Product Details

• Actors: Richard Crane, Sally Mansfield, Maurice Cass, Rudolph Anders, Scotty Beckett
• Directors: Hollingsworth Morse
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Alpha Video
• DVD Release Date: December 21, 2004
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0006IUE8Y
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #209,513 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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SILVER NEEDLE IN THE SKY:ROCKY JONES - DVD Movie

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Campy, 1950's SF fun for the whole family, February 27, 2006

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This review is from: Rocky Jones, Space Ranger - Silver Needle In the Sky (Plus Two Bonus Max Fleischer-Animated Superman Episodes) (DVD)

Rocky Jones Space Ranger is back in print and fairly inexpensive too. This classic TV early 1950's space opera is filled with cheap sets, poor special effects, annoying sidekicks, and a hero who in one episode actually tells his female crewmate to "go knit a sweater" (and she actually does) when they have a disagreement! It's hilarious early TV "sci-fi" suitable for all ages, so you can treat yourself and your kids to a bit of TV history and have a good laugh together. I saw three episodes of this show a few years ago (2 of them on Mystery Science Theater 3000) and they were all loads of fun. This disc is a bargain for the low price.

If you've never seen the show, it's really something. Rocky Jones is a square-jawed fisticuffs wielding spaceship pilot with REALLY goofy sidekicks, including Winky, a young man who acts like a kid, and Bobby, a little kid that acts all grown-up. Then there's VERY short-skirted Vena, his bright female crewmate that gets treated like, well, like women were mostly treated in the US in 1950's TV. Then there's elderly and brilliant Professor Newton, who in spite of being a genius, makes just enough miscalculations to get them into real trouble.

Rocky Jones is a vision of the far future firmly rooted in the early 1950's. They don't make them like this anymore! If you liked Lost In Space, this is sort of an earlier version of that, possibly even goofier, so you might well like this too.