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Space Patrol was an early live TV series which had a concurrent radio version for part of it's run - not a radio show with a concurrent TV version, as the article states. The program began as a weekday afternoon program on ABC's owned and operated station in Los Angeles before becoming a Saturday morning ABC-TV network show - then a radio show. In the early 50s, the FCC had imposed a freeze on new TV stations. Much of the country had no TV. Many cities had only one or two stations (so many network programs were not carried there). Many early TV shows had moved from radio. But some others, which became popular on TV, were given radio versions to reach an audience which did not yet have access to television. Space Patrol was one of these.

This article should be reclassified to reflect Space Patrol as a TV show (as was Tom Corbett, Space Cadet which also had a radio version).