Spacemens Luck

 

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

Journey into Space

In our last episode the crew of the Luna now stranded on Earth of as much as 20 thousand years ago are preparing to launch the Spaceship Luna when they took one last scan around the ship with their Televiewer and they saw what must be the “creatures of the forest” the Time Traveler has been going on about. Only now that they see them and realize that they are men, prehistoric men. Their ancestors!

This episode opens with the crew of the Spaceship Luna are watching the “creatures of the forest” gathering about a hundred yards off from the ship. Using their Televiewer they scan the sky for the alien ships who will be needed to assist them on their departure from the earth.

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Tom Corbett, Roger Manning and the Venusian Astro were on holiday on Venus when they discovered that Pirates equipped with giant robots, similar to the ones they encountered on their Giants of Mercury adventure, had been holding hostage the residents of the the mining settlement of Gold City, Venus while stealing the city’s gold. At the end of the first part of this story the Space Cadets have just rescued the entire population of Gold City, Venus.

Our story “Holiday of Terror” continues as they commandeer the space freighter that the Pirates left behind to go after the pirates before they can escape. Paroling space in the area of Venus the Space Cadets are unable to find the Pirates trail. Finally Tom concludes that the Pirates took off toward space as a ruse but actually doubled back to Venus where their hideout is.

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Venus celebrates its 100 years of independence and the space cadets Tom Corbett, Roger Manning and Astro are on a weeks leave from the Space Academy and are spending it at Astro’s uncle’s Gold mine located in Gold City, Venus. The cadets have borrowed a Jet Launch from Astro’s family and after crossing the Venusian jungle land near Gold City and find the town completely deserted.

During their search of the deserted town they check Astro’s Uncle’s shop and discover the body of Astro’s Uncle’s partner Peter Abbott. Now very worried the cadets return to their Jet Launch and take off to investigate the gold mines near Gold City.

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As our story opens Commander Corey and Cadet Happy are onboard the Space Battle Cruiser Terra V, en route to Lowell City, Mars to meet with Assistant Security Chief Tonga. Tonga has been on Mars for several weeks on a special assignment by Space Patrol Security Chief Major Robertson to investigate the theft of critical materials of government and private manufacturing plants.

Corey and Happy are to meet Tonga at a library in a microfilm viewing room where Tonga will brief the Commander on the findings of her investigation so far.

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1953 Movie Abbott and Costello Go To Mars

While working at a missile base, simple-minded maintenance men Orville (Lou Costello) and Lester (Bud Abbott) help load supplies onto a rocketship. While onboard, Orville inadvertently launch the rocketship with themselves aboard. After a wild ride around New York City (the Statue of Liberty ducks when the rocket heads her way), Lester and Orville land in the outskirts of New Orleans, where Mardi Gras is in progress.

They exit the ship and witness “hideous creatures”, which are actually costumed celebrants, and conclude that they have landed on Mars. Meanwhile, two escaped convicts, Harry the Horse (Jack Kruschen) and Mugsy (Horace McMahon), discover and enter the rocketship, put on spare spacesuits, and head into New Orleans and rob a bank.

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The investigation into the plot against Venus continues aboard the space liner. After the RDX bomb is jettisoned, Tom Corbett and Roger Manning learn that Alexandria Stone was in fact killed in her attempt to escape the ship in a Jet Boats airlock.

While searching Alexandria Stone’s cabin aboard the space liner they find a locket with a hidden piece of paper that mentions Venus Atmosphere Station #5.

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At the Atom City Spaceport aboard a Space Liner, Barton Reed a special messenger from Venus, who has had two attempts on his life, is met by Tom Corbett & Roger Manning who are to be his escort on a secret mission. In an effort to provide additional security Roger exchanges clothes with Barton Reed to escort the emissary back to the Space Academy.

Back at the Space Academy and despite the extra precaution Barton Reed is killed using an outlawed heat ray. Realizing that their failure to protect Barton Reed means the end of their Solar Guard careers they decide to pursue the killer, whoever it was. Their plan is to return to Venus on the Space Liners return trip. Using their original Solar Guard orders they begin their pursuit.

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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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While en route to Astro’s home world of Venus, and some well deserved shore leave, Lieutenant Commander Burke of the Solar Guard’s Venus Port orders the cadets shore leave canceled and diverts them to the Mercury Base to investigate a possible outbreak of Zero “A” Fever.

The Cadets learn that there are two teams of government scientist who have been operating diggers on Mercury’s hot side on a Top Secret mission. The teams twilight zone base operator had been keeping constant contact with the Solar Guard but during his last transmission it ended abruptly and all contact has been lost.

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Commander Buzz Correy and Cadet Happy have been on Venus conducting an undercover investigation into a larceny and fraud plot the United Planets government and Venus businessmen. While en route to the Venus space port with their evidence they are over powered by the subject of their investigation, Mr. Don Veal and his assistant Bob Henry.

Veal and Henry steal their evidence and make a getaway in the commercial space cruiser that Correy and Happy were about to leave in.

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