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Captain Satellite was definitely a product of the space race era. The show began in the early 60s and ran into the early 70s on KTVU-TV 2 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Captain piloted a rocket called Star Finder II. Using NASA stock footage, the Star Finder II would launch with a crew of kids at the controls. In the early days, Captain Satellite showed a lot of the weirder old cartoon shorts, along with things like The New Adventures of the Space Explorers. In the mid-60s, he traded in the Star Finder II rocket for the Laser II flying saucer and began showing the Marvel comics cartoons, as well as King Features Beetle Bailey, Krazy Kat and Snuffy Smith. As you'll note from the photos, the Laser II had a pop art flavor.

Bob March, who played Captain Satellite, was genuinely interested in the space program, and in children's education. He eventually had all the Mercury astronauts on his program. You can see Bob March - along with other San Francisco TV personalities - in the opening moments of MAGNUM FORCE. It's been awhile...but if memory serves, March is the D.A. interviewed by reporters immediately following the mobster's mistrial.

I was working at a movie theater in the 80s, and one day Bob March came in. So I got a chance to thank him for all the wasted hours of my youth. I literally grew up with his show and watched it religiously. When I mentioned seeing him in MAGNUM FORCE, he said, "Was I in that?" Took a second for the nickel to drop.

I'm not sure if it's still up, but someone posted Captain Satellite's final (or near that) show on YouTube.