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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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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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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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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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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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Journey into Space

Previously in Journey Into Space, Operation Luna, Jet Morgan and his crew took off from the Moon, intending to return to the Earth, but a fleet of strange spaceships based on the other side of the Moon rose up to meet them and, so it seemed, attack them.

Jet and his companions lost consciousness, only to find, when they came round, that they were millions of miles from the solar system and hurtling through outer space at an unimaginable speed.

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Journey into Space

In the previous episode (Episode 5) we left our space weary travelers launching from the moon and keeping to their original plans they make one orbit around the moon to be the first to see the dark side of the moon. We pickup the story here as they are now in lunar orbit on the back side peering down at the surface when suddenly they see one extremely large crater with dozens of little craters inside of it. Then Lemmy points out that those are not little craters but ships that are rising up very fast toward them.

At first the crew panics thinking they are coming up after them to destroy them but the strange craft settle into a hovering orbit just below the rocketship Luna. Once the they are back around the moon in their orbit with their ship again facing toward the earth they cut in their engines and blast for earth.

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Journey into Space

Last episode (Episode 4) we left our Lunar crew who have been stranded for two weeks inside the Lunar Rocket Ship and on the tenth day of that period they heard a strange tapping sound around the ships hull as if “someone” were checking out the ship.

Then suddenly the Televiewer comes on and all power is restored. Quickly they make one final check before launching. They try to contact their Earth base at Wongawalla, Australia but all they hear is country music, a song about the Moon. Then they hear an announcer from London in the Overseas Service of the BBC telling the world that all hope for the Rocketship Luna is feared lost.

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Journey into Space

We join our lunar astronauts just after Jet presses the rocket ignition button and nothing happened. Then one by one all the ships systems shut down and they are left in a dead ship. Everything is quiet except for the sound of the ship’s master gyro whirring down until it stops.

After a complete inspection of the ships power system they can find nothing wrong except nothing has power. As Jet so concisely puts it unless they can find something they are stuck, stranded on the moon.

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Journey into Space

The first episode of the re-recorded and re-produced Operation Luna series was broadcast in 1958. Originally broadcast as episode 5 in the first broadcast of the Operation Luna series in 1953. This episode also introduces us to the four main characters of the series, Jet Morgan, Stephen “Mitch” Mitchell, Doc Matthews and Lemmy Barnet.

This first episode kicks off on October 19, 1965 (in the far future) as the rocket ship Luna blasts off on it’s atomic motors, from a space port in the Australian Outback, for the Moon with Jet, Doc, Mitch and Lemmy aboard. Soon after escape velocity from earth is made radio contact with Earth is lost.

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