I almost put this in the RPG section.

Just after the 2nd time I watched WATCHMEN I stopped in a branch of HALF-PRICE Books. They also sell DVD and Videotapes there. I discovered for around $6.95 a two Disc package of the 1954 TV series ....

ROCKY JONES : SPACE RANGER!!

It only lasted a season and half - so WHY is it on DVD?? Because the producers back then decided to do it on film rather than stage it 'live' or on videotape. As a result we have it 50 plus yars later to look at.

Its not bad  - I at first bought it out of curiosity and because it seemed like a bargain.  

Truthfully , its pretty damn entertaining.

Then,...I started to get the beginning embers of an RPG campaign idea from it. Some campaign ideas are starting form now. I got a hankering to watch the 1980 FLASH GORDON, original Buster Crabbe BUCK ROGERS if I can find it ...etc....

One interesting bit out of it :the good ol rocketship 'Orbit Jet X-V2" has a woman navigator. Granted, she wears a skirt as part of her uniform - but she also stands up for herself when something sexist was said.  That was unexpected - keep in mind this was supposed to be a kids show in 1954. A lottle bit of Women's lib a decade early.

I went and checked - and one of the regularscrupotwriters was a woman named Marianne Mosner. Most recent credit I saw for her was writing an episode of the sat morning shjow "Space Academy" for CBS. (Which would also make a good RPG setting)
Even during the time of the original STAR TREK there weren't that many women television scriptwriters. Dorothy Fonmtanaa had to disguise her name slightly as " D.C. Fontana" to get more work at the time.


If You find the DVDs in your area - its worth a look.

- Ed C.

Wikipedia article:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Jones,_Space_Ranger

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046639/

I got a couple Rocky Jones in one of those big boxes you can pick up, with 100 movies on twenty disks for $10. I love those things. Rocky's pretty entertaining. He makes me think of Dan Ackroyd playing overly-seriously for irony, but there's none there. Rocky is strictly L-7, baby. And that's OK.