Johnny Jupiter

TV Series
1953–1954
30m

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Ernest P. Duckweather, a general-store clerk, invents an interplanetary television set, thus developing a friendship with a puppet named Johnny Jupiter.Ernest P. Duckweather, a general-store clerk, invents an interplanetary television set, thus developing a friendship with a puppet named Johnny Jupiter.Ernest P. Duckweather, a general-store clerk, invents an interplanetary television set, thus developing a friendship with a puppet named Johnny Jupiter.

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- Martin Stone
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5.7/10

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- Martin Stone
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Ernest P. Duckweather

Gilbert Mack

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Cliff Hall

Horatio Frisby

Pat Peardon

Katherine Frisby

Vaughn Taylor

Ernest P. Duckweather

Gene London

Reject the Robot…

Reta Shaw

Mrs. Clandish

Florenz Ames

Gregory Latham

Bill McCutcheon

Oscar Latham

Ross Martin

Professor Dexter Spiegelmacher

Jerome Coopersmith

Harry Mehaffey

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The DuMont version ended on 13 June 1953; the series ended (over ABC) on 29 May 1954.

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Narrator: This is the story of Ernest P. Duckweather, who invented the strangest television in the world. On this set he could look through endless space, six hundred million miles away, to far-off Jupiter. In a Jupiterian television station he found three friends: Johnny Jupiter, a human, more or less; Major Domo, chief of the robots; and Reject, the factory-rejected robot who was able to appear and disappear at will. Soon Duckweather found that he could turn to the Jupiterians for help whenever he was in trouble.

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Featured in Science Fiction: A Journey Into the Unknown (1994)

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Kids' TV Doesn't Get Any Stupider Than "Johnny Jupiter"

Believe me - This early-1950s TV show for kids was utter garbage.

Yep. I really did try to cut this show some serious slack due to its super-low production values and the time-frame of when it was first broadcast.

But - Nope - "Johnny Jupiter" repeatedly scraped the absolute bottom of the barrel on all counts.

From its idiotic stabs at humor, to the annoying, hammy performances of its actors, to its dimwitted puppets, and to everything else beyond - "Johnny Jupiter" (with its irksome, in-your-face product plugs) was the ultimate nadir of lousy vintage SyFy TV shows, bar none.