Beyond the Moon

Beyond the Moon is a TV movie edited together from several episodes of Rocky Jones, Space Ranger. It seems to be very early episodes from the series as a lot of the characters seem to be being introduced for the first time. I've now seen several of these Rocky Jones space adventures and I can't say I've liked any of them. This one is almost as interchangeable as all the others and you would be doing very well indeed to be able to differentiate them apart when looking back on the titles and trying to remember what individual movies were about.

This one sees the boorish Rocky Jones, his wacky sidekick Winkie and the feisty Vena Ray go on a rescue mission to the planet Ophesia to bring back Professor Newton and the young Bobby, both of whom seem to have been put under some nefarious mind-control. It's all fairly predictable and a little tiresome. Fun to a limited extent on account of the charmingly clunky special effects. It also has a cheerful sexism that is fairly amusing to look back on. But on the whole these Rocky Jones films are hard work getting through. Some people evidently appear to enjoy them but I have to say I'm not one of them.