SPACE PATROL
Commander Buzz
Corry
..Ed Kemmer
Cadet
Happy
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..Lyn Osborn
Major
Robertson
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..Ken Mayer
Carol
Carlisle
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..Virginia Hewitt
Tonga
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Nina Bara
Created and Produced by Mike Moser
Premiered as a daily 15 minute
show on KECA-TV Los Angeles on March 13, 1950
Last Daily show June 12, 1953 (?)
First Saturday half-hour show premiered on December 30, 1950
Last Saturday show February 26, 1955
SPACE PATROL LOGBOOK
#1 TREACHERY ON MARS (First Saturday program) December 30, 1950
Buzz Corry, Commander in Chief of the Space Patrol is returning to Terra, the man made planet, from Earth accompanied by his new cadet, Happy, winner of the Corry Scholarship. He spots what he believes to be a derelict guided missile floating in space. As the Space Patrol battle-cruiser closes in to destroy it, the missile heads for the cruiser, narrowly missing, then turns to strike again. The missile is in reality a cosmic bomb controlled by Major Gorla from his fortress on Mars. The Major, with the help of Marta, an assistant to the Secretary General on Terra, plots to conquer the United Planets -- beginning with the murder of Commander Corry.
#2 THE LETHAL LADY January 6, 1950
Marta attempts the theft of top-secret plans and plots the destruction of Commander Corry. She enlists the aid of a Space Patrol officer, Lt. Krasnoff, who carries a grudge against Major Robertson, United Planets Security Chief. Lt. Krasnoff paralyzes Robbie with a ray gun and releases the magnetic force control throwing Buzz and Happy's ship into free fall seconds from the ground.
#3 INTRIGUE IN THE CABINET January 13, 1950
A member of the Cabinet of the United Planets, Baron Von Kreitz, is scheming to overthrow the secretary General. The Baron instructs his Lt. Groat to prevent Commander Corry from delivering damaging information to the Secretary General on Venus. Tonga, assistant to the Security Chief, is partially paralyzed by Lt. Groat while carrying the top-secret audiogram to Venus in her space car. She is left in the aft compartment, where she bravely risks a cosmic burn to turn on the ship's magnetizer, causing a cosmic static trail to aid Commander Corry and Cadet Happy in tracking her to the Earth's moon, and the headquarters of Baron Von Kreitz. (Commander Corry's ship is referred to as "Battle Cruiser 100, fastest ship in the universe.")
#4 THE AGRA RAY January 20, 1951
Carol Carlisle, daughter of the Secretary General, is testing her most recent invention at the Science Academy, with the help of her lab assistant. The invention is called the Agra Ray, a ray which speeds up the growth process enabling plants to reach their full growth in a matter of hours. However it is also discovered that when the ray is inverted it is capable of turning whole cities into stone. The lab assistant though, is secretly in the employ of Prince Greegor of Mercury, who desires the Agra Ray to threaten Terra, Capitol of the United Planets. Carol is kidnapped and taken to Mercury by the Lab Assistant.
#5 THE IVY OF DEATH January 27, 1951
Major Robertson and Tonga have been assigned the duty of taking the Agra Ray to Jupiter to ease the food shortage there. They are met by the sinister Goron, pretending to be Jupiter's Minister of Agriculture. He takes them to his headquarters at the foot of the Crater Cornicus, where he plans to steal the Agra Ray and use it to grow the Ivy of Death -- a plant that gives off a suffocating dioxide -- to aide him in destroying the United Planets. (Universal Star Time mentioned for the first time.)
#6 TROUBLE ON SATURN'S THIRD MOON February 3, 1951
Tonga is sent to investigate reports of trouble at Cosmic Radiation Plant Number One, located on Saturn's third moon. She dismisses the hot-tempered Captain Kronk for mismanagement and Kronk vows to get even. Tonga is mysteriously shot with a shock rifle, but when Commander Corry and Cadet Happy arrive they can find no trace of Kronk, through they do catch his assistant absconding with embezzled payroll funds. (Distant Units -- D.U.'s --mentioned for the first time.)
#7 SOLO FLIGHT TO JUPITER February 10, 1951
After his first solo flight to Jupiter, Cadet Happy acquires an unwelcome passenger at the Jupiter Space Port -- a fellow named Lucky, who is making off with the Jupiter Trust Company's funds. To insure Happy's silence, Lucky threatens the lives of Carol and Commander Corry.
#8 COSMIC DEBRIS WARNING February 17, 1951
Major Robertson, at Space Control on Earth, receives a report from the Chief Astronomer that a planetoid has exploded nearby and all spaceships in that vicinity should watch for dangerous cosmic debris. Commander Corry, Cadet Happy, and Carol are returning to Terra from Earth when they are hit by a meteor and rendered helpless in space; rapidly losing oxygen, and unable to communicate.
(Terra IV is now Commander Corry's spaceship.)
