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Space Patrol is an American science fiction adventure series set in the 30th century that was originally aimed at juvenile audiences via television, radio, and comic books. [1] It was broadcast on ABC from March 1950 to February 1955.
Tom Corbett is the main character in a series of Tom Corbett—Space Cadet stories that were depicted in television, radio, books, comic books, comic strips, and other media in the 1950s. The stories followed the adventures of Corbett, Astro, and Roger Manning (originally; later, T.J. Thistle), cadets at the Space Academy as they train to ...
Pages in category "1950s American science fiction television series" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Rocky, Winky, Vena, Bobby, and Cleolanta appear prominently. The largest sponsor of the series was the Gordon Baking Company, makers of Silvercup Bread, the original sponsor of the Lone Ranger radio and television series. The series finally premiered the week of Monday, February 22, 1954, at various days and times on stations across the United ...
On January 1, 1952, one year after the ABC television network began airing the show, a short-lived radio version began on ABC radio. [6] This radio version employed the same actors as the TV show. The series ran twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, at 5:30 p.m. (the TV show aired on a Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule).
Another 12-chapter "rocket man" movie serial, Zombies of the Stratosphere, was written as the direct sequel to Radar Men from the Moon. [7] The name of the serial's main character was changed from Commando Cody to the more prosaic Larry Martin when the shooting schedule began.
The show was the favorite of Ed Norton in the 1955 debut The Honeymooners episode, "TV or Not TV". In the introduction to his humorous travelogue Dave Barry Does Japan, Dave Barry fondly reminisces about the series. Part of his learning about the nature of good and evil, was from watching Captain Video defeat some brilliantly inept villains.
By 1950, the war-head carrying ballistic missile, which in the United States had been eclipsed since World War II by guided missile development, received national priority. In January 1951, the US Air Force's Air Research and Development Command awarded to Consolidated Vultee the contract for Atlas , the nation's first Intercontinental ...