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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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Space Travel Hero Role: Television and Radio series Space Patrol as “Buzz Corry” Commander in Chief of the Space Patrol

What They Are Doing Today: Ed Kimmer passed away on November 09, 2004 age 84 in New York City, New York

Ed Kemmer, who played Commander “Buzz” Corry, Commander in Chief of the Space Patrol, in the popular ABC 1950′s sci-fi television and radio show Space Patrol.

Space Patrol chronicled the adventures of Commander “Buzz” Corry, who fought intergalactic villains of the 30th century while flying around in the Space Patrols Terra V spacecraft with comic sidekick, Cadet Happy, played by Lyn Osborn.

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The sixteenth episode in the Space Patrol radio show series is another one of those lost episodes. It is believed to have been broadcast on 17 January 1953. Though we believe we know the title of this episode the story line in 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 this episode is 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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Atomic power plant entrepreneur Edward Stratton is granted a license to build and operate a breeder reactor. After getting the licence he is immediately blackmailed by a former employee, the ruthless Elsie Bennett (The Lady From Venus), to provide her with plutonium illegally. After getting the breeder reactor into operation the demands for illegal shipments begin. He is directed to ship the plutonium to Mars but sends a false shipment instead. Mr Stratton, being a law abiding citizen, reports The Lady From Venus to the Space Patrol.

After the first blackmail attempt Mr Stratton notifies Commander Corey and Happy who arrive on Venus pretending to be on a pleasure visit and meet with Mr. Stratton at his cabin on the shore of Lake Azure. There arrival is noticed by the Lady from Venus and her henchman Ivan Amond plot to kill Commander Correy, Cadet Happy and Mr. Stratton.

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