#9 THE PLANOS EPIDEMIC February 24, 1951
Burger, owner of six lead mines on the moon Planos, reports an epidemic caused by a deadly bacteria spreading through the mines. Tonga joins Commander Corry and Cadet Happy in space with the precious serum needed to combat the disease. Burger and his accomplice, Leckner, wish to frighten everyone away to keep secret the fact that they have discovered a rich deposit of Exonium. Cadet Happy catches Leckner in the process of tampering with the atmosphere system of one of the mines, and during a struggle Happy unknowingly inhales a lethal dose of the concentrated bacteria.
#10 TUNNEL OF ESCAPE: TUNNEL OF DEATH March 3, 1951
Warden Sovak and his head trustee, Erik, have arranged for the escape of those prisoners who are able to pay, through a tunnel that runs underneath one of the irrigation canals. After the report of the escape of three prisoners in one month from the escape-proof prison reaches Commander Corry, he decides to investigate with the help of Major Robertson and Cadet Happy.
#11 THE PERILOUS SLEEP March 10, 1951
Cadet Happy is suffering from a lack of sleep due to a heavy study workload. He falls into the hands of the beautiful Mara and her accomplice, who have recently stolen the Priceless Brainograph from the Terra Medical Science Center. Mara decides to use Cadet Happy as a guinea pig in helping her to learn how to use the complicated devise.
#12 A VACATION AT LAKE AZURE March 17, 1951
Superintendent Brand of the Space Port at Lake Azure on the planet Venus informs Commander Corry that his Aqua-jet car is ready. Buzz decides to take a vacation at the Lake and test his new sea-car, and takes Tonga and Cadet Happy along. Meanwhile, Zurach, an escaped convict who has vowed revenge against Buzz, bullies the Superintendent into helping him sabotage the new ship. Perry Evans as Brand. Peter Foster as Zurach.
#13 THEFT OF THE ZETA RAY March 24, 1951
Major Robertson completes the formula for the Zeta Ray, an amazing machine that cures any illness and halts infection. But before he can transport it from Earth to Terra Medical Science Center his former lab assistants kidnap Robbie and abscond with the Zeta Ray, leaving Robbie floating in space around the Earth's moon.
#14 BLACKMAIL ON SATURN March 31, 1951
Commander Corry, Cadet Happy and Carol are embroiled in a sinister plot with a mysterious universal blackmail ring run by Professors Garson and Sheldon, who have devised an ingenious scheme to force Happy into serving their evil purpose.
#15 THE MAN IN THE RADURIUM GLOVE April 7, 1951
Kessler, one of the most dangerous criminals of the United Planets escapes from the rehabilitation room of the Medical Science Center after being removed from suspended animation by Tonga. Kessler kidnaps Cadet Happy who is being treated for a serious cosmic burn. Happy is wearing a Radurium glove as part of the treatment, but the treatment can be fatal to him if the glove is not removed within a certain period of time.
#16 UNDER THE RED LAKE OF JUPITER April 14, 1951
After blasting off from the Red Lake Winter Resort on Jupiter, Carol and Tonga suddenly develop rocket trouble, causing them to crash to the bottom of the Great Red Lake. Commander Corry, in spacephone contact with them at the time of the crash, rushes to their rescue along with Major Robertson and Cadet Happy, but not before the lake has frozen over for the night, and the girl's oxygen is almost exhausted.
#17 THE COUNTERFEIT COMMANDER April 21, 1951
Dr. Smatka throws the Space Patrol into chaos when he creates a perfect duplicate of Commander Buzz Corry by using plastic surgery on an interplanetary criminal. As a result of the pretender's orders Major Robertson abandons his post on Saturn, allowing a fleet of enemy ships to raid the city; and all Space Patrol ships leave Terra for an alleged uprising on Pluto, leaving Terra itself unprotected.
#18 MYSTERIOUS MISSION TO CANALI April 28, 1951
Commander Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy are sent on a highly secret and mysterious mission to the City of Canali, Capitol of Mars. They are to pick up 100,000,000 credits worth of Tellurium and transport it to Terra. However, Alica, the trusted beautiful confidential secretary to the Governor of Mars, and her accomplice, Ghent, execute a sinister plan to steal the Tellurium and destroy Buzz and Happy in the process.
#19 THE MAJOR'S DILEMA May 5, 1951
During a routine inspection of the Space Patrol Maintenance Shop, Major Robertson discovers a heavy purchase of surplus battle cruisers by the Pluto Transport Company. Suspicious, he tells the owner of the company that he can no longer buy these ships -- and immediately "accidents" begin happening in the shop. When Commander Corry and Cadet Happy attempt to test fly the Secretary General's new ship they nearly crash as a result of sabotage.
#20 ISOLATION IN SPACE May 12, 1951
When Commander Corry, Cadet Happy and Carol attempt to apprehend a pair of dangerous criminals smuggling valuable parasonic crystals from the Synthetic Crystal Company, they find themselves in a virtually isolated space relay station orbiting around Terra. With only one and a-half hours of oxygen left their only hope is the alertness of the Space Patrol.
