Captain Video and His Video Rangers
Season 2
19 listed hours · 1949–1955 · DuMont
From the desk
How this season is filed
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.
TV Flash files Season 2 of Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949–1955) on DuMont as the last listed season of 2 — 19 listed hours, 1952-09-22–1953-04-17 from “The Green King” (S02E01) to “Episode 19” (S02E19). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S02E01 The Green King
The Green King: season-two titled tyrant, first popular American sci-fi adventure still punching a daily cliff.
- S02E06 Episode 6
Episode 6: mid-second-season numbered hour, the Rangers still selling cosmic justice on a set you could trip over.
- S02E19 Episode 19
Episode 19 closes this pack: last numbered Ranger night, DuMont's cardboard cosmos packing away after proving kids would believe anything.
- S02E01
The Green King
The Green King — Season 2, Episode 1 of Captain Video and His Video Rangers. Aired 1952-09-22. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S02E02
Episode 2
Episode 2 — Season 2, Episode 2 of Captain Video and His Video Rangers. Aired 1952-10-17. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S02E03
Episode 3
Episode 3 — Season 2, Episode 3 of Captain Video and His Video Rangers. Aired 1952-10-20. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S02E04
Episode 4
Episode 4 — Season 2, Episode 4 of Captain Video and His Video Rangers. Aired 1952-12-04. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S02E05
Spartak Returns
Spartak Returns — Season 2, Episode 5 of Captain Video and His Video Rangers. Aired 1953-01-12. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S02E06
Episode 6
Episode 6 — Season 2, Episode 6 of Captain Video and His Video Rangers. Aired 1953-01-23. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S02E07
Episode 7
Episode 7 — Season 2, Episode 7 of Captain Video and His Video Rangers. Aired 1953-02-06. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S02E08
Episode 8
Episode 8 — Season 2, Episode 8 of Captain Video and His Video Rangers. Aired 1953-02-09. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S02E09
Episode 9
Episode 9 — Season 2, Episode 9 of Captain Video and His Video Rangers. Aired 1953-02-16. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S02E10
Episode 10
Episode 10 — Season 2, Episode 10 of Captain Video and His Video Rangers. Aired 1953-02-23. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S02E11
Episode 11
Episode 11 — Season 2, Episode 11 of Captain Video and His Video Rangers. Aired 1953-03-02. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S02E12
The Quest for the Philosopher's Stone
The Quest for the Philosopher's Stone — Season 2, Episode 12 of Captain Video and His Video Rangers. Aired 1953-03-16. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S02E13
Episode 13
Episode 13 — Season 2, Episode 13 of Captain Video and His Video Rangers. Aired 1953-03-23. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S02E14
Episode 14
Episode 14 — Season 2, Episode 14 of Captain Video and His Video Rangers. Aired 1953-03-30. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S02E15
The Black Nebula
The Black Nebula — Season 2, Episode 15 of Captain Video and His Video Rangers. Aired 1953-04-06. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S02E16
Episode 16
Episode 16 — Season 2, Episode 16 of Captain Video and His Video Rangers. Aired 1953-04-13. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S02E17
Episode 17
Episode 17 — Season 2, Episode 17 of Captain Video and His Video Rangers. Aired 1953-04-14. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S02E18
Episode 18
Episode 18 — Season 2, Episode 18 of Captain Video and His Video Rangers. Aired 1953-04-16. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S02E19
Episode 19
Episode 19 — Season 2, Episode 19 of Captain Video and His Video Rangers. Aired 1953-04-17. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
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