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

X-1 Classic Science Fiction Radio Show

Based on the short story by Frederick Brown the story starts and ends with “The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door…”

The show’s announcer begins by saying “Tonight, we have a strange story to tell, a sweet, bloodcurdling little story that is really only two sentences long — ‘The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door…’” The story goes on and elaborates on those two sentences and builds a more complete story around them.

The story is about Walter Phelan, associate professor of anthropology at Nathan University, the last man on Earth. An Immortal space faring race, from Planet Seven in the Third Galaxy in the Fourth Quadrant, calling themselves the Zan have invaded the earth and have killed off all life other than pairs of animal specimens for their zoo.

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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

In the last episode of our story Operation Luna episode 8 Jet, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy are investigating a mysterious ship which has landed near Spaceship Luna. As they are about to approach the mysterious ship a hatch opens up. They decide to go investigate and as a precaution put their spacesuits on. After switching on their helmet radios they hear a strange voice calling Hello Luna! They conclude that there must be someone inside the ship.

The strange voice calling the Luna crew is in English and assures the crew that they only want to help them. The strange voice asks them to come into his spaceship but Lemmy balks and asks that he show himself. The voice replies that he can’t and explains that he is not inside the ship. He further explains that they are in danger if they remain where they are. He assures them that if they get into his ship they will not be harmed.

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Tom Corbett Space Cadet Show Logo

In Part One of “Double Cross in Space” Captain Strong and Tom Corbett were searching for the stolen and rare explosive N72C they discover that it was aboard the Venusian Colonizer Space Freightor Jenny Alden. In a more personal way it is even more tragic that Captain Strong and Tom Corbett learn that Cadet Roger Manning appears to be one of the thieves.

In todays episode we find it has been two weeks since the N72C explosive has been stolen and Roger Manning and Jonas Brady along with it. N72C is critical to the mining of uranium pitchblend which is necessary for creating the fuel for all the ships in the solar system. The Solar Guard has had to deacivate 35 ships due to the scareceness of fuel. If this goes on another two weeks there will be no Solar Guard ships left in space.

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Tom Corbett Space Cadet Show Logo

Roger believes he has failed the mid-term finals and instead of waiting around to be dismissed from the Space Academy he takes off on his own. Later in Captain Strong’s office two asteroid miners, Brady and Peters overhear Tom Corbett tell Captain Strong that Roger failed the mid-term exam. Disbelieving Tom, Captain Strong pronounces that he does not believe it, that Roger is as good an Astrogator as he is.

Brady and Peters, having just received their blast-off permits, are in need of an Astrogator and decide to look Roger Manning up. Meanwhile Captain Strong informs Tom that Roger was not on the regular mid-term regular pass/fail list because he was on the honors list, having received the third highest score in the whole Space Academy.

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Journey into Space

Space Travel Hero Role:
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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X-1 Classic Science Fiction Radio Show

Based on a story by science fiction legend Ray Bradbury originally titled Orphans of the Sky. The inhabitants of a generation starship, that is a space Ark, the humans have spent generations aboard, on a never ending journey to nowhere. They have been traveling for so many generations that they have long ago forgotten their origins and purpose. They think that their ship is the entire Universe, not realizing they live inside a spaceship, to them, “the Ship is All.”

The inhabitants are divided into two factions, the lower decks occupied by humans, and the upper by mutants.

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Journey into Space

In the last episode of our story Operation Luna episode 7 Jet, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy, after over a week on the strange planet, the rain had finally stopped and the sky cleared. Studying the position of the stars, Jet has come to the conclusion that they are in fact on Earth, but they’ve time traveled at least thirteen thousand years either ahead in time or backward in time. There is no way to know which.

While discussing their situation there comes some wrapping on their hull. They try to see who or what was wrapping on their hull but it is night and it is too dark outside.

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1953 Buck Rogers Movie Planet Outlaws

The story begins with Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade who are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught in a blizzard and crash. Buddy then releases a special gas an experimental gas called Nirvano Gas that they hope will preserve them until rescue can arrive. The Nirvano Gas works, but the dirigible is buried in an avalanche and is not found until 500 years have passed.

When Buck and Buddy are found, they awaken to a world in the year 2440 ruled by the ruthless dictator “Killer” Kane. Only those who live in the “Hidden City”, run by the benevolent Scientist General Dr. Huer and his military counterpart, Air Marshal Kragg, and those who follow them resist the criminal rulers of Earth.

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