SPACE PATROL

Commander Buzz Corry…………………………..Ed Kemmer
Cadet Happy……………….………………………..Lyn Osborn
Major Robertson…………..…………………..……..Ken Mayer
Carol Carlisle………………...…………………..Virginia Hewitt
Tonga…………………………...………………………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 20^th 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 20^th 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 30^th 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                                                                        July 12, 1952

A "protection" shakedown racket, which made its presence felt on Earth in the 20^th Century, becomes a 30^th Century problem for Commander Buzz Corry.  Buzz falls victim to the racket when he is badly beaten, and like the previous victims is guaranteed that it will not happen again if he is prepared to pay for "protection".

 

#82      THE DERELICT SPACE STATION                                        July 19, 1952

Commander Buzz Corry, Happy, and Tonga become involved in a harrowing adventure when two dangerous criminals overcome the trio in a space ship which goes out of control, hurtling toward the planet Earth.

 

#83      THE MYSTERY OF ANCIENT EGYPT                                      July 26, 1952

Buzz Corry, Commander in Chief of the Space Patrol, with Cadet Happy, Carol and Tonga aboard the Commander's ship the Terra Five, test its powerful star drive which accelerates them beyond the speed of light and 6000 years into the past, to ancient Egypt in the year 2700 B.C.  There mission, to discover how a piece of 30^th Century metal could have gotten into the ruins of a modern day archeological dig in what was once ancient Egypt.  

Producer:  Mike Moser                                  Writer: Norman Jolley          
Production Director: Dik Darley                     Production Assistant: George Flourney
Technical Director: Irwin Stanton

 

#84            MYSTERY OF THE FLYING PIRATE SHIP                       August 2, 1952

Major Robertson and Cadet Happy are making a routine space flight when they sight a square-rigged sailing vessel, flying the Jolly Roger, floating in space.  Walking the deck are two men without space suits.

 

#85            EMERGENCY FLIGHT TO MERCURY                               August 9, 1952

Cadet Happy is scheduled to join Commander Corry in an emergency flight to carry Radurium to epidemic stricken Mercury.  But Hap is kidnapped by two adventurers who plan to steal the valuable serum.  Only Buzz Corry's skill and daring outwits the criminals and saves the precious substance.

 

#86            BLACKMAIL AT LAKE AZURE                                             August 16, 1952

A pair of villainous characters living at Lake Azure, resort to framing a gullible Cadet Happy in a blackmail plot to spring a criminal out of suspended animation.

 

#87      THE HIDDEN MAP                                                                        August 23, 1952

The twelve year-old son of a space prospector is led to believe that his father has perished in his quest for a precious metal.  The boys "guardian" then seizes possession of a map the prospector left his son, which reveals the location of a valuable mine.

 

#88      THE GREEN MOLD OF MARS                                                    August 30, 1952

Thorgan, an enemy of Terra, seizes Tonga and takes her to Mars where she is brainwashed so that she can be used as an agent in his treacherous scheme against the United Planets in revenge for his being expelled as a member of the United Planets Scientific League.

 

#89      THE GALAXTIC WAR                                                                  September 6, 1952

A routine patrol flight into the Outer Galaxy almost ends in disaster for Commander Buzz Corry and his crew when they encounter a radioactive cloud of tremendous size.  The radioactive intensity of the cloud overloads the circuits and burns out the wiring of Buzz's ship, forcing him to crash land.  Meanwhile, the deadly cloud heads for the United Planets, leaving a trail of destruction.

 

#90      THE ENERGY THIEF                                                                 September 13, 1952

Tonga is sent to investigate a mysterious force operating in the twilight belt of the planet Mercury.  She discovers a force greater than atomic power which robs human beings of energy, then disappears.  Meanwhile, Buzz, Cadet Happy and Major Robertson, already en route to the danger zone, find their space ship disabled by an inexplicable magnetic disruption.

 

#91            SABOTAGE OF THE JUPITER RUN                              September 20, 1952

A traveler found floating in space between Venus and Mars provides a clue to a gang of saboteurs seeking to wreck the famous "Jupiter Run".  Buzz impersonates the traveler and continues on to the planet Mars where he is soon involved in a series of episodes that place him in the midst of a fantastic conspiracy, and in danger of losing his life.

 

#92      THE STAR RAIDERS                                                              September 27, 1952

Commander Buzz Corry encounters an unheard of race of primitive men in his relentless search for the Star Raiders deep in galactic space.  Buzz learns that the Star Raiders, though primitive, are in many respects living in a civilization far in advance of any in recorded history.  Moreover, the Raiders, gifted with a tremendous power of destruction, have decided on the United Planets as their next target.

 

#93      THE CODE BREAKERS                                                       October 4, 1952

Commander Corry and his crew face the loss of a powerful and secret Proton Gun when plotters against universal peace crack the code describing the secret elements of the weapon.

 

#94            ERRAND OF MERCY                                                       October 11, 1952

Buzz streaks through a thousand years into the past to launch a special Blood Boosters Campaign on present-day-Earth.  This program ties in with the special eight page Blood Boosters comic book that was offered at this time.

 

#95            UNDERWATER TREACHERY                                       October 18, 1952

Planetoid 91, traveling in a strange elliptical orbit on the fringes of our solar system engages the attention of Commander Buzz Corry.  The planetoid has industrial complexes that are operated entirely under water.

 

#96      THE ELECTRONIC MAN                                                       October 25, 1952

Commander Corry finds an electronic transmitter that was planted on Terra by an alien race for the purpose of transmitting information concerning the United Planets to their home world.  Command Corry and Cadet Happy follow the directional beam of the transmitter to the home planet of the aliens in the Outer Galaxy.

 

#97            TREACHERY ON TERRA FIVE                                      November 1, 1952

Commander Corry, Cadet Happy, Major Robertson and Carol land the Terra V on a planet that has been scorched by atomic war.  The sole survivors of the planet, two humans, are now savage madmen and they are determined to destroy the Space Patrol crew and escape on the Terra V to a better world.

 

#98            FRONTIER EPIDEMIC                                                     November 8, 1952

Commander Buzz Corry, Cadet Happy, and members of their crew are exposed to a lethal virus on a strange unknown planet.  In order to prevent the virus from being spread throughout the United Planets they are forced to remain on the planet until they overcome the deadly virus.

 

#99            POWERDIVE                                                                     November 15, 1952

A special power unit is being sent to the most remote outpost of the United Planets, a colony on a strange uninhabited planet in the system of the great double star, Sirius.

 

#100            THREE EXILES                                                               November 22, 1952

Buzz Corry and members of the Space Patrol are on the planet Sirius Four, the first outpost of the United Planets.  They are confronted with the gigantic task of preparing the planet for colonists when their work is interrupted by an amazing discovery.

 

#101    THE SHAKEDOWN                                                                  November 29, 1952

Buzz uncovers a gigantic blackmail racket that seriously hampers work on the planet Sirius Four.  The racket virtually immobilizes the thousands of laborers imported to the planet by the Space Patrol, as they refuse to carry out the construction program.  It is soon discovered that important electronic devises and formulas are being stolen from Terra that are endangering the lives of the colonists on Sirius Four.   

 

#102    THE HUMAN TRAP                                                                   December 6, 1952

A mysterious missile breaks through the Space Patrol Defense system some how hampering its radar warning systems so that they fail to alert Earth Space Patrol in time to stop it.  Buzz and Happy, cruising in the same sector are sent to intercept the missile in order to prevent its causing widespread destruction on planet Earth.

 

#103    THE CHASE IN TIME                                                                December 13, 1952

A gang of thieves thwart the plans of an old prospector who accidentally finds a rich vein of Exonium, and whose dying wish was to give the Exonium to the United Planets.

 

#104    THE DEADLY SUNBEAM                                                        December 20, 1952

Mobsters on the planet Mars use the newly isolated and deadly Iota Ray to control the United Planets Security Council.

