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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 base “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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Cast of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century

In the last episode Buck reads the letter Willie delivered from Kane and it is a taunt to Buck to find them at their new headquarters, if they can find it. Buck quizes Willie to find out the general location of where he was near Philadelphia. With this information Buck and Wilma take their rocketship, now equipped with a Gyro Cosmic Relativator, and their Gas Analyzer to attempt to pick up Killer Kane’s rocket trail before it disapates.

This episode begins in Dr. Huer’s laboratory where he is tending to Willie’s injury’s. While waiting for an ambulance from the medical center to arrive Dr. Huer gets an idea to throw Killer Kane off in his planning. He calls the Central Radio Bureau and has them put out a phony message saying for all persons to be on the look out for Willie. It announced his Rocket Roadster was found crashed on the outskirts of the city of Niagra with a piece of Willie’s jacket but him missing.

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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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The Amazing Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon

Last episode Flash Gordon, Dale Ardin, Dr. Zarkov, Thun, Prince of the Lionmen, and Prince Barin were held prisoner by King Vultan in the city of the Hawkmen perched five thousand feet above the ground on the planet Mongo. Flash and his friends in their attempt to escape the atomic furnaces of the Hawkmen destroy the furnaces causing the city in the sky to begin to fall.

The story continues this episode in the crumbling palace of Vultan in the Sky City. Vultan has his sword at Flash Gordon’s throat. Zarkov yells Stop! Stop! Wait! I can save your city. But if you harm Flash Gordon, I will doom this city and all of your Hawkmen to destruction.

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Cast of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century

In the last episode we were at Dr. Huers laboratory where they are installing the new Gyro Cosmic Relativator. Just as Buck heads out to his rocketship he, Dr. Huer and Wilma see a crash landing.

We pickup this episode with the crash having just happened and they find that Willie is the one who was flying the Rocket Roadster. They take the unconscious Willie into Dr. Huer’s laboratory and put him under the Healing Ray.

Buck inspects the Rocket Roadster and finds that it is the same one that Ardala stole from Dr. Huer’s laboratory earlier. This convinces Dr. Huer and Buck that Killer Kane has hijacked the test rockeship with the first Gyro Cosmic Relativator and Black Barney under Kane and Ardala’s control.

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Dimension X

This is the story of Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles and is of the Fourth Mars Expedition. The previous three Mars Expedition’s had all failed with the rocketships landing on Mars then after 24 hours of landing no further contact with them was made.

Our story of the Fourth Expedition begins as they make their landing on the surface of Mars. After landing they send out a scouting party, lead by the crew’s physician, Hathaway and assisted by archaeologist Spender, to a nearby Martian city. Meanwhile the rest of the crew remain near the ship awaiting the return of the Hathaway search party and are gathering firewood against the cold Martian evening.

Hathaway and Spender’s search party returns and reports that all of the Martians have died of chickenpox (most likely brought by one of the earlier three expeditions). In a celebratory fashion the Captain authorizes alcoholic beverages to be issued and the crew began partying and celebrating the end of the Martians.

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Journey into Space

In the previous episode of our story Operation Luna episode 10 Jet, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy are in the city of the Time Traveling stranger and have been lead through the city to the strangers quarters. They were standing outside his door when it opened and they peered inside the dome and suddenly they all exclaim as if the saw something horrible and Lemmy yells out in horror and runs off screaming. The others call after him to come back.

We pick up the story with Jet going after Lemmy and bringing him back. Their initial shock and horror of seeing the alien has subsided and they are standing around the outside of the now closed door where the alien is located. They are discussing among themselves what they saw and they appear to agree that it appeared like a giant man sized armadillo standing up on it’s hind legs.

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Cast of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century

In the last episode aboard a Battle Cruiser Buck Rogers contact’s the Central Radio Bureau with a message for Dr. Huer that they are following Black Barney’s rocketship exhaust gas trail with the Gas Analyzer which is leading them to the ancient city of Philadelphia. But the Central Radio Bureau tells Buck that Dr. Huer wants them back at his laboratory right away despite whatever they are doing.

This episode begins aboard Buck and Wilma’s Battle Cruiser which is returning to Dr. Huers laboratory. Buck is still uneasy about leaving Black Barney’s rocket trail and is convinced that Barney would never have run off with the rocketship with the Gyro Cosmic Relativator installed. He is convinced someone namely Killer Kane has taken over the rocketship from Barney and he is now their prisoner.

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1953 Space Travel Movie It Came from Outer Space

Based on a Ray Bradbury story “The Meteor”. Amateur astronomer John Putnam, a romantic dreamer misunderstood by the local townsfolk, and schoolteacher and fiance Ellen Fields see a fiery ball fall from the sky and crash into the desert near the small town of Sand Rock, Arizona. John drags his friend, Pete, out of bed to take him and Ellen over to the crash site near the old Excelsior Mine in his helicopter. Once there, John climbs down into the crater. Unfortunately, he does so alone, as Pete and Ellen wait for him on the rim of the crash crater. John is the only one who sees the spaceship before a landslide covers it. And John is the only one who catches a glimpse of the hideous thing inside.

John Putnam’s story is ridiculed by the townspeople, Sheriff Warren, and the local media. Even Ellen is unsure of what to believe at first, but soon agrees to assist John in further investigation. In the following days, several local people disappear. A few return, only to begin to act in bizarre ways, such as speaking and behaving in a zombie-like manner and staring directly at the sun for long periods of time. In the meantime, the local telephone repairmen, Frank Daylon and his assistant George, are kidnapped by the creatures who convert to the looks of the repairmen and begin to act strangely. John is convinced that their likenesses were taken over by the space visitors. As it turns out, they are actually aliens from the buried spaceship, and the real humans have been abducted by them including his fiance Ellen.

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