#21 THE TOURIST TRAP May 19, 1951
This is a flashback episode showing Tonga's venture into crime before being rehabilitated. Commander Corry and Cadet Happy are called to investigate reported robberies on a tourist sight-seeing ship traveling to the Earth's moon. Tonga, acting as guide, is in league with the ships pilot, Captain Holt, in blinding the passengers with a photon bomb and relieving them of their valuables. Buzz and Happy solve the mystery of who is committing the robberies and how they're disposing of the loot.
#22 DANGEROUS INTRIGUE May 26, 1951
Major Robertson is on the planet Neptune, and after memorizing and destroying the plans for a powerful new rocket engine he is overpowered and rendered unconscious by his Physician, Dr. Owen, who owns a private sanitarium on the planet and intends to force Robbie to divulge the secret plans. When Commander Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy discover the treachery, the Cadet embarks on a scheme to rescue Robbie, without his Commander's full knowledge, resulting in the Commander using a cosmic missile to blast a radio-controlled space car occupied by Happy and Robbie.
#23 THE SECRET INJECTION June 2, 1951
Commander Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy apprehend two dangerous criminals, the renegade Dr. Phillips, and his confederate, Dixon. While captive aboard a Space Patrol battle cruiser, the doctor slyly injects Happy with a concentrated Narco solution from a concealed Narco injector, which subjects the Cadet's will to the doctor's evil control. Answering a distress call in space with Commander Corry, Happy attempts to carry out Dr. Phillips' command to attack Buzz, while the doctor and his henchman threaten Carol aboard the ship.
#24 THE TREACHEROUS TECHNICIANS June 9, 1951
In the process of an experiment in the Terra Research Lab, Tonga orders two grams of the precious Tritonium from the Space Patrol Research Laboratory on Earth. Commander Corry and Cadet Happy, on a training flight near Earth agree to transport the 2,000,000 credits worth of Tritonium to Terra. However the lab technicians on Earth, Lisa and Chaney, plot to steal the Tritonium. They follow the Commander's ship and blast it with a missile, knocking out the ships power, and threaten to fire another missile unless Buzz and Happy abandon the ship so that Lisa and Chaney can board it and take the Tritonium. Lisa Howard as Lisa. Pierce Lyden as Chaney.
#25 BEYOND THE RIM OF SPACE June 16, 1951
Commander Buzz Corry and the Space Patrol crew are on a pleasure trip to the planet Pluto aboard a luxury space yacht when a fault in the engine causes the ship to go off course, sending them into the uncharted Outer Galaxy. To make matters worse, radiation is spreading through the ship and all communications have been cut off due to engine failures. Buzz puts Carol and Tonga to work constructing an atomic device, while he and the Major and Happy attempt to cut the ship in two with the idea of blowing up the damaged half to attract attention before they travel out of sight forever.
#26 RACE AGAINST DEATH June 23, 1951
During an official reception at the Governor's mansion on the planet Mars, the Governor's son pressures Tonga into taking a space ride with him, unaware that he has stolen his father's space coup. Commander Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy begin a chase through space that ends with all of them being buried alive in a crystallized cave with very little hope of escape. (NEW UNIFORMS introduced in this show.)
#27 THE LOST CITY OF THE CARNACANS June 30, 1951
Through the United Planets Communications Commission's Monitor Room comes a message that the underground city of Temphi, Capitol of the lost civilizations of the Carnacans, has been discovered in the Martian Desert. Commander Buzz Corry, always fascinated by Carnacan history, goes exploring with Cadet Happy and Carol to learn who or what is transmitting radio messages from the ancient city with a 1,000 year-old transmitter.
#28 THE DEADLY WEAPON July 7, 1951
A 20th Century weapon is stolen from the United Planets Museum and turns up in the hands of a dangerous convict escaping from the Terra Honor Farm. Commander Corry and Cadet Happy lead an exciting chase on the speedways at daredevil velocities to recapture the fugitive and recover the antique weapon, only to face a treacherous surprise when their foe is finally cornered.
#29 THE LEGEND OF WILD MAN'S RIDGE July 14, 1951
Commander Corry, Cadet Happy and Tonga are forced to crash-land in the barren Wastelands of Kralic on the planet Mars. They have to leave the spaceship and the precious spacephone, their only hope of rescue, due to lethal radiation spreading from the engine room. Soon, lost in the wilderness, they are stalked by a frightening legend -- the Wild Man of the Ridge.
#30 WAY STATION TO THE STARS July 21, 1951
Commander Corry, Cadet Happy, Carol and Gerald Mazzman, a civil surveyor and engineer, are on their way to the planet Pluto to plan construction of a new Space Patrol Way Station. However, some mysterious magnetic force interferes with their landing, disrupting all power in their spaceship, and they are left stranded in a desolate area of Pluto until Mazzman makes a discovery that puts all of their lives in jeopardy.
