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A 1954 Science Fiction TV series, following the adventures of the titular hero and his group of friends. The program was a Television Serial, its episodes arranged into definitive story arcs (commonly three episodes each, though there were a few stand-alone episodes scattered in as well), a number of which have been edited together into movie format. Two such Compilation Movies, "Manhunt In Space" and "Crash Of The Moons", were featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000; several others are available on DVD.The show starred Richard Crane as square-jawed Rocky Jones; Scotty Beckett as Plucky Comic Relief "Winky"; Sally Mansfield as Vena Rey; Robert Lyden as Tagalong Kid Bobby; and Maurice Cass as Professor Newton. Other regulars and semi-regulars included Rocky's boss, Secretary Drake, and frequent villain Queen Cleolanta (she prefers the title "Suzerain"), along with her primary henchman Atlasan; Atlasan's wife Trinka also plays an important role in one arc.Story arcs available on DVD include: "Beyond The Moon" (aka "Beyond The Curtain Of Space") "Crash Of The Moons" "Gypsy Moon" (aka "Rocky's Odyssey") "Manhunt In Space" (aka "The Pirates Of Prah") "Menace From Outer Space" (aka "Bobby's Comet") "Silver Needle In The Sky" (aka "Duel In Space")This series has a recap index.Other DVD collections featuring various episodes are also available.
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Aliens Speaking English
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Aliens Speaking English: Lampshaded at one point with alien ruler Bovarro and his wife who occasionally lapse into their own (German/Russian-esque) language. Partially averted in "Menace From Outer Space" in which differing alien societies are shown to have their own languages, though they also speak English.
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Reading Ahead in the Script
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Reading Ahead in the Script: A non-comedic example in "Rocky's Odyssey," a Whole-Plot Reference to the Greek epic. Bobby figures out early on that their adventure is suspiciously similar to the adventure he's reading for homework, and by act three he's outright looking up in his book what they should do next.
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Defeat Means Friendship
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Defeat Means Friendship: Atlasan; later on, Cleolanta.
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The Chick
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The Chick: Vena
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Bedsheet Ghost
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Bedsheet Ghost: A Fat, Sweaty Southerner in a White Suit IN SPACE! is trying to steal the land rights to some sort of space gold-mine, and is thwarted not by the Space Rangers, but by a couple of kids throwing a sheet over their remote-control airplane so he thinks it's a ghost.
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Gravity Sucks
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Gravity Sucks: Surprisingly averted in "Crash of the Moons" and "The Pirates Of Prah" in which spaceships get trapped in planetary orbit.
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God Save Us from the Queen!
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God Save Us from the Queen!: Queen Cleolanta has absolutely no interest in ending the Space Cold War between her world and the United Worlds, preferring to pick fights and spark international incidents seemingly out of petty spite.
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Walk-In Chime-In
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Walk-In Chime-In: In "The Pirates Of Prah", Vena is holding a couple of pirates at gunpoint...
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Stupid Scientist
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Stupid Scientist: Professor Newton says in the beginning that the moons will not collide. When he learns that he's wrong, he changes his mind very, very quickly.
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Two of Your Earth Minutes
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Two of Your Earth Minutes: Averted; apparently, planet Ophecius uses the same Gregorian calendar as the U.S. Earth the United Worlds.
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Deus ex Machina
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Griff is exploded while driving away in a car on Earth by a magic Deus ex Machina button. By the next episode, he has his own spaceship and is a space pirate.
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Tagalong Kid
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Tagalong Kid: Bobby
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The Guards Must Be Crazy
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The Guards Must Be Crazy: Trinka easily slips past the inattentive guard to reach Rocky and Winky. However, it's also subverted later in the episode, when this self-same guard checks in on Winky and Rocky; Winky pretends to be asleep, but the guard can't help but notice that Rocky is missing.
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Let's Fight Like Gentlemen
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Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: Rocky expresses once that he much prefers fisticuffs over using diplomacy tactics. He also never fires a gun, but that could be due to it being a children's show in The '50s.
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Surveillance as the Plot Demands
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Surveillance as the Plot Demands: the so-called "VisioGraph". Also crosses over with Magical Security Cam, but more the former than the latter.
