Space Patrol: Old-Time Radio Science Fiction

Commander Corey and cadet Happy investigate a burglary at the Maris Design and Development Company, where a vault was broken into and valuable antiscope plans were stolen. Maris and his chief engineer, Chiller, pass a brain-a-graph test, and Corey finds fragments of broken glasses in the vault. A visit to Ward Stokes, a precision machinist with a workshop, leads the pair to a hidden room that duplicates Maris's private office. The episode, from the Space Patrol series, first aired on November 29, 1952.

With Commander Corey, Happy, Howard Maris, Chiller, Ward Stokes, Dr. Preiser, Captain Scoville, Bauch.

Listen for: Corey and Happy searching the Maris vault and the hidden duplicate office, and the rising tension when Stokes and Bauch realize the investigators have found them

First aired on November 29, 1952.

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Commander Corey and Happy of the Space Patrol investigate sabotage aimed at Dr. Berman's project to build a transparent electroplast shell around a small satellite of Venus. Dr. Berman, an inventor, explains that the shell will be blown up in space and then hardened by cutting off electromagnetic waves. Former partner Kogar and his associate Drovik plot to destroy the project, first by sabotaging a tunnel car loaded with explosives, then by trapping Corey and Happy in a block house. The two officers escape by melting the locked room's electroplast walls and pursue the criminals across space to Saturn. The episode is a 1952 installment of the Space Patrol radio series.

With Commander Corey, Happy, Dr. Berman, Kogar, Drovik.

Listen for: The Space Patrol's lab ship and the electroplast bubble technology

First aired on November 22, 1952.

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Buzz Corey and Cadet Happy board a spaceship at Neptune City Spaceport to track down a traitor against the United Planets, but Brax Cardo ambushes them and locks them in a compartment with a hidden explosive. Earlier, Buzz sends Tonga, posing as a magazine writer, to investigate a string of accidents on the outer planet passenger runs. Tonga begins gathering information from Jelna Fenton of Transorbit, whose rival line has been losing ships. The transcript ends with Buzz pursuing a private cruiser that has left Neptune with Tonga aboard, as a tense standoff develops over the open space-phone.

With Buzz Corey, Happy, Tonga, Jelna Fenton, Brax Cardo.

Listen for: Buzz Corey's confrontation with Jelna Fenton over the space-phone as her cruiser pulls away from Neptune with Tonga aboard

First aired on November 15, 1952.

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Buzz Corey and Happy, his cadet, investigate a huge six-wheeled atomic drilling machine on the hot side of Mercury after a water conduit to the city of Solaria is broken. Their search for the missing Professor Malison, whose ship vanished on the dark side of the planet, is interrupted by the sabotage. Corey tracks a set of machine tracks through the cracked ground and finds the driller nearly on top of him and Happy, which then pursues them across the rough terrain. The episode is part of the Space Patrol radio series and is the 1952 broadcast dated November 8, 1952.

With Buzz Corey, Happy, Professor Malison, Lieutenant Ores, Colonel Henderson.

Listen for: The drilling machine chasing Buzz and Happy across the cracked ground, and the news about the broken water conduit and Malison's automatic signal.

First aired on November 8, 1952.

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Space Patrol officer Lieutenant Grayson reports a mysterious force in space that makes ships and meteors vanish without a trace. Commander Corey and Lieutenant Grayson investigate with astronomer Professor Jelka, who identifies the phenomenon as a cycloplex, a hole in space. When Jelka's space observatory, piloted by cadet Happy, is pulled dangerously close to it, Corey and Grayson race to save them. The episode is part of the Space Patrol radio series and first aired on October 25, 1952.

With Buzz Corey, Happy, Lieutenant Grayson, Professor Jelka, Major Robertson, Colonel Gregory, Huddleston.

Listen for: Listen for the eerie description of the cycloplex and the tense rescue attempt as the observatory is pulled toward the invisible force.

First aired on October 25, 1952.

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