 

#105    THE CONSPIRACY                                                                  December 27, 1952

A top-level scientist, working at the Terra Experimental Laboratories, disappears along with a briefcase full of top secret documents.

 

#106    THE HUMAN TARGETS                                                           January 3, 1953

The Terra Five, with Commander Corry and Major Robertson on board, stops over on Venus while en route to Pluto.  However the Commander and Major soon find that they are human targets not destined to complete their original mission.

 

#107    THE RIFLE ARSENAL by Norman Jolley                            January 10, 1953

Commander Corry is first alerted to an attempt to take over the government of Terra when 3,000 paralyzer ray guns disappear from the Space Patrol arsenal.  With the help of Happy and Carol Carlisle, he foils the plot of two power-hungry adventurers to take control of the United Planets. and/or Buzz Corry receives a message from Major Markham, the Security Officer if the Space Patrol Arsenal, that there are 310 Paralyser Ray Guns (the official weapon of the Space patrol) missing.  The Commander is knocked unconscious and when he comes to he finds he is headed toward Mars where 3 large Troupe Carriers are awaiting the weapons so that they can carry out an invasion of Terra.

Editors Note: Are there two Terra V's?  Happy and Carol take off from Terra in the Terra V, but later Commander Corry is seen on what looks to be the Terra V (could have been marked X on the side, but I don't think so) on his way to Mars. 

Brenner: James Bronte;  Galen:Michael:  Colgan

Sponsored by Ralston.  Space Binoculars offer for .25 cents. Jack Narz announcer.

Directed by Dik Darley; Originated & Produced by Mike Moser.
Plug for ABC radio version of SPACE PATROL.
NEXT WEEK: THE STOLEN PRISONER

Production Manager: Darrell Ross; Art Director: Carl Macauley; Lighting Director: Truck Krone; Audio Engineer: Jimmy Banks; Technical Director: Irwin Stanton. 

 

#108    THE STOLEN PRISONER                                                       January 17, 1953

Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy are cross examining a stubborn and silent witness by the name of Shrager with the use of a Brainograph, when the machine discloses the existence of a secret plot being hatched by an organization that has been operating undercover between the planets; a plot that menaces the peace and security of the United Planets.  Before Buzz can set up proper precautions, Shrager, through an error in calculation, is handed over to the plotters.

 

#109    THE DEADLY FLOWER                                                           January 24, 1953

The mass exodus by the tens of thousands of the population on the planet Neptune, without a logical explanation poses a security problem for the Space Patrol.

 

#110            RUNAWAY PLANETOID                                                   January 31, 1953

While testing a Space Patrol battlecruiser, Buzz and Happy are thrown into a harrowing encounter with a runaway planetoid.  Fighting to steer clear of the hurtling object, Buzz and Happy face the possibility of losing their coordinates and not reaching Terra.

 

#111            RADIOACTIVE CAVE                                                        February 7, 1953

The initial inspection of a proposed site for the construction of a new Space Patrol Way Station in the Twilight Belt of the planet Mercury sends Buzz, Happy, and Robbie into a strange adventure.  Persons unknown to members of the Space Patrol have seemingly taken over the proposed site with intentions of using it as a base for illegal traffic, the nature of which poses a baffling mystery.          

 

#112    TRIP TO DEIMOS                                                                        February 14, 1953

A space ship of the battlecruiser class carrying a payroll of 30,000 Credits disappears en route to the moon Deimos.  Suddenly, as though from out of nowhere, the pilot of the missing battlecruiser shows up in the offices of the Space Patrol astounding Buzz, Happy and Robbie with a tale of adventure in the wild, vast regions of space.

 

#113            OPERATION RESCUE                                                       February 21, 1953

One of the many duties of the Space Patrol is to keep the space lanes safe for travel.  Commander Corry and Cadet Happy fly into danger to save a spaceship caught in the Asteroid Belt.

 

#114            SURVIVAL IN THE ICE DESERT                                    February 28, 1953

Searching for Major Robertson who has been kidnapped by two criminals, Commander Corry and Cadet Happy walk into a trap that will leave them stranded miles from civilization on the dreaded Ice Desert of Mars.  Their own space ship stolen, Buzz and Happy investigate the charred wreckage of Major Robertson's ship in an attempt to find a means of escape from the ice caps surrounding them.  Fighting the bitter cold, Buzz and Happy realize that they must take immediate action before this region of ice becomes their tomb.

 

#115            SPACE FATIGUE                                                                March 7, 1953

A conspiracy to have Buzz Corry removed from his office as Commander-in-Chief of the Space Patrol has been carefully plotted.  Buzz is baffled by his inability to perform routine tests, and doctors at the Medical Science Center inform him that he must be grounded because of his obvious inability to pass these tests.  Realizing the seriousness of the situation, Buzz consents to sign papers that will relive him of his post.  Meanwhile, Major Robertson and Cadet Happy conduct their own investigation.

 

#116            THREAT TO TERRA                                                          March 14, 1953

Somewhere in the City of Terra a raving maniac has planted a bomb, threatening to blow Space Patrol out of existence.  Buzz Corry, Cadet Happy, and Major Robertson find themselves in a race against the clock when the fiendish plot to destroy the man-made planet is uncovered through the use of the Brainograph.

 

#117    JAIL BREAK                                                                               March 21, 1953

Cadet Happy is planted as a prisoner in the new escape-proof detention quarters which has been the scene of several mysterious jail breaks.  Happy is included in plans for the next "break", when his identity  is discovered by a prisoner who surprises Happy while trying to get word of the attempt to Commander Corry.  Happy is taken by gun point to the uninhabitable satellite Titan, where he fights desperately to keep alive just long enough to be rescued by Commander Corry.

 

#118    THE LAUGHING ALIEN                                                           March 28, 1953

Commander Buzz Corry employs the use of mental telepathy when his powers of thought are challenged by a stranger from another star system.  Vexed by continuous visions of Cadet Happy in danger, Corry issues a bulletin to all members of the United Planets to be on the lookout for a stranger from another star system.  Buzz's premonition of danger is confirmed when Cadet Happy disappears and Major Robertson sends an alert that Space Patrol Headquarters is on fire.

 

#119    THE VITAL FACTOR                                                                 April 4, 1953

To expedite prompt care and treatment for Carol, who has fallen victim to a dreaded space disease, Buzz Corry attempts to contact a unit Space Patrol doctor only to discover that the doctor has been kidnapped by a dangerous criminal.  Time is a vital factor, as Buzz must apprehend the criminal and find the Doctor so that he can save Carol's life.

 

#120            SPACE MAIL ROBBERY                                                     April 11, 1953

A space ship carrying confidential microfilm is looted en route to the planet Mars.

 

#121    THE SPACE WANDERER                                                          April 18, 1953

A strange new planet is attracted to our solar system, and an Earth scientist and his daughter set out to investigate the newly arrived visitor fearing that it may disappear just as suddenly as it appeared.  What they do not know is that the strange planet is largely composed of an atmosphere that decomposes metals in a matter of minutes.

 

#122    BIG IMPERSONATION                                                                  April 25, 1953

There appears to be conclusive evidence that Commander Corry is secretly involved in a plot to undermine activities in the Security Council.  Infuriated by the accusation, Corry breaks free from the security guards who are escorting him to the detention quarters.  Cadet Happy and Major Robertson are assigned the duty of capturing Buzz and returning him to prison.

 

#123            ELECTRONIC SPACE STORM                                             May 2, 1953

A space storm composed of contraterran matter is headed toward our solar system, and due to its complex make up, is capable of destroying the entire solar system.  In an attempt to divert the course of the storm, Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy undertake the dangerous assignment of plotting the progress of the storm, and analyzing its characteristics.

 

#124    THE DEADLY GLACIER                                                                 May 9, 1953

An oversize glacier on the planet Earth is under investigation, and there is a fear that any further accumulation of ice on the huge glacier may cause the Earth's axis to shift, creating ferocious storms, floods and earthquakes.  Buzz Corry has ordered cosmic bombs to be used to blast the glacier so that it will no longer present any danger.  The only problem is that Cadet Happy is conducting his own investigation right on top of the glacier that is scheduled for disintegration.