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Star Trek Shake
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Brown Note
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Brown Note: The Nagato Siren in "Rocky's Odyssey" induces violent urges and aggressiveness in anyone who hears it.
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Future Slang
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Future Slang: "Sparkling stardust!" "Roaring rockets!" "Jumping satellites!" "Super cosmic!" "Mighty meteor!" "Rattle my rocket reflexes!" and the like. Now with Added Alliterative Appeal for extra annoying!
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Heel–Face Turn
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Heel–Face Turn: Atlasan. He'll decry his wife as a traitor to her country, but he won't stand for genocide.
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Invisibility Cloak
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Invisibility Cloak: Professor Newton's "Cold Light" device from the "Manhunt in Space" arc.
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Techno Babble
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Ironic, in that the movie itself contains precious little Techno Babble. Well, except for the explanation of Cold Light. Just as a mirage is caused by hot light, "cold" light makes things invisible! (Mary Jo Pehl: "Well, I can see how tha-HUH?!?")
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The Cast Showoff
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The Cast Show Off: Scotty Beckett wrote the lullaby that he sings to Bobby in "The Pirates Of Prah".
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Neutral Female
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Neutral Females: Hey, it is The '50s! Particularly notable example: When Rocky and Winky get into a brawl with guards during a prison break, collaborator Trinka does not grab a vase or some such to klonk the guards with; rather, she runs off to hide in a corner. To be kinda fair, after the fight she does help lock the guards in a room full of sleeping gas. Also poor Cleolanta's henchmen are pretty much all contemptuous of the idea of a woman in charge; they condescend to her constantly. No wonder she's evil.
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Comic-Book Adaptation
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Comic-Book Adaptation: Space Adventures, Issues 15, 16, 17, and 18. This seems to be a Type 2 or 3 adaptation.
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The Federation
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The United Worlds: But Cleolanta's having no part of that, thank you.
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We Will Use WikiWords in the Future
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We Will Use WikiWords in the Future: VisioGraph, AstroPhone
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Red Oni, Blue Oni
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Red Oni, Blue Oni: the Gypsy Moons Pozita and Negato, and their respective world governments. Appropriate since they are metaphors of the positive and negative poles of electricity and magnetism.
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Space Clothes
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Space Clothes Fashion Dissonance: Cleolanta's guards. "So why are you dressed as Liberace's chauffeur?"
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New Rules as the Plot Demands
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The VisioGraph works by reflecting "positive rays". But even its magic is limited by some unspecified range and some shielding in walls, basically as the plot demands.
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Space Opera
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Space Opera
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum: The aforementioned Cold Light device works by reversing the principle that mirages are caused by the desert's intense heat distorting the light itself. The VisioGraph works by reflecting "positive rays". But even its magic is limited by some unspecified range and some shielding in walls, basically as the plot demands.
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Space Cold War
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Space Cold War: the United Worlds vs Ophecius.
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Third-Person Person
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Third-Person Person: Pinto Vortando in "Kip's Private War".
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Minimalist Cast
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Minimalist Cast: How many people work at the Office of Space Affairs? As far as we see, its Secretary Drake and his assistant. Other worlds' HQs fare little better. In "Manhunt In Space", there's only ONE guy who runs the control room. Though, to be fair, there seem to be only three landing pads for ships, as Joel and the Bots are keen to point out.
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Femme Fatale
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Femme Fatale: Cleolanta's not quite evil enough to qualify as The Vamp.
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Locked in a Room
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Trapped In A Bomb Shelter: "Oh, this is like that Perfect Strangers/Family Ties/Full House episode where they get locked in the basement!"
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Heel Realization
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Heel Realization: Torvac in "Rocky's Odyssey" comes to see how horrible the Nagato Siren Song is. In his defense, he himself was also under its influence.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: Cleolanta Femme Fatale: Cleolanta's not quite evil enough to qualify as The Vamp.
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The Professor
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The Professor: aptly named "Prof. Newton".
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As You Know
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As You Know: In the "Manhunt In Space" arc, a pirate traps Vena's spaceship in orbit. He then has to explain to Vena (who is, mind you, an astronavigator) what an "orbit" is.