# 31 THE HIDDEN REFLECTOR July 28, 1951
The hijacking of Procyne cargo ship 15 is the latest in a series of mysterious hijackings of the Procyne Trasnport Company cargo carrying spaceships. Commander Corry, Cadet Happy and Major Robertson, investigating the problem, must endure the constant badgering of the disagreeable owner of the transport company. After narrowly escaping a collision with Jupiters fourth moon, the Space Patrol trio face an unexpected challenge aboard a pirated ship.
#32 THE DANGEROUS DISCOVERY August 4, 1951
While preparing to attend a dance at the Recreation Center, Commander Corry, Cadet Happy and Tonga are called upon to help Pop Hanson, a top archeologist on Higgins Planetoid. Hanson has discovered an indestructible weapon capable of destroying an entire solar system that was invented by the ancient Carnacans, a weapon so dangerous that it caused the Carnacans to leave this Galaxy. The weapon has been stolen by Hanson's assistant, and the Space Patrollers face the threat of holocaust to the Solar System as the assistant threatens to push the button triggering the weapon if Buzz and Happy attempt to recover it.
#33 SPACESHIP ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER August 11, 1951
Dr.s Marston and Hillier, Chief Astronomers at the Moorhouse Observatory, sight an unidentifiable object in the dim ranges of the universal perimeter. They call in Commander Corry, along with Cadet Happy and Carol, to investigate. They discover the object to be a spaceship from another highly advanced civilization, left orbiting for hundreds of years. A robot left operating in the mysterious ship gives Buzz and his comrades the horrifying answer to what became of the crew.
#34 THE UNDERWATER HIDEOUT August 18, 1951
The two accomplices of the captured payroll robber Sobia, try to force Buzz to order Sobia's release. In what started out as a routine flight to Earth for Commander Corry, Cadet Happy and Major Robertson, turns into a terrifying adventure when the two criminals nearly ram the Commanders ship in space. They then lead Buzz and his comrades to their hideout at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, where they attempt to force Buzz, by a brutal attack on Happy, to order Sobia's release.
#35 A BIG WHEEL NAMES FERRIS August 25, 1951
Cadet Happy is assigned to greet a future Cadet in the Space Patrol, Ferris Macklin, son of the Governor of Triton. Ferris, a spoiled smart aleck, shows his true self to Happy, but to Commander Corry he uses the faηade of a serious and respectful young man. Accompanied by Tonga and Jo Vance, a beautiful young cadet, the group blasts off for Saturn on a tour of its installations, but Ferris pilots them into the middle of a ring of meteoric debris and then blames their predicament on Happy.
#36 THE VINDICTIVE BROTHER September 1, 1951
Commander Corry's old school pal, Fred Masterson of Masterson Aircar Company, is nearly killed in a bombing attempt of his office. Thinking it is the work of a rival aircar manufacturers resenting his development of a new power plant which will lower the price of aircars, he retires to his lodge to complete work on the plant in secret, and is visited by Buzz, Happy and Carol. It is here that Buzz meets Fred's younger brother, Sam, and learns, almost too late, that Sam has his own reasons for wanting Fred out of the way.
#37 PHOTOGRAPH OF A TRAITOR September 8, 1951
Cadet Happy's hobby of photography plays an important part in the apprehension of two criminals committing space robberies of payroll ships. Commander Corry and Major Robertson, aware that a Space Patrol officer is involved in the crimes, finds a photo clue that enables them to rescue Tonga and Happy just in the nick of time.
#38 THE COURAGEOUS COWARD September 15, 1951
On their way from Terra to Earth to deliver 50,000 credits for the Terra Awards, Commander Corry, Cadet Happy and Carol are held up by an interplanetary gangster who bullied a frightened mechanic, recently released from Terra Detention, into smuggling him on board the Terra IV. However the ex-con comes through bravely and prevents his old pal from leaving the Space Patrollers on Earth's moon to die.
#39 THE THEFT OF THE SCRAMBLER September 22, 1951
Carol Carlisle and her laboratory assistant, Selma, complete their work on a "scrambler", a transmitter-receiver designed to decode secret messages sent between Space Patrol ships and Space Patrol Headquarters. However, Carol unintentionally walks in on Selma and her boyfriend in the act of stealing the decoder. After kidnapping Carol, the couple find themselves caught in the middle of a cloud of meteoric debris that cripples their ship and forces them to signal the Space Patrol for help. Commander Corry, Major Robertson and Cadet Happy come to their rescue, and unaware that they have stolen the Scrambler, transport them to the Terra IV, then prepare to blast the damaged ship with the unconscious Carol hidden on board, with a cosmic missile.
