Release Message:  Scientist Captain Z-Ro (Roy Steffens), working in his remote laboratory, safeguarded mankind and history from impending harm. He had a time machine, the ZX-99, both to view history and to send someone back in time. Each week, he and his teenage assistant Jet would view an episode in time and inevitably see that some event was unfolding contrary to history.

Description:  Captain Z-RO started out as a live-action series broadcast on the San Francisco TV station KRON in 1951. In 1953, the series was aired on the Los Angeles TV station KTTV, again live action. All 51 live-action episodes were 15 minutes in length. In 1954, the series was picked up for syndication. Episodes were shot on videotape and shot to fit in a 30 minute time slot. There were 26 half-hour episodes. The opening credits were shown on the series finale of Quantum Leap (1989).