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I used to watch Space Patrol in the early and mid-1950's when I was growing up in the mid-Los Angeles area adjacent to Hollywood. I still remember a couple of Space Patrol actors arriving home or visiting someone's home -- in costume -- to a house a few doors up and across the street from our house. Of course I was in awe and thought the Space Patrol was REAL! 🤣

I'm lucky to have been born in 57'. By the time I was 4, the sci-fi genre was developing rapidly. It was a great time to be a kid. We had the very best westerns, great sci-fi, fun tv shows like My favorite Martian, Bewitched, The Addams Family, Munsters, Star Trek, Avengers, Get Smart, Batman.....plus all the sci-fi movies we could go see at the drive in. Fun days.

This movie looked great but it probably failed because Gwinith Platrow was in it she was stunning and had great 40's hair but things she was in were always terrible. Oh one more thing If it had a good director it might have made it. If Steven Spillberg would have directed it might have done better. I think if him as the King of the Saturday Matinee Maybe a better lead than jude law.

Shame you didn't mention that in 1978 Buck Rogers made a comeback on NBC.

The original BSG an buck rogers were a FARCE and a waste of studio an taxpayers money

MAN!!!! SCI-FI IS SO MF 😎 & FUN. BC IT'S IMAGINATION THAT'S ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. SCI-FI CHANGE THE 🌍. LOOK AT THE TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE... THE 🌍 GOT TODAY... HOW CAN U NOT LIKE SCI-FI. YES I KNOW IT'S MIGHT B WEIRD& STRANGE. AT TIMES... BUT THAT'S DON'T MEANS IT'S BAD& EVIL...

I would like to have been born in the 1940s 0r 1950s rather than been, born in the 1960s or even I would like to have been born in the 1900s, 1910s or even 1920s or even born in the 19th century from the 180os to the 1890s or even born centuries before the 19th and 20th centuries.

I grew up on that science fiction in the 60,s. Lots of that "stuff" like the internet, microwave ovens, cell phones and electric cars is all ho-hum today.

Rocky Jones was my favorite!!

I gre up on Rocky Jones and the numerous reedited reruns. I even got a job at the driving range at a local golf course picking up the golf balls, but bailed on that as it overlaped the time Rocky Jones aired. One of the best of the pre-Star Trek shows presented.

Great piece, thanks.

If this is supposed to be American Sci-Fi on Television, why is the narration being done in a British accent?? That's STUPID!

Loved Science Fiction Theater and One Step Beyond

Love that a Brit talks about America tv.

My friends and I talked about the day we would grow up and reach beyond (what we thought were facts) and bring the world to a new and glorious life. One of those friends became a nuclear engineer, the other a Football coach, and I went onto long haul driving The nuclear engineer helped make safer reactors, the football coach help boys he taught and coached become men of honor and character. I went into long haul driving and spent the better part of my career bringing food to people in the 48 continental states and the docks on both coasts. We did not fail our dreams, we just took them a different way

Tells us that there was a time when there was no sci-fi on TV, then proceeds to show multiple shows when TV became ubiquitous in households. I mean, yeah, there was a time when there were no sitcoms or detective shows on TV either, but they all became popular when most people started having access to TVs. Also, while there are obvious similarities, comic strips and comic books are two quite different media forms. Both Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon had great popularity in comic strip form, but their comic book versions were much less successful and more sporadic or intermittent.

Jump to 4 minutes to skip the reading of a wiki page or some web sites. Never mind. Way too long and repeats useful blather.

By 1966, Kubrick would start production on 2001. From the early 50s TV to the masterpiece in so short of time.

I thought you were going to blame the Westerns for killing Sci-fi 😅. Sad to believe many of these shows as well as some Dr. Who episodes are lost to time. How fun would be to watch the reruns today just for the nostalgia value.

For Me at 7 yrs. old It was 1964 The Outer Limits. (smile)

I watched it when it originally aired, and I've never forgotten it. I'm looking for the 4K Blu-Ray release that's never coming. If it ever does, I'm pre-ordering it. I should add/admit "Caprica" was my introduction to the "Battlestar Galactica" franchise. That may be why I like it so much. I didn't have the main series to compare it to.

Eva Marie Saint on Buck Rogers???? I must have misunderstood. It doesn't appear in her filmography.

😊😊😊😊😊😊interesting

I do hope this will be the start of an ongoing series...

