Jones (Space Patrol)

Jones is a villain from the Space Patrol episode "The Miracle Tree of Saturn".

In the year 2100 a deadly fungus was threatening crops of all kinds of plant species throughout the Earth. A repairman named Jones, who worked in the Space Patrol headquarters, overheard a conversation between Colonel Raeburn and Prof. Haggerty about the miracle trees from Saturn, which are not only immune, but actually produce a substance that destroys the fungus.

When Captain Larry Dart and the Gallisphere 347 crew were sent to Saturn to negotiate with the natives and acquire more specimens of the miracle tree, Jones came clandestinely aboard and took control of the mission after landing, knocking out Dart, Husky and Slim with a paralyzing gun. He successfully convinced the Saturnian leader that he was a representative of Space Patrol and planned to take back the leaves of the miracle tree and sell them to the world leaders for profit.

However, Jones' plan had unforeseen consequences: being a stowaway, Jones hadn't passed through germ control and thus accidentally spread the common cold among the Saturnians, which proved lethal to them. The Saturnian leader blamed Dart for the epidemic and threatened to declare war on Earth if he didn't come up with a cure. Fortunately, Dart provided them with the cure and peace was established again between Earth and Saturn. The leaves were brought to Earth and Jones was captured and arrested.