TIL Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949-55) was one of the first science fiction TV shows and had a run of 1537 episodes. Only about 20 of the episodes survive today as as the original recordings were dumped in the ocean off the coast of New York.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Video_and_His_Video_Rangers
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