They're not a future phenomenon: space policemen have been with us for years (over 50 at a conservative estimate, Van Credenza doesn't know). Witness the early tv programmes set out for our children in the early 50's (including the Woodentops and Twizzle......even the titles were indicative of maintaining law and order in our cosmos): regulations must be obeyed, universal public order must be enforced.
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Mass small screen viewing was clearly the best method of implementing and conditioning suitable behaviour. Earlier experiments with cinematic control had been less successful, due to diverse distractions in picture houses. But the new domestic tube medium achieved results beyond the visions of our space policemen, especially when the very young could be brought under control from a very early age.
And it didn't all start here, on Earth. Residents on Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons (Earth-discovered' in 1655) have been TV box controlled by the space police for over 100 years.
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For this number, Van Credenza fused several influences and tunes, ranging from Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee to the Z-Cars theme based on the Liverpool folk song Johnny Todd (arranged by Fritz Spiegel as a military march).
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