Space Patrol is a science fiction adventure series that was originally aimed at juvenile audiences of the early 1950s via television, radio, and comic books. However, it soon developed a sizable adult audience such that by 1954, the program consistently ranked in the top 10 shows broadcast on a Saturday.
Space Patrol -- an epic in miniature, a fantasy all the more poignant for its moral realities -- makes this a lesson worth learning.
Mainstream comedies should all be this funny and tender and deftly performed.
Very funny and smart, its shot like a comedy and suffers like most comedies do because of it.