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Starring Al Hodge (as Captain Video)
Season 3 (DuMont) (1951-52)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
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#### Captain Video And His Video Rangers #####
############ Season 3 1951-52 ################
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DuMont Network - Mondays / Fridays?

3.x [--] Captain Video And His Video Rangers: THE SPACE HAWK (#3.1)
3 September 1951 DuMont Mon
Al Hodge ... Captain Video
Don Hastings ... The Video Ranger
Ben Lackland ... Commissioner of Public Safety Charles Carey
Hal Conklin ... Dr. Pauli
Fred Scott ... Communications Officer Rogers
Ed Condit ... Announcer
Ernest Borgnine ... Nargola
Arnold Stang ... Clumsy McGee
The Captain and Video Ranger learn that the infamous Space Hawk and his assistant have set up a base on a
peaceful world where the residents have legislated that violence is illegal. Dr. Pauli learns that ancient
Egyptian hieroglyphs indicate the unnamed planet 1-X-7 is the location of a hugely destructive force.
Meanwhile, Dr. Kodiak has nefarious plans for control of the dark side of Earth's moon, and the Captain
is summoned by the ruler of Metispherous, a planet where the oceans are inexplicably beginning to rise.
Captain Video faces a life-or-death battle on the ocean floor with Clysmok, the ruler of Marine City.

3.x [--] Captain Video And His Video Rangers: IN THE CLUTCHES OF THE KLAW (#3.2)
18 February 1952 DuMont Mon
Al Hodge ... Captain Video
Don Hastings ... The Video Ranger
Ben Lackland ... Commissioner of Public Safety Charles Carey
Hal Conklin ... Dr. Pauli
Fred Scott ... Communications Officer Rogers
Ed Condit ... Announcer
Reynolds Evans ... Count Callisto
The Klaw uses creative new technology to abscond with the Captain's friends and allies, and abandon them
on Mercury.

3.x [--] Captain Video And His Video Rangers: SHIPWRECKED (#3.3)
3 March 1952 DuMont Mon
Al Hodge ... Captain Video
Don Hastings ... The Video Ranger
Ben Lackland ... Commissioner of Public Safety Charles Carey
Hal Conklin ... Dr. Pauli
Fred Scott ... Communications Officer Rogers
Ed Condit ... Announcer
Reynolds Evans ... Count Callisto
Mary Vallee ... Luna McCrorrie
The Captain's longtime craft the X-9 crashes on an asteroid while on a passenger-transport mission to the colony
for rehabilitated prisoners on Ganymede, and the damages are determined to be beyond repair.

3.x [--] Captain Video And His Video Rangers: BIRTH OF THE 'GALAXY' (#3.4)
24 March 1952 DuMont Mon
Al Hodge ... Captain Video
Don Hastings ... The Video Ranger
Ben Lackland ... Commissioner of Public Safety Charles Carey
Hal Conklin ... Dr. Pauli
Fred Scott ... Communications Officer Rogers
Ed Condit ... Announcer
Bob Downing ... George T. Claridge
Rusty Lane ... Porphory Pete
Mary Vallee ... Luna McCrorrie
A newly-discovered, erratic comet appears to be on a collision course with Pluto. The crew aboard the Captain's
new ship the 'Galaxy' mutinies en route, and the efforts to destroy the errant comet are thereby disrupted.

3.x [--] Captain Video And His Video Rangers: OPERATION MICROMAIL (#3.5)
21 April 1952 DuMont Mon
Al Hodge ... Captain Video
Don Hastings ... The Video Ranger
Ben Lackland ... Commissioner of Public Safety Charles Carey
Hal Conklin ... Dr. Pauli
Fred Scott ... Communications Officer Rogers
Ed Condit ... Announcer
Mary Vallee ... Luna McCrorrie
Members of an organized gang work to destroy a fledgeling interplanetary micromail system between Earth and
the distant outer planets of the Solar System.

3.x [--] Captain Video And His Video Rangers: OPERATION VENUS
16 May 1952 DuMont Fri
Al Hodge ... Captain Video
Don Hastings ... The Video Ranger
Ben Lackland ... Commissioner of Public Safety Charles Carey
Hal Conklin ... Dr. Pauli
Fred Scott ... Communications Officer Rogers
Ed Condit ... Announcer
Mary Vallee ... Luna McCrorrie
Venus is the next destination of the 'Galaxy', as the Captain and Video Ranger are assigned to calm a worsening
rebellion among native inhabitants, one that the Solar Council fears could spread and ignite a space war.

3.x [--] Captain Video And His Video Rangers: SPACE RACE
7 July 1952 DuMont Mon
Al Hodge ... Captain Video
Don Hastings ... The Video Ranger
Ben Lackland ... Commissioner of Public Safety Charles Carey
Hal Conklin ... Dr. Pauli
Fred Scott ... Communications Officer Rogers
Ed Condit ... Announcer
Ray Boyle ... Luny O'Brien
Kirk Brown
Charles Mendick ... Lisbon Charley
Chet Stratton ... Jet Johnson / Amos the Mastermind
Ruth White ... Mrs. Bullfinch
Twenty-five spaceships compete in a race to determine which ship and crew will represent the North American
Federation in the upcoming Interplanetary Olympics.

3.x [--] Captain Video And His Video Rangers: THE THREAT OF THE ROGUE WORLD
25 July 1952 DuMont Fri
Al Hodge ... Captain Video
Don Hastings ... The Video Ranger
Ben Lackland ... Commissioner of Public Safety Charles Carey
Hal Conklin ... Dr. Pauli
Gloria Stroock ... Vially
A wandering planet with a powerful magnetic field becomes a threat when it crosses the space lanes.

#### Captain Video And His Video Rangers #####
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