 "Major Astro" started out on KARD-TV and the Kansas State Network, airing from 1960–1973, and later moved to KSAS-TV FOX Kansas in 1985, before ending altogether around 1989.Through the Kansas State Network, local TV stations in Great Bend, Kan., Garden City, Kan., and Oberlin, Kan.-McCook, Neb., aired the program.In the mid-1960s Major Astro aired Astro Boy, the first anime syndicated for broadcast in the U.S..

Leahy ended each day's show by saying "Join me next time when everything will be a-okay, and all systems will be go.