 

#125    THE MUTATION BOMB                                                                  May 16, 1953

A hidden treasure, and greed lead to the discovery of one of the most diabolically destructive weapons ever conceived by mankind, threatening the lives of the inhabitants of the planet Mars.

 

#126            PHANTOM SPACE SHIP                                                         May 23, 1953

Cadet Happy mysteriously disappears when he is dispatched to investigate a derelict space ship.  The phantom ship, which appears to be floating aimlessly through an open space lane, poses a threat to other ships traveling in that lane.

 

#127    THE GREEN PLAGUE                                                                      May 30, 1953

Inhabitants of Mars are thrown into a state of panic when the "Green Plague" strikes the city of Canali and threatens the entire planet with famine.  Because the origin of the plague is unknown, it is necessary to quarantine the city and allow no one to leave or enter.  Buzz Corry and the Space Patrol are assigned the task of abating the panic to divert disaster.

 

#128    THE FRAUD OF TITAN                                                                    June 6, 1953

Todd Station is a privately owned space port located on the sixth moon of Saturn.  The station becomes the center of action and intrigue when Stanton, an appraisal engineer, attempts to swindle the elderly Todds, owners of the station, out of their property.  Commander Corry, Cadet Happy and Major Robertson come to the rescue.  STANTON: Marvin Miller.  JIM TODD: I Stanford Jolly.  AUNT SYBIL: Edith Evanson.  TRUCK TODD: Wayne Taylor.

 

#129    THE MAN WHO STOLE A CITY                                                     June 13, 1953

Houses, space ships and civic buildings mysteriously disappear.  Baffled by the fantastic occurrences, Commander Corry summons the assistance of one of the leading scientists of the United Planets, only to discover that he too has disappeared.

 

#130            GIGANTIC SPACE KNIFE                                                       June 20, 1953

A well-traveled space lane, through which freighters transport their rich cargoes, becomes the scene for a series of the most daring interplanetary hijackings ever perpetrated against the United Planets.  Buzz Corry and the Space Patrollers prepare a trap that will catch the bandits in action.  The plan goes awry when the space freighter on which Major Robertson has been planted is attacked and nearly cut in two.  The portion of the ship holding valuable deposits is drawn by magnetism to an unknown destination, but the cockpit in which the Major is seated is left floating aimlessly in space. 

 

#131            SPACE PATROL MICROSCOPE                                           June 27, 1953

Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy narrowly escape injury when a flying missile scores a direct hit on the Terra V.  Seriously crippled, the battlecruiser limps through space.  Presuming that Buzz and Happy are dead, the bandit space ship which fired the missile departs, thinking themselves free to begin a reign of terror throughout the United Planets.

 

#132    THE THEFT OF THE TERRA FIVE                                                July 4, 1953

Commander Corry's ship, the Terra V, is stolen, and evidence points to Cadet Happy.  The young cadet finds it impossible to account for his whereabouts at the time the theft was perpetrated, and Buzz Corry has no alternative but to order his arrest.

 

#133            MYSTERIOUS OCEAN IN SPACE                                          July 11, 1953

Buzz Corry and the Space Patrol crew plunge headlong into the middle of an ocean in outer space.  To compound  the incredible, communications from Earth report that an unknown influence is draining the Earth's oceans, lakes, and rivers.  

 

#134    THE STOLEN EVIDENCE                                                                  July 18, 1953

The Governor of Mars is convinced that government officials are selling important state secrets, and when Commander Corry arrives to investigate, the Governor's daughter is kidnapped and an envelope containing documented evidence against the crooked officials also disappears.

 

#135            TRAITOROUS TRIANGLE                                                          July 25, 1953

Three subverts force entrance into the Capitol of the United Planets and at gun point threaten Carol's life unless the Secretary General turns over secret files to them.  Once gaining access to the files the hooded agents could immediately place the United Planets under dictatorial powers and subvert the people of the solar system to slavery.  So cleverly devised is the plot that Commander Buzz Corry cannot make a move without risking the lives of the entire Capitols representative body.

 

#136               CRASH LANDING                                                                      August 1, 1953

A test flight of an atomic-powered space ship has disastrous results when Buzz is forced to make a crash landing in the middle of a desert sandstorm.  Unknown to Buzz and Happy, an eight-year-old stowaway faces death from atomic radiation.

 

#137    THE SLAVES OF THE MIND PIRATE   (The Brain Machine)                August 8, 1953

Buzz Correy, Cadet Happy and Tonga watch helplessly when Dr. Breckinridge who came to Space Patrol Headquarters demanding protection, disappears before their eyes. Buzz and Dr. Getlin who is brought in to help solve the mystery also disappear to reappear in the laboratory of Brodow who needs three brains to complete his uncanny brain machine.   Ed Kemmer,  Lyn Osborn,  Nina Bara

Dr. Getlin: Bela Kovacs;  Brokow: Marvin Miller; Dr. Breckinridge: Bruce Payne; Casullo: Tom McKee;  Announcer: Jack Narz.

Produced & Directed by Dik Darley                        Created by Mike Moser
Executive producer: Mike Devery                           Written by: Norman Jolley
Associate Producer: Bela Kovacs                           Production Manager: Darel Ross
Art Director: Seymore Klate                                    Lighting Director: Truck Krone
Audio Engineer: Charles M. Lewis                          Technical Director: Irwin Stanton

Commercials include an offer for the Space Patrol Microscope.

Bulletin: The Ralston Rocket will pay a visit to Youngstown, Ohio and Albany, New York next week.

 

#138    THE ALIEN INVASION                                                                             August 15, 1953

Returning to Terra from a routine patrol mission in the Terra V, Buzz Corry, Major Robertson and Cadet Happy heed a call for help in an isolated jungle on Mars, and meat Mandra and Reva who warn them about a cloud-like swarm of life forms that capture and control minds.  Ed Kemmer, Lyn Osborn, Ken Mayer;    Reva: Ruth Gur;  Mandra: Norbert Schiller;   Announcer: Jack Narz

Production crew same as above:   Art Director: Carl Macauley   Audio Engineer: Jam Banks

Last offer for the Space Patrol Microscope.  Magic Space Pictures are now available in boxes of Rice Check and Wheat Check.   Bulletin: The Ralston Rocket will visit Akron Ohio, Schenectedy, New York and Troy, New York next week.

 

 #139   THE BLACK GAUNTLET                                                                      August 22, 1953

The cunning and ruthless Prince Baccarratti reaches out from the Falcon's lair to spread death and destruction.  Possessed with a burning desire to rule the United Planets, Baccarratti devises a plan which will place the Falcon's throne at the head of every planet in the system.  Listed in various TV books as “The Black Falcon’s Return”.

 

#140    THE MYSTERY OF PLANET X                                                             August 29, 1953

The mysterious appearance of a new planet, estimated to be five thousand times the size of the Earth, plunges Buzz Corry and his crew into one of the most startling adventures in the history of the Space Patrol.  Captured by the Earth's sun, the gigantic planet moves ominously into orbit on the outer edge of the solar system.

           

#141    THE TRAP ON PLANET X                                                                    September 5, 1953

Major Robertson and Tonga face a horde of dinosaurs when they are compelled to land their damaged space ship on the ominous Planet X.  Concealed beneath the planets shroud of swirling mist is a dense, impenetrable jungle, which provides a natural fortress for the villainous Prince Baccarratti.

 

#142    THE PRIMITIVE MEN OF PLANET X                                                  September 12, 1953

Buzz Corry is lured into a primitive world from which there may be no escape.  Trapped in a gigantic cavern on the ominous Planet X, Buzz is safe from the prehistoric dinosaurs which roam the face of the planet, but he is held at the mercy of a tribe of primitive men.

