During the height of the 3-D craze in the early-1950s, "Space Patrol" broadcast television's first experiment with three-dimensional imagery, in the 1953 episode "The Theft of the Rocket Cockpit." Viewers were encouraged in advance to buy specially packaged Ralston-Purina cereals that included 3-D viewing glasses.
In the 1960s, Radio Shack (then a div. of Tandy Corp.) obtained the rights to the brand name "Space Patrol" for their toy-level walkie-talkies, even using kids in space helmets in their ads for these products.
In addition to the 210 half-hour episodes that were filmed during the show's fourth and fifth season, 900 fifteen minute live-action episodes were shown on local TV in Los Angeles.
The first three seasons for the series were broadcast solely by KECA-TV in Los Angeles. During that period, the series aired in 15 minute episodes five days a week.
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