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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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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 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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