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* [[The Chick]]: Carol Carlisle
* [[Product Placement]]: Like many shows of the period, the show was basically [[Merchandise-Driven]]. Thus, for two Quik lids or a tracing of the label, you could get something like a miniaturized X-RC lookalike. More notably, there was also a Space Patrol watch featured in at least one episode.
* [[Sci -Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: In one episode, Cadet Happy is ''absolutely astounded'' by the size of the Solar System. Buzz and Carol bring him back down by reminding him that there are a ''lot'' of stars in the Milky Way, with our sun being only one of them. To be fair, this was a 1950s show aimed at children (who might not understand the concept of big distances), but it seems unrealistic for someone who was born in the 30th century, with ''interstellar'' travel being commonplace, to be astounded by this.
* [[Space Cadet]]: Cadet Happy, although he was more like some sort of 2IC. Some of the Chex commercials, however, followed this trope a little better, with kids dreaming about being on the Space Patrol.
* [[Space Police]]: The Space Patrol.
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'''Space Patrol (UK)'''
 
The second one was a 1963 British Puppet series, in the vein of the Gerry Anderson shows of the time (but nowhere near as known, although it is confused with ''[[Fireball XL 5 (TV)|Fireball XL 5]]''). This one focused on a 22nd-century police force, who were headquartered on a space station called Galasphere 347. Despite all claims to the contrary, this one was the first show with an electronic theme (beating out [[Doctor Who (TV)|that more famous tune]] by seven months). It ran for two seasons and a total of 39 episodes. It was retitled ''Planet Patrol'' in America, for obvious reasons.
 
'''[[Raumpatrouille (TV)|Raumpatrouille]] - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffs Orion'''
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