Wow! Such a good movie.

Don't listen to the negative reviews

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

LITTLEV DID WE know when we tuned in to all of these various images of "futuristic" space shows, that we were rapidly approaching the day when "Outer Space" would mean much more than just a bit of science fiction or fantasy. The year was 1950 and Sputnik (Soviet un-manned satellite), Muttnik (Soviet satellite with bowser inside) and Yuri Gargaran (man) weren't far off.THOSE Russian SUCCESSES sure shook up the nation and the United States soon followed with Alan Sheppard, John Glenn and the ultimate and eventual Lunar landing in 1969. It is our belief that the great sci-fi in our print and electronic media played a great part in accomplishing what we did in such a short period. (Of course it didn't hurt in having the likes of Dr. Werner von Braun and Willie Ley in our camp from the former Third Reich of Germany).ONE'S PREFDERENCE IN space shows revolved largely around the central character/hero and his appearance and personality. Hence, we had our choice of CAPTAIN VIDEO (father figure), TOM CORBETT (our brother) and SPACE PATROL's Buzz Corey (middle of the ground). Our fiction/fantasy made us believe as a people and we succeeded.OUR MEMORY OF this series is that each story was usually contained within its weekly episode. The characters, headed up by Buzz (Ed Kemmerer-a radio veteran actor and Cadet Happy (Lyn Osborn) were better equipped as a well tuned and meshed team. The roles of the two were as well defined as the others; but with two differences. First, their ages were close and secondly, Cadet Happy also provided some much needed comic relief.

I remembered this series on my local TV. Its TV announcer, Jack Narz, was a neighbor of mine as a kid. Mr. Narz was the brother of another famous TV announcer, Tom Kennedy. Both did game shows and announcing. This series of shows was just what a child needed to fire their imagination and their fantasy life. This show began a trend of spin-off TV outer space shows with many different stars and assistant kids. Mr. Lee van Cleef was a young actor and got needed work on this live TV show in its early days. The commercial sponsor tie-ins were an important part of these shows with Jack Narz. The sponsors were the bosses, not the networks, as it would become later in the sixties. Mr. Narz only died in 2008. He was a slice of professionalism and an era.

Im shocked to find the omission of Carol, the commissioners daughter, from your full cast credits. She was the lovely, leggy blonde, inventor, and unofficial sweetie of Commander Corry. Space Patrol a must see for any 11 year old boy in 1951, especially the episodes that featured Carol. The name of the actress was Virginia Hewitt. Space Patrol was an inventive, budget saving endeavor in the black and white early days of Television. One episode had the rocket ship sinking into a soft planet surface, which was accomplished by pulling material upwards around the model ship, creating the illusion of sinking. A great series for a wide eyed 11 yr old.

The headline of that month was of Ernest Hemingway and a short version of The Old Man and the Sea.It explained that a WWII fighter pilot had thought the whole thing up while flying raids in the Pacific during the War. He and two other writers were cranking out 85,000 words a week to keep the show running. It had a lot of the behind the scenes stories of the actors, etc. Some of the actors in this series died from Cancer at relatively early ages, and some were destitute. Nina Bara, from Argentina, was one of them. She had been married to Dwight Eisenhower's golf pro (also a relatively obscure actor himself) from Austraila for about five years...until Ike was out of power, then his popularity as an actor waned quickly. I understand he's still alive. She died in poverty.