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

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Our story opens on the Planet Pluto in Pluto City where Commander Corey and Cadet Happy are waiting to meet with Professor Malcolm Walker, of the United Planets Research Foundation, whose rocketship has apparently gone missing. The Commander has ordered a search of Planet Pluto for the Professor. After several hours Buzz and Happy locate a downed rocketship and land nearby to investigate. A search of the rocket reveals that it is the Professors ship and that it is lightly damaged. The Professor himself is no where to be found. He did leave a note explaining that his Space-A-Phone was damaged by the crash. He explains that he saw a flash nearby and has decided to leave the ship to investigate the flash of light.

Corey and Happy return to the Terra V to follow after the Professor. Meanwhile two men, Hagle and Rorman, stumble on the Professor unconscious in the ice. Rorman brings the Professor to their cave headquarters where they revive him and introduce themselves as geologists.

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These missing episodes in the Space Patrol radio show series are another of the tragedies of lost radio episodes. Though we believe we know the title of these episodes the story lines are not known. It is one of the tragedies of collecting old time radio (OTR) that many of these old gems are lost forever and only occasionally does one of these lost shows turn up from a previously unknown source.

* The Old Time Radio Researchers Organization Database indicates that these episodes are lost and no longer available. 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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1953 Space Travel Movie It Came from Outer Space

Based on a Ray Bradbury story “The Meteor”. Amateur astronomer John Putnam, a romantic dreamer misunderstood by the local townsfolk, and schoolteacher and fiance Ellen Fields see a fiery ball fall from the sky and crash into the desert near the small town of Sand Rock, Arizona. John drags his friend, Pete, out of bed to take him and Ellen over to the crash site near the old Excelsior Mine in his helicopter. Once there, John climbs down into the crater. Unfortunately, he does so alone, as Pete and Ellen wait for him on the rim of the crash crater. John is the only one who sees the spaceship before a landslide covers it. And John is the only one who catches a glimpse of the hideous thing inside.

John Putnam’s story is ridiculed by the townspeople, Sheriff Warren, and the local media. Even Ellen is unsure of what to believe at first, but soon agrees to assist John in further investigation. In the following days, several local people disappear. A few return, only to begin to act in bizarre ways, such as speaking and behaving in a zombie-like manner and staring directly at the sun for long periods of time. In the meantime, the local telephone repairmen, Frank Daylon and his assistant George, are kidnapped by the creatures who convert to the looks of the repairmen and begin to act strangely. John is convinced that their likenesses were taken over by the space visitors. As it turns out, they are actually aliens from the buried spaceship, and the real humans have been abducted by them including his fiance Ellen.

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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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Prolific Classic Space Travel Actor Morris Ankrum

Space Travel Hero Role: Morris Ankrum was a versatile actor who began acting late in life and who specialized in playing roles of senior governement officials. This was especially true in his many roles as a General in charge of dealing with alien invasions, most memorably as Colonel Fielding in the classic 1953 movie Invaders from Mars.

Space Travel Bio: Born Morris Nussbaum in Danville, Illinois, Ankrum’s originally began his career in academics. After graduating from USC with a law degree, he went on to an associate professorship in economics at the University of California, Berkeley. While at Berkeley, he became involved in the drama department and eventually began teaching drama and directing at the Pasadena Playhouse.

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As our story opens Commander Corey and Cadet Happy are onboard the Space Battle Cruiser Terra V, en route to Lowell City, Mars to meet with Assistant Security Chief Tonga. Tonga has been on Mars for several weeks on a special assignment by Space Patrol Security Chief Major Robertson to investigate the theft of critical materials of government and private manufacturing plants.

Corey and Happy are to meet Tonga at a library in a microfilm viewing room where Tonga will brief the Commander on the findings of her investigation so far.

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1953 Movie Abbott and Costello Go To Mars

While working at a missile base, simple-minded maintenance men Orville (Lou Costello) and Lester (Bud Abbott) help load supplies onto a rocketship. While onboard, Orville inadvertently launch the rocketship with themselves aboard. After a wild ride around New York City (the Statue of Liberty ducks when the rocket heads her way), Lester and Orville land in the outskirts of New Orleans, where Mardi Gras is in progress.

They exit the ship and witness “hideous creatures”, which are actually costumed celebrants, and conclude that they have landed on Mars. Meanwhile, two escaped convicts, Harry the Horse (Jack Kruschen) and Mugsy (Horace McMahon), discover and enter the rocketship, put on spare spacesuits, and head into New Orleans and rob a bank.

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Journey into Space

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Andrew Faulds was the actor who played Captain Jet Morgan In the classic BBC radio serial of the 1950′s “Journey Into Space .”

Space Travel Bio:
After graduating from the University of Glasgow, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1948 but first came to a wider public recognition playing Jet Morgan in Charles Chilton’s radio drama Journey Into Space on the BBC Light Programme.

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1953 Sci-Fi Movie Invaders from Mars

One morning a young boy (Jimmy Hunt), David McLean, wakes up early to view an astral event through his telescope but what David actually sees is a huge flying saucer crash into the sand dunes just beyond the fence of his house. He awakens his father who thinks it was just a bad dream but goes and looks anyway. When he doesn’t return, David’s Mother calls the Police. Officers Jackson and Blaine arrive and head out back to see if they can find George.

Meanwhile David’s Dad finally returns the next morning with a lame excuse and a strange mark on his neck. But George is no longer a loving father, Where once he was cheerful and affectionate, he’s now sullen and snarlingly rude. David is convinced that aliens have done something to his dad so decides to keep an eye on the field when he sees a young girl named Kathy Wilson sucked under a stretch of sand that he becomes convinced of it.

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Commander Corry is preparing to test the XR-51 a new experimental rocketship which when fully developed will allow one to control the ship with their mind without the use of their hands. But Major Robertson reports that one of the Space Patrol Technicians named Zero Vanick has stolen some of the special experimental Image Reactor Units from the XR-51.

Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy take off for Saturn after Vanick when they receive word from Space Patrol Headquarters that Space Patrol Ship T-523 has sighted an unidentified Private Cruiser heading for the Planetoid Belt. Buzz changes course and heads for the Planetoid Belt.

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