1 9 6 6 – 1 9 6 8 (USA)
Children’s host Ray Rayner hosted this afternoon program for WGN-TV Chicago, appearing as an astronaut on a spaceship introducing space-themed cartoons.
The show – which ran from 1966 until 1968 – featured early appearances by Gigantor and Tobor the Eighth Man.
The show also featured episodes of Space Angel, which used a process called”Synchro-Vox”, in which live-action footage of actors’ mouths was blended with the faces of cartoon characters.
Between 1964 and 1981, Rayner also hosted Ray Rayner and His Friends.
Rayner died on 21 January 2004 of complications from pneumonia in Fort Myers, Florida, aged 84.
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