 

#143    THE HATE MACHINE OF PLANET X                                                September 19, 1953

Prince Baccarratti trains another of his diabolical mechanical creations on Terra to create bitterness, resentment, and dissension among Space Patrol and the people of the United Planets.

Next weeks episode is referred to as THE BLACK FALCON'S ESCAPE FROM PLANET X.

 

#144    THE BLACK FALCON'S ESCAPE FROM PLANET X                         September 26, 1953

This episode should probably be called THE WOLF PLANTS OF PLANET X as it has very little to do with the Black Falcon's escape from said planet.  The episode receives no title in opening, though the previous weeks episode does refer to it as first listed.

Commander Corry dangles helplessly at the end of a rope over a vapor pit.  Major Robertson has been caught in the cunning grip of the wolf plants of Planet X.  And Prince Baccarratti leers ominously , certain of his eventual triumph over Space Patrol and the United Planets.           

Next weeks episode is referred to as DESTRUCTION FROM PLANET X.   

 

#145            DESTRUCTION FROM PLANET X                                          October 3, 1953

Also called the RESONANCE IMPELLER.                                                             

Prince Baccarratti shocks the people of Terra with the news that Buzz Corry, Cadet Happy and Major Robertson have been strangled by man-eating wolf plants on Planet X.  With the deaths of Corry and his crew it becomes possible for the ruthless Baccarratti to become supreme ruler of the United Planets.  As evidence of his powers, Baccarratti beams a Resonance Impeller Ray on Terra.  The man-made Capitol quakes under the ray, and a terrified plea for mercy is sent to Planet X.

 

#146    THE ICE DEMON OF PLANET X                                                   October 10, 1953

Having survived strangulation by the treacherous wolf plants, Buzz and Happy find themselves in an equally perilous situation when the cunning Prince Baccarratti lures the space heroes to the nesting grounds of the Ice Demon of Planet X.

 

#147    THE SLAVES OF PLANET X                                                         October 17, 1953

Trapped in a mine beneath the surface of the Black Falcon's stronghold, Buzz and Happy learn the hideous secret behind their imprisonment.  A narrow shaft in the side of the rock turns out to be the entrance into a valuable mineral ore mine.  Once inside the tunnel, Buzz and Happy make the startling discovery that the ore is being mined by two captured scientists and a crew of tortured dwarfs.

 

#148    THE GIANT OF PLANET X                                                            October 24, 1953

Frantically trying to escape the clutches of Buzz and Happy, Prince Baccarratti spares the lives of our space heroes, but reduces them to the size of dwarfs with the use of the diabolical Diminisher Machine.

 

#149    THE IRON EATERS OF PLANET X                                               October 31, 1953

Buzz and Happy are faced with the peril of having their ship destroyed by a gigantic metal-eating worm, while Tonga is taken to the Valley of the Dinosaurs and left to die there.

 

#150    THE FALCON'S WEB OF PLANET X                                           November 7, 1953

Prince Baccarratti lays yet another devilish trap to destroy the Space Patrol.  This time he devises a scheme that sends Buzz and Happy zooming headlong into a force barrier.

 

#151     CASTLE'S DESTRUCTION ON PLANET X  by Norman Jolley       November 14, 1953

Prince Baccarratti is forced to evacuate his castle on Planet X, putting into effect Plan Z-1.  Activating a pre-arranged time mechanism designed to blow up the castle, the Black Falcon flees his stronghold in a magnetic car through an escape tube. and/or  Prince Baccarratti eludes capture again, this time he and Dr. Malengro plan to blow up his castle after locking Commander Corry and Cadeet Happy in the dungeon and escaping in an underground rocket tube. Commander Corry uses a space-o-phone to contact Carol and conices her to launch a cosmic missile toward the area of the dungeon where they're imprisoned. 

Presented by Ralston Wheat Chex, Rice Chex and Instant Ralson
with Pictures of Happy and Commander Corry on the front of the box.
Name the Planet contest with Rocketship prize offer and Weatherbird shoe store tie in.
Product endorsement by Starfire test pilot Tony Laveer. 

Bela Kovacs as Prince Baccarratti; Gabriel Cortez as Malengro: Jack Narz, announcer.
NEXT WEEK: THE VALLEY OF ILLUSION ON PLANET X

Produced and Directed by Dik Darley;  Created by Mike Moser

Executive Producer: Mike Devery; Associate Producer: Bela Kovacs; Production Manager: Darrell Ross; Art Director: Carl Macauley; Lighting Director: Truck Krone; Audio Engineer: Charles M. Lewis; Technical Director: Irwin Stanton.

 

#152            VALLEY OF ILLUSION                                                                   November 21, 1953

Prince Baccarratti flees from his castle to the Valley of Illusion, where nothing is what it seems to be.  Buzz and Happy follow, and find themselves in a surrealistic land, fighting fleshless images projected into the Valley of Illusion.

 

#153            DOOM OF PLANET X                                                                     November 28, 1953

After escaping a fourth dimension trap, Buzz, Major Robertson, and Happy destroy the Time Warp Machine, and conquer the villainous Black Falcon, Prince Baccarratti.

 

#154            ALIEN AND THE ROBOT                                                          December 5, 1953

Investigating the mysterious theft of electronic equipment from laboratories on Mars, Buzz Corry, Major Robertson and Cadet Happy meet Letha, a gorgeous exile from outer space, who is accompanied by a brutish robot, and uses a fiendish Retardo-ray machine.  Letha has already paralyzed Dr. Cameron Stanton with the Retardo-ray, and deals with Robbie and Happy in the same manner in hopes of using them all as an example to others in a "payoff-or-else" shakedown scheme.  Commander Corry is then given an ultimatum: join her in the racket or become the retardo-rays next victim.

 

#155    THE ROBOT'S ESCAPE                                                                    December 12, 1953

Commander Corry continues his fight to protect the United Planets from falling under the clutches of Letha, an alien woman from deep in the Outer Galaxy.  Letha, her human-like robot, and a weapon called the Retardo-ray, seek to destroy the security of our solar system.

 

#156    THE CITY OF LIVING STATUES                                                       December 19, 1953

Letha, a tall blonde alien from deep in the Outer Galaxy, and her human-appearing Robot, Five, escape from Space Headquarters, Mars, with the Regardo-ray and turn Canali into a city of living statues.

 

#157            MYSTERY OF THE MISSING ASTEROIDS                            December 26, 1953

Two unscrupulous miners pilfer an asteroid on which Prospector Haskins has staked a claim.  Commander Corry and Cadet Happy solve the mystery and capture the culprits.

 

#158    THE PHANTOM SPACE PIRATE                                                   January 2, 1954

Captain Dagger boards a ship of the planetoid payroll service fleet, climaxing a series of lootings that Commander Corry has been trying to solve.  Captain Dagger gives Buzz, Happy, Robbie and the payroll ship pilot a rough time and an unpleasant surprise.

 

#159    THE SPACE VAULT ROBBERY                                                   January 9, 1954

A public furor is created due to the inability of Buzz Corry and the Space Patrol to stop Captain Dagger's looting of ships and banks.  An investigation is requested by the Security Council when Captain Dagger almost steals the entire treasury reserve from the space vault.  But Buzz and Cadet Happy are there to turn the tables on the wily Captain.

 

#160    THE PIRATES ESCAPE                                                                 January 16, 1954

Captain Dagger and his henchman, Dr. Maddox, lead Buzz, Happy and Robbie an exciting chase, but they eventually track the pirates to their hideout, and not only recapture Captain Dagger and his men, but also reclaim the stolen "treasure".

 

#161    THE AMAZONS OF CYDONIA                                                      January 23, 1954

Dr. Oliver Tuttle and his assistant, Dr. Johnson, have set up a laboratory in the Cydonia Jungle on Venus to experiment on its plant life as the basis for a synthetic food.  When their daily report fails to reach Space Patrol, Buzz, Happy and Robbie set out to find them.  Arriving at Cydonia they find it ruled by a tribe of Amazon woman who make slaves of all strong men and destroy the weak ones.  Buzz manages to rescue Dr. Tuttle and send him back to Terra with Happy and Robbie, but is himself enslaved by the Amazons.

