Space Patrol (1950 TV series)

This article is about the 1950 American television series. For the 1962 British television series, see Space Patrol (1962 TV series).
Space Patrol
Title card from the episode "The Energy Thief", original air date September 13, 1950
Genre
Created byMike Moser
Written byMike Moser
Norman Jolley
(radio) Lou Huston
Directed byDick Darley
StarringEd Kemmer
Lyn Osborn
Ken Mayer
Virginia Hewitt
Nina Bara
Bela Kovacs
Narrated byJack Narz
George Barclay
Frank Bingham (TV)

Dick Tufeld
Dick Wesson (radio)
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons5.5
No. of episodes
  • 210 (30 min. TV episodes)
  • 900 (15 min. TV episodes)
  • 129 (radio episodes)
Production
Executive producerMike Moser
ProducersMike Moser
Dik Darley
Camera setupAlex Quiroga
John DeMoss
Running time15–30 minutes (weekly)
Production companiesMike Moser Productions, Inc.
Original release
NetworkABC
ReleaseMarch 9, 1950 (1950-03-09) –
February 26, 1955 (1955-02-26)
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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. It soon developed a sizable adult audience, and by 1954 the program consistently ranked in the top 10 shows broadcast on a Saturday.[2]

  1. ^ Hyatt, Wesley (1997). The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television. Watson-Guptill Publications. pp. 405–406. ISBN 978-0823083152. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  2. ^ Bassior, Jean-Noel (2012). Space Patrol Missions of Daring in the Name of Early Television. McFarland & Company. pp. 238–242. ISBN 978-0-7864-6900-0.