Space Cases

I have such fond memories of this show. I vividly recall rushing to the TV Saturday nights just to watch this show. It was original, funny, cute, and related well to its target audience. I was crushed when it stopped airing on Nick, and still think about it to this day (whenever I see the girl who played the rainbow haired character, Staite or something similar I believe). I really wish the show would have continued, that someone would have at least tried to tie up some of the loose ends. They could have done so much more with this show in my youth, and I feel sorry for the many people who will never get to see it for what it was. This was far to excellent a show to just slip away and disappear into the corners of young people's memories....

This show was one of my favorites from when I was a kid. I haven't thought of it for a long time, but I stumbled across an online writer who does the most amazing fan fiction about the characters, and so I've recently been seized by renewed interest in the show. I felt it had so much potential, and I think the time is ripe for it to make a comeback, if not on television, then in novels, or comic books, or something! The saga was left so unfinished, the cadets never even got close to getting home, Cat was still trapped in Yensid, there was so much of the story left to tell! Peter David, if you read this, please consider writing some Space Cases novels, or allow other writers to take up the cause!

Despite bad a few bad choices by the higher-ups at Nickelodeon, the show managed to do well the during couple years it aired, and still maintained a rather large fan following in the years after its cancellation.

Space Cases had diverse characters and an extensive background story. The show itself was co-written by a comic book writer, and it shows in the direction and set designs. If you could ignore the special effects and make up designs that occasionally borderlined into downright cheesiness (Catalina's rainbow wig being the most memorable) it had a cute, campy flavor to it that made it very enjoyable. It's a shame it was canceled so early on, there was a lot of questions left unanswered and development we never got to see.

Overall, I would group "Space Cases" in with other Nick cult-hits of the 1990s like "The Adventures of Pete and Pete" and "Are You Afraid Of the Dark?". You've got pop-culture in the Petes, the horror following for "Are You Afraid..." and we sci-fi geeks got this.

I remember this show. I watched it when I was little and actually really enjoyed it. I just watched a terrible movie (on purpose) and was discussing how space actually works when I felt I absolutely needed to look up the name of this show I'd watched so many years ago. Space Cases actually came up first on my search and here I am. Wow. To be honest I don't remember much about it, except I believe that the ship was different in each room for each person. I think I started somewhere in the middle of the series and only managed to watch a couple of episodes. Still it was good and I remember being unhappy when the show as taken off the air.

Wow, this is amazing. I adored the show from day one - wasn't it part of "Snick"? - and eagerly tuned in until they killed off Catalina, my favorite character . . . from then on I lost interest. Bearing in mind that I lacked a good deal of perspective four years ago, I still remember a very good show, and I'd love to see reruns now to know if I was right.