Spacemens Luck

 

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

The Rocket Cruiser Toris from Titan is transporting 50 children from the Titan Colony to protect them from the disease outbreak at Titan Colony. Missing a routine position check a Disaster Alert is broadcast putting into motion a large scale search for the Rocket Cruiser Toris from Titan. It is presumed to be stricken with the Titan disease.

Despite Tom Corbett’s recent bout with the Titan disease Captain Strong convinces Commander Arkwright to allow
Tom to come along on the Rocket Cruiser Polaris to search for the Rocket Cruiser Toris and the missing children.

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Solar Guard, Space Academy Cadets, Tom Corbett and Roger Manning are both campaigning for President of the Cadet Council. Before the elections can be announced an epidemic of unknown origin breaks out on Titan Colony. Commander Arkwright orders all Cadet Units to assist in the evacuation of Titan.

Captain Strong, Officer-in-Charge of the Polaris Unit, along with Tom, Roger and Astro blast off in the Rocket Cruiser Polaris to the Titan Colony to help evacuate the children. Rogers first thoughts are of a girl he knows on Titan but Captain Strong warns the Cadets that a quarintine is in effect and no one will be allowed to leave the ship.

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Space Travel Hero Role: Rocky Jones, Space Ranger

Played by Richard Crane, Rocky was the quintessential action hero – brave, strong, handsome, highly moral, and always ready to defend his beliefs with action. To the women of the stories he was irresistible, even to arch villainess Cleolanta, but there were no kisses or other physical displays.

The show was based on the exploits of the clean-cut, square-jawed Rocky Jones, the best known of the Space Rangers. The Space Rangers were Earth-based space policemen who patrolled the United Worlds of the Solar System in the not-too-distant future.

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Our story begins in an office of a government official who is the Regional Administrator in the Department of Interplanetary Affairs, where the narrator describes a yellow pottery bowl on the Administrator ‘s desk. It is a masterful piece of craftsmanship decorating his desk. Michael Tom, the Administrator and owner of the yellow pottery bowl, takes over story, telling us the bowl’s origin.

Michael Tom reflects back on the time in 1992 when he was assigned to the planet Firsk as Assistant Resident. The natives near the village of Penolpon are divided into two tribes, one agricultural, the Metooans and the other Potters.

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The classic 1953 movie Phantom From Space concerns the sighting of a UFO hurtling from Alaska to the California coast at great speed, where the object seems to disappear. After massive interference with radio transmission brings Federal Communications Commission (FCC) investigators into action they realize the strange craft appears to have crashed somewhere in the city of Santa Monica.

The FCC investigators begin searching for the source of interference suddenly wreaking havoc in the area, and they guys keep bumping into cops investigating murders and other acts of destruction. The also are encountering reports from people of seeing what appears to be a man dressed in a bizarre outfit.

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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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Our story opens with the announcer: “When the first space rocket lands on Mars, what will we find? Only the ruins of a dead and deserted planet, or will there be life? Intelligent life in some strange form that we can only imagine. Will we be welcomed with open arms? Or will the Martians treat us as invaders? Only one thing is certain. Some day a giant metal ship will take off from earth to travel through the black velocities, the silent gulfs of space, to descend at last into the darkness of the upper Martian atmospheres. And on that day, man will finally know the answers, the day we first land on Mars.”

This show is a radio adaption of a short story from Ray Bradbury’s classic series of short stories “The Martian Chronicles.” The short story collection chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing from a troubled and eventually atomically devastated Earth, and the conflict between aboriginal Martians and the new colonists.

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Previously in Journey Into Space, Operation Luna, Jet Morgan and his crew took off from the Moon, intending to return to the Earth, but a fleet of strange spaceships based on the other side of the Moon rose up to meet them and, so it seemed, attack them.

Jet and his companions lost consciousness, only to find, when they came round, that they were millions of miles from the solar system and hurtling through outer space at an unimaginable speed.

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The 1953 classic science fiction movie Cat-Women of the Moon is a 1953 Science fiction film directed by Arthur Hilton and stars Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory and Marie Windsor.

1953 Cat-Women of the Moon was originally released in full stereoscopic 3-D format in 1953, and a regular B/W print was released later under the title “Rocket to the Moon”. The version of 1953 Cat-Women of the Moon available below for viewing is the B/W version.

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1953 Cat-Women of the Moon is the story of four men (Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, William Phipps, and Douglas Fowley) and a woman (Marie Windsor) who blast off in a rocketship, and land on the dark side of the moon. The five astronauts on a scientific expedition discover a cave which somehow retains a breathable atmosphere. They remove their space suits and venture on, soon finding a buried city where they encounter a race of “Cat-women”, the last eight survivors of a 2-million-year-old civilization deep within a cave where they have managed to maintain the remnants of a breathable atmosphere that once covered the Moon. The remaining air will soon be gone and they must escape if they are to survive. They plan to steal the expedition’s space ship and return to Earth.

Through the use of their telepathic ability the Cat-women have been subliminally controlling Helen Salinger (Marie Windsor) since before they left Earth so she could win the navigator position on the expedition and lead the crew to their location. Once Helen and the male members of the crew arrive on the moon the Cat-women take complete control of her mind. Unable to control the men’s minds they work around this obstacle with Helen’s help and the use of their superior abilities and feminine wiles. “Show us their weak points,” one says to Helen. “We’ll take care of the rest.”

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