Space Patrol is a science fiction adventure, aimed at juvenile
audiences of the early 1950s via television, radio, and comic books.
The success of the TV show spawned a radio version, which ran from 18
September 1950 to 19 March 1955. The same cast of actors performed on
both shows. The writers, scripts, adventures and director were quite
similar between the radio and TV incarnations. Although there was never
any deliberate crossing-over of storylines, TV villains showed up on the
radio (notably Prince Bacarratti), and during the Planet X story arc both
TV and radio explored the rogue planet.
While the series lacked the adult sophistication of such shows as X Minus
One (which focused on adapting short fiction by notable genre names as
Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury), Space Patrol was enjoyed as the sort
of Golden Age space opera popularized in the 1930s, the days of science
fiction's infancy, by pioneering magazine editor Hugo Gernsback, and it is
prized by OTR collectors today as one of radio's most enjoyable
adventures.
The television show The Space Patrol began as a 15-minute show on a local
(Los Angeles) station on March 9, 1950. On December 30, 1950, a half-hour
show was added on Saturdays on ABC (while the 15-minute show continued
daily locally, and was seen via kinescope in a few other cities). A 1953
30-minute episode was the subject of the first US experimental 3D-TV
broadcast on April 29 in Los Angeles on ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
Space Patrol aired continuously until July 2, 1954; after a short break,
it reappeared on September 4, 1954, and it finally disappeared from the
air on February 26, 1955. 210 half-hour shows were made, and close to 900
15-minute shows over Space Patrol's 5-year run. It's a shame that so few
episodes of this great show were preserved.
The stories followed the 30th-century adventures of Commander Buzz Corry
(Ed Kemmer) of the United Planets Space Patrol and his young
improbably-named sidekick Cadet Happy (Lyn Osborn) as they faced nefarious
interplanetary villains with diabolical schemes. Not surprisingly for the
time, some of these villains had Russian or German sounding accents.
Cmdr. Corry and his allies were aided by such nifty gadgets as "miniature
space-o-phones" and "atomolights." Episodes had such pulp-magazine titles
as "Revolt of the Space Rats" and "The Menace of Planet X."
So sit back, and for the next 40 hours and over
90 episodes, listen
to the science fiction adventure that is prized by Old Time Radio
collectors today as one of radio's most enjoyable adventures.
We want to thank Wikipedia for some of the background
information on this show.
Here is the list episodes presented for your
listening pleasure.
52-10-25 The Hole in Empty Space2
52-11-08 The City of the Sun
52-11-15 Queen of Space
52-11-29 The Electronic Burglar
52-12-06 The Space Shark
52-12-13 The Search for Asteroid X
52-12-20 The Lady from Venus
52-12-27 The Last Voyage of the Lonesome
53-01-03 The Brain Bank and the Space Bino
53-01-10 The Sleep Walker
53-01-24 The Scavenger of Space
53-01-31 The Top Secret D- Ray
53-02-07 Crash Landing
53-02-14 The Mysterious Meteor
53-02-21 The Moon Beetles
53-02-28 The Strange Gift of the New Star
53-03-07 The Seed Crystals of Zeldabran
53-03-14 The Magic Space Pictures
53-03-21 The Caverns of Venus
53-03-28 The Forgotten City
53-04-25 Prisoner of Pluto
53-05-02 Venus Space Factory
53-05-09 Cosmic Ray Detector
53-05-16 Secret of Sub- Level7
53-05-23 Treachery in Outer Space
53-05-30 The Immortal Brain
53-06-26 The Treasure of Planetoid60
53-08-01 Sleeping Demon of Saturn
53-08-08 Trouble Aboard the Super Nova
53-08-15 Peril over Jupiter
53-08-22 The Menace of Planet X
53-08-29 The Trap on Planet X
53-09-05 The Valley of Dread
53-09-12 Escape from Planet X
53-09-19 The Spies from Planet X
53-09-26 Target Jupiter
53-10-03 Return to Planet X
53-10-10 On the Ice Cap of Planet X
53-10-17 Rescue from Planet X
53-10-24 The Secret of Adargo Ruins
53-10-31 Iron Eaters of Planet X
53-11-07 Cyclone in Outer Space
53-11-14 Under the Sea of Planet X
53-11-21 The Sea Monster of Planet X
53-11-28 Revolt of the Space Rats
53-12-12 The Lost Condor
53-12-19 Venus Tulania Mystery
53-12-26 Lost Dimension
54-01-09 The Claw of Venus
54-01-23 Martian Masquerade
54-01-30 Treasure of Mount Rocob
54-02-13 Revenge of Dr Yeager
54-02-27 Serpents of Saturn
54-03-13 Test for Survival
54-03-20 Secret of Dr Borodeck
54-03-27 The Zero Ray
54-04-03 Super Brain of Balmer Castro
54-04-10 Tests of the XK3
54-04-17 Image of Evil
54-05-22 Strange Voyager
54-05-29 The Red Demon of Venus
54-06-05 Mystery of the Masked Martians
54-06-12 The Tattooed Atom
54-06-19 Cavern of Fear
54-06-26 Race Against Time
54-07-03 Robots of Vortena
54-07-10 Trial by Terror
54-08-14 The Counterfeit Atom
54-08-21 Formula for Crime
54-09-11 Design for Disaster
54-09-18 Prisoners of Tiranna
54-09-25 Invasion from Tiranna
54-10-02 Voice from the Future
54-10-30 Realm of the Robot
54-11-13 The Frightened Robot
54-12-04 Invisible Enemy
54-12-11 City of Hidden Doom
54-12-18 Escape from Neptune
54-12-25 Lost Galaxy
55-01-01 Ambush in Space
55-01-08 Prison Planet
55-01-15 Crown of Dardeda
55-01-22 Shadow Chardu
55-01-29 Planet of Discord
55-02-05 Conquest of Dargeeda
55-02-12 The Hermit of Pluto
55-02-19 The Time Pirates
55-02-26 Voyage to the Future
55-03-05 Monster from the Past
55-03-12 Weeds of Despair
55-03-19 Fugitive from Tolarma
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