Was the costume designer on acid

The western clips on Captain Video were explained...sort of. They were introduced as the adventures of the Captain Video's secret agents on Earth. Even as a seven to eight year old I thought this was rather silly and waited impatiently for the real adventures of the Captain and his Ranger to resume. p.s. I carried my Ranger ID wherever I went, always expecting that either the Captain or Ranger would show up and want me to establish that I really was a Video Ranger. In tribute to a favorite memory both my car and Harley MC carried various variations of "CAPTVIDEO" as the license number as does my E-Mail address and my 200 + pound Mastiff was named Ranger.. As for Tom Corbet, all of my "gang" pretended we were Corbet except for my closest friend who was Astro from Venus. None of us wanted to be the unreliable, often deceitful and and always reckless Roger Manning, the third cadet on the Space Ship.

At 17:21 of this video, that was to be the General on the Time Tunnel series.

I remember watching Flash Gordon, Commander Cody. Then the Adventures of Superman in 1963 when I was 8 yrs old, the 1st run of Star Trek and Lost In Space in 1966. What a vehicle of remembrance.

Interesting i have seen a.lot of 50s thru 80s scifi 😊

My second father in law was the star and producer of a Sci Fi show from 1953 -1956, this show was called Commander Comet. His name was Larry Harmon. Larry was also the owner of Bozo The Clown until his passing in 2008.

Thanks for taking the time and putting in the effort to make this. Interesting and a nice trip down memory lane.

As a Boomer the two that I remember from the early fifties were "Captain Video" and "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger." Watching them now on UA-cam now I can't believe how crudely they were produced. Except for the nostalgia aspect they're hard to sit through.

I loved to view Captain Video at our road trip motels when I was 10 so this video is very interesting! Thanks for showing it!

Very enjoyable and informative video. But please: can you tone down the background music in future? : )

In the U.S. pretty much everyone I knew had color TV by 1975. It must have been different for the U.K. I certainly knew the Dinky Eagles were the "wrong" colors and would have preferred them authentic, but I was also 14 years old in 1975, so not a child.

Pigbin Josh the series! I would be down for that, 'OooArrr!' In fact all of your show real looks better than what the BBC and Disney are planning - even Adric the Gathering would be better than another series with 'Fruity Gatwa'!

Great review, good job!

Brilliant I loved and enjoy the show you blokes put on, sad fact is I had most of those comics, lot's were stolen and others were lost in the mists of time. Keep up the really great work from Sydney Australia. And Thank You UA-cam.

Commando Cody was released in theatres BEFORE it appeared on television; it was filmed for contractual reasons.

I'm 78 & watched nearly all of these Sci-Fi shows when my family got their first t.v. set in early 1950 at age 4! All but two of these series are familiar to me, i.e. the short lived "Buck Rogers", "Rod Brown" etc. It was great fun imagining a world of the future, but disappointing to see how little it has changed in 70 years! p.s. (Believe it or not, in June 1950, I was interviewed on a very early t.v. show, hosted by Buster Crabbe (aka Flash Gordon & Buck Rogers)!

Rocky Jones is much more of a pattern piece for Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek than most realize. Several of the set and costume staff on that show went to work for Desilu. A Planetary Union Starbases A space navy A bridge with elevator behind and a flat video screen in front of the captain The on ship uniforms were tight T shirts with badges sewn on the left breast. The woman, Vina, wore a minidress and boots. Several of the plots were recycled as TOS episodes. Star Trek was very much a combination of Forbidden Planet and the kids show Rocky Jones Space Rangers....along with Space Cadet and Buck Rogers novels.

When Hollywood made Films, not cartoons.

Talk too much

NO!

First seashell: Conceals a button that, when pressed, cleans your bottom with warm water. Second seashell: Conceals a button that dries your bottom with a blast of warm air. Third seashell: Conceals a button that hits your bottom with antiperspirant powder. Those heavy kimonos really make you sweat. You're welcome.

Idiocracy looks like is spot on

Bro it's crazy I believed everything you said right up until "Nor will it ever be considered a classic" are you okay bro

So an earthquake in 2012 was a prediction of a pandemic in 2020. Im convinced, totally the same thing

Not a classic? perhaps a forgotten classic. This was playing on repeat on a bootleg vhs tape when i was 9. Yes, ratings mean nothing to unsupervised kids

"at least we arnt eating people" you prob shouldn't look at studies done with things like hotdogs, fast food, frozen foods......an ASTOUNDING amount of them contain human DNA......real shit and before someone says it, yes it is verifiable with a basic google search.