(the space opera playing on the movie screen during Joe Buck's tryst with a bespeckled young man is footage from Men into Space episode 1). The spacesuits also bore a strong resemblance to the spacesuits worn in the first half of the one-season comedy series It's About Time. The pilot episode used real, high-altitude pressure suits developed by the United States Navy, but most of the space suits used in the series were US Air Force designs. In the UK Men Into Space was shown on the BBC as a children's series. It was programmed in an early Saturday evening slot that would later be filled by Doctor Who. Novelization A paperback novelization of the TV series, written by science fiction writer Murray Leinster, was published in 1960. In popular culture In the 1960s, Ideal Toy Company manufactured and sold a toy space helmet styled after the one worn by the main character, Colonel Ed McCauley. References External links 1959 American television series debuts 1960 American television series endings 1950s American science fiction television series 1960s American science fiction television series Television series set in the 1970s Television series set in the 1980s Black-and-white American television shows CBS original programming Space adventure television series English-language television shows Television series about astronauts Television series by MGM Television Television series set in the future Television series by Ziv Television Programs Television series about the United States Air Force