This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Although Space Patrol is set 500 years beyond the Star Trek TNG series it seems to be as primitive as the 20th century. Our concept of space travel seem to center on the rocket, all the science fiction shows of early television had that concept be it Rocky Jones, Tom Corbett, or even Space Patrol. No one could conceive of a ship like the Starship Enterprise.Space Patrol has Ed Kemmer and his crew, Lynn Osborn, Ken Mayer, and Nina Bara working for an outfit called United Planets as opposed to Star Trek's United Federation Of Planets. This was a futuristic law enforcement outfit tracking down villains as yet not conceived 20th century standards. In that Space Patrol seems to have anticipated the Star Trek franchise.It still amazes me though that the computer seems to have no place in science fiction programming of the time. Not on the small screen in a show like Space Patrol or on the big screen are computers even acknowledged.Like its peers Space Patrol is a museum piece and a lot of indulgence must be given in watching it.

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.

If you craved thrills and action with not much science fiction underpinning, and an unabashedly total lack of realism, this was the early 1950s space adventure program for you. Square-jawed, intelligent and courageous Commander Buzz Corry and his comical sidekick Cadet Happy faced certain death in nearly every once-a-week Saturday morning broadcast. Done live, with very impressive sets, and a wide variety of Hollywood character actors as villains, this was almost always worth tuning in to. Almost all the programs survived on 16 mm and 35 mm kinescopes, and are readily available today from video retail sources.