Spacemens Luck

 

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

Solar Guard, Space Academy Cadets, Tom Corbett and Roger Manning are both campaigning for President of the Cadet Council. Before the elections can be announced an epidemic of unknown origin breaks out on Titan Colony. Commander Arkwright orders all Cadet Units to assist in the evacuation of Titan.

Captain Strong, Officer-in-Charge of the Polaris Unit, along with Tom, Roger and Astro blast off in the Rocket Cruiser Polaris to the Titan Colony to help evacuate the children. Rogers first thoughts are of a girl he knows on Titan but Captain Strong warns the Cadets that a quarintine is in effect and no one will be allowed to leave the ship.

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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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Astro’s Trial in Space continues. After 4 hours of shore leave at Mars Port, Captain Strong and the Cadets blastoff from Mars for their return trip to the Academy. Cadet Astro is still listed as a passenger aboard the Polaris for observation to see if he does in fact have space fever. Cadet Harvey is filling in for Astro’s Power Deck duties and this has Astro a little on edge and he tells Captain Strong that he is going to resign from the Academy as soon as they return.

Once in outer space Cadet Roger Manning detects a huge sun spot forming on the sun. It is the largest any of them have ever seen at over 300,000 miles in diameter. The Polaris crew knows that this will send out a solar storm and that they need to head back to Mars as quick as possible.

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Also known as “Astro gets Space Fever.” Returning from a routine training mission, Cadet Astro looses consciousness and Cadet Tom Corbett has to take over the Power Deck and Cadet Roger Manning man’s the Command Deck for landing. After the landing Astro blames fatigue, and doesn’t believe he is sick until he drops some deadly acids while conducting a lab experiment. Tom manges to save. Dr Dale, who is the lab instructor for their lab experiments, fears Astro may have “Space Fever” which would give Astro a medical discharge from the Academy.

Dr Dale orders Astro to Sick Bay where he under goes several tests. The tests turn out to not be conclusive as to whether Astro has Space Fever or not. Meanwhile the Polaris is ordered on another training mission and Cadet George Harvey takes Astro’s place on a trip to Mars. At the last minute, before lift off, Astro comes aboard as a passenger/patient to test his reaction in Space.

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The crew of the Polaris are on another training mission with Major “Blastoff” Connell and are looking for caves on Pluto that will be large enough for setting up future colonies. While Tom and Major Connel look around the area around the Cruiser Polaris, Astro and Roger disobey orders and take the jet boat for a test ride. When Tom and Major Connel come back to the ship they find Astro and Roger gone. Finally Roger checks in by radio telling the Major that they have crashed.

Major Connell is so mad at the two cadets that he awards them 99 demerits each (100 gets you expelled). Roger tries to weasel out by telling the Major that they have found just the cave they came to Pluto for. Despite the seemingly good news Major Connell orders them to stay put and out of trouble.

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This the thirteenth episode in the Tom Corbett, Space Cadet radio show series and is a lost episode. The title is known because it is announced at the end of Episode 12 as the next show. Following the schedule of twice weekly broadcasts (part one on Tuesday and part two on Thursday) It is believed to have been broadcast on Tuesday 12 February 1952. 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.

Broadcast Date: 52-02-12

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While on a surprise training mission, the Polaris unit takes part in Space Maneuvers with Captain Strong and other Cadet Units. The Cadet units are to seek out and engage Captain Strong, who is aboard the Space Academy Cruiser Arturis, who will be trying to evade them. The Space Maneuvers will take place in an area of space where the Cadet Space Cruiser Pollacks was lost without a trace 3 months earlier and where Space Pirates have been reported.

The Polaris crew blast off to track down Captain Strong and using a Radiation Detector Mark 2 which sniffs out the rocket trail signature of ships who have passed the area of space they are testing. With the Sniffer the cadets find Captain Strong’s signature and another radiation pattern which they follow. They find a Space Academy Space Cruiser and think it is Captain Strong. But they are fired on and they realize it is the missing Space Cruiser Pollacks which must of been taken over by the Space Pirates. After the Polaris is hit damaging their main engines, Long Range Radio and their weapons systems, Tom and Roger fake a radio call to the Saturn Solar Guard base on Titan that scares the pirates away from the Polaris and allows the cadets to escape. Roger wants to chase after them but Tom overrules him because Astro had been injured and they head to Titan.

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After Ross and later Loring confess to the sabotaging of the Elizabeth Chester, Roger is cleared. While delivering James Loring back to Venus, aboard the Rocket Scout 7J4, to stand trial Captain Strong is overpowered by Loring. Then Loring escapes to the Venus jungles in a jet boat. After completing his special assignment, Astro joins the Polaris Unit on the Space Station. Where he joins Tom Corbett in the search for Loring who has escaped to the Venus jungles. They leave Roger Manning behind to cover for them.

The cadets find Lorings hideout only to be captured by Loring and frozen with a parallel ray gun leaving them as the intended meal for a Tyranasaurus Rex dinosaur. Roger and Captain Strong who are searching for the missing cadets watch in horror as Loring tries to take off in the jet boat and is eaten by the T Rex instead of Lorings intended meal of Tom and Astro. The cadets were frozen and ignored by the dinosaur, but Loring was moving and a prime target. The Polaris Unit regroups and heads back to the Academy.

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Continuing their search for Solar Guard Capt. Mitch Parker and his rocket scout their task seems fruitless until Roger sights a lifeboat near the orbit of Jupiter. The lifeboat is empty but the ships log indicates Captain Parker is on the surface of Jupiter.

The atmosphere on Jupiter is inhospitable to say the least and the gravity is nearly 2 1/2 times that of Earth, where each crew member weighs nearly 400 pounds making it difficult for the cadets to work on the surface. After lumbering around and weathering a Jupitor storm and ground quakes rocket scout pilot Captain Parker is found and after much effort is dragged back to the ship and rescued.

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