Rocky Jones, Space Ranger is a television program based on the exploits of clean-cut, square-jawed Rocky Jones, the best known of the Space Rangers, Earth-based space policemen who patrolled the United Worlds of the Solar System in the not-too-distant future. Rocky Jones (Richard Crane) is the quintessential action hero: brave, strong, handsome, highly moral, and always ready to defend his beliefs with action. To the women of these stories, he is irresistible, even to arch-villain Cleolanta. Rocky and his crew travel aboard a V-2-like, chemically-fueled, upright rocketship, the Orbit Jet XV-2, later replaced by the nearly identical Silver Moon XV-3, on missions to moons and planetoids, where the odds of success seemed remote, yet they would always prevail. Although they might destroy a rocketship full of unseen villains, their space pistols were never fired at people, and conflicts were always resolved with only fistfights. Although many strange worlds were visited, the alien characters usually spoke American English, and always appeared as normal humans, albeit wearing bizarre costumes in normal environments. The script-writers did not appear to know the difference between planets, moons, stars, and constellations, so that the specific locations Rocky and his sidekicks visited are generally unknown to astronomers.
Description Rocky Jones, Space Ranger is a television program based on the exploits of clean-cut, square-jawed Rocky Jones, the best known of the Space Rangers, Earth-based space policemen who patrolled the United Worlds of the Solar System in the not-too-distant future. Rocky Jones (Richard Crane) is the quintessential action hero: brave, strong, handsome, highly moral, and always ready to defend his beliefs with action. To the women of these stories, he is irresistible, even to arch-villain Cleolanta. Rocky and his crew travel aboard a V-2-like, chemically-fueled, upright rocketship, the Orbit Jet XV-2, later replaced by the nearly identical Silver Moon XV-3, on missions to moons and planetoids, where the odds of success seemed remote, yet they would always prevail. Although they might destroy a rocketship full of unseen villains, their space pistols were never fired at people, and conflicts were always resolved with only fistfights. Although many strange worlds were visited, the alien characters usually spoke American English, and always appeared as normal humans, albeit wearing bizarre costumes in normal environments. The script-writers did not appear to know the difference between planets, moons, stars, and constellations, so that the specific locations Rocky and his sidekicks visited are generally unknown to astronomers.
