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

Have you ever wondered “Whatever Became of…” someone who years ago was famous and you haven’t heard of them in years? Here at Spacemen’s Luck I have wondered “Whatever Became of…” the many personalities who played Classic Space Travel characters that helped form my vision of Space Travel in the 1950’s and 1960’s.

Not being someone who is willing to wait for someone else to do it for me and after a search around the internet I found no single source discussing “Whatever Became of…” those Classic Space Travelers.

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Commander Correy and Cadet Happy are en route to the Lunar Fleet Base on the Moon where an open house is being held at the Center for Scientific Research For Spaceflight. Space Patrol Assistant Security Chief Tonga contacts by Space-A-Phone to report that the microfilm blueprint plans for the D-Ray have been stolen and that Base Commander Colonel Jacobs has set Condition Red and locked the base down.

Before Commander Correy and Cadet Happy arrive the base personell have begun inspecting all film before any passengers can board their departing space craft. Any person attempting to bypass this security procedure and attempt to depart will pass through a Cancel Ray Machine that will erase all film.

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Donald Hall of the United Planets Purchasing Commission reports to Commander “Buzz” Correy of the Space Patrol the sabatoge of some classified files. Correy orders a Brain-A-Graph on all the employees at the United Planets Purchasing Commission.

Meanwhile on Lowell City, Mars space appropriations magnate Carlisle McCray, who’s business is as a wheeler dealer called “The Junkman” or “The Scavenger of Space,” is visited by his younger brother Larry McCray. It seems Larry has stolen some classified documents from his boss at the United Planets Purchasing Commission. He makes a deal with his brother, The Scavenger of Space, to turn over those documents so that he can make a killing on future United Planets Purchase contracts.

After giving a Brain-A-Graph to all the employees at the United Planets Purchasing Commission on Earth and finding no clues to the missing or destroyed classified files the Commander heads to Lowell City, Mars to give Larry McCray a Brain-A-Graph.

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The sixteenth episode in the Space Patrol radio show series is another one of those lost episodes. It is believed to have been broadcast on 17 January 1953. 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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Commander Correy is investigating some mysterious robberies. The robber(s) put the victims to sleep then make their get-a-way with whatever they have stolen. The head of the robbers is known as “The Sleep Walker.” In the latest robbery ITS Passenger Ship N157 has gone missing. After an all system alert goes out the ship is found out beyond the Neptune orbit. Unfortunately one of the passengers was kidnapped during the robbery. Commander Correy finds out that it is the Secretary General of the United Planets’s daughter, Carol Carlyle.

Thanks to Carol’s Miniature Space-A-Phone (which must not be widely used because the bad guys’s don’t suspect) she is able to contact Buzz and Happy and provide a signal that they can use to follow The Sleep Walker’s Class C Private Cruiser, PCP85. The Sleep Walker aka Woody Knorr and his assistant Bob Morgan take Carol to their hideout at the South West Sea near the Tyco Mountanis on Venus.

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The story begins on the man made planet Terra in the Kroser Building Mr. John Kroser, Urla Becker and Professor David Hagman recent`winner of the Kleinhurst Medal are discussing Professor Hagman’s health. It appears he is terminally ill and is resigning from Mr. Kroser’s service. His Doctor has told him that unless he retires now and takes it easy he only has 3 months to live.

Mr. Kroser is not happy but allows Professor Hagman. After he leaves Kroser and his assistant Urla Becker, his Director of Plant Operations, plot a scheme to kidnap Professor Hagman and place him in suspended animation for 3 years when their business project will be at a critical stage where they will need his particular skills. This will be like creating a “Brain Bank.”

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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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It is the far distant future and the date is 16 May 2040. The International League of Planetary Scientist have concluded that an expedition to Mars is plausible. Professor H. D. White, the Chairman of the League, has issued a statement that intelligent life on Mars like our own is highly probable and that a space journey towards the fourth planet now looks possible.

Two teenager boys begin to ponder the meaning of life and wish to make a name for themselves by being the first people on the red surface of Mars. Mickey Turner and Jink hear the news announcement and can’t help but feel excited about a space flight to Mars. Mickey, in particular, can’t wait to go to Mars, and even imagines being the first person to land there. Fueled by this daring idea, Mickey persuades his friend Jink to help him build a ship that would fly them to the red planet.

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Atomic power plant entrepreneur Edward Stratton is granted a license to build and operate a breeder reactor. After getting the licence he is immediately blackmailed by a former employee, the ruthless Elsie Bennett (The Lady From Venus), to provide her with plutonium illegally. After getting the breeder reactor into operation the demands for illegal shipments begin. He is directed to ship the plutonium to Mars but sends a false shipment instead. Mr Stratton, being a law abiding citizen, reports The Lady From Venus to the Space Patrol.

After the first blackmail attempt Mr Stratton notifies Commander Corey and Happy who arrive on Venus pretending to be on a pleasure visit and meet with Mr. Stratton at his cabin on the shore of Lake Azure. There arrival is noticed by the Lady from Venus and her henchman Ivan Amond plot to kill Commander Correy, Cadet Happy and Mr. Stratton.

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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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