Spacemens Luck

 

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

Dimension X

The Federal Bureau of Missing Persons is broadcasting it’s latest coded bulletin transmission with a list of recently missing persons when they receive a CQ (SOS) radio message from a crank calling earth who claims to be calling from the Moon. Triangulating to locate the offender, radio operator Charlie Stafford discovers that the message did in fact come from the Moon from a man identifying himself as Cornelius Otterburn. Of course the call is dismissed, until a minor member of the Federal Bureau of Missing Persons begins to suspect that the call is related to a strange series of disappearances over the past several years.

Charlie Stafford tells Federal Bureau of Missing Persons records clerk Henry Stinton who recognizes the name and decides to investigate the name Cornelius Otterburn and finds only one person with that name has gone missing and he was an Atomic Physicist who had disappeared 5 years previously on June 5th 1945.

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2000 Plus

It is with regret that, for now I hope, there are no more 2000 Plus “Space Travel” related episodes known to be in circulation. There are a handful of episodes in the series that are in circulation but are not part of this website as they were not “space travel” themed shows. 2000 Plus (also called Two Thousand Plus and 2000+) was an Old Time Radio (OTR) series which ran from March 15, 1950 to January 2, 1952 in various 30-minute time slots. It is most notable for being the first adult science fiction series on radio, airing one month prior to the better known Dimension X.

During the 1950s, science fiction became a popular genre, and stories exploring future technologies, space expeditions and alien invasions made up the story lines of the episodes that are known today and available for listening.

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Space Patrol Show Logo

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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Dimension X

This episode is one of Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles. The story begins in 1987 when the first astronauts from Earth aboard the spaceship XR-57 and a 17 Man crew have just landed on Mars. The landing party leaves the ship into a fog and the first thing they hear after emerging from their ship is the crowing of a rooster. Then they find an old fashioned lawn ornament in the shape of an iron deer sitting in the yard of a regular old fashioned house complete with a porch swing. As the fog clears the crew are shocked to discover a Rockwellian 1920′s small town, eerily similar to those they left on Earth.

Peering through the first house’s window they see a piano complete with sheet music. Their confusion becomes even greater when a little old lady answers the door bell. When they explain that they are from Earth the lady replies “you mean out of the ground?” Captain Black insists they are from earth and that this is Mars she replies insistently that this is Green Acres, Wisconsin in the United States of America in 1928.

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X-1 Classic Science Fiction Radio Show

Premiere episode for the X-1 Radio Show series. In the far distant future of 1982, when trips to the moon, Mars and beyond are common place, spaceships are encountering a barrier of some kind that the Earth ships keep crashing into, or so they think. Six expeditions have been lost trying to cross it and their fate is a mystery, apparently no signal can pass through the barrier and radar signals bounce back, no one has ever heard from the spacefarers again.

Now, it is 2 June 1987, there is to be sixth attempt to breach what has become known as the wrecker of spaceships, the Galactic Reef, or the “Great Galactic Barrier.” The spaceship, Star Cloud has been selected for the latest mission and prepares to launch on it’s mission to breach the “Great Galactic Barrier.”

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Space Patrol Show Logo

Our story begins with Commander “Buzz” Correy and Cadet Happy of the United Planets Space Patrol are aboard the Battle Cruiser Terra V en route to Jupiter’s number two moon. An unmanned instrument station has stopped sending back signals.

As they approach the location of the station they realize the station’s atmosphere dome is gone. They land to investigate and they find the instruments are in place and the walls and the doors to the dome are still there but the plastic dome is completely gone without a trace.

Buzz and Happy head to Jupiter to the Shargon Physiological Center near Jupiter City where remote instrument station’s data is received and interpreted. There they meet with Major Robertson and Dr. William Conrad who is in charge of the program of monitoring the remote unmanned instrument stations. Commander Correy dispatches Major Robertson back to Jupiters number two moon to investigate the missing shell.

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Tom Corbett Space Cadet Show Logo

In Part 1 of The Giants of Mercury the Cadets were en route to Astro’s home world of Venus for some well deserved shore leave when Lieutenant Commander Burke of the Solar Guard’s Venus Port orders the cadets shore leave cancelled and diverts them to a Mercury Base to investigate a possible outbreak of Zero “A” Fever.

After Commander Burke back on Venus receives the Cadets request for additional forces, Burke didn’t believe them and instead of sending reinforcements and weapons he sends medics including a Dr. Ashton and Nurse Leslie Everett to Mercury in an unarmed Space Freighter because he didn’t believe their story of a giant man believing they have gone Zero “A.”

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X-1 Classic Science Fiction Radio Show

Below is a series List of the classic science fiction anthology radio show X Minus One which aired from 24 April 1955-04-24 to 9 January 1958 with one revival attemp episode on 27 January 1973.

With its magazine affiliation, two dozen shows from Astounding Science Fiction were followed by almost 90 that were from the pages of Galaxy Magazine. A total of 125 programs were broadcast, some repeats or remakes, were aired until the last show of 9 January 1958.

For those of you who are collectors of Old Time Radio shows all of these episodes are in existence and available.

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2000 Plus

In the year 2000 plus six, Colonel “Brad” Bradbury while flying to the rocket base in Rocket X-93, crashes and is seriously injured. Colonel Bradbury is absolutely necessary for a test rocket launch scheduled for the next day. However, he has sustained a “cracked skull.” He is taken into surgery immediately and given a metal plate in his skull.

The top secret rocket that was scheduled and now delayed is a new type of “two way” rocket that can both land on the moon and return while being remotely controlled from the earth. The new rocket is critical to the political concerns of the United States who believe that whoever “controls the moon controls the world” and if another nation gets their first the world is in trouble.

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Dimension X

This episode of Dimension X was developed as a means of advanced promotion of the George Pal’s 1950 movie of Destination Moon. The Dimension X episode was based on an advanced copy of the screenplay.

Like the movie the story was based on the legendary Robert A. Heinlein’s novel “Rocket Ship Galileo” (1947) depicting man’s first flight to the moon.

In this radio adaption our story begins later in the story when General Thayer arrives at the rocket launch site to announce their permission to test the atomic motor was denied. They then anticipate that a court order will soon follow preventing them from launching and prepare for immediate launch and sure enough a court officer arrives and our crew launch to the moon.

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