#40 PROMETHEUS BOUND FOR DESTRUCTION September 29, 1951
Commander Corry, Tonga and Cadet Happy blast off to explore an obsolete space station called Prometheus, orbiting Ganymede, Jupiter's fourth moon, which is soon to be destroyed by Space Safety. Boarding the station they are threatened by an old space criminal who has remained on Prometheus for forty years and who resists their efforts to remove him. Preoccupied, they fail to hear the broadcast warning all ships in the vicinity that hydrogen torpedoes will destroy the station in a matter of minutes.
#41 IMMEDIATE DISASTER October 6, 1951
The Terra Express Flagship with a thousand passengers on board, including Carol Carlisle, is hit broadside by a derelict cosmic missile, which, though armed, does not explode. Commander Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy risk their lives to save the passengers as they successfully disarm the warhead. But Happy is knocked unconscious and Buzz receives serious gamma radiation burns, requiring a blood transfusion to save his life.
#42 LUNATICS FROM THE FUTURE October 13, 1951
Testing a new star drive, Commander Corry and Cadet Happy travel faster than the speed of light and backwards in time to the 20th Century, and a New England farm in the year 1950. Unaware that they have been transported in time, they find themselves held at gunpoint by a farmer and his wife who firmly believe that Buzz and Happy have escaped from the local insane asylum.
#43 THE SPACE PATROL CODE BELT October 20, 1951
A trio of space criminals evade Commander Corry and his Cadet as they steal the payrolls from the Ursa Transport Company's ships. One is the pilot; one works in the Space Patrol Code Room, giving the crooks the code of the day; and one is a beautiful, but ruthless woman who foils both Happy and Buzz. (This Adventure features the Space Patrol Code Belt premium.)
#44 THE FLOATING IMAGE IN SPACE October 27, 1951
Commander Corry and Cadet Happy find the weird reports that there is an image floating in space difficult to believe until they receive the same report firsthand from the Secretary General's daughter, Carol. As she sees the image of a man in flowing robes, holding a torch, she is blinded by a brilliant flash of light that cuts off the power in her spaceship. Then an ominous Voice proclaims the invasion of the United Planets by a superior intelligence.
#45 SECRET PERIL November 3, 1951
Commander Corry, Major Robertson, Cadet Happy and Carol, while investigating the sabotage of a top-secret Laboratory Ship on the planet Venus, unravel an unscrupulous scheme and find themselves seconds away from being in the center of an atomic explosion.
#46 THE PARASITE DISC November 10, 1951
What looks to be a surgical bandage actually hides a device that, when taped to the back of a neck gives a professor complete control over the will of its victims. The removal of the tape would also send an electronic shock through the brain and cause instant death. Thus armed, the treacherous professor aims to control all persons of authority in the United Planets, beginning with Carol Carlisle and Tonga.
#47 THE SECRET OF TERRA November 17, 1951
From a hidden fortress on the planet Mars, a power-mad renegade, Major Gruell, and his confederate, Lt. Barin, a traitor in the Space Patrol, plot the destruction of the United Planets by stealing a locket which is worn by the Secretary General, and contains the secret of Terra. Brutally effecting the theft, the lieutenant escapes to Mars with Commander Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy in pursuit.
#48 JUNGLE OF NO RETURN November 24, 1951
Major Robertson, on a routine inspection of his security posts on Venus, crash-lands in the savage Mogi Jungle, from which no man has ever returned. He is captured by the uncivilized and hostile natives while signaling for help. Buzz Corry and Happy come to his aid and are themselves captured and taken to Pago, a brutal, half-mad scoundrel who believes the Space Patrollers are after the jewels he has stolen from the Mogi natives.
#49 PRISON OF DEADLY GAS December 1, 1951
Endurium is the metal from which the hulls of spaceships are fashioned. An Endurium mill located inside one of Jupiter's moons becomes a trouble area when successive quakes endanger the Atomic Pile needed for its operation. Captain Doherty, who is in charge, calls the Space Patrol for help and Commander Corry, Cadet Happy, Major Robertson and Tonga, investigating the damage caused by the quakes, are overcome by an escaping deadly gas called Nagrom.
#50 THE SACRIFICE December 8, 1951
Tonga and Carol are at the Morehouse Observatory on the planet Pluto when they receive word from Security Communications that a cloud of meteoric debris is rapidly approaching the solar system. They communicate the news to Commander Corry, on a training flight with Cadet Happy, who scatters the cloud with a cosmic missile. However, a meteoric particle hits their ship, cutting off power and causing a dangerous loss of pressure. Buzz knocks out Happy and injects him into outer Space, then blows up the ship, exposing himself to lethal radiation, in the hope that the explosion will bring someone to rescue Happy.
#51 TEST FLIGHT OF THE GALAXY December 15, 1951
Carol Carlisle has designed a magnetic ship shaped like a metal sphere capable of the speed of light, and takes Commander Corry and Cadet Happy on a test flight. She is kidnapped by two of the workmen who threaten her in an attempt to force her to pilot the ship after ditching Buzz and Happy on one of Jupiter's moons. Carol craftily manages to alert Major Robertson of the dilemma and he comes to the rescue.
