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We join our lunar astronauts just after Jet presses the rocket ignition button and nothing happened. Then one by one all the ships systems shut down and they are left in a dead ship. Everything is quiet except for the sound of the ship’s master gyro whirring down until it stops.

After a complete inspection of the ships power system they can find nothing wrong except nothing has power. As Jet so concisely puts it unless they can find something they are stuck, stranded on the moon.

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Days go on and on and the heat inside the ship slowly rises. Boredom begins to weigh on the crew. At one point Mitch blows up and lashes out at Lemmy for playing his harmonica.

After 13 days in the dark Lemmy hears that strange music for the first time since they last were at the crater and they lost sight of Jet for 3 hours. Then all of a sudden the Televiewer screen came on briefly and they saw a bright blue light appeared on it. Then just as suddenly the music goes away and the Televiewer goes out. A quick check shows the ships power is still off.

Three more days pass and we find the crew still setting in the dark and Jeff reading from H. G. Wells book “The First Men in the Moon” by flash light. Then suddenly there is a tapping sound that sounds like someone is going all around the ship tapping the hull as they go.

Three more days go by again (their 28th day on the Moon) and their oxygen is now down to the point where if they don’t launch tomorrow they will not have enough oxygen to get back to earth.

Then suddenly the Televiewer comes on and all power restored. Quickly they make one final check before launching. They try to contact their Earth base at Wongawalla, Australia but all they hear is music. The then hear an announcer from London in the Overseas Service of the BBC telling the world that all hope for the Rocketship Luna is feared lost.

Then they see a spaceship land in the crater and Jet and Mitch decide to go investigate.

Stay tuned for episode 5 of Operation Luna.

Originally aired in 1953 as episode 8 but was re-recorded in 1957 as episode 4 of 13 episodes for airing world wide in 1958.

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Cast:
Jet Morgan: Andrew Faulds
Doc Matthews: Guy Kinglsey Poynter
Stephen “Mitch” Mitchell: David Williams
Lemmy Barnet: Alfie Bass
BBC Overseas Service: David Jacobs

Production Credits:
Written By: Charles Chilton
Produced By: Charles Chilton
Announcer: David Jacobs
Music: Orchestra conducted by Van Phillips who also wrote the music.
Commercials: None
Promotions: None

Space Age Gizmos:
Televiewer – Space age TV Monitor

Space Ships/Ports/Stations This Episode:
Spaceship Luna
Earth Base Wongawalla, Australia

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