“High adventure in the wild, vast reaches of space! Missions of daring in the name of interplanetary justice! Travel into the future with Buzz Corry, commander-in-chief of the SPACE PATROL!” This is the opening invitation to children all over America and indeed adults to spend thirty minutes on a space adventure with Buzz and his assistant Cadet Happy known for his catchphrase “Smokin’ rockets”. It was their job to enforce law and order in the interplanetary frontier venturing against their archenemies in their space ship Terra V.
- Radio brought the news directly into listeners’ living rooms. Among the major news stories broken on radio: the Scopes monkey trial, carried live by Chicago station WGN in 1925; the Hindenburg zeppelin disaster, covered by WLS Chicago in 1937; and Edward R. Murrow’s CBS reports on the Blitz of Britain, airing in 1940.