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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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3] Each episode began with an introduction by Patrick Allen.
The premise was subsequently adapted for television and other media.
- ^ Hogg, James; Sellers, Robert (2013). Hello Darlings! The Authorized Biography Of Kenny Everett. UK: Bantam Press. p. 230. ISBN 9780593072110.
- ^ Various - Mel Blanc Associates Presents Superfun, retrieved 2022-09-04
- ^ Hogg, James; Sellers, Robert (2013). Hello Darlings! The Authorized Biography of Kenny Everett. UK: Bantam Press. pp. 230–231. ISBN 9780593072110.