Menace from Outer Space (1954) ROCKY JONES, SPACE RANGER 

I used to watch this stuff as a kid back in the fifties. It was inspiring to me to see that I witnessed Apollo 11 at 20. I still remember these old attempts to promote space exploration during the Cold War. 3 years after this movie came out, Sputnik 1 was in orbit and the US had egg all over its face over the subsequent failed launch of Vanguard 1. But NASA had to do a crash program to catch up with the Soviet Union with the launch of Explorer 1 on January 31, 1958...

I love that futuristic spaceship. I also love the innocence and wonder of all of those 1950's Sci - Fi Movies. Too Cool !!

Shows like this are the beginning of science fiction on TV!!! Should be viewed at least once, if only for the historical value...

I feel badly for the people criticizing this series. They are unable to view these tv shows and films from the perspective of when they were produced. I’ve enjoyed reminiscing.

Best old films use to watch them with my dear old Dad when I was boy God bless him, miss them days thanks for upload

I love these 1950s Sci-Fi movies..Thank you for posting.

When i was 5 i used to watch this on saturday mornings back in 1959. It was cool. Thank you for putting it on.😁

Right at the beginning, and the sports car driving scene, it shows Griffith Park Observatory in Los Angeles. I have some pics of my brothers and I taken on the grounds right in front of the Observatory in 1967, when I was 9 years old. My first time viewing this, really like these old sci-fi pics!

These movies are so much fun to watch when I'm Stoned...Daily, that is...

You just gotta love the classic’s 👍 made me smile 😃

I just love these old sci fi movies. Thank you for sharing.

The director, Hollingsworth Morse, was also behind LOTS of TV shows like Fall Guy, Love American Style, Petticoat Junction, Dukes of Hazard. I love these old sci fi flicks. As others have said, they seem so innocent today. "...in moments now it (the meteor) will strike the earth.....oh and I'll have the tuna melt." I LOVE THIS MOVIE

For 1954 timeframe, a neat show!

I love watching old movies like this movie

1950s sci fi wouldn't be complete without a crew of a grand dad scientist, a kid, a woman wearing a cape and a crew of men wearing caps. The only things missing are a pipe smoker, wooden cabinets, a leather couch and multiple rooms on the same deck. Love it.

Hey don't knock it. This is/was my childhood and I had the toys. Wish things were so simple these days.

Memories of this show were one of the last remaining mysteries of my early childhood watching 50s TV. I couldn't decide which scifi memories matched this one but now I know it was Rocky here. What did it? The kid, the girl, and the sliding door on the space ship. One thing I'm glad of- I didn't learn astronomy my from the writers!

Just fun!! That convertible is a beaut !! I’d buy one.

Just a good old Saturday morning flick. nice family entertainment.

great movie, takes you back, it is history to some a different view. thank you thank you. lest we don't forget, these great movies and serials of their time.

Fun movie to watch...thanks for posting

Sweet chick, nice car, good series.

Grew up watching these! To a kid this is riveting space drama! [OK, ok but I SAID I was A KID! (then)]

Crane had some pretty big arms and it was nice that they allowed Prof. Newton and the kid to join them on this perilous flight.

WOW! A flashback to when I was a five year old kid watching Rocky Jones on my parents B&W television. I would have my space helmet on and my trusty ray gun at my side to blast any space aliens who came out of the TV. :-)

Generally speaking the sci-fi of the first half of the 1950s were high quality-- The Day the Earth Stood Still, Them, etc. This one is a throwback to the 40s or even 30s the Flash Gordon era,for example. The late 50s became more low budget pulpy. Nevertheless, they're all great fun and an enjoyable travel back to a time when American life was simpler and more innocent.

Scotty Beckett was one of the original Our Gang kids (The Little Rascals) and died at 36 years old from a beating. The Director of the movie, Hollingsworth Morse, also directed McHales Navy.

I love this movie.brings back some great memories of my dad and me watching T.V on Saturday night

I was 3 years old when this came out.

Great old movie. Thanks for the upload!

Info: Menace from Outer Space is a classic film that was originally Developed and Published on arcades By CAVE Co.,Ltd in 1998 and Licensed by Nihon System and Atlus.

I love watching sci fi from the 1920s-1950s, because we had literally no clue what it was really like out there... don't know who's bright idea it was to name his co-pilot "Winky"

Bobby was the original Wesley Crusher. 13:51

This reminds me of watching Captain Video on TV, The good and bad guys are standard issue for the time but these sets are many times better than the obviously cardboard construction on CapVid--sets that wobbled. Rocky Jones is a great new way for me to spend hours instead of doing anything mundane like cleaning house or battling the poison ivy/oak that thrives in the back yard. I add thanks for posting.

So much trash in these comments.So sad. These may be lame to y'all , and by today's standards are corny, but in '53, very little was known about space, and who said science fiction movies have to be accurate or realistic??? These are just fun to watch.---- Thanks for posting. Oh, the car is a 1953-56 Grantham Star Dust. Only a handful were built.

Ah yes.Great memories.Appreciate the upload.

AWESOME SHOW!!!

Loved it

Love it good stuff

Thanks for the upload

As always, thank you Pizza Flix!

This movie is better than any new sci fi movie made today the actors seem more realistic.

Funny how the 50's rockets work just like the Falcon x in 2020 lol.