#52 FAIR EXCHANGE December 22, 1951
A convicted criminal, Karl Krone, vows he will be freed by his brother, Vito, despite the fact that all his thoughts have been read by the Space Patrol's brainograph. Sure enough, the wily Vito kidnaps Cadet Happy and offers his life for Karl's freedom. Commander Buzz Corry, powerless to rescue Happy is forced to agree to the illegal trade and is promptly double-crossed by the brothers, who have left Happy stranded on a moon with a limited supply of oxygen.
#53 THE COUNTERFEIT PUZZLE December 29, 1951
Commander Corry and Cadet Happy blast off on a routine inspection flight to several planets, leaving Carol, Tonga and Major Robertson to apprehend a counterfeiting ring operating on Terra. As Tonga reports that despite strict security precautions, the counterfeit money is appearing on first one and then another of the various planets, Buzz and Happy never suspect that they are carrying the money aboard the Terra IV.
#54 FLOWERS OF DEATH January 5, 1952
A threat against the lives of Commander Corry, Cadet Happy, Major Robertson and a Space Patrol lieutenant, made by a prisoner being dematerialized into suspended animation, is carried out in the form of bouquets of deadly Narcola flowers delivered to each of the four potential victims. The illegal, innocent-appearing flowers give off a very fatal fragrance, and Buzz and Happy are caught in a room full of the flowers.
#55 COSMIC SMOKE GUNS January, 12, 1952
A shipment of eight crates of a brand new weapon, a cosmic smoke gun that puts its victims to sleep instantly, arrives at Space Patrol Headquarters minus the guns. Discovering this Major Robertson is shot by the delivery man, who escapes with the guns to his employer on Venus. When Robbie and Tonga attempt to arrest the two culprits, they are shot and put unconscious aboard their ship, which is on a collision course with the moon Deimos. Commander Corry has only a few minutes to board the ship in flight and change its course. (This adventure features the Cosmic Smoke Gun premium.)
#56 LOST IN THE SNOW-CAP REGION OF MARS January 19, 1952
Carol follows a wanted criminal from Mercury Space Port to Mars, where he and his accomplice have a hideout in the snow-cap region. Carol is taken hostage, and Buzz and Happy are also captured when they arrive to rescue her. Carol, under the effects of the Cosmic Smoke Gun, wanders out of an abandoned cave and is lost in the snow covered terrain. Buzz and Happy must escape being thrown into an active volcano in the cave and find Carol before she freezes.
#57 EXPLOSION ON MOREHOUSE FIVE January 26, 1952
An explosion on a newly colonized planetoid, Morehouse Five, causing it to move from its orbit and pass so close to the sun that no one on the planetoid can survive. Commander Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy face great peril in their attempt to save a space prospector and his granddaughter from the threatened planetoid.
#58 THE EVIL GUARDIAN OF HARPOLA February 2, 1952
While Tonga is working in a Security Ordnance Lab located on a tiny asteroid in space, she accidentally uncovers a hidden passageway to an underground city of the lost civilization of Carnacans. Commander Corry, puzzled by the recent appearance of an ancient Carnacan deadly weapon, goes to the asteroid with Cadet Happy to investigate Tonga's discovery, and all three fall victim to a robot brandishing a paralyzing whip antenna. The robot is run by a nefarious character who says he is a member of the lost race of Carnacans that disappeared a thousand years ago.
#59 HIT BY A METEORITE February 9, 1952
While on a pleasure trip from Terra to Earth, Commander Buzz Corry and the Space Patrol crew are caught in a storm of meteorites brought about by the appearance of Trackenger's Comet. Disabled by a meteorite lodged in the hull of their ship, they have no power to alert Space Control on Earth of their condition. Unless the meteorite can be dislodged it will burst into flame and set fire to the Terra IV when it hits Earth's atmosphere. It is understood that the Space Patrollers will still crash into Earth unless Space Control is sharp enough to note their exact speed then use magnetic force control to land the crippled ship.
#60 PLANETOID PLOT February 16, 1952
In a plot to rob the payroll ships flying within range of their planetoid, two interplanetary thieves blind Commander Corry and Cadet Happy with a photon bomb as they travel from Terra to Jupiter carrying a 75,000 credit payroll. Their battlecruiser is then hit with a magnetic disrupter, which cuts all power including communication with Major Robertson, and the ship is landed with magnetic force control at the villains hideout, where Buzz and Happy are imprisoned and then directed to walk into a deep chasm.
#61 VICTIM OF AMNESIA February 23, 1952
Preparing to blast off on a routine mission to Venus, Tonga suffers a radiation burn that must be treated promptly or will cause her death. However, Tonga falls when departing from the space car, hitting head and becomes the victim of amnesia. Meanwhile, two prisoners who have escaped from detention quarters choose Tonga's space car for their getaway and take the bewildered Tonga with them. Discovering that Tonga has failed to report for medical aid, Major Robertson, Commander Corry and Cadet Happy follow her trail to Mars, where she has been abandoned on one of the moons, with only a half-hour to live.
