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Tom Corbett, Roger Manning and the Venusian Astro were on holiday on Venus when they discovered that Pirates equipped with giant robots, similar to the ones they encountered on their Giants of Mercury adventure, had been holding hostage the residents of the the mining settlement of Gold City, Venus while stealing the city’s gold. At the end of the first part of this story the Space Cadets have just rescued the entire population of Gold City, Venus.

Our story “Holiday of Terror” continues as they commandeer the space freighter that the Pirates left behind to go after the pirates before they can escape. Paroling space in the area of Venus the Space Cadets are unable to find the Pirates trail. Finally Tom concludes that the Pirates took off toward space as a ruse but actually doubled back to Venus where their hideout is.

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Venus celebrates its 100 years of independence and the space cadets Tom Corbett, Roger Manning and Astro are on a weeks leave from the Space Academy and are spending it at Astro’s uncle’s Gold mine located in Gold City, Venus. The cadets have borrowed a Jet Launch from Astro’s family and after crossing the Venusian jungle land near Gold City and find the town completely deserted.

During their search of the deserted town they check Astro’s Uncle’s shop and discover the body of Astro’s Uncle’s partner Peter Abbott. Now very worried the cadets return to their Jet Launch and take off to investigate the gold mines near Gold City.

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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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In The Day The Earth Stood Still a humanoid envoy named Klattu and his mighty robot Gort, from another world, lands his Flying Saucer on the mall in Washington, D.C. Emerging from his ship he is immediately shot and Gort, his very powerful robot, appears to save him and begins to melt tanks. The wounded Klatuu orders Gort to stop his rampage. Then he is taken to Walter Reed Army Hospital.

In the hospital Klaatu tells our government that he brings an important message to the planet that he wishes to tell to representatives of all nations. However, the mistrust between nations seems to get in his way. So he escapes into the city to try and learn more about this planet and understand earth-men.

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NASA announced today, January 26, 2010, that the Mars Rover Spirit is no longer a rover. For nearly ten months now the little rover has been stuck with two of its six wheels inoperative. The decision was made, with regret I am sure, to give up trying to remove Spirit from her rut. NASA has made the decision to discontinue their 10 month attempt to get her back in motion.

NASA has re-designated Spirit a “Stationary Research Platform.” Here at Spacemen’s Luck we have decided to Call Spirit “Mars Base One.”

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We find our self in the far distant future of 2006. A future where the Mark 3 Electronic Brain is the latest computer and is used in places like Harvard University. Soon there will be the next generation computer the Mark 4 Electronic Brain.

First we meet Harry Underhill, manufacturer of domestic robots who finds his livelihood threatened when a new competitor appears on the market. Humanoids, which are vastly superior to his, which are inefficient and clunky, are devoted to the protection and service of mankind. Their “prime directive” is to serve man.

The first time Harry speaks to one of these new robots he calls it a robot and he is promptly informed that they are mechanicals and not robots. The mechanical offers a service contract to him but Underhill immediately declines with disgust.

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At an unknown time in the far distant future The Master Mechanical Brain with their robot police have taken over Mech City. Mech City is a domed city where robots do everything for the humans. It is not said but the story infers that this is the only human outpost left on earth. A man named Morton, who has developed a Master Mechanical Brain, has plans of human genocide, planning only to spare a few re-adjusted humans.

This story is about a rebellion among a few humans led by Bob Thomas, who resents Morton and the Master Controller for having Mech City transformed into a complete machine civilization. The Robot Mind Police Patrol the city and search for the remaining human inhabitants who are not re-adjusted.

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Unfortunately 2000 Plus is one of those Old Time Radio Show series that most of the episodes are lost (forever? Let’s hope not!). The few episodes that I do have will be made available for listing over time. Below is a sequential list of both season one and season two. I have compiled this list from several other online lists and cannot be sure it is accurate. If you see any discrepancies please use the comment system below to bring it to my attention.

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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