“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 broadcasting was the cheapest form of entertainment, and it provided the public with far better entertainment than most people were accustomed to. As a result, its popularity grew rapidly in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and by 1934, 60 percent of the nation's households had radios.