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Based on the short story by Frederick Brown the story starts and ends with “The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door…”

The show’s announcer begins by saying “a sweet blood curdling story that is only two sentences long. The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door…” The story goes on and elaborates on those two sentences and builds a more complete story around them.

The story is about Walter Phelan, the last man on Earth. An Immortal space faring race calling themselves the Zan have invaded the earth and have killed off all life other than pairs of animal specimens for their zoo.

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Welcome to this new category for Classic Space Travel here at Spacemen’s Luck. Space Travel Movies of the 1950’s and 1960’s is important for those of you, like myself, who got your vision of space travel from the radio and TV of the 1950’s.

In the series “Space Travel Movies” I will have show descriptions, cast members, production credits and plot lines for movies made during the 1950’s and 1960’s. Additionally, I will be adding my own reviews for these classics. Of course I am biased toward any and all science fiction space travel movies, serials, TV shows, radio episodes and books created during those golden days of space travel.

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The first Journey Into Space series was originally titled “Journey to the Moon” and was originally intended to have 12 episodes, and 5.1 million people tuned in to the first episode, but the first four episodes (which took place on Earth) didn’t prove very popular, and the audience soon shrank to less than 4 million.

However, once the rocket set off for the Moon in episode 5, the audience reaction was much more favorable. The series was extended to 18 episodes, and by the time the final episode was broadcast, 8 million people were tuning in.

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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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Jouney Into Space was written as a trilogy and is an expansive epic radio serial consisting of over 50 episodes. This pre-launch breifing will provide an over view of the three original series first aired from 21 September 1953 to the 19th of January 1954 and again in an edited form in 1958. Later postings will cover each individual episode in a more detailed way.

Operation Luna – The First Series:

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This is the first episode in the then new (1950) science fiction anthology series Dimension X. The show begins in the distant future in the year 1965 (April 15, 1965) and were standing beside the giant concrete runway of a desert testing ground somewhere in the American Southwest. Test pilot Steve Weston is getting last minute instructions from his boss Hanson and well wishes before he is to lift off in an experimental Strato Rocket the RJX-1 and fly higher than any man had gone before—to the outer reaches of earth’s atmosphere.

Once in flight everything is working according to plan when Weston suddenly reports sighting something large and shiny above his plane. Weston gives chase to the mysterious object and then disappears from ground controls radar screen with only ten minutes of fuel left. Search planes are sent out but find no sign of the downed plane.

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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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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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Solar Guard Cadet’s Tom Corbett, Roger Manning and Astro are performing pre-flight checks on the Control Deck of the Rocket Cruiser Polaris when the Facsimile News Bulletin Receiver announces that ther are new clues about the Vanadium hijackers. Solar Guard Captain Steve Strong arrives on the control deck and announces that the new clue is that a small private rocket ship has been seen ferrying the Vanadium in from somewhere near the sun.

Captain Strong orders the Polaris to blast off and are hot on the trail of the Vanadium smugglers. Roger picks up the smugglers Rocket Scout Ship and Captain Strong orders Full Space Speed but just as they approach and order the ship to standby for a boarding party the ship takes off and they soon loose her because the Pirate Rocket Ship, with auxiliary rockets attached, is much faster than the Polaris.

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