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- ↑ Terrace, Vincent (2015). Crime Fighting Heroes of Television. McFarland & Co. pp. 142–143. ISBN 9780786484454 . Retrieved 26 March 2020.
- ↑ Woolery, George W. (1985). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part II: Live, Film, and Tape Series. The Scarecrow Press. pp. 422–423. ISBN 0-8108-1651-2.
