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''Captain Video'' (full title: ''Captain Video and His Video Rangers'') was a live-action TV program produced by the [[
The show followed the adventures of Captain Video -- an agent of good who was billed at the opening of each show as the "Master of Time and Space" and an "e-lec-tronic wizard" who helped maintain peace on Earth and abroad, aided by the Video Rangers.
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* [[The Other Darrin]]: The Captain was played by two actors during the run of the series, and a third for the film (mentioned above).
* [[Space Cadet]]: A forerunner and pace-setter for the standard of space cadet, ''Captain Video'' featured some scenes that were, in fact, supposed to be in space ships, in which the characters would wear crash helmets and goggles, since that's apparently all you need to survive in the depths of space [[Batman Can Breathe in Space|if you have some kind of accident]].
* [[Stock Footage]]: One of the show's most bizarre features was the Video Ranger Broadcast, a [[Show Within a Show]] in which the viewers are treated to footage of people who are allegedly Captain Video's agents at work on various parts of the Earth. This footage was drawn from -- inexplicably -- ''[[The Western|cowboy films]]''. These broadcasts would last several minutes before returning to the live-action events taking place in the [[
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