Spacemens Luck

 

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

Space Patrol agents have collected evidence against a Saturn crime syndicate and have it on a microfilm, but syndicate operatives manage to over power Space Patrol undercover agent Frazier who is on his way to Neptune and take the microfilm.

Commander and Chief of the Space Patrol Buzz Corey decides to handle the investigation of the theft of the evidence himself.

Meanwhile the crooks who took the microfilm evidence, Steve Chura and Wally Hunley are en route to Neptune. They realize they are low on supplies and stop outside Lowell City Mars at an old Martian prospectors place for some food and water. The prospector Marty Noonan is an easy going and obliging person who provides the supplies. While packing the supplies aboard their ship Wally Hunley unknowingly drops the microfilm.

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While on Saturn, Commander Corey and Cadet Happy become aware of Hydroponic food being grown on Venus is contaminated and being delivered to Saturn. Commander Corey believes this is an attempt to drive up the prices for Venus grown food and has assigned Tonga as an undercover chemist at one of the Hydroponic farms. She is working under the name of Miss Burns and is working for a Mr. Richard Baxter.

Buzz and Happy leave Saturn en route aboard the Terra V to Venus when Tonga calls and reports that she has found out how the contamination is going on. Unknown to her and Commander Corey her quarters are bugged and Mr. Burns and a Mr. Agle discover that she is an undercover Space Patrol agent.

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This episode has a bit of a mystery. One that would make Sir Arthur Conan Doyle proud and would be a worthy challenge for Sherlock Holmes. When the plans for a new top secret device called the “Anascope,” for detecting deeply buried mineral deposits is stolen from the Merritt Design and Development Company’s vaults. The mystery comes when the burglary was taken from inside a burglar proof electronic alarm system. The alarm went off hours after the burglary took place. The only clue is some pieces of broken glass that appear to come from eye glasses.

Commander Corey immediately suspects an inside jobs and arranges a Brain-A-Graph test of the owner Howard Merrit and Chella the Company’s Chief Engineer. Both pass the Brain-A-Graph test leaving them only with the broken glass for a clue.

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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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A shipwrecked scientist on the hot side of Mercury sets off a massive search and rescue operation. In addition to the search for Professor Mallison, Commander Corey is busy tracking down sabotage attacks against the power plant when they discover a break in the vital water conduit supporting the local colony of The City of the Sun Solaria.

Following tracks from the break in the water conduit Commander Corey and Happy discover a giant 6 wheel atomic digging machine, driven by Burick and Grouse, explaining what had been destroyed to the Solaria water supply conduit. Corey and Happy land to investigate and are chased down and run over by the atomic digging machine.

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This is the first Space Patrol episode where the radio show program was not lost and is available below for your listening enjoyment. Space Patrol Officer Lieutenant Grayson reports to the Commander demanding a Brain-O-Graph so he can prove to himself he really saw what he thinks he saw. A hole in empty space. But before he is given the Brain-O-Graph ships start disappearing and the Commander suddenly believes him and they head to the Terra V to go investigate.

Once Lieutenant Grayson gets them to the right location they find the hole. Commander Corey contacts Professor Jocha who explains to the Commander that the hole is probably a “psychloplex” or a gate to another universe.

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