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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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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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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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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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Jim Kolmar (Bela Kovacs)is the head technician for Saturn COM Relay 4, a communications relay space station. He is visited by Commander Corry and Cadet Happy who are investigating a disturbance caused by Kolmar’s assistant Bob Syler. Corry’s investigation determines that Kolmar’s accusations against Syler are true and relieves Syler of his duties.

Sylers departure from Saturn COM Relay 4 leaves Kolmar alone without an assistant. Kolmar request that Corry assign Jack Perkins as replacement Corry, after interviewing Perkins, decides to OK the assignment despite a dispute the two had a few years ago.

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Commander Buzz Correy and Cadet Happy are on routine patrol to the planet Pluto where reports of a strange object far beyond Pluto is slowly approaching the solar system. Buzz and Happy head out beyond Pluto and discover an old abandoned spaceship. After boarding the derelict they discover a man just barely alive.

Transferring the injured man back to Terra V they make fast to the derelict and head back to planet Terra with the radiation soaked spaceship U87 in tow and the very sick spaceman Wes Pence. An investigation back at Space Patrol Headquarters on Terra reveals that the spaceship U87 is of Saturn registry, owned by one Joe O’Malley who had abandoned Wes Pence who must of been adrift for six to eight months.

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Our story begins with Commander Correy and Cadet Happy on their way to the New Arcadia Space Port in Arizona, Earth in a surface car when they see a meteor shower then one of the meteorites crashes into the city of New Arcadia. Buzz and Happy race to the scene where they find the meteorite has crashed in one of the parks of New Arcadia.

Major Robertson the Space Patrol’s Security Chief greets and briefs the Commander. He informs him that the meteor crash created a pit nearly twenty yards across but fortunately no one was injured.

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Whatever Became Of Your Favorite Classic Space Travel Actor

Have you ever wondered “Whatever Became of…” someone who years ago was famous and you haven’t heard of them in years? Here at Spacemen’s Luck I have wondered “Whatever Became of…” the many personalities who played Classic Space Travel characters that helped form my vision of Space Travel in the 1950′s and 1960′s.

Not being someone who is willing to wait for someone else to do it for me and after a search around the internet I found no single source discussing “Whatever Became of…” those Classic Space Travelers.

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Donald Hall of the United Planets Purchasing Commission reports to Commander “Buzz” Correy of the Space Patrol the sabatoge of some classified files. Correy orders a Brain-A-Graph on all the employees at the United Planets Purchasing Commission.

Meanwhile on Lowell City, Mars space appropriations magnate Carlisle McCray, who’s business is as a wheeler dealer called “The Junkman” or “The Scavenger of Space,” is visited by his younger brother Larry McCray. It seems Larry has stolen some classified documents from his boss at the United Planets Purchasing Commission. He makes a deal with his brother, The Scavenger of Space, to turn over those documents so that he can make a killing on future United Planets Purchase contracts.

After giving a Brain-A-Graph to all the employees at the United Planets Purchasing Commission on Earth and finding no clues to the missing or destroyed classified files the Commander heads to Lowell City, Mars to give Larry McCray a Brain-A-Graph.

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