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Tom Corbett, Roger Manning and the Venusian Astro were on holiday on Venus when they discovered that Pirates equipped with giant robots, similar to the ones they encountered on their Giants of Mercury adventure, had been holding hostage the residents of the the mining settlement of Gold City, Venus while stealing the city’s gold. At the end of the first part of this story the Space Cadets have just rescued the entire population of Gold City, Venus.

Our story “Holiday of Terror” continues as they commandeer the space freighter that the Pirates left behind to go after the pirates before they can escape. Paroling space in the area of Venus the Space Cadets are unable to find the Pirates trail. Finally Tom concludes that the Pirates took off toward space as a ruse but actually doubled back to Venus where their hideout is.

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Venus celebrates its 100 years of independence and the space cadets Tom Corbett, Roger Manning and Astro are on a weeks leave from the Space Academy and are spending it at Astro’s uncle’s Gold mine located in Gold City, Venus. The cadets have borrowed a Jet Launch from Astro’s family and after crossing the Venusian jungle land near Gold City and find the town completely deserted.

During their search of the deserted town they check Astro’s Uncle’s shop and discover the body of Astro’s Uncle’s partner Peter Abbott. Now very worried the cadets return to their Jet Launch and take off to investigate the gold mines near Gold City.

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The Amazing Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon

Last episode Flash Gordon, Dale Ardin, Dr. Zarkov, Thun, Prince of the Lionmen, and Prince Barin were held prisoner by King Vultan in the city of the Hawkmen perched five thousand feet above the ground on the planet Mongo. Flash and his friends in their attempt to escape the atomic furnaces of the Hawkmen destroy the furnaces causing the city in the sky to begin to fall.

The story continues this episode in the crumbling palace of Vultan in the Sky City. Vultan has his sword at Flash Gordon’s throat. Zarkov yells Stop! Stop! Wait! I can save your city. But if you harm Flash Gordon, I will doom this city and all of your Hawkmen to destruction.

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Cast of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century

In the last episode we were at Dr. Huers laboratory where they are installing the new Gyro Cosmic Relativator. Just as Buck heads out to his rocketship he, Dr. Huer and Wilma see a crash landing.

We pickup this episode with the crash having just happened and they find that Willie is the one who was flying the Rocket Roadster. They take the unconscious Willie into Dr. Huer’s laboratory and put him under the Healing Ray.

Buck inspects the Rocket Roadster and finds that it is the same one that Ardala stole from Dr. Huer’s laboratory earlier. This convinces Dr. Huer and Buck that Killer Kane has hijacked the test rockeship with the first Gyro Cosmic Relativator and Black Barney under Kane and Ardala’s control.

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Dimension X

This is the story of Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles and is of the Fourth Mars Expedition. The previous three Mars Expedition’s had all failed with the rocketships landing on Mars then after 24 hours of landing no further contact with them was made.

Our story of the Fourth Expedition begins as they make their landing on the surface of Mars. After landing they send out a scouting party, lead by the crew’s physician, Hathaway and assisted by archaeologist Spender, to a nearby Martian city. Meanwhile the rest of the crew remain near the ship awaiting the return of the Hathaway search party and are gathering firewood against the cold Martian evening.

Hathaway and Spender’s search party returns and reports that all of the Martians have died of chickenpox (most likely brought by one of the earlier three expeditions). In a celebratory fashion the Captain authorizes alcoholic beverages to be issued and the crew began partying and celebrating the end of the Martians.

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Journey into Space

In the previous episode of our story Operation Luna episode 10 Jet, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy are in the city of the Time Traveling stranger and have been lead through the city to the strangers quarters. They were standing outside his door when it opened and they peered inside the dome and suddenly they all exclaim as if the saw something horrible and Lemmy yells out in horror and runs off screaming. The others call after him to come back.

We pick up the story with Jet going after Lemmy and bringing him back. Their initial shock and horror of seeing the alien has subsided and they are standing around the outside of the now closed door where the alien is located. They are discussing among themselves what they saw and they appear to agree that it appeared like a giant man sized armadillo standing up on it’s hind legs.

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Cast of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century

In the last episode aboard a Battle Cruiser Buck Rogers contact’s the Central Radio Bureau with a message for Dr. Huer that they are following Black Barney’s rocketship exhaust gas trail with the Gas Analyzer which is leading them to the ancient city of Philadelphia. But the Central Radio Bureau tells Buck that Dr. Huer wants them back at his laboratory right away despite whatever they are doing.

This episode begins aboard Buck and Wilma’s Battle Cruiser which is returning to Dr. Huers laboratory. Buck is still uneasy about leaving Black Barney’s rocket trail and is convinced that Barney would never have run off with the rocketship with the Gyro Cosmic Relativator installed. He is convinced someone namely Killer Kane has taken over the rocketship from Barney and he is now their prisoner.

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Our story opens with Commander Correy and Cadet Happy in an atmosphere ship responding to a distress signal sent by researcher Professor Byran Sterns who was last heard of in the Cinder Mountain’s of Saturn. While having no luck in finding Professor Sterns or his atmosphere ship they come across the Domed City of Ruebek high on a ledge of the Cinder Mountain’s.

Space Patrol Headquarters notify’s Correy that Professor Sterns has been picked up by another Space Patrol ship wondering around in the Vulcan Range of Saturn with no sign of his ship.

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The Amazing Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon

Last episode Flash, Thun, the powerful huge bearded Prince of the Lionmen and Prince Barin, a former member of Emperor Ming’s court, Dr. Zarkov and Dale Arden are re-captured by Emperor Ming’s soldiers. Securely bound they were placed on a gyroship and sent as slaves to the prison city of the Hawkmen.

The story continues this episode onboard the prison ship carrying our friends through the stratosphere on the way to the prison city of the Hawkmen. In the cell room Flash and Prince Thun work feverishly on each others bonds.

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X-1 Classic Science Fiction Radio Show

The Federal Bureau of Missing Persons is broadcasting it’s latest coded bulletin transmission with a list of recently missing persons when they receive a CQ (SOS) radio message from a crank calling earth who claims to be calling from the Moon.

Triangulating to locate the offender, radio operator Charlie Stafford discovers that the message did in fact come from the Moon from a man identifying himself as Cornelius Otterburn. Of course the call is dismissed, until a minor member of the Federal Bureau of Missing Persons begins to suspect that the call is related to a strange series of disappearances over the past several years.

Charlie Stafford tells Federal Bureau of Missing Persons records clerk Henry Stinton who recognizes the name and decides to investigate the name Cornelius Otterburn and finds only one person with that name has gone missing and he was an Atomic Physicist who had disappeared 5 years previously on June 5th 1945.

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