''The Space Kidettes'' is an American Saturday morning animated television series produced by

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, originally airing on

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during the 1966–67 season. In the show, junior rangers Snoopy, Jenny, Countdown and Scooter patrol the cosmos from their space-capsule clubhouse, with help from their dog Pupstar. Twenty episodes were produced.

Plot

Set in

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and have to keep it away from their

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nemesis Captain Skyhook and his sidekick Static.Sinnott, John (March 27, 2011
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. ''DVDTalk''. Retrieved 2013-05-07

Episodes

* Molemen Menace * Jet Set Go * Space Indians * Swamp-Swamped * Space Heroes * Space Witch * Tale of a Whale * Space Giant * Space Carnival * The Laser-Breathing Space Dragon * The Flight Before Christmas * Beach Brawl * Dog-napped in Space * Secret Solar Robot * King of the Space Pirates * Planet of Greeps * Cosmic Condors * The Space Mermaid * Haunted Planet * Something Old, Something Gnu

Voice cast

* Chris Allen - Scooter *

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- Snoopy *

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- Captain Skyhook * Don Messick - Countdown, Pupstar, Static *

Janet Waldo Janet Waldo (born Jeanette Marie Waldo; February 4, 1919 – June 12, 2016) was an American radio and voice actress. In animation, she voiced Judy Jetson in various Hanna-Barbera media, Nancy in ''Shazzan'', Penelope Pitstop, Princess from '' B ...

- Jenny

Production

Originally airing for one season on NBC as a half-hour program and sponsored by

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, ''The Space Kidettes'' episodes were later edited down to ten-minute episodes and paired with other General Mills-sponsored shows such as ''

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'' to form a full half-hour for syndication. Edited further, it was later paired with edited reruns of cartoons from another NBC Hanna-Barbera program, '' (Young) Samson & Goliath'' to form the syndication package ''The Space Kidettes and Young Samson''. The original master elements for both programs were lost, leaving the syndicated edits as the only extant broadcast quality versions. All 20 episodes of ''The Space Kidettes and Young Samson'' were released on DVD via the

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manufacture-on-demand program in 2011.

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