Totally Awesome

I love this show

Love the old science fiction. Some of their guesses proved to be right in the present era.

oh man, the space puns are killing me lol

hell yes , good stuff !

Wow. The male actors all died young. Rocky 50; Bobby 43; and Winky 38. Winky was an alcoholic and pill popper who was severely beaten 2 days before his death. Being a space ranger was apparently a hard life.

I don't wan't to like it ...but you have to LOVE IT!!!

Makes me want to get get on my bike , and zap the neighbors, with my supercool spaceship I just built LOL

Screw the red menace. We've got Rocky. Unless he's dead. Did he die? "Bring your lipstick.", he said to his officer. He was a rare kind of space captain. I hope he's not dead.

Now I better understand Why ”2001” was considered a so breathtaking SF movie, when it came out.

Great movie thanks

Star Trek, which came about a decade later, took many elements from Rocky Jones.

Rocky needs a make the earth great again hat...

fun movies thanks

Well, that was entertaining!

I look forward to the future when capes will be all the rage.

jumpin satellites ! :D great movie ty

Rocky, Scotty and Sally!

Great movie

21:14. . "Damn you Rocky!! You've shot us up the ass!"

Golly Gee Pre-Batman & Robin in space, Corny is Hot compared to what's around now I love this movie...The Jupiter woman were fine!

A little background info on Winky I got off of Wikipedia. Winky: Rocky's faithful co-pilot and sidekick, the womanizing Winky was the upbeat comic relief to balance the always serious Rocky. Winky was played by Scotty Beckett, one of the original Our Gang comedy kids. The Winky character was replaced by Biffen "Biff" Cardoza (James Lydon)from the planet Herculon after 26 episodes when Beckett was unavailable as he was serving time in jail for carrying a concealed weapon

This whole series treads a fine line between the abysmally ridiculous, the patently absurd, and the barely believable. However, as a fan of 50's and 60's sci-fi, and MST3K, it's a blast and fun to watch, especially Cleolanta! She's so badass! Rocky Jones neophytes: Enjoy!

I love that congress man Adam Schiff plays the villain at 12:00 in the video.

Nice they didn’t have to wear helmets or suits for that matter and have gravity in the ship so they don’t have to float around. Nice !!!

they have good stories

A couple years later from Japan we will get similar themes repeated in a charming starlike alien force flick called WARNING FROM SPACE!

At some point in history the term _blastoff_ became _liftoff_ .

And of course, Winky!

So the airport is in a deep mining pit? And now for a commercial break from our sponsor . “Winston taste good like a cigarette should.” So Bobby grows up and smokes a pack a day....dies from lung cancer at age 54. Oh the good old days.

Me thinks Rocky was Flash Gordon in a previous life...

wow!!

Rocky Jones in the far-off future year of 1980!

The model of the car is wild

Professor reminds me of Professor Albert Farnsworth.

They see a Warhead that looks like an ordinary rocket!

The “Space-Pad” looks like an old electric power station.

I may be wrong, but I believe the director of this movie would go on to direct episodes of several popular WESTERN tv series like Gunsmoke and Bonanza as well as a couple of non-westerns like Twilight Zone.

That's a great car Vena pulls up in near the beginning. It looks like it might be a customized T-bird. I wonder if somebody owns it now.

Cub Scouts in space.

1953/56 "Grantham Stardust" is Vena's car. Not many were made.

So,they flew all that way and landed in a junk yard....."give me more Winky, MORE MORE".....they don't write 'em like that nowadays.

I like the car.

i whole heartedly agree with jeff king of 4 years ago. this genre of simplistic realism offered the viewing public "radio" with a picture.. of ALL the generations of star trek, MY FAVORITE was the original episodes' with much human activity within a closed (obviously staged) set. the simplicity of the walls' ship controls, as in galaxy quest's replication of the original deck's appearance, PLAINly distributed control gadgets reduces the conflict between the background and the scene (without any required accuracy.) the story is what counts! so what if the enterprise or orbit jet travels great distances within the program's presentation's duration. thanks for a relaxed (simple) form of excitement. YTV (a cable network) ? ...because you can't watch radio.

I want that car!

Jumpin' Jupiter and Zaney Gullaney what juvenile innocence we have here. Why didn't the BBC buy this when l was knee-high to a Martian mite l may have appreciated it more then. 😄

'My watch has stopped and can't be started.'. It's 15:33, report back at 12:00!

Maybe Trump can adopt these uniforms for his US Space Force BTW, the ladies on the show caught my attention when I was a youth.

I think Bobby was the predecessor of Wesley Crusher 🙂

Rocky pull out of your dive hit the booster ✈

33:13 Lost In Space....LOL

The Professor looks like the inspiration for the first Doctor Who 9 years later.

And in 1954 us kids thoit this was HOT STUFF!! Bette than Saturday morning cartoons! 10:47 his reference to "a true scientist". They never had Bill Nye the "sinus" guy! LOLOLOL

Interesting. I had never even heard of this ScFi series until I ran across it on RU-vid. And, I have been a fan of ScFi all my life. Also interesting: The door controls in the Space Ranger rocket appear to be the same as in the Starship Enterprise some twelve year later. Surprising that technology had not advance in those twelve years!

the professor sure likes bobby!

In the far far away and long time before Star Wars

The days when rocket engines had to be turned on to fly thru outer space...