Space Patrol Satellite Police TV DVD Ed Kemmer (1950)

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Space Patrol Satellite Police TV DVD Ed Kemmer (1950)

The footage includes 45 Minutes of very hard to find 1950s Classic

Space Patrol was a science fiction adventure, aimed at juvenile audiences of the early 1950s via television, radio, and comic books.  The television show ran for 210 network episodes from September 1950 to February 1955. The series was patterned unabashedly after Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers and its TV rival, Captain Video. A local weekday 15-minute version of the program also aired live in Los Angeles and was seen via kinescope in a few other cities.  The stories followed the 30th-century adventures of Commander Buzz Corry (Ed Kemmer) of the United Planets Space Patrol and his young sidekick Cadet Happy (Lyn Osborn) —- yes, Cadet Happy —- as they faced nefarious interplanetary villains with diabolical schemes. Not surprisingly for the time, some of these villains had Russian- or German-sounding accents. Cmdr. Corry and his allies were aided by such nifty gadgets as "miniature space-o-phones" and "atomolights." Episodes had such pulp-magazine titles as "Revolt of the Space Rats" and "The Menace of Planet X."  The special effects used in the live half-hour TV episodes had to be performed in real time. For example, pistols that shot invisible rays necessitated pre-positioning a small explosive charge on the wall. An actor would point the prop at that spot, whereupon a special effects worker would throw a detonation switch. These effects could not have been superimposed on film for the series was done live. For distribution to distant stations, an image of a tiny, bright TV monitor was filmed to make kinescopes, and most of the Saturday half-hour TV broadcasts are available in this form today. The 15-minutes-every-weekday version of the program was at first seen mainly in the Los Angeles viewing area, but also was later distributed nationwide via kinescopes; it was not carried by ABC-TV but was presented in syndication.

 Lyn Osborn ...   Cadet Happy  
 Nina Bara ...      Tonga  
 Ken Mayer ...     Maj. Robbie Robertson  
 Ed Kemmer ...  Cmdr. Buzz Corry 

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