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4 unusual facts about Rocky Jones


Rocky Jones

Shortly thereafter the media began to refer to him as "Rocky the Revolutionary", and he was often considered to be Canada's Stokely Carmichael.

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger

Winky was played by Scotty Beckett (October 4, 1929 – May 10, 1968), one of the original Our Gang comedy kids.

Rocky and his crew would routinely blast-off in a V-2-like chemically-fueled, upright rocketship, the Orbit Jet XV-2, or later the nearly identical Silver Moon XV-3, on missions to moons and planetoids where the odds of success seemed remote yet they would always prevail.

By the end of 1951 a cast had been selected, headed by Richard Crane as Rocky Jones and one-time Our Gang member Scotty Beckett as Rocky’s co-pilot and comic relief, Winky.


Hollingsworth Morse

He directed episodes of a wide variety of U.S. television series from the 1950s through the 1980s, including McHale's Navy, Adam-12, The Dukes of Hazzard, H.R. Pufnstuf, and Rocky Jones, Space Ranger.


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