 

#162    THE MONSOON TRAP ON CYDONIA                                         January 30, 1954

After helping Dr. Tuttle escape the Amazons of Cydonia, Buzz and Happy continue their search for the doctors assistant.  Dr. Johnson, meantime, is working in league with the Amazons, and sets a trap for Buzz who is almost killed by the death wind monsoon.  The Commander escapes with the aid of Happy, but the pair are captured and held hostage by the Amazons.

 

#163    THE MEN-SLAVES OF CYDONIA                                                February 6, 1954

Commander Corry, Cadet Happy, and Laboratory Assistant Johnson are at the mercy of Queen Riva who attempts to make them the men-slaves of Cydonia.  Riva forces Buzz to become one of her slaves in exchange for saving the life of Happy, who has been seriously wounded.  Johnson, looking out for his own interest, spirits Happy away in an attempt to recover a stolen microtape.  The lab assistant has been made Riva's slave master, but he betrays her, and meets an untimely end at the hands of the Amazon Queen as Major Robertson arrives in time to rescue Buzz and Happy.

 

#164    THE DEADLY RADIATION CHAMBER                                         February 13, 1954

Commander Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy are called upon to investigate the shutdown of three plants that produce 75% of the United Planets fissionable material.  Buzz and Happy are thwarted by Mr. Halifax in their attempt to investigate his company and determine the sudden shutdown of power, but are given special permission by Mr. Proteus, Security Council Director, to enter the plant.  Once inside they find themselves trapped in the deadly Radiation Chamber.

 

#165    THE PLOT IN THE ATOMIC PLANT                                              February 20, 1954

Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy, continuing their investigation of the power plants that threatens the entire solar system, have more attempts made upon their lives.  Buzz and Happy, who know Mr. Proteus only as the Director of the United Planets Fisionable Materials Commission, are unaware that it is he, in his chameleon-like disguises of Mr. Halifax and Ben the watchman, who is plotting against them while trying to corner the market on the supply of atomic power units.   Proteus is played by Marvin Miller.

 

#166    THE BLAZING SUN OF MERCURY                                            February 27, 1954

Commander Corry (learning that Mr. Proteus in his many disguises is the man who is trying to gain sole control of the atomic energy of the United Planets) is lured along with Cadet Happy and Major Robertson to Mercury, where they almost perish from the intense heat.  Mr. Proteus, making certain that the three of them, along with the real Halifax, Matsoong and Justin, whom he has been impersonating, will die from the heat, blasts off in his ship for Terra.  But Proteus underestimates Buzz and is in for a startling surprise.

 

#167    THE BIG PROTEUS SWINDLE                                                     March 6, 1954

Space Patrol tries to head-off the man of many disguises, the ruthless Mr. Proteus, who as Director of the Security Council authorizes the purchase of six thousand power units for the black market price of six billion credits in cash to be paid to Mr. Halifax.  Mr. Proteus, disguised as Halifax, accepts the money and then heads for Venus, where he attempts to pose as Mr. Matsoong and swindle the United Planets out of four million more credits.  The Space Patrol crew catch him in the act, but he deals them an unexpected blow.

 

#168    THE ESCAPE OF MR. PROTEUS                                                 March 13, 1954

Buzz, Happy and Robbie have trapped Mr. Proteus on Venus where he has fled with the six billion United Planet credits.  Believing that they have at last stopped him in his unscrupulous plan, they momentarily are caught off guard when Mr. Proteus effects another of his clever disguises and once again escapes.

 

#169    MR. PROTEUS AND THE POISON GAS                                    March 20, 1954

Commander Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy recover the six billion credits from Mr. Proteus, but the unscrupulous villain once again eludes them.  Through a diabolical ruse, Mr. Proteus lures Buzz and Happy into his space ship and nearly succeeds in ending their lives with poison gas.  Although Buzz and Happy turn the tables on their adversary, the cunning Mr. Proteus manages to escape once more.

 

#170    THE REVENGE OF MR. PROTEUS                                            March 27, 1954

Mr. Proteus almost succeeds in his attempt to do away with Buzz and Happy once and for all in revenge for being foiled in his attempt to swindle the United Planets out of six billion credits.  Buzz and Happy outwit Proteus in a last minute bit of strategy, but once again he escapes the clutches of the Space Patrol.

 

#171    THE CAPTURE OF MR. PROTEUS                                            April 3, 1954

Buzz and Happy follow Mr. Proteus to Mercury, where he has escaped with Carol as a hostage.  Yet another trap has been set by the wily villain, but this time the tables are turned for the last time, and the Space Patrolers bring an end to the devilish misadventures of Mr. Proteus.

 

#172     BACCARRATTI'S 'Z' RAY                                                            April 10, 1954

Prince Baccarratti appears again with a double vengeance to plague Commander Buzz Corry and the Space Patrol.  Buzz and Happy learn a startling family secret about Prince Baccarratti that forces them to make a trip back to the 20^th Century.  Bela Kovacs plays a duel role as Prince Baccarratti, and an equally unscrupulous criminal named Zarra.

 

#173            MAROONED IN THE PAST                                                  April 17, 1954

Commander Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy are marooned in Hollywood, California in the 20^th Century.  In a desperate effort to capture Zarra, Prince Baccarratti's twin brother and true heir to the throne of Venus, Buzz and Happy travel to 20^th Century Earth where Zarra's guardian, Groata, has hidden the twin for the past 30 years.  Marooned temporarily on Earth by Zarra and Groata's "Z" Ray, Buzz and Happy manage to escape with the help of a rocket test pilot, and head for Terra in an attempt to head-off the two diabolical criminals.

 

#174    EVIL SPIRTS OF GREAT THUNDERBIRD                              April 24, 1954

Buzz and Happy, having narrowly escaped being marooned in the 20^th Century, race back to their own time in an attempt to overtake Groata and Zarra.  Learning that Zarra, with the help of Groata, has already begun a devastating attack upon the United Planets in an effort to re-establish himself on the throne of Venus, Corry and his cadet try to prevent any further disaster.  Once again Space Patrol is lured back into the past among a tribe of American Indians, who almost burn them at the stake as evil spirits.

 

#175    THE FALL OF THE KINGDOM OF ZARRA                                 April 30, 1954

Zarra kidnaps Prince Baccarratti, Happy and Major Robertson and attempts to set himself up as Ruler of Venus.  Commander Corry, learning that Zarra has used the "Z" Ray on Happy and Robbie, and is holding them prisoner in the roles of two of his "loyal" subjects, takes a daring and death defying gamble to save their lives.  The result is the fall of the Kingdom of Zarra.

 

#176    THE PRISONER OF THE GIANT COMET                                  May 7, 1954

A giant comet, a million miles in diameter with a tail millions of miles long, enters into our solar system from outer space, threatening everything in its path with total destruction.  Carol, flying a ship en route to Terra, is caught directly in the path of the onrushing comet.  Desperately trying to escape, she is caught in its tail and faces certain death.  Buzz, Happy and Robbie blast-off in the Terra V in an attempt to rescue her, but the gravity pull of the comet also imprisons them.

 

#177    THE DEMON PLANET                                                                    May 14, 1954

Escaping from the magnetic pull of the giant comet, the Terra V with Buzz, Happy, Robbie and Carol drifts toward the surface of a mysterious unknown planet.  In the most terrifying experience of their lives, the Space Patrol crew find themselves trapped on a planet composed of live rocks and furry-mouths of grass which devour anything that gets in their way.  Almost eaten alive, the intrepid crew manages to escape, only to be lost in galactic space.

 

#178    LOST IN GALACTIC SPACE                                                           May 21, 1954

The crew of the Terra V are lost in galactic space after narrowly escaping death on the Demon Planet.  With the air purifier damaged beyond repair, their oxygen going fast, and the ship also damaged beyond repair, the frantic crew fights desperately to find their way back to our Solar System.

