Space Patrol — 1953
52 episodes broadcast in 1953.
Industrialist John Crosier didn't build his corporate empire without a certain penchant for ruthlessness, which is not above putting the deep freeze on an ailing scientist to prevent him from quitting his employ.
A search and rescue mission to locate an overdue passenger liner bound for Neptune finds the missing ship adrift and everyone aboard asleep, the victims of a plot to steal a half million credits from one of the passengers.
January 17, 1953
The Deserted Planet
In Lowell City on the planet Mars is the head office of Carlyle McKay, president of a very profitable interplanetary business--a business of reclaiming and repossessing metals and chemicals.
The microfilm blueprints for a new space weapon are stolen from the Lunar Fleet Base on the Moon, and Corry must track the culprits across the Solar System before they can sell the plans to the highest bidder.
Transferring vital evidence of fraud to a courier ship in Venus spaceport, Corry and Happy are carjacked by the suspects, who steal the evidence and the ship, then hightail it for Mars.
A meteor made of anti-matter crashes outside an Arizona town, capable of destroying almost everything it touches.
Colonies on the moons of Jupiter are beset by plagues of beetle-like insects which display an unfortunate propensity for the taste of metal, in particular that of human ships and habitats.
An unsolved murder case is re-opened when a mysterious spaceship is discovered approaching the Solar System from beyond the orbit of Pluto.
Technicians on a remote communications relay station come under the influence of alien crystals that slave their minds to the aggressive ambitions of an alien power.
Excitement is high at the Terra spaceport today. Rumour has spread that Commander Corry himself is to blast off for a test flight in the XR-5-1, the new experimental rocket ship which has been under top security guard for a week while technicians...
Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy, aboard their space battle cruiser Terra V, are en route to the planet Mars to seek Tonga, who has been in the Mars capitol, Lowell City, for several weeks.
Buzz and Happy are flying low over the cinder mountains on the planet Saturn, searching for a trace of a meteorology specialist, believed to have crashed in his atmosphere ship in the rugged region.
AFRTS recording with no credits. Made-up title taken from plot?
April 11, 1953
April 18, 1953
Commander Corry and Cadet Happy have been in Pluto City awaiting the arrival of Professor Malcolm Walker, who is from another city on this outer planet.
Swinging in wide orbits around the planet Venus are two gigantic constructions, popularly known as 'space factories'.
In Commander Corry's central office at Space Patrol headquarters on Terra, Cadet Happy is checking through a file of search mission reports from the Venus command, as the Secretary-General's daughter, Carol enters.
A plutonium thief leads Corry on a chase to an underground tunnel complex beneath the Saturn colony, from which he threatens to destroy the city above.
Sighting and giving chase to a ship suspected of taking part in a heist of rare minerals, Corry becomes the fall guy in a deadly game of double cross between rival criminals.
An entrepreneur utilizes a computer to predict the future for his clients, but when Corry takes an interest in the business, the computer recommends he be cancelled.
June 6, 1953
Mystery of the Marian Fossels
June 13, 1953
Two ruthless microbiologists intend to start a plague in order to make themselves into heroes for coming up with the cure.
Traces of the super-rare element arcturium lead Corry into a race with crooks to find a lost hoard stashed away somewhere in the outermost reaches of the Solar System.
AFRTS recording with no credits. Made-up title taken from plot?
July 11, 1953
July 18, 1953
July 25, 1953
Two over-ambitious used spaceship dealers kidnap a seismologist to force him to predict a volcanic eruption on the Saturn colony, thus creating a panic to get off the planet.
A reformed hustler becomes the fall guy for an executive who employs him as a courier, then hires a thug to steal the valuable package entrusted to him aboard the spaceliner Supernova.
A young woman who has inherited her father's metal processing plants on Europa falls victim to a pair of extortionists who are planning a hostile takeover of the family business.
Rumours of a strange planet beyond the outermost regions of the solar system have reached Commander Corry.
Commander Corry is facing the greatest problem of his career. His arch-enemy, Prince Baccarratti, has established an empire on planet X, a strange world far beyond the solar system where no planets were thought to exist.
Far out, beyond the orbit of Pluto, a giant Space Patrol construction ship hovers in space.
A power-mad Prince Baccarratti is now in the hands of Commander Corry. The man who sought to overthrow the United Planets is a captive on the remote planet X, in the very prison camp where he had forced 130 abducted men into slave labour in the...
In recent weeks, Buzz has successfully thwarted attempts by Prince Baccarratti to sabotage United Planets defences.
Commander Corry has Prince Baccarratti's chief henchman, Dr Melingro, in custody on the planet Terra following his capture on one of Saturn's moons.
A blasted heap of rubble. That's all that remains of the camouflaged launching base on Jupiter moon number four, aiming point from which Prince Baccarratti planned to hurl guided missiles across half-a-million miles of space to destroy two key...
Commander Corry at last has Prince Baccarratti in a position where the evil ruler of planet X can be compelled to liberate hundreds of human beings who have been forced into virtual slavery.
Commander Corry and Cadet Happy now have Prince Baccarratti and Dr Melingro in one of Baccarratti's own ships and are circling Baccarratti's castle on the remote planet X.
Commander Corry and Happy are now on the man-made planet Terra, where Buzz is organizing a task force for an assault on planet X.
For weeks now there has been no major crime along the space lanes. Days have passed since a Space Patrol ship has reported even so much as a sighting of a space craft approaching or leaving planet X.
In all the universe there is no place more full of tension and fear than in the castle of Prince Baccarratti on planet X.
For the past two days, Space Patrol ships and some commercial ships have picked up a strange space-a-phone signal.
What is the fate of Prince Baccarratti? That's the question uppermost in the minds of Commander Corry and Cadet Happy as they manoeuvre the Terra V slowly over the great sea of planet X.
With Prince Baccarratti and Dr Melingro locked securely in an aft compartment, Commander Corry and Cadet Happy settle back comfortably at the controls of the Terra V.
Quietly, efficiently, the Space Patrol is carrying out Commander Corry's preliminary plans for a mass attack on planet X, stronghold of Prince Baccarratti.
Buzz Corry is at a criminal rehabilitation centre on the planet Venus conducting his annual inspection, when he receives a strange request from one of the doctors.
In Commander Corry's central office at Space Patrol headquarters on Terra, Cadet Happy is so absorbed in looking at designs for a new spaceship, he isn't aware that Buzz has entered and is standing beside him at the desk.
A wealthy financier discovers a ray that will allow him to transport through solid walls, and all he can think of to use it for is to rob banks.
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