Younger folk may not remember, it probably wasn't taught in school, but back in '55, when we were attacked from outer space by an unknown enemy, a masked super-scientist built an atomic-powered space ship, travelled to the source of the missiles, and fought an escalating series of attacks including massive storms, deadly germs, darkening of the sun, a robot, a mind control ray, artificial suns, pushing the Moon out of orbit, and tilting the Earth's axis.
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When we are attacked from outer space by an unknown enemy, a masked super-scientist (Judd Holdren) builds an atomic-powered space ship to travel to the source...