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Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?
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Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Winky will not shut up about his sexual conquests. Gains bonus points for being a Running Gag throughout the "Pirates Of Prah" arc, right after Winky mentioned his "gay" nightlife.
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Fashion Dissonance
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Fashion Dissonance: Cleolanta's guards. "So why are you dressed as Liberace's chauffeur?"
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Winky is nominally the Plucky Comic Relief; but when the chips are down, he mops the floor with guys twice his size.
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Captain Space, Defender of Earth!
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Captain Space, Defender of Earth!: Oh goodness yes. It would be hard to find a truer example than Rocky.
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Xtreme Kool Letterz
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Xtreme Kool Letterz: The comic adaptions of the show spells it "VizeoGraph". The TV show, admittedly, never tells you how these things are spelled.
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Colony Drop: "Crash Of The Moons"
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Noodle Implements: From the opening segment with the Mads
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Hypocritical Humor: While pointing out some of the problems with the film.
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Negative Continuity: Shades of this. In the first story arc, Newton Observatory is a place on Ophecius, but in the second story arc, it is on Earth. Either there are two identical observatories, one on each planet, or the location inexplicably moved between planets. Griff is exploded while driving away in a car on Earth by a magic Deus ex Machina button. By the next episode, he has his own spaceship and is a space pirate.
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Translator Microbes: The ticker tape machine used in "Rocky's Odyssey" to communicate with Bovarro the Positan.
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Dull Surprise: Rocky, as the MST guys say, what he lacks in expressions he makes up for with hat tips.
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Series Continuity Error: Manages to get a lot of little things with their science wrong from story arc to story arc. Things like how the spaceships work, where and how the VizeoGraph functions, locations/functions of instruments, and duties of personnel. Then again, most of these are dictated by the plot.
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Space Is Noisy
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Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: It's implied, if not outright stated, that most of the series takes place in — and thus that the United Worlds are confined to — our solar system. Let's see: in addition to our nine planets (one of which got Demoted to Extra), we also have Fornax, Casa 7, Prah, and Ophecius, not to mention the Gypsy Moons; and Ophecius is stated to have a number of allies as well. To be fair, some of these are stated to be moons (Fornax) and some are called "planetoids", possibly large asteroids (Casa 7, Prah).
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One World Order: Ophecius; the two Gypsy Moons; Fornax.
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The Hero
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The Hero: Well, whose name is it in the title again?
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Unexplained Recovery: The space pirate Griff, in the first storyline of the series, is a spy for the evil Ophecians entrenched in the Space Rangers ranks. Rocky finds out about the traitor Griff and disposes of him via magical Deus ex Machina button, which causes him to explode! But by the next episode, Griff is all better and being a villain.
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The Mole: Ken the Casa 7 controller in "The Pirates Of Prah" secretly works for said pirates.
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Spider-Sense: In "Crash Of The Moons". Attributed to the baby, of all people.
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Human Aliens: The FX were notoriously expensive, and they apparently didn't have enough money left over for Rubber Forehead Aliens. Aliens Speaking English: Lampshaded at one point with alien ruler Bovarro and his wife who occasionally lapse into their own (German/Russian-esque) language. Partially averted in "Menace From Outer Space" in which differing alien societies are shown to have their own languages, though they also speak English. Two of Your Earth Minutes: Averted; apparently, planet Ophecius uses the same Gregorian calendar as the U.S. Earth the United Worlds.
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Two examples for the show's second season. Winky was replaced by a new sidekick, Biffen "Biff" Cardoza (Jimmy Lydon), as actor Scotty Beckett was serving a jail sentence at the time. Professor Newton was replaced by Professor Mayberry (Reginald Sheffield) following the passing of Maurice Cass.
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Have a Gay Old Time
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Have a Gay Old Time:
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Shown Their Work: The series seems to have had writers who knew something about space as multiple scientific theories come into play. For example, there's the previously mentioned aversion of Gravity Sucks, as well as in one episode it is pointed out that two moons orbit around each other, which is a theory as to how Pluto has its moon, Charon.
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