CAPTAIN VIDEO & HIS VIDEO RANGERS 60 minutes

[KeegTech]

This video was made in that beautiful time when "scientific secrets and scientific weapons" actually meant anything

[gentlerat]

Didn't Captain Video kill the radio star?

[whalemedicine]

most excellent

[HeyLookItsASpah]

cool

[jvcc31]

thanks for this one,this is oine of the best!!!

[texasghost]

This stuff was before my time..but I do find these fascinating. I got a kick out some scenes on here where the background noise was so loud...you couldn't hear the people talking...lol

[CheshireFigment]

This show was broadcast live from a department store in NYC called Wanamaker's. I remember a few times when my mother took me there to watch the show live. They had a viewing area available for the public.

[blackmetalurgist]

I was there and I was that kind who loved this show. Now 70 years old I find it funny in a way. So primitive TV was back then. My dad at the time had an "in" at the studio in NYC and we got to visit and meet the REAL CAPT. Video and all the rangers! What a thrill for a kid it was. Like a couple of bedrooms outfitted with really fake looking instruments I was kind of dismayed, I did not know these shows were shot on such tiny sets. Oh well, life has change but there always was the Commies!

[WytZox1]

Gosharootee! ED NORTON was the original Trekkie! LOL☺

[fluxstringer]

I watched a lot of these when we got our first TV. You have to be in your mid '60s to understand the era at all. The young cannot imagine the difference in cultural expectations and technology.

[BringMeTheHorizon891]

well acctually its 57:45 minutes

[markdjenner]

HI GUYS HOW DO YOU GET TO UPLOAD A 60 MIN VIDEO

PLEASE CAN YOU LET ME KNOW

THANKS MARK J

[flapdoodle64]

If this show was on TV today, I would watch every episode.

[Franksiii1]

Ed Norton, The Honeymooners Ep. TV or NO TV is the one this show is on, check it out!!

[blank77]

Ed Norton's favorite show!!!

OFFICAL SPACE HELMET ON,CAPTIAN VIDEO!!!!!

[CollaborationSeries]

@blank77 omygosh i just looked this up because i am watching the honeymooners! i love that show!

[ysbaddaden2003]

Dang....this is pretty lame....seems a lot like Blackhawk with the international group of fighters based in a mountain, waaay too talky, and makes The Lone Ranger of 1949 look so much more polished, even though Clayton Moore was wooden that year, closely imitating Brace Beemer. The Steve Holland Flash Gordon from West Germany was even more polished.

[ysbaddaden2003]

And then it suddenly turns into a western? Even that was lame. But I couldn't shake the feeling that Billy the kid was Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers.

[TheLastBrainLeft]

@ysbaddaden2003 It's called filler.

Remember, being able to watch this stuff in your home was still a novel idea. When the internet was new, what were the people using it for? Dancing hamsters. Lame homepages on Geocities.

[RetroToledo]

@TheLastBrainLeft Ah, the early days of the World Wide Web!

[zir6]

This was on DuMont -- wasn't it? Produced at WABD in NYC?

[MrMichaelMenkin]

The spirit of Captain Video is still alive. My father, created Captain Video in 1949, when I was six years old. He took me to the show often and I have been on the sets in this presentation. The thought screen helmet is an inspiration from Captain Video. See Stop Alien Abductions and Aliens and Children.

[ia57man]

I can remember eating PowerHouse Candy bars to send in the wrappers for my decoder ring. :-) It's great to see these again. I was so little I hardly remember them.

[akeagle049]

I remember show just barely as I was only 2 years old at the time. It brings back memory of TV from year past.

[TheJomogogo]

10:40 ..."I had to change course to fly over a COUPLE of hurricanes"......global warming caused it no doubt

[CROWPARTY]

imagine someone asked "if it was uploaded in 2007 why is it in black & white, like i dont get it" hahahahaha

[jeffcool78]

# Captain Video (19491955) - Almost entire run destroyed after the DuMont Television Network ceased to exist.

[flapdoodle64]

If this was on TV, I would watch it every night.

[BerlinBo]

Too bad i don't have a ring now. And what became of PowerHouse bars?

[ysbaddaden2003]

I wonder if Captain Video was influenced by Blackhawk and his WWII aviators?

[duanerichardson]

tv sci fi was a whole lot more fun back then

[voices4equality]

This. Was.  AWFUL. WTF???

[luscaslayer]

TV was shot and broadcast entirely live in those days - so it's a lot of fun to watch these guys flub their lines and just keep going: "Could you further... uh... could you.... send... further details?". That's true professionalism, though. And it has a certain realness in the execution that you don't see today (i.e. people hesitate and make mistakes in real speech too).

