Then the main part of BL&C in Space would begin. It was inspired by a 
very low budget TV show remembered from childhood that I think was 
called CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT. It was about 1953 and there were these two 
guys, obviously spacemen because they were wearing fish bowls, wet 
suits and rubber gloves. Most of the set was large, grey, cardboard 
rocks that wiggled like cardboard if the spacemen moved too much air 
with their bodies or touched them. The entire program involved them 
moving slowly across the T.V. screen talking about potential danger 
with nothing ever happening. They had a secret decoding ring you could 
send away for. 25

This section would begin with a short song:

  The silver stars are
  Even farther
  Away from me than you.

  Why don't you join us
  In a voyage past another moon?

The show proper consisted of Captains Bonnard and Lafarge sitting 
under a picture of Nicola Tesla looking out the BIG SPACE WINDOW at 
the deep blue emptiness of space, just in case they missed something.  
They were waiting, forever it seemed, to receive their new orders. 
Carolyne, the cleaning woman, kept the ship running and was the actual 
brains of the outfit. 26