Spacemens Luck

 

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

Commander Correy has his assistant Security officer Tonga on Titan (Saturn’s sixth moon) to investigate a scheme to pirate uranium mines which involves a feud between a spaceport official and a grizzled old veteran space pilot named Captain Gustav Krueger (Marvin Miller). He is being accused of dealing in the black market of processed foods and antibiotics. Captain Krueger in his ancient space freighter The “Lonesome Lena” has been plying Saturn and the Saturn Moons space lanes for decades. He is a “seat of the pants” pilot who chews Calium Seeds (from Venus) as a natural cure for Space Sickness. The only drawback for the Calium Seeds is they turn your fingers purple.

Corey’s and Tonga’s investigation of the scheme to pirate uranium mines on Titan leads him into a feud between a spaceport official named Sherwin McCurdy (Norman Jolley) and Captain Krueger.

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Commander Buzz Corey is concerned about the number of accidents Spaceway’s Inc. are having on their freight and passenger ships operating in the outer planets of the Solar System (Uranus, Neptune and Pluto), which seems to coincide with the expansion into the outer planet routes of the powerful TransOrbit shipping line. The TransOrbit Shipping line is headed by a woman named Jelna Fenton who has self identified herself as the “Queen of Space” and an assistant and all around thug Brax Cardo.

An aside: Since this episode is all about the outer planets perhaps Jelna Fenton, and this episode should be called the “Queen of Outer Space.” The movie Queen of Outer Space is one of my favorite space movies and a cult classic.

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This the fifth episode in the Space Patrol radio show series is another of the lost episodes. It is believed to have been broadcast on 01 November 1952. Though we believe we know the title of this episode the story line in not known. 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.

* The Old Time Radio Researchers Organization Database indicates that this episode is lost and no longer available. 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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This the second episode in the Space Patrol radio show series is a lost episode. It is believed to have been broadcast on 11 October 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 does turn up from a previously unknown source.

* The Old Time Radio Researchers Organization Database indicates that this episode is lost and no longer available. 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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The first episode in the Space Patrol radio show series is a lost episode. It is believed to have been broadcast on 4 October 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.

* The Old Time Radio Researchers Organization Database indicates that this episode is lost and no longer available. 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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Space Patrol was a science fiction juvenile adventure with shows on both television and radio. Space Patrol was created by Mike Moser, a former U.S. Navy Air Force Veteran who had been in charge of training hurricane-hunter squadrons in World War II. The TV show’s success spawned a radio version from October 1952 to March 1955 running for 129 episodes. The same cast of actors performed on both the TV and the radio shows. Similarly the writers, scripts, story lines and director were used. The TV and radio versions ran separate adventures, with some of the TV villains also appearing on the radio show.

I believe that the concept of Space Patrol came straight from the Golden Age of space era popularized by Robert Heinlein’s book “Space Cadet.” Space Cadet was a 1948 science fiction novel about Matt Dodson, who joins the Space Patrol to help preserve peace in the Solar System. The story is a military academy story translated into an outer space story of a teenage boy from Iowa who goes to the Military Academy to become an officer and sees action and adventure, assumes responsibilities far beyond his years, and becomes a man.

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