Spacemens Luck

 

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

While en route to Astro’s home world of Venus, and some well deserved shore leave, Lieutenant Commander Burke of the Solar Guard’s Venus Port orders the cadets shore leave canceled and diverts them to the Mercury Base to investigate a possible outbreak of Zero “A” Fever.

The Cadets learn that there are two teams of government scientist who have been operating diggers on Mercury’s hot side on a Top Secret mission. The teams twilight zone base operator had been keeping constant contact with the Solar Guard but during his last transmission it ended abruptly and all contact has been lost.

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Tom Corbett, Space Cadet first aired on Television as a TV series from Oct 1950 to 1956. During the shows run it also had a separate series running six months on radio from January 1, 1952 – June 26, 1952. This article will be concentrating on the radio version of Tom Corbett, Space Cadet.

In both the radio and TV versions the stories followed the adventures of Cadet Tom Corbett, Cadet Astro, and Cadet Roger Manning, at the Space Academy as they qualified to become Officers in the elite Solar Guard. The stories centered around their cadet training and the many adventures that the happened into.

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