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In the television listings magzine TV Post for the week starting June 27 1963, a small feature introduced viewers in Northern Ireland to the series. Here is the article reproduced in full, along with the small picture of Colonel Raeburn used tp promote it.


Lawmen Of The Planets


This afternoon we travel forward in time to the year 2100 - the time when the SPACE PATROL operates.

Colonel Raeburn is the commander of these policemen of space, who inspect the planets and make sure that the law is kept.

In the series we will be following the adventures of one of the crews, Captain Larry Dart and his men, Husky the Martian and Slim the Venusian.

By the year 2100 rockets as we know them are seen only in museums. Space travel is carried out in Galaspheres - tyre shaped cabins made of plutonite, a lightweight, enormously strong metal from Pluto.

These cabins are surrounded by high speed orbiting tubes which enable the ship to ascend as slowly as a balloon or attain a speed of a million miles an hour.



© 1963 TV Post (Belfast)

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Husky's Technical Manual
Galasphere
Freighter
Missiles
Interceptors
Confectionery
Robots
New York
UGO HQ
UGF HQ
We close on the blazing sun in space before fading to a view of ringed planet Saturn. A gyroscope-like ship, enclosed in a flickering bubble of energy, speeds past us and beyond accompanied by almost musical radiophonic tones. We see it pass the Moon before spinning away to the twilight of the Earth's curved horizon... As we hear a grinding rhythmic electronic score, we see scenes of a futuristic city under a dramatic sky. Some buildings and antennae rotate, light pours from other structures as bullet-shaped and spherical vehicles move rapidly back and forth... 'This is Earth - the year 2100. New York is the headquarters of Space Patrol and men from Earth, Mars and Venus live and work there as guardians of peace. This is the story of those men, whose courage and daring make the universe safe for us all.'
We close on the blazing sun in space before fading to a view of ringed planet Saturn. A gyroscope-like ship, enclosed in a flickering bubble of energy, speeds past us and beyond accompanied by almost musical radiophonic tones. We see it pass the Moon before spinning away to the twilight of the Earth's curved horizon... As we hear a grinding rhythmic electronic score, we see scenes of a futuristic city under a dramatic sky. Some buildings and antennae rotate, light pours from other structures as bullet-shaped and spherical vehicles move rapidly back and forth... 'This is Earth - the year 2100. New York is the headquarters of Space Patrol and men from Earth, Mars and Venus live and work there as guardians of peace. This is the story of those men, whose courage and daring make the universe safe for us all.'
We close on the blazing sun in space before fading to a view of ringed planet Saturn. A gyroscope-like ship, enclosed in a flickering bubble of energy, speeds past us and beyond accompanied by almost musical radiophonic tones. We see it pass the Moon before spinning away to the twilight of the Earth's curved horizon... As we hear a grinding rhythmic electronic score, we see scenes of a futuristic city under a dramatic sky. Some buildings and antennae rotate, light pours from other structures as bullet-shaped and spherical vehicles move rapidly back and forth... 'This is Earth - the year 2100. New York is the headquarters of Space Patrol and men from Earth, Mars and Venus live and work there as guardians of peace. This is the story of those men, whose courage and daring make the universe safe for us all.'