#62 THE LIEUTENANT'S REVENGE by Norman Jolley March 1, 1952
Seeking revenge against the Space Patrol and Commander Buzz Corry for dismissing him from its ranks, ex-Lt. Graham is hired as a mechanic in the Space Patrol Maintenance Shop. Thus employed he sabotages spaceships causing them to crash, including the Terra IV with Commander Corry aboard. Buzz and Happy trace down the responsible party, but not before he arranges for Carol Carlisle to have an "accident". and/or Lt. Gram is kicked out of the Space Patrol by Commander Buzz Corry. Gram manages to get a job in the Maintenance Department on Terra. But after two Space Patrol ships have crashed in just two days Corry plans to investigate. Carol catches Gram severing a cable in her space car, and he takes her prisoner even though she tries to subdue him with the ":Cosmic Smoke Gun". Editors Note: Great use of sets of the maintenance area in this episode, wherein gang planks above the sets are utilized. There is a great climatic fight between Corry and Gram using two 2X4's.
Sponsored by Ralston with a brief (2 second) cartoon opening.
Howard Price as Gram; Phil Chambers as the Forman.
Directed by: Dik Darley; Originated & Produced by Mike Moser; Settings designed by Carl Macauley; Technical Director: Irwin Stanton; Audio Entineer: Tom Ashton; Lighting Director: Truck Krone.
#63 THE MIND READERS March 8, 1952
Surveying a runaway planet passing through the solar system, Commander Corry, Cadet Happy, Major Robertson and Carol land to investigate a light sighted on the dark side of the strange planet. They discover two weird outcasts from an alien star system who communicate solely by mental telepathy. Possessing the ability to read the minds of the Space Patrollers, the menacing aliens prevent any successful resistance, and threatening Carol, force Buzz to blast off, leaving Happy and Robbie on the doomed planet.
#64 SLAVES OF THE EXONIUM MINE March 15, 1952
Three citizens disappear after leaving Terra for Earth in their spaceship. Commander Corry, Tonga and Cadet Happy, receiving an anonymous call directing them to fly over the Dust Bowl of Venus if they wish to learn something of the missing men, are taken prisoner by the ruthless Brunner and forced to work as slave laborers in the Exonium mine of Venus.
#65 ABANDONED IN OUTER SPACE March 22, 1952
In a Research Laboratory on the planet Mars, Carol and Tonga create a synthetic form or Radurium, which up to now has been an invaluable and very rare drug used in the treatment of cosmic burns and radiation burns. Before they can deliver the formula to Terra, Carol and Tonga are kidnapped by two ruthless killers who steel the formula and abandon the girls in space. Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy capture the villains, who lead them to where they deserted the girls, only to find no trace of them an hour after their oxygen supply would have run out.
#66 THE GREAT BANK ROBBERY March 29, 1952
After personally installing an alarm system in the Terra Interplanetary Reserve Bank, Major Robertson is forced to assist in a robbery of two million credits. Commander Corry and Cadet Happy investigate, and track Robbie and his captor to Asteroid 41 where they find the grim remains of their space car after a fatal crash.
#67 THE MYSTERIOUS MOONQUAKES April 5, 1952
While surveying the site of a new Lunar Fleet Base on the Earth's moon, the chief engineer, Lt. Bruce, discovers a rich surface deposit of rare Exonium. Keeping the discovery secret he recommends that the base be constructed elsewhere due to tremors that he reports having felt. Commander Corry rejects his recommendation and the base is constructed with Major Robertson and Tonga in charge of selecting personnel and opening operations. Securing the position of maintenance engineer, Lt. Bruce then creates his own moonquakes, damaging several buildings and endangering the lives of the Space Patrollers until Buzz uncovers the lieutenants greedy scheme.
#68 THE PHANTOM FLEET April 12, 1952
Commander Buzz Corry, with Cadet Happy and Carol, receive an emergency report from Professor Bradshaw aboard a Laboratory Ship orbiting Pluto that unknown objects are rapidly approaching the solar system from the Outer Galaxy. The ship's radar scope shows what they assume to be a fleet of ships invading the United Planets. A voice broadcasts a warning about a phantom fleet, a force from the planet Maxim, indicating that resistance is futile. When met by the Space Patrol the enemy ships seem to disappear and yet succeed in carrying out their threat to attack the planet Earth, warning that Terra will be their next target.
#69 TROUBLE ON TITAN April 19, 1952
While accompanying Major Robertson in his inspection of the Security Detention Colony on Titan, Carol Carlisle is taken hostage by an escaping criminal brandishing a hand fashioned weapon similar to a heat ray. Retreating into the rocks and threatening to kill Carol if anyone approaches, he seriously wounds Robbie. Commander Corry and Cadet Happy, summoned to aid in Carol's rescue, relieve Robbie and his guards and go after the desperate killer alone.
