Captain Video

Captain Video, also known as Captain Video and His Video Rangers, was the earliest science fiction series on TV, running on the DuMont network from 1949 to 1955. Aimed at children, the series was set in the future and had the title character operating from a mountain base, eventually branching out into space. Robots, ray guns, rocket ships, and mad scientists were all fixtures.
Although few episodes circulate outside of museums and archives, the series was influential enough in its time to spawn toys, comic books, a film serial, and rate references or parodies on The Honeymooners, Dennis the Menace, and in Looney Tunes shorts.
==References==
*A September 9, 1959 installment of Sam and Friends, listed in script as "Rocket Ship," has Professor Madcliffe building a space vessel he calls The Silver Swallow. Kermit refuses an invitation to join the prof on his journey to Mars, calling him Captain Video (or as spelled in the surviving script, "Captain Vidio.")Shemin, Craig. Sam and Friends: The Story of Jim Henson's First Television Show. p. 393
==Connections==
*William Keene appeared in an episode of the spin-off The Secret Files of Captain Video (1953)
*Arnold Stang played Clumsy McGee (1951)
==Sources==
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Category:TV References