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Huh. I could have sworn it was from Land of the Lost, where an artifact was called the Evil Eye of Camelopardalis. But apparently not so much.

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Jason of Star Command was a spinoff of Space Academy which lasted only one season. The youngest character Loki’s catchphrase on Space Academy was “Camelopardus!” (one form of the Latin word for “giraffe”, a variation of camelopardalis). See this episode at about 11:46. I don’t know if the character or catchphrase appeared in the spinoff.