Rickety Rocket


Rickety Rocket is an animated television series, produced by Ruby-Spears Productions, which ran from 1979 to 1980 as a segment on The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show.

Plot

In the far future, four African-American teenagers named Sunstroke, Splashdown, Cosmo, and Venus build a makeshift sentient talking rocket. They run the Far Out Detective Agency and solve mysteries that usually has them fighting suspects operating as master criminals or disguised as monsters. The rocket's signature phrase was "Rickety Rocket, blast off!"