Captain Video and His Video Rangers
Code of Honor
TV Flash files “Code of Honor” as hour 3 of 40 in the TV Flash guide — Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949–1955) on DuMont, season 1, episode 3, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E03: listed hour 3 of 40 in the Captain Video and His Video Rangers guide, hour 3 of 21 in season 1. Listed runtime 30 min; no airdate on file. The listed hour before it is “Episode 2” (S01E02). Next is “Episode 4” (S01E04).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Code of Honor sit in the Captain Video and His Video Rangers guide?
S01E03 is listed hour 3 of 40 — hour 3 of 21 in season 1, season 1 episode 3.
How is Captain Video and His Video Rangers S01E03 listed?
S01E03 is season 1 episode 3 in the TV Flash guide. No airdate is on file.
Where should I start?
Start with whatever surviving kinescopes exist of the Video Rangers at full conviction. Cardboard-and-justice is the form; you are watching belief, not ILM.
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Why this series still plays
Captain Video and His Video Rangers is cardboard sets, cosmic justice, and DuMont's low-budget space opera that kids believed completely. First popular American sci-fi adventure series. A 2026 viewer watches shoestring effects that now charm and then felt like the future — proof that conviction, not VFX, sold the cosmos.
The drop is daily, the effects are plywood, the kids believed it anyway. Captain Video and His Video Rangers (DuMont, 1949–1955) is cardboard sets, cosmic justice, and the first popular American sci-fi adventure series: a hero of the future fighting for right with shoestring effects that now charm and then felt like the cosmos. Richard Coogan first, then Al Hodge as the best-known Captain, Don Hastings as the Video Ranger. James Caddigan and the DuMont network, live production, modest special effects as a…
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- Richard Coogan as Captain Video
Richard Coogan piloted Captain Video and His Video Rangers as the first popular American sci-fi adventure lead — cardboard sets, cosmic justice, DuMont's low-budget space opera that kids believed completely. Shoestring effects that now…
- Al Hodge as Captain Video
Al Hodge’s Captain Video piloted DuMont’s cardboard cosmos — cosmic justice, low-budget space opera kids believed completely, the first popular American sci-fi adventure series. Shoestring effects that now charm and then felt like the…
- Don Hastings as The Video Ranger
Don Hastings’s Video Ranger made Captain Video cardboard cosmic justice feel real to kids — DuMont’s low-budget space opera, first popular American sci-fi adventure series, shoestring effects that now charm and then felt like the future.…