#70 SACRIFICE TO THE MOON GOD April 26, 1952
Commander Corry, Cadet Happy, Carol and Tonga are again experimenting with the new faster-than-light star drive when relays freeze and send them rocketing into the past for the second time; this time to the era of the Aztecs. Exploring alone Carol is taken captive and prepared to be sacrificed to the Moon God. Buzz and Happy, disguised as Aztec priests, must somehow prevent her death in the presence of hundreds of Indians, as the High Priest ceremoniously raises the sacrificial knife over the helpless Carol.
#71 UNCERTAIN DEATH May 3, 1952
Cadet Happy takes a novice cadet on his first space flight, but neglects to check his on-board equipment for space suits. He discovers his oversight when a leak develops in the ship. When Happy fails to respond to a routine check, Commander Corry and Tonga go to the rescue, but do not realize that both cadets have secured themselves in the air lock, and that to open the hatch to affect rescue would mean certain death.
#72 INVASION May 10, 1952
A meteor from the Outer Galaxy suddenly breaks from its orbit just outside the solar system and crashes into one of Saturn's moons. Commander Corry confirms his suspicion that the meteor is really a disguised alien spaceship. Major Robertson is given orders that if Buzz and Cadet Happy fail to call within an hour he is to destroy the entire moon to insure the safety of the United Planets. Inside the meteor Buzz and Happy find a dematerialization chamber ready to receive aliens planning to infiltrate and colonize the United Planets. When two aliens materialize Buzz takes action, and barely escapes being teleported to the aliens overcrowded planet.
#73 A THREAT TO THE UNITED PLANETS May 17, 1952
Enroute to Terra, Commander Corry, Cadet Happy and Tonga reflect on the possibilities of yet another attempt by the aliens from the meteor to invade the United Planets. They effect the rescue of a man calling himself Captain Quick, who claims he was left floating in space by his first mate on an ore carrier. Tracking down the ship, the Terra IV is swallowed up by it, and the three Space Patrollers are taken prisoner by Therma, a Thorman using Captain Quick as an accomplice. Therma requests a ransom of 50,000 credits for the release of her prisoners, and it is not until Major Robertson appears with the ransom that Commander Corry is able to turn the tables on Captain Quick and Therma.
#74 THE THREAT OF THE THORMANOIDS May 24, 1952
The Space Patrol is now completely alerted to the sinister threat posed by a secret invasion of aliens from the deep Outer Galaxy. The Thormanoids may already hold important posts in the United Planets because they look exactly like humans, though they are able to walk through walls, and must wear insulators in order to live in a human climate. Commander Corry and Cadet Happy come very near meeting their end beneath the Terra Jet Express when they attempt to capture two of the Thormanoids masquerading as Space Patrol officers.
#75 JUNGLE JEOPARDY May 31, 1952
Major Robertson and Carol Carlisle follow two of the Thormanoids to the Venusian jungle. When Robbie is knocked unconscious and Carol taken captive by hostile natives, Commander Corry, alerted by spacephone, comes to the rescue with Cadet Happy. They uncover one of the secret teleportation stations of the Thormanoids hidden in the jungle.
#76 THE SCHEMING SIBLING June 7, 1952
Commander Corry's young secretary, Lois, along with Cadet Happy is held hostage by her vicious brother who is being sought for the theft of secret documents. After promising to turn himself in, the brother almost succeeds in ambushing Commander Corry.
#77 DANGER ON MARS June 14, 1952
A couple of old prospectors stumble over an opening in the foothills of the Kralik mountains and discover evidence that its confines were inhabited by Earth's first settlers on Mars. Commander Buzz Corry joins the men at the scene, which becomes cloaked in mystery and danger when they find themselves pinned down by a barrage of gunfire from an unknown source.
#78 MISSION TO MERCURY June 21, 1952
Cadet Happy is sent on an important mission to Mercury with a briefcase full of papers that put the finger on an interplanetary official involved in a bribery scandal. In an unguarded moment the suspect replaces the contents of the case with a time bomb.
#79 THE DEADLY RAY GUN June 28, 1952
A report that ray guns used in the 30th Century have been adapted to fire deadly missiles and are being smuggled into the man-made planet of Terra in large numbers sends Commander Buzzy Corry on the trail of the smugglers. A number of attempts made on his life in the course of the investigation convinces Buzz that he is on the right track.
#80 THE FORCE BARRIER July 5, 1952
A scientist has developed a force field barrier at a Space Patrol research laboratory on Earth, and decides to keep the invention a secret, to use as he sees fit. Employing the barrier as a shield to protect himself, he makes his getaway with Commander Corry in hot pursuit.
#81 THE IRON FIST &nbs