 

#179    THE HIDDEN TREASURE OF MARS                                           May 28, 1954

Buzz and Happy blast-off for Mars to join the famous archeologist, Dr. Lambert, who has just discovered the underground city of the ancient Carnacans who disappeared from the planet a thousand years ago.  The Commander and his Cadet find a clue to the hidden treasure and encounter the wrath of the ancient worshippers, a tribe of men who wear totem heads, and are thrown in an ancient Carnacan torture chamber.                  Dr. Lambert: I. Stanford Jolley.  Carnacan: Nestor Paiva. 
This is the initial episode that introduced the Totem Mask premium offer.

 

#180    THE MARTIAN TOTEM HEAD                                                       June 4, 1954

Commander Corry and Cadet Happy, in their efforts to rescue Dr. Lambert, find themselves trapped once again by the ruthless men posing as real Carnacans.  Buzz and Happy find the hiding place of the real Carnacan treasure in the Martian Totem Heads.

 

#181             TRAPPED IN A PYRAMID                                                     June 11, 1954

Buzz and Happy are trapped with the bogus Carnacans in a pyramid after escaping the disintegration of the ancient underground Carnacan city on Mars.  Fighting for their lives against insurmountable odds,  Commander Corry and Cadet Happy effect a last minute escape from the pyramid, capture their adversaries and rescue their friend, Dr. Lambert.

 

#182    THE UNDERWATER SPACE SHIP GRAVEYARD                     June 18, 1954

Agent X leads Carol and Major Robertson into a trap in an underwater spaceship graveyard.   Junior, a mechanical robot, attempts to cut through the Majors' ship while he and Carol are aboard.  Major Robertson tries to stop the robot, but is overcome and brought into Agent X's hideout.and/or A pleasant vacation for Buzz, Happy, Carol and Robbie ends as a nightmare on the depths of the ocean floor as the quartet is trapped in an underwater spaceship graveyard.  The diabolic Agent X, whom Space Patrol believed dead for four years, suddenly reappears and cleverly maneuvers the unsuspecting Space Patrol crew to his underwater hideaway, where they face almost certain death.

Ed Kemmer, Lyn Osborn, Virginia Hewitt, Ken Mayer;  Agent X: Norm Jolly

Produced and Directed by: Dik Darley       Created by Mike Moser        Written by Norman Jolly
Executive Producer: Mike Devery                             Associate Producer: Bela Kovacs
Art Director: Seymore Klate                                      Audio Engineer: Charles M. Lewis
Technical Director:  Irwin Stanton                            Lighting Director: Truck Krone

Ralston commercial includes the Totum head premium offer.  Space Patrol on radio is given a plug.

 

#183    THE GIANT MARINE CLAM                                                             June 25, 1954

In the Western Hemisphere of the planet Venus lies the huge Caloric Ocean.  Commander Buzz Corry, Major Robertson, Cadet Happy and Carol Carlisle have been drawn to the bottom of this ocean by a force field controlled by Agent X.  Aided by a mechanical robot named Junior, Agent X, a former agent of an interplanetary crime syndicate, has become an undersea space pirate.

 

#184            MAROONED ON THE OCEAN FLOOR                                  July 2, 1954

Agent X, mysterious denizen of the ocean floor on Venus, finds himself a prisoner of Commander Buzz Corry and his pals, but manages to turn the tables on them.  After recovering his gun from Commander Corry, Agent X and his robot aid, Junior, prepare to drown Happy and Carol, promising to save them only if Buzz and Robbie will help him in his scheme to lure space ships to their destruction beneath the ocean depths.

 

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#185            MYSTERY OF THE DISAPPEARING SPACE PATROLMEN                  September 4, 1954

The baffling disappearance of Major Robertson and a pair of young Space Patrol Cadets, Clay and Victor, sends Commander Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy on one of their strangest adventures.  Buzz succeeds in learning that they have been abducted to the planet Manza by an unknown force controlled by an invisible creature that bears the same name as his remote lair.

 

#186    THE SPACE PATROL PERISCOPE                                              September 11, 1954

The invisible creature Manza intends to use his Space Patrol captives as gunners in a war against his enemies, the Icarians, whom he long ago drove from the planet on which his stronghold is located, and on which he is now sole master.  Buzz and Happy arrive on the planet, and are themselves captured by their invisible foe.  The Space Patrolmen become even more horrified when the Icarian battle fleet of flying saucers appear overhead and give Manza a surrender-or-else ultimatum.

 

#187    THE SPACE WAR                                                                            September 18, 1954

Commander Corry and Cadet Happy are helpless when the Space Battle begins with the Icarian fleet of saucer ships.  The saucers heat rays start to melt the stronghold of Manza to the ground, and Buzz and Happy try to make a desperate escape.  Buzz succeeds in reaching the Icarian General, Nardo, and briefs him on the perilous situation of Happy and the other imprisoned Space Patrolmen.  Then as Buzz and Nardo plot Manza's downfall, their ruthless foe suddenly tosses a lovely bone monkey-wrench into the fray.

 

#188    THE DEFEAT OF MANZA                                                              September 25, 1954

While plotting the downfall of the evil being known as Manza, with Nardo, leader of the Icarians, Commander Buzz Corry is abruptly forced to surrender his freedom and return to the clutches of Manza.  Corry takes the drastic step when he learns that Manza has captured Carol Carlisle and is holding her as a hostage against his return.  But Buzz manages to save the day when he causes Manza to accidentally imprison himself.  When Buzz and Happy plunge to the very heart of Manza's stronghold they find themselves in a final duel to the death with the invisible creature.

 

#189    THE GIANTS OF PLUTO III                                                         October 2, 1954

Suspicious happenings on the third satellite of the planet Pluto come under the scrutiny of Buzz Corry, Commander in Chief of the Space Patrol.  Buzz and Happy soon meet with trouble at the hands of Dr. Frederic Kurt, undersize operator of a sanitarium for rundown citizens, and his pack of oversize puppets.  In fact, Buzz and Happy are startled to find that their fellow officer, Major Robbie Robertson is also under the doctor's influence.

 

#190    THE FIERY PIT OF PLUTO III                                                      October 9, 1954

Determined to bring the evil Dr. Frederic Kurt to justice because of his practice of converting patients into giant, robot-like slaves, Buzz and Happy are hampered by the very zombie like creatures they are trying to save.  The two Space Patrollers attempt to overcome the zombies without harming them, only to wind up as candidates for a bath in a pool of molten rock.

 

#191     MANHUNT ON PLUTO III                                                            October 16, 1954

Having converted all but one of Doctor Kurt's zombies into the normal humans that they were originally, Commander Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy turn their attention to the task of corralling the evil scientist.  But thanks to his one remaining giant slave, Dr. Kurt is able to escape.  The two Space Patrolmen become the hunted rather than the hunters and their plight appears hopeless when Kurt and his stooge, Atlas, trap them in a deep canyon that offers no means of escape.

 

#192    THE THEFT OF THE ROCKET COCKPIT                                 October 23, 1954

Happy trains for an actual flight of the X-RC, but is pursued and overtaken by Stranger & Gregory who have already abducted Carol.  Commander Corry is blinded by the discharge from a small photon bomb when he attempts to rescue Happy, while Stranger & Gregory escape in the Terra V.  also The top-secret Terra 50, experimental model for a fleet of sensational new space ships ticketed for Space Patrol service, falls into the hands of interplanetary gangsters.  Using Carol as a hostage, ruthless Gart Stranger forces Cadet Happy to take him aboard the Terra 50 and pilot him back through space and time to the planet earth in the year 1954.  At his destination Stranger intends to construct duplicates of the Terra 50 with which he will equip his henchmen when he returns to the 30^th Century.  Unfortunately for both he and Happy, the pair arrive on Earth to find themselves imminent targets for an atomic bomb test.    Ed Kemmer,  Lyns Osborn,  Virginia Hewitt

Col. Henderson: Paul Cavenaugh;  Garth Stranger: George Baxter

Directed by Dick Darley          Created by Mike Moser           Written by Norman Jolly
Executive producer: Helen Moser                                  Associate Producer: Bela Kovacs,
Art Director: Carl Macauley                                            Lighting Director: Truck Krone
Audio Engineer: Charles Lewis                                      Technical Director: Bob Trachinger

Sponsor: Nestles  (Rocket Cockpit premium offer and Space Patrol on ABC radio plug)

 

#193    THE SPACE PATROL, THE ARMY, AND THE ATOM BOMB                     October 30, 1954

Stranger and Gregory masquerade as military policemen in order to steal a powerful new space cruiser, the S-RC.  But their plans run awry when they are exposed to deadly radiation from an Atom Bomb test on 20^th Century Earth.

