Spacemens Luck

 

Where Tom Corbett, Captain Video, CMDR Corry and Other Spacemen Still Live

This very strange episode begins with a Commander Dykstra, representing Central Operational Headquarters, sending out a bulletin about a strange space craft entering Space Sector K beyond the gravitational field of the planet Mars. Thi strange space craft is heading into section G so he is putting all defense units with all all High Voltage Destroyers on emergency alert.

Next we learn that Spaceship Phoenix, Flight 17 an experimental flight for Neptune, is launched.

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“I was alone in a room 100,000 miles from Earth. My body lay dead before me, and yet I spoke, I felt and lived. Behind me lay a tortured world, before me the moon and destiny.” So begins this story of Flying Saucers and aliens.

In the year 2012, for the past several months, since the launch of the first secret rocket “Zeus” there have been Flying Saucers hovering around the White Sands Missile Base. The leadership decide to destroy the Flying Saucer with the launch of “Zeus 2.” This rocket will be equipped with mass attraction and proximity fuses with 5,000 pounds of the high explosive Hexinite.

After the flying saucer is destroyed the head of the project Dr. Andrew Bronson and his assistant Eileen Harkness are kidnapped by another flying saucer.

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A Veteran Comes Home is about a space soldier’s return home from a war on Mars to his anxiously awaiting wife and son, whom he last saw 5 years before as a baby. It’s a touching “comes home from war all confused and conflicted” story that is as much about the early 1950s as it is about today.

The story begins with Mary and her young son Billy at the space port waiting for the arrival of her husband and his father back from the wars on Mars. Michael, a Space Soldier, has been on Mars for the past 5 years fighting a war against the Martians.

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It is the year 2000 Plus 370 or 2370 and space travel has become routine. Space cruise liner passenger service’s are on regularly scheduled in the spaceways. The Space Cruise Liner Golden Star is commencing her maiden voyage with 750 paying passengers for a cruise to the Moon, Mars and beyond.

In addition to the 750 passengers Inter Galactic News Service (IGNS) reporter Whitey Ford bullies his way aboard and on the cruise. Will he live to regret this manuever?

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When The Worlds Met begins at the giant space port in Washington D.C., temporary capitol of the Federated World Government. The date is April 21, 2000, Plus 20 (2020). People from Earth are excitedly awaiting for one of Earth’s space ships, Rocket Ship 307, to return from a mission at Luna City on the moon. Audio and Telebox Networks are covering the event for the whole world.

Johnny Dixon, one of the astronauts, is only happy to come back. Not only are they bringing with them specimens from the moon, his crew has also detected messages coming from Mars. Earth scientist manage to decode these messages after realizing they are not normal radio transmissions but thought waves. With the aid of the “Telepathator” the scientist are able to not only understand the signals from Mars but are able to reply to Mars with the same thought wave signals. We now have proof of the existence of life on the fourth planet.

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At an unknown time in the far distant future The Master Mechanical Brain with their robot police have taken over Mech City. Mech City is a domed city where robots do everything for the humans. It is not said but the story infers that this is the only human outpost left on earth. A man named Morton, who has developed a Master Mechanical Brain, has plans of human genocide, planning only to spare a few re-adjusted humans.

This story is about a rebellion among a few humans led by Bob Thomas, who resents Morton and the Master Controller for having Mech City transformed into a complete machine civilization. The Robot Mind Police Patrol the city and search for the remaining human inhabitants who are not re-adjusted.

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It is the far distant future and the date is 16 May 2040. The International League of Planetary Scientist have concluded that an expedition to Mars is plausible. Professor H. D. White, the Chairman of the League, has issued a statement that intelligent life on Mars like our own is highly probable and that a space journey towards the fourth planet now looks possible.

Two teenager boys begin to ponder the meaning of life and wish to make a name for themselves by being the first people on the red surface of Mars. Mickey Turner and Jink hear the news announcement and can’t help but feel excited about a space flight to Mars. Mickey, in particular, can’t wait to go to Mars, and even imagines being the first person to land there. Fueled by this daring idea, Mickey persuades his friend Jink to help him build a ship that would fly them to the red planet.

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Unfortunately 2000 Plus is one of those Old Time Radio Show series that most of the episodes are lost (forever? Let’s hope not!). The few episodes that I do have will be made available for listing over time. Below is a sequential list of both season one and season two. I have compiled this list from several other online lists and cannot be sure it is accurate. If you see any discrepancies please use the comment system below to bring it to my attention.

Anyone who may discover a copy of this "Lost" episode and would like to get it into public circulation please contact Spaceman (Senior Rating) Ray.

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2000 Plus (aka Two Thousand Plus and 2000+) was the first of the science fiction anthology radio program, using all new material rather than adapting published stories that ran on the Mutual Broadcasting System from March 15, 1950 to January 2, 1952 in various 30-minute time slots. 2000 Plus offered a variety of exciting adventures of future technology, with several episodes dealing with space exploration (of interest to Spacemens Luck), including alien invasion. The “outer space” themes portray our 1950’s fears in the post WWII atomic and new cold war eras.

“Let us send our imaginations forward in time into the years beyond 2000 AD. What strange adventures, what exciting things will we find in the world of tomorrow? 2000 Plus!”

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