In the early 1960s in the UK there was a TV series called Space Patrol, which had no connection to the US radio series with the same name. It was a children's show with puppets but I remembered that I favoured it over puppet sci-fi shows such as Fireball XL5, even though I only saw a few episodes before leaving the UK.
Some time back, I watched a couple of episodes of each on Youtube. The scripts of Fireball XL5 were pathetic but those of Space Patrol were quite thoughtful. It was written by a woman and one of the lines was "there are no dumb blondes on Venus". I am sure that the logical Venusians must have been an inspiration for the Vulcan characters in Star Trek. In the series, "Uranus" was pronounced in the old fashioned way, which inspired many jokes in those days. I still think that the music and sound effects on Space Patrol were good.