"Captain Video and His Video Rangers" (1949) TV series 1949-1955

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Directors:

Linton Baldwin
Oliver Barbour

Writers:

John Holbrook Vance (writer) (3 episodes)
Don Aggar (writer)

Seasons:

unknown

Release Date:

27 June 1949 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi | Adventure | Family

Tagline:

Death-Defying Danger... Awe-Inspiring Thrills Await the Courage and Genius of Captain Video and His Video Rangers!

Plot:

"Guardian of the Safety of the World", private citizen-scientist Captain Video, assisted by his teenage helper The Ranger and an army of Video Rangers...

Plot Keywords:

Space Opera | Planet | Space Hero | Alien | Spacecraft

Cast

Don Hastings	...	The Video Ranger (31 episodes, 1949-1955)
Al Hodge	...	Captain Video (29 episodes, 1950-1955)
Ben Lackland	...	Commissioner of Public Safety Charles Carey (29 episodes, 1950-1955)
Hal Conklin	...	Dr. Pauli (28 episodes, 1949-1954)
Fred Scott	...	Communications Officer Rogers / ... (13 episodes, 1949-1955)
Ed Condit	...	Announcer / ... (13 episodes, 1951-1955)

Also Known As:

"Captain Video" (USA)

Runtime:

30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Ambassador Theatre - 219 West 49th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

DuMont Television Network

Trivia:

Captain Video was an agent of, and worked for, the Solar Council of the Interplanetary Alliance.

Quotes:

Narrator: Captain Video! Master of space! Hero of science! Captain of the Video Rangers! Operating from his secret mountain headquarters on the planet Earth, Captain Video rallies men of good will everywhere. As he rockets from planet to planet, let us follow the champion of justice, truth, and freedom throughout the universe!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Science Fiction: A Journey Into the Unknown (1994) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Overture to The Flying Dutchman

My first larger-than-life hero

Captain Video, flying fearlessly from planet to planet, protecting the universe from evil, introducing a little child to space ships, exotic peoples and worlds, robots, science, and science fiction. What a legacy to the world! Captain Video is the pioneer who made possible Star Trek and Star Wars and countless other flights of the imagination.

The stories were hokey, the special effects were nonexistent, even the Polaris and the Galaxy were obviously little plastic models with sparks coming out their exhausts, but none of that was important. The courage and the excitement of traveling to strange places and meeting exotic people and bravely defending the weak and the helpless were the things that mattered, the things that lasted through the years, the things that inspired the future.