 

#194      DANGER …RADIATION by Norman Jolley                                       November 6, 1954

Stranger & Gregory are suffering from a deadly dose of radiation, and disguised as Army M.P.'s, abduct a 20^th Century doctor to help them.  Also Contaminated with a lethal dose of radioactivity from an atomic bomb, Stranger and Gregory seek aid from a small-town doctor on 20^th Century Earth.  Commander Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy trace the villains, but they are captured and face death along with the doctor, once Stranger and his henchmen have received their life-saving injections of anti-radioactivity serum. Ed Kemmer, & Lyn Osborn Gregory: Bill Haad;  Dr. Paul Yates:  Peter Hanson

Sponsor: Ralston

Produced & Directed by Dik Darley.                         Created by Mike Moser
Executive Producer: Helen Moser                            Associate Producer: Bela Kovacs
Art Director: Carl Macauley                                      Lighting Director: Truck Krone
Audio Engineer: Charles M. Lewis                           Technical Director: Bob Trachinger

 

#195    THE EXPLODING STARS by Norman Jolley                                  November 13, 1954

Commander Corry and Cadet Happy, heeding a summons from a new observatory stationed in outer space, learn that they must in some way halt the imminent explosions of a series of stars near our solar system.  There are indications of  an organized pattern to the destruction of stars within our galaxy, and the pattern further indicates that Sol, our solar system's sun may be the next in line for destruction.

Ed Kemmer, Lyn Osborn, Virginia Hewitt, Ken Mayer     Dr. Van Meter: Rudolph Anders

Editors Note:  This episode is highlighted by EXCELLENT moving minatures.
NEXT WEEK: DWELLERS IN THE PRIME GALAXY
Plug for ABC radio version of Space Patrol

Produced & Directed by Dik Darley.                         Created by Mike Moser
Executive Producer: Helen Moser                            Associate Producer: Bela Kovacs
Art Director: Carl Macauley                                      Lighting Director: Truck Krone
Audio Engineer: Charles M. Lewis                           Technical Director: Bob Trachinger

 

#196            DWELLERS OF THE PRIME GALAXY                               November 20, 1954

Buzz and Happy venture into deep space to learn what might be causing the explosions of suns near our Solar System.  They discover the identity of the fantastic beings responsible for the holocausts, but  have little hope of defeating them.  The Space Patrollers soon come to grips with Ahyo, an alien who handles his foes by shooting them to the ceiling with a gravity-inverter and then knocking them cold by dropping them to the floor.

 

#197            TERRA, THE DOOMED PLANET                                         November 27, 1954

Ahyo, the super-intelligent alien whose mission is to destroy our entire galaxy, falls victim to an old-fashioned belt on the chops administered by Commander Corry.  Ahyo's advanced weapons prove worthless against the fury of Corry's fists when he attempts his annihilation of the Solar System by sending the planet Terra to collide with the sun.

 

#198            REVENGE OF THE BLACK FALCON                                 December 4, 1954

Prince Baccarratti, false pretender to the throne of Venus once again returns to haunt Commander Buzz Corry and the Space Patrol.  Thought to be on the road to rehabilitation with the use of the Brainograph and once again be a useful citizen of the United Planets, the evil Prince springs a trap that launches the Space Patrollers to ancient times to be burned at the stake for the crime of witchcraft!

Ed Kemmer, Lyn Osborn      Prince Baccarratti: Bela Kovacs   also Bill Baldwin, Oliver Blake Jack Brown and Gail Bonney. 
Sponsor: Ralston

Produced and Directed by Dik Darley;                              Created by Mike Moser
Executive Producer: Helen Moser                                     Associate Producer: Bela Kovacs
Art Director: Carl Macauley                                               Lighting Director: Truck Krone
Audio Engineer: Charles M. Lewis                                    Technical Director: Bob Trachinger.

 

#199            SORCERERS FROM OUTER SPACE                                  December 11, 1954

Having been shanghaied by Prince Baccarratti to 17^th Century America, Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy become candidates for burning at the stake as suspected sorcerers.  Baccarratti also falls suspect by the superstitious colony, but is rescued by the Space Patrollers.

Sponsor: Nestles
Starring: Ed Kemmer, Lyn Osborn, Bela Kovacs, Bill Baldwin, Oliver Blake, Jack Brown, Gail Bonney.
NEXT WEEK: BACCARRATTI AND BLACK MAGIC

Produced and Directed by Dik Darley;                              Created by Mike Moser
Executive Producer: Helen Moser                                     Associate Producer: Bela Kovacs
Art Director: Carl Macauley                                               Lighting Director: Truck Krone
Audio Engineer: Charles M. Lewis                                    Technical Director: Bob Trachinger

 

#200    BACCARRATTI AND BLACK MAGIC by Norman Jolley         December 18, 1954

After recapturing Prince Baccarratti and his pal, Berti, Commander Corry and Cadet Happy have one more tasks to complete before returning to the 30^th Century.  Goodwife Martin, a woman who has helped Buzz and Happy, and been accused of witchcraft by her own husband and son must be exonerated.   The two comrades take a drastic step to clear goodwife Martin, only to find that through an oversight they may spend the rest of their lives stranded in the 17^th Century.

STARRING: Ed Kemmer, Lyn Osborn, Bela Kovacs, Bill Baldwin, Oliver Blake, Jack Brown, Gail Bonney
Sponsored by Ralston.
Testimonial from test pilot Tony Lavewer of Lockhead Aircraft and the Starfire F46C.
Captain Barcley is the announcer. 

Produced and Directed by Dik Darley;                              Created by Mike Moser
Executive Producer: Helen Moser                                     Associate Producer: Bela Kovacs
Art Director: Carl Macauley                                               Lighting Director: Truck Krone
Audio Engineer: Charles M. Lewis                                    Technical Director: Bob Trachinger

#201    A CHRISTMAS PARTY FOR HAPPY by Norman Jolley           December 25, 1954

Christmas on the planet Terra seems like a dismal day for Cadet Happy.  He has good reason to think the he has not a friend in the universe until a pair of old friends from Earth, Happy's native planet, arrive and make Christmas a joyous occasion, and a day to remember for the young cadet.  and/or Happy doesn't know that Commander Buzz Corry has gone to earth to pick up his parents and bring them to Terra to celebrate Christmas with them.  A mix up ensues, as Buzz, Carol and Robbie obtain Christmas Trees to decorate, as well as Bill Osborn, Happy's father (and it's discovered that "Smokin' Rockets originated with him). Who turns around and gives them all away.

Editors Note: Very nice miniature of snow falling on Terra.