[bananarama666]

You know what was also entirely live those days? Theater. That has been live about 3000 years more than TV and they don't make these mistakes. THAT is professionalism.

[obscurityandbeyond]

Yeah, but in theatre you're not putting on a different show ever night and given just a couple of hours to learn your lines. With regards TV, most modern actors would freak out if they messed up their lines on a live broadcast. These guys didn't give a shit. They're badass.

[WeaselKing1000]

@obscurityandbeyond Badass...right...emphasis on 'bad' I think.

[RetroToledo]

@obscurityandbeyond These are really the pros here.

[rickderry8]

My dad appeared in this series, it was a laugh, still have the copy. "Ray Mulderick" actor, producer, director

[rusty8430]

Being "a guardian of the safety of the world" never ended for some of us!

Even if you can't find your Captain Video Rings we are needed now more than ever.

P.S.

We had great candy and stuff back then and mothers who could cook and bake and even make their own bread. I loved it when I got to squeeze all the coloring into the margarine.

I was 9 in 1949 and there were only tiny round screens and very few homes had them. Captain Video, of course, had a rectangular screen before everybody else.

[lskarin]

tvdays:

Well, yes. "Buffalo Bob" Smith (creator of Howdy and company) had a MTWRF show. This was the television early days and New York City got 7 channels right off the bat 2-4-5-7-9-11-13. This is all before UHF. The FM radio band fit in between channels 6 and 7. Historically there is no channel 1 because of interference from the harmonics from diathermy -- a radio (not X-ray) therapy at the time.

Broadcast freaks can follow shows that went from radio to TV like Smiling Ed's Gang.

[lskarin]

I remember a double pole knife switch on the side of the "control panel" that was there to "retract wings" on the X-9. Also remember a villain who became a good guy (because of a woman) called Spartak.

[tvdays]

Are you in your late sixties. I'm 58 and to young. Like I rememeber Howdy Doody saturdays, and you might during the week.

[143AC]

Mr.Fred Scott was the show's announcer and the gentleman

..who introduced the reruns of old movie westerns on the show as "Comm.Officer Rogers"..sadly, Mr.Scott left us

recently.

[SILENTLY9]

Does anyone know how i can get the Captain vido Ring ?

[UltimateThanos]

Official Space Helmate On, Captain Video!!!!!!!

[freakincampers]

My favorite TV show. Picture me eyes glued to the magic box that makes moving black and white pictures, TV. Every day at 4:30 or 5:00 in the afternoon I watched a 15 or 30 minute episode of "Captain Video". Once when mom and dad were visiting their friends, I was told that Captain Video lived just a few houses down the street. Would I like to meet him? I think I pee'ed myself. I said no, the excitement was more than I could handle. I had a Captain Video ring. I wish I still did...

[stokepogue]

Arthur C Clarke wrote for this show once. Something tells me Stanley Kubrick never knew that.

[ethetoy2]

what was a video back in the 50's? Video games came out in the 70's vhs video came out in the 70's they didn't use videos back then to record tv so what was the meaning of this word back then

[Prionic77]

@ethetoy2 I know it's a bit late to respond but thought I'd go ahead anyhow. Video, at this point in time, was used as a visual equivalent of audio. Since radio (audio) was still the major and primary form of mass communication at the time, tv (video) seemed very high tech in comparison. Think of how the words "cyber" and "virtual" got thrown around and added to toys and scifi shows in the late 80's and 90's to make them seem cool as computers were entering the average home.

[1952kid]

Uncle FRED SCOTT IS IN THERE;40;50 MINUTES INTO THE VIDEO,R.I.P.

[unclebobunclebob]

That's the Lone Ranger's voice talking to the guy on the phone in the beginning. What the...

[Philflash]

Official Space helmet on captain video.

[SILENTLY9]

you're funny , but i need a captain vido helmet too

[Philflash]

You have to see the version with the Honeymooners, Art Carney, that is where I got the tag line.

[SILENTLY9]

I know , i did see that one too , it was so funny . I would love that old Helmet ...

[rnigma]

Weird, how they interrupt the "action" to show a bit of an old Western!  Talk about padding.

[janecath]

Wow! This is a childhood memory! Thank you for the Memories!

[pablsb]

I remember most of the episodes of this show. I was only 9 when I started to watch it on our neighbors TV since we did not yet have one.

Does anyone know where I can get a copy of this video? I have the 1949 tape of the original show, but not the later ones of which this is one.

[dazzaehm]

How Did You Get A 58 Min Vid On Youtube Please I Need To Know

[rufusminnie]

They really knew how to do TV shows back then. Nothing is as much fun anymore. We were permitted to use our imaginations.

[cossack207]

well said!

[cossack207]

well said!

[mrsbrown333]

oh the drama, cheap props , terrible dialogue and cardboard sets. wonderful.