This is a TV classic!! I believe it will survive way into the future because it encapsulates so many aspects of sixties American culture. Shattner chews the scenery in the way he made famous on 'Star Trek.' An interesting note, now known only to us rapidly ageing early TV Sci-fi fans, is that Ed Kemmer played Commander Buzz Cory on 'Space Patrol.' Space Patrol was the top TV Sci-fi show of a generation earlier than Star Trek. Buzz Cory was the Captain James T. Kirk of an earlier generation. That show had the best production values of the top three in the early fifties. (The other two were 'Tom Corbett, Space Cadet," and 'Captain Video.'