Bill Osborn: Charles Calvert     Bess Osborn: Jean Inness

Produced and Directed by Dik Darley                              Created by Mike Moser
Executive Producer: Helen Moser                                    Associate Producer: Bela Kovacs
Art Director: Carl Macauley                                              Lighting Director: Truck Krone
Video Engineer: Gene Lukowski                                      Technical Director: Bob Trachinger            

  

#202    LAIR OF THE SPACE SPIDER by Norman Jolley                     January 1, 1955

A search for a vanished space ship leads Commander Corry, Cadet Happy and Major Robertson into the clutches of Arachna, the Space Spider.  Spider-like, the merciless human ruler of a doughnut shaped planet snares unwary space travelers in a web of force rays, to become slaves in his escape proof domain.  and/or  Major Robinson contacts Commander Corry by Gravix Electric Transmitter that he has spotted an odd looking planet around the sun of Algol that is shaped like a ring or donut in the vicinity where another Space Patrol scout has recently disappeared.  Commander Corry loses contact with Robbie, and travels through hyperspace  (he and Happy are unconscious during the trip – first time I can recall seeing this on the show). They find a small “moon” which is no more than 100 miles in diameter. They encounter Arachna, the ruler of the planet, who has a spider-like creature on his hand that he occasionally caresses. Arachna tells them that the Terra  will be stripped of its instruments and broken down in ta foundry of the ring-like planet.
Sponsored by Ralston (The opening sponsor is Ralston, but the middle commercial as viewed is for Nestles EverReady cocoa.  The closing commercial is for both Ralston & Nestles and wherein they wish everybody a Happy New Year.)

Kurt Katch as Arachna.
NEXT WEEK: THE WEB OF ARACHNA

Produced & Directed by Dik Darley; Created by Mike Moser.

Executive Producer: Helen Moser; Associate Producer: Bela Kovacs; Art Director: Carl Macauley; Lighting Director: Truck Krone; Audio Engineer: Charles M. Lewis; Technical Director: Bob Trachinger.

 

#203    THE WEB OF ARACHNA  by Norman Jolley                              January 8, 1955

Employing clever deceptions and the help of a fugitive from Arachna's slave ranks, Buzz, Happy and Robbie bluff their way back into the villainous Space Spider's lair.  Having escaped once from Arachna's clutches, the Space Patrolmen return to his planet to take him prisoner and free his captive workers. and/or A Beta class space vessel similar to those used by space prospectors is magnetically coupled with the Terra V as Buzz Corry sets in motion a plan to have the vehicle trapped in the web of Arachna so that he can free the men who are enslaved  there.  Disguised as an old prospector he allows his ship to be captured in the web, while Happy and Robby enter the robot vehicle belonging to Arachna. Happy and Robby are in the graveyard only to find an alien who has escaped Arachna's foundry. They are overcome by Arachna's guards and used as a negotiating ploy with Buzz Corry, who has one more card to play. 

Featuring Kurt Katch as Arachna.

Sponsored by Nestles EverReady Cocoa and Nestles Chocolate Bars.
In the Ralston spot at the end of the show Professor Checkerboard is introduced for the first time.

Editor's Note:  This episode features some very nice miniatures of a huge underground cavern that serves as a space ship graveyard for discarded vehicles.

Produced and Directed by Dik Darley; Created by Mike Moser.

Executive Producer: Helen Moser; Associate Producer: Bela Kovacs; Art Director: Carl Macauley; Lighting Director: Truck Krone; Video Engineer: Gene Lukowski; Technical Director: Bob Trachinger.

 

#204    COLLAPSE OF THE SPIDER'S WEB by Norman Jolley         January 15, 1955

Commander Buzz Corry and his pals, still at grips with Arachna, the Space Spider, learn the secret of their foes invisible "web".  The Patrolmen discover that Arachna has been using an artificial gravity-booster to trap unwary space cruisers on his doughnut-shaped planet.  They also learn the fearful effectiveness of the gravity-booster when Arachna escapes from their custody and uses his devise in an attempt to crush the Terra Five and all its crew.  and/or  Happy and Robbie escort the freed slaves of Arachna to their battle cruiser, the Terra V.  Buzz Corry discovers that the source that powers Arachna is Neutronium, a powerful anti-matter that is used by Archna to lure spaceships into his web.  Arachna escapes long enough to plant 12 grains of Neutronium in the Terra V.  He is recaptured by Buzz Corry but does not reveal his booby trap unti the Terra V tries to flee a meteor cloud that is drawn to the ship by the hidden Neutronium.  After Buzz tries to signal the ship with his space flashlight, he is forced to cross over to the Terra V in his space suit. 

Sponsored by Ralston. Commercials feature Professor Checkerboard for the first time.
NEXT WEEK: The Androids of Algol

Produced and Directed by Dik Darley.  Created by Mike Moser.

Executive Producer: Helen Moser; Associate Producer: Bela Kovacs; Art Director: Carl Macauley; Lighting Director: Carl Macauley; Lighting Director: Truck Krone; Audio engineer: Charles M. Lewis;  Technical Director: Bob Trachinger. 

 

#205            ANDROIDS OF ALGOL                                                             January 22, 1955

Ramo and Yula are an alien couple who fashion duplicates of human beings from lumps of jelly-like protoplasm.  They set out to capture Commander Buzz Corry and use him as a model for one of their "Androids", with the ultimate aim of ruling the United Planets.  Ramo and Yula, who inhabit a barren planet in the system of the star known as Algol, send Buzz's robot-like twin back to Terra to command the Space Patrol as their secret puppet. Ed Kemmer, Lyn Osborn Ramo: Larry Dobkins;  Yula: Valerie Bates;  Secretary General: Paul Cavanaugh.

Production credits same as above.  Sponsor: Nestles

 

#206            DOUBLE TROUBLE                                                                  January 29, 1955

Commander Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy return to Terra in a last minute effort to save the United Planets from the tyrants, Ramo and Yula.  Believing the Space Patrolmen to be trapped in outer space, Ramo and Yula desert them and journey to Terra to use their "android" creatures to take control of the United Planets.

 

#207    THE ANDROID INVASION                                                                February 5, 1955

Commander Corry  and Happy are again overcome by Yula who eventually turns Major Robertson into an Android and uses him to declare Commander Corry and Happy outlaws. Also Terra City, Capitol of the United Planets, is thrown into an uproar by the Androids fashioned by the aliens, Ramo and Yula.  The clash reaches an exciting conclusion when Commander Corry, Major Robertson, and the Secretary General come face to face with their Android counterparts.

Ed Kemmer, Lyn Osborn, Ken Mayer:  Yula: Valerie Bates;  The Secretary General: Paul Cavanaugh

Production credits same as above.   Sponsor: Nestles

 

#208    THE WILD MEN OF PROCYON                                                       February 12, 1955

Buzz, Happy, Robbie and Carol, seeking the unknown source of atomic radiation that is permeating interplanetary space, become stranded on a planet that has become totally desolated after an all out  atomic war.  Their investigation uncovers a civilization that has committed atomic suicide, and they believe that not a living being is still alive … until something or somebody wrecks the Terra Five.

 

#209            MAROONED ON PROCYON IV                                                February 19, 1955

Commander Corry, Cadet Happy, Robbie and Carol are given a savage greeting by the two remaining members of the planet's demolished civilization.  The sole survivors, overcome by the devastation they witnessed, have been driven mad, and are determined to destroy the Space Patrollers and escape to a new world in the Terra V.   Survivors: Bert Holland & Charles Horvaht.

 

#210    THE ATOMIC VAULT             (Last program)                                February 26, 1955  

The mysterious disappearance of Happy and Carol halts the Space Patrollers from blasting off from the desolated planet Procyon IV.  When Commander Buzz Corry and Major Robertson go in search of their missing comrades, they find them in the hands of Menzo and Rayzo, survivors of the atomic devastation.        Ed Kemmer, Lyn Osborn, Ken Mayer, Virginia Hewitt  

Menzo: Bela Kovacs;        Rayzo: Robert Boon

Production Credits same as above:  Sponsor: Ralston

 

Editors Note: It should be noted that we have found some differences in the titles of various Space Patrol episodes through the years.  Most of our information regarding episode titles are from press releases and TV magazines.  We also used Nina Bara's book SPACE PATROL MEMORIES for cooberation.  We made changes to the listings only after screening those episodes.  Additional thanks and gratefulness to Jean-Noel Bassior, whose Space Patrol book should be published sometime this year.

 

LAST REVISED: July 20, 2004