# Camelopardalis! Who said that? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2019, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelopardalis-who-said-that/834432 "2019-05-23T22:03:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelopardalis-who-said-that/834432/1 "2019-05-23T22:03:08Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelopardalis-who-said-that/834432/2 "2019-05-24T15:52:49Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelopardalis-who-said-that/834432/3 "2019-05-24T16:39:08Z")
Bonus points to anyone who can actually find Camelopardalis in the night sky! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelopardalis-who-said-that/834432/4 "2019-05-24T17:15:26Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelopardalis-who-said-that/834432/5 "2019-05-24T19:48:31Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Bonus points to anyone who can actually find Camelopardalis in the night sky! 😛 I have! It’s pretty boring. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelopardalis-who-said-that/834432/6 "2019-05-24T19:54:40Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > You sure this wasn’t from Buck Rodgers? I definitely remember somene (a scientist I think) saying that, as an exclamation (eureka, wow, etc) Tim O’Connor, maybe? Yeah, it definitely sounds like a Larson-ism, like “frack” and “yaron.” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelopardalis-who-said-that/834432/7 "2019-05-24T19:57:01Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I have! > > It’s pretty boring. I was able to pick it out in the northwoods of Minnesota. Any place with light pollution, forget it. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelopardalis-who-said-that/834432/8 "2019-05-24T23:00:16Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > 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 I am sure. I watched it as a kid and I still remember the boy using “cameleopardis!” as an exclamation. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2019, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelopardalis-who-said-that/834432/9 "2019-05-25T10:04:43Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camelopardalis-who-said-that/834432/10 "2019-05-25T16:33:39Z")
_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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTf9Yoll0hk) at about 11:46. I don’t know if the character or catchphrase appeared in the spinoff.