ZX-99 - Spacecraft on the children's sci-fi series CAPTAIN Z-RO/SYN/1952-55. The ZX-99 was owned by scientist/explorer Captain Z-Ro (Roy Steffens) who with his assistant, Jet (Bobby Trumbull) flew through outer space at a speed of five miles per second. When the Captain wanted to zoom through time, he used his special time machine which enabled him to visit a variety of historical periods from Biblical days to the American Revolution. The Captain's time machine featured an Electro Generator, a Trillatron, and the Lectric Chamber with Spector Wave Length which transports the Captain back into any desired period of time. Before departing on a mission the Captain remarked "Spaceman's Luck." When he was ready to return to his present time, he said "All right, Jet, take me back." To protect himself, the Captain used a Pararay Gun that paralyzed victims for 60 seconds at a time. The CAPTAIN Z-RO program not only provided good vs. evil plots but educated its young viewers about a variety of historical periods. The show was a precursor to other time traveling programs such as YOU ARE THERE/CBS/1953-57 where reporters from the 20th century delivered on the spot reports and interviews with people and events in the past; PEABODY'S IMPROBABLE HISTORY, an animated component series of ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS/ABC/1959-61 about a genius dog who traveled in time via his WABAC Machine with his boy Sherman; DOCTOR WHO/BBC/1963-89 a British sci-fi adventure about a Timelord from the Planet Galifrey who transcends time and space in his TARDIS time machine; THE HECTOR HEATHCOTE SHOW/NBC/1963-64 the animated misadventures of a time traveling scientist who bumbled about in America's past; THE TIME TUNNEL/ABC/1966-67 with James Darren as Dr. Tony Newman and Robert Colbert as Dr. Doug Phillips, two American scientists who entered "The Time Tunnel" and got lost in the swirling maze of yesteryears; TIME EXPRESS/CBS/1979 about a train carrying people back in time to events important to their lives; QUANTUM LEAP/NBC/1989-93 with Scott Bakula as scientist Dr. Sam Beckett whose soul occupied the bodies of persons living in the immediate past; TIME TRAX/SYN/1993-94 with Dale Midkiff as Darien Lambert, a 22nd century cop who traveled back to the present time (via TRAX-Trans-Time Research and Experimentation) to catch mad scientist Dr. Mordicai Sahmbi (Peter Donat) who escaped through time; and a similar series TIMECOP/SYN/1997-98.