Captain Video and His Video Rangers [SEP] original network
Captain Video and His Video Rangers
Captain Video and His Video Rangers was an American science fiction television series aired on the DuMont Television Network, and was the first series of its genre on American television.
The series aired between June 27, 1949, and April 1, 1955, originally on Monday through Saturday at 7 p.m. ET, and then Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. ET. A separate 30-minute spinoff series called The Secret Files of Captain Video, aired Saturday mornings, alternating with "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
Original Amateur Hour", "Captain Video and His Video Rangers", "Cavalcade of Stars", and "Life Is Worth Living". (He created the title for "Cavalcade of Stars"). Bergmann often had troubles finding advertisers for the network because the big television stars were being lured away from DuMont to the other networks.
Bergmann worked his way up through the company and finished as the managing director of the broadcast division until the network shut down. He was later offered a job to head the