Space Rangers - Galactic police force on the children's sci-fi adventure ROCKY JONES, SPACE RANGER/SYN/1954. The Space Rangers protected the 21st century inhabitants of the United World Solar System.

The members/associates included Rocky Jones (Richard Crane), chief of the Rangers; Winky, (Scott Beckett), the co-pilot; Bobby  (Robert Lyden), a rookie ranger-in-training; Professor Newton (Maurice Cass), a slim, aging inventor genius reminiscent of the first Doctor Who; Yarra (Dian Fauntelle), the slightly overdressed female who wore a cape, evening  gown, large silk waistband, dangling earrings and a necklace; Verna Ray  (Sally Mansfield), the one Rocky Jones was always saving in the nick of time; and support players Crystal Reeves, Ralph Brooks and Robert Carson.

The Space Rangers wore dark jackets, tee shirts, and baseball caps. Their insignia was a sphere with the tips of a triangle protruding from it surface.

Their sleek, needle pointed spacecraft, The Orbit Jet (later the Silver Moon) carried them through the galaxy. The four fins at the its base doubled as landing pods. XV-2 is Rocky's radio code.

TV premiums purchase by the viewers of the program called "Junior Spacemen" included clothing, toy, comics, etc. A sample of a record produced was "Rocky Jones and the Space Pirates" 45 RPM Columbias MJV-4-153.

The program closed with "Be with us again next week when we again take you into outer space with Rocky Jones, Space Ranger."

TRIVIA NOTE: Almost 40 years later another program called SPACE RANGERS/CBS/1993 aired. Set in the year 2104 at Fort Hope on the planet Avalon, the series featured a renegade band of Space Rangers who fought the sinister forces of the universe. The Space Rangers consisted of their leader Captain John Boon (Jeff Kaake) and his crew Doc (Jack McGee), the ship's bionic engineer, (aka "Tin Man"); Zylyn (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) a master of the Zylyusian Flute Sword from the planet Grakka; JoJo (Marjorie Monaghan), a towering gorgeous blond pilot from the planet New Venus who thought men were wimps; and a youthful cadet named Daniel Kincaid (Danny Quinn). The misfit group reported to Commander Chennault (Linda Hunt).