“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.
Phil Harris and Dennis Day rode the popularity of Jack Benny on their own programs on NBC. In fact, for the first two years of its run, Harris' show immediately followed Benny's.