Spacemens Luck

 

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

In the future year of 1955 a mysterious visitor, named Graffious, to the Broderick Detective Agency, in downtown New York, hires Detective Broderick and his assistant “Iron Man” Doolan to find the Martian Embassy. Both Broderick and Doolan think Graffious is crazy and start to throw him out of their office. But Graffious flashes a $500.00 bank note and suddenly they are all ears.

Grafiius explains that he is an eccentric that believes that if the Martians were on Earth they would be here only as a prelude to an invasion. That if they are indeed on Earth they would have their “Embassy” in New York the center of economic and political activity. Their Embassy would act as a listening post to gather intelligence for their planned invasion.

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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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Below is a list of classic space travel movies listed by the decades. For this original publication I am including classic space travel movies from the 1950′ and 1960′. I will over time in later publications add additional decades. In later revisions I will update this list to include classic space travel movies produced as early as the first decade in the 1900′s and even movies right up to 2010 and (over time) beyond.

Once I add a decade in this list I believe I have a fairly comprehensive list, but, if you see a movie you know about is missing from the list, please use the comment system to tell me and the other visitors about it. This list is a work in progress because I am constantly finding some new gem I either had forgot about or never new of to begin with.

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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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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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While on Saturn, Commander Corey and Cadet Happy become aware of Hydroponic food being grown on Venus is contaminated and being delivered to Saturn. Commander Corey believes this is an attempt to drive up the prices for Venus grown food and has assigned Tonga as an undercover chemist at one of the Hydroponic farms. She is working under the name of Miss Burns and is working for a Mr. Richard Baxter.

Buzz and Happy leave Saturn en route aboard the Terra V to Venus when Tonga calls and reports that she has found out how the contamination is going on. Unknown to her and Commander Corey her quarters are bugged and Mr. Burns and a Mr. Agle discover that she is an undercover Space Patrol agent.

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The Secretary General has approved an appropriation to make a giant bubble to enclose the Venus Space Station. The process is conceived by brilliant scientist Dr. Berman which is a method of inflating atmosphere shells in space made of “electroplast.” The process is much like blowing up a balloon, however one kilometer in diameter, and once the giant sphere has hardened it is cut in half then put around the space station and the two halves are then welded together.

Buzz and Happy first discover a plot to sabotage the project when they intercept space-a-phone conversations about getting rid of GLEK. It turns out that GLEK is the more common name for “electroplast,” by the technicians who handle it. The plot is headed by Dr. Berman’s jealous former colleague (Kolgar played by Bela Kovacs).

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Tom Corbett and Jim Harris are found by a Venus port guard and taken to the Port Commander. However, in the absence of the Port Commander, Chief Warrant officer Porter doesn’t believe Tom’s story and turns them back over to Captain Pickering. Back aboard the Constellation Captain Pickering puts Tom Corbett and Jim Harris on extra duties with the plan of working them around the clock until they drop.

Back at the Academy Captain Strong, Roger Manning and Astro figure out what has probably happened to Tom and try to contact Venus Space Port where the Constellation was scheduled to stop. However, Venus is in opposition to the Earth and out of communication. After setting up a complex radio relay from Earth, to Mars, to Titan, to Venus they finally talk to Chief Warrant officer Porter who admits he let the Captain take him back aboard the Constellation .

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Captain Strong, Tom Corbett & Roger Manning are sent to the Venus Space Station for training while Astro is elsewhere on special assignment. Before leaving for Venus the cadets witness Captain Strong ground Space Freighter Captain James Loring for too many accidents and disobeying Space Regulations. Captain Loring plans revenge against the Venus Port Freight Company who took over his freight contracts. He and cohort Ross disable the space freighter Elizabeth Chester causing it to crash into the Venus Space Station killing all hands aboard.

Meanwhile aboard the space station Roger Manning has altered the communication system so he can call his girl friend, Hellen Ash (his Space Pet), on Earth. Captain Strong catches Roger and he is placed on report. Not long after Roger’s reprimand the sabotaged freighter Elizabeth Chester crashes into the station and Roger is initially held responsible. Roger swears to Captain Strong that he had the radar back in good working order when the collision took place. Captain Strong takes Rogers word as a cadet which leads to an investigation of the wreck which indicates onboard sabotage. Captain Loring and his pilot Ross are questioned and Ross, who years ago had attended the Space Academy (and was washed out), confesses and flees out an air lock in panic and is lost in space. Roger is cleared and placed on probation.

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The Space Patrol Radio Show ran from October 1952 to March 1955 for 129 known episodes. The same cast of actors performed on both the TV and the radio shows. Included here is the series log for the radio version. As there was also a Space Patrol Television version running simultaneously that version of the show will be discussed elsewhere on this website.

As a further note 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 does turn up from a previously unknown source.

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