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

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While returning from leave on Venus Astro is at the Venus Space Port and is confronted by a stranger in the dark. At first Astro doesn’t see who the stranger is but once he identifies himself as his cousin Murko, Astro see’s that the stranger is an exact duplicate for himself. Murko distracts Astro while his companion Beal hit’s Astro over the head knocking him out. They drag Astro off somewhere secluded and give Astro a shot of Sodium Pentathol (truth serum) to learn about the patrol and his Space Academy friends.

Murko takes over Astro’s place at the Space Academy. Almost immediately Tom becomes suspicious and Murko senses the suspicion. So he fakes an episode of being stunned and goes blank and when he comes out of it he explains to Tom and Roger that after they left Venus he was in an accident with a head injury. Tom and Roger are immediately concerned and want to take Astro (Murko) to the dispensary but he convinces them that he is alright and if he has another episode he will check into the dispensary himself.

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Journey into Space

In our last episode the crew of the Luna now stranded on Earth of as much as 20 thousand years ago are preparing to launch the Spaceship Luna when they took one last scan around the ship with their Televiewer and they saw what must be the “creatures of the forest” the Time Traveler has been going on about. Only now that they see them and realize that they are men, prehistoric men. Their ancestors!

This episode opens with the crew of the Spaceship Luna are watching the “creatures of the forest” gathering about a hundred yards off from the ship. Using their Televiewer they scan the sky for the alien ships who will be needed to assist them on their departure from the earth.

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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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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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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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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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In part 1 of “The Mystery of the Sparkling Meteor” we learned that in Sector 7 a mysterious meteor that appears to be on fire has claimed the lives of 3 Solar guardsmen under questionable conditions over the past 15 years. Now a fourth Solar Guard Officer, Captain Powers, is unconscious from acute Gamma radiation fever.

Captain Strong and Dr. Dale have come to the conclusion that the source of the Gamma radiation and must be destroyed before anyone else is injured or worse.

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Captain Powers, aboard a rocket scout, is on patrol as the Sector 7 Comet Watch. Captain Powers in his last report stated he had seen a strange comet that was on fire. Now Captain Powers is 24 hours past due reporting in. Captain Strong and the Polaris crew are ordered to investigate.

The Polaris crew find the rocket scout drifting in space with Captain Powers and his son Jody Powers aboard. Captain Powers is found unconscious from a fever. Young Jody Powers can provide no help as to why his father is ill. He found him that way when he woke up 2 days ago.

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Journey into Space

In the last episode of our story Operation Luna episode 9 Jet, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy are airborne in the strange aliens spaceship, when a 3-D Televiewer turns on and they can see the country side passing under them. After a while a small city comes into view then passes on by as they continue to travel for quite some time then the ship begins to land. We join them in this episode just as they are landing.

After a short time they re-establish contact with the mysterious alien. He shows them an image on the 3-D Televiewer and Doc recognizes that he had seen that image before on the moon. The alien explains that it was one of several images they had transmitted to the earthmen in an attempt to open communication with them.

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