First off, it is absolutely dated. There are so many scientific inaccuracies mainly because we had not gotten to the moon as of yet. However, if I were a kid from this era I would much rather see this action short proceeding my film rather than say one of those century 21 shorts or the ones featuring the correct way to do posture. This one features a man who flies through the air with a rocket back pack, and must of been the inspiration for "The Rocketeer". It most certainly was the inspiration for a Mad TV skit featuring a team of guys with jet packs. In this one the hero of the piece, one Commander Cody, must battle a group of people from the moon bent on destroying things with their atomic ray gun! I think that was the plot, it is so hard to say seeing as how the story is broken up and they are always focused on some dangerous cliffhanger that gets quickly resolved in an anticlimactic way at the beginning of the next short. Still, for the time it had to be a lot of fun, I just wish I could see the conclusion to this one. I encountered this serial on MST3K and I do not believe they ever finished it, basically leaving us hanging!