Spacemens Luck

 

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

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Jim Kolmar (Bela Kovacs)is the head technician for Saturn COM Relay 4, a communications relay space station. He is visited by Commander Corry and Cadet Happy who are investigating a disturbance caused by Kolmar’s assistant Bob Syler. Corry’s investigation determines that Kolmar’s accusations against Syler are true and relieves Syler of his duties.

Sylers departure from Saturn COM Relay 4 leaves Kolmar alone without an assistant. Kolmar request that Corry assign Jack Perkins as replacement Corry, after interviewing Perkins, decides to OK the assignment despite a dispute the two had a few years ago.

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Commander Buzz Correy and Cadet Happy are on routine patrol to the planet Pluto where reports of a strange object far beyond Pluto is slowly approaching the solar system. Buzz and Happy head out beyond Pluto and discover an old abandoned spaceship. After boarding the derelict they discover a man just barely alive.

Transferring the injured man back to Terra V they make fast to the derelict and head back to planet Terra with the radiation soaked spaceship U87 in tow and the very sick spaceman Wes Pence. An investigation back at Space Patrol Headquarters on Terra reveals that the spaceship U87 is of Saturn registry, owned by one Joe O’Malley who had abandoned Wes Pence who must of been adrift for six to eight months.

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Our story begins with Commander “Buzz” Correy and Cadet Happy of the United Planets Space Patrol are aboard the Battle Cruiser Terra V en route to Jupiter’s number two moon. An unmanned instrument station has stopped sending back signals.

As they approach the location of the station they realize the station’s atmosphere dome is gone. They land to investigate and they find the instruments are in place and the walls and the doors to the dome are still there but the plastic dome is completely gone without a trace.

Buzz and Happy head to Jupiter to the Shargon Physiological Center near Jupiter City where remote instrument station’s data is received and interpreted. There they meet with Major Robertson and Dr. William Conrad who is in charge of the program of monitoring the remote unmanned instrument stations. Commander Correy dispatches Major Robertson back to Jupiters number two moon to investigate the missing shell.

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Our story begins with Commander Correy and Cadet Happy on their way to the New Arcadia Space Port in Arizona, Earth in a surface car when they see a meteor shower then one of the meteorites crashes into the city of New Arcadia. Buzz and Happy race to the scene where they find the meteorite has crashed in one of the parks of New Arcadia.

Major Robertson the Space Patrol’s Security Chief greets and briefs the Commander. He informs him that the meteor crash created a pit nearly twenty yards across but fortunately no one was injured.

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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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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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