i saw most of the episode of rmftm a a teenager on cliffhanger theater run after midnight on a local station some year ago and and then again when mystery science theatre riffed on it in the early 90 . time have not be kind to it . i can certainly make allowance for the special effect and which be quite impressive for a low budget 50 serial ( imo commando cody fly scene be good than george reef or superman in his tv show ) . and i can also make allowance for the ahem and acting and and fight choreography . except for the guy who play the ruler of the moon men . he be incredibly miscast . he look and act like the fellow who come to fix your plumbing and not the despotic ruler of an alien race . even the corny dialog work all right everyone rattle off their line like string of firecracker and with no wasted time or pause for thing like thought or introspection . since everyone do this and the viewer find it immersive after awhile and and even to my modern sensibility and it doesn not bother much . what really irritate me be the writing and the plotting . i be not talk about the sunny weather on the moon and or bake soda power rocket ship and or a fly suit that have control label up or down and fast or slow . i be not even bother by the cheesiness of the resolution to the cliffhanger that end each chapter . i be talk about the fact that our suppose hero be dumber than fence post and have no cumulative memory . and by the fact that although that the dialog clip along like an express train and the plot go through the same motion again and again . dig it represent commando cody and his pal be the spearhead of a top secret hi tech science lab charge with protect earth ( or at least the usa ) against an insidious alien invasion . but his office have no guard or security checkpoint . they do not even have lock on the front door . so the bad guy walk right in and beat the crap out of the cody and his staff . not once ( perhaps understandable ) but several time . they even kidnap his female assistant on the second try . and they never get any smarter . to further prove my point and allow me to point out the way that cody jump in his fly suit and fly around get into trouble and never actually seem to succeed in catch anyone . he do this over and over and over . cody also fly his ship to the moon ( the woman assistant come along to cook ) and stay for about 30 second and immediately turn around and come back . cody capture one of the atomic ray gun . and immediately lose it again to the bad guy because he couldn not be bother to lock it up . and so on . and you would think that if cody effort be so vital to save the usa from the moon men and that he might ask for a few soldier with carbine and a few helicopter and a tank or two to back him up and instead of just work with the local police all the time . this be suppose to be a military operation and but they act like it another episode of gangbusters . it all rather hard to stomach . i appreciate that the creator be severely limit in the scope of their story by budget and time constraint . and i appreciate that cody be actually a reasonably tough hombre ( even though he lose half of his fistfight ) . but i just can not help yell door . lock the doooor . when the gangster simply walk into his lab and or try to blow up the ship and there be no security measure at the land site in place . not even a fence ( . ) . still and it ok. of the three republic serial i have watch and phantom creep have a good plot and and undersea kingdom have more atmosphere ( hah . ) and a good hero than radar men and but it an ok time waster . btw . why radar men . they do not use radar and they use atomic ray gun . shouldn not the title have be atomic ray gun men from the moon .