Space Patrol

Mike Moser

(4 stars; 9 reviews)

Space Patrol debuted on March 9, 1950, as a fifteen-minute show on KECA-TV in Los Angeles, a little over six months before the Tom Corbett series began. The first half-hour Saturday show began on December 30, 1950, and lasted until February 26, 1955. The fifteen-minute shows were kinescoped for broadcast outside of the Los Angeles area within a week or two of the California broadcast.

In June of 1952, the Saturday shows were broadcast live from coast to coast, while the daily fifteen-minute shows continued to be broadcast on the West Coast for at least three years after the coast-to-coast syndication had ended. The show's creator, Mike Moser, was a Navy veteran of World War II who had trained hurricane-hunter squadrons. He wanted kids to grow up with the same sense of wonder for the future he had experienced during his childhood with Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers.

The show was also broadcast twice a week on the radio during the run of the TV show, resulting in a hectic schedule for its crew. An estimated total of 210 Saturday half-hour shows, 200 radio programs, and at least 900 fifteen-minute TV shows were broadcast during the run of the show. Now join us for a "High Adventure in the wild reaches of space... missions of daring in the name of interplanetary justice."

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.