Video Rangers, The - The members of the 22nd century crimefighting force on the children's sci-fi series CAPTAIN VIDEO AND HIS VIDEO RANGERS/DUM/1947-57. Based atop his lofty mountain retreat, Captain Video (Richard Coogan/Al Hodges), known as the "Guardian of the Safety of the World" and his sidekick, the Video Ranger (Don Hastings) guarded the solar system for the Solar Council (a federation of the planets Mars, Pluto, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Eos and Earth) against the nefarious deeds of the evil Dr. Pauli, Mook the Moon Man, Hing Foo Seeng, Dr. Clysmok, Nargola, Kul of Eos, Atar and the giant space robot called Tobor ("Robot" spelled backwards). In the 1951 serial, the character Video Ranger was played by (Larry Stewart).

Other gadgets used by the Captain and the Video Rangers included the spaceship Galaxy, Radio Scillometer (a palm-sized communicator), the Cosmic Ray Vibrator (shook enemies into submission) and the Remote Tele-carrier, a TV screen used to view frontier agents working for Captain Video (actually old black and white westerns edited into the program).

On the sitcom THE HONEYMOONERS/CBS/1955-56, the TV character Edward L. Norton (Art Carney), a sewer worker was a  ranger third class in the Captain Video Space Academy. He even owned a large bubble shaped space helmet that he wore when he watched episodes of CAPTAIN VIDEO. See also OATHS & PLEDGES - "We, as official Video Rangers..."