For your potential viewing pleasure:

The Entire Run of Rocky Jones Space Ranger (sci-fi TV series from the early 1950s)

37 episodes. Quite well done considering TV was only a few years into practical existence. The characters are sometimes multidimensional and the overall tone is optimistic. It was filmed a little too early for there to be any barely-disguised McCarthyism of the sort that would soon follow.

Behind the scenes of RJSR, from Wikipedia.

For me personally, the show’s greatest characterization is the minor player who goes by the name of Pinto Vertando.

His name is said to mean ‘vortexing paint’ which delightfully makes no sense at all, even in context.